Hidden Love | Minsung

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~ Jisung Pov.

"I'm sorry."

Minho's soft voice pierced my ears and I stood rooted to the spot.

My eyes were fixed on the endless sandbank in front of me as I felt the warm breath of him on my shoulder.

A voice inside me said to push him away from me to yell at him and that he seriously thought he could make up for everything with an "I'm sorry".

I felt my eyes begin to burn and my body begin to shake.

My vision was getting blurrier by the second and when I couldn't hold it in any longer, the first tears ran down my cheek.

I tasted the taste of salt on my lips and felt the cold on my cheeks.

Suddenly Minho jerked away from me, looking me in the eyes in horror, while I just stood there silently, letting my tears run free.

All this time I had been eating away  my frustration, my fear of losing Minho and my anger and now I was able to let it all out at once.

My heart had felt for the last few days as if a huge pressure was building up in it that was now slowly releasing with each additional tear.

"Ji..." Minho's brown eyes showed life again for the first time, filling with regret, despair and even some self-loathing.

"You're such an ass!" it suddenly blurted out of me and Minho winced briefly at the sudden volume of my voice.

"How could you do this to me? You ignore me and act like I don't exist anymore. Like I never existed and like we were never friends! Do you know how much that hurt me?!" I talked like a waterfall about everything I thought about him, how I felt and that I had no fucking idea what had gotten into him.

Minho just stood silently in front of me, listening to my every word and not saying a word and he didn't need to. His look alone told me that he was sorry - very sorry.

When Minho was about to say something and I had calmed down halfway, his mother suddenly called out to us that dinner was ready.

The black-haired guy turned briefly to his mother who was on the veranda and told Minho told her that we would be right there and then turned back to me.

I quickly wiped the tears from my face and then walked past Minho, bumping him on the shoulder.

He called after me but I just wanted to get away from him.

Once inside, I first went to the bathroom to wash my face so that it wouldn't show that I had been crying earlier, then I went downstairs and sat at the dining table where Minho and his parents were already sitting.

I sat down across from Minho, who looked at me briefly for a moment but I broke eye contact right away.

I just couldn't look at him.

"So, we had the idea to go to town tomorrow and have a barbecue in the evening, what do you guys think?" Ms. Lee's gaze went first to Minho and then to me, smiling at both of us.

The town near the beach was really nice. There was always a market there that had all kinds of stuff. When Minho and I were kids we used to walk through the market street and eat our way through every candy stand.

I nodded in agreement with a smile and Minho nodded as well and to my surprise he even smiled.

After eating, I helped Ms. Lee wash the dishes even though she tried to stop me all the time. But I really wanted to help her.