Chapter 16
This Thing called 'LOVE'"There she comes. Go on. Get your girl" - Seunghyun pushed Jiyong towards Aeri's direction.
Jiyong walked few steps forwards and stopped. He quickly turned back and hugged his hyung tightly.
"Did I ever tell you that you are 'the best Hyung' I have ever got?"
Seunghyun just smiled and hugged his little brother back.
Just as Jiyong started moving towards Aeri, Eul interrupted.
"Guys there's an emergency." - Eul stammered.
For the first time people heard Eul's not so confident voice.
"I'm going back to Jeju Tomorrow."
"What!?" - everyone said in synch.
"What happened?" - Aeri asked rushing towards her friend.
"I have been trying to sort things out at work but it's not working. The client keeps rejecting the design and my team is fed up with him now. But he is a very important client whom we can't afford to lose so I'll have to personally meet up and talk to him tomorrow." - Eul sighed feeling a disappointed.
"I can understand your situation so I won't force you to stay." - Tae Oh replied, patting Eul's shoulder.
"No,I can't understand! I mean you are on your vacation, how can you just leave like this? After our graduation we hardly got time to meet up, you always say that you are busy with your work and now when we finally got the chance... you....you are leaving..." - Hani started to bawl her eyes out in no time.
Aeri and Eul knew that Hani was just like a kid,innocent and sensitive but the guys didn't. They were shocked to hear Hani's confession. It was just like a little kid blaming their parent for leaving him alone.
"Yah Hani! Don't you think Eul is already feeling bad that she has to leave the trip half way? Don't make it more hard on her." - Aeri gave a stern reply because no matter how clam and composed Eul looked, Aeri knew she would breakdown soon.
Before anyone else could react further, Seungri grabbed Hani's hand and took her away from the scene.
"Eul it's alright. I know how important your work is to you. I have no problem with you leaving. Any how we too would be leaving day after tomorrow." - Aeri replied, trying to comfort Eul with her words.
"Yeah. I'm sorry for ruining the mood. You guys have fun tomorrow don't bother much about me. Things like these happen" - Eul gave a half hearted reply.
"It's alright. Let's just have dinner and then discuss about what happens tomorrow." - Taeyang suggested.
"I don't feel like having anything right now. You guys go ahead. I'm going to sleep." - Eul mumbled walking towards the caravan.
"But - " - Aeri tried to protest but stopped when Jiyong clutched her shoulder.
"She needs some time off. Let her be." - Jiyong replied.
"Leave me! Where are you taking me!?" - Hani asked between her sobs.
But Seungri didn't answer. He held onto her hand even more tightly and followed the unknown trail which finally led them to the dimly lit river bank.
The two walked along the bank until Hani got a hold of herself.
"You alright now?" - Seungri asked Hani. His concerned eyes checking to confirm if she was alright..
"hmm" - Hani nodded.
"Hani ah, Do you the one thing I like about you?" - Seungri questioned.
Hani's face brightened instantly, but no matter how hard she thought, she couldn't answer his question.
"You always speak your heart out, idiot. It's very rare to see people like that nowadays. But do you know it is one of your shortcomings?"
"Huh?"
"Didn't you see how hurt Eul felt while telling you that she would need to leave early? But all you did was speak out your heart without even giving a damn about how she felt."
Hani's brightened face was slowly sulking again.
"The reason why I'm telling you this is because I have been in your position as well as Eul's position and trust me Eul is feeling hundred times more worse than what you are feeling now. Plus your outburst could have made things worst. Now I know that this was your much awaited vacation but it was the same for Eul too. Do you think she would simply go back to Jeju for a silly matter?"
Hani nodded her head from left to right again and again, tears dripping over her already wet cheeks.
Seeing Hani's current state Seungri couldn't help feeling bad for her. Thinking he went too hard on the girl, Seungri quickly apologized.
"Yah, don't cry. I'm sorry I just wanted you to understand Eul's feeling."
Hani quickly shot her head up, her teary eyes looking straight into Seungri's eyes. She couldn't swallow the fact that a playful guy like Seungri turned into a wise man to give her such nice advise.
"NO! You aren't at fault. I feel like I'm the worst friend anyone could ever get. Instead of understanding Eul's condition I simply blamed her." - with each word Hani spoke, her voice turned a pitch lower with the last word coming out as a mere whisper.
Seungri smiled at the overloaded cuteness of the girl in front of him and in the spur of the moment Seungri kissed her forehead.
Hani froze.
A shocked expression was plastered on her face making Seungri giggle. But within a second Hani's facial expressions changed. She was now grinning at Seungri with a evil smile on her face startling Seungri.
"Yah, what is going on in that head of yours? Don't you try something funny here!" - Seungri warned, crossing his arms over his chest.
But Hani's expression didn't change, she had a mischievous glint in her eyes.
"This won't do. I'm leaving. You can find your way back right? Come back safely" - Seungri hurriedly left the place.
"Oppa~ wait!" - Hani was back to her sheepish form, her sudden courage went down the drain at the thought of been left alone at the deserted river bank.
"Don't you follow me! Stay at least 5 meters away from me!" - Seungri's voice echoed through the river with Hani following closely behind him.
Eul was set to leave the place at 6 AM, she had a flight to catch at 8 AM. With a heavy heart, Eul left the caravan. She hadn't seen Hani since yesterday night. She hadn't stepped a foot into the caravan and Eul couldn't but worry for the girl.
"Good morning Eul~" - Aeri greeted her friend with a hug.
"Oh! How come you are up?" - Eul questioned in surprise.
"You didn't think that I would let you go alone, did you?"
"Huh?"
"I'm coming to drop you off till the airport."
"But you don't have to, I have already called a cab."
"It's okay, I'll tag along with you cause I don't think the guys are going to get up anytime soon." - Aeri replied.
"Alright but what about Hani?"
"You will miss your flight if we stand here and talk about how everyone is doing. I'll tell you everything in the cab. Let's go!"
An hour later, the duo reached the airport. Eul had apologized several times to Aeri about her unexpected back out and Aeri just brushed it off telling everything was alright.
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