Tangled Fates: BTOB Sungjae ✔

Chapter 25

Chapter 25, The Price to Pay

Mari:

I'm still in this world.
Yet I'm not allowed to leave this place until Sungjae remembers me. Everything.
It's even harder now. He doesn't even remember the me in this world or in the past.

Something new has happened in the history of Miracle Workers, Eunkwang told me.

My heart is not okay. I am not okay.

Not after I learnt about what happened to Lee Minhyuk. He didn't have to do it. He didn't owe me anything.

And yet Eunkwang told me that Minhyuk loved me. It was wrong. It was wrong for him to love me, to give up everything for me.

Eunkwang explained everything the day he grabbed me out of the light that was slowly making me disappear.

Minhyuk broke rules for me. He fell in love with me and yet he helped Sungjae regain some of his memories. But there was no time, so Minhyuk asked for it. He asked for Sungjae to have the time that he needs to remember everything.

In one conditionㅡ

Minhyuk will lose everything. Since he was the first Miracle Worker to break so many rules at once, he was stripped off of all his gift. His special abilities are gone.

Eunkwang told me that he would live as an ordinary human being.

I couldn't believe it.
How could I?

"He'll be alright, Mari." Eunkwang said. "He wanted an ordinary life and now that he has it, I know he'll be alright."

I shook my head and cried.

I was so sad, so grateful. I can't ever thank him enoughㅡfor loving me, for helping me.

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Sungjae:

My tears were continuous. They haven't stopped coming ever since I started listening to the pen.

I remember now what I've been missing.

By the end of the voice message, Mari said the words that made me long for her even more. I love you.

Those words weren't there before.
She must have recorded it while we were in Japan.

I repeated it again and again for the rest of the night until I fell asleep.

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Everything is back except her.

That's what I realized in the morning when I woke up and I saw our wedding ring on my finger, the pictures of us in the photo album and her name engraved on the cover of it next to the heart.

I have no idea what's going to happen but there's a hope that rose inside my heart. I might be able to get her back if I don't give up.

Mari's last three words from the voice message gave me strength to hold on, to get my life together.

I arranged a dinner with my parents and I told them that I would work harder for the company if they cancel my engagement with Jisu. My mom still doesn't know about my marriage and my dad can't remember.

I realized when I talked to Namjoo before meeting them that I was the only one who remembersㅡand Mari's mother.

My mom was disappointed about the cancellation of the engagement but she agreed anyway. I will quit my life as a cop. I don't think I still deserve it after everything, I've only been concern about my own life. Maybe in the past, as I remember now, I was passionate about it but so many things have changed. The past and the present can't be the same.