Taehyun Fanfic | Don't wait for me - Episode 25 - Let's meet again

"Are you seriously crazy?"

Yujeong pushed Taehyun’s hand away.

He was trembling slightly, pitifully.

Seeing him like that, Yujeong’s heart softened.

"Sorry, Kang Taehyun... I just... it feels like I’m making things too hard for you... and like you don’t like me anymore..."

Yujeong choked up and couldn’t keep talking.

"I said no, you idiot. How many times do I have to say it? I like you. I love you. If you’re anxious, I can tell you a hundred times."

Taehyun’s voice sounded more mournful than tired.

Yujeong avoided Taehyun’s eyes.

‘Why are you about to cry... you don’t usually cry... and the last time you cried was because of your ex-girlfriend...’

Taehyun grabbed Yujeong by the shoulders and asked.

Just like four years ago, that day.

"Yujeong, so you don’t like me?"

"I like you."

"Then let’s get back together."

At last, Yujeong met Taehyun’s tear-filled eyes with her own.

And then she lowered her head again.

"No. I’m not your fate. Why haven’t I changed at all for four years? Believe it or not, I don’t live here. Where I used to live... time passes differently from here."

Yujeong thought she had softened her own impossible wish a little, but it wasn’t exactly wrong.

Yujeong thought Taehyun would understand too, and twisted around sharply to leave the living room.

But Taehyun grabbed the sleeve of her clothes.

Again.

‘Your habit hasn’t changed at all either, Kang Taehyun.’

"Don’t go."

"..."

"We can just be the exception. It’s okay to be different from everyone else. Just don’t leave..."

Watching Taehyun, who was letting tears fall beautifully, drop by drop, made Yujeong feel like her heart was being torn apart.

"...Hey, do you even have any pride? Why would someone like you like me..."

Taehyun quickly wiped away his tears and looked at Yujeong pleadingly.

"You’re the kind of person I can’t help but like. You were pretty, confident, strong-willed, different from my first impression, and cute. ...Is this because of Seolhwa? I don’t like her. I realized it for sure after you left. You and she are different. You’re the Yujeong I like, and she’s just Seorin Seolhwa. So come back..."

Yujeong turned back again and stared at Taehyun.

Yujeong’s second wish was because of Seolhwa, and also not because of Seolhwa.

Before making the wish, seeing Taehyun waver at the reappearance of Seolhwa, his original girlfriend, made her wonder if the original situation really couldn’t be changed, if maybe the story was always supposed to be Taehyun and Seolhwa getting back together, and she had acted on impulse out of that doubt.

But now he’s saying he doesn’t like Seolhwa anymore...

Then what is it?

Did it change? Is there nothing fixed in life?

Yujeong took Taehyun’s hand.

"It’s not because of Seolhwa...

Yeah. Let’s try again, us."