Promise You

Chapter 17.1: Teardrops

Inyeong's POV 

"Will you teach me to love you?"

... Silence.. 

"Aghh!" I must be crazy. Talking to a picture all of a sudden and then begins blabbering about nonsense. Damn it! What my mind and heart want right now is medicine and prevention from total addiction. 

But they just continue to replay... Last night, he gave me a false hope again. For a moment I thought he ment it for me; that his words were sincere; that it's finally me again. But I was completely wrong. Those words were never meant for me. They're all for Liya to hear and to feel. It hurts. It really hurts a lot. 

I am a complete idiot. A hopeless fool. Things can never be the way they used to be. "Get that through your head..!" 

"What should I get through my head?" a sort-of cute, masculine voice from behind gets me startled. I turn around to see who owns the voice just now. "You're often really harsh, you know that?"

My eyes narrow at him. "That was not for you to hear. It isn't even addressed to you."

"Was it for you then?" Donghae tried to confirm, in one of his childish ways again.

I sadly nod at him with my eyes directed to the floor. 

Surprisingly, Donghae places his arm over my shoulder in a casualy manner. This idiot starts to talk about his different assumptions of why I'm feeling this way. Yet he wasn't serious at all. Most of it were just plain random guess. Why would I be upset because of a Koi fish? 

"Hahahaha," a sarcastic laugh comes out from my mouth. "Very accurate. So close to the real thing, honest."

"Really? Close enough?" Is he playing dumb again today? 

"No."

East Sea* makes a pitiful child's face. "Okay... I'll be get going. The comforts I bring aren't welcome here anyway." 

I eye him on his way to the exit. 

That's.. not it. My body seems to have a mind of its own. I grab his right wirst to catch his attention before he completely disappears from my sight. "Stay," It was all that I could say to him after being a total mean person. "... and sorry. I was insensitive." 

"That's more like it," did he smiled sweetly for a second? "I thought you'd never ask." Donghae pulls me close to him. He uses one of his hands to slowly push my head down to his shoulder. "You need a shoulder to cry on, correct?" I then notice his other hand embracing me. 

Because I didn't want to talk about it and let him know, I choose to only nod. 

The painful thoughts repeat in my mind once more. I finally break down to tears a few moments later. My hands clench his polo shirt as the tears won't stop.

Donghae's POV 

Funny. Thinking back in the past, this is my second time to be in this situation with her. 

Inyeong goes on crying while I gently caress her long hair. 

She must be in so much pain right now, I thought. Who would want to hurt such a delicate person like this one? A woman sensitive to pain shouldn't be close to threats. 

Though many questions are running behind my mind, it mihgt be best to reserve them for later. A wrong move of mine might only cause her to cry a river. 

I wonder how Yesung hyung will handle this sort of thing. They are getting married in a few months. 

"Inyeong-ah~" I heard a loud call from outside. "Here is the song's lyrics and chords you requested for," a woman, maybe in her near 30s, enters the tent and pretty much surprise to us in our state. "W-Was I disturbing something important?" yeah, she did get the wrong idea.