Meant To Be, Or Not? - [YEONGYU FF]

Chapter 16

"Hmm?"

"What do you not like about me? Surely, and I don't mean this in a bad way, just cuz your dad passed away, can't be the reason you dislike me so much."

Yeonjun pressed his lips together.

Why I dislike you so much?

He only had one reason for it.

And while they're at it, talking about this past traumatic event in his life, he believed it was time he was honest with him.

After all, they can't live forever hating each other, especially in matrimony.

"You know how my dad always told me, 'In this life that we only live once, we decide what we want to do, as long as it makes us happy'?"

"Yeah?" Beomgyu perched a brow.

Yeonjun looked straight at him.

"Are you happy with what you're doing in your life? Modeling?"

The question took Beomgyu aback.

That was the last thing he expected from Yeonjun.

"I..."

Am I happy? I... I don't know.

"You remember the day we met, right?"

"Ohh yeah I do," Beomgyu said, some kind of sarcasm biting his tone.

"HHHOOOTTT!!"

Beomgyu fanned his shirt, holding the fabric and shaking it back and forth, not wanting his skin to come into contact with the hot drink.

"Apologies," the person replied.

Beomgyu glanced up to see a man with black hair, slightly taller than him, and holding a cup of spilled coffee.

"I didn't see you," he said, unapologetically.

"Yeah yeah, it's alright."

Beomgyu grabbed a towel that a staff member handed him, and started drying himself off a little.

The man glanced at him up and down.

"You're a model for Brambolia?"

"Yep, I am."

"Aha."

"And you're part of Chaeboliom?" Beomgyu asked.

"How did you guess that?"

"Well, I know for a fact that the phone model with its logo that you're carrying in your pocket hasn't been released yet, so you must be part of the company."

The person scoffed.

"As if I want to be part of a technology company that makes devices that die after two years."

"Woah there, no need to be so rude!" Beomgyu exclaimed.

The person scoffed again before turning around.

"Whatever."

"Already back then, I knew that you were someone who was basically just ordered around. Most models are like that; they do what they are asked to do, whether they're comfortable with it  or not. I even looked you up online afterwards, and that's how I found out you were connected to the Chois," Yeonjun explained.

"Aha."

Beomgyu nodded along.

"I found out who you were when I saw you at the university. And since then, we basically never got along," he said.

Yeonjun had to chuckle at that.

It all seemed so childish to him now.

"So, why exactly do you hate me? Because I'm a model?" Beomgyu asked, a hint of sarcasm to his tone.

"No. Because you're letting yourself get treated like a doll, and never getting to do what you want to do. I sometimes had the feeling that you're not enjoying your model life... and I hated how you did nothing about it. Because I am so influenced by what my father told me about living life to its fullest, and whenever I see people not doing that... it kinda angers me."

Beomgyu remained quiet.

He thought over what Yeonjun told him.

He's pretty right about that. I have no control over my own life.

"Yeonjun, I can't change the fact that I do what my parents expect of me. I was raised in that way all my life: do what people ask and expect of you. I can't either change the fact that you despise that, but I wish you wouldn't hate me just for that reason. At the end of the day, I don't murder anyone, I don't bully someone, and I don't commit crimes on a daily basis. I'm just... living in one way."

The ravenette sat there, thinking over his words.

Did I take this too far? Did I jump to conclusions about his character way too fast?

And fittingly, or not, Soobin's words came to his mind.

"...you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, especially when you've barely even talk to him before."

"Hmm... you're right about that."

Yeonjun stood up and extended a hand out to Beomgyu. The younger boy glanced at it before carefully talking ahold of it, and standing up too.

The two looked at each other.

"Let's make up. From today on, we should let go of our pasts and start new. You know more about me now, and... I feel like we should get along," Yeonjun said, barely believing that he was saying this.

What's happening to me?

A small smile crossed Beomgyu's face.

"I would like that. And I also want something else," he said.

"What?" Yeonjun asked.

"An apology for being so mean to me, without telling me anything."

Yeonjun sighed.

"Fine. I'm sorry."

Beomgyu grinned.

"I like that."

Who would have thought that these two are rather similar? Both are tied to rich families who own big branches in big companies. Yet where they are different is that Beomgyu does what is expected of him, while Yeonjun doesn't want what is set for him and does what he wants.

What if they taught each other their ways to find the balance?

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A/N: thanks for reading :)