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•••••• areum pov ••••••
Jay Park.
An angle from the sky.
Just like Jungwon, he didn't care about what people thought of him being with me. He actually tried the hardest. He was my first friend at this school alongside Jisoo, the first person to eat with me at lunch, and so on. That's how I got to know Heeseung and Jake.
But too bad life is a bitch that doesn't want me to be happy.
"Eat." The boy said. He had placed a bowl of instant noodles in front of me.
"You've lost so much weight." He added as he sat down in-front of me and started eating his noodles.
I looked up to him. He hasn't changed at all. I mean, I see him sometimes at school, but I always have my head low in fear of being attacked.
Then I realized that I never congratulated him on his debut. I remember how exited he was when he found out that he was going to debut. He called me first. Or technically, my orphanage. I was happy for him but I never actually said congratulations cause shit went downhill for me.
"Congratulations on your debut in Enhypen." I said and tried to smile at him.
He shot me a glare instead.
"You are a few months too late, don't you think?" He said coldly and slurped his noodles.
Ouch.
"Better late the sorry..." I tried to light up the mood, but his face expression remained the same. Typical Jay. Always so unreadable and therefor unpredictable.
"You were my best friend. There's no excuse you can make for that." He replied and slurped some more noodles.
"You know why I couldn't talk to you then." I sighed, giving him an apologetic look.
He then put down his chopsticks and looked at me.
"Yeah. You are a coward. Jisoo pushes you over and Jake crushed your fragile heart, but you wouldn't even do anything about it. You let Jisoo start bullying you and when I wanted to help, you pushed me away. I lost my best friend right before my debut, so thank you Areum. And yeah, I totally understand." He states with a shaking voice.
I hurt him.
I thought I was protecting him from me. And I was. If I had still hung out with him, he would've gotten so much hate after his debut.
"Jay, I'm sorry about everything. I thought that I was protecting you from the bandwagon that hates me." I said as a tear fell down from my eye.
"You should've told me how you felt." Jay said as he reached out to my cheek and wiped my tear.
"The rumors about me and Jake are not true.I never broke Jake and Jisoo up because they were never a thing. And I didn't go after him for his money. He started talking to me and ..." Jay shushed me as he came to me and pulled me into a hug.
"I know. I believe you. You're innocent." He said, patting my back as I cried in his shoulder.
I was happy. My friend had found his way back to me. The one person who had an actual connection with me. He forgave me.
But I'm still as broken as I can be. He just healed a small peace of my broken heart.
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"So Sunghoon also debuted with you guys?" I asked and Jay nodded.
We were walking back to my place. Jay offered to have his driver pick us up, but I declined his offer. I wanted to have quality time with him.
You never know when things are gonna change.
So he started telling me stuff about his debut. And how Sunghoon was a part of it even though his figure skating contract wasn't fully terminated.
"But what I don't get is the reason that Jisoo hates you. I mean, she hates you so much that she faked dating Jake and had him, both her crush AND yours, break your heart. And now she has the whole school hating on you." He said.
"I mean, you guys were like besties back then." He added.
"She never liked Jake that way." I corrected him.
His eyes then opened so wide I thought they would pop out.
"Really? Then what the hell was her deal?" He asked himself.
Jisoo an I were bestfriends , then she just started acting cold to me one day. After that, she had Jake break my heart and then spread rumors about me.
2 years after my dad died, she had me feeling just as miserable again.
"By the way." Jay began as we arrived at my apartment building."Sunghoon is a good guy. You can trust him." He said as he gave me one last hug before his driver pulled up.
"Jay!" I called him before he entered his car.
"Yeah." He stopped and turned to me, waiting for what I had to say.
I ran over to him instead and gave him another hug. Gosh, I missed him so much.
"Thank you for coming back to me." I said.
He smiled at me.
That smile. I missed his smile. The smile that is so pure and sincere. The smile that helped me turn my life around.
At least half way.
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a/n:
short chapter sorryyy but longer ones will be here soon dw!!
