Nayeon slowly opened her eyes. She feels the daylight inside the room and remembering what happened, she cried to sleep last night. Now she feels her eyes got swollen.
She got up and sit on her bed. She doesn't know if she will go out and face her bestfriend or just stay inside the room. She never imagined herself feeling shattered because of Jin's confessions. She knows she needs to hear further, but she doesn't know if she can take it anymore.
She looks around the room. She remembered a portion of Jin's revelations.
This is my house. She recalled.
Now, she even remembered Jihyo slipped about saying Jin's house is hers.
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She stood up. She still needs to do her responsibility for her best friend. She fixed herself then went out of the room. She felt emptiness upon walking outside and feeling the ambiance of the big house.
She walks into the kitchen to cook something for breakfast but a covered plate at the table caught her. She saw a note.
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She smiled.
"I should be the one cooking and taking care of you but it's the other way around now?" She uttered.
"Well yeah, maybe just how you turned the table between us. Just when I thought you never loved me but now you're the one still loving me in the end." She spoke bitterly.
Then a tear streams down her face again.
"I'm sorry." She whispered staring at the pancake. It has her name on it written with a choco syrup.
She knows she can't love him back.
She has mixed feelings but she knows that her heart only belongs to Jinyoung now.
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After her breakfast and fixing herself, she went to the lakeside that Jin mentioned.
She saw him sitting at a particular bench looking at the sight of the lake.
She walks closer and sat beside him. Jin is surprised by his bestfriend's sudden presence.
"Hi," he greeted.
"I never knew Gimcheon is this beautiful," Nayeon remarked, seeing the scene in front of her.
"It is. I wouldn't choose to be here if it's not. This is a good place for a family to live in." He said.
That hit her. She knows what he meant behind his statement, but she didn't give comment about it.
"Remember when we said we have to focus on our own lives?" Nayeon shifted a topic.
Jin nodded.
"We agreed on that but look at us now, we still care and look after each other despite all the arguments and fights we had. We're basically inseparable." She expressed, her sight focusing on the lake.
Jin remained silent even after hearing his bestfriend's statement. He knows there is something more she will let out.
"But today's gonna be really different. We will gonna be really separated. I will be having a family and after my stay here with you, Jinyoung and I plan to fly right away to Amsterdam. We will--" she stops when Jin suddenly threw a pebble into the lake that made her flinch.
"Stop, I don't wanna hear those. It's torturing me." He spoke.
"Oh, I'm sorry."
"I know, okay? I know you'll start off a family with another man but you don't have to tell me. I don't care about your plans with that skunk."
Then, there was silence.
Breaking the stillness, he scoots closer and faces her.
"Can you..." He paused, contemplating if he will continue or not.
Nayeon stares at him blankly.
"Can you give us a chance?" He finally let out.
"What?"
"Give us a chance to feel the love we had. You loved me, Nayeon. We have suppressed love. I want to feel it. I want to feel your love more than just a bestfriend." Jin said, looking directly at her with pleading eyes.
Nayeon is stunned by the guy's statement.
"How, Jin? How can I do that when I already can't love you more than what we have? I admit I want to get angry and curse to what our fate has done to us but I think, we are really just meant as bestfriends."
Jin looks away, pain is visible in his eyes. He let out a sigh then looks back at her.
"Can I ask something from you?" He asked. His eyes seemed to change, it screams pain a while ago but now it is full of yearning.
Nayeon waits for him to speak and continue,
but she didn't receive any words because Jin grabbed her, cupped her cheeks on one hand, and claimed her lips.
