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Youngran looked around her surroundings in boredom as she narrowed her eyes to whatever things that she can’t see clearly. It’s the same old same old day where she was on her way to her home after 7 hours of torture in school. There’s nothing to do even if she went home early so she’s currently killing her time by sauntering along the street.

The sky is light blue in colour, showing the world that there will probably be no rain for today with the sun shining so brightly. She saw an ice-cream truck nearby the park making her eyes glowed in glee at the tasty cold treats, since she is a fan of sweet things. Youngran then dashed towards the white vehicle and pushed her brake when she has arrived right in front of it.

A black haired man in his late 30-es was giving a cone of rainbow ice-cream to the 5 year old child beside her. The man looked tired and he seems like he needed time to rest but when he’s serving his customer, he was re-energized in a split second upon seeing so many guests that came to his truck.

The child gave his money to him with a cute eye-smile and Youngran kind of squealed mentally since she likes kids. “Thank you ahjusshi.” After the boy left, Youngran turned to the ahjusshi with a wave of her hand.

“Good evening, ahjusshi. One rocky chip please,” she cheerfully spoke up and the owner chuckled at her wide grin. “Agasshi wants a rocky chip? Wait for a minute.”

As Youngran was about to reply with an “Okay.”, a soft voice that she knew appeared near her. “Make that two, ahjusshi.”

Youngran turned her head to the side and met eyes with a deep cherry brown haired guy that was wearing the same dark blue school uniform as her. “Jungkook.”

“What’s up Young-ah?” He showed her his wide palm and she slapped it with hers as a greeting. “I’m fine. Thanks for asking.”

“So, are you planning on buying me the ice-cream?” She tapped her finger over her thigh with her eyes focused on the man who was scooping up her order.

Jungkook squint his eyes at her, scoffing in the process before pulling out his wallet out of his back pocket. “You little piece of cheap… Use your pocket money a little.”

“I would want to use it just now but since you want to pay it for me, it seems like I don’t have to,” she remarked innocently and he refuted with a frown. “It’s because you asked me or else I won’t even think of treating you.”

“Hey. Treat your seatmate something will you? I gave you a can of soda when we were kids,” she countered making him to snort in disbelieve. “You always brought that thing up… I understand, Moon Youngran-shii.”

Jungkook gave the ahjusshi his money and they both took their own ice-cream with a bow to the man and also a ‘Thank you’. Youngran the ice dessert in happiness while he looked at her with a shake of his head.

“You’re that happy?” She replied with a nod of her head. “Oh right. I almost forgot. I’m on my way to your house right now since my mom gave me a quick errand.”

Youngran faced him with a tilt of her head, as if she’s asking him what the errand was. “It’s about a cooking recipe? I don’t even know myself. It seems like my mom gave your mother some cooking recipes that was from our family’s tradition and there’re a few more inside my bag.”

She bobbed her head in understanding and the both of them ate the whole thing within 5 minutes. As he was wiping his hand because of the dripping ice-cream, Youngran wiped her stained tissue to his hand, making his hand more sticky than before.

He looked at her befuddled and she just giggled at his dumb-founded face. Youngran hopped to her front a few steps and she turned around to face Jungkook while walking backwards. Sticking her tongue out, she skipped further from him, laughing out loud along the way.

Jungkook felt his eyebrow twitched and he chased after her with his long legs fast. “Yah. Come back here. Moon Youngran!”

“No way! Come and catch me!”

She accidently bumped into a stranger when she faced her front and she stumbled back in shock. Jungkook blocked her from falling down so she won’t embarrassed herself and they stared at the tall, pretty human with long dark brown hair who was wearing an all-guy clothes silently.

Let’s all pretend that he’s a guy for now since his aura gave out the masculine type. The guy was wearing white and blue t-shirt with a grey jacket over it along with black ripped jeans. His blue sneakers are a match with his shirt and he had his hair tied to a low pony-tail.

Youngran doesn’t know why but those dark gleaming orbs somehow looked familiar but she couldn’t put her memory in their place as it was buffering like a loading video. She almost drooled by the way he looks so gorgeous in her eyes and she shrunk under his continuous stare, as if he was ready to yell his lungs out at her for her clumsy traits.

“I’m sorry,” Youngran squeaked out at long last and he only ignored her apology.

After the guy walked away, Youngran turned to look at Jungkook before whispering lowly. “Is that a male or a female?”

“It could be both. FeMale or She-Male. I don’t know so don’t ask me though,” he chuckled at his own lame joke making Youngran to roll her eyes at his cold unfunny humour. “Har har.”

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“Mom~ Jungkook came and he’s here to eat Kookies,” Youngran skipped inside the house as Jungkook tailed after her with a dissatisfied frown. “I did not come because of that, and stop playing with my name,”

“Kookie, Kookie, Kookie,” she jokingly repeated them with a grin.

“Yah. Geez,” he got her to a head-lock and she whined in pain under his arms.

He then saw some people that he doesn’t recognize inside the living room as he released her in a hurry, doesn’t really want to be impolite. She shot him a death glare while rubbing her neck and she finally noticed the couple that was sitting on the couch.

“Oh. Hello there,” she blinked her eyes weirdly before bowing in respect at the two older people. Nudging Jungkook in the arm, he followed suit after her action. “Good evening, sir and ma’am,”

The male and female stood up quickly as they made their way to her. “Youngran-ee~ It has been a long time.” Youngran was suddenly squished to a group hug by the two adults.

Jungkook stared at Youngran with a question mark on his head and she stared back at him with the same expression. Although, she has no clue who they are, she did felt the warmth that was emitted from them. They let go of her with a happy beam on their lips. The adults looked at her with expectation but she just stayed silent while scanning their unknown faces.

She swore she had no such idea whose those two adults are.

“Aww… You don’t remember the Yoon family anymore?” the lady had a frown on her forehead.

“Yoon?” She thought for a while, blinking and something clicked inside her brain, finally remembering something from her past.

Youngran lifted her gaze to the couple as she murmured out a long-time name that she glued at the back of her mind. “Yoon Jeonghan…”

“Ran remembered us~” Mrs Yoon clapped her hand joyfully and she patted her husband’s arm. “I’m happy you still remember us even though 8 years have passed, Youngran-ah.”

They heard the sound of the door opening and whipped their heads to the entrance. Mrs Moon just came inside with huge plastic bags, which had groceries inside it Youngran guessed, in her hands.

“Oh auntie. Let me help you,” Jungkook came to her aid and brought the bags towards the kitchen at once, lighting a soft smile on Mrs Moon’s face. “Thank you Jungkook-ah,”

Mrs Moon patted her daughter’s head after standing beside her. “Ran. I see that you have known who our guests are.”

“Yeah. It’s been a while Mr and Mrs Yoon. Mrs Yoon is cheerful as always,” she bobbed her head once and Jungkook silently came back to her side, still wondering who the two people are.

“Oh right. This is Youngran’s best friend, Jeon Jungkook. Jungkook, these people are our past neighbour who moved back here recently.”

“It’s very nice to meet you,” he bowed in reflex, a gesture that has been stuck in him ever since he was small as it meant ‘Respect’, and Mrs Yoon complimented him sincerely. “You’re so handsome.”

“Thank you, ma’am,” he responded with a grateful smile while Youngran almost laughed making Jungkook to elbow her in the arm.

“If only our son is more handsome…” she continued as a sigh left her lips.

At the mention of her childhood friend, Youngran felt peculiar at Mrs Yoon’s vague words. Is he becoming more uglier as he grown or something? Now she wanted to hurry up and meet Jeonghan’s current state, getting to know about his adventure after he left. They were best friend and she felt that she won’t be awkward with him since they’re practically glued together when they were children.

The doorbell rang suddenly and Mrs Moon went to open the door. Seconds later, she came inside the house with someone, a guy probably, behind her. The guy came out from hiding behind Mrs Yoon as he kept his poker-face on all the time.

“Hello. I’m Yoon Jeonghan.”

Youngran’s eyes widened as Jungkook kept his eyes locked on the guy that Youngran ran into just now. Wow, that’s scary as hell, as if fate was playing with them and she couldn’t be more surprised.

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Author's Note:

I at the introduction chapter. Please, please, please expect the next one~ ^^ And um... Comment your thoughts? Hehe.

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Sentence of the day: Tough situations build strong people.

Credit to the owner.

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