Hello everyone!
Sorry to have made you wait for so long but I had exams to attend.=) Now I'm officially on Christmas break!
Thank you so much for your sweet reviews! I love them and always learn much with them. I received a review that scared me, though, but in an alarmed way: it was asked of me to not make Woo Bin too much of a cry baby as in my last story. I swear to you all that has not been my intention. I merely meant to picture Woo Bin as he would be like if he had fallen deeply in love as in my fic. I admit that perhaps it may have been a litle out of character so I'm sorry to everyone!
That is the reason why I want more and more of your reviews. That way I understand if you are liking the story or not!
So, to the person who sent me that review, thanks for alerting me! I'll try not to make him a cry baby, precisely because I knw that he is everything but one!
Here's the next chapter!
Enjoy!
Chapter 5 - Unwanted Call
Jae Kyung lazily opened an eye to the morning sun that submerged Ga Eul's entire living room. Smiling sheepishly, she stretched herself beneath her covers on the bed Ga Eul had improvised in her living room. Then she stared at the roof, quietly listening to the sounds around her.
Ga Eul had not yet woke up, as she could still hear her soft breathing from her bedroom and her occasional murmurs and sighs. Outside, the cars were already moving and the birds had long shut themselves to give place to the awful sound of the engines.
For a moment, she wanted to open the window and shout for them to shut up. Then she pushed that thought away. They would never shut up. As well as the voice in her head that would never shut and her heart that would never heal itself.
She clenched her eyes tightly, trying to bit back the tears. She knew Ga Eul would be up once she heard her sobs and the last things she wanted was to wake up her already worn out friend. She had already nursed her into sleep last night, and the previews one, after her confrontation with Woo Bin.
As she was trying to calm herself, she found out that her cell phone, on the low table beside her head was vibrating. Looking at the screen, her insights crawled over themselves. Pushing the call away, she took another breath and tried to get back to thinking, to no avail. Her phone only rang again and again. So she pried herself free from the sheets, sitting herself up and picking it up answered it:
- Hello?
- Well, hello. Good morning to you, my love…
- What makes you think it is morning were I am? – she spat, aggressively. She didn't want to talk much less ear his voice.
- I'm… guessing… - he laughed cruelly. – Now, now, sweetheart… don't hang up! I called to wish you a good day …
- Go to hell! I'm not your sweetheart.
- Of course you are, Jae Kyung. I'm going to overlook this… this little "run" you made, for now. After all, in a few days you won't be able to return to Korea alone… So make sure you say goodbye to all of your friends.
- LEAVE ME ALONE!
- Now, now… how can you say such things to your sweetheart and fiancé?
- I DON'T REMEMBER EVER CALLING YOU THAT OR AGREEING TO ANY OF THIS! LEAVE ME ALONE, ONCE AND FOR ALL! – she shouted.
There was silence on the other side of the line, and Jae Kyung could hear Ga Eul's light footsteps coming in her direction, through the corridor.
- I'm losing my patience with you, Jae Kyung… you'd better start showing a little more respect for your fiancé or I'll make sure your father notices the true situation you put your company in. You wouldn't want that, would you? – the man on the other side said, in a crude and sibling voice that remembered Jae Kyung of a sibling snake, leaving all her skin crawling. – The poor man is so debilitated already… another stroke could be… fatal…
- You son of a…!
- Now, now! You really don't want to end that sentence, do you, Jae Kyung? Remember what is at stake…
- … - she hold back her tears.
- You have 5more days of freedom. If you are not here by the fifth… you know what happens…
On the other side the man hang up. Jae Kyung pressed her head against the phone and sighed deeply, letting the tears start falling. Hiccupping, she felt Ga Eul's hands on her shoulders, forcing her against her chest. Jae Kyung barely noticed her friend was sitting on the floor before letting all her restrains and weeping out her frustration and sadness.
- Why… why me…?
- Sshh. – said Ga Eul, hugging her. – It's alright… it's going to be ok…
After a while, Ga Eul had managed to calm her and; bringing a coup of hot tea from the kitchen, she gave it to her and took a sip of her own.
- Thank you.
- Calmer? – she asked.
- I'm trying…
- It was him?
- …
- Jae Kyung, what have we talked about keeping it all for you?
- … yeah, it was him… threatening me…
- … why don't you tell your father…?
- And what? Make him have another heart attack? No thank you…
- You're drowning yourself, Jae Kyung… you need friends by your side and your family too, to support you… otherwise…
- Otherwise I'll just stay quiet. And you promised to do the same, Ga Eul!
- I know what I promised. You don't have to remind me… it's already hard enough not being able to tell everything to Woo Bin-sunbae as I wanted…
Jae Kyung almost let her tea spill.
- NEVER, GA EUL! YOU MUST NEVER TELL HIM!
- Ok, ok! Calm down! I was merely pointing…
- Huh?
- Nothing, forget I said…
- You start, now you finish.
- … You are conscious you hurt him, aren't you? That you lied to him, once more?
Jae Kyung placed both of her hands around the cup.
- I know. And that's the more reason I don't want him to now… he can't know until… - she trailed off, unable to speak anymore.
A sudden thought passed through Ga Eul's mind
- ….You're not planning to go forward with this marriage, are you?
- … I don't have a choice… he gave me 5days…
- 5days? For what?
- If I'm not back to US in 5days he's going to tell my father about it! I can't let that happen!
- So you're marrying him; that's the brilliant solution you found…
- I DON'T HAVE A CHOICE! HE KNOWS WHERE I AM!
Ga Eul looked at her friend, with a frightened look.
- He knows you're here?
- He knows I'm in Korea, at least…
- How did he…?
- Don't know.
- But… how are you going to do it? Eun Jae-unni's wedding is in 5 days!
- I know… I'll just have to leave after the ceremony…
- Unni, don't do it. There has to be another way… - Ga Eul pleaded her, grasping her hands.
- I wish I could… I wish there was… but I don't see another way to go about this…
A few tears escaped from Jae Kyung's eyes as she spoke:
- God… how I must have hurt him…
Ga Eul suppressed her own sob, as her friend wept and hiccupped:
- I even… even told… told him… I didn't… I didn't want… want him… because… because of the… the company… he hates me… he hates me now…
- Don't say that… oh, unni! I don't know what more can I do…?
Jae Kyung lift her red eyes to her face and, grasping her friends hands said:
- Just… just promise me… promise me you'll… you'll stay my friend… even after… after I'm gone…
Ga Eul brought her for a bone crushing hug and said:
- I promise… of course I promise…
After a while Jae Kyung calmed herself and went for a shower. Letting the water down on her back, she recalled Woo Bin's face, when he had found her in Ga Eul's apartment. And in her heart, she wished that time could go back, that she had never signed that paper without carefully reading it…
Silently, she wished she had died that night, in that accident, when she had the chance…
When the wedding day came, the skies were pouring down during the whole ceremony. But, as someone had said near her, "a soaking wedding is a blessed wedding".
"Even the skies are biding me farewell… " – thought Jae Kyung melancholically, while watching Eun Jae and Il Hyun exchanging rings; she, in a beautiful white wedding dress, was the picture of happiness and by the looks of Il Hyun, he agreed with her opinion.
Glancing around the room, she spotted Jan Di, sitting beside Jun Pyo, who had come back solely for the wedding. Her friend was dressed in a short pink dress, with a big silver flower fashioned at her left hip, silver high heels and her hair in a soft curly bun, on the top of her hair. Jun Pyo, at her side, was clasping her hand in his, dressed in his impeccable grey suit and blue tie, and was smirking at her.
Behind them, Ji Hoo and Seo Hyun, he in a pure grey suit and her in a long one sleeve purple dress that had a little tail behind and seated next to them was Ga Eul, her eyes unmoving from the man that stood beside his brother at the altar. Yi Jung, who was his brother's best man, however, didn't hide the continuous glances he throw at and the branded smirk in his face. Ga Eul, in a long clear blue dress, that hung from her neck, and with her hair in soft curls, and loving smile on her face, Ga Eul was both innocent to his gaze and lovingly.
She smiled, happy for all of them, of course, but she knew her time in Korea was running out and she was wondering how much more time she could allow herself to stay before returning to her prison, at the other side of the sea. Checking out to see if he wasn't looking, she allowed her gaze to hover on Woo Bin's seated posture, a few seats away from her: his soft gaze, bestowed upon the newlyweds, his black and blue suit, his serene face…
Gulping hardly, she diverted her eyes from him; if he caught her looking once more, she knew he might suspect something. And that was the last thing she wanted, letting him know. Ha Jae Kyung, the great CEO from JK Group, a simple prisoner against her will in the US?
She was sure he would criticize her till the end of the earth. Then again, he already hated her now. What was the point in telling him the truth?
Woo Bin caught himself staring for the umpteenth time that day at the girl standing a few chairs away from him, in a short strapless green dress and black high heels, with the hair curled in deliciously looking waves and absent expression in her face.
He was under the impression that, as he was checking her out (NOT checking her out… making sure she was ok!, he remembered himself again) that she had been doing the same to him. At least he could feel, every once and now a pair of warm eyes all over him and he was whishing (thinking!) it would be hers. But every time he glanced at her, she would have her eyes focused on something or looking lost as they looked now.
He was suffering because of her, he was hurting inside and he knew that it was her fault. But he still couldn't believe how graciously her eyebrows rose in her forehead as she thought, or how her lips twitched, before she smiled.
Yeah, he was hurting and suffering for the same woman he had the hugest crush in his entire life. He wasn't ready to admit, though he had already said it to her once that he was completely in love with her.
He recalled the time when he had gone to Jeju Island, as Jun Pyo was about to marry her into a marriage of convenience; while he was driving his car, he remembered having thought about how empty his life felt, without no one by his side…
He was the only one, from the remaining F4 that drove to crash that wedding, which drove alone in his car and he recalled feeling lonesome, at the time. How odd it was, that the person he had wanted to fill that void, was the same one he had ruined the wedding at.
Bringing himself back to reality, he saw that Il Hyun had brought his now wife to a breathtaking kiss and, with everyone he also got up and applauded and whistled to the bride and groom.
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