Chapter Seventeen – Fake Love

Song - BTS (방탄소년단) - 'FAKE LOVE'

24 March 2003 - Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design Cafeteria

Me and Bambam are about to leave and get our lunch at the cafeteria. I will make sure Bambam will keep his promise to treat me a bowl of Jjajangmyeon. I am glad that Bambam is not affected with all these rumors that happen around me. I can’t believe in just a week, rumors like these can spread out in a short time – considering Internet and social media is still not really a thing in this year.

Bambam: Is there really doesn’t has anything going on between you and Jungkook?

I don’t understand why again and again people kept on asking this similar question to me. Well, I gone out with him for a movie once but not really just two of us because Taehyung was there too that moment – so basically we have nothing going on.

Lisa: Well Bambam, I promise you, we have nothing going. It just happen that we are classmate and somehow he is in my study group.

Bambam: So let me in your study group too.

Lisa: Huh? Are you serious Bambam?

Bambam: Yup. I can’t let you get close with that Jungkook.

Lisa: Are you jealous?

Bambam is so cute when he tried to be protective.

Bambam: Yes.

Wow. He is really jealous because I get close with the popular Jungkook. Does he really wants to get close with him too?

Bambam: I just want to close with you again. I somehow feel distance from you since we got here.

Lisa (pause for a while because I agree with him, then I ask him question that was running in mind): Do you remember how close we were back then when we live in Thailand?

Bambam: I miss us.

I miss Thailand and that is true that I miss Bambam so much too. We are not that close here if I can compare how close we are when we were in Thailand. Everything is seems so free when we were there. Korea is somehow so suffocated with so many people tried to chase on things around them and people who left behind will always stays behind. I am just so tired living here.

As both of us are reminiscing about our past memories, suddenly a person that I really don’t want to meet is approaching me.

Taehyung: Lisa.

Errrr. Why is he here?

Bambam: Who is this guy?

I am not actually ever introduce Taehyung to Bambam. I’m so sorry buddy. I just really forget and I want to run away from him too.

Lisa (introduce Bambam to Taehyung and Taehyung to Bambam): Oh, he is Taehyung and hey this Bambam.

They look at each other. But I don’t know why the vibe around me is so sorrow and dark – and why they keep on glancing deeply to each other? Oh my God. I remember this face – the exact same reaction when I tell to Bambam about Taehyung.

March 2003 (Memories of Lisa’s past)

 “Bambam, I want to introduce you to my boyfriend.” I have decided that today should be the day I formally introduced Taehyung to Bambam. I don’t want to hide this relationship from Bambam anymore. He deserves to know even though he might rejects Taehyung as my potential soulmate, but I have