Dazzled (Light Series #1)

Special Chapter #3 (Anne's Explanation)

"Minhyuk, I'm sorry."

Anne tried to compose herself as warm tears streamed down her face. She kept her head bowed down. Minhyuk's face is blank and she's too scared to look at him not because she's scared of him being angry, but because she's scared of seeing him hurt the most.

Minhyuk is Kihyun's bestfriend. Being an only child in the family, Kihyun treated Minhyuk as his real brother and she's a witness on how much Minhyuk cares about her cousin.

After telling about who Minah is and why did she agreed on the sudden engagement of Yoojung and Kihyun, Minhyuk got so disappointed.

Hurting Kihyun means hurting Minhyuk too, and that's what she can't bear at all. She can bear and endure all the physical pain her sickness is giving her but knowing she's been hurting the two of the most precious people in her life is unbearable, especially right now.

Minhyuk's silence is piercing her heart.

"Min... say something! If your mad, please tell me..." she sobbed frustratingly.

"How is she?" He finally spoke, but the blandness in his voice is eerily scary.

Anne looked at him. Minhyuk is standing by the door's frame, leaning on it with his cap covering half of his face.

"Minah... does she know? Did you tell her?" He spoke with his hands in the pockets, not looking at her.

Minhyuk's actions hurt her but she had to deal with it. It's her fault.

"That was... what I'm supposed to do. That's what I planned to do if worst case happens." She replied.

Minhyuk just waited for her to continue and so she does.

"But after seeing her this morning I changed my mind."

"Why? You've gone this far... why did you suddenly change your mind? You're about to break them apart, you're almost there. Then why did you change your mind?"

Minhyuk's sarcasm hit her hard but she had to let it all out now. There's no turning back anymore.

"Because I saw the love in her eyes."

She laughed. A frustrated one.

Minhyuk snapped his head on her direction.

"Finally you looked at me." She said, the tears still streaming down her face.

"You heard me right. She's blind but I saw the love in her eyes. When I started to ask how is her life going, she suddenly smiled widely and I swear I saw her eyes sparkling. All this time, I thought her eyes were beautiful despite of its dullness because they don't function anymore. But guess what? Kihyun made those eyes more beautiful now. Just how... just how magical that was? How can I ignore that when I've been seeing those sparkles from your eyes too?"

She harshly wiped away the tears on her eyes.

"I know how much you love me, trust me Minhyuk, I know. So when I saw that on her eyes, I started to hate myself from what I'm about to do. I can't make her life more miserable than what I already did. So I decided to just let it go, I told myself this is not the time yet. But fate is playing with us."

She breathed in and out heavily and tried to talk more steadily.

"Apparently for some reasons Hyungwon was there with her. I didn't know you guys already know her and met her, as well as you guys already got close to her. Hyungwon confronted me secretly about why I was there and why I know Minah after she and I talked. We should've just talked somewhere else, away from Minah and her friend but we didn't. We didn't know she was behind us and she heard our conversation."