Hey Guys! So this is my new story, it's a short one, only 3 parts. I've been having writer's block for the longest time and I started being interested in Korean Dramas so I decided to try my hand at writing a story about Playful Kiss. I love the actor who plays Seung Jo, I think he's really cute. I also really like those situations where the guy messes up and has to win the girl back. Sure, it's over done but hey, I'm a girl so oh well. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this story, and the other parts will be done soon, they're already planned.

By the way, this story takes place after the graduation party at the karaoke bar when Baek Seung Jo pushed Oh Ha Ni against the wall and kissed her. Furthermore this story picks up after they start Parang University and Baek Seung Jo tells Hae-Ra that there was no way that Ha Ni was his girlfriend.

ENJOY!

Oh Ha Ni's P.O.V

It's his fault really. He dared me to do it. Or maybe it's my fault, for loving him in the first place. I know I'm not smart, especially not like him. I know that someone like Hae-Ra would be much better for someone like him. Both smart, both equally cold. They deserve each other.

I was done, I've had had it. The constant pain and abuse, it caused me so much emotional pain that I almost wished that it was physical pain instead, so I could stop enduring. It would be much easier that way, after all, it could only take so long to heal from physical injuries. The emotional ones? Not so much. There was only so much I could endure before reaching my breaking point and giving up. Only so much, and healing from these scars, would take infinitely longer than healing from meagre and petty physical pains. No, these scars may as well never heal and could potentially haunt me for the rest of my life.

Didn't Baek Seung Jo realise that he was destroying me from the inside out? Maybe he did, but in that case, he certainly didn't look like he cared one bit. Well fine, if that's how he wanted it to be.

He dared me to do it, and I will. He dared me to forget him, even though he kissed me. I may not forget him, but I'm done putting up with all the abuse, done pining after him year after year, done taking his callous treatment and I was absolutely DONE, loving him.

General P.O.V

Oh Ha Ni had done her best to keep to the promise she had made to herself. She tried thinking less about him, she didn't let Baek Seung Jo find her and she paid him no mind. Instead, she spent all her time studying as a Nurse, and when she was not studying, she was working at the family diner. She was busy, and she was overworking herself, but it seemed that this had helped her cope. Her grades were evident of that. She was by far not the brightest in her field, but, it was obvious that she was improving. She stopped making so many mistakes with the simplest of things and she stopped failing her assignments. To date, she had passed every single one of them.

While working, she had started saving every single Won she had earned, for future use of course. With a steady job, and improving her intelligence and grades, she was slowly but steadily steeling her heart from all that was Baek Seung Jo.

She knew she still loved him, and it hurt her to be doing this, but she didn't want to be destroyed. Hae-Ra could have him, and he could have her.

Baek Seung Jo had not once seeked her out. Ha Ni knew she was a hopeless romantic and somewhere inside her, she had hoped that maybe, just maybe, Seung Jo would seek her out, and maybe, could even love her. But then reality came crashing back down. It would never happen, she was completely undeserving of him. He made that point more than obvious.

Mother could feel her wishes of really having a daughter slipping away from her. She had never been more ashamed of her eldest. She wondered if he was even her son.

Even little Eun Jo had stopped pestering and mocking Ha Ni. He could see it in her, the cold and bitterness taking place in her as consequence of her depressed state, caused by none other than his beloved hyung. He didn't hate Ha Ni, he loved her actually but would never admit that. He didn't like seeing her this way. Eun Jo couldn't understand why his hyung was doing this, surely he couldn't be this much of an idiot, or cruel.

With that thought, he walked up to his old room, which his almost sister occupied. Steeling his nervousness, he knocked gently and once hearing a soft "come in" he walked in.

Looking at his Noona, and seeing what she had ultimately become, the little boy couldn't help but run forward but tackle her on her bed and hug her. He knew she needed it, it was evident by her soft sobs.

Hugging him back, Oh Ha Ni felt much better. Holding inside her pain was so difficult. Yet here was her little brother and everything just came pouring out. She sat up with Eun Jo still in her arms, both holding the other tightly, and hugged him to her tighter, letting her tears finally fall after the past few weeks.

A few minutes later, her crying having subsided, she was able to look upon her little brother. He stared at her, not knowing what to do or say.

"Eun Jo- ah, thank you. I needed that cry and even though I was clouded in so much agony, this moment before, has made me significantly happier." Now she was determined, even her little brother noticed her pain, so now enough was really enough.

"Noona... I'm sorry for all the times that I had hurt you. I'm sorry for every scathing remark I threw at you. I never really meant them... I was jealous that you seemed to be stealing Hyung from me. I wish that Hyung would stop being so stupid too..." The last part was mumbled so soft that Ha Ni wasn't able to pick it up, but the rest she was able to hear loud and clear and at being called 'Noona', her heart warmed and she gave a 100watt smile, stretching from ear to ear, all the while squeezing the life out of the little man beside her.

"Don't worry Eun Jo-ah, so what if your brother doesn't want me? I've been doing alright so far and his rejection motivates me. I'll be alright, and I'm sure I'll find someone who loves me and who I could also love. And you know what else? This way, I won't be stealing your hyung from you." She said it in such a cheerful manner that he was hard pressed not to believe her. On the other hand, he knew she still loved his brother. His brother, the man with an I.Q of 200, was an idiot.

2 Weeks Later.

"Omma! Omma! Help me!" Screamed an excited Ha Ni. Her life had taken a turn for the better in the last two weeks. A handsome Sunbae called Kim Ki Tae had asked her out. Sure she was still in love with the boy next door but the prospect of being wanted was a very potent and flattering idea to entertain.

"Ha Ni-ah! Omo, are you alright? What's wrong!?" Mother was beside herself with worry.

"I'm fine Omma, I just need help with what to wear to my date." Ha Ni replied with a cheerful smile on her face.

"Date..." Mother wondered, "Seung Jo-ah finally asked you on a date?" At last, a happy smile spread on her face.

"Omma... He didn't ask me on a date... A student called Kim Ki Tae asked me." Was the hesitant reply. There was one person in the world that Ha Ni never wanted to disappoint, more than anyone else in the world, more than even Baek Seung Jo himself. That person being his mother who had done so much for her in the time when she had lived with them.

"Oh Ha No-ah, you don't like my son anymore?"

"That's not it Omma, I'm still very much in love with your son, however I'm giving up on him. I don't want to force him and clearly he wants nothing to do with me. So I decided, more for my sake, to stop pursuing him. Ki Tae-oppa is interested in me and while I know it's petty, I want to love and be loved. So I decided to give oppa a chance." It was a long winded explanation but it was the truth and Mother could see the logic in that. She knew her son also loved Ha Ni, but he needed a good kick in the ass and some competition to bring out his more jealous and possessive side.

She could play this card, her son would have to face his feelings soon or risk losing Ha Ni. With this in mind, Mother knew exactly how to reply, especially having known her son was listening to them at the top of the stairs. Foolish boy thought he was invisible. Genius indeed. But of course, Mother ALWAYS knows best.

"You know dear, Ki Tae-ah sounds promising. Lets go pick out something to wear." It was time for Seung Jo to take his chance. And mother knew exactly how to make that happen.

Her son wouldn't know what hit him.

So I hope you enjoyed this first part guys, did you guys like it? I hope you did. Well, please review and let me know. If there is anything you'd like me to improve on, let me know. I'll try my best. Bye guys!