# 11
"bye~bye~<_<".
This time, Floppy copied me.. those.. those buttholes!!
“Here’s your order..”
O_O What is all this?!
3 plates of anjoo (something you eat with alcohol, like peanuts or something)
14 bottles of beer
11 bottles of soju..
“Who’s going to drink all this?”
“You.. Me.. Seungpyo and your friend.”
“Crazy, do you want to see me die?”
“BEER~~~~~~~~~~~!!!”
Floppy yelled.. and he happily grabbed for some beer.
“Don’t drink more than one bottle.”
“WHY?!”
“Don’t you remember last time on the wa- oob!!”
Before Eunsung could finish, Floppy quickly covered his mouth..
wall...? Floppy.. did you pee on the wall when you got drunk..? Is that it?
I’m pretty strong with alcohol.. if I say so myself.. 4 bottles of beer.. Kyungwon’s crazy though.. 4 bottles (of soju) is a cinch..
Time passed... and half of the alcohol was in our bellies.. HOWEVER.. the only one drunk was Floppy.
“What kind of girl is so good with alcohol??”
Since 5 minutes ago.. that Ji Eunsung has been jibbering about the most random things. Something like my eyes are crooked. My hair’s flipped out.. things like that.
“What about you?! You’re drinking a lot also!!”
“I’m a MAN!!”
“Well then is your friend a girl..? ^_^”
Like I said before, Floppy was half crazy, “URHG!!”
O_O
All of a sudden Floppy knocked the peanuts off the table and onto the floor. And said one sentence... that only a half crazy person could say.
“If you love me~~ Pick up these peanuts!!!”
Crazy... Of course no one started picking up peanuts. Kyungwon was staring at him wide eyed.. And ignoring his friend and just drinking like crazy was Ji Eunsung. Still jibbering random things about me.
“You have squid stuck in your teeth. Don’t talk.”
“There’s no squid here though.”
“Just joking... <_<“
Floppy crouched down and started picking up the peanuts. I felt pity for stupid Floppy.
“I’m going to go give it to my baby.” He muttered.
“He has a baby?!”
“Retard.. is he in his right mind?”
“ (embarrassed) .. when are we going to finish all this?!”
“You’re friends chugging it down.”
Kyungwon.. you don’t know how much respect I have for you right now. I knew you liked drinking but.. this much?? Right then, with his peanut picking finished, Floppy stood abruptly. And he had a scary expression on his face. And with a shaking finger, he pointed it at Kyungwon..
“Let’s go see our baby!!”
“ <_<“
“Let’s go! Let’s go!!”
“Go look at it yourself. I don’t like babies.”
Floppy grabbed Kyungwon’s wrist and dragged her away.
“Kyongwon~~!!!” I yelled getting up from my seat..
“Let it go.. he liked your friend..” Ji Eunsung said.
“Huh??”
“That’s how he tells girls he likes them.”
Well.. Kyungwon DOES look cute. I felt bad for Kyungwon for giving her to Floppy.. but he’s good looking so I’ll let it go.
“ARGH! Let go of me!! Yehwon!! Give me another beer bottle!! I’m not finished~~!!” She yelled as she was being pulled away.
“It’s just the two of us now..” Ji Eunsung said grinning..
# 12
For a moment, my face heat up..
“You’re liking it too much.”
“Liking what?! I don’t see anything to like!!”
It was just for a second... Just a second.. but for the first time, Ji Eunsung and I met eye contact. His eyes pupils are so dark.. REALLY REALLY dark.. almost black. I’ve never seen eyelashes so long on a person before..
“Can I ask you something?” I asked.
“Sure. Nothing weird though.”
“Uh.. okay.. uh, why don’t you like people touching you?”
For a while he was silent. Then he finally muttered:
“It‘s embarrassing.”
“Huh??”
“It’s too embarrassing to tell.”
“Oh.. okay.”
“What else?”
I have nothing to ask anymore.. That’s all I’m curious about. But he was looking at me as if there was something he wanted to answer so I searched in my brain for something.
“What’s your blood type?”
“Why do you ask stupid questions?”
“Just because!”
“ Type O.”
“Birthday..?”
“August 30th.”
Dammit, why did I ask this question? Now he’ll think I like him or something.
“Oh! August 30th!! Then what’s your sign? I don’t know..”
“Sign?”
“Yeah!! Astrological sign!!”
He was silent.. I guess he doesn’t know..
“The big dipper..”
“Huh??”
“What!!”
“HAHAHHHAHHAHA!!”
“Why are you laughing..”
“HHAHAA. That’s not what I was asking.~~!! HAHHA
“You laugh at me after I save you!??!?!”
That guy.. how long is he going to use that saving thing to shut me up?
“Ahem.. sorry..”
But seriously.. you were really funny..
“When I go out with someone..”
“Huh?”
“Whoever goes out with me has to only look at ME.”
“Don’t worry. No one likes me.”
“I know that!!” He said as if he were positive of his outburst.
“That guy you were talking to.. meet him after I dump you..”
<_<...are you drunk already Ji Eunsung??
“Who is going to get dumped??”
“You from me..”
“Why am I going to be dumped..”
“Because I’ve never been dumped before.” He said a matter-of-factly.
“What the hell are you talking about?! He’s a childhood friend. I can meet him if I want!”
“You just try. <_<“
“What if I do?! Are you going to kill me?!”
“Yeah.”
O_O... with that personality he probably would...
“Where’s your friend Floppy?”
I asked turning the conversation.
“Who’s Floppy?”
“That guy named Kim Seung Pyo.”
“Why’s he Floppy?”
“Jus.. Just because.”
“I’m going to tell~~”
“Don’t.”
“Then don’t meet that guy.”
“You like me huh?” I asked nearing my face closer to his.
“Move your face.. Your breath stinks..”
..don’t you even see me as a girl...? T_T
“It’s because I’ve been drinking!!”
“It’s disgusting..”
That’s how we spent 1 to 2 hours.. arguing about absolutely nothing.. And in that time.. almost all the alcohol was gone..
“Hey I’m starting to get drunk. Let’s go.”
That guy said glancing at his watch.
“It’s only 12.”
“It’s almost 12.”
# 13
“I’ll pay for half since I ate half.”
I said taking out my wallet.. but Ji Eunsung stopped me with a few words..
“You’re poor.” He said seriously.
WHO. SAID. I’M. POOR.... HUH?!?!??! When we walked out of the bar.. all the streetlights were on brightly..
“Oh yeah!! KYUNGWON!!!”
“What are you talking? She’s not drunk.”
“Huh..?”
“She can get home herself.”
“Oh right. What about your friend?”
“He wouldn’t have died.” He also said seriously. You call yourself a friend.. <_<
“But still.. I still wanna call her. Let me use your phone. ^_^I’ll pay you~~”
“Want to die?”
“Oh yeah.. sorry..”
“Let’s go, I’ll take you home.”
“Where do YOU live?”
“Korea..”
..you call that funny? You lame ass. Ji Eunsung continued to walk a few steps ahead of me..
Sheesh.. walk slower...
It was then, I saw about 3 or 4 girls walking towards us. All wearing Snag high’s uniforms.
“Huh?? Hey!! Ji Eunsung!!” Yelled the one on the left.
It’s Wang Bitna, my middle school jjang. She’s 175 cm tall..
“..Oh hey.. long time no see.”
I just stood by him stupidly.
“What are you talking about? We saw each other earlier today.”
“I didn’t see you..”
“Hey... who’s this?” She asked finally giving me a look over.
“Hi.” I said awkwardly.
“Are you two going out?!” She asked not bothering to say ‘hi’ back.
“What’s it to you?”
“This is her?! The girl you’re going out with?! But she goes to that girl’s school!!!”
“Yeah, I know.”
“What about Hyobin?!”
She yelled pulling one of her friends forward.. oh it’s that one girl .. the pretty one..
“What about Hyobin?”
“Hey! You can’t do this to her!! It’s been like 3 days since you’ve broken up with her!!”
“Dammit.. her and I are good friends.. what the hell’s it to you? Han Yehwon, let’s go.. There are a lot of mosquitos here!!”
“Hu- Huh? Okay.”
Kang Hyobin’s face was dark as she glared at me.
As I was starting to walk, Wang Bitna grabbed my arm and said quietly.
“Hey, if I ever see you out in the city....”
T_T my house is near the city...
She said with a scary tone.. and scared, I ran towards Ji Eunsung. And when I looked back.. she was crying.. with her other friends comforting her and Wang Bitna glaring at me.
“Hey!! Wait for me!!!” I yelled as we neared my house.
“That girl.. Kang Hyobin, you think it’s okay to just leave her there?”
“......”
“It looks like she likes you a lot.”
“Is that what you should say to your boyfriend?”
“Huh?”
“Bear head.. Get in!! I’m going!!”
He said shoving me into my house gates and going into the alleyway..
..that alleyway’s a dead end.
He came back out.. and turned left.. disappearing..
...Yehwon... do you like him..?
When I walked in.. I got lectured by my mom for 30 minutes. And I climbed up the stairs into my room, not even bothering to wash up.
+BANG+ (<-- door swinging open)
“Who is it?”
“I had a nightmare..”
Oppa... what are you doing holding a pillow.. it doesn’t match your image.
“Did you see a ghost?”
“I think so..”
“Oh.. well.. good night.”
Sheesh, who cares about you??
“I had a nightmare..”
“What do you want me to do about it?!”
“Sleep in my room..”
“Oppa, I’m tired!! You sleep on my floor.”
“Your room smells like our great granny..”
“Fine, I’ll sleep in your room if you let me off on 5 fried rice makings.”
“Nevermind..”
He said quietly closing the door behind me.
You human.. you’re scared of your sister not making rice for you that seeing a ghost?? I slowly drifted to sleep...or I tried to anyways.. truthfully, I was too scared of Wang Bitna.
# 14
That night, I dreamed Jungmin was following me with a huge phone.
“Call me~~ Call me~~~”
Oh yeah, I should..
+That Morning @ school+
Kyungwon and I was serving detention by cleaning up the bathroom.
“HEHEHE >_< “
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“^_^ I was too embarrassed! HEHE..!!”
“Stop hitting me, it hurts. Okay fine maybe friends.. but going out?!??!!”
“What are you talking about?? Seungpyo was so cute!! But what are you yelling at me for?! Can’t even congratulate me?!”
“You better not show up with him when I’m meeting Ji Eunsung.”
“So you like him now?”
“NO!!”
“Oh wait shut up, I got a text from Seungpyo~~”
Smiling, Kyungwon answered her message while I vigorously scrubbed toilets.
Oh yeah!! my dream!!
“Hey, lemme use your phone~~”
“But I’m talking to my man!!”
“Eww!! I’m going to go call him!”
“Jungmin? Sorry! It’s me Yehwon~~!”
“Tch! You said you were going to call yesterday.”
“Don’t act gay. So when are you coming to Korea? Are you entirely moving here?”
“No, only while we reconstruct our house.”
“Huh? But that’s only like a little while.”
“About a week?”
“Then why are you even coming?”
“T_T”
“Sorry ^_^, so when?”
“29th~~”
That’s the day before Ji Eunsung’s birthday.. well, it’s the day before so..
“That’s not too far away!!”
“You’re going to pick me up right?”
“Duh!! Let’s play during that week~~~!!!”
“... <_< uh okay...”
“.. you’re dead..”
O_O.. that’s the teachers voice..
“Jungmin-a, I’ll call you later.”
“Okay.”
I turned around and grinned at the teacher, “You see... that was my cousin... he’s visiting from Junlabok this weekend.”
“^_^ Oh~~ He’s from my hometown.. Junlabok where?”
“UH.. Doomaesan..”
“Let’s go..”
“Yes, ma’am.”
+++
“Ow...”
“You have the worst luck. Of all the teachers you get caught by Night Pig.”
“Ow! My butt’s swollen to 4 times it’s original size!!”
“You poor thing.”
“Hey, tell ‘your man’ that I can’t meet his friend because my ass is swollen.”
“But Ji Eunsung told you to be there.”
“What do you think he’ll think if I drag my ass there? Have fun.”
“I don’t want to go by myself.”
Muttering, Kyungwon left me at my house. But I soon realized that my front gate was locked.
“I’m at a meeting. Meet me at GEUMSHIL’s house.”
Sh1t..
It hurts to walk mom... But I had to do something so 1hour later.. I’m still waiting for my mom and she’s still not here. Without my choice of the matter, I decided to go to Guemshil’s house.
Dammit.. I have to pass the city to get there. I guess I’ll go in between alleyways.
“Sheesh, why’s it so hot here?” I asked myself.
“Yeh.. WON~!!!”
This voice.. my senses were warning me to not look back. I quickened my pace.. and the pain was killing me..
“YEHWON!!!”
This time it was Floppy. Dammit.. If Floppy’s there Ji Eunsung is also. If I tell him that I didn’t meet him cause my ass is swollen, he’ll kill me. I quickened my pace. What if that Hyunsung guy is there also??? T_T
“Hey!! Assface you wanna die?!”
Caught Red handed.. this time it was Ji Eunsung.. T_T
# 15
I turned around now that just ignoring them was out of the question..
Damn...
Kyungwon.. couldn’t you just act like you didn’t know me?? That Hyunsung guy is there also~~~ WAHH WAHHH WAHHHH!!!! Hyunsung.. Ji Eunsung.. Floppy and that guy from the hair salon last time.. it’s them.. the 4 kings of Sang high. Not bad.. (except for Floppy <_<) but this isn’t the time for that.
“H- Hi~~” While I was just standing there the other’s caught up to me.
“Hey! Han Yehwon!! What about your butt? Where are you going?!” Kyungwon asked loudly.. T_T
Look.. Kyungwon.. see that guy next to you named Hyunsung..?? I’m an 18-year-old with dreams. Ji Eunsung was staring at me without much expression.. Dammit. I’m probably going to be called Butty for the rest of my life.
“Look at her butt!! LOOK! LOOK!!” Do I HAVE to explain who this was?
“Get away from me.” I muttered.
Hyunsung’s laughing at me.. T_T
“Where were you going??” Kyungwon asked.
“Geumshil’s house.”
“What’s that??”
“Somewhere.”
Floppy, Hyunsung, the other guy and Kyungwon were laughing their heads off. What’s so funny??
HOWEVER.. Ji Eunsung was just staring at me. I forced a smile at him and asked..
“Where are you going?”
“..The army..”
He must have the worst sense of humor in the world.. I swear to God..
“I got hit.. it really hurts.”
“ <_<“
“But you see.. My mom wasn’t at home either.. so I was just walking to Geumshil’s house..
And finally, the tension in Ji Eunsung’s left slowly.
“Why’d you get hit?”
“Uh.. .It’s kinda embarrassing to tell..”
"=_=^^^ =_=^^^ -_-..."
Dammit.. Look at his face.. he’s pissed again.. what do I do?? How do I turn this conversation..
“She got him by the night pig. She got caught cussing.”
Kyungwon~~ T_T
“What’s a night pig?”
“School guard.”
“You cussed at your school guard??”
“ <_<yeah..” (I lied.. hey, I can’t tell him I was talking to Jungmin)
Before Kyungwon could tell him the actual truth, I tugged at him.
“Hey, it looks like we’re going the same direction. Let’s go. Let’s go.. oh.. sorry..”
I said letting go of him arm. I just remembered.. he doesn’t like people touching him..
“....”
“....”
The awkward air around us thickened.. okay fine! I won’t touch you again..
We walked out of the alleyway. Knowing that Hyunsung was behind us, I put a lot of thought into my walking. Me and Ji Eunsung were walking way up front.. even though I wanted to walk in the back. Ji Eunsung doesn’t walk if he isn’t in the front..
“Where were you guys going?”
I asked trying to loosen the air around us.
“Seungpyo’s house.”
“Oh.. I see. why?”
“To eat.”
“.. oh.. I see. ^_^;;;”
“Swollen~~ Red~~~ Her butt is red and swollen~~” Seems to be Floppy.
“Seungpyo. Stop it.” Kyungwon said.
“PUHAHAHAHHAHA!!” Hyunsung and the other guy...
Those... those.. butt’s!!!
Ji Eunsung was smiling also.. actually more like smirking..
“Kyungwon-a look at your friend.” Floppy said.
“It’s your fault..”
Kyungwon.. You haven’t betrayed me yet.. thank you. Just you wait KIM SEUNG PYO I’ll kill you yet.. I’ll kill you along with Han Seungpyo.
I finally reached Geumshil’s house and I neared their gate.
“I’ll go~ It’s right here. See you tomorrow!!”
“Can’t you just get your key?”
“Huh?? No it’s okay. My butt hurts.. I’ll just go..”
“Go ahead.. I want to talk to Buttface a little.”
Ji Eunsung said.. I knew he’d tease me.. -_- I just know he’ll start calling my Buttface from now on..
“K! Hurry up!!”
The others all left us in front of Geumshil’s house and walked further away, and I saw.. I saw Floppy purposely shaking his ass and walking away...
“Of all the people to cuss at, you cuss at your guard.. Are you crazy?”
“I didn’t cuss at HER.. I was just saying it to myself..”
“Your ass is as big as a watermelon..”
“My ass has always been big!!”
O_O... it wasn’t supposed to come out this way...
“Hey.. on the 29th. I’m going there.”
“There where?”
“It’s the day before my birthday. I invited the kids and Kyungwon to our condo.”
“Are you holding a party?”
“Yeah.. everyone’s coming.. you better come also..”
“Huh???”
“Just just say you’re not going..” He threatened.
But.. Jungmin’s coming on the 29th.
“I- I-”
“It’s not a school night. It’s a Saturday. so you can go.”
“It’s not that.. My friend’s coming from America that day..”
“...friend who?”
# 16 (Eunsung‘s Story..)
My name is Eunsungie ^_^. Today’s my 7th birthday. Last night... Before I went to bed.. I made a wish on a shooting star.. ^_^. Today..? Daddy and I are going to get our picture taken and we’re going to eat cake. Daddy promised me 3 times already!! ^_^
“Who’s birthday is this month? Please come to the front~”
The teacher at the kindergarten said.. That day they were holding a party for all the kids with birthdays that month. 5 small children walked up to the teacher.
“Eunsung~~ Hurry up~~ ^_^”
“Me..?”
“Of coarse~~ Isn’t your birthday today??”
Oh a long table, a big cake rested. The children all grinning and loudly singing the song.. but a child apart from all the loudness and laughter.. Ji Eunsung just smiled shyly..
“Okay now~ I want everyone to come to the front and kiss our birthday boy’s and girls on the cheek~~ and please congratulate them!!”
“EWW!! Boy’s have cooties~~”
“You come up first~~”
They were still small kids.. In a straight line, one by one the rest of the class came and kissed the 6 kids up front.
All went well until...
“Teacher!!”
“Yes?”
“I can’t kiss Eunsung..”
“Well why not Jiyoung?”
“My mom said that his dad has RAIDS!! So she told me not to even touch him!!”
“No, that’s wrong. My mom said it’s AIDS not RAIDS”
“Kids!! I’m very disappointed in you!!”
“....”
“Who said that?? I thought every single one of you had a kind heart!! I guess I was wrong!!”
“HEUK HUEK T_T”
“Jiyoung, don’t cry. Go and give Eunsungie a kiss, and tell him to have a happy birthday.”
“....”
“Jiyoung..”
The little girl named Jiyoung nearly Eunsung fearfully and whispered..
“Happy birthday Eunsung..”
“...thanks...”
“Jiyoung, aren’t you going to kiss him???”
She hesitated and place one on his cheek, and burst into tears..
“WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~!!!””
“Jiyoung~~!!”
The teacher said surprised.. ‘All the children are scared of him…of all the days they had to find out about father..’ she thought sadly.
A few previous kids who had kissed him earlier had also burst into tears. Eunsung… unaware of how to act just looked down quietly.. all he knew was that he had made the girl named Jiyoung cry..
On the way home.. the tears that he held back all cascaded down his cheeks.
He wiped them away in front of his house..
‘Daddy and me are going to take pictures today.. and I ate cake so I shouldn’t cry.. Daddy doesn’t like me crying..
He stood outside 10 minutes before he opened the gate and walked in.
“Daddy!! Eunsungie’s home!!!”
He said smiling brightly with eyes still full of tears.. But.. he wasn’t home. The large house was empty. Eunsung’s tear filled eyes found a small note taped on the table.
“daddy’s busy today.. He’s just late..”
While he was waiting for his dad, Eunsung got a piece of paper and pencil. Writing his best.. while still wearing the pointed birthday hat his teacher had given him.
Eunsung’s dad.. Ji Sunghan. Was out more than he was in. Even when he said he’d come home.. he never showed up before 12.. when Eunsung was asleep, the only person to take care of Eunsung was a paid sitter..
He was always alone..
He waited in front of the door.. and he waited for the phone. but still no dad. Exhausted from waiting.. He feel asleep.
+DING DONG+
“Huh.. Is no one home..?” A woman with short hair opened the gate an walked in.
“Eunsung?? Ji Eunsung~~”
There was no answer..
After looking threw two rooms, she opened the door to another...”
“Eunsung...”
He was asleep on the bed... the woman neared and looked at the sleeping child wearing the pointed hat and picked up the piece of paper next to him on the bed.
“What’s this??”
‘Daddy.. today... Eunsung’s klass mates wished me a hapee burtday. But..
I at cake and my frends kissed me. All my frends sed hapee burtday! Today you and me and is going to tak pikturs. And wen we do.. I’m going to keep it for ever and ever..”
The woman’s eyes started watering
‘He probably hasn’t even take one picture with him..’
The woman picked up the child and got into a car.. heading towards Kwachun.
She was Eunsung’s mom.. She had divorced his father before he was even a year old because of his affairs with other women.. even making her give up her own son..
Ji Sunghan had died that afternoon..
Of coarse he had kept it secret from his son...
Eunsung’s stepbrothers and sisters even avoided him at his new home.. with the fear even HE had AIDS, and avoided making ANY skin ship with him.
AIDS.. small children didn’t know much of this disease and when they found out Eunsung’s dad had it.. they immediately believed Eunsung to have it.. Avoiding him even more in fear of catching it. ( A/N: Eunsung does NOT have AIDS)
And when he was in fourth grade...
“^_^ now, let’s meet our new student!!”
Eunsung sat down near the back next to a girl.
“Hi! My name is Suhyeon!! You’re name’s Eunsung right..?? Let’s shake!! Nice to meet you~~!!”
“ .. uch me...”
“Huh? What’d you say??”
“....don’t touch... me....”
# 17
“It’s someone you don’t know.”
“...well then you can come after you pick him up.”
“Can’t we just.. I don’t know.. have our own separate party the next day?”
“You have to be with me... the morning of my birthday..”
Is it just me..? I probably just saw wrong. But when he said I had to be with him the morning of his birthday.. it sounded so.. I don’t know.. like it’d mean the world to him if I was there.
His pupils are shaking.
“O...kay.. Go on, the guys will be waiting for you.”
“I’ll call you.”
“Did you get your phone back?”
“No, I bought one. It’s a Sky phone, I’m going~!”
Does money grow on trees for you? What’s with you and sky phones?? I walked inside Geumshil’s house and as soon as I did all the attention was turned towards me.
“H..hello~”
“Oh~~ Yehwon~~ Hey, your daughter’s here!”
“Mom, my butt hurts.”
“Okay, whatever.. Here are the keys..”
How can you act like you don’t even care about your daughter’s butt? I walked home and laid down on the floor. Our quiet little house. Wonder when dad’s going to come home.
Man.. I’m tired..
Right as soon as I was about to fall asleep my phone rang at least 3 times and annoyed I turned it off. When I woke up in the morning and thought about it.. It probably was Ji Eunsung.
Okay!! Starting today volunteering at my school!!
I’m so happy I don’t have to study~~ Not surprisingly, I finished all my cleaning in 12 minutes and soon enough, Kyungwon and I were busy chitter chattering away.
“I don’t want to say this, but I really don’t like your boyfriend.” I said gathering a lot of nerve and telling Kyungwon.
I got huge shock from the ‘Butt Song’ he was singing yesterday.
“Haha~ I get sick of him sometimes also.. But he’s still cute~~”
“Why don’t you just marry him if you think he’s so cute..”
“Tch~~ Yesterday at Seungpyo’s house, I saw a picture of Ji Eunsung when he was in middle school!!”
As soon as I brought up the word MARRY she quickly turned the conversation turning red in the face.
“Did he have a grumpy expression on his face like always??”
“He had a buzz cut.”
“Why didn’t you bring it?? <_<“
“Him and Kim Hyobin.. I think they knew each other in middle school also.”
“Why do you say that?”
“There was a picture of them together.”
“Oh.. I see.”
It’s weird.. something feels kinda weird.. It feels as if I got in between their relationship... why do I feeling like it’s what I did?
“RING RING RING!!”
“Hold on, I got a call. Hello?”
“Buttface~ What are you do~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ing??” He said in a sing song voice.
Ji Eunsung.. that bastard... asshole...
“Don’t call me buttface. I’m cleaning the bathroom.”
“Whatever. You can’t meet me today~”
“Who said I wanted to meet?”
“Don’t talk back.”
“Yes sir.”
“Eunsung.. that’s my phone. Your phone’s right here. (I heard a guy’s voice say over the speaker.) I know! Shut up! ( Do I have to tell you who’s voice this is?)
“Why are you talking to me with someone else’s phone? Where’s yours?”
“The dial pad is broken. I’m getting it fixed.”
“What are you doing today?”
“My kids and Gong high’s kids are fighting today.”
“Yeah right.”
“Do you wanna die? If you think I’m joking, why don’t you come over to the back field huh? Oh wait nevermind. if you come I’ll kill you.”
“I don’t even want to..”
“The text messaging works, so send me some text. I’m going.”
“Oh.. Okay...”
“BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP......”
He hung up before I could even say bye.. what a rude person!!
“Who was it? Eunsung?”
“Yeah. I think they’re going into a fight with Gong high.”
“WHAT?!?! But then Seungpyo will be there also!”
“I ... guess..”
“Aren’t you even worried about Eunsung?!”
“Not really.. I don’t think he’ll get beat up..”
“What do I do!?!?! Seungpyo~~~!!”
Kyungwon brought out her phone and quickly dialed Floppy’s number.
“Kim Seungpyo!! If you fight today!! I’ll KILL YOU!! ...... I’m warning you!!! What if you get hit!!!! Don’t make me laugh!! Please!! Seungpyo~~ KIM SEUNGPYO!!!!”
“Did he hang up? What’d he say?”
Kyungwon quickly dialed again, but it seems Floppy turned it off..
“What’d he say??”
“He said it’s fine.. He just laughed and said he was going to win. Gong kids are so scary!!! I swaer, he’d going to be beaten up so bad!! Yehwon! We have to go!! Okay?! OKAY?!”
“..no.. what are we going to do there?”
“WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~~ YEHWON-A, PLEASE!! PLEASE!!!”
It’s my first time seeing Kyungwon’s tears. No matter now much she got hit by the night pig, she’d never cry.. but ... right now..
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“Hey be careful.. don’t step on that tree.. if we get caught we’re dead.”
“Han Yehwon, you’re voice is too loud, shut up.”
“Hey, isn’t that them?”
“WHO?”
“Yeah, it’s them.”
In front of our eyes, 8 kids from Gong high and 8 from Sang were facing each other. Ji Eunsung and some other guy that’s like 190 cm tall faced each other. And we before I could blink their fight had begun..
T_T what do I do...??
# 18
“Good job!! What the..” I said silently cheering for my boyfriend.
“Yehwon.. look..” 3 guys from Gong had circled Eunsung and were charging at him.
He wasn’t getting beaten too bad. but it was obvious he was getting hit.
“No, it’s fine. The others will probably help him.”
.. the assholes.. 5 more guys approached him.
Oh No~~ Eunsung~~~
Kyungwon grinned..
“Hey, Seungpyo’s sitting on one of them.”
“Who’s his opponent?”
“Hey, do you see Eunsung?”
“No why?”
“4 guys are stepping on him.”
“WHAT!?”
“Oh my gosh, what do we do??”
Why do you suppose my heart was racing…my hands and feet were shaking.. the person getting hit right in front of me seemed so far away..
“hey.. hey..” I said gathering what little voice I had.
“HAN YEHWON ARE YOU CRAZY?” Kyungwon hissed at me..
“HEY!!!!” I’m crazy.. crazy? HA! My brain’s shut down completely.
I loudly yelled and jumped out from behind the tree. I didn’t punch the closet person.. I didn’t scream or bite..
I just grabbed the closest guy and grabbed his arm and started wailing, “stop it!!!!!!!!!”
“Hey, get lost.”
The guy yelled pushing me away. Truthfully, it didn’t hurt.. but as I heard Ji Eunsung’s voice tears stared just pouring out of my eyes..
“Han Yehwon..”
“WAHHHH WAHHHHH!! WHAT!!!”
“Who told you to come?”
“WAHHHHHHHHHHHHH WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! Kyungwon did..”
“What the hell is this? Hey you bastard you have to get hit more!” The guys keep hitting him.
“Han Yehwon.”
“.....” Nothing’s coming out. My throat’s choked up.
“Yehwon..? Hey, hey, Han Yehwon.”
“WHAT!?!??!?!?!”
“Just close your eyes for 10 minutes.”
“HEEENNG. I don’t even have a watch!! How do I know if it’s 10 or 5 minutes?! WAH!!!”
The guys beating up Eunsung started giggling as I yelled that.
“Then just close your eyes until you finish counting to 150.”
“WHY~~~~~~”
“Just count.. go stand over there in the corner..”
“T_T”
I did what I was told. I really stood by the corner and started counting to 150.
"131..132.....133......."
“What are you doing?”
“Who is it?”
“It’s Kyungwon.”
“Hold on. I have to count to 150.....134...135..136..137.. 138..139.. 140..141.. 142...143... 144...145....146...147........148.....149...Kyungwon.. I’m going to open my eyes.”
“Are you going to keep joking with me you stupid brave little girl?!”
“I’m not in the mood to joke.”
I opened my eyes wide open.. actually not really. my eyes don’t go wide open.. I just opened my eyes..
I ignored Kyungwon and ran towards Ji Eunsung.
The SCENE..
3 guys laying in awkward positions…and Ji Eunsung turned to me while grabbing some other guy’s collar.
“I told you to count till 150!!”
“I did!!”
“Damn! Fawk!!!”
He continued to beat the crap out of the guy and turned to Kyungwon.
“Gimme your phone!!”
“Seungpyo’s getting hit. GO HELP HIM!!”
“Give me your phone! Then I’ll help him.”
“..here.”
I knew what Kyungwon was thinking right then.. it wasn’t that hard.. I mean think about I. After Ji Eunsung finished his call, he went over to Floppy to help him. 6 guys appeared and dragged away the near dead guys.. and in 30 minutes the fight was over. 14 guys and 2 girls.. truthfully it was kinda embarrassing.
We went to the closest park.
“Hey, your girlfriend’s pretty brave.” Hyunsung said grinning..
Even with a black eye you look like an angel O_O
“Hehe~ Not really..”
“It’s because of you Eunsungie won.”
“^_^ thanks.”
“Hey, all of you get lost!! Go to that pojangmacha behind the corner!!”
Ji Eunsung yelled loudly.
Why are you yelling?
“Hurry~ Bring your little wifey along also~~” One of the guys said.
In the park it was me.. Kyungwon.. Ji Eunsung.. Floppy.. the four of us were left..
“Did you see me?! Beating the crap out of those guys..”
“You told me to close my eyes so I didn’t.”
“You saw the 4 guys!!”
“You got hit first.”
“It’s because they jumped me from behind!!”
“Sure.. whatever..”
“Why’d you come anyways?
“Kyungwon dragged me along.”
I glanced over at Kyungwon and Flop- I mean Seungpyo and watched what they were doing. She was blowing on his face gently as he pointed to the areas that hurt.
“Do you want me to do what Kyungwon’s doing?”
“Do what?”
“Blow on your face.”
“You get close to me and I’ll kill you.”
“Admit it, you’re glad I stopped them from killing you.”
“Yeah..”
OMG. did he just agree with me??! Maybe he got hit so much in the head!!
“Why’d you fight anyways?”
“Oh, Eunsung made fun of the guys at Gong high.”
HOLY CRAP!! Floppy, you scared me with that bloodied face of yours.
“You made fun of them?”
“Yeah. So?”
“Is that your hobby?”
“When Eunsung goes to a PC bang, he doesn’t do anything cause he doesn’t know how to play any games. So while we play and chat, he just makes fun of other schools. HEH!! He doesn’t even have an email address!!!”
“Kim Seungpyo you wanna die?”
“No.”
“Seungpyo.. Do you CHAT when you go to PC bangs??”
“... n-no.”
Look at Kyungwon’s face.. Floppy you’re dead~~~
“Here, let’s go over there and have a little discussion okay??”
The two slowly disappeared.. Floppy I feel bad for you.. But who cares about you?? Maelong~~
“I have to get back to the guys.”
“I have to get home also.”
“Two days from now.. you have to be there.”
“...uh.. uh... urh.. how’s your body?”
“I think my back‘s bruised. It hurts like a mother.”
“Where?! HERE!?”
I asked pressing my finger into his back..
“..oh.. sorry.”
“What.”
“You don’t like people touching you..”
“.....”
What’s this.. this awkward silence.. Whenever I touch you it gets awkward..
“...ay..”
“HUH?”
“You can touch my back.. but don’t touch my butt.”
“Give me a million dollars and I STILL wouldn’t touch your butt.”
“I’ll call you later. Oh yeah, let’s not meet tomorrow.”
“Why don’t we NOT meet 2 days from now!!”
I want to ask him why.. why we can’t meet tomorrow.. But I just can’t be myself around this guy..
“If you don’t come.. I’m curious at how I’ll change myself.”
“Okay.”
“I’m going~~”
Seems he wants to be with his friends…hey.. there are footprints on your uniform...
# 19
Ji Eunsung’s running.. Floppy’s screaming from behind the corner he and kyungwon are in.
I yell ‘fighting!!’ at Kyungwon…and I came home..
+next day+
“Mom, I’m going!!”
“Okay. oh Yehwon, Jungmin’s coming tomorrow right?”
“Yeah.. why?”
“What do you mean why?? We’re going out to dinner.”
“Mom..”
“what?”
“Tomorrow I- never mind. I’m going!!”
“Hey!! Have you gotten any calls from Seungpyo??” (<-- brother’s name is Seungpyo also.)
“No I haven’t. I haven’t gotten any texts from him either..”
“Stupid boy.. just wait till he comes home..”
“Mom.. I think oppa’s out with a girl..”
“How would you know?!”
“Because he left after he got a call from a girl ( hehe sorry oppa) I’m leaving~~”
I quickly ran to school.. before she figured out that I lied. That day.. I had to clean the bathroom. again...and I didn’t get a call.. or a text message from him..
“Okay!! K!!! Bye~~~ See you later~~”
.. how unlucky... <_<
“Are you meeting Seungpyo today also?!”
“YEA~~~~”
“After fighting yesterday..”
“So?? Wanna come with us??”
“Sorry..”
“WHY?!”
“He said not to meet today.”
“why?”
“I dunno. Let‘s just clean~~”
“Hey, today at 4 when the teacher asks where I am. just tell her I disappeared mysteriously.”
“4? Why 4?”
“We’re going to go to the movies~~ Me and Seungpyo.”
“<_< “
After cleaning the bathroom and writing a letter of apology to the teacher, and cleaning the hallways..
Time flew by…
…I realized Kyungwon’s betrayed me for Floppy. Hmm.. Jungmin’s coming tomorrow. Should I make a list of what to do?? No matter how long I wait.. I’m not getting 1 message!!
Unpredictable human: Ji Eunsung..
The sun was shining brightly and I slowly walked home by myself. I don’t have any close friends besides Kyungwon..
I opened the front gate..
“Is that you oppa?”
“What’d you tell mom?!?!!”
“Maelong~~ Maelong~~”
“Make me food..”
“What food O_O?”
“Friend rice!!!! Make it with spam.”
“We don’t have any.”
“well go buy some. I’ll give you money!!”
“ T_T”
That day.. I- I made rice for my brother.. Dammit.. I still have 8 left..
Hmm. What do I wear tomorrow? It’s my first time seeing Jungmin in a LONG time..
Casual?? No.. American style?? No.. It’d be awkward.. Should I just wear a casual suit? Hmm.. no that’s too formal.. Should I tie my hair? Or let it loose.. Anyway.. what about Kangwondo?? T_T
I should just go to the airport and wait for Jungmin pick him up.. drop him off go to Kangwondo.. and then plan what to do for the next week~~~
“LOOK LOOK!! Kyungwon, do I look better in this white? Or the black?”
“Since your face is black.. wear white..”
“I’m not dark!!”
“Well it’s definitely not white.”
“You know.. I’m kinda nervous..”
“^_^.. I’m curious about Jungmin also..”
“Let’s go together!!”
“I can’t cause of Seungpyo.”
“You can go secretly~~”
“He wants me to go to the arcade right now with him.”
“Tell him your friend’s sick and that she’s at the hospital.”
“He’d want to go along.”
“Hmm. You’re right.”
“Hey, hurry. He’s arriving at 3.”
“Oh yeah!! Let’s go~~”
Kyungwon waited for me to get on the buss..
“You have to be back by 6. You have to go to Kangwondo~~”
“Yeah I know.. but..”
“Just forget about Jungmin if you run out of time. You still have tomorrow.”
“I’ll try to get there. I’ll try my best.. But who’s going anyways??”
“You.. me.. and Eunsung.. Seungpyo.. and the other people from Sang. And I think 2 girls from Sang.”
“What if Wang Bitna goes also??”
“If he isn’t stupid he won’t invite her..”
“..but he is..”
“Oh, the bus is here. Hurry and get on.
“Thanks~~ Kyungwon-a call me.. or I’ll send you a text!!”
“Okay, I’ll explain to Eunsung.. Text me when you see Jungmin~”
“OKAY~~~”
Sheesh.. I’m really nervous. After reaching Seoul, I grabbed a taxi and rode over to the airport.
Dammit.. what time is it?
That’s when I decided to go over to the PC bang right next to the airport.
Jungmin will probably call me. I gathered all my nerve and took pictures of myself in a room full of guys. Hmm.. Seoul guys are hot.
“RIING RINGGGGGGGGGG RING~~” It’s Jungmin.
“Hello?”
“Where are you?”
“Who is it?”
“You wanna die??”
It’s Ji Eunsung..
“I’m in Seoul right now..”
“Why?”
“TO pick up my friend from the airport.”
“............... Do you know what time it is?”
“No..”
“It’s 5: 30.”
O_O... it’s already that late??!? Where the hell is that ass LEE JUNGMIN!?
“Well, what do I do?”
“I’ll drive over to Seoul.. Where are you going to wait?”
Crap.. why’s his voice so cold.. it’s scaring me to death.. But still.. it’s my first time seeing Jungmin in 3 years.. So far it’s friendship before love..
“Eunsung..”
“Where are you going to wait..”
“Eunsung...”
“Where are you going to wait.”
“JI EUNSUNG!!!”
“.....”
“Sorry, but it’s the first time I’m seeing my friend in 3 years.”
“You promised me... you said you’d be with me on my birthday...”
“..I know..”
“You said you were going to be with me...”
“Sorry.. I really am. But I promised this first..”
“So you not going to come.”
“How about tomorrow?? I’ll be with you even if you say you don’t want to see me.”
“I.. want to be able to trust you.. I want to trust at least you.. you’re going to come right?”
“Eunsung.. sorry.. I real-”
“......................bye..........”
Beep BEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
Bye? What’s that mean? What does that mean??
I just wanted to keep my first promise.. is that that bad?? Is it sucha thing to want to greet my friend when he comes back??
You birthday’s tomorrow anyways..
Bye?? You want to break up?? .. I guess it’s for the best.. I didn’t like it either.. I didn’t even know you for that long and you’re so controlling.. You were really annoying.. It’s goodbye from me too.. But.. why’s my throat choking up??
“RING RING RING~~~~~~~~~~~~”
“HELLO!?”
Thinking it might be Ji Eunsung.. I quickly answered.. Even though I said things only 3 minutes ago..
“Where are you?!”
“Oh.. Jungmin..”
“Hey, what’s with your voice?”
“HAHA! What are you talking about.. Where are you??”
“I’m at the entrance of the airport.. There‘s like this big yellow thing~”
“Oh that’s the very front. Hold on, I’ll be right there.”
I should be happy.. what’s wrong with me..
Han Yehwon.. smile..
# 20
I went over to where Jungmin said he would be waiting.. Hmm is that him? No, he wasn’t that fat.. Is it that guy?? No he wasn’t that good looking. Perhaps.. him??? HAHA.. I doubt he’d have grown his hair out that long.. I spotted a guy with yellow hair all the way down to his back.. I know it’s not him... but why does it seem like it is.. <_<
“Yehwon~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!”
“Jungmin T_T..” I said heading towards the guy with the long hair..
“You! grew your hair out..!!” He said running towards me
“I was just about to say.. what’s wrong with you hair.. -_-“
“Isn’t it so cool?? The girls all fainted when I smiled at them.”
“Anyways.. It’s been forever!!!”
We talked until a bus pulled up in front of us.. And the two of us headed towards Kwachun.
“Yehwon~! Han Yehwon~~”
“Huh.. HUH?”
“What are you thinking about?”
“UH..”
“Oh I know..”
“Know what?”
“You’re thinking about what to do this week!!”
“Uh yeah.. perfect...”
We reached Kwachun and Jungmin said that after he dropped his things off he’d come over to my house. I thought I was going to die of embarrassment because everyone was staring at us because of his hair.
T_T What happened to you in America??
“Mom.. What are you making??”
“WHERE’S JUNGMIN~~?”
“He went home to drop his things off. He’s coming..”
“How’s he look?!”
“Huh??”
“How’d he change?!”
“Mom.. You know that singer Mindahleh (translated: Chrysanthemum.)
“Of course..”
“He’s like that..”
“He changed that much?!?! He was so cute when he was little though!!”
“Not his face.. his hair.. Well I’m tired.. I think I’m going to take a nap..”
“Why are you tired?? You haven’t done anything!!”
“What are you talking about? I was in the bus for like 10 hours.”
“Are you talking back??!?!?!”
“Make yummy things..”
“ <_<“
I walked into my room...
Have we broken up?? I guess we have.. I thought as I sat down at my desk.
+RING RING RING~~~~~~+
“Hello?”
“Yehwon~”
“Oh.. Kyungwon-a.. are in Kangwondo??’
“YEAH! What the hell happened??!”
“We broke up...”
“What?!”
“Bye.. and he just hung up.”
“Why aren’t you coming?!”
“Jungmin came late..”
“Do you know that?!”
“Know what..?”
“Eunsung.. yesterday he came to Kangwondo alone to plan what to do with you. He even rented a condo!!!!!”
“How do you know?”
“Seungpyo told me.. He saw a letter Eunsung had written for you.. Something he hadn’t done since middle school.. he said he thought he was going to die.”
So that day when he told us not to meet... Sheesh. He’s making me get teary..
“Let me talk to him.”
“Say that again..”
“EUNSUNG~~~~~~~~~~~!!!”
“Oh the way here I couldn’t even call you to hurry because he was so pissed off. Why do you think I called now? OMG while he was driving.. I thought I was going to die!! He was going as fast as a bullet.. We got pulled over at least 5 times..”
“Do you know his cell number?”
“No.”
“Go ask Seungpyo for me.”
“K, fine.. I’ll send you a text later.”
“Thanks.”
“Oh yeah.. Kim Hyobin’s here also..”
“What?”
“Yehwon!!! I’m here~~~~~!” <-- Jungmin
“O_O.. Jungmin’s here.. I’ll call you later.”
“Jungmin? Hey, let me talk to him!!”
“Later. Hey what’s up?”
“Who were you talking to?”
“Kyungwon~~”
“Really?? It’s been forever since I’ve seen her. Tell her to come over~”
“She’ll be home tomorrow.”
“What about hyung?”
“Huh??”
“Seungpyo hyung!!”
“I dunno. He went out.”
“Haha.. he’s the same as always.. When he got kicked out of your house, he’d always come over to ours.
“That’s how he is.. -_-”
“Nuna said she misses hyung.”
“Oh.. Where’s Jungeun unnie? She isn’t coming?”
“Yeah.. she was like what’s the use of coming if we’re going to go back..”
“I miss her..”
“KIDS!! COME DOWN~~”
“Let’s go eat!”
“WOW! Mom did you make this all??
“Oh course I did!!”
We got seated at the table..
“Jungmin~ You got so charming in America~~~~~~~’
“You too Ahjumma. ^_^”
“HOHOHOHOHOHO!!!! Oh Jungmin.. do you know the gasoo Mindeuleh?”
“Mindeuleh? Why?”
OH MY GOSH MOMM T_________T !!!
“Let’s eat huh??!?!! Thanks for all this food mom!!!”