✔My Boyfriend Is My Enemy ▪PJM▪

Thirty-eight

"Mother!"

"Mother!"

"Please let me out!"

"I'll be good, I promise."

"Please don't leave me alone, mother..." Tears stream down my cheeks as I banged lightly on the metal door. No matter how painfully I scraped the door with my tiny nails, begging to be released

Begging for my mother's forgiveness

Begging for whatever I've done that my mother would not look at me with love in her eyes

She will never unlock that door. 

At least, not for me.

Was I always... the child she regretted having?

Was it wrong for me to crave for a parent's love? 

Am I just... a nuisance?

At that moment, I felt someone lightly tapping on my back.

Though there was no one in the room and only me.

"Are you still crying lil Kyung? You've got to stop hurting yourself, just look at your nails, they are bleeding." She said and motioned for me to let her see my hand. 

That's right. I remembered.

"Rose, if my mother finds out about you. She'll torture you and you will suffer just as I am." I warned her, my friend who lives in the mirror. The only friend I have whenever my mother locks me away without food or drinks for the next few days.

"Your mother doesn't scare me. Besides, you should stand up to her. She can't keep you in here for eternity right?" She replied through the mirror as she analyzes my chipped scrapped nails. 

"I've been thinking... if mother hates me this much, why should I continue living this miserable life? I'd be better off if I-"

"Don't say that, Kyung Mi. You promised me you will live, you will stay alive for me. If you're gone now, who's going to take care of me. It gets pretty lonely here in the mirror. You're all that I have left Kyung Mi. We're friends right?" She cuts off my words at the mere mention of me, who desired to leave everything behind and end my life. She doesn't like it when I said anything negative.

"My mother would have loved to have you as her child, Rose. I wish there was a way for you to live in my shoes. Maybe then, my mother will look me in the eye, she will love me- no, you, just the way she loves my brother Hangyeom?" Rose stood there quietly in the mirror. Was she hesitating or something?

"You know, we're only kids Kyung Mi. Though I am 2 years older than you, some methods are best left unheard..."

"Like what? Are you saying there's a way for you to leave the mirror?" I asked almost immediately, staring her back in the mirror.

"Kyung Mi, I can't. At least, I don't want to keep your hopes high. As much as I know your mother hates you, this whole fiasco could end up in huge chaos. If I attempt to get out of here, you might never see me again, or worst, we might even forget each other for good." She replied but I don't care. 

"I'll do anything for you, Rose! Please don't hesitate, I'm willing to even give myself away just so you could live outside your misery." I saw her eyes widened at my sudden confidence. 

"A-Are you... s-sure?" My eyes softened. I've lived this long yet I don't have any motives to continue living. But Rose does, she had her whole life ahead of her, and being confined in the mirror isn't worth living at all. If I can do anything, I would even give up my life just for her.