Reunion

[Present Day- Dara’s POV]



Seven years had pass… for 2 years all I did was to cry every night… my body got weaker and weaker… my life became drought and useless without him… I thought of ending my life but it would just make me weaker…



After those 2 lifeless years, I promised myself not to cry again… I must learn how to stand by myself and be strong… just for him….I never ended everything about us hoping that we could still see each other and maybe when that time comes, we could finally be together… but everything has changed… at least for me…



Each step I make towards the library seems to be so heavy… My heart started to throb so hard… I don’t know what will happen once I see him again… How is he now..? How was he when I was away…? I hope he could forgive me for leaving him…



I’m now standing in front of the library… there’s no turning back now… I sighed deeply to obtain some strength in me… I’ve been wanting for this day but still I can’t help not to hesitate from seeing him…



I pushed the door and entered the room slowly… nothing had change except that it’s darker and gloomier…. My heart is still pounding hard…. I walked around and tried to find him… and there… I saw him sitting behind his desk his back facing me…. I want to run towards him and hug him tight… tell him how much I missed him… but I restrain myself to do so… he’s now in front of me… after seven years…. I’m still weak when he’s around… tears started to form in my eyes but I succeeded to suppress it from falling…



“Jiyong-ah….” I called him…



He stopped with what he’s doing and slowly turned around… I couldn’t help it anymore… a drop of tear betrayed me and fell down through my cheek…



He looks thinner the last time I saw him… sadness filled his eyes… he looks so frail and it really pains my heart…



[Jiyong’s POV]



“Jiyong-ah…”



A sweet, angelic voice called my name… No one has that kind of voice except her…. Are my ears playing with me now…? Is it because I’m dying to see her again that’s why I’m hearing her right now…? I turned around to make sure it was just my imagination but it just worsens the situation…



Earlier my ears heard her and now my eyes are seeing her… Am I really having illusions of her now…? God why are you doing this to me…?



But then the figure moved and is slowly approaching me… She’s really here…! Why… Why did it take seven years for her to come back here…? Why did she leave me…? There are so many questions that I want to ask her but my voice couldn’t get out…



When she left, I immediately fly abroad to find her… for years all I did was to desperately find her… I was like a lifeless creature without seeing her, touching her… without her… I searched everywhere but I couldn’t find her… Until I learned that her parents were keeping her away from me… They threatened me that they’ll cut off the ties with me if I still insist of loving her… I don’t care if they’ll cut the ties between us… All I want is her… But when they said that they’ll cut ties with her and will definitely made our lives miserable I was taken aback… I don’t want to see her suffer because of me… because of my selfishness…



I went back in Korea fully defeated… I blamed myself for being too incapable of protecting and keeping her… Even though my friends helped me to cope up in my life… I still felt that it’s completely useless without her… I locked myself in this sad mansion hoping that she’ll come back…. Hoping that we’ll be together again… even though I know it would always be a dream…



But now… she’s here… she’s finally here… standing in front of me….



I stood up from my seat and slowly approached her… she’s still the same… she still has the innocent, beautiful face that I love caressing always….



“Dara…? Is that really you…?” tears started to fall… I don’t care if I’d look weak in front of her… I miss her so much



“Yes oppa… it’s me… I’m back…” she said as she smiled… oh God I miss that smile…



I couldn’t help it anymore… I ran quickly towards her and wrapped my arms around her… for years I’ve wanted to hold you again… to feel you in my arms… I thought it would be impossible but now it became true…



“Oh God Dara… I miss you so much…” I said as I hugged her so much… I don’t want to let go of her anymore… I don’t care about what happened these past seven years… I don’t care if she left me… All I care is now…. She’s finally back……



“Me too… I miss you…” she said



For a while we stayed glued to each other… I’m afraid that if I’d let go of her she would disappear in an instant… but when I felt her loosening her hug… I decided to release her… I held her to face me… we looked at each other for a while inspecting the changes that happened with each others features….



Then a knock from door broke our moment…



“Sorry to intrude master… but I prepared some tea for both of you in the garden…” Butler Choi said



“Yes… thank you… we’ll head there...” I said



While we’re heading towards the garden… I’ve been thinking of holding her hand… It’s been a while since I last held it… I don’t know why I’m hesitating to do so…. But in the end I managed to hold it… she just looked at me and smiled… her hands are still warm and soft... I’ve been dying to hold it again…



At first silence filled between us… No one dared to talk…. Not until she broke it when asked me how am I doing…



“I’m doing fine… at least I manage to survive without seeing you…” I joked a bit and good thing she smiled… I don’t want to tell her the sufferings I’ve been through while she’s away… I don’t want to make her feel sad and guilty…



“Oppa…. I’m getting married…” she suddenly said… my heart was like stabbed by millions of knives with what she said… I’ve heard about it before but I just shrugged it off thinking that it was just her parents plan… but hearing it from her was like bringing death upon me…



I tried to act composed for I don’t want her to feel worried about me…. I looked down to her hands… I didn’t see the ring I gave her… instead I saw an expensive engagement ring that nicely fitted in her beautiful hands…. The cheap ring that I gave her was nothing to be compared to what she wears right now…



“Ah… really… so who’s the lucky guy….?” I courageously asked… he’s really a lucky guy for he’ll marry the girl that I love the most…



“Seunghyun…” she said



[Dara’s POV]



I met Seunghyun again when I was in abroad… he never knew about Jiyong and I… I never told him about what happened back in Korea… during the gloomy days he would always be there for me to make me happy… my parents like him for me… but no matter what I do… I can’t make myself to love him… I only love him as a friend and nothing more… I know that Seunghyun loves me which hurts me so much… I don’t want to hurt him… I tried myself learning to love him… and maybe by marrying him would completely change my heart…



Telling him everything about me and Seunghyun tore my heart apart… I don’t want to hurt Jiyong but I know that it’s exactly what I am doing right now… but by doing this means letting go of him… and letting him go of all those pains I’ve caused him…



After that conversation at the garden he never spoke again… he went back to the library while I busied myself talking with the maids…



“Lady… until when are you going to stay here…?” a maid said



“I’ll just stay for over night here because I still need to attend the preparations for my wedding…” I said



“Wow… you’re really going to get married now… I still remember taking care of you when you’re still young and now you’ll be having your own family…” Butler Choi said with a teary eyes



I hugged him tight thinking that there’s no turning back now… I’ve wanted this… I need to do this... even though sometimes I felt like I’m using this marriage just to forget and escape him….



Later that night… Jiyong and I ate dinner quietly… I tried to open some conversations and I know that he’s pushing himself just to have those conversations with me…



After the dinner he immediately went to his room and I went to mine too… There are no changes in my room… the way I left it seven years before was still the same… The maids told me that oppa told them not to change it a bit… they just made it clean and spotless…



I lay down on the bed… but no matter what I do I can’t sleep…. Thinking that he’s just rooms away from me… I’ve been suppressing myself since I came back not to get attached to him again… I just want to have some closure and that’s all but I want to hold him again…



I stood up in the middle of the night and slowly went to his room… It’s not locked and I saw him standing at his terrace drinking some wine… I just want to hold him one last time… I went closer to him and wrapped my arms around his waist… I hugged him while his back facing me…. I just want to feel his warm…. I just want to hold him one last time….



“Oppa… I missed you so much….”