Baby, Don't Cry

I'm Sorry [Part 2]

My mind was floating everywhere. I have no idea what to do. Why do I feel like I betrayed Baekhyun somehow? My conscience is killing me. I feel guilty, I knew that. The more I avoided hurting him, unknowingly I already did. Ugh... What a selfish friend am I! I wanted to call him but I don’t know what I will say to him.

“Paging Ye Eun~ah!” Ye Ri was repeatedly waving her hand in front of my face. We just got to the new place her parents will live from now on.

“Huh… did you say something?” I uttered, back to my senses.

“What’s wrong with you today? You keep spacing out. Are you waiting for someone’s call?” She kept on talking. “You’ve been checking your phone since we’re on our way here. If mom sees you like that, she won’t stop bugging you for sure.” We were now in front of a gate of a house – a mansion with a touch of native old Korean house style. Ye Ri pressed a buzzer on the gate. “Mom it’s us… we’re here now!”

A moment later, the gate opened and Ye Ri’s mother greeted us. The realtor was there too when we got inside. He toured us around the house. I think it was bigger than they have before. It’s too big for just the two of them. Since we told them that we planned to go back here in Korea and stay for good, his father thought about going back, too. So, when his company gave him a promotion, he immediately called a realtor friend to look for a house he could buy and ordered to fully purnished it. The house was beautiful but I haven’t focus much on appreciating it. My mind was still somewhere else.

“Could you girls just live with us?” Ye Ri’s mom trying to insist. We were now in a restaurant having our lunch.

“Mom, we talked about this already.” Ye Ri replied out of patience. “The answer is still NO.”

“Come on Ye Eun~ah…” She turned to me like pleading to say yes.

“I-I-I’m so sorry Eomma,” I hesitantly said as I looked down.

“Aigoo yeobo, enough with that… they are big enough now to live by themselves. Besides, Ye Eun has her own family here,” her husband reprimanded her. “You must be both excited for your grand opening?” Ye Ri’s father said again changing the topic. “How’s all the preparation doing?”

“Everything is okay now. We are just waiting for the day, Dad.” Ye Ri replied after a sip on her drink.

“That’s good then… You have time to come with me and meet a friend of mine and her son.” Her mother stated. She had it again, her match-making obsession for Ye Ri.

“Mom!” Ye Ri uttered with the ‘please-not-again-mom’ sound to it. “We are interested with somebody right now, so there’s no need for you hooking us up.” She looked at me with back-me-up kinda glance to it. I know Ye Ri said that only to silent her mother.

“That’s right eomma… we’re just settling our business first before focusing on it.” I added.

“You can’t fool me Ye Ri~ya…” her mother uttered not believing what she said. “I’ll just stop if you introduce a boyfriend to us… you too Ye Eun~ah.”

It’s true that I’m actually interested with someone right now, so I’m not worried about Ye Ri’s mother. I have Suho to introduce to her. The only problem is I’m not ready yet or it’s better to say that I’m not sure with the relationship yet. I’m sure that Suho likes me but I just want to hear from him that official question asking me to be his girlfriend. I haven’t consulted it with Ye Ri so she didn’t know, even Matthew oppa. I didn’t tell anyone about us, well except for Jibin and Baekhyun who found it by accident. I don’t know how long I will be silent about this.

The following days, I was back in the coffee shop. I’m back with my cheerful smile, covering my worries and anxiety. EXO made time to come by even for just a little time. But Baekhyun was not with them. He never came. I haven’t seen him since the night they came to our house. I have sent him a couple of messages but he never replied to any of it. He even kept ignoring my calls. He was surely avoiding me and it pressing me down more. I can’t leave things between us like this. He was too important for me to just lose him like this. But I don’t know what else to do.