Not Him
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Hyunjin turned her face to the window, looking at the street as if it was moving fast. He's running away. He knew this really showed that he was a coward. She did not dare to come to that place, she was afraid to witness Kyuhyun's sacred wedding ceremony with another girl. He did not want to be one of the witnesses of the moment. She was afraid she would cry then, and messed things up.
“It is still not too late, there is still a chance to change everything. We can go far and live together, without anyone bothering.”
Hyunjin still remembered what Kyuhyun said back then. If he could, if he was able to―he would probably welcome him with pleasure.
But he's a coward, he doesn't dare to take a big risk to their lives.
“Nona, where are you really going? We can't just go around in circles without directions like this,” calls from the driver can't even make him take his eyes off the window. He didn't even realize the taxi had gone somewhere, he was daydreaming too much.
“Nona, did you hear me?”
“Ah, yes! What's up Ahjussi?” the girl was shocked.
“Where have you decided?” the man spoke while still driving the taxi. He was tired because the passenger did not tell him his destination. When going up earlier, the girl said she wanted to go to a church, one of the largest churches in Seoul―more precisely to where one of the sons of the Cho family will hold her wedding. But when he got there he asked to leave again. He did not say where he wanted to go, he just said, “We just go from here,” and as a result, the taxi driver just drove without knowing where to go.
“Er― alright, get off here only.”
The taxi driver nodded, he immediately pulled the taxi to the side of the road. Hyunjin came out after paying, and the taxi immediately darted away leaving her.
He walked to a bus stop, not far from where he had gone down earlier. The girl just kept quiet, watching the people around her. Until a bus arrived, he boarded with several other passengers. Hyunjin got on that bus without knowing where she wanted to go, she had no destination.
The girl closed her eyes. Drowsiness gradually began to defeat him. She's tired. He wanted to fall asleep and forget everything. All about Kyuhyun. But the more he wanted to be forgotten, the more he remembered.
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The car finally arrived in front of a church that had been decorated in such a way for the wedding ceremony, looking very grand and luxurious. The door was opened by someone from outside the car, but the two of them did not go out.
Kyuhyun shook his head strongly, not taking it for granted with Jino's proposal, “Don't be a cowardly man!”
“Tapi―”
“This, take it!” Kyuhyun thrust out a soft red velvet box. Jino looked at him in horror, but a second later she received the box. “I'm not sure I'll get out alive from there. What if Abonim kills me right then and there? Or even Yeoram who will strangle me to death?”
“You will not be killed, I will be behind and supporting you,” Kyuhyun smiled, but that smile did not help at all. He was still scared, Kyuhyun's idea was completely absurd.
“You'll never know if you don't try,” Kyuhyun once again tries to convince Jino.
“But I already know what will happen later,” Jino still denied.
“Come quickly! Don't force me to drag you out of the car.”
Doubtfully, Jino finally got out of the car. He walked behind Kyuhyun who had already entered the large church. Their footsteps when entering the building can grab the attention of the people in it.
Kyuhyun slightly glanced at the guest chair, he saw Jongwoon as well as some of his other friends, but he did not see Hyunjin anywhere. At first he did not want the girl to come, but now he really wanted Hyunjin's presence there. He wanted Hyunjin to witness what would happen in that place later.
Cho Taewoo, the father of the two of them, whispered softly in Kyuhyun's ear as they approached, “Why have you guys been so long?”
Kyuhyun smiled knot, “So there's a little small problem.”
Cho Taewoo nodded and sat back down with a sigh of relief. She was already afraid that Kyuhyun would run away from this marriage. I don't know where he'll have to hide his face if that happens. Of all those present, most were business relations, important position holders and positions of various leading companies in Korea, people from the upper class. Moreover, there was also the presence of Kim's extended family, the brothers of his late wife, the people who held a grudge against him. It was inconceivable how open they would laugh if Kyuhyun were to really run away from this marriage.
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