Thin Line Between You & Me

Chapter tweleve: Do you believe in soul ties?

Minji

I slowly opened my eyes to the bright sun hitting my face. I squinted my eyes as I looked around, but only freezing at noticing the figure that was sleeping on the chair next to where I was. I looked around a bit more and realized that I was in a hospital room. My eyebrows furrowed as I looked back at the figure. I was about to sit up when a strike of pain hit me. "Ah!" The pain brought instant tears to my eyes, this hurts. A lot. More than anything I've experienced.

The figure next to me abruptly woke up and looked at me, and I looked back at her with wide innocent eyes as if I was a deer caught in headlights. "Minji!" Hanni didn't hesitate to throw herself on me, and well. Here came the instant pain. I let out super loud groan that caused Hanni to gasp and get off from me. "Oh my god! I'm sorry." She said frantically, moving her hands around and I could only smile at her. She looked so cute. But she looked so tired, and it's clear she's been crying a lot.

And it was like that for a moment but then her eyes flashed with anger and it instantly brought me back to that night. "Why would you do that?!" I let out a sigh and was ready to give her a response but she spoke again. "Driving drunk like that! You're not an immortal being! I watched your car explode Minji! You scared the living hell out of me." Hanni's voice seemed to soften and break the more she spoke and I felt my own heart breaking. "I thought I lost you." She came closer to me, and placed the pad of her finger under my chin, making me look up at her.

"Hanni..." She shook her head at me and looked away as she sat at the edge of the bed I was laying down on. "Watching that car explode made everything hit me like a whip. It hurt, and I hated it. Every second that went by was torture. My heart kept breaking as regret was all that I could feel." Hanni said as she looked at me again. "If I hadn't said any of the things I did, you wouldn't be here, in pain. You almost died!" She pointed out, I looked down at my arm that had a cast on it. I looked back up her, ready to speak once more but she spoke before me, again. "I didn't mean any of it, Minji. I know I broke your heart and that I don't even deserve for you to forgive me because I was such a bitch to you. You didn't deserve it, I lashed out on you like nothing. As if you weren't there to repair my broken heart." She said, letting out a sigh as she looked down at her hands.

"You caught me by surprise with that kiss, and now that I realize it wasn't because of you that I reacted like that, it was because of myself. In that moment, your kiss had mange to stir something inside of me and it freaked me out. I had supposedly gotten on good terms with Yuta again and I thought it was the worst thing you could've done. But in reality..." She turned to look at me and scooted a bit closer to me and leaned down. I could feel her breath over my face and it was making me anxious. She only stared at me with her beautiful brown eyes.

"It was the best thing you could've done." She said, placing a chaste kiss on my lips and my eyes widened as she pulled away. She gave me a slight giggle as I just stared at her completely frozen, dumbfounded. Her hand reached out and cupped my cheek. "Letting you leave is my biggest regret and I just hope to be able to amend it. You deserve someone better than me, and I definitely deserve so much more less than you after everything I did. But I want you, Minji. It took me for you to almost die to realize everything I felt for you." Her eyes were sincere as they looked at me with such softness I've seen in her eyes so many times.

"It was until Minju told me everything that I also realized that depth of what I felt for you. She helped me realize that I've also been in love with you since so long ago, I just didn't see it that way. At the end of the day, my relationship with Yuta blinded me from the obvious. I'm sorry that it took this to happen to you for me to realize." She said, finally letting me speak.

"Hanni there's nothing for you to apologize. I did wrong by kissing you like that. I had no right to, it was at the heat of the moment. I didn't want you to leave." I said and she let out a sigh. "I'm not going anywhere anymore. I realized I'm where I'm supposed to be. Everything happened for a reason, and I very much hated what had to happen for me to finally open my eyes, to see you." She said, reaching out to hold my hand. I looked up at her with soft eyes as she had tears forming in her eyes. This whole thing was breaking my heart, I never liked to see Hanni cry.