Jinhwan's Scandal II | kjh

26: Now and forever

"Remember Oh Dami?"

Eunjin nodded eagerly.

"She is now currently behind the bars for blackmailing Jinhwan and attempted murder him," I let out a heavy sigh. Eunjin's eyes went wide looking at me as if she wasn't believe what is she hearing right now.

I continued, "I was wrong about Jinhwan before. I thought he left me for Dami but no, he was just trying to protect me from her."

Eunjin cheered in awe. I smiled bitterly, thinking the black memory really hurts me.

"When Jinhwan was already discharged, Hongseok came to this house. He wanted me to stay with him. He said that he can't live without me and that was really making me angry more. He lied about my pregnancy; he said that we did sex when we were drunk but it was actually a big lie. I don't know why but since then, Jinhwan avoided me. He didn't even spoke to me until I came up to talk to him. He refused but of course, I couldn't take it no more so I forced him to be honest. He didn't be honest until now, and he kept on asking me to go to Hongseok and stay with him. It broke me, really, but these days, he started to change as what you can see just now."

"That shithole," Eunjin gritted her teeth tightly, enough for me to know that she is angry right now. This girl is really no joke. Her temper is sometimes out of control and I'm afraid she will murder someone in the future. Haihh.

Her expression softened, "I think Jinhwan sunbae is just want to sort things out with you now."

I shrugged, "I'm too tired, Eunjin. I don't know where did I do wrong to him until he treats me like this. I didn't go to Hongseok for something. I just don't want him to know that I'm really pregnant of Hongseok's baby; that's why I stayed and wait for the right time to get know about the truth. I don't want to disappoint him. I don't know what should I do more to be the better girlfriend for him. I love him so much and I'm so scared to think that I would lose him anytime soon."

Eunjin scooted closer to me as she wrapped her arm over my shoulder. "Then you should give him a second chance. I could see his effort of being with you again, so why not? It's either now or never, Yerin."

I faked a smile as I hit the play button on the remote controller. But first, let's finish watching the movie.

x

I was awoken by voices talking around me. I groaned while yawning sleepily as I adjust my position on the couch. Eunjin and I had a very long conversation last night and decided to just sleep at the living room. Well, too lazy to go upstairs.

"Thank you for accompanying her while I'm gone."

"It's alright, sunbae. I love to hang around with her. Take care of Yerin, okay? I will get going now."

"Yeah, of course. Be careful on the way back!"

It came into silence when I decided to open my sleepy eyes. My eyes immediately went wide when Jinhwan's face were extremely close to mine and he had his mischievous smile on his face. I pushed him away and quickly got up, fixing my pajama and my messy hair.

"What are you doing?" I whisper-yelled at him.

He came and sat next to me on the couch, pulling away a strands of my hair from covering my eyes. I froze at his cold touch and I found myself began to melt from it.

"Until when we will be like this, babe? I missed the old you, Yerin. The cute and lovely girlfriend of mine, not this fierce and cold version of you," he said in a low tone and I could see tears began forming in his eyes. Is he going to cry now?

I remained silent as I'm waiting for him to say more. I want to hear what he felt when I treat him this way; because it would be the same as mine when he keep avoiding me before. I'm not getting revenge on him but I just want him to know what I feel when he did that. That's all.

"Jealousy took the best of me and I'm so mad when I know you already slept with another guy besides me. I don't know why I needed to avoid you, but it's better than getting mad at you that leads me to say something that will make me regret in my whole life," he sighed.

"You... you know?" I was speechless. I didn't know that he knew that all this time and now I get it why he acted weirdly and avoided me most of the time.

I looked down on my lap feeling guilty towards him, but Jinhwan forced me to look at him back. "Hey, look at me," he said.

"I swear to God, I'm not mad at you, baby," he whispered to me. His voice really sending chills down my spine and I know I will break into tears anytime soon.

"I know you wouldn't cheat on me and that was all his plan. He was the mastermind behind this. I know you were innocent and I believe whatever you gonna say to me. I'm so fucked up that I abandon you all this time and that was really horrible!" He said emotionally which make the tears I was holding in, rolled down my cheeks.

I know when the time he didn't mentioned Hongseok's name, means that Jinhwan really bgin to hate him more.

"Shh, don't cry," he wiped my tears away and he kissed both of my eyes. "I said all of these not because I want to see you cry, really. I want us to be like before. Before everything happened."

I was in my own world when he kept on persuade me to stop crying in fact I literally didn't stop for a second before I found myself responded to his kiss. He pulled me closer to his body, closing the gap between us and I wrapped my arms around his neck, tangling his hair with my fingers.

After minutes, we broke the kiss breathlessly and Jinhwan leaned his forehead on mine. I still had my blank expression on as if I didn't know what I was doing just now. He smiled as pecked my nose and I felt butterflies in my stomach went crazier.

"I love you so much," he confessed, burying his face in the crook of my neck.

I automatically hugged him back in return, placing my chin on his shoulder before his body starts to shaking as he began to sob silently. I know this is hard for him but I swear I really don't want this to be happen in the first place. I rubbed his back to make him feel better before I cupped his face so that he is looking at me in the eyes.

"I love you before, now, in the future and forever. You get it?" I said trying to be firm which made him broke into a huge grin.

He nodded like a little kid before he leaned in again, crushing his sweet pouty kissable lips with mine. With that, I know everything is going to be fine after this. No more arguments, please.