Perfect World

Chapter 23

Mina POV

"Uh-thanks." I said.

I bet my face was red right now. She give me a wide smile showing off her dimple. Oh god! What I should kill to see her smile like that every day? Today she's been so open, and amazingly I caught her again. Her face were so close to mine, my breath hitched and her eyes gleamed with happiness. The cold surrounded us but our breath was hot creating steam out of our mouths as if we were both out of breath but everything around me felt so hot. I let her back up and she straightened herself. My hand was still on her waist and her body was so close to mine as if we were leaning in for a kiss. I felt this pull, a pull that wanted me to lean into her perfect lips. I let go quickly in embarrassment and she give a small smile. We both then walked side by side to each other to the restaurant. It wasn't that far, just a couple blocks down and around the corner.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

"Yeah, this just really made my day." I let out a laugh.

She stop and look at me.

"I'm talking about what happened earlier. You know, practice?" She said.

"Oh." That's all escaped from my mouth.

I looked down replaying what happened. It hurts to know that my own team didn't accept me for who I am.

"Hmm, just they were giving me hard time. You know, stubbornness and ignorance." I managed to said.

She didn't said anything. We made it to the restaurant and walked inside feeling warm. It wasn't that busy but I loved how everything was dim. There were vines from the ceiling, white cloths covering the table and small candle on it. The smell of Italian food wavered in the air and we were seated at the far back table for two. The candle on the table flickered and Chaeyoung's eyes were wandering the room. The light sparkled in her eyes making her looks like she was in awe.

"Okay. I still don't know much about you, Chaeyoung. So tell me." I said.

She looked over and I can tell her mood changed. She got a bit quiet. Damn! Did I make her uncomfortable? Wrong move, Myoui Mina.

"There's nothing about me to know, Mina." She said slowly.

"And, that's a lie. Because you never told me you dance." I said to cheer up the environment.

"Well, neither did you!" She encounter.

We sat there both laughing and our drink soon came to us. I wish I was having wine. But I know how much Chaeyoung didn't like alcohol. Plus, I can't drink outside.

"Okay, do you have any siblings?" I asked.

"Nope." She replied with 'p'.

"What's your favourite subject?" I asked.

"Literature." She said.

"Really? Ew." I said.

"Well, I have a passion for writing and coming up with theories." She said take a sip of drink.

"Theories." I said and she give me a slight nod.

"Interesting." I said smirk.

She stiffened in her chair and took a sip of her water clearing her throat.

"Well, here's a quote from a book. 'Everything from a distance seems beautiful, but when up close its all just an ugly' by Paper town. Papergirl, paperboy, paper town. Its all the same and its ugly. Its a fake. Everyone dreams, everyone wants to escape into their dream and never wake up. Here's the thing though, you do wants to wake up because if everything right now is a fake, then its all a dream. You say you don't want to wake up to reality, you think when we wake up you are automatically in reality. That's a fake. Even if you wake up you are still stuck into your dream because its a fake. Its a paper. The question though, what is reality? Or why are we not waking up then? I don't know. No one knows. Reality is far beyond our power. We are never wake up. We all is a dreamer. And the question still same though. Just in different direction, either we believe or not." She said.

She was passionate about what she said and I can tell she felt confused. Her hand gripped the napkin and she took another sip from her cold glass water. The thought of it made me start thinking about the existence of the world. I'm so caught up in everything else, and never really had time to just think about what goes around us. The candles still reflecting her eyes and she looks nervous.

"I don't know. Its just a dumb theories." She mumbled nervously.

"What? No Chaeyoung. I'm actually in awe. I have never really seen things in different perspectives like you do. Hearing what you said, make me think of it. Yeah, actually you were right. Everyone is a dreamer. I really never thought about that." I said in awe.

She give a light smile and I could tell she was blushing. She bite her bottom lip and my face felt hot all of sudden. God! How I wish I could kiss and bite that lips. I shrugged my pervert thought quickly.

"Okay. Stop talking about me. Now, tell me something about you." She said.

"Hmm, well. What would you like to know?" I asked.

"Anything Mina. Tell me about the real you." She said looking straight to my eyes.

The real me, huh. Okay let see.

"Well, my parents as you know both are surgeons. They met through their internship year at the hospital. My family and I used to jump from city to city a lot which is hard and I didn't get to spend time with them as often. Most of my life I was raised by babysitters and nannies until they finally settled in here. They found a time schedule to make a room for me and my brothers, and actually started to take care of me when I was about age seven." I explain.

Chaeyoung nodded her head.

"What about your brother?" She asked making me a bit shock.

"I'm sorry. If you don't want t-." I cuts her.

"Its okay. I'm fine. As you know Minho, passed away when he's 19. He was in an accident. My family didn't talk much about what happen but its okay. I understand them. And there's Kai. He's two year older than me. We hung out a lot when we were kids but he was more into sports at the time. They got two different sitters for us as one for me at home, one for take Kai to the games." I said.

"What's he like?" She took another sip.

I let out a small laugh. I haven't talked to him in a while. He's been super busy and going down memory lane right made me miss him.

"He's very nice. After Minho gone, he take his part and always there for me. Just now he's a bit busy with his intern which is crazy. He's extremely smart but goofy. He would always tease me on the smallest things." I said laugh remembering him.

Awe, I miss him. I saw her smile and her beautiful brown hair traveling down to her arms. I can't wait till the Fall dance.

"What about you? What's your family like?" I asked.

Immediately, her eyes traveled down to the napkin in her lap. Her lips parted taking in sigh.

"My family isn't much of a family, Mina." She said with her cracked voice.

Oh shit!

- Is this consider as a date? 🤔 -