We decided not to cross the line (Season 2)

Episode 39. Slave to Love

After finishing a meeting at the production company

I came down to the first floor.





As I stepped outside,

Hunji hurried out from the café across the street.





"You really were waiting for me?"





He nodded without a word.





"Ha... seriously..."





I couldn't go on talking.




'I guess I can't stop Hunji.'





"Just for today... please..."





"What do you want to eat, Hunji?"





"Whatever Junga is eating,

I'll eat that too."





"Then... do you want tteokbokki?"





"Oh! Sure."





We searched for a nearby tteokbokki place

and went there.





"You're bad with spicy food, right, Hunji?

I should order something less spicy."





"No.

I can handle spicy food."





"Yeah, got it.

I'm the one who's bad with spicy food."





"Can't be helped...

then I'll give in."





"After we eat tteokbokki,

take me to pick up my car."





"Really?"





"You can do that, right?"





"Of course.

But why... did you change your mind?"





"I've decided to think of you as

my slave now.
 
Friends are too equal, aren't they?

You do have a crime to answer for..."





"A slave... ?"





"What, you don't like it?"





"No... even so...

a slave...?"





"If you hate it, don't do it."





"Okay...

slave."





We ate tteokbokki

and set off to pick up the car.





The weather was clear and crisp.

It was so bright, in fact,

that one corner of my heart felt even lonelier.




On the way, in silence,

I turned on some music.





But of all things,

the final song from the musical 'Dracula'

started playing.





The moment I heard the lyrics,

tears began pouring out.





[I love you, you

to love you

I came to know that I was alive

for love alone

for the life I lived for love

I return toward your light]




Seeing me like that, Hunji

looked completely flustered.

He looked at me at a loss.





"Junga. What's wrong?

What's going on?"





He quickly found a place to pull over

and stopped the car in a hurry.





At that time, I...

while watching that final scene where he lets go

for the person he loves,

I had thought of Hunji.





I thought the person I would love last

would be this man.



No,

I wanted it to be that way.




But when I found out Hunji's feelings

were wavering toward someone else,

my heart felt like hell.



Could he even begin to guess how I feel?



With the thing he calls a mistake,

does he even know how horrible a time

I went through?




After the car stopped,

while crying tears that wouldn't stop,

I asked him,





"I thought Hunji would be my last love.

But once I realized that

I might not be that person to you,

I was so hopeless and miserable.


Every time you so easily call it a mistake,

I keep remembering that moment when my heart was torn apart..."




I could see tears welling in his eyes.




"Because I know that pain...

I can't let go of Taehyung.

And because I can't forgive you, Hunji...

I can't go to your side either.


So just leave me alone.

Don't torture me

with that completely unfazed look..."

 


He wiped away my tears

and held me in his arms.




And said nothing.




I cried in his arms for a long while.




My feelings, which I'd been holding in all this time,

exploded like a volcano.




And then,

we arrived at the park in silence

and drove our own cars back up to Seoul.




Then his last message came.




[I didn't know you were suffering that much because of me.

I'm sorry, and sorry again.

I'll let you go.]




A year passed after the day I last saw him.

"Why do you... have this, Taehyung?"