// CRUSH 1

“Yah, that’s the only luggage you bring?”

Yoona looked down at her innocent little small luggage for a brief second before she looked up and faced her friend. “Yes this will be all. Why?”

“We are going to Bali, Bali!”

“And…?” She asked, not getting the idea.

Jessica sighed and stayed cool for a while before she rubbed her temple. “How many pieces of clothes you’re bringing in there?”

Yoona frowned. “Three?”

To be honest she didn’t have any idea of the crime in bringing her cute little luggage. Jessica placed both hands on her hips, looking like a boss scolding her employee. “And for hot pants and jeans?”

“Two?” Yoona answered again.

The two girls exchanged stares for a full ten seconds before Jessica decided to let this pass. The thing was, clothes mattered for her, and not for Yoona. Appearance mattered for her, not for Yoona. Being pretty mattered the most for her, and not for the Im.

For a certain girl named Im Yoona, food was all that mattered.

“Don’t you know that Yoona here only cares about food?”

Seulong, a tall, well-built guy with a nice smile came and lightly tap Yoona’s shoulder. The latter girl quickly grinned back to her rescuer.

“Hey bro.” Said Yoona, gesturing a high five.

The two greeted each other with a high five.”Hey sis," he said, with all-smile, wiggling his eyebrow at his favorite friend in the office he worked in.

“Shall we queue now that Yoona’s here?”

He quickly met Jessica’s eyes, and in all the sudden, her eyes emitted fragile sparks.

“I have so many luggage…”

Both Yoona and Seulong looked blank before it fully registeredon their mind. Yoona was the first one to take steps forward and took Jessica’s luggage’s and threw them to Seulong.

“Be a gentleman for the Queen.” She grinned and walked pass the frozen guy.

Jessica clapped happily, and blurted: “See? That’s why Yoona is more popular to girls than you!”

Regaining his composure back, he went to catch up with the two girls ahead. “Yah, you don’t have to tell me this, I’m going to pick the luggage for you!”

“Really?” Yoona asked, grinning at her friend.

“Just nod as if you believed in him, Yoona.” Jessica butts in, linking her arms around Yoona’s. “This is why no girls in our office wants to date him.”

“Yah I can hear that.” He muttered, pointing to Jessica.

“Because I made it audible.” Jessica shrugged her tiny, lean shoulders, looking haughty. Soon after, her giggle echoed, followed by Yoona’s mocking smile.

All the way to the queuing area, they met with another colleague. Jessica let go of Yoona the victim (yes, the victim) and went to jump like a rabbit in a flash of second.

“Jong Suk yaa~” she said in a very girly, cute way.

The guy waved and gave a smile. “Hello. We’ve been waiting for you guys.”

“Yeah Yoona here just arrived, so sorry to make you wait.” The Jung explained and pointed at her dongsaeng behind her.

“Hello, sorry I’m a bit late!” Yoona explained and smiled.

“No worries! Let’s go.” Lee Jong Suk led the way, and talked with Jessica, leaving Yoona and Seulong behind.

“I hope we get into the same row of seats.”

Yoona glanced to Seulong and nodded. “How long will it take to get to Bali?”

“Seven hours straight,” he said. “It’s best to sleep.”

“Yoona!” Jessica suddenly called out. “Passports! You and Seulong’s, we are going to hand it over together.”

The two pulled their passports from their bag and handed it over to Jessica.

“What are you doing?” Asked the Jung, looking at the passports offered to her.

“You said to give you the passports.” Seulong replied, narrowing his eyes.

Jessica pointed to Jong Suk. “Give it to him, I don’t want to queue.”

“Please teach your unnie about manners, Yoona.”

“Yah.” Jessica crossed her arms.

The guys laughed and gave up mocking the queen.

“Go away and do your business.” Jessica pushed Jong Suk and Seulong, and went to Yoona’s side.

“How are you so cruel, unnie?” Yoona laughed, covering .

Jung Queen, admiring her lovely polished nails answered back: “This is how life works, kid. Life’s tough.”

Jessica’s line gained another hearty laugh from the younger girl. “Daebak. Life’s tough when you are around.”

“Thanks, you know how daebak your unnie is, right?” She winked to her dongsaeng, totally ignoring the last sentence.

“Yes, yes.”

Yoona then took her favorite BEATS earplug from her bag, and wore it soon after. She scrolled around her music folders for the playlist. She tapped on Crush by Urban Zakapa, and soon after she was brought into another world of music. Smiling, she listened to it; hands in her pocket, looking relaxed as always.

She looked around, to find her group of colleague who were going to Bali together for the fun trip. She spotted her boss a few meters away from where she stood, and lots of people talking while queuing the line. She wondered if the trip to Bali would be nice.

At 26 years old, Yoona was considered one of the most hard working employee in her large company group that she was working for. Because of that, her company rewarded their best employees a 2 night stay in Bali.

Yoona have always been the type who gets to work before office even start and the last one to leave after officer hours. People wondered why someone as flawless as her could be single, it just so happened she hadn’t found the right one yet. Don’t get her wrong, she dated a couple of times and even felt some sparks with some, but still, she felt like something was missing. She wasn’t the type who stays with a person just to avoid being alone. Jessica’s dating record was longer than Yoona, but Yoona seem to have better understanding about relationships

She might never be in any relationship before, but she knew what to do and what to not do. She knew when to praise, when to stare and appreciate, when to flirt, and when to make someone’s heart beat rapidly. She knew it all.

Jessica had always said that Yoona was born as a hopeless romantic, judging by how cheesy her words could be. This happened when one of Jessica’s ex was asking for a favor from Yoona to make a romantic poem.

Chuckling, Yoona covered from the trip to her past earlier.

“Why are you laughing?”

“Nothing,” She said, still smiling.

“Ah there aren’t many handsome guys around.” Said Jessica, taking glances here and there.

“And we are still at the second row!”

Yoona looked up again to study her surroundings. Indeed, there were still around 14 people in front of them.

“Yah yah, look, a pretty girl!” Seulong came back to Yoona and Jessica, whispering secretly.

“What? Where, where?” Excited, Jessica asked. Another fact of girls, they liked to see and judge. See if the ‘target’ was prettier than them or not, that is.

“Three o’clock spot.” Seulong said in a low voice, secretly taking glances at the pretty girl he just saw.

Yoona, who was still listening to music didn’t hear about this, but at the same time, her eyes met a bright, lovely beautiful brown eyes.

It happened in just a second but the moment when their eyes locked into each other, it was as if the world stopped, her heart stopped, and the time stopped. Everything stopped at that instant, just the two of them, looking at each other. Without a word, without a sound.

Just staring at each other, like they were the only people in the crowded place. Everything slowed in that moment, and the vision turned crystal clear, a sharp vision of how the girl’s eyes fluttered, how her eyes tremble slightly when they found each other.

She was mesmerizing, from head to toe, the silky long hair, the perfect jaw line, her slightly parted chin, and the way her lips parts, it took away all of Yoona’s strength to finally be able to look away from admittedly, the most beautiful person she had ever laid her yes on.

Trembling, Yoona tried to regain her self back from what she just saw, and told herself to calm down. She looked to the marble floor and back to the girl again, to find the other looking down the floor too.

A nudge from Jessica woke her up.

“Wh-what?”

“Did you see the girl Seulong was talking about?!” She whispered quietly.

Yoona looked blank and dumb, still oblivious to the world around her. “What? Where?”

“There—“ Jessica pointed. “The girl with long hair, high nose, tall and cool.”

Yoona felt a pang on her heart. Like when a person snatched her food away from her grasp. She wondered if she was feeling jealous for a certain someone that she just saw. This case had never happened before.

Now more people joined the whispering group, talking about the certain pretty girl not far from them. Yoona kept fanning herself despite of the weather.

Her friends were talking about how gorgeous the girl looked, with her slightly rosy cheek, long hair perfectly fall around her neck, small red lips and the small, long legs covered in the tight jeans and black ankle boots.

“You want to know her name?”

Yoona heard the line coming from Jessica, to Seulong. She quickly looked at him and she immediately knew that he was appreciating the beauty. Seulong nodded and blushed.

Jessica grinned. “Then go to her and ask for her name!”

“What? No way.” He ruffled his hair.

Yoona kept mumbling a “no no no don’t do it” inside her mind. Anxious, she bit her lower lips and listened more.

“Are you afraid? What kind of guy are you! Do you want me to go there and talk to her about this?”

The guys’s boo was echoing, and Yoona knew that every word that Jessica said was an absolute law. She would do it, or made another law.

“Yeah Sica, go and ask for her name!” Some of the guys said, and Jessica was brave enough slash has enough guts to go make her way to the beautiful girl.

Yoona looked like a dead corpse.

She watched how her unnie Jessica went to approach the girl and talked to her. She counted from one to ten, and soon after, she saw the pretty girl being dragged to her group, facing Seulong.

They eyes met once more, for a mere three seconds before Jessica opened up a conversation. “My friend here said that you are cute. He would like to know your name.”

Im Yoona had never do a bungee jumping or a cliff diving before, but now they all happened in that moment where she heard that line. She screamed inside her mind.“Nooooooooooo!!”

“Oh,” Replied the pretty girl. She looked confused of the sudden commotion and all the stares she got.

Seulong ya, I think I exchanged stares with her first. This isn’t right.

Yoona saw Seulong shyly offered his hand and soon met the pretty lean hand. “What—what’s your name?” he stammered.

“Yuri.” The girl shortly answered.

Seulong nodded and turned red. “Nice to know you, Yuri-ssi, I’m Seulong.”

“Ah, yes.” Yuri nodded, dry.

It was awkward because he dared to say no more, and Yoona was gulping a big liquid from what she saw.

Yuri then made her way back to her spot, and soon engaged in a conversation with her companion. Yoona’s friends started showering Yuri with praise again.

“Yah yah who is she? I saw her talking to our boss earlier.” Jong Suk asked, curious.

“I heard she’s the daughter of our boss’ friend.” Jessica answered.

Im Yoona braved herself to look up at Yuri, and for the third time, their eyes locked into each other. She was staring at Yuri quite openly, and Yuri was also looking at her. With those slightly parted lips, she wondered if there was any unspoken word for her.

No, you can't go there Yoona. She'd think that you're just playing around with her, after what happened with Seulong earlier.

There was this huge, magnetism happening in Yoona's heart and soul right now, a force stronger than embarrassment and fear was puling her stronger and stronger to Yuri.

Sweating, Yoona took quick, discreet glances to Yuri, again and again. Like one would never be enough, and there would never be enough for looking at the figure not far from her.

Im Yoona wondered if Yuri felt happy when Seulong asked for her name. She wondered if Yuri liked him back. She wondered if her friend was mocking her about this, she wondered if Yuri was proud of what had happened. She wondered what kind of person would be Yuri's ideal type. She wondered how would Yuri look if she smiled, how would her heart flutter when she heard Yuri's voice.

She wanted to know them all. She wanted to know all about Yuri.

All about Yuri.

She wanted to know them all.