Disclaimer: I do not own BOF- its original plot, characters, etc. I'm just a mere fan who loves the SoEul couple! :D

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Chapter 18: I was never yours

"Do I really need these people? Yi Jung, for goodness sake, she's merely a student just like us. They are overacting." Ga Eul said to Yi Jung as they were walking across the fields of Shinhwa.

"It's our families that wanted those men. Not me. The guys and I can guard you well enough."

"I can handle myself."

"You can? What if I didn't come on time when she was hurting you the last time?"

"Yi Jung- ah." Ga Eul pleaded him. "Please don't treat her like she's a bad girl or something."

"She is. I'm not the only one who thinks that way."

"Have you talked to her? Maybe she has her reason for doing so."

"Her reason is that she wants you to get out of my life and be married to me. Ga Eul, do we really have to go over this thing again?"

"You promised me that you will talk to her and explain. Just say your reason and apologize. She'll understand. You said you'll put it on your to- do list."

"There's no need for that."

Ga Eul halted. She loosened his grip on her hand and stopped dead on the middle of the road.

"What? Come on." Yi Jung asked her to.

"Yi Jung Sunbae, you've broken a lot of your promises already. You've forgotten your promise to her that's why she's acting that way. If you continue to do that, I guess I won't believe the promises you said before and will say in the future. Talk to her first. If you don't do that, expect that I won't be talking to you anymore." She turned around.

"Damn." Yi Jung cursed under his breath. "Why did I make a lot of promises in my life?"

C,")

"Rae Min- ah." Yi Jung called her as she passed by the corridor of Shinhwa.

"Yi Jung- ah!" Rae Min's depressed face suddenly turned to a delighted one when she heard Yi Jung call her name. She stopped by in front of him and smiled.

"Can we talk?" Yi Jung asked her.

"Of course we can."

Yi Jung brought Rae Min to an empty classroom. He started, "First, I would like to say sorry for what I said to you the last time. I was so angry at the moment."

"Okay."

"Next is, I want to know your reason why you did that to Ga Eul."

Rae Min's eyes rolled at her name. "She doesn't deserve the ring, Yi Jung. I do. I'm your fiancée and not her. I suppose you remember it all. Right?"

"I remember the things that happened twelve years ago."

"So, does that mean I'm going to be your bride now?" she smiled.

"No." Yi Jung firmly said. "That's not what I'm going to say." Rae Min kept quiet. "I'm apologizing for not being able to fulfill that promise."

"Why?" she asked, teary- eyed.

"I just made that promise so that my brother will hear it. I was jealous of him for having a bride that early. And then I saw you, a charming young girl. I really had fun playing with you that day. But the promise I gave you, I have no intention of fulfilling it."

Rae Min let out a soft smile at that. "So, you never really liked me." Yi Jung didn't answer. "Even if a lot of people say that I look like Ga Eul, there would be no chance for you to like me, right?" Still, she didn't receive an answer from Yi Jung. "Do you still believe that the girl you danced before is Ga Eul? And not me? Even if I'm telling you right now that's it's really me? Yi Jung, can't you see the similarities. At least, I want you to know that it's me."

Yi Jung looked at her straight into the eyes. There was desperation and sadness in her eyes. "How can you prove to me that it's really you? Aside from the perfume, the hair, height, voice. You and Ga Eul are all similar in those aspects."

Rae Min thought for a while. "You can dance with me now. You'll feel the presence of that mysterious girl you're looking for."

"I'm not doing that." Yi Jung replied firmly.

"Why? That's the only thing that would prove you that I'm really that girl." she emphasized on the word really, as if saying that Yi Jung is making mistakes by thinking that it's not her and Ga Eul, instead.

"There's one more thing that only that mysterious girl would know."

"What?"

Yi Jung chuckled. "It's definitely not you Rae Min. If I'm that girl, I would certainly remember what I said to the guy I danced with. Guys are not as observant as me when it comes to the perfume, or the hair and others. The only way a guy would know that that mysterious girl is indeed someone, he would surely remember her words and what they talked about."

"Well, I do remember." she defended.

"Then what is it?" Yi Jung challenged her.

"Uh. Uh. Uhmmmm." She said those repeatedly. Of course, she would never know what those words were because she is not that mysterious girl.

"You don't know, do you?" Yi Jung asked her. He certainly observed the uneasiness and the deep thinking that Rae Min is doing. She is certainly thinking of something.

"Happy birthday, Oppa!" She finally said out of desperation when Yi Jung was about to stand up from his seat and leave.

"Wrong." Yi Jung replied. He turned round and faced the door of the room. He was about to turn the knob when he heard Rae Min's voice saying, "I'll remember! I know it. I know that I know it." she insisted.

"I only give one chance to things like that, Rae Min- ah. I can't give you another one. Surely, you'd find it out. Don't dare ask my friends. If Woo Bin told you the characteristics I was looking for, this time, he would not. Only I and that girl know it."

"So you think it's really Chu Ga Eul? That girl?"

"Even if my mind is not certain about that, my heart is. There's no other girl who made me feel that way besides Ga Eul and the mysterious girl." Tears slowly went down Rae Min's eyes. "Just so you know, she's the one who asked me to apologize and talk to you. I wouldn't do it on myself. She's a good girl, Rae Min- ah. She treats you as one too even if you hurt her. Ga Eul still treats you as a friend."

"She would never be a friend to me anymore. She stole you from me Yi Jung."

"She never did that because even for once, I was never yours."

C,")

"Ga Eul- yang!" Yi Jung approached Ga Eul, who was sandwiched between two men in black. "I already talked to her." He grabbed her hand.

Ga Eul stared at him. "And you made her cry."

"She cried herself." Yi Jung defended.

"You must have said something that made her cry Yi Jung Sunbae. Why do you always make women cry?"

"Yah yah Ga Eul. You're accusing me. If I dated a lot of girls before, I made it clear with them that what we have is just a fling, alright? If they cried, that's their fault for assuming things."

Ga Eul smiled at him. She pinched his nose with her free hand. "You're too defensive. I was just guessing if she really cried and you proved me that she really did. Why did she?"

"Heart- broken, maybe."

"I want to comfort her."

"Why? She could hurt you once more if you do that."

"She's still my friend, Yi Jung."

"But she doesn't treat you as one."

"How would you know?" Ga Eul asked him.

"She told me." Yi Jung replied. "I don't know if things cleared up when I talked to her a while ago. We still need to be careful and have your bodyguards with you."

"Boo." Ga Eul pouted.

"Or do you want me to guard you myself."

"That's better." Ga Eul giggled. "Wait, you really talked to her?"

"Yes."

"That's fast."

"I can't stand not talking to you. You tortured me when you said that."

"Sweet talker." Ga Eul called him as she pinched his nose once again.