One Tiny Lie

Chapter 2

"You've got to be kidding me" Donghae was the first one to break the shock that Bom brought on us

"Why would I do that?" I asked, now in an irritably tone

"This is a win-win situation for you"

"And how is that a winning situation for me when I'm going to sue a person who has done nothing wrong?" I'm getting mad now

"Nothing wrong? Maybe he's not in the same par as the people you are trying to convict in court with their criminal or civil liability but he still done something wrong. Dara, in case you left your mind somewhere allow me to remind you that Seunghyun left without any explanation why he chickened out on your wedding. That son of a bitch brought you public humiliation and a broken heart on the day that was supposed to be the best day of your life that pretty much turned it into a tragic one, if you ask me to describe it. How many months has it been? 3? 4? And where the hell is he? Poof! Gone! If you sue him, you'll not only get compensated for the damages he caused but you can also possibly suck out the truth why he went MIA. And who knows, as much I don't want this to personally happen, that might be the only way to see him. Again" Bom explained

"Even so, I don't think a legal case is necessary." I hissed

"You're taking this way too seriously, Bom" Chaerin add

"Is this something we should not take seriously? I mean yeah I get it that you may find this ridiculously frivolous but what can we do? He still hasn't contacted her and it's been months! We must do something. You know I can just let this off since ever since that day, I gravely detest his being but if that's the only we way these two can have closure then why not. I want him to clear to her why he was a jerk!" Bom crossed her arms in frustration. You can now tell that talking about Seunghyun is enough to put her on the ragged edge.

I'll be lying if I said I didn't consider her idea but filing for a suit because he didn't showed up is too much. I'm not cruel to do that to him. After all, he might have his reasons for bailing me. Even when I try to hate him for doing it, I couldn't bring myself to get mad at him. Upset and disappointed, yes; but to loathe him? I don't think I can. We've been through a lot of things since we got together. We had fights that took weeks before we forgive each other and let bygones be bygones. There are times when we're already in the brink of ending our relationship that we didn't talked for two months. So even when I want to look what happened to us with the same perspective that this just another hurdle in our relationship as our past misunderstandings, I can't help but to ask myself from time to time why must it be during on our wedding day? He shouldn't have asked me to marry him in the first place if he wasn't so sure about it. Did he get tired of our relationship that it was so easy for him to run away like that? Did he realize that it was no longer me who he wants to spend the rest of his life with? Every question I throw at myself confuses me that I want to scream in frustration. I want him to clear everything with me but I have no idea where he is!

Now I feel like I'm having heart spasms. The muscles within the arteries of my heart start to tighten, giving me a heavy feeling I cannot steer to make it go away. I don't want to cry. If I do, people will only look at us and that will lead Bom to think more of ideas to come up with a perfect way to commit a vicious assault on Seunghyun. So instead, I placed my hand over my heart trying to calm myself down. Breathe in. breathe out. If I want to move on from that jinxed day I must not let a single name have so much effect on me.

"We don't have to go up to that extent, Bom. Not because we have law to charge guilty acts doesn't mean we have to use it in every way possible. It's not like he committed murder for us to subject him to that" Chaerin defended

"Then when are we gonna use them? What are laws for if we're not gonna put them into application and let them be just laws scribbled on papers?"

"I mean we don't have to blow up a simple situation. I know we're all jaded but that will bring in more collateral damage"