Life is unfair.

Life was never fair to me.

I thought our love story will be like the fairytale.

But it turns out I wasn’t his prince charming.

She was the evil witch and I was fooled.

She was a couple of years older than me.

Then… she left me for someone younger than me.

She left me with someone I knew.

Someone that I treated like my own brother.

Taemin: Betrayed

I didn’t know how things went downhill for us.

I thought she was happy with me.

There was nothing that suggested that she stopped loving me.

But then… one day…

She just told me…

“I’m tired of being with you. Let’s break up.” She said like it was the most normal thing to say out of the blue

For me, it didn’t make sense.

What did I do wrong?

Did I neglect her?

Was I possessive?

I didn’t find the answers.

She just left me without any explanation.

And here I was…

Just a month passed since she broke it off with me.

I was walking aimlessly around the city when I saw her.

She was just across the street, wrapped around Kai’s arm.

The man I cared and respected like a brother.

She was smiling as if she was the happiest person in the world.

It was like a sharp knife stabbed on the heart.

I realized she stopped smiling like those months before she and I broke up.

Her eyes suddenly matched mine with a coldness I haven’t seen my entire life.

My body shook and I involuntary took a step forward.

Behind me, I hear someone calling.

I couldn’t hear the voice well.

I was reaching out for her. All I could think about was to be near her.

Without warning, I got thrown out.

It felt like I was flying.

I out for a couple of seconds.

When I woke up, I could hear people screaming.

My vision was a little hazy.

I feel like I was floating in water. I felt numb.

A stranger was beside me, asking me questions. I didn’t answer. His words were barely registering in my mind.

I was confused on what was happening.

Then, I saw her appear to my side.

She was crying, trembling.

My brows furrowed.

“What’s wrong?” I croaked.

“Hyung…” Fear voiced out of Kai’s mouth.

I almost forgot about him.

I looked at him and saw the same expression in his face.

Pain shoot out of my body. It made me groan.

The feeling was catching up to my body.

That was when I realized that I was struggling to move.

My right hand felt something wet and I put my hand in my line of vision.

I couldn’t see well but it was a red substance that coated my hand.

I smelled something metallic.

It took me a moment to put it together.

It was blood.

My blood?

Am I dying?

“No you aren’t!” Kai interjected with conviction.

I didn’t notice that I was voicing out my thoughts.

I chuckled but broke midway when I felt my ribs hurt. I winced.

It was getting colder.

“why?” My attention was only at her. “Why did you do it?”

She wouldn’t look at me in the eye. “Tell me. Please.” I begged.

She sobbed.

I smiled even though it hurts and tried to assure her.

 “I won’t be mad.”

It only brought more tears to her eyes.

“I don’t think I’m suitable for you.” At last she answered.

“He’s younger than me.” I thought it was about the age difference.

She shook her head. “It wasn’t about the age, Taemin.”

“I wasn’t enough.” I told her.

The truth made my blood boil even at my miserable state. “A lie would have been better.” I lied.

“Tae-” Her voice sounded as if she wanted to explain.

I had to lie.

I found out that I cared too much about her. I knew that she’ll blame herself once I’m gone. I had to do something to make her forget even though I didn’t want to.

It was a necessity. “Noona… I never seen you get angry at me. You have always treated me like a child. It hurts.”

“You pitied me. That’s all there is.” I had to fight hard to control the tears threatening to spill out of my eyes.

I could the siren of the ambulance coming.

“Don’t come.” I told her and avoided looking at her eyes.

I left her behind.

On purpose...

Kai was with me in the ambulance as the paramedics tried their best to stabilize my condition until we reach the hospital.

The paramedics put an oxygen mask on my mouth as I was starting to breathe heavily.

It had gotten colder like I was being submerged in ice cold water. 

“Hyung… you love her too much to let her see you like this.” He said.

Kai knew me too well. He had been the witness of my love of her.

I smiled and slightly lowered the mask. “She’ll take the blame. I had to do it.”

“Even when you’re like this, I couldn’t beat you.” There was a sad tone in Kai’s voice. This was the first time I’ve recognized that he also fell in love with her.

“There was no competition to begin with.” I teased.

He laughed but tears were spilling on his eyes.

Kai was never a cry baby.

“Love her.. will you?” I told him in all sincerity.

We grew up together and I knew that he won’t do anything to hurt her.

“If you really love her and you care for me enough, help her forget about me.”

“I can’t do that hyung.” He shook his head. He was willing to sacrifice love for friendship but who will be there for her?

It wasn’t up for discussion. Kai also deserved his own happy ending even though mine didn’t last long.

“I really wanted her back.” I confessed. “But when I saw her smile at you, I realized that it had been too long since she last smiled that way at me. She loves you Kai. Cherish her more than I could have. I was too late to notice.”

He was crying so hard that he looked like a mess.

I weakly raised my hand and wiped the tears staining his face.

“Jongin” I called him by his real name to tell him I was being serious. “I’m sorry for not being a better hyung and asking a lot of you. Thank you for sharing a part of your life with me.”

In the back of my mind, I could sense that I didn’t have enough time.

“I won’t wake up Jongin. You’ll have to be there for her. Love her as much as you could. If it doesn’t work out, make sure she finds a man deserving of her. We can’t be selfish. I can’t be selfish. I’m sorry for asking too much.”

“Please Taemin hyung… don’t do this. Fight. Live for her.”

My breath hitch a notch and I used all my strength with my final words. “My time is up. Take care Kai.”

With one last smile, my vision faded and along with it was Jongin’s call for my name.

~END~

I love Taemin in a SHAWOL supporter kind of way...

It took me years before I finally accepted him...

When I saw his short hair in Sherlock, I was like...

OH MY FREAKIN' WAY!

TAEMIN  went from cutie to MANLY!

SO HOT!

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Maybe I'll make a special chapter for you and your bias... tragic -free^^

Also, this was supposed to be the last chapter but I'm stuck with Minho's plot...

I'm torn between killing or letting whoever is supposed to die live,forget, or betray...

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