Chapter 24: Of Faltered Smile & Three Charms Chapter 24 Theme Song : I Don't Know by Uhm Junghwa   Teentop ver xD while the vocals are nothing much to shout out abt to be honest, the performance and music arrangement are good n i like it, it would fit the feels of the fic/chapter(n the lyrics of course). anyway, i advice you to not click to read the comments, because damn if those aren't freakin' shallow comments. what's wrong with dancing with older lady? is dance=being couple/getting married? tch. even if it is, so what if they're with old lady? seriously...shallowness ticks me off. i don't even dance yet i feel they're really disrespecting a dance. /sorry for the unrelated rant lol.     ♥♥♥       "Noona, so you really like that kind of movie, huh?"    "Yeah. Well, honestly. not really. And who watches movie at the cinema in the morning? But I enjoyed it, maybe because of the person I watch the movie with?" She suddenly covered her face, while laughing embarrassedly. The sun was shining very brightly on our last late afternoon here but it didn't ruin our mood and date.    "I think so too, noona."   "Really?"   "Yeah. I admit, I am a fun person to be with."   "OMG! You...self-centered." She started hitting me playfully. Today, I felt like my relationship with Jihyun noona that went a little strained these past few days had went back to a comfortable state. We could joke around each other and I didn't felt her putting on any more invisible barrier. She's more cheerful than a few recent days. And I felt like I don't have to worry too much about impressing her anymore. Maybe, it's because I've sort of, found some answers I had been looking for, and that made me more certain of how to take whatever that's to come. Things didn't felt too burdensome anymore. And now, we even asked the staff who drove us back to drop us halfway so that we could take a walk back to have more time to have our final moments and chat, before the final selection time.   "Ommo, Hyungsik." She stopped and checked her phone. "What should we do? My manager and members are here on this Island for a photoshoot and I'm needed to join them for a short while." She looked genuinely upset.   "Then, just go quickly, noona and come back quickly."   "Will you be okay, alone? Again?" She pouted, possibly feeling guilty because this isn't the first time she had to fulfill schedules in between our filming. Jihyun noona is a really busy idol.   "Yeah, it's okay. It's not the first time. Practice makes perfect. Hee." I grinned and signalled her to follow the staff who would drive her to her schedule with a car. She scoffed but went away anyway, before looking back one last time as she had reached the car waiting for her.   "Hyungsik...I just want to say, I had a very good time in this trip, thanks to you."   "Noona. Why does that sound like a goodbye speech? Of course we will meet again." Her face lit up but it seemed like the smile faltered a bit when I continued. "Of course, after this show, we all have to keep in touch." Yet, despite the faltered smile, she nodded and waved as she disappeared together with the car she rode on.       Today, I will make my decision. And I decided to follow my heart. When I first came, I worried about wanting to be a romantic guy who would make his girl happy, I wanted Jihyun noona to be proud of me because she seemed to be my destiny, we always end up together and with each passing days, the other girls faded more and more from my viewing. But then as days went by, when I already thought there would be no other girl, there was Seungah noona. And I started to learn a lot from her through the unexpected fate that suddenly threw us together. It was surprising to say the least, that she appeared when I didn't think I could survive even a minute around any other girl but Jihyun noona, yet I did survived. And then came that date with Hyejeong that made everything went out of place. There were so many mixed feelings. My heart blew into pieces and flung all over the place. I was into the world of confusion the others have probably been used to before I joined in the same circumstance as them.   When I'm with Jihyun noona, I felt safe. Maybe because we had became familiar, it felt like we could connect naturally. We're both not the most talkative people out of the whole group, but even in silence, we could make happy moments with each other even by exchanging just a few words, and that felt really comfortable. Being with her in the cinema just now, really reminded me of our early moments together, and it made me smile to think of all