Troublemakers

Chapter 19

"Are you out of your damn mind?!"

I closed my eyes as he yelled at me.

"Lying to your friends! Lying to me, your fucking best friend! I was the one who was there to comfort you each time this son of a bitch hurt you!"

"I know! I know-"

"But you don't seem to understand!" Donghyuk grabbed into my shoulder a bit too harsh to my liking. "This is Jung fucking Chanwoo we are talking about!! The guy did awful things to you, Yunhyeong! If he's acting all nice to you it can simply be an act! He's a fucking actor!!" Donghyuk shook me. "Wake up from this stupid dream you're having! Don't confuse between what's happening on set and real life!"

"I'm not!" I protested. "He really apologized to me! And... I want to give him a chance... all he did ever since he apologized was to try and fix things between us!"

Donghyuk chuckled bitterly. "Do you hear yourself right now?"

"Dongh-!"

"This is ridiculous! Are you out of your mind?!"

"Why it's okay to give Hanbin a chance but not to Chanwoo?!"

"Why?! Because Hanbin didn't let his friends beat you while standing aside and laughing, right? Because Hanbin hasn't been targeting you and pushing you around, right? Because Hanbin wasn't the reason you returned day after day home crying, right?!" Donghyuk shoved me, causing me to stumble back but I managed to catch myself before falling.

"You've spent years crying because of him and we spent years calming you down and telling you to forget about him. Why are you acting like such a little kid?!"

I felt tears in my eyes, not daring to look at him.

"B-Because I still love him..." I said with a shaky voice.

"Well, you can't! He's not a good person, Yunhyeong! What does he have to do to make you finally understand that?!"

I started crying, I couldn't hold it in any longer.

I know there's a chance he's just acting, and maybe it's because I'm really blind, but it does look he has feelings towards me... I want to give him a chance to prove himself, and during this month he didn't do a single bad thing to me. He wasn't even forcing himself on me or anything like that. He was really kind and we had a lot of fun during the shooting of the drama.

He... He can't be a bad guy. Right?

"I'm done trying to protect you, Yunhyeong." Donghyuk sighed, "give him a chance, do whatever you want. But you can't come to me if he ends up hurting you."

"You know what's hurting me right now?" I said as I looked at him. "That my best friend, my childhood friend, can't trust me."

"I trust you. But we all know your sense of judgment gets shut down when it's about Jung Chanwoo. You make irrational decisions and end up getting hurt time after time. I don't care even if he apologizes, nothing can excuse the fact he hurt you this bad."

"Please Donghyuk, just... trust me with this one." I begged of him. "Because I won't be able to go on with it without your support... the fact you're not trusting me makes it even more difficult to me..."

"You know what really makes me mad?" He asked. "The fact you hide it for god knows how long and now you got the nerve to ask me to trust and support you. You were fucking lying to me, to us, without any sense of regret. It's like I don't even know you. We are best friends, no? We are supposed to tell each other everything. But once Chanwoo is in the picture you take his fucking side and hide it."