Strange Hearts || Heeseung

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"How could you do that!" Garam shouted at Yeona. The one being shouted at took a trembling step back, knowing how much Garam hated her.

"I'm really sorry," she said, crying, and tried carefully to take her hand, but Garam pulled away.

Instead, tears came from Garam as she grabbed Yeona aggressively by the collar. Yeona squealed in pain, and Garam slammed her against the wall, almost grabbing her by the neck, until Jungwon pulled Garam away from Yeona and held her tightly.

"I realize all my actions," Yeona sobbed.

"I don't know why I was like that. It felt like I lost my mind. I felt like a villain, like a pest. I was so in love with Heeseung that I forgot everything else."

"I was angry when Heeseung confessed his love to Yuju. I had suspected it before because I found her diary, where he had written something too. I thought it was probably just a joke or something, but he really was in love with her. I was so jealous."

"When Heeseung had his car accident, I got an idea. I had the chance to be with him and make it so that he would belong only to me. I stayed with him every day and took care of him so he would feel my presence, but what I did after he woke up..."

"All the months he was in a coma, I practiced writing in Yuju's handwriting. I didn't put back the diary I found while camping, I took it and started analyzing her handwriting."

"I thought I could make Heeseung start hating her, and then he would belong to me."

"That's why, before he woke up, I wrote a letter to him in Yuju's handwriting. It said that she wouldn't accept him unless he came out of the accident unharmed. That she only wanted a healthy Heeseung, which of course was a total lie."

"I didn't expect her to try so long to get him back. I thought she would only ask Heeseung a few times why he didn't want anything to do with her, but she persisted until just a few days ago."

"Even though I managed to make Heeseung hate her, I still felt like he still loved her. Every day he asked about her, how she was and what she was doing, even though he was supposed to hate her. He talked and thought about nothing but her, and that annoyed me."

"I wanted him to be mine, only mine. But no matter how much I tried to make him hate her more, it didn't work. He didn't laugh once when we were together. All he thought about was Yuju and why she wouldn't accept him when he was in a wheelchair."

"At first, he wanted to talk to her because he truly loved her, which I hated. I kept telling him she hated him. After she collapsed in the hospital in front of his eyes, he never saw her again. After she fell, he wanted to go to her, but I didn't let him. The jealousy in me was too strong."

"All those letters she wrote to him, I received them. I put every single one in a box and locked it so Heeseung wouldn't get them. In all those letters was all her love, which I feared might expose my terrible actions."

"And that song, I didn't give it to him either."

"I want to feel loved too. I want to know what it feels like to be loved. I want to feel those special things too. I could always feel the connection between Heeseung and Yuju, even when they tried to hide it, and it made me so jealous."

Everyone stared at Yeona in disbelief. No one found words to express their anger. Garam was the first to speak, but Jungwon still held her tightly in case of escalation.

"Do you even know what a—" Sunghoon interrupted.

"I can understand your jealousy, but your way was not right. You can't force someone to love you and then also lie—"