Chapter 26: Fall in Love

Chaeryeong's POV

I promised myself, that I won't anybody else, than my sister know my problem. Especially Taehyun, but here I am breaking that little promise. That I made for myself.

I took really deep breathe, before looking at him. "It's just; you want to know why I tried to avoid you?" I asked him, to which he quickly nodded at.

"It's because a lot of people bully, because of you. So, I thought, what if I distance myself from him? That might stop them. But, instead of stopping it, it just worsened since you kept on going next to me. Talking to me." I said to him.

"I never thought of that..." He said and looked down. I quickly laughed a bit at him.

"I know you didn't. I mean you probably didn't know that I actually kind of laugh at you every time you do something stupid." I said, and laughed at him. He quickly pouted, and covered his face up.

"Plus, I didn't know how to express myself back then. So, all of my worries just continued to fill up in my mind. Sometimes, I even ask myself why I was even born..." I said, getting emotional once again.

"That is before I met my current friends. They made my life... A bit bearable, I guess? They made me happy in so many ways, that my family couldn't. They made me feel special." I said, reminiscing both the funny and lovely moments we had together.

"Although, they're like that... I feel like they're the family I've been wanting and looking for. All my life." I said, and looked down.

"But, you know what I learned, from them?" I asked him.

"What?" He asked me.

"That quality over quantity is much more important." I said.

"It doesn't matter whether they were so many of them or not. Because, the quality of them is so rare. Sure, they can get to my nerves, but I love them none the less." I said.

"All my life, I've had a really hard time making friends, since my only friend growing up was my sister. But, our bond suddenly was broken by something..." I said, and remembered that really hard time.

"But, as time flew by, since I already told you that I also play the game. Since, my friends told me to. But, there was another reason why I wanted to play it." I said, before taking a little break.

"It's because, I made another friend there, without anybody else knowing... Not, even my friends, of course if you're friends with somebody you should tell them everything. And when I mean everything, I mean it. There shouldn't be lies and secrets between your friendships with them. Just a really transparent one, everything should be out." I said.

"Of course, they'll understand why you didn't tell them from the beginning when It's something really personal. Or maybe when it's something embarrassing." I said.

"But, that person that I played with. Almost every single day, made me feel something special, something odd, something I've never felt or heard before." I said.

I felt his stares towards me, but I just continued to say my story to him, because it's one of the main reasons, that I don't think like how others do.

"It took some time, before I realized it. I actually fell in love with the person that I was playing with." I said.

"The same person asked me, if I wanted to meet up with him, at this same spot. But, I thought what if that person doesn't like or maybe at least talk to me anymore, after the talk. So many thought came inside my mind. One of them gave me a really brilliant idea, and I managed to outsmart him." I said.

"Instead of going to the front gates, I went through the side ones, specifically the left one. But, when I did I saw something, I should've been prepared but, I wasn't. Then, something suddenly told me to just run away, from it." I said.

Once, I saw that I quickly started to sob once again. But, while I was sobbing, I felt someone hug me. I slightly looked up, and saw Taehyun hugging me.

"So, that's why I didn't meet my playmate?" He asked, to which I just quietly nodded my head.

He laughed for a bit, at me. "Ah, so what if I tell you, that I also like you?" He suddenly asked me. As I started drying up all of my tears.

I quickly started slapping him, from every side. "That's not true! Don't lie to me! How come you'll fall in love with me, huh?" I asked him. While having tears threatening to fall off me eyes.

But, then before I even knew it, they started falling off once again, and once again he started comforting me.

"So, can we please be together?" He said, more like pleaded me. I started teasing him, about it. But, in the end, I agreed but of course it still has a condition.

"You know, I also want to experience being courted, right?" I said to him, while smiling.