CHAPTER 42

[Dara’s POV]



“Bommie-ah…! I’m sorry I only got to visit you now…!”




Bom was pouting as soon as she saw me enter the coffee shop where I asked her to meet me before her shift… but her pout was replaced by her sweet smile after I ran up to her and gave her a tight hug…





I think it’s already been weeks since I last saw her… I wasn’t even able to visit her back then like I promised… everything was just too busy for me… and what’s bad is it’s not because of school… it seemed like having a boy friend is much busier than having part time jobs… ghaaad..! It felt like I was babysitting some kid rather than having a boyfriend… he just whines… whines and whines… especially when I told him that he needs to go home… that brat boyfriend of mine sulked in my room… and if not for my brother literally kicked him out of our house, I think Jiyong would really go on strike…





Ghaaad…! I don’t know what’s going on inside that guy’s head…! And just earlier… when I told him I would meet up with Bom, he suddenly became agitated about something and wouldn’t let me meet her up… and what added more was when Seunghyun-sshi heard of Bom’s name… he started mumbling things while wearing a very gloomy face… what’s wrong with those guys..? Who could be weirder than them…?





Good thing Youngbae-sshi and Daesung-sshi… which I think the last sane friends that Jiyong has were able to pacify my boyfriend’s craziness and that’s when I was able to escape from him.





From: It’s me

Don’t stay there too long arasso...
Txt me when ur going home...
Love you ♥




Aigoo… just then I felt my cheeks burning with that message…until now, I still can’t get used to his cheesiness and affection… it feels like my insides were being tickled whenever he does that to me…





Dara what are you thinking about…? You’re not here to be all giddy…! I then looked up and saw Bom pouting at me… peeking on my phone which I quickly pulled down and hid in my pocket… I let out an uneasy smile while I heard her sigh in response…





“Bommie-ah…” I still tried to smile despite her lack of response…






“Dara-ah… I think I got just struck hard this time…” she said as she rested her face on one of her hands and sighed once again…





So… this is still about her recent break-up…? True, it’s already been weeks since that happened… and knowing her, she should be having a new guy by now…






“Just what happened between you two…?”





She didn’t look at me but instead kept her gaze on the table between us… soon, the expression on her face slowly twisted as she bit on her lower lip as if she’s suppressing herself to explode…





“That stupid jerk dared to cheat on me..! He told me he’ll wait but then… the hell he waited..! He was instead busily making out with some ugly slut..!”






My eyes widen with her sudden outburst… I quickly reached for her hand as I looked around and bowed to the other customers who were obviously as surprised as me… just where did I heard of this same story…? I then heard Bom’s voice started to crack as she started mumbling incoherent words…and as I snapped back my gaze to her… I could see tears forming inside her eyes, her lips were trembling and the tip of her nose started to redden… aigoo… this is the first time I saw Bom being this emotional and what surprised me more was the fact that my friend’s about to cry because of a guy… has Bom finally met her match…? I couldn’t help but to let out a slight smile…





“He’s not even that handsome… he and his thick brows..!”





I squeezed her hand a bit… wearing yet again another uneasy smile on my face…despite the worry that I’m feeling towards her… I couldn’t help but to feel more afraid as to what these people around us might do to us for ruining the peaceful atmosphere of this café… I tried cooing her to calm her down but it seemed like she’s too deaf to hear me for instead of stopping… she started crying hysterically… while all I could do was to once again bow towards the people around us… it’s not as if I couldn’t pull Bom out of this place… but the tight grip she’s doing now in my hand made it impossible to do… gaahd this is so embarrassing… I just wish these people have kind hearts not to kick us out of this place… or at least be moved as to what my friend is going through right now…





“Fine..! He can go to his sluts for all I care..! It’s as if he has some big d!ck that he could be proud of anyway..!




-creak-



-creak-



-clang-



-glass shattering-




-coffee being spitted out-




-some choked to whatever they were drinking-




-eyes that almost bulge out from the customers’ sockets-




-until the writer couldn’t even describe each reactions of the people inside the shop-




I almost choke with what she said… and felt like every strand of my hair stood up as I could also feel the stares from the people around us… I didn’t even dare to shift my gaze away from Bom… gaaaahd just how did I get into this situation…?! All I wanted was to catch up to her… aigoo… was she like this all week…? Just then a waiter came to us but before he could even ask us to leave, I flashed him my sweetest yet most awkward smile… I saw him flinched a bit, probably battling to himself if he should comply with his manager’s order or to let a beautiful lady ahemm which is me to have more time to console her friend… and much to my prayers… the waiter retreated and just decided to accept a head slap from his manager… aigoo… I’m sorry Mr. waiter…





“Bommie-ah…”





I finally called her attention… thank you voice for not letting me down..! This disturbance must be put to stop instantly before the manager… or worse the owner of the shop would sue us for causing such havoc… I didn’t know Bom could be this powerful…





Bom finally looked up at me… her plump lips were still trembling as tears were continuously streamed down on her cheeks… just then I felt my heart quivered upon seeing her like that…





“I hate him…”





Her voice started to trail off… her hand was still gripping tightly on mine as she set her gaze down once again…





“I hate his coolness… I hate him for coming that one night flaunting himself together with his motorcycle…”





And as I continuously listened to her rants… I then found myself smiling to her words… as slowly, everything went clear to me….





I thought it was only a coincidence… but connecting Bom’s story to ‘his’ story, I then realized that Bom’s talking about Seunghyun-ssi all this time… how the world could be this small…?





And watching her right now, totally reminds me of Seunghyun-sshi… if only she knows how her ‘jerk’ ex-boyfriend is dealing with the same heart break she’s into right now…





“I hate him for making me feel this way… he’s just a guy Dara… you know how firm I am when it comes to men right…? I can’t be easily swayed by their stupid antics… but that jerk totally knows how to crack a lame joke…and I’m not supposed to fall for it… but damn myself for being this head over heels towards that jerk… and I’m so stupid that right now… I miss him so much…”





With that… she slowly let go of my hand as she reached for her face and bit the back of her hand to suppress herself from crying…





Hearing these things from her… I know I should be feeling sorry… but I am guilty for feeling so happy inside… seeing her like this… I feel very glad and the same time giddy for her… for finally… after hundreds of guys that she get associated with… Bom finally felt what love is… and remembering Seunghyun-ssi having the same torment right now… I’m very sure that he too found that love in Bom…





“Bommie-ah… have you ever tried to talk to him after that incident…? Maybe he has some explanations that you should listen to…”





Just then, her head snapped up as she directly stared at me again…





“Are you insane…? That kind of guy has nothing truth in his body… do you think if I’ll try to listen to listen to his explanation, he would tell me the truth…? I’m sure all he would say are bunch of excuses and lies… that’s how boys are… and that’s how he is…”





I pursed my lips as my brows furrowed with what she said… is ‘my’ Jiyong the same too…?





“Then… if you knew from the start that he’s just like any other guys… then how come that you fell for him..? Admit it Bom… there’s something special about him that made you fell deep hard… “





With that, I saw her clasped her lips together as she went silent… I smiled at her cute reaction before sipping on my almost cold coffee…





“It’s as if you know him…”





I heard her mumble… with that, I chuckled under my breath… oh you just don’t know Bom…





“Just talk to him Bommie-ah…”





I told her again… but she startled me when she quickly wiped off the tears on her cheeks and her round eyes squinted at me…





“No, no, no, no… I’m not going to do that Dara-ah… if he really wants to explain and if he really wants me back… then he should go to me first and not the other way around… I don’t want him to think that I’m running after him… I, Bom never plead for any guy’s love…”





She then crossed her arms over her chest and looked away pouting…





I was dumbstruck… I think my brain cells just exploded with what she said… there she was earlier crying her eyes out telling me how she misses him… and did I say something about pleading…? As far as I know I just told her to have a talk with Seunghyun-ssi…





Aigoo… why are they complicating things…? And with her being like this totally reminds me of her ‘ex-boyfriend’… same attitude… same high pride… I thought opposite attracts… but how come these two creatures fell for each other…?





“But Bommie…-“





She cut me off with her intense glare… I quickly zipped my mouth off… after a while I saw her shoulders dropped in defeat as she let out a heavy sigh…





“I guess I was just wrong again for thinking that he’s finally the one…”






She mumbled… aigoo Bom..! No you were not..! I’m definitely sure about it..!






I wanted to shout out those words to her… but I am more afraid to taste her wrath… seeing a playboy like Seunghyun-sshi being broken like that… I know he’s really the one for her…they just need to meet each other to fix this little problem… and with that, I think I’ll be needing Jiyong’s help with this…






And speaking of that boyfriend of mine… I wonder where he is right now… he told me he’ll just go to somewhere… aigoo… what is he up to now…?






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Two men were standing beside each other… both leaning on the railings of the rooftop on one of the buildings of their campus… one of them was looking above… watching the sunset while the other was looking towards the other way with his back leaning on the railings… for a while silence enveloped them not until the older guy with a blonde long hair who was watching the skies suddenly chuckled…





Jiyong then snapped his gaze towards the other man… his brow rose up in mixed curiosity and annoyance as he watched the other guy finishing his long laugh… he doesn’t know why he asked for Jaejoong to meet him again… he’s supposed to bring with him his hate towards his ‘ex-bestfriend’ up until his grave…but the fact that his friend never did anything wrong after all… and that it was only envy that drove him to hate him… and especially that now, Dara’s his… all he wants is to stop his groundless hate towards his old friend…





With that… his expression slowly calmed… closing his eyes for a bit before he snapped his gaze ahead again… wetting his lips before a slight smile crept on the side of his lips… he admits… he missed hanging out with Jaejoong… laughing out without any reasons at all… just making a fool out of nothing in particular…





Soon… Jaejoong’s chuckles slowly subsided… that’s when Jiyong shifted his gaze back to to the former…





“I never laughed that long for a while…”





Jaejoong told him with still a couple of slight chuckles escaping his throat…





“Who told you to laugh anyway…?”





Jaejoong shifted his position, now leaning his back on the railings like Jiyong… with a wide smile across his face…





“I just felt like it… it’s too quiet… and it’s too awkward…”





Jiyong could only smirk… he sighed and gathered up his voice but before he could even speak… Jaejoong cut him before he could even do so…





“I guess my coolness didn’t work on Dara…and I guess she prefers your childishness more… I pity her somehow…”





Jiyong’s eyes immediately went wide as he snapped his head towards Jaejoong… the latter just laugh again after seeing Jiyong’s reaction…





“Just kidding… until now you’re still gullible and sensitive at the same time…”





“Yah… what the hell…?”





But he was cut once again when Jaejoong turned to him wearing a soft expression on his face and placed a hand on his shoulder.






“I’m already fine seeing you two happy with each other…”





Jiyong kept his silence watching Jaejoong trying to smile at him… the latter heaved out a heavy sigh before he finally curved out a sincere smile… remembering what he and Dara talked about back then… he could finally accept his defeat…





“As long as you two are happy… I’m already fine with that…”





It’s as if he’s convincing himself to believe his words… he repeated the same words over and over again… it may hurt for a while… but seeing the two special people in his life happy is enough to mend that pain in his heart…





“Jae…”





This time… it’s Jiyong’s turn to cut Jaejoong’s words…






“I’m sorry…”






Jaejoong’s eyes widen for a second… lips parted upon hearing Jiyong’s words… this is his first time hearing those humble words from his friend… for Jiyong’s too childish and is too proud to admit his mistakes…






“I’ve wasted many years… and especially our friendship just because of my lame hatred towards you… I should’ve listened to you before…”






Jaejoong could only smile… continuously listening to his friend’s honest words…






“I can’t believe that I just trashed out our friendship just because of a girl… I’m… I’m really sorry… it’s just that I can’t take the fact that the girl I loved was in loved with my best friend…”






“Jiyong…”






Jaejoong started… feeling a little hesitant to tell Jiyong what he just found out the other day… the latter looked at him in wonder… anticipating what Jaejoong would say…






“Sulli never liked or loved me… she just played with us Ji…maybe she thought getting to the both of us would put her to the pedestal…”






Jiyong was immediately taken aback… until after a while of recovering what he heard… he let out a forced laugh…






“Well thanks for adding up to my guilt...”






Jaejoong smiled as he shook his head before looking away…






“Well… I too… really thought that she was in loved with me… but when I met her the other day… she told me everything… probably cleaning up her conscience…”






Jiyong spat out a cuss, turned around and gripped tightly unto the railings…






“Damn that b!tch… how dare her to play with us… I swear I’m going-..”






“Don’t Ji…”






Jaejoong held his shoulder to calm him down… Jiyong’s brows furrowed in anger as he tightly gritted on his teeth and could only look away, suppressing himself to let out a wrath…






“I think she already paid for the trouble that she had caused… seeing her that day made me forget about her ruining our friendship… I pity her Ji...”






Jiyong turned his gaze back to Jaejoong... curiosity immediately filled him, as one of his brows rose up waiting for more details from the latter…






“She looked really wasted from all those bruises she got from her boyfriend… and to think that she’s now two months pregnant… she’s really living a hell Jiyong...”






Jiyong’s eyes widen for a bit… as sympathy immediately crept inside him… after all… she had become a part of his life for once… and upon seeing Jiyong’s reaction… Jaejoong immediately consoled the forming worry in his friend…






“Don’t worry… that guy’s probably rotting in jail right now…she just loved the guy too much but I guess those beatings that she got woke her up from thinking that the guy loves her back… she’ll be in good state from now on… she just wanted to apologize to us before she flies to her her family in abroad…”






Jiyong stayed silent but felt a little relieved from what he heard…for a while silence overtook the atmosphere… Jaejoong then smiled; guilty for ruining the mood… he then elbowed Jiyong on his side to gather his attention…






“Aren’t you supposed to send your girlfriend to her home…?”






Jiyong looked at him for awhile… collecting his thoughts before he let out a smile and shook his head to shake off what they talked about earlier…






“She’s with her friend right now… I’ll fetch her later…”






Jaejoong scoffed as he looked away again earning a curious look from Jiyong…






“Tssk… I envy you…but don’t you really dare to make her cry Ji… coz I’m really ready to take her away and keep her with me when that moment comes…”






Jiyong smirked… as both of his brows rose in much contentment…







“Wait all you want buddy…but she’s forever mine…”







Jaejoong looked at Jiyong… his round eyes dilated before another round of laugh came out from him…. while Jiyong watched him with clear pride in his face…






“Yah… I’m serious pabo…”






He pouted… but soon joined his friend from laughing his lungs out… both grateful inside that their friendship was never really put to waste… that once, a girl broke them apart…but at the same time… it was also a girl who brought their forgotten friendship back…






“Just say hi to her… for me…” Jaejoong said as he ended his laugh






“I don’t want to…” Jiyong scoffed and pouted like a kid…






“Selfish brat…” Jaejoong retaliated back landing a soft punch Jiyong’s shoulder…