A Heart for Rent. [ Completed✔ ]

Prologue.

"Are you." Mina inched near Chaeyoung, her finger gliding ever so slowly against the young girl's skin. Such softness to the touch, such warmth. She leaned in, her lips touching Chaeyoung's earlobe.

"Infatuated with me?" Mina asked. Chaeyoung was silent, standing confused in her spot. Mina glided her hand up to Chaeyoung's chest, resting it over her beating heart.

"You cannot possibly love me Son Chaeyoung. To love is to have a deep affection for someone for a lifetime."
Mina whispered. She inched away just a bit touching the temple of Chaeyoung's head.

"But to be infatuated, it is a short lived passion. Do you understand? Tell me if that's what you feel. Because you cannot love me when you do not know me. When you do not understand me. When you yourself cannot fathom the intensity of love. Then you cannot love me so freely. So...madly." Mina said.

She pulled away and looked at the young girl, seeing such a pained understanding of what Mina said on her face. Chaeyoung was hurt but also shocked. It was as if she was denying her such love.

Denying her the capability to love her even if she didn't understand fully the extent of what love is. She wanted to learn. But why wasn't Mina letting her learn? She shouldn't have fallen for her, she was just a girlfriend for rent. Someone who came to her aid with the call of money and an unspoken contract to pretend.

Such feelings if any should be kept privately to the renter. But how was Chaeyoung supposed to do that when her heart wouldn't allow it? How could anyone conceal such feelings? Chaeyoung balled her hands and stood her ground.

"But I do love you. I love you freely, madly, passionately and with all of me even if I don't understand fully what love is. I know that I'm happy when I'm with you." Chaeyoung said.

She had many thoughts racing in her mind but she needed to convey everything all at once even if it tore her apart.

"I know that when I talk to you I smile stupidly. I know that when I think of you I squeal and my heart races. I know that when I wake up....it's you. Dammit Mina it's you! You whom I think about when all else tries to occupy my mind. You invade my thoughts and I grow reckless!" She shouted.

"You leave me to suffer in my own emotions and yet I still love you with a burning passion. This aching, this needing to love you, to adore you, it tortures me but I know it's love I feel for you." She said and Mina listened.

"I cannot grasp this thing you talk about. Infatuation. I cannot be passionate about you for a short time. There's no one else who makes me feel this way. And yet you think I'll move on just because you've rejected me." She stepped forward.

  "No, I won't. I don't know how to. Time is not my friend. Time won't make me forget you. You. Myoui Mina I love you. I can't stand renting your heart that's for everyone to share. I want you for myself, and I will be fucking selfish about it. Because I love you!" Chaeyoung cried out.

She could feel the lump in her throat and gulped harshly, looking away to hide her reddened face.

"I just love you. I know love can be scary. But I need you to be brave. Please, be brave and love me back."
Chaeyoung pleaded.

Mina was silent, not knowing how to react. No one had ever felt so passionately about her. There was never anyone who was afraid to lose her. No one who stayed and tried to understand her. There was no one like Son Chaeyoung who had wanted to buy her heart.

I've had this idea since like 2017 and I never got to it because I kept getting new ideas and was pushing it back because I "didn't have time" to do it. But honestly, I thought the idea was stupid until now when I was like, "yo, I want to make another dramatic story and this sounds like that kind of story" so I went for it. Don't expect updates for this story so soon because I still need to write "To Capture a Heart" and finish "POYW". Thanks to everyone who's always supporting me. I love you guys a lot.
-Drea ✌🏽❣