Forced To Love You

Chapter 9

Later that day Duri sat a table in her favorite burger place waiting for Taeyeon to show up. He was always running late. While she waited she let her mind wander. She couldn't stop thinking about how well she slept last night. Insomnia had made it difficult to sleep after the accident. The doctor had said something about a side effect of her concussion and amnesia. Last night, however; she slept all the way through the night. That good kind of sleep where you fall asleep and feel like you wake up two minutes later but it's actually been 8 hours. She couldn't help but think being near Minho was the reason.

"Duri!" She heard his voice from across the room and stood up as he came closer. "I missed yoooouuuuu!" He said hugging her.

"I missed you too." She laughed, "I ordered us food. I figured you'd be late and I was starving."

"You're the best!" He said excitedly sitting down, "So, how's the train wreck of a marriage going?"

"It's not a train wreck." Duri said looking honestly at her friend across the table as he looked at her like she'd lost her mind.

"Are you crazy? Last month you were sleeping on my couch for three days to avoid him. Now, you're what? You're friends now or something? Yeah right." He rolled his eyes as their food was set down in front of them.

Duri didn't know what to say, so she didn't say anything as she looked down at her plate. Usually she'd be scarfing this burger down like she hadn't eaten in a month, but Taeyeon's attitude made her suddenly lose her appetite.

"Oh. My. God. Duri." Tae said as he put his burger down and stared at her with wide eyes. "You're in love with him." He blurted out.

"Maybe." She asked quietly, "why is that so bad?"

"Because of the way he's treated you! Did you forget? Do you still have some sort of amnesia lingering around? He has been nothing but awful to you since day one!" He said slightly raising his voice.

"Have you not been listening to me the last few weeks at all? We're trying to make it work." She said starting to get upset. She balled her hands into fists in her lap. How could he have not listened to anything she'd been telling him. All she did was talk about Miho and their relationship.

"I thought you were joking! Or maybe that it was just a phase, never once did I think you were serious!" He yelled. They were making a scene now, people were starting to notice as Tae yelled loudly at her.

"Why don't you want me to be happy?! People can change, he's been through a lot." She said standing up and throwing her napkin back down on the table.

"He's poisioned you, Duri. You're crazy." He said standing up too. "He's just going to use you!"

"How, Tae!? I'm already married to him!" She yelled back. "I can't believe you." She said into Tae's face. "You don't know him the way I do, and you haven't taken an opprotunity to either." She seethed.

"I don't want to! Guys like that can't and shouldn't be trusted." He said lowering his voice and grinding his teeth.

"Weren't you the one that told me to be positive about this whole situation?" She glared at him. Tae had been the one who told her that maybe having an arranged marriage wouldn't be so bad. He was the one who had convinced her that instead of running away from it, she should give it a try. Now that she's taking his advice he wants to crap all over it.

"Screw you." She said finally fed up, shaking her head. She grabbed her glass of ice water from the table and threw it in Tae's face. He took a sharp breath of air as the ice water hit his skin, and stood there frozen as Duri started to walk away.

"You're going to regret staying with him. Don't say I didn't warn you." He yelled to her back as she left, she didn't bother looking back. There was no point. She and Minho had been working hard to get where they were in their relationship and if Tae refused to see that, there was nothing she do.