Tender Love {Chanyeol/Jongin} [English Ver.]

~52~

He had apologized. He was willing to forget everything and start again but she wasn't.

Was she so cold-hearted that she didn't care he was suffering for not having her love?

He was crying due to how bad he felt. How guilty he felt for hurting her, for disappointing her, for ruining the trust she had for him, for not listening his friends since the beginning, for being apart of his friends, for being apart of her.

She pulled apart grabbing his face between her hands and looking at his face wet in tears and his red and teary eyes. He felt another stab in his heart after seeing her sad eyes and noticing how bad she felt for him. He hated that. He hated when people felt sorry for him. However, at that time he did not care. He had cried in front of her because he could not take it anymore. He felt he was losing her. And he could not accept it. All he wanted was to keep being in her arms, to feel her closeness, her warmth, her smell of bath soap, not any soap, but one with a soft, feminine scent. He wanted her to stop looking at him and just embrace him again. . . .

"At least. . , let me hug you for a while. Yes?" He begged with tears falling.

She said nothing but brought him to her chest again, resting her chin on the top of his head and stroking his soft hair again. He thought that that may be the last time he'd hug her, that she'd let him hug her.

***

Naeun walked inside Eunji's bedroom and laid down beside her. Eunji stared at her waiting until she said something but when a minute passed and she noticed her best friend had no intention of talking, she would have to do it.

"Won't you tell me what he came for?" Naeun didn't answer. "I could hear a little bit though. When you two screamed. But. . , you spent a long while in silence. Were you. . , kissing?" Naeun hit her when she finished that sentence and all Eunji did was laugh. "I'm joking. When I heard nothing I got curious and went to see what was happening, hoping you hadn't killed each other, and I saw you two hugging so cute!"

"He apologized for everything. He told me he and Mirei are not together anymore and that he is in love with me. He said that he wants us to forget everything and start all over again," she made a summary of the last hour and let out a sight.

Eunji sat up.

"And? Did you do it?" She exclaimed with a big smile.

"No." She shook her head.

"Wow," she muttered, disappointed. "You are a bad person. He came here to apologize and told you how he felt but you don't accept it? Gosh, you are in love with him!"

"I know!" Naeun screamed as tears filled her eyes. "And do you think that it doesn't hurt me? It does. And it hurts me a lot having him crying in my couch because he thinks I don't want to be with him!" Eunji covered her mouth in shock.

"He cried for you yet you didn't forgive him?!" She screamed. "You are a monster! Do you have any idea that when a guy cries for a girl it means that he is madly in love?"

"You should be by my side instead of defending him!" Naeun exclaimed standing up from the bed.

"I am just being honest, Naeun, and you know it. That's why you're upset."

Naeun turned around and looked at her with her eyes red and teary.

"I know! I know that he is in love with me. I am in love with him, too, but I can't just forget what he did! He comes now after almost two months of not talking to me, not even looking at me, with a simple apology and hopes for me to forgive him? I'm not as easy as that, Eunji. He acted like an asshole again after he promised he wouldn't do it. He gave me his word and you know how stubborn I am with that sort of things."