Chapter 7
It's Okay, It's Love
You have no idea how I felt the moment I stepped out of that library. The image of Jongin and Krystal together was so painful to remember, but it wasn't like I could forget it. What's harsher was the fact that I shouldn't be feeling all these feelings. I was a nobody and why should I be mad at Jongin for choosing Krystal over me? We weren't even friends to begin with. We were just strangers (or schoolmates) who just so happened to know one another. That was it. I wasn't supposed to like Kim Jongin.
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The next few afternoons, Jongin didn't even bother to look for me, to apologise or something. I didn't know why but it ticked my mood off. I was kinda expecting for him to show up and to bother me again, but at the same time I wanted to go as far away as possible from him. It was frustrating.
Thankfully, I had Student Council meeting today. Hopefully it would distract me from all this mess of feelings.
"Okay. So, hello, everybody! It's nice to see you all again!" Joonmyeon greeted us cheerfully.
I admired this guy for being so perfect. I bet every mother would want him as their son-in-law.
"What? We just saw each other last week, Joonmyeon." A guy replied jokingly.
Everybody giggled. Joonmyeon just chuckled.
"Can't a President miss their members?" He asked with a mock expression of hurt.
Everybody just laughed, even I snorted in delight. Joonmyeon was definitely the best guy for this job.
"Okay. As you all know Valentine's Day is coming up and, as usual, we have to come up with a special event to celebrate the Love Day. After a few meetings with the teachers, it's already decided that we're gonna be cupids for a day!"
Everybody just stared at him, signaling that we were listening and that he could go on.
"So what's gonna happen is that we're gonna set up a booth next Thursday till Wednesday the week after. We'll sell flowers and provide letter-writing services. As for the d-day itself, we're gonna send those flowers and letters to whoever they are meant for. All profits will be used for our next community programme which reminds me to remind Haneul to discuss about the proposal for that event." Joonmyeon finally stopped and looked at me.
I almost forgot about that event. I hadn't even started a word on it.
"I'm working on it. No worries." I lied.
"Okay then. Any questions for our Valentine's Day event?" Joonmyeon asked the rest of the people after flashing me a 'You better be working on it, Jung Haneul!' glare.
Seeing nobody gave any objections, we proceeded to finalising the details. I ended up being the cupid for my batch, meaning the senior classes, meaning Jongin and Krystal, meaning no good.
Luckily, I wasn't the only one. I was paired with Joonmyeon to do the delivery so I can just pass it to him in case somebody decides to send Jongin a flower or two. Yup, that sounded like a good plan to me.
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Thursday came and the student councillors were busy setting up our Valentine's Day booth. When Joonmyeon shared it to the entire school population during assembly yesterday, we received a pretty good response so we were quite pleased.
I didn't join in setting up the booth and anything related to it because most of the girls were assigned to do the letter-writing. You just can't trust guys with handwritten letters.
And, I guess, time really flew because it was already Wednesday and we were closing our booth. The response was a little overwhelming and I had 159 letters to write. Most of them were dedicated to Joonmyeon and his friends and, of course, Krystal. The rest of the days I had till Valentine's Day would be filled with letters, letters and letters, I guess. Sigh.
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"I have loved you since that day you helped me in the Chemistry lab. You were so kind, I couldn't help but to fall in love with your heart. This Valentine's Day marks the 300th day of me loving you. Happy Valentine's Day, Kim Joonmyeon. With love, Moon Sera." I said to myself as I wrote down the 22nd letter that day.
The letters I had written were all so cheesy and they made me feel uncomfortable. I had received a letter or two from my ex-boyfriends but thankfully they didn't make me feel uneasy. I had to fight the urge to bang my head against the wall while writing these letters. Sigh.
I was reading the next letter where my breath stopped. It was a letter for Krystal. I didn't want to be nosy, but I was tasked to do this so I continued on. I had read so many letters and it didn't make me feel like invading their personal space but this particular letter I had in my hand was different. Like I wasn't supposed to read it.
"Just because you said no twice doesn't mean I'll give up on us. Happy Valentine's Day, beautiful. Yours only, J."
My breath hitched. The only 'J' I could think of right now was Jongin. And when I put Jongin into the equation, everything would make sense because everybody knew Jongin and Krystal were an item — or, at least, they looked like one; nobody actually knew if they were official but rumour had it that Jongin had had the longest crush on Krystal. And the more I thought of it, the heavier my heart became.
Jongin and Krystal. No me.
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