Park and Violet by Marian Tee

Author:Marian Tee [Tee, Marian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-07-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“You’re right. We shouldn’t have talked about this.” She was in a daze. Park thought she belonged to him. Should she start running away now?

“I told you so.” Park snorted.

She glared at him. “Stop rubbing it in.”

Park shook his head. “What the fuck are we going to do now?”

“Quiet and let me think,” she snapped.

“You never think,” Park said seriously.

“Shut up,” she said without heat.

“All right,” he said, but he grabbed her hand and they walked back home in silence.

He really thought she was his? Violet couldn’t believe that had been Park thinking. “Are you in love with me?” she blurted out.

“God, no!”

She glared at him. “You don’t have to sound so disgusted.”

And because he was wary of making her angry again, Park said hastily, “It’s not that. It’s because I don’t like falling love in the first place. You know that.”

“Why don’t you like to fall in love?” she asked. “I let you know about Andrew,” she reminded him.

He nodded. “Fair enough.”

She waited.

About three minutes passed before Park found the right words to say. “I was pretty young when it happened. I met her when I was sixteen and fell instantly in love. I asked her out, she said yes, and later on, when I told her I loved her, she said she loved me, too. She was a year older than I was and she left for college first. It had only been a month since she was gone when I got this call from her.”

Violet almost told him to stop because she felt like she knew what he was about to say.

“She said that we two didn’t suit anymore. Just like that, she told me that she had fucking fallen out of love with me.”

He remembered the day clearly as if it had only happened an hour ago. He had been excited then, thinking that Vanessa had decided to surprise him with a visit. Well, it had been a fucking surprise, mostly because of how bored she sounded as she broke up with him. Park had a feeling that moment would live him forever, scarring him in a way that would never heal.

Park turned to Violet, his lips twisting in cynicism and bitterness. “I was depressed for months. I couldn’t understand how she could break up with me just like that. She had fucking fallen out of love? What the fuck did that mean? We had been going out for almost two years and then just like that, after one month of separation she had fucking fallen out of love?”

Her heart ached for him. “I’m so sorry, Park.”

“It’s nothing. I mean, after I learned what that fucking little shit did to you, what happened to me was nothing—”

She shook her head. “Heartbreak is heartbreak, Park. It hurts, no matter the reason.” She squeezed his hand.

He smiled humorlessly. “Well, that’s it. Simple, huh?”

“It’s usually the simplest reasons that make us cry the most.”

Park gave her a mocking look of shock. “When did you get so smart?”

“Just a flash of brilliance,” she quipped.

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