Love Alarm 2

The Love I Still Have For You

I'm surprised.

Surprised to see her there and Hye-yeong right behind her. I don't know why she's here but her presence releases a sense of relief over me. Whatever the reason is for her being her, as her eyes pierce into mine, I know I must be a part of it. I hope I am.

I've made her Love Alarm ring again, it had disappointed me before but now, I can't help but feel a sense of triumph. Hye-yeong had heard it, would this make him feel guilty about what he's doing? Am I being selfish to hope his mind changes about being with her? It doesn't matter, he is not on my team anyhow.

Kim Jojo's the person I least expected to see here, yet she stands before me and everything doesn't seem so dreadful anymore. I hate these events because they all remind me of her, everything about this retched app does. Now that she is here though, my being here
doesn't seem to useless.

As she turns away to Hye-yeong, I realize I have Yuk-joo alongside me. Yuk-joo, my girlfriend. My actual girlfriend. I turn to her, the childish face that has always smiled at me brightly is gone and replaced by a tearful pout and eyes that do not leave mine. I wish she hadn't been here. Before my mouth can manage a word out, her watering eyes turn away from my view and all I'm left to hear are the click clacks of her heels as she runs off towards the ceremony. I don't move but stare at the space she once stood in, I'm reluctant to run and explain. I wouldn't even know where to begin.

There is not an answer that could satisfy her. I place my vision back on Kim Jojo, her wide eyes stare back into mine. Hye-yeong walks in front of her, the loud taps of his shoes against the floor serving as seconds that go by without my gaze leaving hers.

"I'm...not here for you." Jojo says staring down at her phone and then back up to me. Our eyes locked even if Hye-yeong's head blocks half her face.

"Kim Jojo, whatever you have to do, I figured you wouldn't have wanted to do it alone. I can help you," Hye-yeong says, placing his hand on her shoulder and our eyes disconnect. I automatically clench my fists, they've grown this close already? How long had they really been friends? I close my eyes attempting to block that vision out of my mind.

"No...Hye-yeong. Thank you but this is is something I have to do alone. " She responds, her eyes reaching mine again. I had grown so use to those eyes, wide and brown, childlike and curious.

I've missed them.

Could I really be intertwined in whatever it is she is looking for?

"I'd like to talk to you after you finish whatever it is you're here for," I say without thinking.

Love Alarm had been our downfall, I need to know why she is here. I need to. I'd never thought she'd have a connection with Love Alarm.

"It's not necessary, Sun-oh. I'm really sorry for having made your girlfriend run off, please go make amends with her." Jojo says plainly. No emotion or reaction in her face as she turns to Hye-yeong and then back to her phone.

In a matter of seconds the confusion that once filled her face is gone, her eyebrows furrow and her mouth tightens in a thoughtful way. Pretty, like always. Light shimmers down her pale skin and I can't help but feel my hands grow warm. My hands yearn to feel hers, as they once did before.

She was just talking about Yuk-joo and this is what fills my mind, what kind of person am I?

"I think I've hurt her enough." I respond. It's true, I had been trying my best to be good to her but there will always be something preventing me from making her truly happy. I stare at Kim Jojo and sigh, it is your existence that prevents that is what I want to say but I don't.