CHAPTER 10

“THE festival is within two weeks, so what’s your plan?” Jisung tried to interrupted the group in a middle of a heated discussion, and it seems that they ignored his question again

 The debated about whether love at first is true or not.

Daniel, Woojin and Jaewhan is yes. Because they claimed to experience it? But to Jisungs point of view they are just hopeless romantics

Surprisingly, Jihyo, Jihoon and Seongwoo agreed on something in common and that is there is no such a thing as love at first sight. Which makes them bitter in relationship on his opinion

And Jeonghan as well as Jeongyeon decided to not to participate in the debate, because “they are too lazy to say a word and might as well enjoy watching them crushed each other”

“ya love at first sight exists, You can feel the world slow motioned when you see the one” He heard Jaehwan exclaimed

“no, you either hallucinating or you are just sick at that time” Seongwoo smirked

“ It is not hallucination, you could actually feel you heart skipped a beat Hyung” Daniel spported Jaehwans answer

“that’s impossible hyung, It just your hypothalamus sends some message toward your hearts that’s why you misinterpreted it as love at first sight” Jihoon stated it a matter of factly

“You are just saying that because you haven’t experienced it Jihonnie, you still young” Woojin patted his twin

“Ya, you are just older than me by fifteen minutes you grandpa” Jihoon hissed at his twin

“but Jihoon, Woojin is right. You Just didn’t experienced it yet” Daniel pulled the older twin to avoid their chance to fight physically

“why have you experienced it?” Jihyo butted while ruffling Jihoons hair signalling to calm down and the younger did calm down

“I have…” Daniel answered which brought everyones attention to him

“Really?” Jaehwan raised his eyebrow, “then when?”

“I-I…” Daniel stuttered obviously not prepared for that question

“Niel… don’t tell me it’s about your first love?” Seongwoo unexpectedly blurted out

Jisungs eyes widened, he could also see that Daniel wasn’t expecting Seongwoos question. He also noticed Jeongyeon glared at Seongwoo

“Seongwoo!” Jisung butted in too late, and He knows that Seongwoo has just realized what he has said because Jisung saw his reaction.

Jisung knew that only number of people knew what happened to Daniel years ago, from what he knew only Jeonghan, Seongwoo and him knows it

“first love?” Jihoon eyes perks up

“Hyung you experience you first love?” Woojin curiously asked

“Daniel my man! How come I didn’t know that?”  Jaewhan slings his hand to Daniels shoulder

“I-I…” Daniel still looked like a deer in the red light, “my first love…”

Jisung thinks of a way to save Daniel from the taboo topic

“okay… stop it-“

“I am not interested about your first love Kang Daniel” Jeongyeon interrupted Jisung

Jisung and the others looked at the girl, all of them are surprised by her words

“I mean, we are debating whether there is love at first sight, then why did we end up in asking Daniel about his first love.” She said it coolly while smiling gently at Daniel

Did she know?Jisung cant help but think seeing how Jeongyeon smiled at Daniel and the boy mouthed back a silent thanks, when?

“Ya youre the one who asks about love at first sight” Jaewhan reacted

“yes I asked about love at first sights not first loves, I mean who would be interested in an old story about first loves, right Seongwoo?”

“Y-yeah..” Seongwoo stuttered as he tried to recover from his slip of tongue, “First loves are so elementary”

“but Noona aren’t you also curious?” Woojin clings at Jeongyeons arm

“ Nope” Jeongyeon tried to free herself from Woojin, “ I am more interested whether love at first sight do exists”

Nice save Jeongyeonie Jisung thought¸but did she knew about Daniels first love by chance?

 “Now now, stop asking about first loves” Jeonghan clapped his both hands as he tried to bring their attention, “how about we plan our festival that will be happening within a week”

Jisung gave Jeonghan a thumbs up and the younger smiled back at him

“festival? What festival?” Jihoon innocently asks

“how come you forgot about it?”Seongwoo exaggeratedly asks Jihoon which makes the younger pout

“It’s the annual thanksgiving”Jisung explained as he smacks Seongwoos shoulder for teasing the younger,“it is the celebration where we give gifts towards our parents”

“and how we do that?” Jeongyeon placed her hand on her chin obviously fascinated toward the festival

“simple,we burn those gifts, those gifts will ascend to Olympus where our parents are” Jisung simply said and hears ooh and ahh from the crew which makes him wonder why they didn’t know it but he just choose to ignore it.” There are also programs before burning of gifts”

“like?”

“like acts,  usually aphrodites sons and daughters offers dancing into their parents, there are also Apollos cabin-“

“that’s us by the way” Jaewhan proudly interrupts

“yes them, by them I mean Mina, Jisoo and him” Jisung rolled his eyes while pointing Jaewhan, “Our Jaewhannie usually performs a song every festival”

“a song?that’s more on a concert. Jaewhan usually love to belt sad love song for his father luckily Mina and Jisoo is there to perform happy songs” Seongwoo grinned

“but the audience love my performances” Jaewhwan make faced

“yeah yeah, we love it Jaewhannie” Daniel appeased the older

“in my case, our camp usually offers flowers towards our parents because we know that our mother will surely adore it” Jisung continued, “I just don’t know about the rest”

“ours are shoes”Seongwoo shrugged

“shoes?” the twins asks in unison

“whats wrong with shoes? Father loved it, also Taehyung and Chaeyeon agreed to it” Seongwoo crossed his arms, “how about you twins?”

“we offer books”Jihoon proudly said

 “we usually ordered rare books for her. How about you Niel hyung?” Woojin looked at the older

“food”He smiled shyly

“Why food?” Jeongyeon curiously asks

“because father has everything, so every year I cooked something special for him” Daniel blushed lightly, “how about you Jeongyeon? What do you usually offer to your father?”

“nothing”

“nothing? You give nothing?why?” Jaehwan asks her like she just commited the greatest sin

“nothing because I didn’t know that you have this kind of festivals” Jeongyeon reasoned out

“but since you knew it now, What would you prepare for him?” Jisung wondered

“still nothing”

“whyyy?” Jisung heard the rest groaned

“just because” jeongyeon shrugged obviously not comfortable with their questions and Jisung noticed it. He also noticed the way Daniel react with her statement. Daniel seems not surprised with her reactions, which makes Jisung curious because Daniel is usually one of those proactive person who love to asks why questions.

“Its okay Jeongyeonnie, we understand. All of us have different circumstances” Daniel patted Jeongyeons head

The group went silence and Jeongyeon sighs

“okay how  about we plan our activity for next weeks event tomorrow morning, I’m sure all of us are tired already since it is almost  10 pm”Jisung suggested as he looked at his watch and take notice of the time

The group surprisingly agreed easily with his suggestion. As they leave one by one, Jisung decided to approach Daniel to asks whats bothering him since earlier.

“Niel-ah” He started when there are only two of them left, “tell me, what really happened between you and Jeongyeon?”

“why Hyung? We already made up” Daniel answered worriedly

“I know, it just that it seems that the two of are-how do I explain it… closer?”

“ah that? maybe because we made up after we fought? They say that friendship becomes tougher as time pass by”Daniel chuckled

“no- that’s not it, I cant exactly point it out but I notice how the two of you interacted earlier” Jisung smack Daniels shoulder indicating that he is serious

“ oh that?” Daniels face became serious, “the truth is I told her hyung”

“you told her what?”

“I told her about my past” Daniel smiled weakly

“what- I mean really? How did she react?” Jisung couldn’t contain his questions as he knows how Daniel gets uncomfortable everytime his past brought up.

“she just listened and I was thankful for that by the way”

“Is that why the two of you fought last time?”

“no hyung”  Daniel cut him off, “we never fought, It just the two of us felt awkward with each other”

“and why is that? why would she felt awkward towards you? It is your secret that is reavealed…” Jisung asks with concern then noticed Daniels silence

“OH MY GOSH! don’t tell me she said something about her too?!”His eyes widened and he covered his mouth as he was so surprise when he saw Daniel nod

“okay... let us get this straight, you and her shared each other secrets?” Jisung emphases the word secret

“no hyung its not secrets it pasts” Daniel corrected him

“same difference, so the two of you are that comfortable with each other to share something that heavy?” Jisung noticed how Daniel blushed lightly as he see a tinged of redness on Daniels ears

“”He exclaimed unconsciously

“?excuse me?” Daniel raised an eyebrow

“I knew it, Niel-ah tell me… are you by chance… in love with her?”

“hyung!!!”this time its  Daniels eyes widened

“Niel” Jisung placed his hands on the youngers shoulder, “I know that the answer is obvious but tell me,how do you feel about her?”

“I-…”

“Don’t deny it, did you see how you look at her?” Jisung sighs, “If you really is a Samoyed dog? I could literally see you ears perk up and tails wagging towards her”

“hyung.. your wrong” Daniel mumbled

“how wrong am I?”Jisung saw him shakes his head, “I could see your eyes practically sparkle when she was mentioned also I could see you blushed everytime gaze each other, don’t deny your blushing by the way- but the point is your reaction is screaming that you are inlove- so lying to me is not helpful”

“Am I that obvious?” Daniel finally admitted as he scratched his back of his head

“No - I just literally know you from head to toe, I’m the one who raised you in case you forgot” he added jokingly then looked at him seriously” so? Do you like her?”

“do you like her?” Daniel heard Jisung asks seriously, he felt blood rushed towards his face. Daniel doesn’t need a mirror to confirm it, He knew that he is blushing right now like what Jisung had said

He sighed heavily, “you are right hyung”

“I do like her”He said as he covered his face trying to cover his blushing face. Daniel could feel his heart pounding like crazy

“when did you realize that you like her?”

“I really don’t know, at first I was just curious with her. All I know is that being with her is one of my happiest days then suddenly I look forward on my everyday knowing that I’ll meet her. Then it happened, I woke up one day and realize that I like her “ Daniel smiled

 “will you confess?”

“no hyung, I have any no plans of doing it” Daniel smiled