CHAPTER 22     It was my first time visiting an amusement park and in fact, I cried the moment we arrived there. The Pabo was in panic seeing me unable to control my stupid tears of joy hahaha >;P but… really it was just for remembering how foolish I was unknowingly being jealous over Tiffany before for being able to go with Taengoo once to Everland I grudgingly included it on my personal bucket lists of things I HAD to do with Taengoo before I left…    I set it as my mission to accomplish, with vengeance I wanted to! But of course gradually I forgot knowing my situation and focusing instead on my support theme duties and steps, shoving it on the shelf labelled as wisful thinking and condemning myself for being such a jealous video girl over my human host…    That was before I completely realized how in love I was with this Stupid Idiot Dookong Pabo… Who seems to do nothing other than to pull me deeper and deeper, chaining me inside that quarter in my heart, the biggest place inside, with a yellow green sign that says Taengoo's place. That I realized now if removed… I might as well erase the whole damn space.    And somehow… after this final gift that Taengoo had given me… this wonderful memento of the ocean… I think I finally found strength to…   Taengoo made me feel complete and that was enough, my heart was already filled to the brim with love and contentment that…   I’m really sorry Taengoo…   I finally f-fo-found strength to…   Sniff…   T-t-to ssayy… goodbye to you.        WH-when you come back from school this afternoon… I-I… I won’t be here anymore…   I-… I’ll leave…       XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX       And just like that, our first… and probably last daytrip ended. We were back in Ajumma’s house saying good bye to each other, with Sica fervently encouraging me to believe in Yoona that everything will be fine…   It would…   Wouldn’t it?   But honestly, as I take one step after the other, and took subway trains off to school to meet the President, in my heart, it didn’t really matter. I was serious when I said at least it’ll give me extra time to spend with Sica.   It was the biggest upside that I saw in that scenario that anything else didn’t even seem to matter…       XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX       I went to Taengoo’s room for the first time after I returned and saw my other half…   That horrid yellow green thing with some remnants of industrial tape stuck to its front Ha…ha…ha   “Hello my other half… How have you been doing?”   Then, one after the other memories of time spent with Taengoo flashed into my mind as I see that red light blinking indicating “play mode” was on…     SLAM   “UGH… Ouch! He he, Hi Sooyeon!” She said giving a scared stiff dorky grin while being hoisted above the ground.   “Don’t “Hi, Sooyeon” me you Pabo! How could you play my disc in that ugly broken DVD player you have!”   “YAH! It’s not ugly! It’s pea-coloured! Anything Pea is Pretty!”   SLAM!       “By the way, my name’s Jung Sooyeon, but I don’t really like that very old fashioned and innocent name. So call me Jessica, Sica for short. Nice to meet you Taengoo~” I said winking at her and blowing a flying kiss.       “JEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT”   “HEY! WHAT THE!!! Sica what are you doing putting industrial tape on my beautiful DVD Player!!”   “It’s better this way”   “What was that for??! Now I won’t be able to use my new player!”   “Are you really an idiot, midget?!” I said glaring and towering over her.   “I’m a video girl, so that little machine out there running is the other half of this gorgeous body. I only have three months playback time, that’s all. Fast forward it and you shorten my life span, cut the power and I disappear. So you are not to touch that thing until then! Got it?! Are we clear??! DID YOUR PEA SIZED BRAIN GET THAT?!”   “But… I just bought the player and I can’t even watch movies…”   “Hmp, who needs movies when you have me”       and… I couldn’t bear but let a few tears fall…     “I-i-f… It was fun at that time… h-he he he… I… I still didn’t know what the emotion “love” felt like…   You didn’t think this would happen too, didn’t you?”   I held the DVD player in the palm of my hands, caressing it, as if every touch would somehow alleviate the worries and pain I have in my heart…   “Sniff… Even if… this “I’ll Give You Support DVD” is rewound… it won’t go back to that time and take this hurtful feelings back… it won’t let me forget Taengoo… and Taengoo me…”   My right index finger trembled as it hovered over the button above the red blinking light. My left palm over my mouth as I stifle the weeping sounds slowly escaping, growing more pronounced as vision misties over and turns into the ocean…   A very distressed, pained and stormy ocean…       XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX       Hours after and I’m back kicking up pebbles on the way home from attending the meeting that potentially could’ve changed my life.   … … …   Mr. Im is a more… umn… agreeable person than I thought…   But for sure, more than Mr. Im, my gratitude goes to Yoona… Really thank you kid…   Even lying to your parents just to save my sorry little out of this.       Flashback     “Actually Ms. Kim? Taeyeon right? I spoke with my daughther here, and she told me the real reason behind this little catfight was a BOY named Jessie isn’t it?”   A BOY?   “but-“   “Hahahaha to be quite honest, THAT’s understandable, both you girls are pretty and NORMAL so it’s only natural things like this happen!”   I looked in Yoona’s direction, seeing her breath deeply with each passing second, looking as if she’s taking in liquid air. She glances back with conflicted eyes, but still full of determination to pull through this together,   And that’s when I understood…   I had to shut up and keep with her in this charade…   “Ugh… yes Sir… What Yoona said is the truth”   “AH!!! Fantastic! I see, I see! That’s great news! Huh Yoona dear? Oh… hahaha I mean, it’s good that it’s just some little fight among kids. Truthfully, it was my wife that found out about this… and, we thought you were Yoona’s… I mean she was the one who told your homeroom teacher to expel you. Tsk Tsk such a shame, we should just settled this amicably since it’s just about a BOY, right Yoona dear?”   “Hmn… yes, Appa.”   “Yes, unfortunately though, the news have already travelled to the PTA board, so we can’t turn a blind eye on this, otherwise the school will be viewed as being biased to either parties… Thus you still have to be suspended for two week Ms. Kim” added the sickly and frail looking president, wearing a brown suit that seemed newly purchased especially for this meeting with the Public Minister Mr. Im.   Two weeks?! But…   “Ms. Kim, don’t get too happy too quick! Think you’re off the hook? You already have weeks of non-excused absences. Kids like you… And being suspended now means you’ll miss the final exam, and you know what that means”   “But Mr. Kim!” Yoona shouts in retaliation only to be glared at by her father, causing her to