Moments that were precious only to me
W. Ten 10
At first it hurt like crazy, but now I'm indifferent.
Some people laughed at me, and some sympathized with me.
There were also groups of people who invited me to come with them.
But the memory of being abandoned by those I trusted still lingered, so I couldn't hang out with anyone.
The fear of being abandoned again isolated me.
"Hey, Kim Dan-ah."
It was Jeongguk.
It's been a few days since you spoke to me?
No, why are you talking to me?
As I was just staring at him with listless eyes without answering, Jeongguk opened his mouth.
"Are you eating properly?"
Since I moved away from the kids, I haven't been eating well.
Of course, I skipped school lunches, and only ate dinner once or twice a week. I just had no appetite. I wasn't hungry.
Still blinking without answering, he frowned and grabbed my body to help me up.
Jeongguk, who had been watching me get up without protest, cursed quietly this time.
"...From now on, you have to have lunch with me."
"..."
This time I didn't answer either.
Perhaps because I was frustrated, you asked me for an answer.
"Let's eat together, okay?"
"why?"
"what?"
"Why am I eating with you?"
You didn't say anything to my answer.
Why are you suddenly doing this now? The words you told me not to pretend to know are still clear in my ears.
"Do I look pitiful? But please don't mind. As you said, we're not even friends anymore, and this kind of attention is burdensome."
I was able to get away because I was able to pull his hand away without using any strength, and he let go easily.
I instinctively felt that I shouldn't be here, seeing the gazes of the guys who were looking at me from the back door, so I left the class through the front door, leaving Jeon Jeong-guk behind who was blankly staring at me.
"That's why I said let's just go."
"..."
Jeongguk, still frozen, couldn't respond to Taehyung's words and recalled what he had just seen.
The reason he stared blankly at Dan-ah, frozen in place, wasn't because she said they weren't friends or because she wanted him to stop caring.
His wrists, which had become emaciated and gaunt, were covered in unhealed wounds.
"Han Yeo-ju, that person at that time. Is that really Kim Dan-ah?"
"...uh?"
"Kim Seok-jin, did you personally hear Kim Dan-ah say we were accessories?"
"...That's not it, but why are you suddenly like that?"
When the female protagonist was injured and hospitalized, people around her spread rumors as if they had known this would happen.
It didn't take long for the rumors floating around throughout the second year to reach our ears.
To us, who already believed that Yeoju had been pushed away, the rumor also felt true.
But does it get that bad just because you're away from the accessory you were wearing?
Dan-ah, who was known to show emotions like hating us or hating the female protagonist, just became thinner.
It felt like if the wind blew, it would fly away somewhere and disappear forever.
So today I left the guys I didn't like behind and spoke to them.
"...Eat it among yourselves."
After speaking briefly, he followed the direction Dan-ah was heading.
"What's wrong with that kid?"
"I don't know. Judging by his thin appearance, he must be getting weaker. He was the first of us to become close."
"...It's my fault, I was pushed by someone... There's no way Dan-ah would do that..."
"Who said that Min definitely had a feeling?"
"...That's true, but..."
"At that time, there was only you and Kim Dan-ah there."
"...But."
The heroine was also confused. Someone had clearly pushed her, and it was only her and Dan-ah there.
He thought he had a reason to push himself towards Dan-ah because he knew she liked Seok-jin.
But was that really the case? He remembered the face he'd seen reaching out to him in surprise before losing consciousness.
"...I don't know, maybe I should talk to Dan-ah again?"
"That's a bit..."
It's been a month now, so it's too late to talk about it again.
Can a relationship that has already been twisted to the point of no return to its original state?
Author's Note
I guess I'm writing something quickly.