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Chapter 22 • Pt. 2

"I was so into her that I didn't care, I wanted to keep being there for her even when she was in love with him. I thought... I thought I was going to have a chance if I made her realize I could treat her better than him. And of course that created problems with Mingyu, I was angry with him for doing these things with Tzuyu and his girlfriend, I was angry because he was having it easier because he... he was better than me," he said it like it was true and it couldn't be more a lie.

"How was he better than you? You weren't the one cheating"

"But I wasn't what Tzuyu wanted for her life"

Tzuyu wanted a cheater?

Jungkook shook his head. "Anyway, it kept going for months, she, me, him. We graduated and we started college and everything was the same. Mingyu was breaking up and coming back with his girlfriend while still messing around with Tzuyu, I was with Tzuyu trying to comfort her because I was nothing but a friend. It was a non-ending cycle, she was crying for him but then coming back to him, but then coming back to me and then coming back to him again"

"But, one day, it was in November last year, Tzuyu ended everything with Mingyu and she decided to give me a chance... I was so happy," but it showed in his face that he was feeling pity for himself for being happy at getting so little from her. Lisa wished to be there for him at that moment to slap him awake or something, to make him realize he deserved better. "So we were dating but I knew she didn't love me like she loved him and I thought she was going to get over it, I was making things easier for her in all ways, I wasn't showing up at her house and I was avoiding her parents, I was making time to go for her at school and take her to dates, I really wanted her to love me. But she didn't"

Why she didn't? Was she a masochist?

Was she stupid?

How couldn't she love him?

And why was Jungkook avoiding her parents?

"And I was so tired after months and months of the same old shit," he pressed his lips closed in a smile but his eyes got teary. He sniffed and looked away. "I gave up"

He did?

But Jungkook didn't like to give up.

Lisa had been with him in the same team working in that mural for three weeks now, she saw him working hard and redoing things again and again till making them perfect; she saw him practicing English sentences till making them correct and she saw him memorizing a list of English verbs till know them perfectly, Jungkook wasn't the type that would give up.

How much was Tzuyu hurting him that he gave up?

"I told her I couldn't do that anymore, I couldn't keep fighting against the wind"

Lisa pouted and moved her chair closer to caress his arm in comfort. "You made the best decision," she told him softly, proud of him. It wasn't easy for people to let their loved ones go.

"So I distanced myself from her and Mingyu completely, I focused on my own stuff and friends," his tone got lighter, showing the relief he started to feel when he got out of that toxic situation. "Around that time I was invited to a Tattoo Convention in Paris, so I went to Paris"

Lisa opened her mouth in shock. "You were in Paris? How is it?" she grew excited about it, her big dream as a photographer was Paris, there wasn't a better place for Art, Fashion and Photography than Paris... New York too, but Paris was classy, French was classy for Lisa.

"It's really like a museum, everything looks old but beautiful and there are so many places to see"

"Have you been to the Eiffel Tower? They say is overrated"