When I Grow Up (Seventeen Jeonghan x CLC Seunghee)

Sixty Eight: When I Betray Your Trust

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Seunghee lets go of Taehyung’s hand quickly. Her face is burning, she feels so ashamed. Not with Jeonghan beside her. Why is she doing this? Why did she unconsciously do it? Or was she really unconscious about it? She’s so mortified. She doesn’t have any courage to face Jeonghan after what she’s done.

She excuses herself voluntarily not looking at her boyfriend, “I’ll just go to the washroom. Excuse me.”

“What? It’s just started…” Jeonghan cannot even utter the next word because she has fled away from him, almost running.

“I’ll just check something okay?” Taehyung says to him also in a hurry to go.

“Wait, you guys,” but Taehyung has gone too to the same direction Seunghee has walked off to. He wonders why but brushes it off. They probably just both need to go at the same time. But he thinks twice otherwise. He stares at the two of them as they leave the crowd.

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They’re already a little far away from the crowd. They are inside the woods but they can still witness the on going fireworks.

“Seunghee talk to me!” Taehyung yells as he runs after the crying girl.

The ongoing fireworks seem to add flame to her blazing guilt and shame. Taehyung catches up to her and stands in front of her, obstructing her way to run forward.

“Seunghee, talk to me,” he tells her.

“There’s nothing for us to talk about,” she replies.

“There is. About us!”

She can’t believe he’s talking about ‘their’ relationship now.

“There’s no us Taehyung. It was just a mistake!”

“Then why did you run away?”

“I was just- I love Jeonghan. He’s the only one for me.”

“Yeah, he’s the only one for you, but why do I feel like you belong to me?”

She’s dumbfounded. She has let him feel as far as that? Just what is she unconsciously doing?

He holds both her arms and tells her, “You keep pushing me away but you let me feel like you want me to be close to you instead. Do you have any idea how I’ve distanced myself from you? But you know it right? You feel it too. We belong together.”

“We don’t. We can’t. I love him.”

Seunghee keeps saying these words as tears continuously fall down her eyes. Taehyung can’t bear to see her like this that he hugs her tightly without forcing her to admit to him anymore.

“It’s okay. I won’t ask you anymore. It’s okay.”

He pats her head gently as he try to calm her down. She silently weeps like that in his arms. Still involuntarily admitting to herself that she’s almost feeling the same for him. Almost. That’s what she thought.

But amongst the crowd, Jeonghan stands stoned at the scene he just witnessed. His world crumbles right then and there as he sees Taehyung embrace Seunghee, and she just lets him. What has he been keeping inside his house? Since when has this started? He’s full of questions but the apparent thing is, something is going on between them without a doubt. He wants to charge at them and beat the hell of out Taehyung but it will put Seunghee on the edge. So he decides to wait for the right time and place to settle everything. He decides to wait for Seunghee to confess everything to him.