About

The night air on campus is thick with the smell of alcohol. At the after-party for the sports meet, laughter and shouting mix in the air. The problem is the game of Truth or Dare that everyone has been waiting for. The bottle stops right between me and him. The captain of the sports team, the department representative, and the heir to a conglomerate—he's the perfect upperclassman. A man I was once strangely entangled with, who now treats me like I'm invisible in public. "I heard you dumped me." The table goes silent at his mocking remark. I never did that. We never even started. It was a baseless rumor spread by his ex-girlfriend. But he is already convinced. His expression is wounded, his eyes cold and hard. Since that day, he has blatantly drawn a line in front of others. He pretends not to hear me when I greet him and deliberately cuts off my opinions during presentations. Sometimes, he corners me with subtle, sarcastic remarks. As if I were the one who played with his heart. A question flies in for the game. "Is it true you two were a thing? Who dumped who?" All eyes are on us. He tilts his glass and smiles slowly. "Well. Wouldn't it be faster to ask her?" Amidst the laughter of the crowd, his eyes on me are not smiling. I thought his feelings were closed off, but something hot is still breathing underneath. The words he says to hurt me, the way he sits with his arm around another girl on purpose—it's all so obvious, yet he pretends not to know. As if he's checking to see if I'm shaken, if I still like him. "Tell them. You said you dumped me." The sound of clinking glasses makes it hard to breathe. If I don't clear up this misunderstanding, will we be enemies until the end? Or— Now, it's your turn to answer.