The Boy Next Door

32.

Heeseung's POV:

My father decides he wants to have a 'serious talk'. Serious talk, my ass. I never considered his words even for a second. 

"Son, just because you don't want this marriage-" I cut his nonsense off quickly after. 

"I'm in love with... Chaewon! I love her." I mutter while my eyes trail off to her house. Shit. Why did I say that?? It's just the first thing that came up to my mind hearing the word love. 

"Your what? You guys are friends. Don't you dare lie to get out of this monstrosity of a problem you made." he yells. 

"I'm not! I love her! I don't want to marry Yookyung!" I shout back with all the courage I have. 

I expect some kind of beating but all I get in return is a cold chuckle that runs chills down my back. 

"There's no choice, son. You will get married to Yookyung. Just imagine, Jang foods, and my company joining. How much power that would be? You will not be the one to ruin this, do you understand??!" he says, slightly shouting again. 

"Just listen to me for once!! Can't you be a normal dad for once? Can't you comfort me, and tell me I don't have to?! Why do I have to do everything to make you happy when I'm not!?" I shout while my fists ball up. 

"Don't act like a girl. You don't need that pity stuff. Now now, you don't need to be too sad. Get married to Yookyung, and have Chaewon as your mistress. You can love them both. And plus, it would be nice to have someone like Chaewon, who's so dashing and dazzling." he says while acting like he's thinking. 

I hold his collar up and tighten my grip on his collar when he lets out a groan. 

"You don't fucking say her name in your dirty mouth. If you do anything to her, I'll make you pay." I say before storming back into my room. 

I'm never going to get married to Yookyung. Why can't things go my way for once? Why do I have to follow my father's guidance and directions?

I turn my lights off and get into my bed, and just stare through my window, just spacing out. Please, please let Chaewon be okay. 

If she does something to herself, I don't think I can live with it. I can't live without her. It hurts too much cause if she was rude or mean to me, I could move on, but she's such a sweet person it hurts more. 

My phone rings out of nowhere and I jump up in shock but I check who it is and realize it's Sunghoon. I ignore the first call but he keeps calling over, and over again. Out of annoyance I pick up his calls. 

"What do you want?" I say in a sullen tone. 

"Come join us!! We are at the bar we always go to!!" he screams over some loud off tune singing. 

"No. I'm tired." I respond. 

"Heeseung you can't hide from your problems all day. It's not gonna help anything." he says. I scoff and think about ending the call on his face.

"Then why is it working?" I say. 

"It's clearly not, if your still mourning over your Chaewon. Just come please!! Drinking won't get rid of the problems but you'll definitely feel it less." he screams before ending the call. 

I sit in my bed, just sinking into a cloud of thoughts. Should I go? No. I don't want to become like my father. But I crave it so much. 

I crave the acidic feeling when it goes down my throat and when I don't remember a think from the night before. 

~

Well. I fell into temptations. I'm in a casual pair of jeans with a shirt in front of the bar. Through the window I see the back of Jay and Sunghoon who don't look too drunk from my view. 

"Oh?? A handsomee mannn! Maybe he'llll takeee me homeee!" Boram screams to me as soon as I walk in. Jay pulls her back from getting up by her jacket hood and he easily places her on her chair. 

"Sorry, she's wasted and she has said that to every man walking by." Sunghoon says while obviously being out of it. Great. Their all drunk. 

"Yah! You broke my bestfriendsss heart and trustttt!! I bet sheeesss sad now!!" Jukyung says while slurring her words. 

"Shut up Jukyung." Jake says while chugging a beer. Great. He's here too. 

I pull up a stool and sit down next to Jay and easily force a bottle of soju down my throat. I hope to get drunk off of that but my conscience isn't letting that happen easily. 

"So. Are you just going to drown yourself in alcohol or do you want to talk about it?" Jake says after a bit of listening to Namjin's terrible singing. 

"Drown I guess. Oh did I forget to tell you guys, I might be getting married in a couple weeks." I spit out, chuckling after saying it. I so badly want to stop it but my father will never allow it if he's alive. I sit in a pool of blank stares and silence.

"WHAT?" Jay say loudly, a bit more sober the before. 

"Yup." I say while reaching for another beer. I pour it into my cup like I didn't just say what I said. 

"Your getting married to Chaewon?? I thought you guys were fighting." Sunghoon adds. I turn to him and stare at him weirdly. 

"Uhm no? My father is making me get married to this rich, spoiled, entitled girl. Her parents own Jang foods. Yookyung is her name I think." I say, backtracking on my memories. 

"Arranged marriage? Wow they still do that??" Jay says. 

"Well your not to far from how you described her. You two are perfect together." Jake says jokingly, and seriously according to his facial expression. 

"Uhm, do you want to get married to her? And your so young, isn't it weird to them?" Jay says trying to change the topic. 

"Of course not. I want to marry someone I love." I mumble while grabbing another drink. 

"Well you do that. Just live life without regrets!" Sunghoon says with a peppy tone. He's drunk. 

"Yah! Shut up! Yourr louddd." Boram says while abruptly lifting her head off the table and leaning on Jake. 

"Boram, stop. Come sit next to me." Jay says while pulling a chair next to him. She walks slowly and wobbly to him and sleeps on his shoulder. 

"I'm so fucking stupid. You know just to get out of the marriage, I said I loved Chaewon. And he didn't believe because of course, I don't love her that way." I admit, shocking myself I even said this out loud. I guess the alcohol his working since my mind is getting foggy and I can't feel my feet. 

"Welll its soundss like youuu doo! I placeee my betsss on Chaeseung!" Sunghoon says before blacking out. 

Me, Jake, and Jay drink some more, although Jay said he was sick of alcohol literally 5 minutes ago. 

I fall back and forth from reality, not quite knowing which is which. I have dreams of my wedding with Yookyung making me shake my head until I go back to reality. 

I say some gibberish to Jake and Jay, not really knowing what I'm even saying. My vision goes blurry but I can tell Jake and Jay are already long gone into sleep wonderland by how quite they are. 

I see a figure appear in front of me, a familiar figure at that. I stare deeply, trying to clear my vision but everything is so wobbly and blurry. 

I don't or can't feel my body meaning this is probably a dream. But it feels so real. But no, why would she be here?

"Chaewon?" I say before passing out. 

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