When We Grow Up
FrontingMingyu rested his head to the wall behind me and my arms still circled around his neck. I could feel
his heavy breath beside my head; he was sighing for the whole time like he’s also holding his tears.
This guy would never let me see his weak side that’s why he rested his head behind me face.
I slowly patted his back without saying anything, because since the first time I was always communicating
easily with him even without words. And I always fascinated on how we always connected to each other?
Looking at his body, he doesn’t seems like he’s younger than me. Well he is just one year younger. But
the more I know about him, he always showed his true self. That he’s just an eighteen years old kid who
does everything freely, but also has burdens as the only son on his family.
His tall body, wide shoulder, tan skin, sharp vampire teeth, high cheekbones, thick hair, the always on
point eyebrows, shining eyes, and his lisp. Even when I closed my eyes, I could remember all the littlest
things of him.
Am I falling in love with him?
“Noona...”
“It’s been a while since the last time you call me that.”
His head’s still on the wall, “I feel so bad.”
“Why?”
“Wonwoo Hyung.” then he sighed, “At first I thought I would do anything to get you from Wonwoo Hyung,
then he said that he wouldn’t be jealous at me anymore and I just have to make you happy. Then yesterday
he called me, saying that he trust me now to take care of you, because he thought that he’s not the one
who could make you happy. Whenever I look at him, I could feel his pain because I was also hurt when I couldn’t
be with you back then.”
“Then are you going to dump me too?”
“No. I just, I just... I don’t know. I want to pay back everything to Wonwoo Hyung.”
“Me too. I feel so bad for him, but I couldn’t do anything.”
Then he looked at me, caressing my cheeks with his thumbs. “Did they talk bad about you again?”
“No.” I lied. “They didn’t say anything.”
Mingyu suddenly grabbed my hand and walked to my class. People were staring at us like we just did
something wrong, I know, they finally found out that everything’s over between Wonwoo and me. And now,
I have to prepare myself to hear them talking about me again.
I was always afraid of being the center of attention, and I’m still now. Mingyu and Wonwoo really made me
the center of attention a lot these days and honestly speaking, I really hate it. But what can I do? I’m happy
just for being with them, even though I have to face my own fear almost every day.
I don’t want to tell them that everyday I had to calm my self every time people started to look at me with that
gaze and started to back talking me. I don’t want Wonwoo and even Mingyu to be worried about me, not at all.
So I just acted like I’m okay.
When I was about to open my locker, there’s a piece of paper inside and it says:
“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d
choose you.” - The Chaos of Stars
One thing that popped up to my mind was; Wonwoo loves book. But was it really him that sent me this? Yes.
I know well his hand writing, this messy hand writing is Wonwoo’s. And the way he choose books and the
quotes, it’s just so Wonwoo.
I replied him, writing:
“I’m so glad we exist at the same time. My world is a little lighter with you in it, Wonwoo.”
And I slipped it into his locker.
I was sitting by myself because Hana was nowhere to be found, and those girls slowly approached me;
one of them sitting beside me now. They smiled and greeted me like they never did wrong and it’s disgusting.
“Is the rumor true?” Nara, one of the prettiest girl at school, asked me. “That you dumped Wonwoo
because he always asked you more?”
“Huh? I don’t get it?”
They laughed at me and kept staring at me. “Don’t you know? There’s an old rumor saying that Wonwoo is
hardly letting girls go of him because she really needs girl, you know!”
Then one of them shouted, “! He’s addicted to it! Of course, Seulgi would give him everything why would
he let her go?”
“But Wonwoo is not someone like that...”
“You little naive girl, this rumor is going around this school for a long time, you’re lucky you can dump him - oops,
you are unlucky because you wouldn’t get anyone better than him now.”
People would even talk about Seulgi and Wonwoo? Those kind-hearted people? I don’t know why people
who doesn’t even know them could talk like that casually to another people, not even afraid that they surely
will get the karma.
I’m 100% sure that Wonwoo is not like what people talked about. It’s just because people is jealous.
End of the case.
“Don’t zone out!” Mingyu waved his hands in front of my face, waking me up from my deepest thought that
time. “I’m going to cook.”
We are now in his place, and Mingyu is now wearing his apron preparing to cook me some foods. I don’t know
that he could cook, it’s cool! Seeing him cooking with his left hand - since he is lefty - with an apron and a
serious look, it really made my heart flutters.
I really love this boy, and I hope he’s the right choice this time.
I hugged him from behind, resting my head on his back. “Thank you, Mingyu.”
“For what, Ahri?”
“For waiting, for everything.”
“Move, the spaghetti is ready.”
I know it’s just an ordinary spaghetti, but I really appreciated him for cooking for me. And this really tasted
amazing; or is it because he is the one who cooked for me? I don’t know, I just really love everything he
ever give to me. I literary love everything about him.
“Oh, our baby is grown up now!” Suddenly a young beautiful woman approached Mingyu and kissed his
cheek from behind. He quickly wiped the kiss mark with his back hand, whining. “You just promised not
to do it again!”
But the woman didn’t answer him, just smiling. “And who is she? Who made our Kim Mingyu cooked?
Isn’t this one of the seven wonders?”
“Ahri, she is my sister, Kim Minni. Noona, she is Jung Ahri.”
“And who is Jung Ahri to you, baby?” She said while pinching his cheeks.
“Noona... Stop. She is my girlfriend.”
Oh , I don’t even know that he is my boyfriend already.
“Okay, okay. Why are you so sensitive? We didn’t meet for almost a month, don’t you miss me?”
“I miss you but you are too annoying. Go wash yourself, you smell like you hate your pilot.”
“Right to the point.”
I remembered that Mingyu once said that his older sister is a flight attendant and she rarely come back home,
it made him really miss his sister a lot. Now I found it cute when his sister kissing and pinching his cheek
and even though Mingyu was annoyed, but he let her did it to him anyway.
“What is your dream, Mingyu?” Right now, his head is on my lap as I played with his hair. “Do you have a dream?”
“I don’t really know, maybe a psychologist?”
“Psychologist? Why?”
“To help people with their mind, to let them tell me about their problem so I could cure them. So, they will
not die due to stress.”
I his hair, looking at his eyes. When he said that, he’s really honest. Maybe it’s because of his late
Dad, and I really appreciate him.
“What about you?” he asked.
“A designer, or a fashion designer, or just simply be someone who could draw beautifully.”
“I know, you are going to be one.”
We looked at each other then he pulled my head, kissing my lips.
“When we grow up, would you mind to meet me again? When I became a psychologist and you became
a designer? Even when you have someone else, would you mind to meet me again in the future?”
I nodded. “I have no right to say ‘no’. Because that’s all I wanted to do with you, Mingyu.”
“Promise me? When we grow up?”
“Promise. When we grow up.”
Our promise was so beautiful, I even wrote it in my diary as my one of the most beautiful moment in life.
Because I don’t want to forget this moment, and him. Because I don’t want to forget the promise and meet
him once again when we grow up.
But in the next day, everything is so different. My face and Migyu’s all over the school. When we kissed
in the rooftop that day, someone took a photo of us.
And people stared at me, talked about me, mocking me. And there’s a piece of paper saying that there’s
a meeting between the principal, my parents and Mingyu parents due to this photo, tomorrow morning.
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a/n; i'm really sorry that i didn't update for weeks:( because i was busy with my thesis and i went camping for three days :( i will update more now! :)
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