Healing Me ✔️

14

3 years later:
Present day:

This open cafe was located in a semi hilly area surrounded with greenery. Yunhee sat on the bench looking at willowy trees and behind the blue sky, still waiting for her coffee.

But she was a special customer. The owner of the cafe, himself, came out with two coffee mugs in his two hands. He walked up to the bench Yunhee was sitting on and handed over one coffee mug to her.

"Here", he said while his other hand held his own coffee and he walked over to the other side to take a seat beside Yunhee, on the bench.

"Setting up the cafe, here in this spot, was the best ever decision of your life!", She told him as she took a sip of the coffee.

The man beside her, travelled his eyes throughout the surroundings. "Right. It was your favorite spot from the very beginning", he replied.

"Yes. Thank God, you decided to stick to my choice and gave up on that area in the middle of the market. At this point, the cafe, here, runs the best in the whole area", she smiled.

He just hummed in response and sipped his coffee. "Every decision I took so far was right!" He looked at Yunhee, considerably, the best decision in his life.

"Sometimes I was right too..", Yunhee trailed off.

Jun changed the topic right off it. "Minghao wanted to come over, but I refused. I told him to come tomorrow morning. We'll have breakfast together with him, okay?" He smiled at Yunhee with his black, droopy eyes.

After that day, on her birthday, when she suddenly kissed him on the way back home, it took Jun another two weeks or so to fully come out of his lack of faith and confidence in calling himself and Yunhee as "we" or "us".

He understood that his old high school crush was just another human being on Earth, just like him.

That's why they made mistakes- to stay real. Otherwise, it would sound like a non existent fairy tale if they were perfect and flawless. He loved everything about Yunhee just the way she loved all his silliness, mischiefs, pranks and restlessness.

"Back then, you used to come on the weekends to meet me" Yunhee said. Her eyes turned soft by looking at Jun smiling contently. "I was an idiot at that time.." she murmured.

"Did you say something?" Jun concentrated on her words.

"I hurt you so much at that time. I was so bad…" Yunhee continued, looking at Jun's eyes.

Jun didn't understand what to tell her as his lips parted open.

"I didn't understand anything about love back then, but I was sure I felt it too. Whenever you were near me, whenever you walked me home, whenever you bought me coffee or food.. aish, I was an idiot" Yunhee looked at the coffee, smiling softly.

"Aniyaa.. This was in the past. It was..it was three years ago. Why are you still thinking about it? We are happy now, right? And those times were necessary too. Those confusions and all those misunderstandings.." saying that he eyed the cafe for a second, "Listen, wait here, I'll be back after attending to the customers.. okay?" He grinned at Yunhee.

"Okay", she smiled back, but an immediate change of expression brushed her face off as she remembered something, "wait, Moon Junhui '', she straightened her eyes, "Does that Chinese customer come often to your cafe?" She asked.

Jun suppressed his laughter by twitching his lips, "the girl from the counter? Who told me I'm handsome some weeks ago? Yes yes, she comes often" he pursed his lips to see her reaction.

She looked at him with a dead expression, "I have to start learning Chinese again", she raised an eyebrow and smiled teasingly.

Jun laughed at her cuteness and nodded, "alright! I'll be back", and he got up but turned back swiftly to ask, "By the way, did you tell your mom that you'll be staying at my place tonight? There are some new cooking experiments that I want you to try!" He gave a meaningful grin.

Yunhee literally gasped at that idea, "New recipes… Moon Junhui, are you sure they're going to be tasty?"
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As Jun thought he was going to go home and rest, Minghao didn't really let him do that. As he tried to convince Yunhee to get back home and try some of his new dishes that he was gonna present to the whole world during his cooking segments on YouTube, a call from Minghao changed the plans.

Right now, all of them were sitting in a cafe that was near Minghao's workplace. And then Minghao broke the news.
"I wanted to visit you two for one last time! But I have another appointment after this, so can't stay for long!"

"What are you talking about? Where are you going to?" Jun asked and looked concerned.

"To China. For the first time in some years!"

"Oh.. that's a good thing though. But why so suddenly? You didn't tell me about it beforehand. Is it something urgent?" Jun continued to ask questions and Yunhee in one chair, just listened to the conversation.

"Not really. But I need to leave for some time. I'm kinda tired too. And I haven't seen mom and dad in a long time. So yeah I want to go.." He replied.

"Minghao," Yunhee said. "You don't look well. Is there something bothering you or.."

"I won't lie that there isn't. But right now I'm not in a state to explain everything. I hope you'll understand. I will tell you everything once I'm a little better maybe.. But you two, don't fight when I'm not here. I can't solve anything from back in China" Minghao laughed heartily which made Jun chuckle too.

"Don't worry we won't. But I'm seriously worried about you Hao. Take care and come back when you are better, okay?" Jun got up from his seat and went to Minghao's side. "I'll miss you!" Saying that, he pulled his best friend into a tight hug.

"I'll miss you too, Junnie!" Minghao hugged back.

Yunhee released a soft laughter. "You guys are making me feel like I'm the one who's single. And you guys are in a relationship!" She laughed again. "Hey Minghao, miss me too! Not only Jun!"

"Okay, I will!" Minghao replied and laughed.

This part was the second last part. And it also connected with The8's plot in some other story where The8 is the mc and that story is placed in this same universe. Will be posting that later!

Hope you enjoyed so far and hope you'll enjoy the final part coming up! Thank you! I love you!