Rain, go away (1/2)

“Let’s go.”

Woohyun parked the car in front of a huge building with a fence surrounding the entire place. There were trees lined all along the outside and if you looked very carefully at the large windows surrounded by bricks, lectures had been taking place inside off the large building. From then, I knew that he had taken me to a school. But why? Why were we here?

“Woohyun, wait.” Woohyun’s hand remained gripped onto the door handle while his gaze made its way over to my frozen figure. “What is it?”

“What…” I thought carefully for a moment, trying to figure out the right questions to ask. “I mean, why are we here? Why’d you take me here?”

Woohyun remained silent as he shut door close. “This girl, the one that’s blackmailing you attends this high school, right here.” He pointed at the large building in front of us. “I’ve brought you here because I want you to talk to her. Face to face, solve your problems. I’m sure there’s a way out of this whole mess.”

I hesitantly nodded. Although I had disagreed with Woohyun’s suggestion, knowing there would be no way this would ever work out, I agreed anyway. We both exited the car that had belonged to Woohyun’s uncle and began walking to the entrance.  He remained awfully quiet while his hoodie remained on at all times, ‘hiding’ his true identity. We continued to slowly walk, neither one off us rushing to get anywhere in particular. I kept looking over at Woohyun, wondering how he had gotten a hold off the letter. And how did he know that the girl had attended this particular high school. The thoughts kept coming until a loud and piercing ring interrupted my thoughts. I stood silent, with my bag clutched tight with both off my hands in front of me. I had suddenly become awfully nervous, the excitement off boys and girls buzzed all over the school grounds while they all walked right past me, ecstatic to escape this place for another short yet greatly needed weekend.

“Woohyun...I can’t see her.” There had been no response.

I shot my head from side to side, seeing that Woohyun was now nowhere to been seen. My nerves kept on building as I stumbled around the unfamiliar area, desperately searching for the person who I had wished to never lose. I felt like a lost child searching for her mother in a sea of complete strangers.  The excitement off students had caused them to carelessly bump into me while I looked at every individuals face, hoping Woohyun would be the one in a hundred.

“Woo…Woohyun!” I shouted, over the voices off socializing students. “Woohyun, where are you!?”  I squeezed my way through the crowd off students and finally halted when I had reached a large staircase, separating the school grounds from the line off classrooms. I tiptoed and looked over the sea of students who had slowly started to make their way out of the school grounds. A few minutes later and the school had now been virtually empty. But, Woohyun was still nowhere to be seen.

I grew frustrated as I scanned the school grounds once again. “Where on earth could he be?”

Annoyed that Woohyun had suddenly abandoned me, I turned my heel to face a person I hadn’t been expecting to see. Woohyun, why did you have to leave me?

Her long brown hair blew in the direction off the wind as she stared at me with her dark brown eyes. Her face, remaining completely expressionless. “Looking for me?”

“No…” She continued to stare at me, as if waiting for the moment when I would change my answer. And then I remembered Woohyun’s words

‘solve your problems. I’m sure there’s a way out of this whole mess.’

I shook my head and corrected myself, “I mean, yes. Do you have a moment?”

Without a word off response, she had begun to walk away. I, unknowingly off what to do at that moment decided to trail behind. Woohyun’s disappearance kept popping up in my head. How could he have just left me like this? Where could he have possibly gone?

- - - - - -

The relaxing instrumentals played in the background at the top level off the coffee shop. We both sat across each other, neither speaking a word, both sharing the same uncomfortable silence as the smallest happenings around us easily caught our attention. Spoons clanging to mugs, the small conversations while waitresses happily greeted and took the orders from their customers, this was all I could hear. I noticed that the girl in front of me had been in the exact same ensemble the day we had first ‘met’, her school uniform.

She lifted the cup to her mouth but didn’t take one sip. Instead, she blew onto the white fluffy froth and sat the cup back down. “So what is it that you wanted to talk about?”  She picked up a cube off sugar from the center off the table and stirred it into her coffee. I stared intently at the cup as the sugar had dissolved into the hot liquid completely. “I-I don’t really know to be honest,” She lifted the cup and attached them to her lips. “I just felt that we needed to talk.”

She pulled the cup away from her lips and stared at the coffee beneath her. “There’s nothing to talk about. I’ve made myself pretty clear, haven’t I?”

I picked up cube off sugar in front of me and dropped it into my cup, stirring along with the girl in front of me, both of us continuing to refuse eye contact. “No, no you haven’t, what I’m trying to say is…I’m not doing it.”

The spoon clanged onto the side off her cup as she dropped her spoon. Finally, her eyes made its way over to my direction. “You’re not doing it? What is it that you mean, exactly?”

I gathered all the courage within me. It has to be said, I have to be honest. “I’m not leaving Myungsoo. I refuse to let you do this to us.”  She let stared at me with an amused expression on her face. Finally, she let out an ill laugh,“Us?”

“You’re joking, right? Since when has this ever been about your ‘relationship’ with oppa? Whatever you’ve been thinking, get it out of your head. This isn’t about you, this isn’t even about me. This is about L. About him and him only.”

By now, she had been completely pissed off. She got up from her seated position and stared down at me for one last time. Again, she had defeated me, I felt completely distraught. Why did I even bother?

She stopped on her tracks, and turned her head to the side. “Remember, two days. That’s all. Two days or I’ll reveal your secret to the media. Don’t think I won’t do it either.”

I sprung up from my seated position, catching the attention off everyone else around us. “Wait! Please…Just listen to me. You need to listen,” I held onto her wrist and looked her in the eye, hoping she would see how desperate I had been. I can't leave him, I just can't do it.

She violently shook my arm away and stared at me in disbelief. “Are- Are you finished, yet?”