Chapter 37

Somehow, Junghwa didn't feel satisfy hearing Ara's answer. He feels as if she closed the topic too quickly which only made him more guilty as a man. At least he was expecting her to get mad a bit and maybe he'll feel more of a human than to feel so numb right now.
"Just don't enter from my window again next time. I don't want my parents to assume what is not," Ara states, finally she found the courage to shift her gaze at Junghwa, where the two get into a heart-warming eye contact after the awkward tention.
"Ok, sorry about that," Junghwa says.
"Besides, it must be exhausting to climb up a tree at night just to enter my window," Ara says. "Anyway, I'll get you a glass of water before you go back."
"Ok, thanks," Junghwa says. His lips forms a small, knowing that Ara doesn't seem to feel too angry at him anymore. 
Ara walks out of her room and goes downstairs to get a glass of water from Junghwa, slowly tip-toeing since she didn't want to catch the attention of her parents who could already be asleep in their room, leaving Junghwa to stood alone in Ara's room.
While waiting for Ara to come back, Junghwa decided to check out her study desk out of boredom, curiously wondering if she had finished her science homework. Yet, his attention quickly gets caught by a small paper folded with his name written on it, which is placed just beside her notebook. Curious, Junghwa grabs the paper and unfolds it, revealing a long writing written on the letter. Like his heart just got shot by a bullet, he wasn't prepared to read what he is reading at the moment. Never did he imagine to read something like that on a quiet night, more shockingly knowing that it was written by Ara herself, his best friend.
Dear Junghwa...it's crazy because I never thought I would give this letter to you, just like I thought I would never develoup any feelings for you. I guess I was wrong, like my own feelings, everything was wrong. I didn't expect that our piano lessons would eventually lead me to realize that I've grown to have feelings for you. Feelings that I figured shouldn't be consider normal for a friend to feel to her cousin's boyfriend. At first, I thought I only wanted to fullfil my promise to you to get you together with Hana, even though in the process, I found myself falling in love with you. Yet, since you were madly in love with Hana, I know that it was hopeless for me to wish for a chance for you to feel the same way as I do, even after the two of you broke up. For months I've tried to move on from you, and happy to say that I'm starting to accept the fact now. Yet, why did you have to kiss me last night? That kiss only reminded me of the feelings I'm trying to forget. Junghwa, it's enough that you don't love me, but don't make it harder for me to not love you. For once, can't you just let my heart be in peace?
While holding the paper, Junghwa's vision wanted to refuse to believe that what he is reading is reality and not some sort of dream. He never thought even for a bit that Ara would even kept some feelings towards him. He always thought her prefered type would be someone who is far from his characters, knowing well that Ara hated guys who are players, and Junghwa was one of the players. He used to thought that just because they get along as friends, it doesn't mean she'll eventually fall for him just like the girls he used to play with back in his days as a player. Yet, reading the paper right now was like being told that he had been too wrong this whole time, not getting the smallest hints that his best friend was crushing on him while he was breaking her heart.
"By the way, there's mango puddings in the-"
Ara tighten the hold of the glass of water in her hand as she froze in shock at the sight of Junghwa holding the letter she had wrote for him. She swear she wanted to slap herself for putting the letter on her study desk, yet again she also wanted to punch him for reading the letter without asking her in the first place.
"Kim Ara, what is this?" Junghwa asks, his vision looked curious and shock at the same time.
Frozen in shock, yet also upset, in a quick swift, Ara puts down the glass of water on the table and snatches the paper from Junghwa's hand. In a state of impulsive emotions she quickly rips the paper into two pieces.
"There's nothing to see here," Ara says as she crumbled the two pieces of ripped paper in her hand. 
"Nothing? Kim Ara, I read that letter of yours and you can't deny that," Junghwa says. "Can you explain what that was all about?"
"There's nothing to explain," Ara says, feeling more disappointed at the moment, she turns around and attempts to walk away from Junghwa's sight. Yet, as she was about to take her first step, she felt a tight grip on her right arm pulling her back, in which fights back to get away.
"Let go of me Junghwa," Ara says in a slightly louder tone, though she didn't want to scream too loudly since she didn't want to catch the attention of her parents.
"Not until you tell me what was that about," Junghwa says as he pulls her arm harder, yet as she almost falls in front of him after crashing into his body, the two eventually fell on top of the bed, with Ara's position lying on top of Junghwa's body.
Ara's POV...
Heart beat racing fast, my cheeks instantly burns like a cherry tomato knowing that I am lying on top of my best friend. Embarrassed, I quickly get off from him and sits on the corner of the bed. As if it's not enough for him to already make me feel embarrassed about the letter, he had to came up with a drama that lead us to this awkward position. Again, what he did just now got my heart going on roller-coaster mode, making me wish that I could just escape this moment.
"Enough, Junghwa," I say. "You read it yourself. Don't ask me again."
Slowly, I feel tears starts to run down from my eyes. All the chaos Junghwa had to cause really got me emotional again, and here I am, crying my eyes out once again, but to make it worse, this time I'm crying in front of the man who had caused those tears in my eyes. Like it just doesn't end in one night, why did the trouble of my own feelings towards him have to continue on till tonight, where he found out in the worst way possible. Sure, I was planning to tell him with the letter soon, but for things to end up like this was way out of my hopes. Right now, I feel like everything is against me, and like things just keeps getting worse, I could only feel fury and embarrassed towards myself. How could I be dumb enough to fall in love with someone who obviously never loved me in the first place? 
"Don't think about it," I say in between sobs. "Let's just pretend this never happen."
As I continue to sob in silence, slowly I feel a soft touch on my right hand that's placed on the bed. My heart refused to let me turn my head, since it already knew who gave me that soft toucb which again made my heart beat faster even in an emotional state.
"I'm sorry, Ara," Junghwa says.
To be continue...

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