Chapter 38 - Stay with me (1/2)
Kang Si An still finds it hard to believe that she is standing in front of him, alive and healthy. When the receptionist told him that the visitor's name was Kwon Kyuri, he thought that it was a dream. He ran all the way to see her.
”Everything?” She asks him, annoyed. ”What did you say to me in the car?”
He takes her hands. After ten years, his dead heart feels alive again. He has been waiting and living every day while hoping to see her one more time. When her family told him the truth, he made the connection why Kyuri seemed like a different person at different times. Why didn't she tell him once? They fought so many times because she would suddenly disappear. He knows where she went she disappeared.
”I asked you to date me, but you rejected me.”
”Your memory is good for useless things.” She scolds him, ”You should forget. It's been a decade.”
This Kyuri isn't in love with him yet.
”Let me decide what I should remember or not.” He can't resist touching her hair. ”It's already late. I guess that you don't have any place to live in the city. You can stay with me until you go back.”
”I can stay here.” She tries to free her hands from him. ”Don't mind me. You should go back to the hotel.”
”Asking me to leave you in a dark alley,” He looks at her gravely. ”Kwon Kyuri, you don't think highly of me as your fiance, do you?”
She seems angrier when she hears his words. ”Listen, I am not your fiance yet. We aren't even in a relationship.”
He stares at her. It's been such a long time. She's alive. He feels alive after seeing her. He doesn't want to lose this chance to keep her with him. He hugs her. The calm and solemn exterior crumbles with the hot tears that fall on her cheek. His arms tighten around her as his body loses the strength to stand. He doesn't want to lose her again.
”Stay with me,” He whispers to her in a trembling voice. He can't lose her again.
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I feel his tears rolling down on my cheeks. I realize that he has been acting. There's a shell around him that's broken easily. I only had to refuse him once and he showed his vulnerable side to me. How long has he been like this? The pain in his voice is unmistakable.
How long does it take someone to grow feelings for someone else? One day? One year? One moment? It takes only a moment to fall in love. It takes another moment to realize that we love someone. We can't choose who we love, but we can choose our actions.