sixty-four

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"Back then, in high school,
there was this guy... Mingyu."

I let out a pained chuckle,
reminiscing the memories that,
up to now, still haunt me.

"He was the first guy I ever liked.
I mean, who wouldn't? Frankly, he was quite popular with the girls... and the boys too. He's tall and handsome, an aspiring rapper, and he knew how to cook.

He was... let's just say...
practically perfect.

Practically. Because no one's really perfect right?"

I let a period of silence cut through.

"Yeah.

Barely even four months into a relationship,

he cheated.

Cliche, huh."

호시
I listen as you speak, as you tell your stories of pain.

You're right.
You know much more than I do.
And I'm sorry I didn't know.
I'm sorry that I broke down because of a little crush, thinking it was the end of the world.
I'm sorry that you're here, still hurting from forever open wounds cut years ago.

"God I was so in love with him.

I did what I could to hide our relationship. I did what I had to not lose him. I told him that I loved him... every chance I got.

If you only saw his face when I said those words. Over and over, every single time there was uncertainty in his eyes.

I was too damn blind

to see
that he never really liked me.
I was just his plaything, a victim of his experiment.

So yeah, he ran off with a girl and left me alone in the dirt."

You go silent.

For a second, I thought that was it.
But then I remember, at the gates, you called the guy Seungcheol, and not Mingyu.

"How about the guy earlier?"
I decide to ask.

"Oh,

You mean Seungcheol?"

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