LOVE COUNTDOWN

Lacuna 🍬 Suraeha_

WRITTEN BY: Suraeha_

SONG: Lucid Dreams (aespa)

Every   time   you  leave
me         I    don't     know
what     to     do      I    just
can't  stop    loving   you

🍬

– CHOI CHANHEE –

Those eyes... that were once so innocent, glared at her, reality was full of disillusions. One glance and you would get sucked in, well, that was the case for Lee Yejun. The girl would always get caught staring into his hazel orbs, mesmerised by the way it swirled, compared to a galaxy, she would rather get lost in those eyes. Of course she would, But he wouldn't.

Chanhee would never let himself slip. He hated the fact that all the effort he put into building walls around him, destroyed, the moment she walked in.

"Lee Yejun...Stop staring at me" He hissed. Awaking the girl into reality, a snap of the fingers and her pupils dilated. "Oh...I-"

"Shut up."

Chanhee never let her explain,not in a million years would he ever listen to her. If he were to be a detective of a case,and coincidentally, Yejun was a victim, he wouldn't give any time to listen to her side of the story.

Yejun sat there,speechless, trying to process the words that were spat at her. What was there to process, it was practically the same cycle everyday. The girl could never give up, But it was her matter, her problem, and she would need to find a way to solve it. How obvious could she make it?

Very

She would never stop loving him, until he says it himself, until he straight up rejects her. "You're hurting yourself Yejun, ignore him. He doesn't like you...Why can't you accept that?" Turns out,Jia, her deskmate who had supposedly been sleeping, actually listened in. "He never said he doesn't like me"

"You're going to end up getting hurt, You already are..." She looked at her friend with sorrow. Yejun simply nodded,she understood. But people won't always agree with something, even if they understand.

DAYS LATER

"Hey I'm going to do it"

Jia stood up, right after hearing that, her friend understood exactly what she meant. "I won't be stopping you, and If you do get hurt, I'm here for you."

"He most likely won't return my feelings"

"I'm glad you already know that." A voice boomed behind the girl, Yejun whipped her head around, It was him, Chanhee. Her heart started palpitating, it felt like she would throw up her heart, It was thudding against her chest, like it was trapped and wanted out. "Yejun... I'm just, absolutely done with you, I make it clear to you everyday...To stay away from me, what exactly is your problem?" His eyebrows nearly met, he frowned as those Bittersweet words left his mouth.

All Yejun could do was stare at him... accepting defeat, She wanted to hear something at least, and she did.

"I hate you so much, you're so annoying! Just shut up, I don't want to hear anything coming from you, Stop chasing me around! I've made it clear multiple times''

He had an outburst of emotions, There was also an audience, the class was watching with aggravation. Oh, they knew the lessons would be very gloomy, their usual sunshine was Yejun, but after seeing a scene unfold in front of them, they were sure their sunshine was slowly getting drained.

"I–I'm Sorry..." her voice trembled as she kept repeating, Don't cry, don't cry, it's okay, don't cry!

But saying all of that to herself wouldn't help, especially with the stares burning into her. It was bothering her, without doing any harm. Yejun burst out into a fit of emotions, as the girl stumbled her way out of the classroom.

Chanhee couldn't lie to himself anymore, he felt a bit sorry—He regretted shouting at her like that. The whole class turned to him, people giving him death glares, or making it blatantly obvious about what they were saying about him, "What the hell?"

"Chanhee...Why's he being such a jerk for"

"Chanhee! What's wrong with you?! We get that you don't like her, she gets it, But she wanted to hear you say it, and so you did, but you could've been gentle"

"..." he muttered no more.

Letting Jia continue.

"You know what, i'm glad someone like you doesn't like her, she deserves to be with a better person" Jia sneered before running out of the classroom, possibly trying to find Yejun, wherever she was.

Yejun was sitting on the rooftop, She was lying on the hard ground, staring up at the clear sky, there were no clouds in sight. Sniffling her nose, before reaching out her hand to wipe it. The girl had calmed down,But the words...

She would never forget them.

Maybe, now that she had heard what she was possibly guessing, she could try to move on. Yejun always had a small corner of her heart that felt empty, like it was missing something, and the moment Chanhee comes into the picture, her heart is full. His existence... Just made her joyous.

Yejun couldn't help but think as to why he called her all of those things... Was she that annoying? All she was doing was admiring him, usually, from afar or simply just trying to help the boy. Hoping he would acknowledge her someday. He never did.He had a choice to be gentle with those words, and Chanhee himself surely knew that. But he didn't act upon it, maybe all that he said was true. Yejun started overthinking again.

The girl sprang up as soon as she heard the gates to the rooftop open. Standing up on her feet and brushing away the invisible dirt on her skirt, she turned back to look at who it could have been. It was the person she wanted to interact with the least as of now. "Hey—Yejun-"

"I'm sorry."

With that said,The girl left the rooftop, scampering down the stairs. She didn't even spare him a glance, Yejun knew she couldn't swim, that was because she drowned in his eyes, and the girl knew, if she ever interacted with him, it would hurt her again.

Choi Chanhee...

He was a pretty boy

Who was she kidding? He is a pretty boy.

He's everything she wanted

But you don't always get everything you want

"No one can stop love, maybe, If this was a dream. I would've felt better"

A/N FROM Suraeha_
OMG NAUR....THIS IS JUST SO UNPLANNED I CANNOT RIGHT NOW— T-T
What is this ending...
JUST KNOW I'M NOT EXPERIENCED.
WAAAAAAA