Authors pov:
The next morning Aera attended the meeting, and discussed the new projects, the whole team was wrecked under loads of work but Allison, her supervisor was making it more difficult not just for Aera but for the whole team, her perfectionist nature would make you sick.
Only if Aera was in her real old self, Allison wouldn't have been walking straight with her head like now.
She slouched the Ice Americano down her throat. Ready to leave this hell hole, packing her stuff and way back to home.
“It's snow falling again” she put her hand forward to catch some of the flakes, then continued to walk on her way.
It wasn't quite around as it should be as people were still on the streets. She was immersed in her thoughts when..
“Lee Aera”
The sudden voice hit her ear like a stone, making her stop on her tracks. She turned around.
Wariness flickered in her chest seeing a familiar face before she doused it. The distant figure came near her.
The voice called for many times but she was too immersed in her thoughts to listen to him.
“Aera is that you”, he asked in confirmation.
“Oh yeah, Hi Yeonjun”, she awkwardly tried to smile.
“It's nice running into you here.”, Yeonjun shook her hands tightly.
“Ahh-h yes”. The stutter in her voice was making the situation more awkward.
"What are you doing here by the way”, Yeonjun asked as if he doesn't already know.
“I- I live here”, she gulped quickly replying to take a glance at his back there stood his car.
“Want a ride-!? I can drop you at your apartment”, he offered to taking a guess that the girl was probably walking her way back.
“No, no thank you I prefer it this way”, she meant walking.
She tried to brush off the weird feeling she was getting from his sudden appearance again in her life.
“Okay...
I guess you are still not over the past” he made a sad face, disappointment visible on his face was giving a slyly weird vibe.
How can I get over that traumatic past so easily!?
“Do you remember Beomgyu-!?”, well very well Yeonjun, straightforward jump to the topic.
All past memories flashed through her mind in a single second. She gritted her teeth hard knowing what was about to come.
Of course, how can I forget him?
“Who am I even kidding. Of course you remember him. You guys were so in love until..”
“What about him”, the awkward expressions of her face changed to dead serious. She wasn't in mood to talk about her past love life, the one that left her soulless.
“Nothing, just thought of him. How unfair it was for him to die like that”, the grief in his voice for his best friend, one could easily guess his pain as his childhood friend, his buddy was drawn out from his life like that but the smug he has been trying to coat was clearly visible.
He deliberately brought this topic, his suspicious behavior was hinting something but she's not ready for the truth to be unraveled.
I know his kind very well,
the frown lines on her forehead were noticeable she glared hard at Yeonjun for bringing up her past like that.
Never in my life I’ll forget who is responsible for his death nor will I forgive.
Are you suffering well now? But nah, after doing us apart you must be very happy...
They both kept looking at each other with blood shot eyes and the intense eye contact made her eyes watery. Well that's what she thinks but instead they are tears threatening to fall down at the pained memories.
Wasn't her pain similar to Yeonjun???
No, this is what you guys wanted, and look now he's not with me.
Her inner self was having conversation with Yeonjun with eyes but not apparently with mouth.
“But don't worry the truth will be soon revealed, he empathized with the miserable girl as his sudden sentence dragged her out of her dizzy thoughts.
“Truth-!? What truth-!?” she muttered hard enough for him to hear, but he was looking at his watch soon to go on his way.
“I've to go now. We will meet again.
Take care of yourself till then” he passed a smile, finger saluted her before running away to his car.
I wish you wouldn't have done that and now we would've been happy.
That night Aera couldn't even sleep properly. Huh-! Well, it's not like she sleeps every night. But the thoughts of him kept her wide awake. The voice of his laughter kept ringing in her ears. Their ahan nope... Her beautiful memories with him.
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