C H I N A

A girl in a cute short gown groaned in pain as her made contact with the hard ground.

" Are you okay ? " a boy around her age asked worriedly.

The girl nodded as she gave him a small smile.

" Hey, apologised ! " he barked at the group of boys who were standing there.

They pushed her.

" Uhhh. Look at that. The fatso protecting the ugly. How perfect " one of the guy from the group spoke out, snorted slightly. His friend started laughing.

" You push her so apologised. Especially you, Shen " the boy earlier said sternly as he stand and faced them.

The group of boys stopped laughing. The boy named Shen , step forward facing the boy.

" What are you gonna do, if we dont huh ? " Shen poked his chest , provoking him.

He grabbed Shen's collar " You are gonna regret it if you don't "

Shen's panicked. He didn't expect this boy gonna get mad like this.

" I will not apologised  " Shen said arrogantly still not give in.

The boy hold up his fist when the girl earlier hold his arm " Gege. Don't do it "

" Wu YiFan. Min Shen stop right now ! "

All of them turned their head toward the voice.

Miss Lee.

Their teacher.

" " Shen cursed. The boy who was known as Wu YiFan released his grip on Shen's collar and put down his fist.

"My office. NOW ! " The teacher shouted as she stomped away angrily.

Shen grunted as he followed the teacher.

YiFan turned to the girl and smile " I'll be okay. Don't worry " he walked away from her and followed the teacher.

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" You shouldn't do that " the girl sighed as she helped YiFan put the trash in the black plastic bag. Wu YiFan was punished to clean the field along with Shen but that boy already fled off when school's end. The girl earlier came to help him.

" They pushed you " He answered calmly.

" What's new. They always do that "

" That's why. I don't want they do that to you anymore " he said.

The girl , Li Mei Ling smiled. She and Wu Yifan had been friend since their kindergarden year. She is a Korean but had been living in China since she was born. She first met him when she enroll in the same kindergarden with him. All the students bullied her and isolated her just because her nationality was different from them. The only one who approached her was Wu YiFan. He was a cute chubby boy and has gummy smile. He talked to her first and they started being friend since then. Now they were already in their elementary school. He always stand beside her whenever someone bullied her. But he never stand up for her like that before, almost punching the bullies.

" But still. Using violence is wrong, Gege " she started as she sat on the grass as soon as they finished with their task.

" I'm your Gege so I should start acting like one and protect you ! " YiFan take his seat beside her.

" You sound like a man , Gege " she laughed.

" I'm a man ! " he boasted.

" You are only 8 years old ! " she stated as a matter of fact.

" Don't worry. I will grow up fast and protect you from all those bullies, Mei " he smiled showing his gum.

" Your gum is showing, Gege, its so funny hahaha ! " she laughed. She always laughed whenever she saw his gum.

YiFan frowned. " Hey. It's not nice laughing like that. You have it too ! "

Mei Ling stop laughing. Well it's true. Her gum also visible whenever she laughed or smile. The student also call them 'The Gummy Couple' beside their famous nickname 'Fatso and Ugly Couple' since they always stick together. Yes, she doesn't have any friend beside him and vice versa.

She pouted " I hate it. It's ugly "

" What ugly ?" YiFan asked.

" This " she make a smile face and show him her gums.

He laughed sofly. " It's not ugly. I think its cute "

Mei Ling blushed. She never told him but she had crush on this chubby boy since 2 years ago.

" You are just flattering me, Gege. I know the truth " she pouted.

He pinched her cheeks making the latter yelped " Ouch. That's hurt, Gege ! "

" I'm not flattering you. I'm just saying the truth. Stop saying that or I'm gonna pinched that chubby cheeks of your again ! " he chuckled

" Hey. Who's the chubby here " Mei Ling covered as those words come out from . She know YiFan don't like people called him chubby. She turned toward him and laughed nervously " Haha. Look at the time. Gotta go ! " she brushed the grass on her dress and her heels , walked away from the boy.

" Li Mei Ling !! " YiFan shouted. Mei Ling started running as she sure YiFan was running after her. She looked behind and laughed out loud as her guess was right.

" Come and and catch me, YiFan ! "

They laughed as they played around the field.

This is happiness.

That's what they thought.

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" Mei. I have something to tell you " YiFan started as he sat beside her on the school bench. It was recess, so they went out of the class to have their meals.

" What is it, Gege " she asked as she took a bite of the burger. She noticed her friend was acting strange since that morning cause he barely talked to her.

" I'm.......... I'm transfering " he said sadly.

Mei Ling dropped her burger on the ground.

" W- what ?" she asked again. She heard wrong right ?

" I'm transfering , Mei " he sighed as he finally told her. He was throwing a tantrum at first when his mother said he was going to transfer to another school because his father got jobs tranfered but he can't do anything about it.

"....... Then I will transfer with you " Mei Ling said after a long silence.

YiFan shook his head. " You can't. It's far from here "

" How far ? We will still see each other right ?" she asked, her eyes were b with tears.

"It's Korea. My father got a job tranfer there. Yes. We will met again Mei, I promise "

' Korea'  she thought , that far ?

" In the end you left me too " Mei Ling cried as  tears escaped her eyes.

YiFan eyes started to water. He hated seeing her cried. He don't want to leave her too.

" Don't cry Mei. I wouldn't leave you, it just that I'm not going to be by your side like always. But I will always stay here " he pointed at her heart.

Mei Ling started sobbing uncontrollably.

He let her cried a few minutes as he watched her. It saddened him when he see Mei cried because of him.

" When are you going ? " she asked between her hiccup.

" Next week " he answered, sighing.

Mei Ling snapped her head towards YiFan's. " That fast ?"

YiFan nooded meekly.

They sat in silence, Mei Ling was staring down at her laps, while YiFan stared ahead, blank.

They went to their class when the recess end. No words came out from both of them after that.

The school end, all the student started packing up their stuff and went home.

" YiFan " Mei Ling started as they were the last student in the class.

".......... Please don't forget me " Mei Ling said as she feel her tears welled in her eyes again.

YiFan smiled weakly, as he patted her head. " Never. I will never forget you Mei "

She cried all the way back home together.

The rest of the week went by in a blink. It's YiFan's last school day.

The others student didn't really care when they knew he were tranfering.

' One fatso boy is gone ' that's what they thought. There's only one who cried at his departured.

His friend, best friend.

Li Mei Ling.

" Take care ofyourself there. Don't forget to write letter to me " Mei Ling said for the umpteenth time.

YiFan smiled, showing his gum " Yes, Mei "

Mei Ling started to feel her tears again.

I cant see his gummy smile anymore after this.

She thought bitterly but put up a tough front. She can't cried like child anymore on her friend's last day.

" I'm gonna miss you, Gege " she said sincerely.

YiFan's eyes softened. " I'm gonna miss you to, Mei "

They sat in silence.

" Here, keep this " YiFan's broke the silence as he handed her something.

It was a necklace. A simple necklace. The chain was black  and the locket was a small piece of wood that was polished well and had ' Y F ' carved on it.

It was his charm.

She looked at him, confused " Are you sure? "

" Yes , Mei. Keep this for me till we met again. And whenever you see this you will remember that I will always be with you "

Mei Ling looked up and smiled.

She gave him a pecked on his cheeks

" Thanks "

YiFan blushed but smiled afterward.

That was the last time Mei Ling see him.  They keep on writing letters to each other for a few months. After the 5th month since he went to the Korea, the letter from him stop coming.

Mei Ling assured herself.

He's busy. He will not forget me. He promised

Month after month passed but still there were no letters coming from him anymore.

She still sent him, her letter though.

The school was tough for her since she lost her place to depend on anymore.

The bullies got worse. The peoples started making new names for her. They even said, the 'fatso' leave her and don't want to be her friend anymore.

She cried to herself, clutching on his necklace.

Where are you, YiFan ?

A year and a half passed. She graduated her elemantary school. She had stop writing him letter. She thought they were no point to do that anymore. He forgot her already. He don't want to be her friend anymore, just like everyone else.

She stared at her own reflection on the mirror. No smile or laughter anymore . That's what she gonna be from now on ; expressionless

She gonna changed herself and won't let peoples bullies her anymore.

She looked at the her necklace, his necklace one last time before she keep it in a small box.

She cut her hair short and started her middle school as a new person. As an expressionless girl. She avoided all the peoples and the students didn't dare to go near her nor bullies her anymore.

She got a new nickname though.

Ice Prince

Suited with her appearance , boyish cut and cold attitude.

She spends all her middle school life , alone.

Three years passed and once again she become a school graduated.

" Min Young. Guess what ! " her eomma said excitedly. Min Young is her Korean name. Only her family called her that.

" What ? " she asked, uninterested while flipping the Tv's channel.

" We are going back to Korea !! "

That caught her off guard.

Korea

" Your Appa's boss finally approved of him transfering to Korea. Isn't that great ? We are gonna move to Korea permanently !! " her eomma cheered

She never thought once in her life that she gonna move back to her homeland, since she had been living here since she was born.

Korea. That means, Wu YiFan. There will be chances that they are  gonna met. Eventhough she doubt that and it was impossible since she know how big Korea.

She thought about it for a while.

How he had been doing ?

She caught herself thinking about that sometimes but she just brushed it off. But now, they are going to live on the same land again. She can't helped but thought about him again.

She never hated him. Eversince he went to the Korea until now, she never hated him eventhough he never contact her anymore.

She can't bring herself to hated him but decided to just forget about him instead cause she thought maybe he already forget her. So she should be doing the same.  But now she started to having mixed feeling

Wu YiFan , will we met again ?

This story is purely my imagination, any similarity to drama or any other story are coincidental.

I took a great effort writing this so please, I hope you do understand me.

I do not own the character. This story is 100 % fictional ! Keke.

I don't speak english, so sorry for the broken english and lacked of vocab and grammar error/ bows

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