Don't wait for me

Episode 19 - His Circumstances (2)

“Can you come out for a moment? I’m near your place.”

Yujeong and Taehyeon had been walking home together for the past few days, so they roughly knew where each other lived.

“Why? Just... say it over the phone. ...Where are you?”

For some reason, Yujeong felt like pushing him away.

But the moment she heard Taehyeon’s voice, Yujeong just felt too happy.

Even after getting hurt like that, just having Taehyeon by her side, and knowing they were connected through this phone line, made her happy.

 

“It’s important. You have to hear it in person. Are you busy right now?”

“No. Wait a moment, don’t hang up.”

Yujeong threw on a windbreaker and went down to the apartment plaza.

Taehyeon was standing in the middle, waiting for Yujeong.

Yujeong stopped at the edge of the plaza and didn’t move.

And she spoke into the phone, which was still connected.

“What is it?”

“...”

Then Taehyeon also looked toward Yujeong and said the same thing through the phone.

“I just wanted you to know.

Seorinseolhwa is... someone special to me. So if she disappears, I’d bawl my eyes out.”

“...If you called me out just to say that-”

“But if you disappear,...”

“...”

“I won’t even be breathing from that day on.”

 

Yujeong, not even realizing she’d dropped her phone, ran to Taehyeon and hugged him.

“You have no idea... how worried I was today...”

Trying hard to hold back her tears with her face buried in Taehyeon’s chest, Yujeong was then pulled into a tight embrace as Taehyeon, finally relieved, held her as if he would never let her go.

 

“plip-plop... swoosh...”

It rained.

Even though it was the tail end of summer.