TAEHYUNG's VERSION
Her dark eyes looked as if an ocean had been encased inside of small glass marbles. "You are lying!" they said. Then the smooth spheres appeared to be cracked; the ocean had started to leak, little water droplets streamed down Ji Eun Ah's rosy cheeks. Dry racking sobs, tear-stained, blotched, mottled skin, puffy eyed, bleary eyed, nose running, silent tears rolling down her cheeks, devastated, pink eyes, red in the face, seemingly endless flow of tears.
Remorseful. Guilty.
That was how I felt at that very moment. I wished for a Time Turner so I could go back, rectify the mistake - the worst of all I had done.
However, I could not. Impossible. I had to live with it. Remorse etched at my heart. Guilt gnawed like a worm at the core of an apple. A tear trickled down my cheek, memories flooded my mind...In the moment, I wanted to take her in my arms. I wanted to block all the words from reaching her but I failed myself and her too. I never understood before why people always called love and pain, the two faces of a coin. That moment needed those words to stop you from treading the road where I led you, where I cannot be beside you, forever. I want you to turn into a strong woman, to be self reliant, even when I will no longer be able to protect you. Love isn't possession, but the wind beneath the wings of the one you love. So I have something new to work on, to watch for that flash of darkness and strive to be better. The problem was never you, but me. And now, my love, you must be able to walk alone. I know I am inflicting pain but only if I could ever tell you how much painful it was for me. I must suffer , it was the only way. For that, I can be a heartless cold being , if I need to be. I can be your biggest wound but never your greatest weakness.
Were we ever strangers? I'm not sure we were. That day I first saw you there was something even then, though I didn't know what. I wonder if there's an element of time that allows us to feel a strong love, like an orange glow bursting over a dark horizon. It was light for our eyes only, something to carry us through this life. It was the dawn of the person I am today, the person I was destined to be. I would give up anything in the world for you, I would do anything to keep you safe.
I remembered the first time we met, Thirteen years back. You were like the big doll Shin Ae got as a birthday present. I felt a sense of responsibility when I looked into those dark orbs. Only years later I realised, That love, that feeling, was just you and me. I could travel the world and the seven seas; I'd still have to come right back there if I wanted true love. It's not that nobody else wanted me, or you, but that we were born to spark and run the same course. We were the protectors of one another,support and true friends. The trust I gave you, that you gave me, is what kept us safe in this world, in this life. You were the only woman I ever wanted to call as mine after I lost my mother. So whether this heart beats another day or another hundred years - it will alwyas be yours. When I met you I'd already lost my entire world. How can you hang on to something so incomprehensible? How can you keep pouring love into an abyss? But then there you were. There was something in those dark eyes that was so beautiful, so safe and warm. In just one look I was "home." I reached out and made the connection, and like God Himself had arranged it, you fell for me just as hard. That first day we talked, just the two of us, I still recall the conversation, the feeling you gave. You didn't know it, but that day you saved me. I was a crying mess when you became handkerchief. We became inseparable. I am as much in love with you today as I ever was, perhaps even more so, but I'm just running out of time....
"KIM TAEHYUNG!!!!!!!" the sound echoed through my studio walls, as I was sitting on my armchair, lost in thoughts.
Oh Jin stormed into the room like a whirlwind, Her eyes were a knife in my ribs, the sharp point digging deeper. A bewildered Jimin following her.
Ji Eun was back from her errand and gave a confused look. Her eyes met mine. Where there had been love was an emptiness, but not in any vulnerable sense. Uncomfortable with the void, she had filled it with an emotion she was more at ease with - raw anger. The unmoving gaze was accompanied by deliberate slow breathing, like she was fighting something back and loosing.
" Our project date is postponed and after returning, I thought I should give you my present." Oh Jin was talking with her teeth clenched and a forced smile pasted on her face. She took a step forward and A sudden gush of pain jolted throughout my body. My head was turned to the side by the blow of the punch that landed straight across my face. I licked the corner of my mouth. The tip of my tongue was soaked in the taste of blood.
I smiled inwardly looking at Ji Eun's concerned face and somewhat felt happy that she was loved by her dearest ones.
"You earn using that face, so it should also be the one to pay." Oh Jin's taunt came flying again. Jimin was glued to his spot like a stone carved statue.
'THUP, THUP, THUP!'Shin Ae was clapping by the door.
" Oh Jin, I almost fell for a woman looking at you." She winked.
"I guess this is not a nice time for me to be here." Only then, all of us noticed the woman standing beside Shin Ae. The anyonymus woman was quite amused by the ongoing sequence.
She wasn't beautiful in the classical way, no flowing golden curls or ivory skin; no piercing eyes of green. She was shorter than average and certainly larger than a catwalk model, but in her ordinariness she was stunning. She had brown smooth hair, fair skin and striking chestnut brown eyes. Something radiated from within that rendered her irresistible to both genders. Men desired her and women courted her friendship.
"dugu saeyo? (Who are you?)" Oh Jin asked politely.....
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