Tears
“Have you heard? Lady Nayeon refused Lady Sana’s approval to come back!”
“what?? Really? But why though?”
“Oh mate! I wish I could know but..”
Nayeon stood tall and silent on the balcony as she sipped her tea slowly enjoying the aroma of the fragrance liquid. The older woman occasionally run her fingers on her small red scars left from Dahyun the other day. The tears ran down Dahyun’s face was such a great pleasure for her to see, perhaps it has became her addiction at this point.
Her cold eyes stared mindlessly into the empty scenery space of the huge mansion, hence. Nayeon can own all the gold and diamonds in the world but there is one thing that she desired to own the most and that thing is to have Dahyun’s tears as her own.
Nayeon doesn’t feel anything since she was born up until now, she doesn’t even know how to feel pain for anyone around her until she saw Dahyun’s tears.
Those tears that burn the younger one’s cheeks, soaking the porcelain flesh redden it immediately.
Her body felt light under the early dusk, everything was calm and quiet until she felt another presence beside her. From her side vision, she knows the man by heart.
Her own father who feed and raise her under his knowledge and love, she could feel his smile lingering on her every single time especially when she stepped up to present their reputation. Until Sana was born into the family that she could feel his attention aim to her sister instead of her.
And that’s how Nayeon developed a new sensation of hatred. She hates and she’s furious everytime she saw Sana’s face. Those feature that looks the same as Sana’s mother but that eyes. Those brown eyes belonged to her father and she hates that.
“What is the commotion with Sana about, my dear?”
Duke Im asked his daughter gently, he always does . The silence between them used to be the comfortable air but today felt different somehow.
“I just want to discipline her.”
Duke Im sighed, he let his folded arms down to rest on the balcony.
“Was it about that girl under Pompom’s care?”
Nayeon froze.
“You don’t have to be so harsh on Sana-“
“You always put her before me.”
The silence consumed the space again, an uncomfortable feeling settled between the two. The free birds singing loudly about their freedom as well as the sounds of the gardeners started doing their jobs in the background.
“Nayeon ah..you will always be my first daughter, my first priority. I love you both equally.”
Nayeon wanted to laugh. She remained still and unanswered.
“As for that girl, I’m too old to intervene in your life. Just don’t let your pain affect someone’s innocent soul.”
Duke Im stretch his back a little, he definitely needed more sleep from now on for his old back. He looked at his oldest daughter gently one more before he moved to pat Nayeon’s shoulders.
It really was his fault to raise Nayeon like that, he had put her up in the high place with those responsibilities up her shoulders. Instead of making her drinking the tea in the garden, he instructed her to put on the armour. But things can’t be changed now, all he wants is for his daughter to have empathy and sympathy.
“Sana is also your sister..you know what to do now, Nayeon. Don’t let your emotions hurts everyone especially your second mother.”
Nayeon’s hands gripped her tea cup tightly as if she wants to break the expensive pot apart. Her pink rosy lips quivered slightly.
Once Duke Im was out of sight, Nayeon harshly threw away her tea cup onto the ground breaking everything in the process. Her breath rage as well as her blood shot eyes, oh how she hates her so called sister.
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A peaceful morning.
Dahyun tilted her head a little to watch the way those birds dancing around with their music as it’s flipping its wings to show its dance move.
Her bright red lips turned into a small smile while her hands continued to wash her clothes in the big wooden bucket.
The pale girl had finally begun to feel okay again after a night of comforting herself alone. Because after all what happened, she can’t be selfish and let her emotions go ahead of her.
She has many responsibilities to do especially her study and she’s definitely going to write back to Sana once she finished doing her laundry.
Her Sana..Jeongyeon had told her about the commotion that had happened between Lady Nayeon and Lady Sana. Once she heard how Nayeon had locked Sana back and prevent her from coming back here, Dahyun’s nose flared up instantly.
That evil woman.
“What does she want..”
Dahyun mumbled quietly, her petite body shaking from time to time. Her tongue instantly clinked from time to time as her brows furrowed fully like a mad man.
Her gentle occasionally slapping the water out of anger for Nayeon and it all looks so funny in Nayeon’s eyes.
The older girl was leaning against the tree just beside where Dahyun located. Her cold unwavering gaze which occasionally tuned slightly gentle, those gaze that looks so beautiful yet so cold.
”I don’t know what I want..”
“Ahhh!”
Dahyun instantly screamed once she heard Nayeon’s sudden voice right beside her. Her heart beating loudly as if she had seen a ghost came back to life.
Her face twisted in anger and shock to see the same face who had put her through so much pain the other night. She instantly glared at the sneer smirk plastering on Lady Nayeon’s face.
“Why so scared, Dahyun?”
Nayeon put her hands inside her pant pockets as she made her way slowly towards the scaredy girl in front of her.
“I do not like you in my territory, Your Grace.”
Dahyun stood on her own, even though silk of her dress had wet a little from the bucket below her she stood still with a scowl expression on her face.
“Your territory..?”
Nayeon chuckled a little, her steps getting closer and closer but the fact that Dahyun still stood there with a challenging expression put a pleasure inside her chest.
“Every single things on this land is mine, Dahyun..even you.”
The under of Nayeon’s eyes is cold and it put chill in the back of Dahyun’s head.
”Your flesh, your hair, even your skin..Dahyun.”
The atmosphere started to get heavy again and Dahyun’s legs started shaking on its own.
Nayeon’s shoes stepped on the wet piece of a silk fabric on the ground that put Dahyun on alarm. She instantly crouched down to snatch the fabric back but Nayeon insanely stomped it down.
Nayeon almost sighed at the sight of Dahyun kneeling down for her, the way those beautiful skin shined under the morning light as well as those wavy hair bouncing around.
Dahyun’s hatted gaze glared at her with her tears beginning to break down again from the feeling of humiliation caused by the older woman.
“You could wrap your fingers around Sana as you please, Dahyun. But remember that you are owned by me and not even Sana could take you away from me.”
Nayeon smirked softly, she bended down a little to grabbed Dahyun by her jaw. The touch that burned the younger girl immediately. She wanted to pulled her head back but Nayeon put a full force ripping out a gasp from her glossy lips.
“Why are you doing this to me..?”
Nayeon tilted her head a little examining Dahyun’s beautiful face like a psychopath.
“Cry for me, Dahyun.”
There was silence, Dahyun bit her lower lip tightly while maintaining the eyes contact between them.
“I said cry. Cry, Dahyun.”
The humiliation that took a tool on Dahyun’s chest made her heart squeezed painfully. Her tears continued to flow down like a waterfall in the rainy night. Her glowy skin and eyes that is redden from the choking air has made such a great pleasure for Nayeon that it made her chest rumbled.
The taller woman smiled beautifully and sickly, those eyes that drown Dahyun and those eyes that put Dahyun in a dark place. It made her lose her mind.
The aching and burning ran down Dahyun’s throat, she choked down on her own tears.
The sounds of Dahyun’s sobs and tears last for almost thirty minutes before Nayeon finally let go of the sore skin. Her fingers printed left a light mark just on Dahyun’s jaw.
“Your Sana can’t save you, Dahyun.”
“In fact, she’s gonna abandoned you just like how your parents died and left you.”
Dahyun instantly fell down her own onto the ground, her weaken body shaking from the uncontrollable tears. She hates that woman. Oh she hates that woman so much.
The way Nayeon’s gaze still lingered at the back of Dahyun’s mind made her feel burned and weak.
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Sana opened her door again to see that those men had finally left her alone and she thanks her dad for stepping up to stop Nayeon immediately.
Sana’s dark and cold eyes remained still, there is no letter from Dahyun for two days now and she felt desperate to see that beautiful girl.
Her chest tightened at the possible danger that could happen and it made her wanted to cry immediately. Her bed felt cold and Dahyun’s scarf, her scent had lingered off.
Sana pull her arm over her forehead, the fever of missing Dahyun is too much. she couldn’t sleep nor eat at all.
Her tired eyes stared at the telephone on the nightstand, fighting the urge to just call someone and let them out Dahyun on the line but that sounds ridiculous.
She sighed again for the nine times.
Jeongyeon would be here to fetch her and tomorrow, she would be able to hug her beloved again. If there is a Time Machine, Sana would use it right away.
All the tiredness and headaches finally consumed her to drift off but a worry that is sitting inside her chest still sting within her whole being.