To Our Pure Little Beauty

Chapter 14

"Lisa, don’t you think letting your guest wait at the door is a very ill-mannered thing to do?” Sehun knocked on the opened wide metal gate, creating a clanging sound.

I leaned on one side to let him in, he sat on the sofa and laughed at me. I was still too immersed in memories and shock to snap out of it, I blinked and blinked my eyes, he was still there.

I fixed my eyes on him, from his ocean blue striped polo-tee to his Nike track shoes, then to his youthful 17~18 years old looking face. Taehyung should really learn to take care of his skin from Sehun.

He suddenly took something out of his pocket and held it out in a fist towards me, “The New Zealand snacks that I owe you.”

I spread out my palm doubtfully, he shifted this fist above my palm and let go of a packet of long green sweet. That packaging, that outlook, that is quite an international sweet – Wrigley’s Doublemint Chewing Gum.

He is still smiling at me. I turned my head, having a sudden urge of wanting to cry. It’s not that I want to be pretentious, but he’s the friend that treated me the best during my youth, and he just suddenly disappeared, and suddenly appeared again, as though he had never missed a part of my life.

Furthermore, he still looked so young. Time didn’t bear to slash his face but hacked mine into pieces. How can I not be sad? How can I not cry?

Sehun was caught off guard, “Why are you crying?”

I stomped my feet and roared at him, “Where have you been all these years? When I fought with my boyfriend I couldn’t find you, when I fell out of love I couldn’t find you, when I lost my job I couldn’t find you, when I was hungry I couldn’t find you too….”

He laughed while watching me make a fuss and pulled me down to sit on the sofa to say, “Calm down, it’s not good to cry like that.” 

I glared at him tearfully. I was crying like a pear blossom, I was so pitiful, I was paying respect to our long-lost youth, crying for our incomprehensible friendship, stop putting gold to your own face.

After that we sat cross legged on the floor before the sofa, drank plain water and talked about our past.

Sehun said, “After I reached New Zealand for half a month, when things were finally all settled down, my father called me to tell me that his company had declared bankruptcy.”

I have never experienced bankruptcy, neither does my family’s financial ability have the qualifications to declare bankrupt. The most we can only declare that we have no money. Therefore I was not able to understand the seriousness of that. But I didn’t want to appear as ignorant, so I said in great sympathy and sadness, “Ah! How can that be…..”

Heavens and earth know that my words were euphemistic terms of expressing comfort, its to lament the state of the universe and pity the fate of mankind. However, Sehun still explained in detail about how his father trusted the wrong person, how the business went downhill, how there were cash flow problems. He explained till my eyes, expressions were lifeless. Finally he said, “Even if I tell you too much you also won’t understand.”

After saying that I wouldn’t understand, he carried on as though I understood. He explained more on the terms of bankruptcy law, and I had to act as though I was very sad even though I couldn’t understand anything. At last I couldn’t take it anymore. I interrupted him and said, “Stop talking, I am too sad. If you continue to talk I will even feel like donating money to you.”

Sehun looked into my eyes very seriously, “You don’t understand, right?”

I shrugged, “I think I don’t understand. Why not you start talking from why you disappeared?”