TWICEcoaster (One Shots)

MiChaeng

Chaeyoung's POV:

If I thought this week would be as crazy as hell then I was wrong. It all started on Monday morning. The subway train chose to have problems at 7am with its engines. Great. I couldn't make it in time to the weekly meeting in the office. My manager looked angry but since I barely came late and I had done all my work almost perfectly, she kept her mouth shut.

As if nothing else could go wrong, the project we'd been working on was delayed because of a material shortage. It really affected my job as the graphic artist of the project. Ms. Park Jihyo, my manager, insisted that I must continue the project even with the shortage. Even so, she was blaming the procurement division. Now I had to work twice as hard because of it.

During the middle of the week, my girl Tzuyu texted me to meet up at the club we used to hang out at. I was looking forward to it because I thought it would lessen my stress. She was looking good as usual. She took the chair beside me at the bar and as I was about to give her a small peck on her cheek, she pulled away. I lifted my eyebrow questionably but she just shrugged nonchalantly.

"Rough day?" I asked her.

She stayed silent, not even answering the bartender's drink offer.

I took one shot and asked for another. Suddenly, Tzuyu broke the silence.

"We should break up." She said.

My head turned to her so fast I thought I heard my neck cracked. "What?"

"You heard me. We're over."

"But why?"

She sighed and turned to look at me for the first time that night.

"I'm moving back to Taiwan, with my fiancée." She immediately avoided my eyes which seemed to grown wider the longer I listened to her answer.

"You what? Fiancee? Are you serious?" I tried to look into her eyes but she kept her gaze on the ground as if it was something more interesting to look at. When I heard no response from her, I put my head between my hands.

"I can't believe you did this to us."

I wanted to yell at her but some part of me just wanted her explanation of why she had done this. I was scared she would leave without telling me a reason why if I suddenly started yelling at her.

"I met him 3 months ago", she started slowly, "when I went to Taiwan for vacation. He lives there, he's a musician. I found we had more things in common."

"What do you mean?" I felt my heart begin to ache.

She hesitated to continue, but then she said, "When I'm with you... It just doesn't feel right."

"And with him? Does it feel right?" I couldn't stop the question from escaping my mouth.

She slowly nodded.

"Go, just go." I couldn't hear anymore of this, it was too painful.

"Sorry, Chaeyoung." And without another word, she got up and left.

I took another shot and ended up staying at the bar until midnight. My mind traveled through memories from the day we met up until this point. My friend, Dahyun, introduced us 9 months ago and after one month of just fooling around, I decided to take our relationship to the next level. After thinking about it, I slowly started to see what she meant by our relationship "not feeling right". I was sure that it didn't feel right to me either. I cared about her but I wasn't in love with her. She made me realized it and maybe one day, I would thank her for it. However, I knew when I sobered up, all I would be feeling was heartache.