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*𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝟡𝟜

-나는 그들의 것, 그들의 내 꺼야-

her entire body shrank when she looked at me. she had been walking towards me with a bright smile, until she realized who i was. the sparkle in her eye left her immediately.

"eungjung, is that you?" i muttered. i was half amazed and half scared but i could decide which one.

this was the girl that made school unbearable for me, she treated me like i was a disgusting freak and made me feel scared enough to not get help.

but she was different. she looked timid and scared.

this isn't the same eungjung form my childhood.

"a-are i'm, hello," she bowed low, forcing herself to look at the ground, anywhere but me.

"how's life?" she stood up.

everything seemed to drown out around me. the loud sound of the hair dryer muffled and the sounds of people's voices seemed to vanish.

i was scared, but not of her.

"it's great," i squeezed myungho's hand, holding onto him like he was the only thing holding me up from drowning.

"what happened to you?"

she was skinny, enough to see the outline of her entire skeleton. it was alarming.

the eungjung i knew was lively, she looked healthy.  she was beautiful and held that over everyone's head, making herself the top of the social pyramid.

she looks sick...

"after you left, everyone turned on me," she finally looked at me, "they said you left because of me because i took it too far," there was something odd to the way she stringed together those words; it felt sour. she was bitter about the past.

how the tables have turned...

"i changed and i become someone new," she stepped towards me and again i held onto myungho even tighter. he knows my history with eungjung and i can feel his body tense behind me.

"i need to apologize for how horrible i was to you," she bowed at ninety degrees in front me.

everyone in the entire room turned to look at us.

"is this a joke?" a harsh chuckled left me.

"get up," i demanded. "please accept my apology," she stood up, hunching over herself to make herself look smaller.

"i won't accept your apology. you do not get to do that." i felt furious. she ruined every chance i had to a real friendship. she ruined everything, everything, for me.

"you do not simply get to apologize and think everything is okay. you made life unbearable for me," i felt the tears start to form in the corner of my eyes.

"areum?" myungho placed his hand on my shoulder, "it's going to take much more than a simple apology to make up for what you did to me," i let out a sigh.

i have been dreaming of the day i was going to see eungjung again. i dreamed about how i would get revenge for how she treated me. but this is nothing like what i expected reality to be.

"i know," she teared up as well, "i don't deserve your forgiveness. but i don't think i can live with myself if you didn't know how terrible i felt about how i was to you."

"i was jealous of you," she looked down again, her hands fidgeting with each other.

it's like she's become me

"you were pretty and likable, and you had the love of the people that raised you. i hated you because you had their love, but i could never get my parents' love. i'm sorry," she turned away from us.