My Obsessed Ex

Flashback

Hello everyone, My name is Jang Kiyong and I hope we can work together in this project, happily.

Him, in his blue shirt, looking freshly awake but handsome as hell when he came to our script reading event, that cold afternoon around march 2021. This isn't my first time doing project with him. We were once paired in a drama back in 2014 but we didn't get to hangout a lot or become friends. Pure colleague relationship, until today, we meet again.

Hello, My name is Lee Hyeri and I am looking forward to work with all of you in this drama.

"Hyeri-ssi, nice to see you again after how many years?" He greeted me  after reading.

"7 years, I believe? Ah, Kiyong-ssi, how should I address you from now on?" I asked. It is better to ask him in advance, So it won't be so awkward when we start shooting next week.

"Call me anything you want as long as you feel comfortable with it." he replied.

"Oppa? you're two years older than me tho, right oppa?"

"sure, we also need to build our chemistry during the shooting, so feel free to talk to me in an informal way, we could start as friends, couldn't we?" he continued.

That was the beginning of our friendship as he also knew I was in a relationship with Ryu Jun Yeol. 

"Hyeri-ah, sleeping already?" he texted me after our first day of shooting.

"No, I am just getting ready to bed, oppa". 

"at this very late hour? you should be in lalaland for heaven sake, lady!" he sent me facepalm emoji and I smiled.

"I had a fight with my boyfriend tonight and it went really bad" I sent frustrated emojis, lots of them.

"woah, woaaa, slow down girl, you're bombing me with those stupid emojis. I'm sorry! that must be irritating. You ok tho? Eh, I don't wanna see grumpy face tomorrow when we meet, So you better sleep early and let's talk about it tomorrow. ok? I'm sorry for what happened tonight" 

That was him, on his first day apologizing for something he never did. Because since then, he always fix anything he didn't broke, in me.

"Oppa, are you sleeping?" I texted him again an hour later.

No replies. I guess he was sleeping. Not until 5 minutes later.

"you haven't slept, young lady?" him with his angry emojis.

"I can't sleep, really. I tried. I also texted my other friends but they ignored me, sigh" I replied.

"Lee Hyeri, look at the time! It is almost 4 in the morning. You need to be in our location exactly 5 hours from now. Sleeeeeeeep! You stubborn girl." 

And I just cried. I didn't reply to him because I was crying so hard. I had this pain in my chest that I had to let out or I won't be able to sleep, as I always do.

--Kiyong Oppa is calling--

I can't pick it up right away, I was sobbing so hard how to answer his calls. It was good tho to have someone or a friend with you when you're feeling bad.

after 5 nonstop calls, I picked up the call.

"Why didn't you answer my call right away, lady?" his sounded upset.

"Mian"------

"Are you crying? really? Lee Hyeri? what's wrong?" His panicked voice that very late night, no, almost dawn, got me crying even more.

"Ahrasseo, ahrasseo. If crying helps you lift up those feelings, then just cry. Oppa will be here, do not hang up my call. Don't you dare to hang up, young lady". And there he was, listening to me crying the whole 20 minutes or so. What really bad was, I just zonked after crying so much, leaving him alone on the side of the phone call. Hyeri-ah, You are so baaaaad.