“Youngjae-ah?”

     …

     I quickly turned around, and awkwardly placed the towel on my face, pretending I was drying my face. I kept my face hidden in the towel until I walked passed the person and walked over to my bedroom. As I was about to shut the door, Yoona noona shoved her foot in between the door before pushing it forward, making me take a few steps back. Damn, she was strong. I then awkwardly turned my head side-to-side before completely looking down on the floor, the towel longly forgotten as it laid on my bed. A soft click of the door shutting got me to look up a little only to see Yoona noona standing in front of it, smirking with her arms on her hips. I simply sighed before messing my hair up. What’s more embarrassing than your housekeeper walking in on you dancing to a girl song in the bathroom? I was so embarrassed, I instantly began to turn red upon taking a glance at Yoona noona. I bit down hard on my bottom lip as I suddenly heard a small chuckle.

     “So what was that, Youngjae-ah?”

     Without looking up at her, I slowly sat on the edge of my bed before grabbing the towel once again and placing it on my face. I began to mumble inaudible things while shaking my head numerous times. I just couldn’t face my noona at the moment! She freaking saw me dancing for crying out loud! I think I was on the verge of dying because I couldn’t handle my noona standing in front of me, waiting for me to answer her. Her curiosity was enough to get me killed.

     “Youngjae-ah, why were you dancing to ‘Bubble Pop’? Out of all other girl songs, you choose ‘Bubble Pop’?”

     I continued shaking my head before beginning to stomp my feet as if I was in a marching band. I feel a light weight next to me before realizing it was noona sitting next to me.

     “Come on, Youngjae-ah. It’s not that bad to be caught dancing to a girl song! I think it was cute seeing you shake your !”

     Oh God, why did she have to make it more dreadful for me? I was already dying from her simply being here, sitting next to me! I then felt a small pat on my back before a small laugh was heard from noona.

     “You know…I’m not going to leave until you tell me why you were dancing to ‘Bubble Pop’.”

     “Okay, okay! It’s for a project! There, happy?”

     I had finally taken the towel off of my face before placing it next to me. I grumbled random words before fully having the courage to face my noona who was too busy trying to not laugh at the moment. I quietly watched her until she breathed in some air. She smirked at me, and began nudging me with her shoulder. I only glared at her before lifting my arm a little as if I was going to smack her.

     “Project, you say? And what is this so-called project?”

     I only rolled my eyes at noona because I knew exactly what she was thinking of. I shook my head at her before sighing a little.

     “It’s for English class. We have to choose any Korean song, and then translate it into English.”

     Noona only nodded her head while forming an “O” shape on . She then let out a smirk again and began biting her lip.

     “That’s it? Are you sure it wasn’t for any other reason?” I furrowed my eyebrows at her before shaking my head.

     “No, noona. Stop thinking weird stuff!”

     Yoona noona shrugged her shoulders before standing up and walking up to the door and opening it. Before leaving, she looked at me and shook her head while smirking. God, her smirks were annoying the hell out of me now.

     “You’re so naughty, Youngjae-ah!”

     And with that, noona left and shut the door, leaving me with my mouth fully open. Once again, noona was assuming obnoxious things that were never going to be true. At this point, I thought I would get used to it, but no matter how many times I told her I didn't like guys or whatever I did with Daehyun was simply school-related, she would never listen and would just assume things on her own as if they were true.  Jesus, Yoona noona…

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     Dinner had been set up, and my mother called me from the kitchen to which I obliged. When I got to the kitchen, I silently sat on my seat across from my father and looked down at the place mat. Once again, it was very quiet and awkward, but that went all away (a little) with Yoona noona being there, helping out my mother in serving the food. When everything was prepared, my mother sat in the seat next to mine before beginning the prayers we always did. Once we finished with that, I looked over at my mother to see if noona was in the kitchen, and surely she was. She was silently eating while leaning on the stove. I looked over at my parents before standing up and walking over to noona. Upon seeing me, noona set her plate down before rubbing her hands on her apron and smiling cutely at me.

     “Is there anything you want, Youngjae-ah?”

     I nodded at her question before grabbing her wrist along with her plate of food, and dragging her to the dinner table where my parents looked at us questionably. I sat Yoona noona on the seat at the edge of the table before placing her plate on the table. I then sat on my seat and looked at noona, urging her to continue eating. Noona only looked down at her plate, looking as if she wouldn't eat. I sighed before grabbing her utensil and taking a piece from the food before placing it right on her lips. This surprised noona so she quickly grabbed the utensil from my hand and ate the piece. I simply smiled at her before looking back at my food, and continuing to eat.

     During the whole time, my father ignored everything that was happening at the moment while my mother only stared at me as if I had done something wrong. I didn’t care so I ignored her and continued eating while smiling at noona. It was always like this; Yoona noona always had to eat either at the kitchen counter or somewhere that wasn’t our dinner table, and I always felt sad watching her. It was as if she was unwanted and no one wanted to eat with her. I knew for the fact my mother didn’t like her eating with us so she always told noona to eat somewhere else. On the other hand, my father didn’t care, but I could somewhat tell he didn’t like noona eating in the same table as us.

     Everyone was quiet the whole dinner time, and when we all finished, Yoona noona quickly stood up before collecting all the dishes and heading to the kitchen to wash them. Right when she walked out, my mother sternly looked at me. I just knew she was going to tell me something related to Yoona noona. My father grunted before excusing himself to leave the table. I continued looking at my mother, no expressions coming out of me. 

     “Why did you do that?” She whispered since noona was only a few feet away from us. I simply shrugged my shoulders.

     “What’s wrong with her eating at the same table as us? She’s human, too.”

     “It’s not that! She is not family, Youngjae-ah. She is only a housekeeper,” she whispered, which made me want to roll my eyes at her and scoff. 

     “Not family? Maybe to you and father, but to me, Yoona noona is definitely family. Hell, she acts more like a mother tha-“ Before I could finish off my sentence, I quickly stopped. My mother furrowed her eyebrows before shaking her head in disbelief. She stood up and walked out of the dining room until I could no longer see her. I didn’t do anything; I just sat in my seat, thinking about what I said to my mother. My own mother. I had told my own mother that our housekeeper was a better mother than her. Now, I know I didn’t finish my sentence, but I knew for the fact my mother knew what I was talking about. However, was she even mad? Sad? Jealous? I seriously couldn’t tell what she was feeling at that exact moment.

     I was in my own thoughts for a very amount of time, I didn’t notice Yoona noona walking in and sitting next to me. I nonchalantly stared at her before looking down at my thighs. I let out a small sigh and noona only rubbed my back soothingly. I didn’t even know why I felt so down. Maybe it was because of my mother, but I could care less as to what she was feeling. It was true, anyway, about the fact she wasn’t a good mother. 

     “Thanks, Youngjae-ah,” Yoona noona said which made me look up at her. She was looking partially sad, but she still had a smile on. I only smiled back before nodding my head slowly. “I think that was the first time I sat at your guys’s dinner table,” she said before chuckling. I let out a chuckle as well before the both of us went silent. The silent wasn’t awkward for rather it was a simple, quiet atmosphere. “You might need to talk to your mother.”

     “I don’t want to,” I replied while sighing. Noona continued looking at me sympathetically before letting out a sigh as well.

     “Youngjae-ah, she’s your mother. She might be feeling very sad from what you had told her.”

     “You heard what I said?”

     Noona nodded her head.

     “I’m grateful you think of me as a mother. Hell, more than your mother, but it doesn’t mean you should straight out tell your real mother. She was most likely hurt from what you told her. I bet any mother would get sad hearing their child say ‘My housekeeper is a better mother than you’.”

     Yoona noona stood up out of the blue before pulling me up as well.  She looked up at me before placing her hands on my shoulders. A smile formed on her lips and she then patted my head.

     “Go apologize to your mom.”

     I really didn’t want to, but since noona was telling me (also because I knew she was scared of what my mother would do to her), I smiled back at her before walking over to my mother’s room. I was a little scared since I never had done something like this. As I walked over to the one door I rarely went in, I softly knocked on it. I breathed in a load of air before the door slowly opened up and out came my mother. She wasn’t really looking like her usual self. For one, her makeup around her eyes was a little smeared and her hair looked as if she had messed it up a little. I gulped down my saliva I didn’t even know I had before speaking out.

     “Can I…come in?”

     My mother didn’t say anything for rather she just walked away from me, leaving the door open. I took it as a yes, and walked into my mother’s room. Damn, it had been so long since I last entered in her room. It looked the same, but it also felt different. There was this odd smell of perfume mixed with oldness in the room. I decided to stand near the door in case my mother would begin shouting or throwing something so then I could just walk out right away. My mother did a huge sigh before sitting at the edge of her bed. She nonchalantly looked at me.

     “What do you want?”

     “I want to apologize,” I replied which made her furrow her eyebrows.

     “You realized what you said was very wrong, didn’t you?” 

     “Yes.”

     “You know what you said was very hurtful,” she said. “You made me feel as though I was a bad mother your whole life.”

     That’s because you ing were. I looked down at the wooden floor before looking back up at my mother.

     “I know…and I’m really sorry. I won’t say anything like that ever again,” I said. My mother didn’t show any emotions at what I said, and instead simply took out her right arm. I looked at what she was pointing at, and I soon realized it was at the door. Wow, my own mother wanted me out already. 

     “You may leave now,” she said, urging me to leave. I didn’t respond nor look at her, and simply walked out of the room. I softly closed the door once I was completely out, and walked away right after.

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     It was finally Friday, and Daehyun and I were not even halfway done with the English project. It was Study Hall, and I cursed at Daehyun for being so stupid and irresponsible. We were still translating the song, but Daehyun was being a lazy , and watching the music video instead. 

     “Stop ing watching the music video and help me translate this!”

     “Come on, let me just finish it and I will help you right now,” he replied while smirking. I rolled my eyes before leaning over the desk and smacking Daehyun’s head. “Ow!” 

     “Oh, shut up! I didn’t even hit you hard!”

     “Jeez…someone is being pushy.”

     “Because you’re not helping me translate this!”

     “Okay, okay!”

     Daehyun left the video and went back to checking the translations on the song before randomly gasping. I furrowed my eyebrows and leaned over in order to see what he saw. At the sight of me, Daehyun leaned back with his IPhone before smirking at me.

     “You can’t see!” 

     “And why not?”

     “Because,” he said as he let out a small laugh. “You wouldn’t like it.”

     I just rolled my eyes at him before trying to lean even more, trying to grab his cellphone. Daehyun saw what I was doing so he then placed his cellphone inside his pocket before shaking his head.

     “No.” 

     “Let me see!”

     I pulled on his jacket, but Daehyun simply grabbed onto my wrist. 

     “Why do you want to see it so badly?”

     “Because you make it look as if it’s something interesting to see!”

     “Oh yes~It is something interesting,” he replied before letting out a giggle. I only glared at him before sitting back down and going back to translating the song. Why couldn’t he simply show me? What was so wrong about what he saw, anyway? “Yah, Youngjae-ah,” Daehyun blurted out to which I ignored him. “You like shaking your booty?” Upon hearing that, I widened my eyes, and looked up at Daehyun before glaring at him. Daehyun simply started to laugh and clapped his hands at my reaction. I stayed quiet, but I knew I was beginning to turn a bright red. When Daehyun was able to speak, he looked at me before laughing once again.

     “Why do you keep laughing?”

     “Be-be-because of you!”

     I furrowed my eyebrows before pursing out my lips.

     “What are you talking about?”

     Daehyun began slapping his chest before being able to speak again.

     “You were dancing to ‘Bubble Pop’!”

     Oh…no… I noticed his cellphone was lying right on the desk so I quickly grabbed it before Daehyun could grab it. Sadly, there was a passcode required and I didn’t know it. At that moment, Daehyun snatched the cellphone back before squinting his eyes as if he was watching me intensely.

     “Who told you that!”

     “Oh my ing God! So it was true?”

     Daehyun soon started laughing again which made me turn an even brighter shade of red on my cheeks. Who the hell would tell Daehyun I danced to “Bubble Pop”? No one even knew! Wait… At the thought of it, I began to glare at Daehyun.

     “Who told you?”

     “Yoona noona,” he replied which made me then curse noona. I then furrowed my eyebrows at Daehyun before tilting my head to the side.

     “How the hell did you get my noona’s number?”

     “I went through your phone one time without you even noticing, and I got her number.”

     “But…why?”

     “Because the fact that you had a woman’s number, a woman’s number, in your phone left me surprised. Plus, she’s only in her mid-twenties.”

     “Daehyun! Yoona noona has a boyfriend!”

     “Yeah, says the person who has never even dated anyone.”

     “ you,” I said before looking down at the translation sheet.

     “But…Youngjae-ah…why were you dancing to ‘Bubble Pop’?”

     “Shut the up about that,” I glared at him while hissing. Daehyun smirked at me while shaking his head.

     “According to Yoona noona, you can shake that of yours.”

     “Shut up!”

     “You should show me your ways, Youngjae-ah!”

     “Shut up!”

     “Hmm…makes me curious as to how you moved your .”

     “Oh my God…”

     “It was probably all bad, yet cute at the same time.”

     “ you.”

     “Yoona noona probably liked it! You should really teach me so I can impress Yoona noona!’

     “No! And shut up about my !”

     “Okay, okay~ I think I’m going to look at your from now on.”

     “What?!”

     “Hahaha! I’m kidding! But, no really, teach me your ways!”

     “Ugh…”

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Well, since Daehyun didn't come out in most of this chapter, I had decided I was going to add something random with him at the end! Yay, okay so I just wanted to tell you guys that I am very thankful for reading this story! Also, I can't believe I have 39 subscribers! I was really happy, and because of that, I had to update today! I wasn't going to, but then I was like "Eh I'm going to update!" Once again, thank you for reading! Chapter 11, here we go~ Bye-bye! ^^