LOVE, CANCER & HIM ✓

「Chapter Three」

wounds will heal, but
scars remain the same

This is what she has been waiting for, this whole time.

No, she does not want to fix her relationship with him. All she wants is go home, and forget everything about the boy who was once her love.

She takes one step forward, two steps forward, three steps forward, and breathes in the cold night air through her nose once she is outside.

Meanwhile, he sits down on the bed, and looks at the picture which is on the table.

In the picture, he has a yellow lollipop in his mouth while wearing a beautiful smile on his face, and she is holding a strawberry ice cream in her left hand while the other one is wrapped around his neck.

But, why is he reminded of that day?

[Two years ago]

At the beach;

"Strawberry ice cream is good," Having those beautiful innocent eyes shinning, she says, and pushes her boyfriend, playfully, which causes him to stumble back a few steps. "But you are the best."

He reaches out his hand in order to grab her by the arm, and hugs her, tightly, not planning to let go of her. "Nah, I'm not," He says, and she smacks his forehead. "Ouch!"

She comes out of his warm hug, and crosses her arms. "Say it!" She frowns, and avoids the eye contact with the boy who is having a yellow lollipop in his mouth.

"What?"

"Say that you are the best," She starts to tap her right foot on the ground, angrily, and this is when he starts to walk towards her. "Say it out loud."

"I'm not—" But, he is cut off when she pinches him on the arm. "Okay, okay, okay, I surrender," He laughs, and shouts, "I'm the best!"

"That wasn't loud enough." She turns her back on him, and starts to walk off, but she suddenly widens her eyes, and stops when she hears him shouting.

"I'm the best!" After shouting this out loud, everybody at the beach looks at him in confusion. "What? Haven't you ever seen a boy in love?" He questions the ones who are looking at him -some of them laughing- and runs to her in order to hug her from behind. "Was that loud enough?" He asks the girl who is having a smile on her face.

"It was way too loud, to be honest," She turns around in order to face him, and leaves a kiss on his cheek. "But that's what I love about you."

[Present day]

The memories will never leave him alone.

He grabs the picture which is on the table. "Stop," He shouts at himself, and throws the picture at the wall. "Stop thinking about her."

He can not take control of the tears which he has been holding behind those innocent eyes, so he lies down on the bed, and scrolls through his tears in sadness.

Why is he the one who has to suffer the most?

All of a sudden, the doorbell rings which causes him to jump out of the bed with the thought that maybe the one who has rung it, is the girl who was once his lover.

He runs towards the door, and twists the knob with the chance of seeing her once again. "I knew you would come back—" Soon, he clamps his mouth shut when he sees that person is not Jihyun. "What are you doing here?" He questions, because he does not have an idea why this person has to show up at his door this late at night.