Author's POV

They all decided to go to sleep as it was very late.

"Sooyeon! " Hoseok approached the ravenette who was going inside her shared tent with Saerim.

"What happened Hobi? " she asked followed by a yawn.

"I was thinking if you would like to go on a walk with me. I want to talk about something to you " he said, fidgeting with his fingers.

"Sure " she accepted the offer with a hopeful smile.

They both left the camping not before noticing the teasing smile on Tae and Jimin's face and a protective glare from Yoongi and Jungkook.

They both walked for a few minutes, chattering about small things.

Soon Hoseok halted on his steps causing Sooyeon to do the same. "What happened " she asked, confused. "Close your eyes" he demanded and she followed.

As she closed her eyes, Hobi helped her to walk few more steps and then asked her to open her eyes. Sooyeon was stunned to see the view in front of her.

It seemed like a lake side. The lake was in the beautiful colours of pinkish-purple which was reflected by the sky which was also in the same colors with beautiful stars shining and a crescent moon being the witness of their this beautiful moment.

"Did you liked it? " Hoseok asked, nervoused.

"Hoseok, I Love it! " she exclaimed not moving her eyes from the beautiful view. "Thank you so much, Hoseok " she said with a beautiful smile.

'It's the time, you can't back out now Hobi, you can do it! ' Hoseok thought himself. He inhaled a deep breath and started.

"Lee Sooyeon, I don't know what you will think of me but I can't keep it inside me more. I like you no I love you, Sooyeon. I don't remember when it happened or how it happened, I just remembered that one day I found myself craving to see you once. I found myself drowning in your eyes. I found myself helplessly in love with you." he paused for a moment because it was too overwhelming for him. Suddenly he felt a warm hand on his hand. He looked up to see Sooyeon who was gesturing him to continue.

"I absolutely don't care what others think about you, what your mother, what your ex-friends think about you. I don't care if you think you are filled with flaws or think that you can't keep any relationship. I just want to be with you and make you realise that you deserve so much happiness than you think. " he finished. He was almost on the verge of tears but he controlled himself and prepared to hear her answer.

"Thank you Hoseok, for loving me so much and that too unconditionally. You have seen my each and every flaw and you are still loves me. You hardly know anything about me yet you are ready to accept me that's the reason why I fell in love with you " Hoseok's world stopped at hearing that sentence.

"But however there is a part of my past that you deserve to know. First hear it and decide whether you still want to love me or not " she said.

"Me and your Bogum hyung, we... we us-used to d-date " she told.

Hoseok felt like his world stopped moving. It was not like this information would reduce the love he had for Sooyeon but still it was very shocking.

"I have loved him since my last year of elementary school, when I was 5th grade I heard he was going to a boarding school and I thought I should confess on the last day of school and I did that too and left without waiting for any answer. " she started explaining.

She walked forward, towards the edge of path and sat down on the edge with her legs hanging down. Hoseok did the same and sat beside her, admiring her reflection in the river down.

"However, he dad decided not to put him in boarding school and so he we attended the same middle school along with our other old classmates. " she continued.

"Though we were in the same class and school, I was feeling too awkward to start talking to him again but he was the one who approached me first and told me that he loved me too and wanted to get in a relationship with me. Me being in love with him since 5th grade obviously agreed to him " she took a pause and looked down at her reflection in the river.

Hoseok always knew that she was in a long time relationship with someone but something happened which led to her breaking up with his boyfriend. But he never knew it was Bogum.

'Just how many more secrets she has inside her heart ' Hoseok thought to himself.

"Since we've been best friends from 1st grade it wasn't hard for us to have a relationship. We both decided to keep it a secret from his friends and other classmates but my friends knew it. " she continued.

"But all our efforts to keep it a secret went in vain because we couldn't help but act lovey dovey all around everyone in our class always had a suspicion on us but we ignored. Everyone who knew about our relationship always told us that you both are perfect for each other. Just a perfect match, made in heaven and me myself also thought the same but one day on our first year of high school "

Flashback

16 year old Sooyeon was waiting at their usual spot for Bogum. She was tapping her foot impatiently. This is the most impatient she has ever been in her life.

When she saw that the recess was about to get over she decided to go back to her classroom but first she decided to stop at the washroom. She was walking through the quiet passageway that lead to the washroom. It was a different and long one, she chose this path because there is hardly any student or crowd present.

Suddenly she heard a weird noise, a moaning sound to be exact.

Being the head girl it was her responsibility to make sure no funny business is going around so she started to look for the source of the noise but when she found it, she felt like dying.

A beautiful girl with long straight black hairs was pinned on one lockers by none other than Park Bogum who was passionately kissing her.

"Bo-Bogum? Wh-what are-e you do-doing? " she said in a broken but loud voice.

"Sooya, What are you doing here? " he asked after pulling away from the kiss. "Shouldn't I be the one who should be asking this " she said clearly.

Now she had a control over herself and wasn't feeling like she would fall on the ground anything.

Moreover her rational thinking was back.

"Darling I-" "Break up! " she said loud and clear. "What?! But at least listen to m-" "And why so? I have seen with my own eyes, that you were sucking the life out'ta that girl."

"At least listen to me why did I do this" "WHY?? WHY SHOULD I LISTEN TO ANY EXCUSE OF YOURS, I SAW YOU CHEATING ON ME AND NOW I AM BREAKING UP WITH YOU, THAT'S IT!" she yelled with rage.

"Why are you so emotionless, huh?? Why don't you also felt jealous when your boyfriend used to hug his other female friends?? Why don't you feel hurt or why aren't you crying when you found out that your boyfriend is cheating, why are you not like any other normal teenager girl , why?"
Bogum shouted.

"You never let me kiss you on the lips, on on forehead or cheeks. Why didn't you craved for more physical affection from me. Even while being in relationship with you, I always felt like you just saw me as your friend which eventually led me to lose interest in you and after all these do you expect me to not fall for someone else " Bogum harsly spat

Sooyeon wasn't surprised, she saw it coming sooner or later after all she sucks at handling any relationship or friendship. But still she was feeling an emptiness inside her, she felt like crying but she had promised something to herself in her childhood which was that she would never cry for anyone who is leaving her after making many false promises and hopes. And so she controlled herself and said.

"None of your excuses allows you to cheat on me, Mr Park. I don't care what you think of me because for me, I am perfect, I love myself the way I am and will not change myself for anyone" she said and turned to leave but then she halted, turned back and gave a nice tight punch on his face and left without shedding a tear.

Present time

Sooyeon completed telling about the incident, she stared at the crescent moon with blank eyes that held nothing but barrenness.

"I thought that I would never be able to love someone again. The only people who helped me during that phase were Kookie, Yoongi oppa, and Mrs Shin, my elementary school class teacher and my favorite teacher till now " she.

"It's been two years but still I am not able to stand in front of that bubblegum or make an eye contact with him. Not because I still love him or something, but because his face always reminds me how worthless I am. It also reminds me of my helpless and and the worst phase of my life. " she added.

"But all those feelings, all those cursed memory of mine gets vanished the moment I am with you. At the beginning I used to think why it happens but then I realised that I, I-I love you Hoseok, I really do " she confessed.

Out of all the things Hoseok got to know this night, this was the most shocking one for him.

"But it would be understandable if you don't love me now after hearing about my past " she said and looked down.

Suddenly she felt a warm touch on his hand.

She lifted her head and saw Hoseok's hand embracing hers.

"I would never leave you for such a stupid reason, Soo. Trust me, I have loved you enough to ignore all the flaws that you think you have but you don't. " he said and flashed his sunshine smile.

He went closer to her and gently kissed her forehead with a long, gentle and warm kiss.

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That's all for today's chapter, hope you liked it. Sorry for the long disappearance. It's just my school has been really exhausting me and my tuition is just a never ending saga.

Also I want to inform you that "Stuck with You " will be on hold for some time, I will start writing it again when I would get my summer vacations.

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