「 intractable | kang daniel 」 ✔

05

Friend

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Even though a part of me wanted to believe what people say, I just couldn't bring my self to take a risk. Why would I believe him when almost all the people that approached me are liars? They wanted nothing from me except from the business that I might take over someday. So they all gather around me thinking that if they will be friends with me they might have a chance in the future to get closer in that damn business.

It's stupid that people just let others manipulate them. Even if the thing they will do is lie, they'd still go for it just to please someone. That happens a lot. People pretending that they want to be friends but they start spitting out bullshits behind my back.

A lot of people pretended to be close to me then I will find out that they're only doing that for the sake of their own company. I'm not a fool. I know a fake person when I see one. They think they can use me in the future for their business? Well that's stupid because I ain't taking over that damn company. I have a lot of reasons why I don't want to take over that business. Being surrounded with fake people is one of those.

Now, I ask myself why I should just trust this guy who just confessed. A part of me believes him but the other just won't. It's like my heart and mind are split into a lot of groups. One saying that I just can't trust people and he might just be messing with me. Other saying that I can believe him. That he might be a nice guy who's sincere with his words. But the other part only thinks about dad and his words about Kangs. He doesn't like them and that meant that I shouldn't like them too.

And that's the hard thing to do.

I don't see why dad hates them a lot. Maybe it's because I don't know how it feels like to compete in the same business? I do get my father in the competition part but sometimes I just choose to ignore my rivals and try do my best. Kang Daniel is the likable one. He grabs a lot of attention from other people. He used to grab mine too but I tried not to mind him. We're acquainted to each other. We know about the rivalry but that awareness of each other isn't a big deal. I can ignore him as much as I want.

I was even glad when he was finally done with highschool. But then he started showing up again, in business parties, in school and I see him in other places too. He just gives me those look that makes my heart skip a beat. I don't want to be involved in our families' rivalry even though I'm already a part of it. I mean I don't want to do something that will make the rivalry worse. I don't want to be involved with him. But I made a mistake by giving him my number. Now all he does is make me confuse all the time. Before I knew it, he started making me smile with just a simple text. The beating of my heart got worse whenever he shows up. Now the confession I never wanted to believe started taking over my mind.

When I first heard his words, I told myself it's a lie. It was all said just to mess with me. But after that weekend he really started showing his feelings. He sends the right amount of text at the right time and right moment. He even visits the school and hangs around with us. Now he's close with my friends. First, my cousin and then, my friends. I kept my distance of course and I don't reply on all of his texts. I should avoid all of this but I only let it be. It's like I don't care whatever might happen.

Another week has passed and we're all quite busy. My friends and I doesn't even have much time to hang around. I'm alone in one of the tables at the library when someone sat beside me. I thought it was Hyerin of Gahyeon but I looked up and saw Park Jihoon. What is he doing here? He smiled at me and started to take out his books. "You don't mind if I sit here, right?" He asked and his smile didn't left his face. I nodded and tore my gaze away. I continued doing what I had to do when he spoke up again.