Yoona’s POV

I saw people surrounding me wearing uniform and masks. One of them asked my name and another said something about my blood pressure. They plugged something over my mouth; it blew air over my nose.  I couldn’t move because something trapped around my head. I heard someone counted “1,2,3, Clear” and something up my upper body. I heard another counting, but this time the sound seemed to be near beside. Someone else must be in the same room as me.

I knew we got car accident a moment ago. I wondered if the person next to me was Yuri? I remembered our car spun around, Yuri trying to avoid other car on the road. Another car bumped into us and pushed our car up to the truck.  My side faced to the truck and Yuri turned the wheel like crazy in order to avoid being hit but in the end her side bumped into the back tire of the truck.

It seemed like I was in an emergency room but I couldn’t feel anything, not even hurt. I should be in heaven or dreaming? I had no clue.  I heard the counting of “1,2,3, Clear” and my upper body got up again. It repeated another time. Then, my eyes shut down slowly within the next few seconds.

 

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“Why are you crying?”

 

“It’s none of your business.

AH!!! Don’t touch my wound”

 

“Mian. It must be really hurt.

Do you want to share my ice cream?”

 

“Anyo”

 

“Wae?”

 

“I don’t want.

I mom says I’ll lose teeth if I eat too much cream”

 

“Jjinjaa ?!?! I have ice cream every week. I have not lost any tooth.

Ah! Except this one, I lost it because I got hit by the door.”

 

“Me I lost my front tooth because a mouse came to take it away”

 

“JJJinnnJAAA? Liar”

 

“Jjinjaro. My mom said the mouse needed it so I had to give him my front tooth”

 

“Fortunately I don’t have mouse at home.”

 

“Want my ice cream?”

 

“Uhm okay!”

 

“YOONA AH! WHERE HAVE YOU DISAPPEARD OFF?”

 

“YAIIIY! My mom is calling me.”

 

“Anyeong”

 

“YA! Where have you been to? Did you just eat ice cream?

How many time have I told you to not eat junk food before dinner?

Look at you face now, getting the ice cream all over the face”

 

“AH! AH! Omma! Don't pinch my ear.

I will not eat ice cream again”

 

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“Give me your pencil case”

 

“Wae? It’s mine”

 

“I like it. Give it to me or I’ll hit you”

 

“I’ll tell the teacher”

 

“OUCH!”

 

“HA! HA! You cannot even stand properly.

I can just push you with one finger! Give the pencil case to me”

 

“No it’s mine”

 

“You better give it back to her or I’m going to squeeze you with my foot”

 

“AH! Ooomma! Huhuhu huhuhuh oomma huhuhu huhuuu”

 

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“YOONA AHHHHHH AAAAAAAaaa aaaa!

It’s time to go to schoooooooooOOOllLLL”

 

“Hurry up, Yuri is waiting for you outside”

 

“Omma lets me finish the rice at least,

AISHHHH JJinjjjja that Kwon Yuri can she just come a late one day?”

 

“YOONAAAA AAAAA AAA AAAAAAAAAAA.

Annyoeng haseyo Yoona’s omonim. hihii”

 

“Good morning Yuri-ah”

 

“YOOONNNNNNNNNNN NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”

 

“YA! CAN YOU JUST STOP YELLING.  

I chocked because of you. Mom my zipper doesn’t come up”

 

“Let’s me see”

 

“Hehe, If I don’t call like that you will never come out.”

 

*ZIPPED*

 

“Here are your snacks to eat during break times.

And Yuri ah, this bag is for you. Be safe on the way to school ok?”

 

“Neah!”

 

“Neah!”

 

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“Still not done with your homework?  ”

 

“Haiiiiiiis I think math is really not for me”

 

“It’s easy though. 2x2=4, 3x3=9, 4x4=16, 5x5=25, 6x6=36, 7x7=49, 8x8=56, 9x9=81”

 

“WOWWW How can you memorize all the tables.

Numbers hurt my brain”

 

“It’s easy. I think about foods.

If I have 2 bowls of rice and my mom gives me 2 more,

I’ll have 4 bowls of rice.

If I have 3 milk bottles per meal I can drink 9 bottles in total. Hihi”

 

“Oh, it’s really that easy?”

 

“Hihi, my mom made me studies all tables with foods.

Come to my house after school. We can study together. ”

 

“You know all of them by heart already.

Do you really need to study more?”

 

“Hihihi, Let’s study together.

If my mom gives you foods I can eat them all.KAKAKA”

 

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“YOONAAAAAA AA!! Look at what I just won!!!”

 

“HUH! I HATE YOU”

 

"Wae? You don’t like it? I won it for you”

 

“Because of you I will not have any gift from my dad”

 

“Why?”

 

“My dad supposed to give me a gift if I win the 100 meter sprint.

WHY? WHY must you win the price?”

 

“I thought if I win it you don’t have to force.”

 

“I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!”

 

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“Did my mom notice us”

 

“Nope ,I dont think so. Isn’t better if we watch it in the closet?”

 

“Yeah! Good idea. Let’s go. Close the door. close the door”

 

“Wait wait wait are we really going to watch it”

 

“Wae, you are afraid?”

 

“Who told you am afraid. Let’s watch it”

 

“eumph…eunnn…oahh…ah..ah..ah…

yeah baby..yeah..heumph…eummm”

 

“Holly!”

 

“YiKK! Turn the sound off”

 

“IM YOONA! KWON YURI!! WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING INSIDE?”

 

“OMMA!”

 

“WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING? REALLY THESE TWO!!

COME OUT HERE!!!”

 

“OMMA!!! WAIT WAIT WE TURNED IT ON MY ERROR”

 

“OUCH! OMONIM, it hurt”

 

“OUCH! AIIIIIE AIIE AIIEE OMMA”

 

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“Hey what do you think about that girl? She seems to look toward us”

 

“I think she may like me. Hehe.”

 

“Shut shut, she is approaching. Let’s see who she will greet first”

 

“Wanna bet? If you lose, pay my lunch for the whole week. Keke”

 

“What if you lose?”

 

“uhm…It will not happen because I never lose to you. HAH! ”

 

“Anyoeng haseyo, you are Kwon Yuri right?

My name is Goo Hara. I think I have got your book by error”

 

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“15-0”

“15-15”

“30-15”

“40-15”

“40-30”

“Final point, 6-5. Im Yoona won”

 

*Claps**Claps**Claps*

 

“BRAVO YOOONA! BRAVO!”

 

“Did you lose on purpose?”

 

“I’m not. You really deserve the price. You played really better than me”

 

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“Oh! Annyeong Yoona, This is Jessica.

You guys already know each other right?”

 

“Neah, we are in same class room.

Annyeong Yoona”

 

“Do you want to watch the tennis match with us?”

 

“Annyo I have something else to do”

 

“Okay”

 

“So how do you count the point? I

t’s when the person misses the ball”

 

“Right but your ball should stay inside or on the lines.

And you have to hold the racket like this and hit like this.”

 

“Hihihiihi. Don’t tickle me”

 

“I’m not ticking. I just put arms around your waist”

 

“Stop it. It’s tickle”

 

“If I want to tickle, I’ll go like this, like this and like this”

 

“KYAAAAAAAAAA! Hihihi hihi hihi stop it.

Hihihi AAAAAAAAh please Yuri ah”

 

“hehehe. Oh! be careful. Don't fall of the couch”

 

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“Yoona ah mianhae”

 

“WAE? WAE? WAE! Can you just love me for once?”

 

“Mianhae”

 

“You really love her that much?

What does she have more than me?”

 

*hic*hic*

 

“I really don’t want to hurt you”

 

“WAE? You are my girlfriend now.

Until I let go of you. You are not going to get back with her”

 

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“You know thing that happens between couple”

 

“Don’t tell me you have never slept with Jessica”

 

“Yoona please stop, please. I’m begging you”

 

“STOP IT! YOU GONNA DRIVE HER NUT!!!”

 

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“SICA!!! STOP THE CAR!”

 

“ARE YOU CRAZY?!?”

 

“DO YOU KNOW HOW TO DRIVE? W

HERE DID YOU GET YOUR DRIVER LICENCE?!!?”

 

*BEEPPPPPPPPPP*

 

“JESSICA!! STOP IT”

 

“BABE!! IT’S DANGEROUS STOP IT PLEASE.

WE CAN DISCUSS. I’ll NOT BLAME ANYTHING YOU DID”

 

“JESSICA! JUST STOP THE CAR ALREADY”

 

*BEEPPPPPPPPPP*

 

*BAM*

 

*BUMP*

 

“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”

 

*BANG*

 

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“She is moving. She is moving”

 

“Call the doctor”

 

“I’ll go get him”

 

“Yoona? Yoona?”

 

I heard multiple voices surrounded me when my eyes opened. Tae, Seo  and Soo was standing around my bed.  “Where am I?” I asked and tried to figure out the place.

 

“You are in hospital. Do you remember the car accident?” Seo said.

 

I closed eyes and nodded to answer.

 

 “Fortunately for the two of you, the firemen saved you guys just before the car exploded.” Tae said

 

“Where is Yuri?” I asked. 

 

“She is in the special care room.” Soo answered. “The doctor removed the bluish in her brain, but she is still unconscious. The doctor said she may have a chance to go blind”

 

“You are lucky that the car only got hit on Yuri side. You have little injury here and there, and only your neck is broken. I guess Yuri has worse condition than you” Tae mentioned.

 

I gulped. I wished nothing will happen to Yuri or I’ll not be able to live in peace for the rest of my day because the accident scene kept repeating in my head. I still got the fear of when the car rushed to the truck and I couldn't do anything. I thought I was on the border line of death and alive.

 

“How is Jessica?” I asked.

 

Seo immediately answered. “She is fine. She didn’t get injured as much as you guys. So the doctor let her go back home”

 

“That’s a relief. How long have I been unconscious?”

 

“3 days” Seo replied.

 

Before I could ask more questions, a doctor came in to check my condition. I heard the girls muttering

 

 

“Why didn’t you tell her about Jessica?”

 

“Unnie, just wait until she gets better. Jessica is not badly injured anyway.”

 

“But Still”

 

During my days in the hospital, I went to visit Yuri whenever I could. I felt sad when I saw her lying down in a bed, unconscious, with her eyes blindfolded with a white tissue. If she didn’t turn the car around to save me, I would have been in her condition.

 

At the beginning, I only observed her behind the windows. I didn’t dare to go in.  Few days later, I went inside and sat beside her bed. The moment I touched her hand, our childhood memories played in my head. My tears felt down for the friendship that we have had, I had never wished to see her in such condition. I remained on her side and telling her our past, hoping she would hear me.

 

Jessica had never come to visit me and I didn’t see her came for Yuri. So I thought she really wanted to avoid me. Even when I tried to call, she never picked up. I guessed it was really the end between us because she didn’t show a caring sign about me even if I was in hospital.

 

On the day I got discharged, only Seo was there to comfort me. We went to visit Yuri before leaving the hospital. We just stood and looked at Yuri without saying word.

 

“Seo, Am I to stubborn?” I asked Seo. “If I didn’t push too much on Jessica, the three of us will never end up like this. Yuri will not be in such crisis condition”

 

Seo rubbed my shoulder and said “Have you ever heard the story of The Money and The Wooden Apple?”

 

I shook head.

 

“The story is about a monkey who really loves to eat apple. Every time he eats one apple, he feels love, joy and cherished.  One day, he passed by a house and saw a really pretty wooden apple in the living room. It looked so pretty that he thought it was a real one.  He succeeded to steal the apple and ran far away to the forest. He hid in a cave so other monkeys wouldn’t notice him. He eagerly ate the apple but he got hurt at the first bite. He was sad. He still didn’t understand that it was a fake apple. He didn’t want to put it down because he didn’t want other monkeys to steal it away. So he continued to carry the apple in his hand while moving around the forest even though he could never eat it. He jumped from one tree to another but he couldn’t pick up other fruits because his other hand was not empty. He couldn’t eat. He lost his joy. He couldn’t find the cherish moment that he has had before. Days after days, he started to get starving and tired, but still didn’t want to let go of the wooden apple. Until one day, he has no more force to carry the wooden apple. It became heavier by seconds and finally fell of his hand; and got stolen by other monkeys. He finally picked up another fruit to eat and felt happy again.”

 

I bit my lower lip and smirked because my story sounded pity just like the monkey. “That monkey sounds like me”

 

“You know, sometime you need to let go of things because you heart will feel be much lighter.”  Seo said.

 

I sighed. At that moment, we saw Yuri’s finger moving. 

 

 

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a/n : so just incase you got confused wiht Yoona's flashbacks, she recalled her memories since childhood and how she and Yuri became friends. 

blue = Yoona

Read = yoona's mom/other

black = Yuri

green = little boy who bullied Yuri, Taeyeon

Pink = jessica

purple = hyo

orange = soo

burgundy = seo

 

happy reading :)