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・゜✭・collision・✫・゜

byeol's pov

📍Gimpo
     Minho's place

Tanging alon lang ng tubig at ihip ng hangin ang maririnig. Nasa sampung minuto na siguro kaming nakaupo ni Minho dito sa sementong upuan katapat ng dagat. Sampung minutong katahimikan at walang naglalakas ng loob na basagin iyon.

I couldn't dare to speak as I could only freeze in nervousness. This is the closest I got to him. Last time, I was two digits seat away from him in a fan meeting and right now, there's like only two-person spaces between us.

"I..." he began speaking and I could only feel my own heartbeat beating louder and louder every second that pass by.

Pero hindi niya masundan ang sasabihin niya. Mula sa pagtingin sa dagat ay napayuko na lang siya. I can't even blame him for being this speechless.

Who would be in a normal state after knowing that you're suddenly engaged with a person you don't even know.

"I don't know what to say. Sorry, hindi pa rin nag si-sink in sa akin ang mga 'to," and then he looked at me. Mabilis akong umiwas sa mga tingin na iyon. Lalong bumilis ang tibok ng puso ko at parang mas lalong nag sink in sa akin na totoo siyang tao at hindi lang sa TV o cellphone nakikita.

"I... I understand. Kahit ako hindi pa rin ako makapaniwala sa nangyayari-"

"It's not that." Mabilis niyang pagputol sa sinasabi ko na para bang ayaw niya akong bigyan ng maling ideya.

"Actually, naiintindihan ko ang nangyayari ngayon. It's nothing unusual to have this kind of arrangement sa mga family. It's just that now that it's happening to me, I couldn't wrap my head around it."

He's so well spoken. Akala ko nahihiya lang siyang magsalita kanina, iyon pala ay hinahanap niya lang ang tamang salita na sasabihin niya. Now that I heard him speak, unti-unti kong narealize kung gaano ka-unfair ng bagay na ito sa kaniya. Sa aming dalawa.

It's like putting a future in front of a person who probably don't even want it. Ni ako nga hindi ko rin alam kung gusto ko ba itong nangyayari. I could only think of it as a case of impossibility becoming a possibility.

But the reality of it is just... different.

"Sorry, but I hope you don't expect me to just willfully accept this arrangement. Hindi ko alam kung paano ka ita-trato na tama sa sitwasyon na ito. I just..."

Then it hits me.

The person before me is definitely not Lee Know. He's just Minho, and I am just Byeol. Just two people entangled in a family matter as kids. It was a story that started even before we knew each other. Even before I knew him.

It was something even us, did not decide for ourselves.

"Sorry." He stood up from his seat and walked back to their house which was just facing the sea. Naiwan lang akong nakatayo roon habang pinapanuod ang paglakad niya palayo sa akin.

Now I understand.

This is nothing like a fairytale.

It's just two separate worlds suddenly colliding.

And a crash might just probably begin.

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