His Bride - A Minsung Story

二十三

Minho's POV:

I follow behind my mother towards her office. I remember last time when we talked about Jisung and something tells me this will also be about him. I wish she would stop bothering us, we aren't hurting her or anything. If anything, I talk to her less since I've been married to Jisung.

She gets straight to talking once I've closed the door behind me. I notice Chan stationed at the side of the room and I furrow my eyebrows at his presence, "So you and I know how our image was ruined since you've married a commoner."

I furrow my eyebrows, "Dad's told me that the people have actually liked us more since I married Jisung."

"Don't talk back to me," She lowers her voice and I put my hands up in surrender, "Anyways, Kayla came back! And she's going to marry you! Isn't that so exciting!?"

I blink a couple times in disbelief. Why would Kayla even come back?

"Jisung was using you for money anyway, you should be happy that he's gone," Mother makes a dismissive motion.

"He would never do that. You just can't comprehend that nice people exist," I defend Jisung.

"No she's right! He told me himself," Kayla emerges from behind me, just having entered the room.

"You have never met Jisung in your life," I turn to glare at her.

"I just met him right now!" She stomps her foot, "He was carrying a ginger cat and yelled at me! He's horrible Minnie! I don't know how you've put up with that commoner."

Now Kayla also believes he's using me for money, great. How will I ever defend him from these horrible accusations? Jisung wouldn't be like that.

"I brought your bodyguard here, he'll tell you if you don't believe us," My mother brings Chan to the middle of the room.

He hangs his head, "It's true Minho. He would only agree to walk down the aisle to get married to you if we sent money to his family and his friends family. I'm sorry Minho. But-"

Chan gets cut off by my mother whispering something in his ear. His defeated expression makes me wonder what's really going on here. At first, I don't believe him but when we make eye contact, I can't see any hint that he's lying to me. Chan's always been an open book of emotions with me, and I know he wouldn't lie to me. Is Jisung really only here for the money?

"Minho, did you really think he liked you?" My mother circles me like a vulture, "Has he ever told you he even likes you? Directly?"

Her voice holds a venom that I haven't ever heard from her in a while. But I think about her question because she's right. Jisung has never directly confessed his feelings to me, but neither have I. Then I remember something, Jisung has never told me how he feels about me, even after I poured my heart out to him that night in the garden.

My face starts to fall as Chan's honest words echo around my head that Jisung is using me for money. I really thought I found someone who genuinely cared about me. But is he really capable of that? He's always been so sweet, even in the beginning when he was angry with me, he acted like a cute angry kitten. 

I shake my head; all this is really confusing. I care about him so much and I thought we were really good together. I don't know if I believe my mom and Kayla, but Chan.......him agreeing with this makes everything so much harder. My mother approaches me,

"Why don't you take her to your secret spot in the library," She states, leaving no room for argument. I narrow my eyes at her, how would she know about that?

"You've been watching us?" I accuse her, how else would she know? I hate her so much.

"Maybe. That doesn't matter, do what I say. Take her there," She demands from me.

"Okay," I mumble and walk out of the room with Kayla close behind me. I won't let myself cry so I focus all my energy into recreating my cold expressions. Sealing my emotions deep within me like before, it's better this way. I haven't had to worry about my expressions since I fell for Jisung, that's why it hurts even more that I've been reduced to this. It only reminds me of him. His smiling face with Soonie in his arms.

I shake the thoughts away when I feel tears threaten to fall. He lied to me and used me like the others said, I shouldn't be thinking about him. Or did he? My thoughts spin endlessly in thousands of scenarios of what's actually going on. 

I need to find him, but I don't know how to do that with Kayla so close to me. I could ditch her, but then I would have to deal with my mother and likely get hurt. But if it's for answers I would do anything, I just need some kind of clarification on all of this. I decide it's best to get this Kayla thing over with then 

Thankfully we make it to the library, and I basically drag her through the room. Desperate to get this over with. I can't lie about the secret spot because if my mom really has been watching me, she'll know. 

"Here it is," I open the door for Kayla and my heart clenches. This was supposed to be a space only for Jisung and I. As Kayla looks around the room curiously, I'm only reminded of the smiling Jisung when I showed it to him for the first time. It seems he's always on my mind these days. 

"Thank you for showing me this place Minnie! It's so cute!" Kayla happily looked around the space.

"Yeah, you're the first one I've shown this to," I say in response. Maybe if she actually believes I like her then she'll leave me alone. God, this is so infuriating. All I want to do is ask Jisung if he really was using me, I'm almost scared to know the answer.

A soft meowing sound causes me to turn my head towards the doorway. Kayla goes to get up, but I gesture for her to stay sitting. I stand up quickly and rush towards the door. My eyes widen when I see Jisung standing there with Soonie in his arms.

"M-min? Why?" His voice breaks and I swear I can hear the sound of his heart cracking.

"Minnie? What was that sound?" Kayla's voice floats towards us.

I hesitate to answer, I can't tell her it's Jisung so I say, "It's no one, I'll be right back."

A new batch of tears slip past his eyes after I've answered Kayla. I try to reach out to him, but he instantly turns and runs away from me. I go to follow him but suddenly Kayla grabs my arm and pulls me back into the room, "Minnie, if it's nothing then let's go back to what we were doing!"

I go back into the room with Kayla but I don't listen to a thing she says. My mind keeps going back to the way Jisung's voice broke with sadness. Is it possible to fake something like that? He looked genuinely heartbroken. Just his expressions in the span of 3 seconds have me questioning everything that they've told me about Jisung being fake.

Who's the one really lying to me?

I can't make sense of anything anymore.

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