"𝙞𝙢 𝙙𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚

𝙞 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙚, 𝙬𝙝𝙮, 𝙬𝙝𝙮

𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙛 𝙞 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙧

𝙖 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨

𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣, 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣, 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣."

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her recollections as she blows her nose, placing it on top of the huge stack accumulated. jaehyun pats her back comfortingly, listeningt to every word she was saying. every single one that came from her mouth, came with pain, brokenness.

"hey, yujin, it's going to be okay..." is all that jaehyun can say. "i'm sorry you had to go through this."

yujin shakes her head. "i don't need your sympathy," she chokes on yet another sob. "" she buries her head in her hands before crying once more.

"and what's worse," she sniffs, "i live with him. how am i going to face him again? he's probably cuddling with her on our bed right now."

jaehyun pauses for a moment, before coming up with a plausible solution. "there's an extra room in my house... if you want to of course! you don't need to stay with us because you feel obliged to or anything —"

yujin chuckled sadly under her breath. "i'll take the offer for now, till i can find a place of my own. thank you," she looks up to make eye contact jaehyun for the first time that night.

jaehyuns feels as if his breath is hitched. she was truly beautiful, without a doubt. but her eyes — they held so much hurt and loss. jaehyun could see right through her soul, she was aching inside on so many levels — physical, emotional.

as yujin looked into jaehyun's as well, she felt as if he had his own story, one that was clean and untouched. a story that nobody knew of, a story that he disclosed all to himself. but it was a sad, no — a very sad story — a story that kept him at night, a story that haunts him till today.

"i need to pick up my stuff from my place though," yujin clears her throat, breaking her gaze from jaehyun's, "if you don't mind, of course."

jaehyun stands up and adjusts his hair, before smiling at her. "of course not! let's go then," as he turns around, he prays that it wouldn't take long. he had his mother waiting for her medicine at home, and she would rage if jaehyun didn't even give her on time. he had still an hour to spare to medicate her.

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"is this the place?" jaehyun asks, pointing to the apartment in front of them, and yujin nods her head. "i'll follow you upstairs," he unbuckles his seatbelt and yujin does the same. jaehyun walks over to her side, holding an umbrella for her as he opens the door. yujin smiles at jaehyun.

"you're really doing so much for me today, and i just met you..." she remarks sheepishly and jaehyun laughs at her comment. "it's fine, it's the least i could do for somebody going through a difficult time."

at this, yujin face falls, as she remembers that she will ultimately need to face her lover — or her ex-lover. as much as it pains for her to say, it was true. yukhei had completely broken her heart just a mere couple hours back, but it hurt yujin with every ounce of her strength.

as the pair stand outside the door, yujin tells jaehyun politely that he should stay outside while she packs her belongings. he agrees.

as she enters, she notices a pair of high heels next to yukhei's shoes, and tears threaten to fall from her eyes again. it was a hard slap on the face from reality, and it stung yujin.

she takes a deep breath and walks in to her home. she stops in her tracks almost immediately and she sees yukhei and his new woman all cuddled up on their couch, with the woman slowly sucking on yukhei's neck gently. yujin isn't able to take it anymore. tears begin to fall from her eyes as her voice trembles out the only name in her mind — "yukhei."

at her voice, yukhei opens his eyes and sits up straight. for a moment, yujin swears yukhei looks at her with a pitiful face, but then stiffens, scoffing at yujin. "what are you doing in my house?"

yujin can't believe what she is hearing with her own ears. "i'm just packing up, yukh —"

"— don't call me that." yujin felt the last bits of her heart being thrown once more. yukhei only allowed people to call him lucas, nobody knew that his real name was yukhei — all except for yujin. and now, her only last bit of yuk— lucas, was gone.

yujin just wanted to fall on her knees and break down, but not in front of lucas. she takes a deep breath in, holding in all the emotions she was bearing as she walked into her room and began packing.

she heard a small conversation being exchanged between lucas and his new right wing. as yujin packs, lucas walks in and stands at a distance from her. "yujin?" he calls out.

the way her name rolls of his tongue — it's the same. the same way yukhei had said it when he confessed to her, when he had made love to her. but the context — it was so, very different now.

yujin refuses to look behind her, knowing that if she does, she'd cry. she continues to pack her clothes into her bag.

"yujin, who's the boy outside the door?" lucas asks and yujin freezes. she turns around and looks at lucas straight into the eye. "he's a friend," she states simply. lucas scoffs. "a friend? yujin, i know all your male friends. is there something you were hiding from me?"

this time, it was yujin's turn to scoff. "look who's talking, lucas. i don't know how your little fling has been going on, but i don't think i want to either," she zips up her bag and walks to the door, and closer to lucas. specifically, an angry-looking lucas.

"how long has it been going on?" lucas looks her into the eye, and yujin feels her blood boil. "lucas, he's my friend." she tries to explain once again calmly. "you little bitch," lucas grits his teeth in anger, before turning around and storming to the front door. "hey, pretty boy!" he calls out and yujin feels the heart in her chest begin to pound.

jaehyun turns from his phone and looks at lucas, clearly confused. "so how long have you been seeing this whore?" he asks and yujin feels like she's about to throw up any second. meanwhile, jaehyun feels anger begin to boil within him. "what did you just call her, douch—"

"— mind your words, lover boy," lucas rolls his eyes and walks closer to jaehyun. "you really want to get a punch from me, huh?" he swings his arm back and before he can launch his clenched wrist onto jaehyun's face, yujin holds him back.

"don't you dare touch him, lucas." yujin growls and lucas swings his hand from her grip. "leave, you hoe. just suck his dick and move on to other men. what you do best now, huh?" he snidely remarks, and yujin felt her heart ache at lucas' words. she presses her lips together to hold back her tears. she walks past lucas and past jaehyun.

jaehyun looks at lucas one more time. "fuck you," jaehyun spits at him and follows the broken girl.

yujin takes off, running as fast as she could. she runs into the rain aimlessly till she feels weak all over. she throws her bag onto the ground, and falls onto her knees. all the emotions she had been keeping within her, all came out as tears and a wail that escaped from the depths of her despair.

she sobs to her heart's ends, until she feels the familiar umbrella being held above her. she looks up to see jaehyun's concerned face, which only breaks her down even further. she called this upon herself, and jaehyun didn't deserve to be a part of whether she was going through. she felt burdened.

jaehyun kneels down in front of her and puts the umbrella to the side. he pulls her into his arms and allows her to cry wholeheartedly into his chest. as yujin cries with every ounce of energy within her, jaehyun allows the heavy rain to pour on the both of them. he sings softly to her, "."

and yujin could do nothing, but agree with his words — behind the melodious voice, the words that did nothing but sting.

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