Part of Me (Will Always Be Yours) - JinJoo AU

Chapter VIII: Yujin

Chapter Eight

The fireworks display already ended and it was beautiful. Yena and her siblings made fantastic job with those explosives. You and Minjoo watch the fireworks in comfortable silence, both lost in the moment though you might have kept on stealing glances at her side during the whole time. You just can't stop yourself, you were afraid that she might caught you and make things awkward but then the lights and colors of the fireworks reflecting on her contented face was just too hard to resist. You find it a lot more beautiful than the fireworks itself.

The campers are having party at the beach, Nako mentioned it to you earlier how right after the fireworks there will be a party. It is part of the Camp Half Blood's tradition and curfew is lifted for tonight, so campers are allowed to loiter around the camp. You and Minjoo decided to just stay here at the Half Blood Hill and ditch the party.

Minjoo told you how wild the Camp Half Blood party is, children of Dionysus leading the party with the help of Apollo cabin and Hermes cabin, you can't imagine how chaotic that party is. Even from afar you can see the campers getting wild at the beach. More reason for you to not attend that party, besides you'll always choose to spend time alone with Minjoo than to mingle with the other campers.

With your soda and chips, you two shared the things that you've been doing the past week. You told her how you spent your week, trying to make your week as interesting as it could be. Also, avoiding to spill how much you missed her and that your week was in fact boring because she's not here at Camp. Nope, you cannot say those words or else this little bubble you two are in right now, might burst. You also told her the impromptu swimming earlier this day. How you all tried to drown each other.

"I can't believe I miss all that fun" she said, pouting.

She looks so adorable with that pout.

"We can go and swim anytime you want," you replied, without even thinking.

"Really?" she immediately answered, her face lighting up "But I don't know how to swim that's why I rarely swim at the beach" she added, her face falling.

"I'm not a good swimmer but I can teach you the basics," you said, but she eyed you suspiciously "I won't let you get drown, I promise" you assured her, handing out your pinky finger.

"I'll look forward to that" Minjoo said, locking her pinky finger with yours "And I know that Romans are true to their words so you better keep that promise, Yujin" she added, eyeing you

You just laughed at her comment about you keeping your promise. She's right with that one, Romans values honor and integrity, so breaking promises is not in your vocabulary. Besides, there's no way you'll let her get drown, you thought maybe it's time to practice your swimming skills.

Minjoo put down her hands but she didn't let go of your pinky finger. You are like, holding hands but, only with your pinky fingers and you think it's cute so you just let it be. She told you how her exams went. How she arrived 45 minutes late on one of her exams because she can't sleep the night before that. She also told you that despite starting late she was the first one to finish the exam and got perfect score, to which her classmates found suspicious. You laughed at that part, you can't help but pity her classmates, if they only knew that Minjoo is a literal brain child they will never question her wits.