Chapter 24: Wonderland
Ye-Jin: I have been his fan for a long time mum. I do like him as a fan but I don't think I still have any strong feelings for him in that aspect. Also, I just want to cherish the friendship I have with him for now. If something has to happen then it will eventually happen, right? So I am just living in the moment.
Her mother nodded at her daughter's wise choice and honest answer. She was now even more proud of her little girl. She only wished that her girl wouldn't be left lonely.
So-Jin: so when do you plan to return home Jin?
Ye-Jin: I have been thinking about it mum. It kind of gets lonely here sometimes and I do feel homesick. I miss you guys too. I will come back pretty soon. Maybe after my trip to London, I will move back.
So-Jin: (clapping happily) finally. The house doesn't seem complete without you in it. Your dad is always complaining about the house being silent.
That evening Ye-Jin was sitting on her back-porch reading her favourite book of fantasies- Alice in Wonderland. She sometimes wondered if wonderland was an actual place and Lewis Carol had seen it with his very own eyes.
She was currently at the part where Alice drinks the potion kept in the Rabbit's house out of curiosity and grows in size so much that all the wonderlanders assume her to be the beast.
She was so enamoured by the plot that she missed the knock on her front door. It happened a few times until finally, the person who had come to visit her gave up.
Instead, the person who was knocking earlier walked all the way around and found her sitting on the porch lost in some stupid book.
?? : (annoyed to the extreme) have you gone deaf?
Ye-Jin: (startled) hmm?!
Ye-Jin saw that it was Aera who was glaring down at her. She looked exactly like a model out from the pages of those extravagant fashion magazines.
Ye-Jin: (sheepishly) Sorry, (pointing at her book) I didn't hear you.
Aera: (frowning in distaste) that book again?
Ye-Jin: (shrugging) you know that I like it.
Aera: (glaring) why aren't you answering my calls or even my texts? I've been trying to reach you from yesterday but it's like you had vanished completely from the face of the earth!!
Ye-Jin: (sheepishly) I was busy Aera. Sorry again.
Aera: (sitting beside her on the porch) I have been dying to tell you something from two days and you don't even show even an ounce of care for me. All you do is after ignoring me is tell me that you were busy. (pouting cutely) I am hurt and angry.
Ye-Jin: (feeling lost) I said sorry, so what did you want to tell me?
Aera: (cheering up) you remember that I had gone out with Ray the other night right?
Ye-Jin: (nodding and pretending to be interested) two days ago.
Aera: now it feels like long back but yes. So he asked me if I'd like to date him.
Ye-Jin: (widening her eyes in surprise) oh! That's awesome! What did you say?
Aera: (obviously loving the attention and examining her nails) I said no.
Ye-Jin: (pouting) why would you do that?
Aera: he is cute but not my type exactly. Moreover, yesterday Ray asked me out what if tomorrow someone more handsome asks me out?!
Ye-Jin: but he seemed sweet-
Sadly Ye-Jin's words pitifully drowned in Aera's vanity.
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Chapter 25: Not the right time
Ye-Jin: but he seemed sweet-
Ye-Jin's words were pitifully drowned in the torrential floods of Aera's vanity.
Aera: (brushing off the comment) you had to see his face when I rejected him Ye-Jin. It was so sad like he would cry, (chuckling) I almost laughed in his face when he asked me out. It was so funny, I mean, I knew he was interested in me but I didn't think he would ask me out.
Ye-Jin: (frowning her brows) how is that surprising? When a person likes you it is normal for him to ask you out, right?
Aera: (looking at her funnily) Come on Jin! This is Ray we are talking about here! Don't tell me after being his fan for so long you don't know anything.
Ye-Jin: (confused) what do I don't know?
Aera: (rolling her eyes) don't you know that Ray has never been seen with any girl ever?
Ye-Jin: yes that's true-
Aera: (cutting in) Even the paparazzi have failed to catch him with any girl. He even admitted it himself that he has never had any experience with girls ever.
Ye-Jin: (trying to remember) it seems so-
Aera: (exasperated) don't you still get it?!
Ye-Jin: get what?
Aera: (giving up) you're really hopeless! He is gay Jin! Don't you see it?
Ye-Jin: What?!
Aera: (sighing) I too wish he wasn't Jin but sadly he is. Everyone in the company knows that too. He is rumoured to be in a secret relationship with Kai and they put up the front of having an unbreakable bond of friendship between them.
Ye-Jin: (horrified) That is ridiculous Aera! How can you believe something so outrageous!
Aera: (saddened) that's true, otherwise, why would I reject such good male specimen?
Ye-Jin: you sure that you aren't misinformed?
Aera: (scoffing) you wish! I got the information from a very reliable source. Moreover, when have you seen any guy live like a saint these days? (fake sobbing) And he is a living breathing male god! You don't know how much my heart bled when I rejected him.
Ye-Jin only nodded silently feeling angry- not at how lightly Aera took others feelings but because of her extremely low IQ. She never denied that Aera could be cruel to people when her big-head got in the way but now she learnt something new about her. Even the freezing point of water wouldn't be able to rival this kind of IQ.
Aera was beautiful, there was no doubt in it but that same beauty got into her head most of the times which was extremely bad in times like his. Ye-Jin could never understand how men bee-lined for beauty-queens like Aera pretty easily.
Ye-Jin pretended to listen to Aera's further monologue but her brain took her back to the night when she had found her another friend out in the cold upset upon a rejection- probably his first one. She had seen him vulnerable and drunk with hairs messed up and a crazy glint in his eyes. She knew that he was famous for that crazy glint in his eyes which made him look dangerous.
That night Ye-Jin had found him to be dangerously attractive. Her heart had actually skipped a beat when he had stared at her face intently and held her hand, not ready to let her leave. She didn't know and nor she wanted to know how he would react on listening to this ridiculous reason for his very first rejection.
She sighed in longing as she knew the fan-girl inside would never have enough of it.
Aera was still going on about something about an upcoming tour to Japan with some band for concerts when Ye-Jin heard another knock on her door. She asked Aera to wait for her and went in to answer her door.
To her immense surprise, it was Ray standing on her front-porch showing her his famous gummy-smile.
Ye-Jin came out of her surprise pretty soon when it clicked in her head that Aera was currently waiting for her in her backyard and would come looking for her. Quickly Ye-Jin stepped outside and closed the door behind her back.
Ray: (surprised) is this, not the right time?
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Sanchi94
uh-oh! Ye-Jin got stuck in an awkward situation now.
I am posting this additional chapter as today is a pretty auspicious day for me and I'm usually very happy on this day every year.
It's the celebration of the beautiful relationship between brothers and sisters and I've got a long list of younger and older brothers (sigh!)
I actually forgot what I wanted to say! (Am hopeless sometimes ?)
And also the epilogue to the other story will be up soon. I finally found a cliche idea for it!
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