Together Forever | LK

11.3 - The Past is No More

When she pushed open the door of her dormitory room, Chaeyoung coincidentally happened to be heading out the door, but seeing that she had returned, she straightaway grabbed her hand. "You're finally back ..." Before Lisa had a chance to reply, Chaeyoung could already feel the ring on her finger. Her eyes instantly widened, and she barked, "Lalipop, it's only been one winter break where we haven't seen each other, and you've already completely got yourself set for the latter half of your life?"

Unable to conceal it, she could only, in low tones, tell her a little bit of her and Jungkook's story.

Immediately, Chaeyoung tried to get the gossip by asking her many questions, all regarding the details on how she and Jungkook got along with each other. She even threw her arms around Lisa's waist and persistently whispered the question of whether she had already did "it" with him ...

Outside, someone unexpectedly called Lisa's name. Opening the door, she stepped out for a look, and to her surprise, it was Jaehyun.

"What's up?" Through the stainless steel security bars, she gazed puzzledly at him.

Jaehyun was somewhat hesitant as he handed her an exquisitely wrapped gift box through the bars. "Could you give this to Miyeon for me?"

She was even more surprised by this, and taking it from, she asked, "Didn't you break up with Miyeon already? I heard that you and Eunbi are together now."

"Eunbi is a really nice girl. Truly, a really nice girl," Jaehyun replied. "This is just a birthday present for Miyeon and nothing else." With such an ambiguous answer from him, in the end, she still did not understand. She walked back into the room and shut the patio door.

"Continue with what you were saying." Chaeyoung took the gift from her hand and tossed it onto Miyeon's desk, still exhilarated over the news of her and Jungkook.

Lisa omitted many things, such as their first meeting many years ago as well as many of the things that had occurred in Busan later on. After being condensed down to such a brief account, their story really did seem to be one of good, old-fashioned love at first sight ... When she spoke of the latter parts of their story because she had left out too much, Chaeyoung expressed her solemn protests, and then finally the topic was changed.

"Why is Prez Jae still giving a gift to Miyeon?"

"Don't bother sighing over it. Eunbi knows that Prez Jae likes Miyeon, and she is completely willing to accept whatever comes."

Lisa could not help glancing at the gift on Miyeon's desk. That night, in the hospital emergency room, Eunbi had said so much to her.

Some of it she had forgotten, some of it she could still clearly remember. What Eunbi had said aloud and even what she had not expressed in words had mostly been about the "unfairness" of life. But did such "unfairness" in a relationship truly not matter?

"She sought it, she got it." Chaeyoung ripped open a package of cucumber-flavored potato chips in passing as she stated, "Some people only seek after the feelings side of things, for example, me. Some people want to be a person who is exalted above others and don't care who they step on to get there, for example, Miyeon. Eunbi needs someone who can completely alter the course of her life. Whom Jaehyun likes is not important. The important thing is, his girlfriend is Eunbi, so that means the person most likely to accompany him in the future when he goes abroad will also be Eunbi."

Only a winter break had passed. Why did it seem as if everyone had grown up? Lisa bit down on the potato chip that Chaeyoung was holding up to her lips.

"Of course, you're the type that Heaven is smiling down on, the type that you don't even have to ask and you have a beauty falling at your feet." Chaeyoung gave her final summary, then passed the entire bag of potato chips to her. "I forgot. I'm trying to lose weight. You finish it."