Choosing me over Kim Tan was a burden tio heavy to carry for Cha Eun Sang. Not being able to bear the guilt any longer, she stepped back and walked out of the room. 

I can't help but laugh.

"You think this is funny?" Tan blurts out. 

"Why do you keep on showing up when I try to put things in order?" 

"In order?" Tan snorts. "You call this order? Involving an innocent girl in our fight that should be long forgotten? Putting a grudge on her because you have a grudge on me? Setting her up in one of your games? This is what you call order?" He says, spitting every word as if it is tastes bitter. 

"This has nothing to do with the fight!" I hate it when he can't read me, when I, on the other hand can read him as if he is an open book. As if our 15 years of friendship had not helped him in knowing who I really am. I want to hit him for seeing me as someone who is incapable of loving, when he, personally knows how much I love my mother, that I would do everything in the world to find her. 

"Then what?" He exclaims impatiently.

"It's none of your business." Normally, I would be straightforward to Tan, but in this case, I couldn't. It would just make things harder for Eun Sang. 

Tan clenches his fists as if readying to punch. "If anything has got something to do with with Eun Sang, it is my business." 

"Get out of here. She's gone anyway," I say, trying to go around the bush. "Miss me?" 

"Tell me!" He shouts. "Aren't you tired of bullying people? Are you happy when you involve innocent people in your way of fighting with me?" He says angrily. 

"I'm not bullying anyone." I say silently, to my surprise. 

"Tell me then. Why her? Of all people, why do you have to take her in?" His anger doesn't recede even though I did not fight him back. 

"I like her."