Once upon a time, there was a boy, who had been born in such a good family. A rich one. His name was Jung Jaehyun.
He was such a perfect boy. His family was so lucky to have him. After all, that was what chaebol had to be.
One day, on his birthday, Jaehyun felt something was missing inside him. Love. A love from a person, the opposite gender from himㅡ a girl.
When his parents served him his birthday's cake and asked him to make a wish, he did. He made a wish to have the girl that would love him. Not because of his perfect background, but for who he is.
Neither he is in a good condition nor he is in a bad condition. It was like a fairytale-like wish. And he needed it to come true.
Of course, no one can have a life that's so perfect in every part of angle. Perfect always bring the meaning ofㅡ sacrifice.
On that night, before his birthday end, a wave of strong wind pushed his windows and knocked down all of his gifts he got from his parents, friends and relatives.
But strangely, Jaehyun didn't wake from his sleep by the loud occasion. He was too engrossed with his dreamㅡ a deliteful sweet dream.
In his dream, he was walking through the valley of lavenders. The scent of its were tender and quite relaxing his muscles. Hence, he even almost fall like really fall asleep in his own dream too.
When suddenly, his warm eyes captured something. A figure. A girl in white dress. She had her back faced him.
At that moment, he knew by his own instinct...that girl was the one he had wished to has. The one and to be hisㅡ for ever.
With a broad smile, he ran toward the girl. He kept on running with full of hopes but idly, she seem far from his reach even though he had ran a lot further than his current platformㅡ beside a big apple tree.
As he kept on running, the environment that surrounded him, dimly changed. From been such a live garden full of fresh and beautiful lavenders to the death ones.
He stopped in the middle of the sudden dead valley. Out of curiousity, he touched the nearest lavender with his delicate fingers. Surprising, the one he touched had turned into ashes and a peculiar scent spread wildly around his nostril.
The mix of sweet and burn scent. A kind of weird and unique scent to be told.
He thought the scent was too enchanted to be ignore and had has made him forgotten he was on the way toward the girl because of it.
"Lie."
The view changed again as the scent remain lingered around him.
The lie word kept on singing through his head, making him hunched himself to the ground.
That negative word was the enemy. He had been such an honest boy for a long time.
Which he had it enough and abruptly stand steadily on his own bare feet. He took a deep but a little shaking breath before he barked bravely into the air.
"WHAT'S WITH THE LIE?"
He knew there was somebody or something else other than him and- he remembered. THE GIRL!
As immediately as he can, turning his head to the place where the girl had been standㅡ she had gone.
When he turned his view back to his place, he met it through the eyes.
A pair of ash-grey eyes. The eyes that seem already dead and...got no soul in it no more.
The eyes that can make people questioning themselves back with this kind of questionㅡ 'am I dead already?'
Because that eyes, had almost made Jaehyun thought like that within miliseconds.
Jaehyun thought he was already dead. In his own dream. And that girl, may had came for him as hisㅡ angel.
Whilst the eyes still burning into his, he had another thought.
What if he was still alive, would that girl actually his suppose to be soulmate? And what if, his dream actually gave him the hint of his future?
What could actually had been told to him from his own dream? That girl is worth to sacrifice his half life...?
"Lie."
Snapped from his own thought, his eyes met again with the already-dead-eyes.
The fear suddenly bubbling up, making his breathing became unsteady and hitched.
Again, what if?
"If you want her, you need to do something. Because...there's nothing free to have in this world, am I right?"
He nodded like an obey little child. Nonetheless, Jaehyun agree with the devil like creature's word, there's nothing free on this earth. Everything will need a price to have it.
It's a give and take rule.
Trembling, he tried his best not to fall right in front of it. He was scared, of the consequences that will come to himㅡ the thing that creature wanted him to do, for his wish to come true.
"Then..."
He trailed his word and gently asked it, voice as soothing as the night's wind of autumn.
"...if you give me what I want the most..."
He bit his lower lips once, preventing his lips from trembling too much than he should already.
Unfortunately, the creature can smell his fear easily without looking through it deadly eyes.
After all, it was not a human.
It smirked deviously, waiting with full of pride for Jaehyun to complete his word.
It knew alreadyㅡ Jaehyun going to get down at it, anything for the girl, whom he believed to be his soulmate.
The devil like creature smirked as it thought, humans are the easiest prey of all.
"All I've to do is lie. Is that the price for the give and take's rule of yours?"
And it laughed, causing Jaehyun helplessly looked around to see if there was something else beside him and the devil.
He tried and he couldn't find anything.
It had been him and the devil for the entire time. The girl had disappeared to nowhere.
WITHOUT YOU, I'M NOTHING
So he closed his eyes, bracing himself for anything that could happen to him and his futureㅡ the unknown.
He couldn't believe the fact he actually exchanging something with the devil for real at that momentㅡ between time that was pause for a while and his own...dream.
A dream had turned into a nightmare.
He was so lost in his train of thought, forgetting where he was and what was the situation he got himself into. He had lost his way and further more, the devil taking favour on it new victim.
The devil like it new victim.
The hardest-one was the last victim it wanted the most at that moment, to complete it own game and self-satisfication.
"Come on~ Just agree and you-"
Jaehyun will be the newest-one in it collectionㅡ the desperado-boys, boys craved for love.
A love that isn't exist.
The rarest and almost disappear; eternal love.
But the devil only kept the words within itself. Of course, the wolf wanted the lost lamb trapped in it maze. So, why would the devil told him that?
"-you'll get both of it. The girl and her love."
As Jaehyun fall for it, his eyes darken and unconsciously, the devil actually wonㅡ silently.
The devil offered him a weird-shape fruit and gingerly, Jaehyun took it without asking furthermore.
Then, he jolted up from his nightmare, desperately gasping for air whilst visible tears slipping down from the corner of his eyes as his body was drenched of his own sweat.
Slowly, he tried to breath properly again. Ignoring how sweaty his body was, he let the wind did it job, drying his sweat away.
When he got his breathing back, he untangle his strong grip off the blanket, freeing the poor and innocent blanket from his harsh grip.
He was less scared after regaining himself back. He remained himself that all of those he had saw and felt were just a mere nightmare.
However, that kind of nightmare hit him deeply after the night of his birthdayㅡ Valentine's Day.
Without thinking more, he eyed his room wildly, to make sure that he wasn't still in the nightmare. And how desperate he was to sigh a relief when his eyes found something that trigger his fear of losing something to some random nightmare.
"What-"
There, lay the fruit that had a weird shape. He was sure that the fruit looked so exactly the same as the fruit he hold unconsciously in the nightmare. Vividly, it was the demon who had him took it into his hands.
Fear kicked his gut as his whole body including his hands shook violently.
It took him a lot of courage to push only his left hand toward the fruit and when he succeed doing it, he twirled the apple in a very slow pace.
He stopped when his eyes caught something. There was some alphabet on it. Which it was actually...a reminder for him. It said,
YOU'RE MINE NOW, BOY WHO LIE
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Silent hung in between them. Jaehyun remained his blank face as for Byul, she seem like she just entered a whole new world. She never expected his story to be like that. Moreover, that devil.
There was one thing she sure of. Jaehyun's story still undone. He didn't mention about him and ... Yuta.
She was very sure that his story still far from the climax and the end.
"That's not the ending...right?"
He shook his head once and looked into her eyes again.
From the eyes, she knew that he was asking her if she actually ready to hear the next one, which she fairly nodded her head for yes.
"Are you...sure about this? No one actually want to listen to my story before-"
She held her hand up.
"It's my job to listen and it's your job to tell me. Now, please..."
Unconsciously, she took his hands into her small ones. A strange feeling shot into her vein when her skin touched his but been the Stubborn Byul, she immediately shook it off her mind.
"I need to know what's make you-"
And again, unconsciously, her thumb caressed his skin in a very soothing way, making the latter felt a little calmer than before.
"-turned to be an innocent toy."