BEHIND THE SCENES

chapter 103: reeking of jealousy

<OST: Orbit - Hwasa>

How Byulyi wished she could say she hadn't thought about him for days, because of how busy she was with preparing for the meeting with Jennie and Yoongi, but in actual fact... she couldn't.

Every waking hour of the past few days, for Byulyi, was filled with thinking about him and reminiscing their good times. It was hard, in reality, to achieve her goal of not thinking about him. And it truly surprised Byulyi, to see the very main character of her thoughts, standing at her door again, that very afternoon.

"What are you doing here again?"

Seokjin held up the familiar-looking diary. "To come return this."

Byulyi folded her arms, eyeing the diary with narrowed eyes. "That guy asked you to?"

"Yeah."

Byulyi peered inside the house at Jieun, who was sitting on the couch, sobbing quietly. She then turned back to Seokjin once more, lowering her voice to make sure Jieun couldn't hear their conversation. "Go back and tell him to keep it."

"He asked me go give it back to Jieun or throw it-"

Byulyi took a deep breath, before looking Seokjin in the eye as she spoke. "Tell that guy, I know he may be hurt by what our Jieun did, but that doesn't mean he can hurt her back again and again by rejecting her. If not, he's just the same. I don't care whether he wants it or not - you tell him, either be a man and read it, or throw it away, for all I care. Just don't ever come here again - every time you come, she'll just get reminded of him, and it pains me to see her that way. Do you understand?"

Seokjin stared blankly at Byulyi for a moment, trying to register that firstly, Byulyi was actually talking to him; and secondly, what exactly she was saying.

"I'm just here to run an errand," Seokjin said with his eyebrows furrowed. "Do you really have to put things in... such a way?"

Byulyi scanned Seokjin from head to toe. "I'm just saying. In that case, if there's nothing else-"

"Wait-" Seokjin didn't give up, as he held the notebook out one more time. "If I don't manage to return it, I'll really have to throw it away. Is that really what you want?"

"I already said, I don't care-" Byulyi said, clearly annoyed. "Also, why should you be the one throwing it away for him? If he really didn't bother about it, ask him to throw it away on his own. If to him, this really is just a piece of garbage not worth his attention, ask him to get rid of it on his own... Why is he acting like some child, insisting on returning this diary to the person who already gave it to him? What is he so afraid of?"

"He said he already read it."

"He did...?" Byulyi frowned. "I highly doubt so. Jieun literally just gave it to him today."

"He read it before."

Byulyi furrowed her eyebrows. "The whole thing?"

"Not the whole thing."

Byulyi shook her head. "Tell him that's not counted. But if he doesn't wanna read it, I can't force him, neither can Jieun... and neither can you."

"So... what now?" Seokjin crossed his arms. "I'm supposed to go home and give him this and pass him your message, even though I came to deliver this to you. What am I now, a deliveryman or something?"

Byulyi raised an eyebrow, cocking her head to one side nonchalantly. "That's up to you to decide, isn't it? Whether you wanna be called a deliveryman... or an errand boy."