《To My Beloved Hater》

《To My Beloved Hate》 Episode 2

This writing is fictional.

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Episode 1

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From that day on, Seo-yun was alone.

Strictly speaking,

she chose to be alone.

Even when she went to school the next day, she acted like nothing had changed.

She went into the classroom as usual,

sat down at her desk as usual,

and listened to class as usual.

But there was one thing that was different from usual.

People's stares.

As Seo-yun entered the classroom, the kids who had been talking one by one fell silent.

Some glanced at Seo-yun,

and some looked at their phone screens and smiled quietly.

Seo-yun pretended not to care and set down her bag.

She took out her textbook.

She picked up her pen.

The tips of her fingers trembled slightly.

'... It's okay.'

Not even knowing who she was talking to, she muttered it.

She tried to think that it was okay.

But when break time came, she finally hit her limit.

Seo-yun, who went into the bathroom, locked the door.

Then she took out her phone.

Notifications kept piling up.

Stories about her.

There were even things mixed in that she hadn't said.

At first, she was angry.

She felt wronged.

She couldn't understand why they were doing this to her.

But what was even harder to bear than that,

was the fact that she knew where the story had started.

Seo-yun stared at her phone screen for a long time.

And in the end, she sent a message to the second friend who had heard about me.

The friend who had listened first had already confronted them over the phone, but

it hadn't helped. They had even shamelessly said it was my fault for telling that story in the first place.

[Do you know what happened with this?]

A reply came a long time later.

[What?]

[The rumor about me.]

[It wasn't me.]

Seo-yun stared at the screen for a long time.

[Really not?]

This time, the reply came quickly.

[Yeah.]

[I trust you.]

Seo-yun's hand stopped.

The moment she saw that sentence,

something in a corner of her heart hurt strangely.

She wanted to believe it.

She really wanted to believe it.

So that day, she didn't ask any more.

But a few days later,

Seo-yun happened to overhear that friend talking to another kid.

"But do you really think Seo-yun doesn't know anything?"

'No way.'

"If she finds out I told her, I'm dead."

Laughter could be heard.

Seo-yun's steps came to a stop.

She hoped it wasn't her story.

But then she heard the next words.

"Anyway, she told me everything from the start."

Seo-yun held her breath.

At that moment, the world became very quiet.

People's voices,

the noise in the hallway,

even the sound of bells ringing far away.

She couldn't hear anything.

Only one sentence remained in her mind.

'She told me everything from the start.'

Seo-yun slowly turned around.

Her eyes met her friend's.

The smile disappeared from her friend's face.

"...Seo-yun."

Seo-yun said nothing.

She just looked.

At the person she had trusted most.

And then she asked, very quietly,

"Why did you do that?"

Her friend couldn't say anything.

"What did I ever do wrong to you?"

"It's not that..."

"Then why?"

Her voice trembled.

"Why did you do that to me?"

Her friend hesitated for a long time before speaking.

"I just..."

At those words, Seo-yun's eyes shook.

"Just?"

"I mean, while we were just talking..."

While we were just talking.

Seo-yun laughed when she heard that.

Not because it was funny,

but because it was absurd.

"...Ah."

Only then did everything make sense.

A secret that had been as precious to her as life itself,

to the other person it had been something they could bring up because they were 'just talking.'

Seo-yun held back her tears.

"Don't ever talk to me again."

"Seo-yun, wait a second."

"No."

"I'm sorry."

"Forget it."

"You're both the same. Baek Chaeryeong, and you too, Park Choyun."

Seo-yun turned away.

After that day,

the two of them were never friends again.

As time passed, people one by one drifted away from Seo-yun.

At first, they thought Seo-yun would be lonely.

She actually was lonely.

Every night she stared at her phone.

Waiting for someone to contact her first.

But no one ever did.

As days passed like that,

then weeks,

then months,

Seo-yun stopped even waiting.

She got used to a phone that never rang.

She got used to eating alone.

She got used to walking alone.

Being alone,

before long, became the most comfortable thing of all.

Present day.

Seo-yun was sitting by the window in a cafe.

People were passing by outside.

A person walking arm in arm with a friend.

A person smiling and talking with their lover.

A person running busily while making a phone call to someone.

Seo-yun watched them for a long time.

Once, she had been one of them too.

She had trusted someone,

waited for someone,

and wasn't afraid to give her heart to someone.

Back then, she hadn't known.

How dangerous it was to give your heart to someone.

Seo-yun slowly lowered her gaze.

The coffee on the table had already gone cold.

She checked her phone.

There were no new notifications.

There was no one to contact, either.

Now, she didn't even care.

Rather, it was more comfortable.

No one looking for her.

No one expecting anything from her.

No one who could leave her.

That was the life Seo-yun had chosen.

Not trusting people.

Not giving her heart to anyone.

And before someone could abandon her,

keeping her distance first.

Seo-yun gathered her bag and stood up from her seat.

When she opened the cafe door, a cold wind brushed her face.

She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them again.

She was fine.

This was enough.

It was okay to be alone.

That's what she believed.

At least,

until she met one person.

Seo-yun that day didn't know.

That soon, one person would enter the world she had deliberately shut away,

And that person,

would make her rethink from the beginning the existence of what she had sworn she would never trust again:

'people.'

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The characters appearing here have nothing to do with reality!

Other than Yeonjun, these are just GPT opinions👍

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