A Second Chance

chapter eleven

"Since you wanna play heroic!" Before I could look at him, I was knocked out.

Time was going by fast.

There was an alarm going off, I frowned and sat up. I was laying down in front of the front door,  I was in pain.

My eye was hurting. I got up and went to the bathroom.

Holy shit.

I had a black eye.

Fuck...

I looked through the medicine and found ointment and I applied some to my eye.

My stomach growled, "time for ramen shopping" I slipped on my crocs and walked out of my house making sure my house was locked.

I was shopping for some ramen, the bell went off when someone entered. "Welcome!" The cashier smiled, someone walked in the same aisle as me

"Hmm," I looked around "oh there it is!" I reached for it but it was out of my league, I tipped toed harder to the point my ankles might've cracked. Someone leaned over me and took it.

"Hey, that's mine!" I turned, I flinched. "Seung Ho..." Seung Ho looked down at me, my cheeks brightened red lightly "Seung Ho!?" I pushed him, he fell back into a shelf, I gasped.

"Are you okay?" Seung Ho sighed and fixed his sweater, and kept a straight face.

He's acting like usual.

"Don't worry about me" Seung Ho walked over to the shelf behind me and grabbed a few different types of ramen. I watched him.

"Do you have something to say?" Seung Ho looked at me at the side of his eyes, "n-no!" I nodded no. "Why are you acting... weird?" He confronted me "weird? What do you mean?" I laughed nervously.

Seung Ho sighed, "Ji Hyun, about yesterday. It—" I cut him off "yes!?" I stepped closer, Seung Ho was hesitant but cleared his throat after. "We were caught up, well, I was caught up with the past."

What is he saying?

"Explain, please?" "I understand. You miss the kids, so I'm not holding it against you. But I don't... return your feelings" I flinched. It was silent, the cashier was invested.

"I-I'm sorry, feelings? For you?" I bursted out laughing "feelings for you!? Do you hear your fucking self!?" I pushed Seung Ho. "I don't have feelings for you, never did and never will!"

"If I did, I'd kill myself! No one can love someone like you, hell not even to love!" Seung Ho glared at me. "Don't need to go that far, Ji Hyun" "twisting my actions, making assumptions. You look stupid as hell" I crossed my arms.

"I don't have feelings for you. And you're right, we were caught up with the past, I DO miss the kids. Now, your turn to explain why you leaned in" he stayed quiet, "it... it reminded me of Hana" I flinched.

"I reminded you of that trash?" "She isn't trash. Stop insulting her Ji Hyun. You're always filled with violence. That's why people don't like hanging out with you, or being around you" my eyes widened.

"Don't look at me like that. I'm just returning the same energy" he noticed my eye.

What happened..?

Seung Ho scoffed and ignored it, he threw cash at the cashier and walked out with his ramen, I stood there.

And I really thought me and him could work something out.

I walked up to the cashier. "You guys have kids?" I flinched "o-oh, yeah. Teen parents" I smiled nervously, she sighed, "on the house," I smiled at her, and bowed my head. "Thank you," and I left.