We arrive at the restaurant and we get our seats. When we sit down the waiter hands us the menus and we take a look at them. I have to admit that all of the food choices here are quite expensive. I could probably buy almost fifty microwaveable ramens for one meal at this place. You would think that this place would have live music playing, people who wear fancy outfits and talk about business, and beautiful silverware, but actually there was no live music, people dressed kind of casually, and the silverware was pretty normal looking. I guess what you could say was the only thing “fancy” about this place was the prices.

“What do you plan on eating?” he asks

“I don’t know, everything here is so expensive. I don’t even know what half of this stuff is”

“I recommend the fettuccini pasta. It’s delicious” he says

“Ok then, I’ll have that” I say. I know this might sound bad but I don’t really like vegetables that much. And I don’t really like a whole lot of fruits either. I mean I know that you’re supposed to eat your fruits and veggies daily in order to stay healthy, but honestly eating the vitamin gummies every day and making sure you don’t eat too much junk food is healthy enough for me. When the waiter comes back over, she gets our orders and takes our menus, and leaves. We sit there in awkward silence for a minute or two until Kai says, “So, do you have any hobbies?”

“If you count listening to music all day and reading a hobby, then yes those are my hobbies. You?”

“I like golfing” he says.

“Golfing? Oh my gosh I at golfing. It’s come to the point where every single time I swing I have to yell FORE!” I say and he laughs. “Is that all that you do? You seem to have a lot of time on your hands” I ask

“Well, I do like dancing but my parents don’t think it’s professional” he says

“Oh! So what you’re saying here is that the rich boy here, sitting in a fancy restaurant, has got some moves” I say teasingly

“Do you remember the time when we were little and we had a recital for our parents?” he asks smiling

“No, not really”

“You were playing the piano that we had to drag out from inside the house, which we nearly killed ourselves, and while you were playing I was dancing to it. God that was so much fun” he says and I smile at the memory. I don’t quite recall it but it does sound like something that we would probably do. “Do you still play the piano?” he asks

“No, not anymore” I say

“Why not? You were so good” he says

“I don’t know. My parents were always telling me to practice and practice until it got to the point that playing was all I did. At first when I started to learn it was so much fun, but then it became a burden, having to please my parents all the time and not making a single mistake without having to start over became an awful experience. So I quit” I say

“Well that’s too bad. I loved the way you played. You played with such dignity and grace. And the way you moved your hands was truly magical” he says

“Thanks” I say. The waiter comes and places a small salad in front of us and then some things to put on the salads to the side. I look at all of the different things and then I see blue cheese which is weird because I’ve never seen anyone put blue cheese on their salads. “Who puts blue cheese on their salads?” I ask

“No one, it’s just to eat separately” he says. That makes so much sense.

“What does it taste like?”

“I don’t know, my parents like it and I’ve never tried it.” I look at it and I have a strong urge to try it. When I was in the 7^th grade, we learned about fungi and molds in science and I was always fascinated by them. Why do people eat fungi? Why do people like to eat cheese with mold on it? It’s all quite disgusting overall. I take my fork and I take a bite out of it. And instantly I gag and spit it out and Kai is cracking up. That little turd knew what it tasted like. “Hahahaha I can’t believe you actually ate it!” he says

“Shut up” I say

“Soooo, what does it taste like?” he asks and raises his eyebrow

“It tastes like death that got stuck in crap for a million years” I say coldly.

“Oh my gosh this is just like the time that you ate dirt because I told you that it tasted like chocolate. You were so dumb!” he laughs

“I was four and I didn’t know better” It’s true, I wasn’t the smartest bulb in the bunch, but look where I am now! I live with my parents, I sit in my room all day, I like to hang out with a stranger that my parents don’t even know. Life couldn’t get any better.

“Still, it was priceless!” When we get our food I smell the pasta and sweet Jesus this pasta is blessed. It smelled so good and when I took a bite out of it, it tasted like heaven. I could see Kai staring at me while I was eating it, “Are you in love with your pasta of something?” he asks

“As a matter of fact, yes” I say

“Well I hope you two live happily ever after”

“Thank you, we will”

Afterwards when we were done and Kai had paid for the food we left a tip and walked outside of the restaurant. I’ve only been to a fancy restaurant like this a few times when I was little and my parents actually had time for me, but ever since I grew up and they knew I was responsible, they didn’t bother to baby me anymore. Which is good in some ways so I don’t have to spend time with them every second of the day, I don’t have to act like a perfect colorblind child, and I don’t have to be dragged along with them in the car all the time? As we are outside I look up into the sky and I say, “Wow, we must have been in there for a long time because it’s already dark outside”

“Yeah, but it’s quite beautiful, the sky and the stars that are shining so bright” he says

“I like it because it’s the only time of day that I actually know what the sky looks like”

“Oh yeah because y-“ he starts to say but he stops

“Because I’m colorblind? You don’t have to worry about saying that, I’m used to it now. And besides, you’ve known ever since we were little.” We sit down on the bench outside and just look at the sky. “The only thing I remember when we were little is the first time I told you I was colorblind. We were picking flowers and you asked me which flower looked the prettiest and I said it doesn’t matter because they all looked the same and then you said that they were all different colors. So when I finally told you I was colorblind you looked at me weirdly, differently, like I was some creature and you completely changed the way you used to treat me. You ran away from me and ran to your mom and left me there, standing there, with a flower in my hand crying because you were my only friend, and you left me. To be honest, I was scared. Scared that if I told anyone else that then they would treat me differently too.” He looks at me and holds my hand.

“It just so happens that the only memory you remember is the one that I regret the most. I’m so sorry. I was young, stupid, and idiotic. I regret leaving you and when my mom told me that you didn’t want to see my anymore, I wanted to run up to you and cry and say how sorry I was.” He says

“Hey, Kai we were seven. Who cares? The past is the past. Jeez you get really emotional don’t ya?” I joke and I nudge his arm and he chuckles. Yeah what he did was mean, but I got emotional a lot when I was little. Like that one time in preschool, this one kid took my crayon without my permission and I started having a fit. But I eventually got better over the years when I matured into the fine young adult I am today.

“Stand up, I have something for you.” He says. I stand up and he tells me to turn around and close my eyes and I do. Next thing you know I feel something on my neck and when I open my eyes, there is a beautiful heart shaped lock on my neck.

“Kai, I can’t take this” I say

“Take it, I got it for you because it reminded me of you” he says.

“Well, thank you” I say and he smiles which I take as a ‘you’re welcome’. He drops me off at my house and when I get out of the car I look back before I go inside the house and he smiles and waves at me and I wave back and I head inside.

The next day I wake up with the sun and I sit up in my bed and yawn. I go downstairs to eat some peanut butter toast for breakfast and when I go back upstairs, I text Sehun, “Hey.” It takes him a few minutes to respond back and when he does his text says, “Hi. How was your date?”

“It wasn’t a date. It was just a dinner that my parents and his planned against my own will” I text back

“So are you and he dating now or….”

“No, we aren’t dating and I will never date him. He’s not my type”

“Then what is?” he asks

“I don’t know. He’s just too romantic for me. All of the dinners and buying me jewelry is just too much” I say

“So what are you gonna to today?”

“I don’t know; maybe go to the bookstore to get another book to read and then swing by some places just cause. What about you?”

“I have to go sell some paintings of mine today at an auction. I would ask you to come, but this place is kind of hard to find and I won’t have time to pick you up if you do come.” He texts me

“Don’t worry, I won’t go”

“Ok, I got to go. I got business to attend to”

“Ok, bye” I text and I head out to the bookstore like I said. When I get to the store there are shelves and shelves of books everywhere. I go through each aisle and look through each book. But then there is this one book that catches my eye. It has a red cover and the title is called “The Cursed Princess Ivy”. I look on the book of the book and read that was a story took place in medieval times with witches and hunters and kings and queens. On the front of the book there is a key that is tied to a rope that is hanging. I open the book to the first page and I immediately get hooked. I find a place to sit and I read the first chapter, then the second, the third, the fourth, and so on until I look at the time and I notice that I stayed at the bookstore for five hours. I pay for the book and head to a couple of more shops and I go to pick up some bubble tea and head home. After I head up to my room for a few hours and watch stuff on my phone. I then get bored so I text Sehun, “Are you done yet?”

“Yeah, and I made a lot of money too” he says

“That’s good. When do you think we could get together?”

“You can come over to my place tomorrow.” he says

“Ok, I’ll see you then” I text him

“I’ll see you too, Charity”

Here's Chapter 8! Kai is finally back in the story and there wasn't too much of Sehun this chapter, but the next chapter will have a lot of scenes with him so stay tuned. Until then, thanks for reading and I hoped you enjoyed it and let me know what you think about it in the comments!