Trapped With the Memories of You

Chapter 12 (Multi POV)

Kelsey’s POV

*1 Year Later*

“C’mon babe we gotta go! The movies starting soon.” I followed him through the crowd unhappily. Jake, my boyfriend, was always too excited when we went on dates. I didn’t know why he was still with me. I told him when he asked me out that I wasn’t interested in him and that I loved somebody else. He was persistent and asked me out countless times. I finally agreed but told him not to expect anything in our relationship because I didn’t feel anything for him. He said that he would make me forget about the other guy and promised to make me love him. It all sounded stupid but I agreed anyway. I needed to forget Henry. Here we were six months into our relationship and I still felt nothing for him. If anything I only missed Henry more and for some reason I felt like I was cheating on him. It’s been two years, if I was going to get over him I would have by now. 

“Yeah, okay. You go in before me. I have to use the bathroom.” He nodded and I went in the direction of the restrooms. Jake wasn’t a bad guy, if anything he was someone I could call my best friend, but he was no Henry. I didn’t feel the same spark with him. I was a few feet away from the bathroom before something on the promethean caught my eye.

Small town star, Henry Lau, to release solo album, titled ‘Trap’. The album will be released in two weeks.

Those lines repeated themselves along the bottom of the screen, under the 7 o’clock news. I pulled out my phone and called Janice. She picked up on the second ring.

“Hey Kelsey, aren’t you supposed to be on a date with Jake right now?”

“Yeah, I am. I needed to use the bathroom. That’s not important right now! Did you hear that Henry’s releasing his own solo album?”

“What?...How do you know? How did you find out before me?”

“Yeah his own solo album. It was on the bottom of the promethean in the theater. Listen isn’t it like incredibly rare that someone who only debuted one year and nine months ago to have their own solo album?”

“Yeah. Of course. Some of the members of the group he’s in don’t even have their own albums. This is huge for him.” She paused. “I wonder why SM decided to give him one. But Kelsey… Why are you still asking about him?”

“Oh, um… no reason you know. I- I was just shocked.”

“Ugh, Kelsey, come on!! You need to get over him! You’ve been with Jake for six months now!”

“It’s not like I don’t want to! I mean I really think Jake is a good guy, but he’s not Henry.”

“You’re going to end up being an old grumpy cat lady with thirty cats named Henry, you know that? Kelsey think about it though, okay maybe last year when ‘Breakdown’ came out he really did like you, but it has been almost two years! Two years! Just try to get over him. For me, please?”

“Ugh, Janice, you ask me this like it’s a voluntary decision for me. I’ve tried to get over him, that’s the whole reason I’m dating Jake.” Guilt welled up inside of me, but Jake knew this.

“Well, when you’re old, I’ll check up on you.”

“Okay, okay, I have to go now.” I hung up and turned to enter the theater, no longer needing to use the bathroom. I found Jake waiting outside the door and when I reached him we walked in to watch the movie.

*3 months earlier*

Henry’s POV

 After Kyuhyun was released from the hospital, things slowly went back to the way they were. I stopped talking about Kelsey and everyone wondered why. I simply shook it off as ‘Oh, maybe I’m finally getting over her.’ That was the biggest lie I ever told. I missed her even more now, and I regret not going back to her.