Healing Me ✔️

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21.12.17
Evening:

A plain yellow pastel shirt and ripped jeans wrapped Jun's tall slender figure which alone gave him an alluring look, strong enough to make anyone's heart beat go faster than normal. Although December's chilliness didn't allow him to display all of it, as a thick padding jacket wrapped him like a blanket.

Yunhee was used to this man's habits--  Dressing up as ethereally as he can but behaving as he doesn't know that he's attractive.
"Yunhee, did you memorize the phrases and tones I told you last Wednesday?" He asked the girl in front of him, who was concentrating on her wrist watch that was currently being unbuckled from her wrist.

"Hmm, but please don't ask me questions. I'm not ready yet", she flattened her lips to a straight line.

It has been four weeks since they started meeting. Beginning with once a week, Yunhee's urgency made it increase upto to twice, even sometimes thrice a week.

One strange thing was that, everytime Yunhee would call Jun to ask some question or clear some doubt, Jun would immediately say, "let's meet and solve this tomorrow. Phone calls aren't helpful!"

Jun hid his contented smile at her simple plea. "Okay, but if you don't let me ask you what you learned so far, how am I supposed to teach you new things?"

"Umm, sorry!" Yunhee lowered her head, "I'll... I'll make sure to memorize everything till the next day when we meet! Promise!" Her most trustable voice replied.

He didn't hide his smile this time. "Okay then, let's end it here today. But it's only been half an hour..."

"How does it matter? You don't take fees anyway!", Yunhee's gaze changed to a rather complaining one. She did offer him fees upto her capability but he denied.

"I would love to teach you Chinese, but let's not involve money!" That's what he said on their first day of meeting.

"Have you eaten?" Jun asked.

Yunhee looked at her wrist watch which was proudly lying on the table. It was 7pm and she needed to go home, within 8:30.
"Not yet. You?"

"Umm no I haven't. So... Has your mom cooked dinner already?" Jun slightly gave hints on what he wanted to say.

Yunhee looked at him, not fully understanding what he meant. She simply replied with the truth, "My mom hasn't returned home yet. She works at a parlor".

"Oh then, should we ---should we eat before going home?" The words that came out of his mouth, tinted his own cheeks in a pale red first.

Yunhee was amused to see his courage but somehow didn't feel flustered. "That...is possible..." She trailed off and didn't finish her sentence. 

"R-really? Then let's go now..." Jun swiftly got out of his chair, without making such a noise in the public library and looked at Yunhee.

"But, won't it be late if we go to eat now?" She asked while putting on her wrist watch again.

"If that happens, then I will walk you to the bus stop or to your home. You don't have to go alone."

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25.12.17

Jun tapped lightly on the surface of his phone as he hesitated a lot about whether he should or shouldn't call her.

He was not supposed to go out today as he has got a lot of household things to do in his small apartment. But it won't be bad if he has to go once Yunhee calls and tells him that there's a problem in one pronunciation, or one word meaning, or one phrase or…

He didn't realize he was smiling just thinking about it.

"No no, I shouldn't be like this! I shouldn't be!" He forced his body to move upwards and then walked front to reach the kitchen where there were loads of unwashed plates gathered.

But why was he thinking about Yunhee and her Chinese by the way? It's nothing like Yunhee considers him as her friend or something. She just wanted to learn Chinese on a tutor-student basis, but Jun was the one who refused to take any fees.

Is he…

The doorbell rang in an interruptive way and Jun broke out of his thoughts.

He went straight to the main door to unlock it and found a fairly dressed up figure of Minghao standing.
"What's up?" Minghao raised a hand for a high five.

"Y-yo..", he malfunctioned before raising his own hands to join it.

"You look so disheveled, Junnie", Minghao said, looking at Jun's soaked kitchen apron and one of his hands still holding the sponge, but his expression having a way more confused cover.

"Oh.. aniya, I was doing dishes. Come come, come inside", saying that Jun opened the door wider and made some space for Minghao to enter.

"Have had lunch?" Minghao was standing in the middle of the living area.

"Um, yes I ordered some food and ate it!", Jun replied back.

"Hmm ordering food and not cooking anything", Minghao pestered his flat eyes towards Jun, "not so like Moon Junhui. Something is wrong, isn't it?", he narrowed his eyes.

"Why? What's supposed to be wrong?" he fought back with a little pout, "by the way, did you eat your lunch?" He asked the younger one.

"Hm yes. I did! My classes in college ended early and I came here to chill.." Minghao yawned as he settled himself on the couch.

"Oh that's why you--"
The phone started to ring making Jun snap back leaving his speech unfinished.

Certainly, it was Yunhee.

As soon as he picked it up, she started to speak, "Jun I have sent you the homeworks. Please check them for me..".

"Oh sure! I'm going to check it and call you back, okay!", Jun replied.

"Okay, when is the next class?" She asked again.

"Let's meet tomorrow. Do you have any problems?" Jun sat on a single sofa next to the couch and noticed Minghao gathering some perplexed facial expressions.

"No problem, I'll be there at 6. Bye!" And she hung up.

"You got yourself a GIRLFRIEND?" Minghao asked dramatically.

"A-aniya.. What are you talking about…" Jun felt extremely taken aback at the sudden query, "she is.. she is a student.. My student.. I give her private tuition.. she is my student" he babbled the same words over and over to make it sound believable.

Minghao gave him another confused look.
"Ow, okay, understandable. WAIT, YOU ARE GIVING TUITIONS?" The shock was visible in his eyes.

"What is so unbelievable about it? You are looking down on me now as if I can't give t-tuitions.." he got up from his seat and went to the kitchen to fetch some drinks from the fridge.

Minghao blinked twice before brushing it off and followed Jun to the kitchen, "hey hey Jun, are you sure it's just a student…."

(To be continued...)