All Your Lies | Yoon Jeonghan

CH 34: We Fall

[ We Lose All Logic When We Fall In Love ]

Please refer to the last half part of chapter six if you happen to have forgotten already :))

"Look at your older brother. Why can't you be just like him?", It was as if Jeonghan's Dad seeks for every chance he could get just to say that to him. And it did not matter who was around or not, his older brother would still be somehow there, reminding Jeonghan that he can't be just like him.

He watched as his Mom placed her hand over the back of his Dad's palm on the table, quietly saying to his Dad, "Go easy on him."

His Dad's attention didn't leave Jeonghan, scrutinizing him with an exasperated shook of his head, "He won't learn anything if you continue to raise him like that."

Always in the wrong, Jeonghan thought to himself. And then, as he shifted his gaze to his Mom, his conscience was stricken as his Mom briefly closed her eyes, vaguely shaking her head, wanting to tell him that he doesn't have to mind his Dad.

As an attempt to lift the mood that doesn't really get lifted no matter the effort, his Mom smiled soundly, altering the topic, "So, where is this fiancee that you've been telling us about, Jeonghan?", She asked,  as if nothing was the slightest bit of wrong.

Jeonghan felt extremely bothered by the mention of him being associated with the word fiancee despite the fact that he was the one that had done it to himself. In the form of lying, of course.

His Dad made an instant comment. "Don't tell us she's not coming again."

By which he immediately answered to out of his pride that wouldn't just let some things slide, "She is.", without thinking so much of the consequences of it. "She's on the way."

He probably was the one who was on the way— to being in more trouble just because he couldn't just agree with his parents on anything.

Jeonghan stood up, bracing to take his leave. "I'll go meet her outside."

It would be his first time doing it, and he had no idea when will be the next time, if there would happen to be a next time, but he was going to leave, not just for a moment to fetch her nonexistent fiancee, but entirely leave, the place, his parents and everything that came along.

He was at long last doing it, he was finally walking away, he was going to abandon his expecting parents without worrying what would happen next. Or was he already.

Yet, when he was so sure that he was never going to let his parents meet his made up fiancee that he has been lying to them about and it would most possibly disappoint them, she appeared out of nowhere. Raki did. And he was indefinitely shaken.

All at once, he found himself a potential fiancee, someone he didn't expect to feel so right for it, and like bubbles popping because of their fragility, it was his convictions that were then nonexistent.

It wasn't going to mean anything. He was just going to ask her to pretend for him. And that would be it. He would lose it if it wouldn't just be it.

For the record, he was definitely losing it.

"Raki.", Jeonghan muttered her name again, his voice earnest, pleading in a way. "I thought you were alright.", He asked her, and he felt ignorant to realize that he really did thought so.

If there was anything in the world that he wanted right at that moment, it was for her to look at him. In a way, it would be his certainty to believe that things would be alright. Not then, but at some point.