Chapter 14- Moss Rosebud: Confession of Love (TaeNy)

 

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(Taeyeon’s POV)

(Late Evening)

 

As it was that time again, the road was in a traffic jam. Everybody who was so tired from their work or school wanted to go home so bad. Including me because all I want was a nice street dinner, 2 hours of a cheesy romantic movie, and a nice can of root beer.

It was beginning to get dark. As I rode my vehicle down the streets, I then thought to myself, "Today was a great day at work and I passed the hardest test I have ever taken in my class!" Feeling proud of myself, I decided to celebrate by eating out.

After taking the next right corner, I parked my vehicle in the parking lot. It would be free for the first hour so there's no way I will stay that long when I'm only having a simple dinner tonight.

I walked down the famous street, a street which was well-known for their cheap but amazing food. Dubbboki, dumplings, fish cakes, kimbap, and and... Just a whole bunch of deliciousness for my tummy!

Stopping by a stand with a blue roof, I smiled at the ajumma who was cooking the thick rice cakes with spicy red sauce.

 

"One order of dubbboki please,"

 

Faster than one could blink their eye, the ajumma passed me the plastic bowl filled with steaming hot dubbboki. After giving her thousand won, I picked up the rice cake with my toothpick and started to eat the spicy snack.

 

"TAEYEON? TAEYEON! TAEYEON!" A high-pitched but rather sweet voice called my name.

 

While I was still eating my snack, I turned my head around curiously to only find the girl with cheery eyes coming towards me.

 

"Tippani? What are you doing at this time?" I said after swallowing the hot rice cake.

 

"Well according from my research, this is where us...uh... people eat for a meal sometimes right?" Tiffany spoke professionally, smiling like a kid who had spoken such genius words to her class.

 

"Umm...."

 

"Oh no did I get it wrong again?" the eye-smile princess (oh god did I just called her that?) frowned. "Do we come here for a social meeting? Or perhaps this is where the games are played at with food as part-"

 

"Whoa whoa Tippani!" I quickly stopped the worried girl. "All what you said is correct actually."

 

"Oh..." I braced myself for Tiffany to cry or become more upset but as soon as she smiled, the whole world was practically bursting with angels chorusing in the light of The Lord. Hallelujah! Praise the eye-smile princess!

 

"Good! I want to make sure that what I am saying is right." The eye-smile princess looked down to my greasy food. "Whoa...Taeyeon? What is that?"

 

"Hmm?" I was absentmindedly chewing on my food, confused once again at her question. "It's dubbboki?"

 

"Dubbok...KI?"

 

I nodded with a straight face. But inside, my chibi-self was flying everywhere inside of my heart, blushing and adoring over her cuteness.

 

"Hmmm... May I try?"

 

"Oh? Sure! Ajumma! Could you give us a toothpick please?"

 

After receiving her toothpick from a kind lady, Tiffany gently poke the rice cake and lifted it up towards . Taking a deep breath, she slowly took a bite, chewing on it thoughtfully.

 

"How is it?"

 

"H-H..."

 

"What?"

 

"HOT! HOT!"

 

 

I slowly widened her eyes in panic when she saw tears coming out of Tiffany's eyes.

 

 

"IT HURTS MY TONGUE! SO SPICY!"

 

"Tippani! I am so sorry! I forgot to tell you! Umm.... Umm... Here!"

 

I passed a cold paper cup to Tiffany. But she was crying so much that she couldn't see very well, causing her to swat away her only remedy.

 

"AH! NOOOO!" I frantically looked around, trying to find more water. "AJUHMMA! BRING WATER! WE NEED WATER! ANYONE? WE NEED WATER RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW!"

 

The small tent was filled with loud crying and screams with curious perplexed eyes starting at us.

 

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At the park in their town, Tiffany and I were sitting on a bench together, eating their ice-cream come. Earlier when Tiffany was crying endlessly about her spicy snack, I had to pull her out of the tent and quickly brought her to an ice-cream stand. From there, all was well when Tiffany began to dry up her tears and smiled like an adorable kid when I bought her a strawberry ice-cream cone.

 

"So... I take it that you don't like spicy food?" I inquired while my vanilla cone.

 

Tiffany shook her head violently. "I dread them... I can't handle on the fire myself. It's my ultimate weakness so here the earth's spicy food is terrifying."

 

"Earth's spicy food?" I chuckled. "You sounded like an alien there for a second."

 

"Hmph!" Tiffany retorted as she ate her cone, having already ate her swirled strawberry ice-cream.

 

Oh no! I meant to call her a pretty alien! Wait no a beautiful stranger? Gah! Brain! For once function well in front of girls!

 

"No no! Alien as an ET like in that Katy Perry's song!"

 

"Katy Perry?" Tiffany cocked her eyebrow while finishing her ice-cream. "Who's she?"

 

“What?!” I widened my eyes. “You know? Kiss me? K-K-K Kiss me? Infect me with your love and fill me with your poison?”

 

“Kiss you? Infection?” Tiffany suddenly looked very scared. “But…But I don’t want you to get sick.” She started to sniffle. “Am… Am I causing your sickness right now?”

 

Yes, the sickness of love. I slapped myself mentally on both of my cheeks repeatedly. I can’t do this… I think I’m going to faint…Oh no… What to do?! She is about to cry any second now!  

 

“No Tippani! You are not making me sick!” I first comforted her, pulling out my phone from my sweater pocket. “They are lyrics. Here listen to her song!”

 

My hands were a bit shaky when I placed my earphones into both of her ears. After selecting the E.T song, I looked up to watch the eye-smile princess’s reaction.

 

"Oh…. She is a...singer?"

 

"Singer? She's like one of the most popular singers of all time here!" I exclaimed, not caring about my ice-cream melting in my hand.

 

"Oh...” Tiffany nodded along to the beats as she took a final bite of her cone, wiping her lips after. "I like it.” She smiled, taking off my earphones to pass it back to me. “Could... Could you show me some of her songs then?"

 

"What?"

 

That question caught me off-guard. There's no way Tiffany could have not known her since Katy Perry's name is echoed everyone in this world! But the sight of her curious eyes blinking at me paralyzed me on the spot.

 

"Umm...sure! I can send some few songs via texting."

 

"Great!" Tiffany clapped her hands in excitement. "And I'll find you some songs I found on this Earth too!"

 

"That would be awesome! I love music." I sighed, bobbing my head at the faraway music from the marketplace.

 

"Me too! Back in my old home, hardly any of us talked. But when we sing as a whole, it was a sound that made me entranced to home. A sound that cannot be found here."

 

As Tiffany reminisced about her old home, I saw her little tears dropping. "You miss your old home a lot don't you?" I asked, hovering my hand over hers on the bench. Is it okay to comfort her like this or not?

 

But Tiffany seemed to answer my question when she gently grabbed my hand and leaned her head on my shoulder, sighing at the cool breezy air of summer.

 

"I do..." she sniffed a little, wiping her tears away. "But I enjoyed staying here. I learned so many things and I got a new job at a zoo and I have new friends like you!" she smiled gently at me. "Thank you for making me feel welcomed here."

 

"N-No problem!” I tried to be cool but the weight of Tiffany’s head on my shoulder and her hand on mine made my chibi-self once again flying around us, throwing rose petals in the air. “I l-like you here too.”

 

This time there was no reply, making me mentally freaked out. But once I gazed down at her, she was falling asleep. She was snoring lightly with her little breaths. As I continued to gaze at her longer, the more she seemed like an angel to me. An angel who fell out of the sky.

I let her sleeping on my shoulder, enjoying her warmth on mine as I continued to finish my ice-cream soup in my cone. After finishing and throwing my cone away, I was so tempted to brush her hair down, wondering how it feels since I have seen that so many times in dramas and books. But I frowned when I noticed my situation. My dry hand was holding onto to Tiffany’s while my other was as sticky like a pair of toddler’s hands. Stupid ice-cream had to melt on me on this very important moment!

But still, the moment I am having right now was enjoyable. My thumb brushed up and down on her skin as I held her hand. Carefully, I leaned my head against hers, breathing in the scent of her hair. Contrast to what I was used to the scent of flowers, it was a calming scent of the seas. That same scent reminded me the times whenever I visited the beach with my friends and family. They would always tell me to come and play with them in the waters but I always declined. Sitting on the warm sand and watching the waves crashing one another always contented me.

I felt my shoulders being less tense as I took in deep breaths around Tiffany. For some reason, her scent is a relaxing stimulus for my body and mind. As I watched the bright lights of the downtown, my eyes began to blink more and more hazily. Slowly, after watching the lights dwindling out from my sight, I closed my eyes and dove deep inside of my dreams. The only place where I was willing to swim in. 

 

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(Tiffany's POV)

 

I like you here too.

I like you here too.

I like you here too.

 

I smiled once she said that to me. I haven't really told her yet why I decided to come to Earth. Yes I was very interested in this plant, wanting to associate more with the humans myself in person. But that is not my quest. My real quest was to find my lover.

 

[FLASHBACK]

 

Lying down on the cloud, I watched carefully down at the humans from my hiding spot. The sun was shining magnificently behind me so the humans will never know that an angel like me is watching them.

I smiled when I saw several who are playing in the ocean, splashing each other with the salty water. The water angels and I worked very hard to make sure that the humans who we believed deserved happiness will be safe in our leader's waters.

But as I turned my head away to watch those sitting on the sand, I found a scene where a group of people who were in the waters was waving over to a young woman who was sitting alone on the sands. Shaking her head, the woman called them off, not wanting to enter the waters.

I had saw many who are very scared of the ocean, even the waters itself. It was definitely not their fault but it always made me teary. How the works of our leader and the water angels had terrified them. But what made not shed my tears and instead to pay more attention to the woman was how she smiled at the ocean, taking in a deep breath of the salty cool air.

She was very beautiful. Her honey blonde hair was flowing slightly with the cool breeze of air around her. She was holding in her knees while wearing her baggy shirt and a pair of shorts. She wasn't wearing any type of swim wear underneath for she knew she will never swim.

 

'Unnie?'

 

Jumping up, I turned around to face my beloved dongseng. Yoona was dressed up in her white robe. Her big doe eyes blinked innocently at me while her wings were wavering around slightly.

 

'I called you many times to come to dinner but my words didn't reach your mind. It was blocked.' Yoona tried peeking over my wings. 'What were you doing?

 

'Nothing!' I spread my wings even more wide and high, blocking her view. 'I was only checking on how some of the oceans were doing.'

'Okay?' Yoona shook her head. 'Well come on! We will both be late to our meals!' She grabbed my arm and gave me a smile.

 

As she pulled me away from my hiding my spot, I kept glancing back to it. After supper, I have to watch more of that young woman. My curiosity grew of her.

If she likes the ocean, the smell and view of it, why is she scared to enter the waters?

 

[FLASHBACK ENDED]

 

My dreams ended when I felt my body shifting onto something hard. I blinked my eyes as fast as I can so I can see what is actually happening. But once I saw Taeyeon, I automatically felt right at ease.

 

"You awake now?" Taeyeon asked.

 

I nodded, stretching my arms as I yawned. "Yeah... Umm why am I on your bike?"

 

"Oh." Taeyeon blew a puff of air in front of her bangs. "Well your phone was ringing like crazy so I decided to answer it..."

 

[A moment ago]

 

"Hello?" I yawned into Tiffany's phone.

 

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!"

 

I pushed the phone away from my ear. I'm surprised that loud angst noise didn't wake Tiffany up...

 

"Umm... I'm Tiffany's friend, Taeyeon."

 

"WELL TAEYEON! TIFFANY IS MY ROOMMATE! WHERE IS SHE THEN? YOONA THEN TIFFANY? GREAT! WHY DO THEY NEVER TEXT OR CALL ME WHERE THEY ARE GOING-"

 

Once again I didn't even both put the phone to my ear. Her voice was as loud as a megaphone, blaring this and that to the whole park. I swear, I think the park was experiencing a minor earthquake, shaking the trees and making all the critters fleeing away in fear. Wait, she knows about Yoona too?

 

"Relax miss!" I reassured the woman on the other line. "Look I can bring her back right away! If you could give me your address-"

 

"OKAY GOOD! I'LL SEND YOU THE ADDRESS BY TEXT BECAUSE MY THROAT HURTS LIKE HELL! BYE!"

 

And when she hung up on me, I never felt so relieved when she said she is going to text instead. Maybe she should do that for all of her friends.

 

[Back to present…]

 

“So I’m giving you a ride back home if that is okay with you of course.” Taeyeon held out a helmet for me, giving me a small smile. “Well I’m going have to anyway or else your room will come down to murder me out of my skin!”

 

Instead of tears, I laughed at her comment. I answered her by taking the helmet from her hands, putting on my head. “It is late anyways…And my roommate is always like that. Sooyoung is a bit of a hot head but she is a very caring person and a good protector. I haven’t been living with her for a long time but she is like a mother to me.”

 

“She does sound like a mother if she’s worried you guys are.” Taeyeon chuckled as she helped me to lock the straps around my chin together, securing my helmet on my head. “Let’s hurry before she is actually going to skin me!”

 

As Taeyeon came to sit in front of me, starting up the engine and all, I wrapped my arms around her waist, leaning my head against her back.

 

“I like you with me too.” 

 

Because the roaring of her bike was very loud, just as I expected, I didn't hear her reply. Instead, we went off away from the park and into the bright lights of the city. Flying by so past, passing by many vehicles on the road, I closed my eyes as I imagined myself flying in the sky, smiling at the rush of wind grazing upon my wings and my cheeks. 

 

As I held Taeyeon, I felt a rush of wind grazing upon my reddened cheeks. 

 

TBC 

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