sail

chapter 3

Matt:
And there in the middle of some hall I was passing by after submitting the necessary papers, I saw a girl, sitting alone and looking up, my foot stopped themselves acting according to my curious mind what is she staring looking upwards, I bent down to see she was staring at the ceiling, just staring at the ceiling ? She seems lost in thought, just a second later, her phone started ringing and she spoke
"yeah tae. ?" Soon I excused myself from there and walked away. After getting out of MSA, I walked the street down to find some coffee shop, copper pot, interesting name, and ordering myself a coffee, I took a seat across the glass wall and called mom, she might be worried how was I, soon after the first ring she picked up
"hey mom"
"matt why haven't you called till now? You know I have been waiting"
"yeah mom, sorry, I just submitted my papers here in MSA and came out" I explained her
"okay, how are you? Fine right?" she asked concerned
"Yeah mom, I am fine, don't worry, I will be fine here, okay?"
"Okay, you being good is all what I care about, yeah matt, tell me, did you find a condo? "
"no mom, it's just two days, I will find one, I am going to search now" I assured her
"fine, but make sure you can find something near to your school otherwise you will get tired, okay ?"
"Yeah okay mom"
"okay then, patients waiting, I will talk again, take care dear"
"take care mom, I miss you and J"
"we miss you too matty" I know she already got teary eyed by my last words, but I can't help to say either, I miss them, being a mamma's boy and leaving her to New York was quiet difficult for me, but on the other side on the bridge lay MSA, which can secure my future in music, my passion, I knew I would get in, I am confident enough regarding that, and I got in too. Now there is one thing that I have to do, perform here well and get scouted by some top class music company and be an official musician. My goal was clear. After having my coffee I plunged up to search for a condo. After searching around for a few hours I found a perfect condo, pre furnished, with a bed, a study table, a TV and a balcony too, what more can I ask for, after signing the contract with landlord I returned back to my hotel, tomorrow I will move to my condo.
the day quickly went by and the time for my moving into new condo came by, I packed all my stuff, heavy stuff I should say, including my guitar and my luggage bags, I booked a taxi and left for my condo, and the land lord got room cleaned.

Mihi:
"Mihi, tae ?" grandpa called us as he arrived
"grandpa, how have you been ?" I said as I got down the stairs and greeted him with a hug, today grandpa is going to be my ride to MSA, since tae wanted to leave there early to film documentary, grandpa is one of the chairpersons there,
"grandpa, how are you ?" tae said as he came down and hugged grandpa again, after a few moments of family talk and getting instruction on how to behave, tae left, he left early for filming, after some more time we started to the MSA and after a 15 minute drive we arrived. And I myself was pretty excited for this day, coming till here marked a big step to me, and as dad says may be I really have that talent, maybe I was not confident enough, Mihi McDonough, this is your chance in trying to overcome your fears, try your best to come out of your cocoon and live out the best. Determined, I got down as we reached MSA. Yonna hasn't come yet, so I texted her
me: where are you yoona ??
yoona : should start stupid, jess will drive, half an hour more, who did you come with ?
me: grandpa
yoona : what about aunt and uncle ?
me: you know they will be busy today
me: come here soon
me: I'm bored
me: and I am feeling tense standing alone
yoona: hey wait till I have time to text back, I am already on the way, and stupid, don't be tense, no one is going to eat you there
me: very funny -_-
yoona : is tae not with you ?
Me: no tae was filming, you know, his documentary he wanted to work on
yoona : and grandpa?
me: talking to someone, I guess someone from the board of directors
yoona : okay, don't worry, I will be there soon, mean while go get a drink for yourself
me: okay
and as she suggested and in accordance to what I decided, not to be shy and tensed, I wore a smile on my face and proceeded towards the drinks, and got a fruit punch for myself, as I sat there sipping my drink and waiting, grandpa was approaching me, with the same man I saw him with earlier
"Mihi, come here" I left my drink on the table and went to them
"mihi, greet your other grandpa, you know he is also one of the chairpersons " my grandpa said
"hello sir" I greeted him with a smile still tense over the new person, one more thing I lack is facing new people with ease, well he is not exactly new, I know him, one of grandpa's friends and our relatives, he also has a grandson roughly around my age, but we all meet rarely, I take time to get comfortable and speak, that is the reason why I don't have any friends both inside and outside school except yoona.
"and you know her Pattinson"
"yes yes, she has grown beautiful McDonnie, mihi, you are very pretty"
"thank you Grandpa" I thanked him for the compliment
"so what are you majoring in Mihi" there started the questioning section, I glanced up towards him and saw he was eyeing me, waiting for my reply, somehow this look is a bit threatening to when others feel nothing,no Mihi, this is really nothing, you need not be tensed, he just want to know about you, answer him calmly, there should be no tension showing on your face, after finishing the small round of battle inside my mind, I cooled off and smiled as I spoke
"I major in dance"
"oh really, my grandson, he is majoring in film department, I hope you can be friends." He said smiling widely; see he was just curious; he has a grandchild Aaron remember? so he asked you, look at the inner meaning, not on the outside things, and now speak up or else he will surely thing you are cracked up my mind told
"I hope we can be friends" as I said he turned around and started searching for someone, after calling his name for a couple of times Aaron appeared out of crowd and started approaching us
"Mihi, you know Aaron right ?" there goes another round, round two for your practice mihi, now greet him with confidence
"hello Aaron" I said with smile, as I was completing those words I felt good, introducing to new people isn't that difficult you see mihi, I praised myself inwardly for the small achievement I made today.
"hai Mihi" he said, and then just when it was about to get awkward with lack of topics, grandpa saved me as he asked
"Mihi, go look for Tae and get him here" I nodded and left there, few minutes of searching in the crowd, I found tae and brought him back,
"tae, meet Aaron"tae shook hands with both of them confidently, that's when my stupidity stuck to me, I didn't shook hands with either of them, in a meetings like this shaking hands is mandatory and I did not do that, very great success you had mihi, feeling disappointed I was looking downwards and now it is time for yoona to save me
"Mihi" she said as she waved me from a few feet away, her call not only distracted me, but also the two grandpas and tae and aaron, who were conversing something I didn't care about
"sorry" I said and politely excused myself from there to yoona
"yah what took you this long ?" I asked her angrily as she was late by more time than I expected, instead of replying me with that , she spoke
"yah, you look so beautiful, this sky blue dress is made for you, I love this dress" she said as she started praising my dress, yoona is someone who likes to get ready, from tip to toe she is perfect every time and likewise, today too, dressed in a blueberry colored knee length dress and silver colored shoes she look stunning, but I decided to tease her a bit
"you look average yoona, what happened to your dressing sense? Why did you pair up those shoes?" as I expected her face fell
"what they don't match ?" she asked worriedly
"nah" I said as I shook my head
"what should I do now ? will everyone be laughing at me now ?" she asked as she held her head down and turned away so that she is not facing the crowd, I couldn't control my laughter anymore, laughing I spoke
"you believed me ? "
"is this a joke?" she asked as the tension disappeared from her face and a poker face formed
"or else what? You of course look stunning yoona" I assured her, and she smiled widely
"so you came here alone ? I thought you are coming with your sis? Family members are invited tonight right ?" I asked her
"you know, mom and dad went on some business tour and despite me saying its fine, jess dropped me here before she left for a date with kris" jess, is yoona's elder sister, now 24 and kris is her sisters boyfriend
"okay, so what else ?"
" who's the one you are talking to before?"
"he was one of the chairpersons grandson"
"oh. I thought" and before she continued her words, her face fell again as she froze, tension started to build up more, I looked in the same direction she was seeing and found some boy coming in our direction,
"who is that yoo ?" I asked
"come with me" and she started dragging me from there , no we were practically running, we were now away from the hall, in some class room, as she stopped her feet
"what is all this about yoo ?" I asked her panting, running around in heels is quiet difficult and I hate these heels, I shouldn't have put them on even after mom compelling, only if knew yoona would make me run around with heels, she still didn't reply to my question
"yoona, why did we run away from him ?" I asked her again
"I did something foolish and embarrassing"
"like what?"
"See after we submitted our papers that day, I left to granny's village that noon, and yesterday when I was returning, there weren't many passengers around in the compartment I have been travelling, and a while later, one boy got in the train at the next station, he then started doing something with his camera, I first thought he was seeing some already taken photos, but then realized that his camera lens was pointed in my direction, is he taking my pictures without my permission? And I got all furious and started fighting with him, and demanded that he should delete that stuff, he didn't reply immediately and before he could say anything, I snatched his camera so that I could delete them myself, he started pulling that back towards him and me pulled the camera towards me, after a few minutes of pulling, the camera was in my hand, and then I realized he didn't capture me in the camera, he was taking a few shots of the scenery outside the train, I was fooled, embarrassed, and returned him his camera without any word, I was saved by train arriving here, so I stormed off, I thought I wouldn't see him again, but he appeared again today " wow so much happened in one day for her , and for the second time in the same day I was laughing hard and my stomach is hurting now,
"don't laugh" yoona said as she got angry and frustrated that I didn't stop laughing
"okay okay fine" I said as I stopped myself from laughing
"what should I do now ?"She asked as she whined
"well, I guess you should apologize, it was your fault anyway"
"no way, I am going to face him again"
"why?"
"Because, if I apologize I will be embarrassed again"
"okay then" and there was silence again, she didn't speak a word so after a few minutes I asked
"shall we go back now? He might have stopped looking now" she nodded and we went back, now walking and as soon as we entered the hall tae appeared in front of us, and after staring at yoona for a second he spoke
"yoona, you look good" a little blush forming on his face
"thanks tae" she said not realizing the way he meant that again as usual