98 Her story

"Mother, what's a Mormon?" "A Mormon, son, is a person who has more wives than one." "Then I don't think there is any danger of pap bein' a Mormon." "Why, son?" "'Cause I heard him say this mornin' when he was goin' out of the house that he found one wife too many for him."

"Then the answer is simple. If you think it's unfair to Joohyun. All we have to do is make it fair!" Chae-won says excitedly.

'Huh? Make it fair?'

"Make it fair? what do you mean exactly?" I ask her

""No... no... You see the difference between cheating and not cheatingconsent. If I don't consent to it, its infidelity. But If I do then it's not" Chae-won explains rather rationally. "Since you are worried about hurting Joohyun all you need is her consent. "

"No way! I'm not sharing Dylan!" Irene immediately puts herself up as a barrier. "I'm your my first, last and ONLY!" She says as she wraps myself around her tightly.

Facing Chae-won, whose biting her top lip contemplating whether to say something. She slowlyopens up, "Joohyun, Dylan ... I know. I'm being unreasonable...but can you give me a chance to explain myself... then you can decide. Will you please listen to my story?"

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*Flashback*

2004

One night a boy and a girl were driving home from the movies. The car is painfully silent and the atmosphere is somewhat tense. A girl's hand is hand cupped by the males, whose gripping it tightly as if he doesn't want her to leave.

Preparing herself, she takes a deep breath and says, "Oppa, can you pull over so we can talk?"

The boy expecting this outcome pales in cold sweat and nods his head. It takes him a little while to find a place to turn off into safely.

Eventually, he slows down and parks on the empty street.

She wrestles herself free from his grasp throwing off his hand, "Oppa....I don't think we should see each other anymore ... my feelings have changed"

"Chae-won" He says softly, "Please don't do this" he please broken heartedly

"Oppa... relationships are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. But the minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.... All the sand has slipped away,it's time to move on" She says holding herself together and logically explaining everything as cold as a machine.

"Chae-won are you sure?" He asks with his voice breaking

As if her head is carrying the weight of a thousand tons, she finds it very difficult but still manages to nod her head.

A silent tear falls down his cheek as he reaches into his pocket, pullying out a aged note of his. Passing the folded note over to her, he tries to form a smile as he says "Open it when you get home"

She agrees and proceeds to it into her bag when, bright lights blind her.

At that very moment, a drunk driver had sped down the very same street. He swerved right into the driver's seat...killing the boy. Simultaneously knocking the girl unconcious.

When she came too, the boy's lifeless body is covering her from the impact.

She screams, "OPPA!!" over and over and over again.

A week passes by and at his funeral, she mourns. As she see's his face, she carresses it once more remembering his last words. Manically she heads home, to find the note.

Hours past and it's nowhere to be found. Bundled up, she cries herself to sleep not knowing what his last words were cursing herself for not taking better care of the note.

At night she dreams of walking down the aisle at her wedding with the boy waiting with a smile. As the ceremony proceeds, his about to read his vows when suddenly everything begins to disintegrate. She wakes up in the dark of the night finding nothing greeting her.

Looking down on the floor, she she's the bag of hers from that night and is about to throw it in frustration when she notices a rip in the lining.

Reaching inside, she finds the note and reads it out loud.

"Oppa, I will love you until you die" Seeing her handwriting she recognizes it as the note she used when she first confessed to him. He kept it with him all the time. Hyperventilating she clenches at her heart and breaks down

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*Flashback end*

"You know why I decided to become an actor?" Chae-won asks with tears down her face

"I wanted to give peoples love stories a happy ending... and not one like mine"

Choking up a bit, I don't know what to say to console her when Irene, leans over and draws her in to her embrace.

"Unnie, it must have been tough"