The Answer - An Answer Me 1988 Fanfiction

Junghwan

January 1989, Ssangmundong

'I like her.'

Junghwan froze in the middle of his uneasy laughter. He had had a sinking feeling from the moment the others had started teasing Taek.

He had sensed something on the way home with Bora Nuna, a niggle at the back of his mind like the label on a new shirt, begging you to tear it out.

I shouldn't have left them alone at the beach!

I should have stayed with them!

But he's just Taekie; our helpless little Heedong!

He clearly wasn't.

'I like Deokseon. Not as a friend but as a woman.'

He didn't need clarification. He begged Taek in his head to not.

But there, he said it.

No pretending he was just talking about what a good friend their girl was.

No more pretending.

He wanted to scream.

That's it then, I can't take from Taek. Anyone but Taek!

I loved her first!

I can survive. I can clean up my feelings. Can't let Taek suffer. No.

I loved her long before you knew what love was!

She's Taek's now.

She's mine!

There were conversations going around him. Junghwan couldn't hear them over the buzz in his ears and the painful throbbing where his heart ought to be.

He took the tickets out of his drawer that night.

Lee Moon Sae stared back at him accusingly.

He couldn't.

No.

Not to Taek.

Never.

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