Chapter 39
A Bang In The Heart
"And then and then she went... 'I can sue for this!" Jiyong cracked up loudly, imitating my angry shout last night.
Youngbae laughed with Jiyong, showing his cute eye smile.
I crossed my arms and waited for them to stop, "Are you guys done?"
Jiyong flapped his hands and tried to stop laughing. "Ohhh man, it was too perfect!!"
"I should have been there huh?" Youngbae raised his eyesbrows and smiled.
I shook my head as Jiyong took a deep breath but still kept his gummy smile on his face.
"Ah but Remi-ya, that was the highlight of the night. You were the highlight." Jiyong tried to pull me in his arms but I playfully resisted by pushing him away.
"Aha, yah look at this...'G-Dragon is a manner-nam*!'" Kush clicked on one of the articles on a social media website. "'G-Dragon, the idol leader of Bigbang was shown to be a manner-nam at Seoul fashion night out this evening. He was seen politely stopping a photographer from taking pictures without permission of one of his stylists...' Yah manner-nam! When you become so gentlemanly?"
So the media can sometimes help an image huh? That was weird, I thought I would be mentioned in the article but I was just a stylist so they completely took me out of the picture.
Jiyong covered his face and wiggled his legs playfully, "Ahh hyung! I was always nice. I'm a nice kid."
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Manner-nam*- popular coined term for someone who is gentlemanly and kind.
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Seungri who had been quiet this whole time turned his chair around and pointed at his cellphone excitedly. "Yah Remi-ya! You got seventh place on the best dressed list! And you're not even a celebrity! That's crazy...." Seungri stopped short from his laugh. "Oh wait, Miko got sixth."
I eyed him with caution. What was this boy trying to make me do? Kill him?
"Ya- close that mouth of yours." Jiyong snapped, with a suppressed smile. He turned to me and bit his smiling lips. "Remi's always first in my heart."
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The phone obnoxiously rang on the bedside table as I rushed from the bathroom to pick it up. I pat my damp hair into the towel and placed the phone to my ear.
His sweet voice bursted from the phone and I felt my lips curl into a wide smile. How did he make me feel like this all the time? Just by hearing his voice?
"Hey baby, are you busy?" Jiyong spoke in a accented English but I could picture him smiling over the phone.
I had been a bit busy these days ever since I took up volunteering around the neighborhood, visiting the elderly living alone and handing out free newspaper. Because I kept myself busy, I wasn't too focused on Jiyong not being by my side.
"I just got out of the shower...but ani*, why?" I flipped the towel over to cover my hair and I felt a cool refreshing breeze flow through my body.
There was a silence and I felt myself giggle when I heard his y airy breathing come across from the phone.
"The...shower? Do you... have clothes on?" Jiyong's voice almost staggered to a whisper.
I looked down at my clean body and bit my lip to supress the giggles inside of me. "...Ani"
Thank god Sua wasn't here.
Jiyong let out a small groan and and sighed in deeply, "I wish I was there...sorry I've just been so busy"
My lips automatically pouted as if he was here looking at me, "Ah oppa don't worry about that. Besides, I'll be busy too! I'm starting my new job tomorrow!"
I could see his thin carved lips smirking and running his fingers through his tousled work hair. He always ran his fingers through his hair when he was stressed but relieved at something.
"That's good, don't wear too short skirts-"
"Oppa it's an all girls school"
Jiyong chuckled nervously and I couldn't help myself laughing.
"Exactly, there's some girls out there-"
"Okaay, we don't need to go there... Tell me why you wanted to know if I'm busy today"
Jiyong paused for a second as if he was trying to pull up his thoughts.
"Ah! So my sister has to go somewhere today because something popped up."
His sister...? I have never even officially met his family yet, come to think of it.
"And my nephew Kiwon, Noona's son, needs to be picked up at the kindergarten but there's no one else who can do it today..."
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Damn it, why was this neighborhood so confusing? So many streets that randomly turned into other streets. And where was the kindergarten? Where were the cute little animal stickers and elephant playgrounds in the front yard for me to find?
Finally after walking several times around the place, I found a semi tall building about two stories tall in the middle of the neighborhood. I entered without hesitation and went inside to the kindergarten floor.
Opening the door, the sounds and laughter of little children filled my ears. So many cute little kids running around, some reading and some already getting ready to go. But which one was he??
I carefully walked over to one of the teachers helping a kid put his shoes on.
"Um... Excuse me? Where is Son Kiwon?" I asked.
The teacher smiled warmly, "Ah is his mother not here?"
"No, Im picking him up on her behalf."
The teacher nodded warmly and stood up. "Kiwon-ah! Your aunt is here!"
A little boy perked up from a bundle of toys. This boy...was eerily similar to something... Someone.
I cocked my head in interest as he walked over to me. Even the way he walked, and his clothes were unusually well fitting and attractive on him. For god sakes he looked good enough to be a model!
His face was overwhelmingly adorable. Sparkling beady eyes curiously eyed me as his lips twitched up in wariness.
The he spoke... His cute little lips moving to form the words,
"I don't know you."
My smiling face almost automatically retreated back to normal when I heard his cold unwelcoming words. The teacher laughed kind heartedly.
Kiwon turned back around and started to walk away before I reluctantly grabbed the back of his shirt and gently pulled him back.
"W-Wait Kiwon-ah..." I scratched my head to think of something to say. "I know your...uh..uncle! Um he specially asked me to pick you up and go to grandma's!"
Kiwon raised his eyebrow and thoroughly examined me. But then his familiar lips curled to a wide smile that gave a me small relief in my heart.
"Samchoon*? Noona, you know samchoon?"
I nodded, "Samchoon and I are very good friends."
Kiwon crossed his arms and frowned, his little brows cutely furrowing over his eyes, "Liar, samchoon doesn't have any girlfriends."
"I-I'm...not his girlfriend... I'm his very good friend." I nervously tugged at his arm. "J-Just... Come on! We gotta go, grandma's waiting!"
"Fine then... But you have to buy me ice cream! Okay?"
Oh man... This kid. Something was about to happen between him and me.
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"Noona!" Kiwon noisily slurped at his icecream bar. "Noona, how old are you?"
I wiped the melting ice cream from his little fingers and took grasp of his hand.
"Me? I'm way older than you!"
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*samchoon- uncle
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Kiwon gaped his mouth open and froze with wide eyes, "Then you can't! I can't marry you!"
Marry me? Did the ice cream win him over?
"You don't want to marry me, why would you want to marry me?" I giggled and took a bite out of my icecream.
"Noona...noona is pretty. Pretty like ice cream!"
Oh yep, it's the ice cream.
"But you can have... Samchoon."
"Huh?" I turned curiously at him.
"Just don't make him say 'ouch'!" Kiwon tightly grabbed my fingers.
Ouch? What did he mean by that?
"Samchoon doesn't like girls because he said they make him say 'ouch' all the time. And he makes them say 'Ouch' even louder. That's what he told me." Kiwon playfully jumped up and down.
Jiyong...said that? Was he that afraid to love? But why had he started loving me..?
"Hey do you even know where our house is?" Kiwon stopped and looked up at me.
I shook my head to free myself from thinking, "what?"
"Grandma's house, do you know where it is?"
"I-I'm not-"
"Noona, get down. I'll be the pilot!" Kiwon happily shouted.
"W-Wait what?" I looked at him confusedly. Oh why did he look so cute?
"Just do it!" Kiwon pulled me down on my knees and he jumped straight on my back. "Let's go!"
"Turn left! No right!" Kiwon pointed with his little arm as I strained myself. Oh my god, he's so little but he's so heavy... What was he filled with??
I began to sweat profusely and my eyes began to water because of all the strength I was exerting.
"Kid just tell me exactly where it is!" I shouted anxiously.
"We're here!" Kiwon shouted as we approached the same building we went across already over two times.
"Yah! We've been here twice and you said we weren't there yet!"
Kiwon laughed evily and pounded on my back.
"You little...." I began to say as I purposefully spun around faster to make him dizzy.
But then I suddenly heard a voice from outside our spinning world. "What are you doing with my grandson?"
I froze but my head was still spinning. The building began to crumble down and the ground seemed to be levitating. Kiwon carefully slid off from my back and ran towards the source of the voice.
"Halmonie!!"
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*halmonie- grandma!
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