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chapter°25: days gone by

[a/n: this happens to be one of the longest boring chapter yet =]

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Seven days passed exactly a week after what was supposed to be a fun road trip turned into tearful goodbyes living two people with a broken heart again.
Rose returned to her home, to her family, her town that she left thinking she wouldn't have to return suddenly felt like she just escaped to her safe haven. Her family couldn't have been happier for her return, her mother would continue to cry tears of joy for days not believing that she was finally back the entire family would give her all the love treating her like a fragile being fearing for her to leave again, her old friends would soon bang on her door ready to throw a mouthful of nagging for leaving them without saying a word and threatened to throw a big welcome party if she ever leave them again which Rose nervously gave her promise not wanting any more attention then she was already receiving from her family and friends.

Rose was fine she was happy she couldn't be happier to be loved by her family and friends .... that's exactly what she kept on saying every night as she cried to herself ,each day she would be tough not letting her emotions get to her until she remembers Junhoe and breaks her promise.
She was happy that's what everyone saw but she wasn't, everything was not okay she just knew how to fake her happiness and hide her feelings, she couldn't burden her family with her emotional state after abandoning them, so guilt made her lock away her feelings and broken inside her room at night.

  
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2am that's what the clock showed in Junhoe's apartment, once again he was just a broken men abandoned by his lover because they didn't deserve him, he wasn't worthy he was bad nobody deserved to be with him because in the end all he ever did was ruin their relationship and hurt them. But this person wasn't in the said apartment, he was in fact in a very crowded, fancy looking club where he had been spending most of his days two weeks after his road trip ended sooner than he had planned.

His family wasn't supposed to know his return back to the city because he never planned to stay but as things spiralled out of his control he was stuck there and it so happened that one day a phone call reach the Koo's informing them of his return in a very Junhoe way that's what they thought when his parents rushed to the station staring at the state of Junhoe behind bars in his unshaven beard his hair that needed to be cut and his clothes reek of every kind of alcohol they could possibly think of. This had to be the worst they had ever seen him, in the past he always managed to get into trouble but this particular sight of him topped those as not only did he looked like someone who slept on the streets his body had bruises some fresh some old, the officer incharge recounted to why he was behind bars due to a fight with another drunk person who ended up having more injuries then him.

Junhoe's mother delicately tried to clean him and disinfect his bruises, it broke her heart seeing her son found in such a pitiful state. She was confused what was going on with him. She needed to ask him after he was sober even if he didn't want to. She wasn't going to stop from finding out what Junhoe had really been going through she felt guilty knowing she could have stop whatever was happening if only she payed more attention to him.

Next day Junhoe awakes with the worst hangover but that was what he had been dealing with for the past two weeks however he wasn't even aware of time or what day it was. Groaning at his pain he slowly stands up trying to grasp where exactly he was this time but it wasn't what he expected. After minutes of looking around the room seeing how clean it was, his collections of action figures as a kid, the endless pictures of him and his siblings hunged messily on the walls he groans in frustration realising he was back in his old room which only meant his parents.....

Before he could try to escape his parents wrath, the door to his room opens as he tries to think of an excuse knowing full well his parents wasn't supposed to know he was back and then realized how in the hell did he reached his old room. He expected a flick to his head or even his ear being pulled by his mother nervously which fortunately never came instead his mother look at him with such pitiful eyes and told him to sit down which he did not refusing for good reasons.

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It rained heavily that early morning as Rose looks out her window admiring the view ,she felt at peace just hearing the pitter patter of the heavy rain. Truthfully she wasn't any better than a week ago but somehow living with her family she soon wonders if she made the right decision to come back and then accepts that it might have been the best for her seeing as to how things were keeping her distracted from him. Of course she would constantly received his messages and phone calls at odd hours but refused to pay any attention to it but there were times she picked the calls wanting to speak or even just to hear his breathing however her mother would immediately stop her which made her furious but then her mother would reason with her. The attempt to fake her happiness never really work, a week later her mother would finally confessed to her that she knew Rose was hiding her feelings and she could see her sadness more then anything so that day Rose cried her heart out revealing everything about her, about Junhoe. It was a very long day of comforting words from her mother trying to make Rose feel at home as much as she could and hoping for her to heal and that she didn't have to hide her emotions to anyone.

She stops herself from looking out as she takes a paper and pen and starts thinking of what to write to Maria, she had to tell her why she left and by now maybe she knew already.Rose did receive a letter from her saying she can wait for whatever reasons she left the town in a hurry as that day Rose was unable to speak while hugging her for the last time.

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What awaited for Junhoe was nerve wrecking as he nervously waits for his mother to do her usual nagging, other times he would just ignore her or act like he was sorry for his mistakes but this time he knew he fucked up so bad he felt ashamed and embarrassed to face his mother he guessed that something must have happened to him for his family to find out and he wasn't in the mood to argue he just wished he could turn back time and stop himself from letting the only girl he could think of come back to him.

For Rose she was aware that four weeks had been a tough time to get her feelings sorted out and try her best to ignore Junhoe and her memories with him. But she was hopefull her heart would heal with time and if she decides she wants to be happy again she could try maybe... so on that day she decided that Junhoe and her may have been in love or maybe she was more in love with him but they wouldn't be happy if they continued to have this relationship later becoming toxic on both ends knowing they were both responsible for those frequent arguements, that slightly scared her few times but never spoke of it.