Hoseok being a jovial guy, was quite famous from the day he entered the university. His charming personality lead to endless proposals & confessions.
But what will happen when a student who seems shy to everyone, picks up on him on every possible o...
I walked into a room slamming the door but Auro held it, coming in.
"Do you really not like me, Hope?", I stayed quiet.
"Answer me Hope. Why did I feel that you liked me too? Was I the one getting deceived or you are deceiving yourself?", she asked me sternly, as tears fell from her eyes.
I sighed before turning to her & speaking, "I don't know Auro. It's just I can't love you. I'm bound to Kate. She's the one I loved. My life is her's. I'm sorry if I made it seem otherwise but I can't give you what you want.", I don't know what came out from my mouth was the whole truth or not. I felt more like convincing myself, than to tell her.
"Your feelings are nothing but your sense of thankfulness towards me. You are confused and I hope, once you sort it out, you'll understand that you're in a trance now.", I said turning back as I cried silently. I heard the door slam and I broke down on the floor.
Seokjin's P.O.V....
We watched Auro following Hoseok. Something was not right. Everyone seemed to be disappointed except Yoong. He stood still facing the pool. Then it hit me. It must be him. I rushed towards him, grabbing him by the collar.
"Neither you are moving on, nor you are letting Hobi to do so. You brought up Kate again.", I said with a mixed feeling of pain & anger.
He yanked my hands away, grabbing my collar, "How could I let her sacrifice go in vain? She died in front of my eyes Jin.", he said, spilling warm tears.
"I loved her Jin. I still do. Never once, in her life she noticed my feelings. She was blinded by her love for Hobi. Till her last breath, she only thought about Hobi. What about me Jin? What was my fault? I just loved her... with my all. After her death... every night, I cried to sleep. I started sleeping with girls, just to forget her... to find a replacement. But nothing worked... She took my heart with her.. How could I let Hobi move on, when I'm stuck here? How could.... ", he broke down on the floor, letting out heart wrenching sobs causing him to choke on his breath.
I saw Auro approaching him. She made him drink water. Seeing her red eyes, tear strained cheeks, my heart ached. She hugged Yoong, rubbing his back, humming. He calmed down holding her tight, refusing to let her go.
"Hey it's ok. I'm here now. Don't cry..", she said patting his head. She gave me 'what-happened-to-him' look. I just shook my head.
"You are no better. Yoong, in this matter.... We never considered his feelings. All of our concerns were for Hobi. But Yoong? We knew his situation, still choose to ignore it. Oh god. Such a terrible group of friends we are. I swear I've never been so heartbroken. Here Yoong is immersed in his vulnerability and there must be Hobi bawling his eyes out.", Joon said massaging his temples.
I was feeling guilty. Joon was right, we never once tried to confront Yoong. We saw him changing still.... we were biased towards Hobi..
After putting Hobi to sleep, we all gathered in the living room. We all settled on the bean bags except Yoong, who laid on the couch putting his head on Auro's lap. Yoong had turned into a baby, who didn't let Auro leave him, even for a second. She tugged Yoong's hair gently with one hand while Yoong caved her other hand to his chest. He closed his eyes smiling.
"Who is Kate?", Auro asked in a low tone, not wanting to wake up Yoong. The room fell silent, as everyone looked at each other,uncomfortably.
"Hobi's lover & my unrequited love.", Yoong's icy tone sent down shivers.
"It's ok, you don't have to speak about it. How about, I put you to sleep in your room?", Auro said patting his head.
He snuggled into her more, "No, I want you to stay with me. Don't leave me, please."
I signalled Joon to meet me at the kitchen. He followed me soon after.
"You see where this thing is going?", I asked him.
"If this happens again, I'm not sure if we'll be able to handle it. One of them is going to be torn into pieces, while the other will be eaten up by guilt. Three lives will be destroyed.", he sighed.
"Not sure about what Yoong feel about Auro still... I don't know, whom to backup. Yoong is already broken beyond healing & Hobi is the culprit in his own eyes.", I said looking at Yoong. Each time I saw him, my gut wrenched.
We went back to our seats. Auro gave us a questioning look but we just shook our head smiling.
"We met Kate during our freshman year. Me, Hobi & Kate shared same lectures. For me, I never believed in love at first sight. But my heart contradicted my thoughts, the moment I saw her entering the class for the first time. I fell for her. Her honey smile, deep set eyes, button nose, long waves, every, every damn feature made me feel butterflies in my stomach.", Yoong chuckled remenenicing.
"I liked her but she liked Hobi. And the funny part..... she asked me to help her proposing Hobi. Just when I had took all of my courage to ask her out, she spilled those words, breaking my heart. But love makes you do things. So did I, helped her planning out a perfect proposal. The plans I had for her, I poured all those into her to propose a man, who wasn't me. A part of me was telling me to stop everything & make her aware of my feelings but the other part was happy seeing her, every time she got all excited & cute, thinking about having Hobi in her arms, made it all worth it.", he wiped his tears sitting up while placing his head on Auro's shoulder.
"I still remember, that day when she proposed Hobi & he straight forwardly rejected her. When she cried on my chest, I swear I was ready to beat the shit out of him. But she made me promise her not to do so. In my mind, I screamed those words which I wanted her to say 'give me a chance to love you' but what I said to her instead was 'I'll talk to him. Don't worry'."
"After I talked to him, he finally agreed on giving this relationship a chance. Kate was incredibly happy and I saw her slipping away from me, completely. But Hobi was extremely cold towards her. She tried, just so, every possible way to make him happy. I doubted if he had any feelings for her. The way he treated was her unacceptable. He was such a jerk. It took me a lot of self control to not beat him. I mean--",he was cut off by Kook.
"Enough hyung! You don't even know the real reason. All you did was, kept on blaming him.", Kook's voice trembled in outrage.
"Kook stop. He's not--", Jimmy's attempt to stop him failed.
Kook wasn't the one to outburst generally but when he did it was scary, "No Jimmy. He needs to know. He can't keep on blaming Hobi hyung for the rest of his life."
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