When Your Pain Becomes Mine

Chapter 143: Chapter 143.

 

Ojae tried to answer the phone quickly, but Eunyoung, on the other side of the phone, was already gone. There was only a dial tone that informed him that the phone was disconnected.

“This is crazy…”

He became extremely nervous and didn’t know what to do. He steadily paced over the same spot while doing nothing, only holding the phone in his hand.

At that moment, his cell phone started ringing again.

“Hello, hello, Eunyoung?” He answered the phone even before it rang once and hurriedly started speaking.

However, he heard nothing over the other side of the phone.

“Eun… Eunyoung?”

When the excitable Ojae asked her again, he heard a shallow sigh after a moment.

Even in that short, shallow sigh, he was still so nervous as he put his phone all the way to his ear.

“Where are you?”

“Me, me? I’m at Dosan Park.”

“Okay.”

“Eun, Eunyoung?”

He called her hurriedly, but she already hung up on him.

“Why did she ask where I am?” Not understanding her thoughts, Ojae mumbled to himself. “Her voice didn’t sound good. Is she angry at me?”

Ojae wasn’t able to be relieved, so his shoulders dropped endlessly. He was so stressed out as he put his own head between his legs and exhaled sighs continuously.

After a moment, somebody sat beside him. The person was breathing roughly like they just ran to get here.

“I’m sorry, but could you please move and sit on the other bench? I’m so depressed, and I want to be alone. Please.”

Putting his head down, he asked as politely as he could. After that, the person who sat next to him, fortunately, stood up from the seat without saying anything.

“Thanks a lot. I appreciate it.” Ojae said, still without looking at the person next to him.

“I’m sorry, I was just going to talk with you.”

At that time, a familiar voice rang on Ojae’s ear.

Ojae slowly raised up his head, doubting that it would be her. However, Eunyoung’s face came into his eyes.

“I’m leaving because you told me to go.” Eunyoung turned her body quickly as if she was upset.

“No, no, please. I didn’t know it was you.”

When he called Eunyoung hurriedly, he saw that she was actually smiling.

However, when she turned again toward him, what she showed was her usual stern expression.

“How… How did you come here?”

“By foot.”

“No… that’s not what I meant…”

“You mean, why did I come here?” Eunyoung asked.

Ojae slowly nodded.

“Hmm..” Crossing her arms, Eunyoung sighed and nodded. “As you know, I’ve failed once in my marriage. Just like you saw at the office today, my ex-husband just gave me a flower.”

Hearing her, Ojae’s face sunk.

She was telling him about all of these casually. However, Ojae knew that it was her wound, which was something hard for her to tell someone.

“It wasn’t easy to cut him off from my life. I was foolish.”

“… It’s not your fault, and you’re not foolish.” Still hearing her, Ojae said. “You loved him sincerely; that’s why it’s hard to forget.” Ojae encouraged as he spoke.

Eunyoung smiled. “However, I finally cut him off completely today because of the flowers you sent. She said while looking at the flower she brought.

“That’s…”

“Yes. I was able to be brave because of you.”

Hearing her, he finally exhaled a sigh of relief. “I… I increased the amount of pain you’re already feeling…”

Eunyoung slowly nodded. “I came here to say thank you.”

He looked at her as she stood up from the bench.

“And I look forward to seeing you again.”

“Sorry?”

“You said you’re going to share my pain, right? Were you lying?”

“No, no. It wasn’t a lie… but…”

“Hah…” Eunyoung was outraged and exhaled a sigh.

“How many hints should I give you? Should I confess to you?”

She purposely spoke it loudly to let him hear. When he heard her, his eyes shook.

“That means…”

“Just forget about it. This is so frustrating.”

She then tried to leave the bench.

“Eun, Eunyoung!!” He stood up straight and called her name.

“Could you please meet with me?”

“I’m already seeing you here, and I have so many people that I have to meet in a day.”

Hearing her blunt voice, Ojae shook his head vigorously.

“I mean… what I mean is…” When he swallowed several times, he finally said to her. “P… please be my girlfriend.

“Okay.”

As soon as she heard him, she answered like she was waiting for it.

“Okay. What? What?!”

Ojae panicked and asked her again.

“I just said that I will.”

“Then it means…” He asked her again as if he couldn’t believe it.

“I think I did everything that I need to do, so figure out the rest. Okay?”

She departed him nicely and moved away.

“So… so… Eunyoung just… accepted my… confession?”

No matter how much he thought about the situation, he knew that it wasn’t a misunderstanding.

“Wow… wow… yes… yeah!!!”

He started yelling out a cheer constantly, and his shouting was conveyed to Eunyoung that was leaving the park.

***

“Come in.” She said after coming inside of her place. Gyeonhui hesitated a little, but soon took off his shoes and went inside.

“Ruff! Ruff!”

Labong wagged his tail at Sun, but Labong started barking at Gyeonhui when Labong saw him.

“Hey, Labong. It’s okay. Shh…”

Holding Labong, Sun tried to calm him down.

“I’m sorry.”

“That’s fine. I understand.” Gyeonhui nodded.

Sun took out a coffee bean pack from the kitchen cabinet.

“You prefer dripped coffee? Ow…”

When she tried to take out the dripper, she frowned because of the pain. Whenever she moved her foot, it would always hurt badly.

“Stay put. I will do it.”

“No, you’re my guest.”

Gyeonhui held her arms and made her sit on the couch.

“Just sit on the couch, or else you will only interrupt me.”

After standing up from the couch, Gyeonhui started boiling water on the electric water boiler. He took a heating pad from the drawer and put it in the pot to heat it up.

After a while, when the heating pad was warm enough, he took it out of the pot and put it on her ankle.

“Did you not have any trauma when your place caught fire?”

“…”

When she remembered the time her place caught on fire, she shook her head.

“I barely remember it. I’m fine.”

“You need to be more careful. It’s dangerous.”

Hearing his voice as if he was speaking to a child, Sun smirked.

However, she looked at him again like she was wondering.

“What?” Gyeonhui said.

“How did you know that my place caught on fire?”