Chapter 150 (1/2)

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The incident began when I encountered Baek Yeo Min in town last weekend. I mean, I just wanted to eat outside and went to Lotteria to grab something, and there I met Baek Yeo Min.

You know, that girl who asked me to become her friend, cursed Ban Yeo Ryung in front of me, and suggested not to get along with her. When I refused to do so, she also backbit me; therefore, she was the person who made me realize girls in this world were hardly believable.

Anyway, when I got closer to Baek Yeo Min during my freshman year in middle school, that was within a few months since I met Ban Yeo Ryung. At that time, I was thinking about getting away from Ban Yeo Ryung.

How could I not think that way when it was apparent how this world would proceed? How could I stand these guys? Of course, I had to get away from them; however, as I saw Baek Yeo Min cursing Ban Yeo Ryung, I could hardly see Ban Yeo Ryung as a girl who acted like an arrogant bitch in trust of her beauty.

As I got to thinking about it now, perhaps, that happening evoked my sympathy for her. When I found that Baek Yeo Min verbally abused Ban Yeo Ryung for no reason, she looked so miserable. If Baek Yeo Min wasn’t then, wouldn’t I push Ban Yeo Ryung away from me too? When I had those thoughts in mind, our eyes finally met.

With her decent, long, straight hair, Baek Yeo Min still looked pretty and slim like back then. ‘If Ban Yeo Ryung didn’t exist, Baek Yeo Min would have been the number one beauty in our class,’ as the thought came across my mind, our eyes met. I turned my head out of perplexity and thought that she would also ignore me soon.

Surprisingly, she strode toward me, then sat down right across. ‘What the…?’ I stared at her in surprise. We, eventually, had an unexpected meeting like that at the weekend. ‘Who do you think you are to sit across from me?’ I was about to ask her that; however, Baek Yeo Min initiated the conversation.

“Donnie.”

“Um, yeah?”

Her face and voice were too sad that I couldn’t ask her about what she was doing. While I stared at her bitterly, she opened her mouth again.

“How’s everything?”

“Huh? Good…”

“Oh, yeah? How’s Yeo Ryung?”

“She’s good too.”

‘Why? What else are you gonna do if she’s not fine?’ I tried to swallow those words. As I lifted my eyes to look at her, she still had a sad face. I thought, ‘Why does she have that look?’

That time Baek Yeo Min slandered Ban Yeo Ryung and I was so vivid in my head that it felt like it happened yesterday. She treated and condemned us so harshly that I clearly remembered what she had done. ‘Why is she about to cry?’ The more I saw her, the more I got annoyed.

I mean, now, I wasn’t just mad. That issue happened three years ago, and I wasn’t that narrow-minded to keep that anger until now. It’s just that her actions now were confusing me. As I felt tired, I decided to get up, then she called me urgently.

“Donnie!”

I turned back to see her at last. Rolling her eyeballs, Bae Yeo Min stammered as if she felt anxious.

“I… um… got to think about the things that happened in the past.”

“Yeah.”

“I don’t know why I did such a thing! When I got to thinking about it, Ban Yeo Ryung was just close to the four boys and did nothing wrong to me. She was always nice, sweet, supportive, and funny… but why did I hate her and spread bad rumors about her… I have no idea why I did that.”

As she finished her words, Baek Yeo Min looked at me with desperate eyes. ‘What is she on about?’ I blinked my eyes in wonder.

She continued, “So now I just want to say how very sorry I am to you and Ban Yeo Ryung. At that time, I thought Eun Hyung stood by your side because you were close to Ban Yeo Ryung; however, as I got to think about it, what he said was right. I was harsh… I know it’s useless to talk about it now, but I just wanted to apologize. I’m sorry.”

“…”

Her words flew like water, and that was when she stopped stammering. I looked at her while frowning. ‘What is she trying to pull off right now?’ Many people inside Lotteria started to look at us.

‘I’m tired, should I just leave?’ Wondering what to do, I finally sat back on the seat. Her face then turned a little brighter. I replied after a moment of hesitance.

“To be honest, I don’t really care about it anymore. I’ll let Ban Yeo Ryung know what you said. Anyway… thanks… for your apologies.”