Loving You the Second Time Around

CHAPTER 6

"The best way to recover from pain is to endure it. And it's only you who can heal it." -Ex With Benefits

THIRD PERSON'S POV

EUNJI can't stop walking back and forth inside her room while biting her nails, as a sign of anxiousness. Realising deep breaths as if she was suffocated. Kept on wiping the tears that continuously falls.

"The heck Jung Eunji! Stop thinking about it! Okay?! Stop thinking about it... Just stop it!" Eunji accidentally raised her voice as she talks to herself. It caused to wake up Myeonji who was sleeping on Eunji's bed right now.

"Mom? Are you alright?" Myeonji asked, lids half close.

It made Eunji stopped on her feet and faced her daughter with a soft smile.

"I'm sorry to wake you up, baby. Yes, I'm fine. Please go back to sleep now. Mommy will just go down stairs to grab some coffee, alright? Go back to sleep, good night." then she kissed Myeonji's forehead and placed a comforter to warm her daughter.

Myeonji immediately went back to her sleep.

Eunji went down and decided to drink a cup of coffee to calm herself down.

While making her coffee, she cannot stop to remember what happened earlier.

Silence filled inside the car, as they headed home.

A sleeping Myeonji, an uncomfortable Eunji, and a nervous Junmyeon.

The air filled with much tension.

"Uhm..." Junmyeon broke the silence making Eunji startled on her sit.

"It's been days since we met again, Eunji... but we never had a formal talk. So uhm.. how are you? It's been what? Seven years?" he started nervously.

"Eight..." Eunji tried to gulp the forming lump in her throat.

"It's been eight years actually, Suho." Eunji said in a more calm voice.

She was trying to acto normal, to act civil around him to avoid some he awkwardness.

However, she was already feeling like she's drowning from her own heart beat because of too much nervousness.

Junmyeon scoffed and shook his head. "I'm sorry but... don't you find it too awkward? Eight... Eight years of not seeing each other. It has been eight years since I tried to find you, but I ended up nothing. And when I already gave up searching for a person who doesn't want to be found, poof! She suddenly appeared now, in front of me, in flesh."

Junmyeon tried to look at Eunji in the reviewer mirror, who was seated at the backseat of his car.

Eunji looked outside the window while fidgeting her fingers.

"Ah y-yeah. In the most unexpected moment." the only thing that went out from her mouth.

"How have you been these past years, Eunji? I really thought that the next time I would be seeing you is when you're already an idol. Isn't that the reason why you left?" Junmyeon didn't intended to sound rude but, he needed answers.

Eunji's heartbeat pace went faster, she breathed out before answering.

"W-well, I... I did trained for a few many months, but after... after... t-that, I uhm u-unexpectedly," she coughed between her sentence.

She was having a hard time trying to explain what had happened as she fears of what would be Junmyeon's reaction.

"...something happened. I uh, I got p-pregnant. So I needed and decided to stop my trainings. So the chances of becoming an idol flew away even before my very own eyes."