Hyun Soo looked at her sister and was quite surprised by what she said.
"Re-really?" She asked.
"Why? You dislike it?" Eun Soo replied still looking at the walls rather than Hyun Soo.
Hyun Soo quickly shook her head and smiled brightly.
"Would you... like to sit for a while?" Hyun Soo offered her still being hesitant.
"No, I'm busy not handling a part-time job like you, so...gotta go." She said and Hyun Soo looked down at her feet probably feeling a bit ashamed.
Eun Soo turned to go out, while Hyun Soo after debating a lot inside her mind finally asked a question,
"Have you... forgiven me?" She looked at Eun Soo as she gulped.
"What? Forgive? After what you did?" Eun Soo finally looked at her with a mean and disgust look in her eyes.
She chuckled, "Please yourself, as you've been doing since that day."
"Please? When did I-"
"Oh please! Now playing innocent. What do you think, not accepting the fact that what happened twenty years ago was because of you, will clear your name? UH?!" Eun Soo said as she kept her hands on her waist.
"Why do you think it is me?"
"For god's sake, STOP DAYDREAMING!" Eun Soo yelled at her making her shudder.
She sighed being frustrated and continued,
"Pleasing yourself won't change the reality that mom cried her whole life because of YOU!"
Hyun Soo' eyes flooded making her vision blurry.
"She died because of YOU!"
"And you want me to forgive you? You think it's so easy?"
"Am I...nothing to you?" Hyun Soo asked gulping down her sorrows.
"Yes, you are." Eun Soo widened her eyes.
"You are a PROBLEM for me?" She replied and a tear rolled down Hyun Soo' eye.
"A problem which I have to face because we had the same parents in our past. Because-because we are so-called siblings!" She emphasised the word so-called.
Hyun Soo quickly wiped out her tear and sniffed,
"Then why are you even inviting this problem?" She ended up asking.
"Because everyone out there knows that I have a sister I love....because I am too coward to tell what you did. Does it satisfy you?!" She questioned.
Hyun Soo kept looking at her feet as she didn't want Eun Soo to see her tears.
"Anything else?" Hyun Soo questioned as she sniffed again, still looking down.
"Yeah, dress properly into- into something decent. Don't be what you are." Eun Soo quickly replied.
Hyun Soo nodded and Eun Soo started to walk out again, "I'm happy that mom isn't alive, else she wouldn't have been able to hear our conversation" Hyun Soo whispered.
Eun Soo opened the door and replied, "Well...since we have a black sheep like you in our family, I doubt how she survived all those years."
As soon as Eun Soo left saying whatever she wanted Hyun Soo squat on the floor hugging her legs and started crying quietly. Her jerks and sniffs were so hard that could make anyone imagine how much pain she bore inside her.
Do Yun who was all this time hearing there conversation was compelled to be in the room. He couldn't go and pacify her cause, maybe, his presence will make it uncomfortable.
"Why so similar?" He questioned himself as he could see a bit of himself in the crying Hyun Soo.
Hyun Soo had the guilt of what happened twenty years ago, the guilt of not being able to change it. She had pain towards her mother, the pain of seeing her mother cry every night because of her.
Here Do Yun wasn't able to stop himself and so to go near her without letting her know he snapped his finger making the time stop once again.
As the time stop, he went towards Hyun Soo limping but walking as fast as he can. He kneeled in front of Hyun Soo who was looking in front while her tears stopped just an inch apart from her lips.
Do Yun wiped it out gently from her thumb as he looked at frowning Hyun Soo. There was nothing he could do else than wiping her tears, he kept looking at her while her eyes twinkled with the tears held by time.
"Like this stopped time I wish...I could stop your tears, I wish...I could stop everything which makes you wail like this." He said under breath.
He knew he didn't have much time and so he was compelled to go back to his room. As he slept back on the bed looking at the ceiling he again heard the sobs and he knew that everything is back to normal.
He sighed and whispered, "Like this time, I can't stop your tears for forever and so I know I can't protect you..."
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Here the mother queen knew that it is the second time that the time has been stopped after Do Yum discovered his ability. Somewhere deep she also knew for whom the time is being stopped so frequently. But now that this story has begun thinking about its end makes the mother queen worry about Do Yun. Thinking about its end she wonders how will Do Yun handle it. How will he...live his life further? She was still sunk deep in her thoughts when someone butted in between her thoughts.
"Where are you lost, mother queen?" The princess of Ugrania asked as she came walking elegantly wearing a black velvet belted black dress and sat in front of the mother queen.
Looking at the princess and her small but bright smile suddenly the mother queen said,
"After all this end, will you...marry Do Yun?..."