Hey, Sharon. (Michaeng) [Completed]

Chapter 17: Curiosity & Suspicions

Chae POV

"And by that I mean I like you... romantically"

As soon as I heard the words come out of her mouth it felt like time stopped. It felt like everything around me was suddenly still... or was it like that before and I just didn't notice? Like everything else I just didn't notice. God, I am so so stupid. It was right infront of me and I was too dense to notice it. Too dense to notice her.

We were stood up on the roof. Me and my bestfriend. My bestfriend who just told me she liked me romantically. My friend who's looking at me with those eyes that hold something I can't quite be sure of. Is it fear? Sadness? Heartbreak?

Whatever it is it's getting deeper. The look is getting deeper. It's painful just looking at it. Speak son chaeyoung! Say something, anything! Just talk to her! Speak!

"T-tzu.. i-" I tried to speak but I felt the words die out in my throat.

She was just standing there waiting for me to talk. She wasn't impatient to get an answer. She wasn't shouting. She was just waiting.

"Tzu I am s-so sorry that i didn't notice how you felt sooner. I'm sorry if my denseness caused you pain." I started talking. I couldn't calm the shaking in my voice but atleast the words were coming out.

"Tzu you are so, so important to me I can't imagine my life without you. Especially these past year with my dad passing you and dahyun unnie were a saving grace to me. I care so much about you but I'm afraid it's not In the way you want me to care about you. T-tzuyu I don't feel the same way about you and I'm... I'm-" I felt the words get caught up in my chest again. I couldn't talk.

Then something happened that that I didn't expect in a million years. Especially after how stupid I've been. In one swift moment tzuyu pulled me into her embrace.

She was hugging me and I had my arms tightly wrapped around her waist. It was then that I realised I had started crying. Tears were rolling down my cheeks and I was sobbing.

"Why are you crying pabo? I'm the one who should be crying right now." She said looking down at me with a smile. She was smiling. It only made me feel worse as I kept sobbing in her arms.

"I-I'm s-sorry tzuyu.. p-please don't leave me. I d-don't want to lose you. I'm s-sorry" I tried speaking through the absolute mess that I was. I didn't want to lose her.

"Don't worry chae. I'm not going anywhere. Nothing's happening to us. I'll still be your bestfriend. I just wanted to tell you how I feel so I could get this out of the way." She says pulling me away from her and rubbing away my tears with her thumbs.

"A-are you sure? *sniff* aren't you m-mad at me?" I asked looking up at her still in her embrace.

"No chaeyoung, I'm not mad at you. I would be lying if I said I'm not sad or hurt. I am but I'll get over it eventually." She said as she took a step back still holding onto my forearm.

I looked down at the ground. I didn't know what to say. I was ashamed of myself.

"Hey, look at me." I felt her fingers slowly graze under my chin guiding it upwards until my eyes met hers. "We're fine chae, I'm fine." She said wiping away the tears that were left on my face. "Okay." I replied so softly that I wasn't sure if she heard it or not.

"Come on. Let's get out of here." She said slipping her hand into mine as we walked towards the stairs that led down the building.

"Oh and one more thing. I intervened on JK because I couldn't let him confess to you before I did. So.. if you want to take up on his offer you can call him. I don't mind." She said her eyes locked forward as we were slowly walking down the stairs hand in hand.