Pulling You Back

Chapter 2: Statue

Chapter 2: Statue

-Lil Eddie-

"But baby your love is so warm

it makes my shield melt down

And every time we're both at war

you make me come around"

-

Jinhwan sluggishly opens his eyes. He can't completely open them because of the puffiness and the little sting he feels from crying last night. His head travels down to the thing he is hugging on his chest...the journal.

He slowly raises the journal and quickly stare at it before he puts it aside and aids his aching head.

Ugh...

He moans from the hangover he is feeling right now. He sits on the bed with his shoulders both dropped and his back a little slouched. After several minutes of recharging his self, he reaches out for the journal again. He caresses it before finally opening.

He sees the first page and his heart already pounds.

"The memories in my life I will never forget...you should not forget."

His young self wrote this even more than 5 years ago. The first few pages are about the happy days of him and Yunhyeong – how they would cut classes just to accompany Yunhyeong in a modeling audition, how he helped Yunhyeong getting rid of a hoobae crushing on him, and how Yunhyeong cried to him when his father got surgery for appendicitis and the whole class thought it was a life and death surgery, sure it was for his best friend.

He can't help but smile. They truly have so many beautiful memories together as best friends for a decade. Their friendship grew deeper and stronger each day with all the memories they created together.

His heart churns when he turns the next page and reads the next entry.

"Your soulmate is not someone that comes into your life peacefully. It is who comes to make you question things, who changes your reality, somebody that marks a before and after in your life. It is not the human being everyone has idealized, but an ordinary person, who manages to revolutionize your world in a second."

Jinhwan sucks the inside of his cheeks after reading it. He takes a deep breath and look out on the window of his room that is still closed but some ray of light from the sunlight are escaping in from the curtain. Memories start to rush in his head.

-Flashback-

"Ya! Do you think you can get away with what you did?" Shouted the tall student with his polo shirt unbuttoned and untucked. His group was known as a trouble maker of their class and the entire college department even being just sophomores.

"Oy! Jiyoung is talking to you! Why are you answering?!" One of the side boys yelled.

The screaming caught everyone's attention in the cafeteria. It was lunch break and most of the students were eating their lunch peacefully until this group of trouble makers appeared.

"Aish! Ya! Did you not hear anything?" A chubby guy shouted for the third time.

"Aish! I am enjoying my lunch peacefully here. What do you want?!" A pissed Junhoe angrily stood up from his seat after dropping his chopsticks and fronted the group with his hands tucked in his pocket.

Like the other group, Junhoe was also in a small group of three. He's the leader though he was known to be the youngest in their group, maybe because he was the most popular among them and even among the college department. Hanbin was in the group known to be the charismatic genius – always at the top of his game whether it be academic or sports. He was also known to be the school representative for Jiu Jitsu tournaments with Junhoe. Bobby was the other member known to have a naturally born swag and his own charms with girls and even guys. He's a happy-go-lucky lad just like Junhoe. But he was known for his family connection because he came from the States so he's from a well-off family.