Seohyun stood, leaning against the doorframe, one hand holding the door open. My mind went blank the second I saw her. What was one supposed to think when the person who ruined your life standing in front of you? Was I supposed to give her a hug and forgive her for all the trouble she had caused? Or was I supposed to lunge at her and strangle her to death? I did neither; it was her that broke the silence.

“You’re back.” she said.

That was it?

All she could say after five years was “You’re back”?!

She was really testing my patience.

“So that is all you have to say?” I asked, switching off the recording system and gathering up my papers.

“No. I wanted to say I-“

“Sorry?” I finished for her, “Sorry, isn’t going to mean anything.”

“I know that,” she said, “I just wanted to say that it wasn’t my choice to take Kyuhyun away from you.”

“Then whose was it?” I demanded. What was the woman talking about? Not her choice?

“I was threatened.” she said, tears rolling down her face, “I was hit and threatened.”

What?!

“You were hit? By whom?”, I asked her softly.

“My mother.”

-

I sat inside the cafe with a crying Seohyun, and two mugs of hot chocolate in front of me.

“My mother blamed me for not marrying Kyuhyun. She blamed me for not being pretty enough to attract the son of the Cho Corporations,” she sobbed, while I patted her back soothingly. I was beginning to feel pity for Seohyun. What kind of mother did she have?

“She forced me to become a trainee at SME and for months she hired a PI to make sure I was saying the right thing at the right time. If I made the slightest mistake, I was beaten at home. She threatened to kill herself, and my father, who was dreadfully sick during that period, made me promise to listen to my mother and protect her. She was happy when she found out that I had managed to get Kyuhyun into an affair with me. I hated it, I hated lying to Kyuhyun and I hated hurting you. I hated being in a relationship with a guy I didn’t love. Just before you made your mind up to leave, I told Kyuhyun the truth, I told him everything I’m telling you now, and he was so nice to me. He comforted me and told me it wasn’t my fault but he’d have to leave me. I begged him not to, because my mother would hurt me again. he agreed to stay with me for awhile.” she stopped talking and started sobbing again. I kept quiet while thoughts ran through my head, so that was why Kyuhyun said that it wasn’t her fault. Seohyun’s mother was evil.

“The next week, I got drunk after my mother had beaten me again, and a man me on the corner of the street and I thought I had conceived his baby. I lied to Kyuhyun about having his baby; I couldn’t imagine telling him about the man that had me. Then you left him, I thought leaving him, and lying about saying that the baby was another man’s baby, would make things right, but it didn’t. The baby was a flase alarm. Nobody cares for me.” she sobbed into my shoulder.

There it was.

The truth was out.

The lies that I’d been told finally made sense.

“I care about you Seohyun.” I said, just loud enough for her to hear. She looked up at me with her tear stained cheeks, “Your band members care about you, and I do too.”

She smiled and I took her into my arms.

With that, I had another new friend, a new beginning started again and another page in my life book was turned.

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