Sorry for not updating so soon due to some health issues...so, yeah here we go again. I'm still recovering maybe this chapter would be a little ...how can I say it? ...you seek for yourselves...lol

ENJOY^^

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---- Sometimes, we achieve salvation through waiting as we resolve to be patient and take whatever comes in our way; just to wait for something better; something that makes that waiting worthy...but waiting can be scary at times.  Like waiting for the rain to stop pouring after a storm. Waiting for that second chance when you have hurt someone. Waiting for salvation after being wronged. Waiting for that exhaltant moment you can see life like a slow motion with its beauty, its ugliness and everything in between without any regret. Waiting for life's leaves that are falling one by one before you. Does it matter? the waiting...the stretching anxiety...like that of waiting for the one you love? When you still wait ...and wait ...knowing that maybe all you want from this life is another chance to see that face again: the face of a loved one although, you know that you have to let go at the end... -----

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                  Jay arrived home and found his father at the step door:

"I'm going to spend sometime with grandma...I need some space..." waiting for his father to react as he was sure that he would object, but suprisingly, his father didn't say much and just nodded as in "okay"

Jay went upstairs to his room and packed few things when his father entered,

"huh...huh...I can't take you to the airport...I ...I have some work to do down the clinic...are you okay on your own?"

"There is no need to worry...plus I'm used to doing things on my own...so...!!" Jay replied without looking at his father who already left the room.

Jay packed hurriedly and left...

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                Taemin recognized Chaerin but he was still looking out from the glass not daring to go in...He was about to leave but decided not to: there was not much time left to waste, so he went in. He walked slowly towards her putting his hand on her shoulder playing a little trick on her as she looked the other way while he sat in front of her.

"Taeminah...what are you doing here?..." she asked with happiness.

"Oh, hi! I haven't seen you at the hospital, I thought you would never leave Jay's side ...but...where have you been?..." asked not knowing from where to start the awkward conversation.

Chaerin looked down her coffee cup, turning around and around vaguely...before saying:

"I just think that ...you know, he doesn't need me anymore...I just don't know what to think: sometimes he makes me feel that loving me hurts him so much...I don't know how to put it because other times he seems like he doesn't love me at all. Whenever I look into his eyes, I only see the sadness" without looking at Taemin or else she would start crying.

"Why do you think that? What happened between you two?..." asked controlling himself from throwing out everything at once.

" We just broke up a couple of days ago...I was so angry that I left, it's so vague that sometimes it frightens me to recall our discussion...?" confessed Chaerin. Before Taemin got to say anything, she continued,

"Oh...let's talk about something else. ...Ah, look at this, I've recieved this invitation to attend this company audition ...but the thing is that I've never sent them anything." Taemin took the invitation and said: "oh, daebak...it's one of the biggest companies!!!" looking at her with a confused look. 

"But the thing is that they say that I've sent them a video, but I didn't?!" , taking it back.

"I don't really know...I..." and he remembered that only one person can do that...but he got interrupted by Chaerin:

"There is something else that I want to tell you. Something that I haven't told anyone so far and you have to promise me you wouldn't tell anyone?!" as she took out the necklaces from her pocket: "have you seen these before?

Taemin took one of them to have a closer look and couldn't hide his shocked expression, indeed, it was familiar: "is this Jay's? because I've seen him wear it but he never takes it off...he still has it...or?" Taemin remembered that Jay asked him about it at the hospital when he was taken in.

"Yes, it is Jay's. It fell off that day when he ..." but she coldn't continue.

Taemin knew little about Jay's history before they met but he knew that he never took it off, never. Bt whenever he asked him about it Jay would always tell him: "I'll tell in one those days..." but he never did.

---Chaerin told him the whole story how they met at the orphonage till they were separated...---

Taemin couldn't believe what he just heard: "all this time ...did he know who she was?" wondering in silence. 

"But I guess, he hates me for not recognizing him...he knew who I was but he never told me. I keep asking myself why? Why did I fall in love all over again for him after all these years? ...It must be what we call "fate"...But, I can't be with him even like this..I..." stirring the sugar spoon over and over again.

Taemin's eyes filled with tears looking at her, knowing how both of them were suffering but now he fully understood Jay's feelings: it was for him to protect her from going through the pain of separation..

Chaerin looked at him shocked: "But Taeminah, why put up that face? It's childish for me to believe that our love would stand ten years of separation like this, I guess.." smiling through her pain and disappointment.

Taemin couldn't contain his frustration anymore and just got up angrily: "are you blind or stupid? You don't know a thing, do you?"

Chaerin just looked at him surprised by his angry gaze: "What's wrong?...did something happen?...Is he okay?"