Chapter 556 (1/2)

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“No, no… Why are you talking like that?” Ban Yeo Ryung cried in a tearful voice. “I… I prefer remembering you. That’s what I want to do just like you.”

Rubbing my cheek, I uttered, “Without you, Yeo Ryung, I couldn’t stand any longer.”

“Me too, Donnie,” replied Ban Yeo Ryung, then she almost wept over the phone.

It slightly bewildered me, but shortly after, tears also sprang to my eyes.

“Ban Yeo Ryung, I’m sorry.” With a pause, I continued, “The reason why I didn’t tell you that a part of my memories is lost… it isn’t because that I hate you. If I confess the truth, I was afraid you would also see me as a stranger or don’t like me anymore…”

Unlike before, words came out of my heart so fluently. It was possible since I finally had faith that Ban Yeo Ryung wouldn’t hate me regardless of the situation.

Anyway, as Yoo Chun Young did, Ban Yeo Ryung also liked the current version of me. Even if her memories of myself before thirteen were different from what she actually knew, Ban Yeo Ryung wouldn’t dislike me.

She also uttered, “Why would I hate you? Silly… You don’t know how I feel…”

“No, you’re the one who doesn’t know it. I really like you with all my heart,” I cut her off.

“You think I’m not? I love you more!”

In the end, we began to desperately confess our feelings for each other like a couple who fought for the first time ever since they started dating.

Yoo Chun Young, beside me, stared at us with an indescribable look on his face. That was when a thought entered my head. To think of it, he had done me a great job to overcome this situation. I gave a thumb up to him.

“Thanks. I was able to realize my true feelings because of you,” I praised him in a dignified voice.

Looking a bit pale, Yoo Chun Young murmured, “It wasn’t to remind you something like that though…”

At that moment, the small cafe door was flung open with a cheerful bell sound. When I turned my head in the direction, Eun Jiho was looking at us, reclining his arm on the door. His platinum blond hair was all tangled up.

Taking the phone slightly away from my ear, I asked, “Eun… Jiho…?”

“Your phone looks fine. Why didn’t you answer the call then?”

As soon I came into his view, Eun Jiho tossed the question. I showed him the phone so that he could take a closer look.

“This isn’t mine. It’s Yoo Chun Young’s. Mine is broken,” I said.

Furrowing his brows at once, Eun Jiho asked, “Broken? How come?”

“I dropped it.”

“… Anyway, dude, we don’t have time for this,” said Eun Jiho. “Hurry.” Dropping that word, he stretched his hand out to me.

After a little thought, I stuck my hand out to him. Holding my hand immediately, Eun Jiho grabbed Yoo Chun Young’s wrist too, who was also standing absentmindedly as if the situation was none of his business. Yoo Chun Young’s brows met in the middle.

He asked, looking displeased, “Why?”

“Hey, aren’t you aware of yourself as a celebrity? How come you’re drinking something in a cafe with a girl?”

“Eek,” I held my breath.

Eun Jiho was right. Now, Yoo Chun Young shouldn’t stay with me alone without having someone else together no matter how long we had been friends or how accidentally we had bumped into each other.

Besides, this cafe was nearby the location where Yoo Chun Young had been shooting just now. There was, of course, a possibility of his fans, who didn’t leave this area yet, having found us staying close together.

I asked, “Did something happen? Was there something on the web?” Being concerned, I added, “… Or on the news?”

“No, not there yet,” he replied, then held his phone out to me.

When his phone screen came into my sight, I was at a loss for words.