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Chapter 14 Saranghae
You enjoy the rain while playing with him for a moment. When you realized what you did, you freeze on your place. Being awkward all of sudden.
"Tsk... We are drenched" Ryu Min breaks the ice. You don't give him a respon. You choose to observe the rain. Suddenly something comes out in your mind.
"Ryu Min... I saw your photography art at Takasima's Galery. The concealed remorse" You mentioned his art that you seen at Japan few weeks ago.
You turn around just to find his expression is full in shock. It seem that he wouldn't never predict that you could find that photograph moreover to mention this to him.
"What is the implicit meaning of that photograph?" You ask him and study his expression. He is taken aback. He looks like going to blurt out anything soon but there is no words come out.
You wait for his explanation. You expected that the photograph somehow is related to you. You remember that he ever ilustrates you as a red rose. An old memory comes to your mind.
You are in the middle of red rose field. This flower is always be your favorite. You are immersed in the flower beauty. You inhale the adictif scent of the flower and keep photographing the roses from all different angle with your phone.
"Do you like it so much?" Ryu Min asks you.
"I really love it, the colour of bloody red of the rose is really bold, it symbolize a braveness, strong and independent. It gives me a lot of courage. I want to be a woman like that" you excitedly explain to Ryu Min.
"Well.... The red rose is really like you, thorny and dangerous....." You almost smack his head for saying this.
"But it is very beautiful and mesmerizing, it makes people captivated by it" but his next words make you blushed instead.
"...... It doesn't hold any meaning" his voice drag you back to the present.
You study his face again, try to verify his answer. You feel like he would show a different answer by his expression but he just avoid your gaze.
".... I see...." You speak with a low voice. A death silence soon hang between the air.
"About the conversation you heard from me at your brother's office....." You mention this morning's incident.
"I am sorry....." He appologize fastly. You chuckle sarcastically. You don't understand why he is appologizing to you in the first place.
"What are you even sorry for? Anyway.... Just forget it, that's all what I want to say" you continue your words.
"....... Hyu Ri-ah.... I am just.... Nobody....." His word make you puzzled. You just staring at him seeking for an explanation.
"I am just a dew on the morning grass which will expelled by a rain, I am just a dust on your cheeck which will erased by your tears.... I mean nothing..... So please stop being hurted by a worthless me and forget me " his word squeezed your heart.
The fact that he keeps pushing you away and forced you to forget him hurt you a lot. He doesn't know how tough is it for you to erase him from your memory, from your heart. He doesn't understand all of your struggling.
But what makes you even sad is the fact that he doesn't regard his self as a precious one when for you he is priceless.
"Stop with your crap, who are you to judge that you are worthless??" You protest him. He smiles sincerely at you, he is grateful to you.
"All I want to say is.... Please find someone else to love.... A person who is better than me in everything.... Someone who is not me" he gives his advice.
"I told you to stop with your crap. I said just forget it, forget how I feel about you. I won't bother you with my feeling, I can handle it properly, why do you even care about my love life?!" You are irritated, upset.
"I wish for your happiness..... I want you to be happy... You are a great woman.... You deserved to be loved by a great man" his eyes is pleading. He is devastated, his heart is torn.
You really don't understand, why should he looks so sad when the one who is continuously being rejected is you. Why is he so devastated when plead you to forget him. If he doesn't love you, why is he always being so considerate and want you to be happy. Why would he even care? Why?!
You sigh in frustation. You try to look at anywhere but him. You can't hold to see the doom on his eyes. Soon you accidentally look at his left hand. You discover a ring placed firmly on his ring finger.
"Are you enganged?" You ask him. He is flustered. His left hand touch his back's neck, and you no longer able to see the ring.
"..... yes...." He answers while stroking his neck. He murmurs his appologize again.
"So is that the reason why you want me to find someone else? are you feeling guilty to live your happy love life freely because of me? Do you think I would do something to destroy your love?" You are blurting a nonsense. You know that, you know that Ryu Min wouldn't thinking about you like some crusher but you are too frustrated to hold your miserable feeling.
"That's not it...." His voice almost inaudible.
"Unbelievable! If you are not comfortable working with me, I can ask your brother to change me with someone else. I can't stand you anymore" You rush to leave but Ryu Min caught your hand in time before the rain hits you.
"No.... It's still rain. If you are uncomfortable.... Let me leave. You can stay until the rain is stop." You pull your hand roughly.
"Don't caught a cold" he express his consideration before leaving, passing through the rain.
You staring on his back until he dissapears. You can't hold your tears anymore. Five minutes later you receive an email, it's from Ryan M, Ryu Min.
"I leave an umbrella on the wall behind you, you can take it, so you wouldn't wait until the rain stop to go home, just take a rest soon...." Again....
This very action of him is the reason why you can't forget him. His gaze, his smile, his word, his behaviour.... Everything about him make you feel that he cherish you so much. But he deny it, and keep telling you to forget him. If he show disinterest toward you or bothered by you, maybe it would be easier to forget him.
Your feet feel so weak, you fall on your knee, hiding your face and sobbing.
On the other place Ryu Min just reach his studio. He walks inside and enter an isolated room that is always locked. He get the keys and open the room. The room is rather clean and tidy. There is a huge black curtain covering the whole wall.
He reach out the curtain and pull it slowly. Soon a mega potraits of photo collage appear on the wall. It reveals your smiling face. The potrait compiled with hundreds picture of a place that held his memory of you, a place he wants to take you and words he wish to tell you.

(In case you don't understand what is mega potrait of photo collage mean, it is like this picture above, I have a difficulty to describe it (⌒_⌒;))
His memory takes him back to the first time he start his project. It was on the day of your confession. Soon the memory of you plays on his mind.
It was late at the afternoon. Ryu Min just finish his class and heading home. He is passing an empty university park. Ryu Min is humming some song when he sees a girl reading her book. She is immerse herself in the book. The warm sunlight highlighting her beautiful face, she is you.
Ryu Min is mesmerized by your serious expression when you read the book. Suddenly you lift up your face and looking at his direction. You look at him with some frown and strange expression, it is like you see an unfamiliar strange creature. Your expression is not easy to be forgotten by him.
On the other moment, Ryu Min is in the middle of doing some photography around the campuss. On a certain place he see you siting on the bench silently staring on the ground. He observe you quitely.
"Lee Hyu Ri! What are you daydreaming about!" Your friend approach you.
"Why do people keep thinking that I am daydreaming? I am observing an ant, a nature! I am just curious how it will looks alike when I see the world from its perspective." you explain your self. Observing an ant, somehow this words intriguing him, it makes him smile by his self.
One day there is a moment when he see you on an alley cross to him. He smile in zeal. He turn his body and takes a different way so he can cross path with you. You always looks so awkward and serious and you look at him like he was a very strange creature you never seen. It feel fun for him so he keeps make a way to crossing your path.
"Lee Hyu Ri start following you" those notification make his day. The fact that you always try to make a conversation online and pretending that you don't know him offline is an interesting fact for him. And he enjoy to playing along with your game.
On the day of your confession, he is overwhelm by that. But he also crushed into pieces. Because he knows that everything wouldn't be same again. And he knows he can't stay with you nor to tell you his true feeling. Since then he starts his project to make your huge potrayed to release his feeling.
Ryu Min touch the potrait tenderly. He close his eyes and absorb all of the pain he feels when seing you sad. How he wish he could just hug and kiss you, saying all of his feeling.
"Saranghae..... Hyu Ri-ah...." He utters the word you would never heard.
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i like this,,, some grammars are a bit off but it's fine... the epilogue part 😊yhup it's very true... author you did a great job✨
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