In Another Life

Big Break

She cried herself to sleep that night. Her mind kept flashing to her weird dreams when she was in the hospital. It felt so real... almost too real.

When morning came, her dreams were chased away by the sun. Although it was a school day, she had no intent of showing up. She wanted to experiment with something.

She didn't have a fancy drawing kit, but she did have a pencil and paper. She took them out of her school bag and placed it on the hardwood floor before starting to draw.

Mingyue was curious if she could draw as well as she did in her dream, but it was strange that she was drawing Heeseung of all people. She shook the strange thoughts from her head, but when she came back she had already finished drawing the picture, it was perfectly shaded too, but there was one problem.

"Oh shit." She said, looking at the drawing of Heeseung. "How did I do that?"

Her eyes glanced at the clock, four hours had passed. She spent four hours drawing Heeseung. She wanted to tear it up, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. It was so pretty, it was the first thing that she's ever drawn too.

Footsteps were getting louder, Mingyue panicked. She shoved the drawing into one of the emptied drawers before Haneul and Sunoo came into the room.

Like they had promised, they helped Mingyue move all of her stuff to Kang Jiah's house.

Mingyue smiled as she returned to her bedroom. Jiah let her decorate it; when Mingyue was seven, they had went to the store and about pastel pink paint. Over the years, they updated comforters so it fit her style. This truly was Mingyue's home.

"Auntie Jiah!" Mingyue said, before going to hug her.

"Mingyue, let's get you and your friends inside. It's getting chilly," The woman ushered them in. "Do you want anything? I have water, milk, tea, hot coco?"

"I'm alright, but thank you ma'am," Sunoo said.

"Aish don't call me ma'am, it makes me feel old," Jiah joked.

"Ms. Jiah, could I have hot coco?" Haneul asked.

"Yes of course, I'll go make that now." Jiah said, going to the kitchen.

"So this is your home?" Haneul asked, looking around.

Jiah's home was a comfortable place to be. It looked full of life and energy. Mingyue nodded, her friends could see why she would want to return. The Choi's house looked so miserable and cold compared to Jiah's house.

"This way, I'll show you my room." Mingyue led her friends through the house to her room. Just being her for a few minutes, everyone could see how more lively Mingyue became. She stood up straighter, her smile seemed less fake, her eyes were no longer dull from the harshness of the world.

"I can't believe she left... does she hate us?" Ni-ki asked.

"No, she don't hate us. It's just a bit difficult for her to deal with some stuff. It's just the way she grew up, if something goes wrong she shuts down." Kangdae explained.

Heeseung felt guilty, everyone blamed him for this, but they wouldn't mention it. Enhypen already knew that he felt bad about the rumors and Jangmi.

Somehow the girl had managed to make everyone like her, she barely hung out with them, but they saw how Sunoo loved her. They were two peas in a pod; the sun and the moon. She had forced her way into their hearts, but she isolated herself.

Haneul and Sunoo walked through the door, everyone looked at them hoping that Mingyue would follow behind. The two shook their heads before joining everyone in the living room.

"At least she's happy now," Haneul said.

"The second we walked in, she seemed genuinely happy. It's going to be a good change for her, maybe she will even start talking to us again." Sunoo smiled sadly. He was glad that she was in a better environment, but he only talked to her at the Choi's house. Mingyue always went out of her way to avoid any of the members of Enhypen.

"I wish someone would've told his girlfriend about the misunderstanding." Sunghoon said passive aggressively.

"I did." Heeseung seethed, "She didn't believe me."

"A relationship is built on trust. She doesn't trust you, what's keeping you with her if she doesn't trust you?" Sunghoon fired back.

"Sunghoon that's enough." Jay spoke.

Heeseung knew that Sunghoon was right. Jangmi really didn't trust him. Every night for the past month, he had wondered why they were still dating, he wondered if they even liked each other romantically any more. He knew what he had to do, but he was scared. Jangmi had been his friend for several years, he didn't want to lose her.

"Jangmi, I think that we need to break up." Heeseung told her.

"Why? I thought everything was going great... we can get through this, I can change."

"Jangmi, it's not that. I want to keep you as a friend, but I can't look at you the way you want me to."

"Have you been faking it the whole time?"

"Of course not, I think that I just realized that I preferred you as a friend..."

"Whatever. If anyone asks, I broke up with you."

"Okay."

The now split couple parted ways for the last time. Jangmi did tell everyone that she broke up with Heeseung, but it wasn't because he 'cheated'. She said the exact thing that he had told her, that she had lost feelings.

Everyone thought that Mingyue had something to do about it and in a way she did, but not what everyone is thinking.

He walked down the halls of the school, for the first time in a while he felt like he wasn't carrying a burden. He felt free of commitment, there were no chains that dragged him down.

"Heeseung, I've liked you for a while... and I heard that you and Jangmi are over. I was wondering if you would give me a chance?"

"Sorry, I think that I need to stay single for a while." He kindly rejected.