Dear Secret Crush || TaeTzu

Chapter 8

"I hope you can learn to respect others in the future."

"I hope you won't be so weak in the future."

They are outside of school, when Taehyung and Tzuyu stood face to face, wearing their high school uniforms with their school bags on their back.

"I can't forgive you." The girl saids, "Let's not contact each other or meet again in the future."

Taehyung got worried, he exhale and said, "Chou Tzuyu, do you think that I'm always the bad guy?"

"Yes." she said, "I finally see your true nature."

The boy opened his mouth, but no words came out from it. "Fine," he said, "Don't be so kind in the future. If there's someone ever tries to destroy your enthusiasm, then destroy them back. If someone tries to scheme against you, you double it and give it back."

Tzuyu only looked towards at Taehyung without a word, like a puppy that got scolded.

"You have to learn to protect yourself, you understand?" he said.

"I'm not as cruel as you."

"You are different from any other girls. They can use crying to solve their problems, but you - you are even allergy to your own tears."

"You are the one who made me cry." the girl answers, "I don't want to see you again."

She turns around, and walked away without turning back. Taehyung just stood there, not knowing anything else to do.

Tzuyu stared over at Taehyung for a few more seconds, before standing up from her seat, took her purse and walked away. Leaving Taehyung froze and staying still.

Tzuyu went back home late at night, she opens the door and turns on the light.

But as she's about to close it, she heard a woman yelled and calling for her, "Tzuyu!"

It is her landlady - Ms Jang.

"Huh, Tzuyu you finally came back home!" she said, "Auntie have to tell you something, it is a special case."

Tzuyu nodded softly in understanding, but before Tzuyu could say anything, she continues, "My son called me just now, and he said that - he engaged!"

"Really?" Tzuyu ask, with a polite and nervous smile. Ms Jang continues to talk, but her steps keeps getting forward and got into her apartment.

"Yes! And he ask me to find an apartment for him to live in!" she turns back towards Tzuyu and gets to her closer, "Tzuyu you know that Auntie have been waiting for this day for so many years already. So Tzuyu, I'm sorry for you."

Tzuyu suddenly looks at Ms Jang, with her eyes tensed. Hoping she's not talking about the thing in her mind.

"You know this apartment's rent and deposit, I'll give it all back to you."

"Oh! And this month's you don't have to pay for the water and the electricity bills either! Is that alright?"

"Wait, wait, Auntie, this is so in a rush, and - isn't your son abroad?"

"Em - he is abroad," Ms Jang explained, but Tzuyu still found her a little bit suspicious, "But. He's coming back - tomorrow!"

"You think about it kid, he about to have a family! It's not really suitable for me, an old woman, to squeezed in together in that one tiny apartment of mine, right Tzuyu?"

Tzuyu smiles stiffly, "Em, Ms Jang - do you want to raise the rent?"

Ms Jang smiles nervously, avoiding Tzuyu's hopeful eyes, "If it is we can still talk about it."