Part 11 : One last chance

Soohyun POV

A month passed just like that.

Kim Jiwon's gone. She's gone.

I didn't hear about and from her nowadays after the news about her family leaked a month ago. Glad we had finished all the shooting process for the drama that she didn't have to show up in the set. No one ever heard about her—-or probably they heard but refused to talk.

The promotion schedule was very tight, we did some roadshows and interviews, without her. The offline roadshows and interviews were attended only by me, Park Sunghoon, Kwak Dongyeon, and Lee Joobin, with the other casts....

It was such a fortunate that we have shot some interviews with her far before we finished the shooting process, so TvN released those recordings thus fans of this drama wouldn't know her whereabouts. In the drama's premiere event, she also didn't show up and TvN made sort of excuse like she got sick or got another schedule.

Meanwhile, I believed that her fans did not believe it easily. They kept digging and digging the fact behind the rumor.

I tried to search for her too. To my managers, to my connection in HighZium, her agency. Zero result.

I just.... missed her. And felt really guilty of what happened to her.

About a month ago, the next day after the news released, in Koreaboo, I took the earliest flight from Frankfurt to Incheon. In a rush, I asked the driver to go to the Gold Medalist building after I called my cousin, Lee Sangsub, who is the CEO of the company. He's 5 years older than me, we built this agency together.

With full of rages I told him of what happened in a call from Germany. Of Yeaji, one of his agency's talent who kept threatening me and bothering me. It wasn't professional and I feel disturbed of her actions.

Sangsub hyung just replied with "Hold your anger, lets meet after you get back to Korea."

So I arrived in front of his office's door. We shared some shareholdings of the company so I could freely enter the building as I wish.

Still wearing the jacket that I wore from Germany I rushly opened the door and startled with the view presented to my eyes... That Yeaji's here, in my cousin's office.

She sat there calmly, on the couch, hair was tied up, she crossed her arms and her legs, facing me, threw me this cold look.

"Hi." She greeted me with her hoarse voice, the only voice belong to Seo Yeaji in this industry.

I held back and clenched my fist, if I hit her now she wouldn't be survived.

I threw the questioned look to Sangsub hyung which also sat there but behind his desk, busily checking the documents. I swifted my focus to him.

"Hyung! Do you know what Yeaji did to me, to Jiwon?!"

"Yeah, she told everything," Sangsub replied me calmly. Then he seated straight and looked deeply to my eyes saying the words that I didn't believe at the moment, "Easy, Soohyun-ah! She's my girlfriend, I have punished her for ruining your career."

What. The. Fuck.

I stunned there like for 5 minutes, trying to process everything. So what's this all about.

I saw Sangsub and Yeaji exchanged seductive winks to each other and I wanted to vommit to witness that scene in front of me...... this easy? Is this too easy to solve?

"You can sue her, or we and the company can sue her."

"Right, sue me," Yeaji nodded. I widened my eyes to her in disbelief. "He knows my obsession to you, I even asked his permissions to make you agree to do threesome..."

I choked on my saliva. I didn't believe of what I heard today. This crazy girl indeed....... lunatic.

And my cousin in front of me approves her craziness.

"But I wasn't involved on her action with Koreaboo, Soohyun-ah! Like I said, I have punished her. This time she has crossed the line.....," Sangsub's hands supported his chin now, "Easy, it's just Koreaboo. And as far as I know this rumor is proven to be untrue. You can check to Jiwon...."

He even dared to mention Jiwon after all of these, my Jiwon. But this has affected her career, affected us.

Did he even know that Yeaji kept on bugging me related to the naked photos she took inside the tent after we had sex?!

I think he needed to know but my mind was just busy thinking about Jiwon, then I abruptly left.

If whatever happens in the future beyond of what I could process that day, I'd kill them two.

And I heard Jiwon's agency took this action, to hid her from the world.

But I miss her so bad that I cannot breath. It's been almost a year we've been together to shoot our drama, and when its ended, deep inside my heart I want us to celebrate this together.... I imagined she would be happy, showing her sweet smile while doing promotions and interviews with me....

I reminiscened how we met for the first time, how she attracted me with her personality and I treated her coldly because everytime our eyes met our skins touched in those scenes I felt butterflies invaded my stomach. Then I grew that feelings and wanted to get close to her by trying to approach her to do the kissing practice with me beside Han river.....

And we kissed several times after that. We grew the closeness through those kisses but turned out she's engaged.

Should I let her go? My mind told me that but my heart says no.

And until today I still searched for her because I miss everything about her, her beautiful eyes, her cheeky smiles, her laughs in the sets with all the crews, her soft skin when we touched, her warmness when we hug and even her lips..... when we kissed.

I shouldn't obsess of someone's fiance. Yeonseok must be beside her now, comforting her, giving her love.....

I should focus on my work, even now, not thinking about Kim Jiwon....

I am at ELLE Korea's studio, took some photographs for their cover.

My hair stylist dyed my hair and they gave me some suits with a bit opened chest in a baby blue colour to show some of my muscle. Then the photographer led me to give pose, there and there.

Since I am a top tier actor, to finish those sessions were easy peasy for me. I finished it earlier than the schedule and changed my clothes.

When I went out from the changing room and passed walking the studio, I startled to see someone familiar.

However because he's in a full make up I almost didnt recognize him. But, when I stared at him too long he realized my presence and bowed at me.

"Soohyun-ssi."

"Ah yah, Yeonseok-ssi."

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Now both of us, me and Yeonseok were here, smoking our cigarattes on the rooftop of ELLE Korea building.

The building has only 12 floors but still from here we could see the city lights and the hustle bustle of Yeouido from above. Though it was 10 pm the area was still crowded.

I blew my last smoke, Yeonseok had finished 4... he sighed several times. Now he showed his fingers in which previously just stayed inside his jacket pocket. No ring in his finger.

"She broke off our engagement," he said in deep down voice. And sighed again. "I have been loving her since in the university, tried to approach her through her family.... But it's failed because she said she's in love with someone."

Huh? Wondering who it is.

Yeonseok turned his face into my direction, smirked.

"The day that news came out we flew to Korea," he continued.

"Jiwon & I went straightly to her parent's house. Due to the rumor, she and her family had been gone through the most difficult time, because Korean tax goverment and those procecutors did investigation, back and forth...."

My heart felt pity for her. I couldn't imagine how she'd handle this situation.

"Maybe you wondering why she didn't appear anywhere, it's because she helped her family to recover....." he sighed again, before continuing his words. "And her agency told her kept being silent and taking rest from any publicity, obviously."

He smoked the last one to the air. It was a windy evening and I shivered because I just wore the thin clothes, something that I regretted. I thought it almost entered Summer season but I was wrong.

Even in Summer, Korean wind felt that cold to me. Or maybe because of what I heard from Yeonseok.

"I kept accompanying her on settling her family case. Even offered some help from Dongsuh group, my father's company but she kept rejecting it. And one day, she asked me to go out. We went to a nearby cafe... she confessed that during these times she couldn't forget this person, one particular person. She tried to forget, tried and tried, but she just couldn't...."

He turned his body round, both of his arms put on the roof's balcony now he's backfacing the view outside the building. He looked at to his finger.

"And she gave me back the ring...."

Oh, okay.

He glanced to me again and threw his smirk, his eyes were so cheaky when he did that. I threw him clueless look, well, like I said, I became so dumb for everything related to her. It's like my heart stopped beating and my brain stopped working because I feel that my world revolves around her.

"I heard she's coming to the wrap up party of Queen of Tears next week," Yeonseok told me.

Oh yah? Finally came out from her hiding during these times. Then this would be her first appearance since the case, I daydreamed.

But seeing me being so oblivious because I didn't know how to reply, he continued, "Tsk. How can be a top tier actor so slow like you?"

And he opened his arms to feel the wind, while walking to the edge of the rooftop, left me who just stunned at my place trying to process of what he just said.

"Soohyun-ah! This is your chance!" He shouted when his feet finally reached the stairs to go down from the rooftop.

I was taken aback to hear that, finally came back to my senses. I should use this one last chance.

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A/N : This is it. An update. I've been so busy with works thus writing this at night. No proofread. As usual, silent readers shoo shoo. Will update but pay me by giving a lot of votes and comments. Enjoy, readers! :)

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