'It was something I've always dreamt of, and I learnt that dreams CAN come true...to a certain limit. That's what differentiate living your dream and dream on its own'

"Are you ready?"

It took me a while before I could register what really happened even though I was perfectly aware of this day. But seeing the message on my phone, I still felt everything was too unreal. Indeed it was UNreal but happening nevertheless. My hands trembled a little, trying to find the right key to press to reply to her message.

In the end I managed to reply. "Yes, I'll be on my way. Where should...we..meet?" I took me....almost 10 minutes to send the reply. I felt like such a loser.

Within a minute, I received another message.

"No. Just wait at the cafe. I'll come and pick you up. Make sure you're dressed like a star today. No more dorky waiter fashion. Today, you're going to be a star, act like one, okie. ;)"

I smiled, carressing my mobile phone's screen. I have a feeling she would be disappointed by my appearance then.

"Sorry, Park...I mean... Gyuri ssi. Aish!" I tried rehearsing with myself on how to apologize for my sloppy appearance on our first and only date. But the more I rehearsed, the weirder it came out.

Less than a few seconds after the 2nd message I received from her, in came another one.

"Btw, yah~! what took you so long to reply? pshh."

I...must not...get used to this.

I hung my head to the ground, trying to remind myself to stay grounded in reality, and not drawn to momentarily bliss that would explode and shatter into pieces of broken heart once time is up, if I let myself succumb into the feelings that tried to crept their way inside me.

She didn't love or care about me, and she was not at fault. She made herself very clear, and I accepted this out of my own will.

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When Gyuri's car slide into the carpark(well, her manager's car that is), she was humming random happy tunes to herself. Before she went to bed, she had made a mental note to look happy and BE happy today. She had been too exhausted for the past week, being in the same room with Eunhyuk every night, with the same awkward silences in between songs, the same annoyance when he would occassionally make calls to "baby tiffany", or "goddess yoona" or "cutie sunny" or "whatever hyoyeon...Victoria...Soojung..Luna....it's not like she need to remember each and every one. The nicknames he called them only made her shuddered in disgust. 'Like excuse me, he never spoke that cheesily or gave me any such nicknames, not that I needed such silly lame nicknames anyway. But goddess? Really? Goddess is only Park Gyuri and Park Gyuri is THE goddess.'

'For the past week, I've had nothing but and aching heart. It looked like he had fun making fun of me like that. How could he....after what he said last week, about waiting for me? Liar. That's one good reason I broke up with him. Fine, so you've had fun. I'm going to have my own kind of fun today, you just wait and see, Lee Eunhyuk.'

She was too caught up in her thoughts, and mumbling to herself, while somebody outside the car was already knocking at her side window.

"Oups....aish...stupid." She scolded herself and immediately unlocked her car, and motioned for him to get in.

Once he's inside and bowed to her uncomfortably, Gyuri glanced at him upside down. He was wearing a pale blue-neon green plaid shirt that looked a little too oversized on his skinny figure, a basic jeans that still looked a little too loose for him, and a thick frammed glasses, his hair gelled and parted on the right.

"You look......well......nice." She tried to make him feel better after realizing the horror stare she had been throwing at him, but then decided she wasn't being nice by saying such obvious lie to him,even if her intentions were nice. "...okay, a little nerdy. Scratch that, totally nerdy....maybe I should've bought you clothes for today. Sorry." She pouted at him apologetically.

'If only she knew how much research I had to do to look like this...' He thought but smiled awkwardly.

"I guess I disappointed you. I'm the one who should apologize. Sorry, Park Gyuri ssi."

"Nnnn..no!! You shouldn't. Look, We're going to have a great day today, regardless of how we look. What's the point of looking handsome if you can't even look genuinely happy? Think you can do that?"

"What? Happy..for the camera?......I think I can."

"Good, don't think too much of the cameras. Just.....loosen up, and try to enjoy yourself, and talk more. Even if this whole date thingy is fake, that's the only fake part. I think you'd make a great friend, and I'd like to get to know you better, not just as a patron and a waiter. You get what I mean?"

He zoned out, but once back to the scene, he immediately nodded over and over again, hoping she wouldn't missed it, cursing himself for always giving her late response.

"Assa! Let's go crazy today!" Gyuri suddenly shouted and sped off the car, a smirk escaped her lips as she noticed the worried looking man next to her clinging to his seat belt.

'What a cute geek. He would go well with Seungyeoni.....no..Seungyeon...would end up bullying him. How about Jiyoung...that stubborn kid with her ahjussi crush? Maybe not......Nic...no, that kid is a player..she'd broke the kid's poor heart, and Hara....well, she obviously wouldn't dump her good-for-nothing boyfriend for someone like this, she only has eyes for the hot ones anyway....' "That wouldn't do..." She accidentally slipped the last part out.

"Thinking of....him?"
"Huh....him? Who?"
"You know....Eunhyuk sun.....Eun.hyuk." He immediately corrected himself.
"Let's not talk about him today." She shrugged. "I'm in a good mood. Don't spoil it."
"But....isn't the whole point of our outing is ab