Chapter 7

"Dee, did you give her the flowers?" Top brought his food tray on 2ne1's table rather than Bigbang's. Dara looked at Top and secretly pointed her eyes to Bom. She wanted him to talk to her directly. Bom and Cl were looking at each other but they remained quiet. 

"Dee, please tell her she is so beautiful today!" Top cooly said. He then handed Dara expensive Pierre Marcolini chocolate boxes. "This is for her." Dara angrily eyed him and again directed and pouted her lips to Bom's direction. Even so, Top did not look at Bom and just continued eating. "Dee, pls tell her....." 

Spoon and fork were banged on the plate when Bom angrily said, "For God's sake I am in front of you! Am I invisible in your eyes? Dara is not your messenger! You want me? Do it on your own!" She stood up ready to walk away but before she did, she added, "I thought you were cool! How disappointing!" She turned her back at him and strutted her way out of the lunch hall. 

Top followed Bom with his gaze while muttering! "What did I do wrong?" Cl could not contain her laughter! "If there is one thing Bom hates that would be chanelling love proposals!!!!" 

Top's face was brazened. "Damn! So, that was a mistake then!"

"Yah! You are so lame with body signals! I have been signalling you with my eyes and mouth to talk to her directly. Did you not receive my text message that she threw away the flowers you asked me to give her?" 

Top looked at her blankly and scratched his head, "! Wrong move!" He took his food tray and went back to their table sadly. When both girls turned their gaze to Bigbang in front of them, they saw Seungri winking at CL with a lopsided grin. The other three boys laughed loudly with their members shaming themselves in front of the girls they like. Cl's face was distorted as she stood up, and also planned to  walk away with a disgusted face. "Please tell those guys their style does not live up to their reputation! They gross me out! Uuuuccckkk!" Dara turned her angry face with her guy friends after making sure Cl could no longer hear them. She automatically transferred to the guys' tables not minding the jealous stares of the girls around them.

"Yaaaahhhhh! I've been building you up as these really cool guys that girls want to chase and now you are showing them the exact ways of what they really hate! God have mercy on your moves!" She gave them a disapproving look. 

Daesung laughed really loudly. Top and Seungri gave them their sharpest look at Daesung. He automatically kept quiet. 

"Dara, they need to have a seminar on how to court a girl!" Youngbae smiled. 

"Hello! They have been with a lot of girls and they still need a courtship lesson????" Mockery at its finest.

Jiyong grinned. "They are so used to having girls courting them instead of them courting the girls." 

She pouted her lips... Jiyong secretly looked at those lips and stared for a while. "Stop with the pouting, Tokki! You are not a child." He cleared his throat and continued to drink his bottled water. Youngbae looked at Jiyong and his eyes glinted for something he has only seen. 

Dara side-eyed Jiyong and innocently bit her lip to show her irritation. Once again his eyes lingered on her naturally pink lips. Jiyong choked and water dripped from his mouth. "Yah! Don't do that!" He looked at his friends and noticed they were also looking intently at Dara. However, Dara looked at all of them innocently and asked, "Weeeh? Why are you looking at me like that? What did I do wrong this time?" 

"Don't bite your lips!" Dara covered her ears with their loud voices! Everyone looked at them. Then, Seungri told her, "Big no, no to biting your lips in front of boys, Noona!" 

"Why?" Dara demanded for an answer. 

"Just because I say so." Her best friend's voice was a command so Dara just nodded her head even without understanding why she could not bite her lips. She finished her food and stood up. 

"Bye boys! I still have to go to the library." 

Seungri broke the silence. "Noona is too beautiful for her own good and too innocent, too." 

Daesung thoughtfully added, "For a second there, I have forgotten she is our precious Noona. Wah! Boys should not see her like that." 

"Jiyong, please remind me why I should not court Dara?" Youngbae faced their leader with inquisitive eyes. 

Top let out a laugh, "I think you better drop the subject before your nose bleeds, Taeyang!" Jiyong's angry gaze rested at . 

"Yah, I remember now!" He took a spoonful of food and swallowed without grinding. 

Bom and CL's drivers were as usual on time to pick up the girls and Dara was left alone. As she went to her locker, she saw a girl put something on her locker door. When the gal noticed her approaching, she ran away fast before Dara could even recognize her face. She picked up the envelope that the girl slipped on the upper portion to keep it there. A letter was inside. When she read it, her whole body froze and became cold!

YOU HAVE GROWN UP TO BE A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN JUST AS I EXPECTED YOU TO BE. I MISS YOU SO MUCH, LITTLE ONE. I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU FOR YEARS NOW AND FINALLY I HAVE SEEN YOU AGAIN. I AM KEEPING MY PROMISE TO COME BACK FOR YOU! WAIT FOR ME... A LITTLE MORE TIME AND WE CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER. 

Dara's fingers shook and her complexion paled. Her eyes are focused on the words she has been reading. Her mind lost the capacity to think because all she could see was the words in the letter. She felt difficulty in breathing and her surroundings seemed spinning. 

No! Please God no! He can't come back! He can't! 

Her tears raced down her face. She was on the verge of breaking down when someone touched her shoulders.  The touch was warm and comforting that Dara did not feel afraid. A touch like Jiyong's. 

"Hey, are you alright?" The concern in his eyes was really evident and Dara just felt at ease with him. "Pretty, are you not feeling well? You look pale."

Dara felt her breath shortened with the drum beating of her heart and cold sweat dripped on her forehead. She looked at him and saw sincerity and concern in Chanyeol's eyes. 

"Let me take you to the clinic." He held her forearm but Dara still found it hard to manage her emotions. But she turned her head sideways. Instead, she said, "C-can y-you just ccc-all t-this nnnn-um bbb-er f-for m-me?" 

"Okay. Please hand over your phone. But first, let us go the bench outside where you can see green things to calm you." He held her again on the forearm and guided the way into the bench