To all the boys I've loved before 》WayV

Thirteen

Nami's POV:

I went with my dad to the diner we always went to and on the way inside, I ran into Xiaojun. "Oh, hey Xiaojun." I said awkwardly as my dad talked to the waitress to get us a table. "Hey, Nami, how's it been?" He said. "Oh, you know, the usual." I said, not really knowing how else to tell him I was miserable.

"Well, I've got to get back to work, it was nice talking to you." He said. "Wait, you work here?" I asked. "Yeah, I just started last week, I work in the kitchen though." He said. "Oh, probably why I never noticed then." I said. The chef in the back yelled for Xiaojun so he bid me goodbye and ran to the back.

I followed my dad to a table and sat down across from him. After we talked for a bit, my dad put a quarter in the little juke box at the table and clicked a song. It was an older song from the 80s and he smiled as it started playing. "You know, this is the song your mom use to play when we came here back when we were dating." He said. "Oh really?" I said. "Yeah she'd play it over and over." He said.

"I'm sorry I never talked about her much. It's just so sad and I've relied on you and Amber too much, you shouldn't have to be an adult yet." He continued. "That's why I was so happy when I saw you and Sicheng.." he started to say but I cut him off. "I'd rather not talk about him right now." I said. "Look, I don't know what happened between you two but when you were with him, you really opened up to people..you were a lot like your mom." He said.

"I miss her a lot." I said, almost crying. "I know honey." He said. "Hey, can I borrow a quarter? She always plays the song twice right?" I said. He smiled and handed me a quarter. I clicked the song and we listened to it again and I felt the happiest I had in a while.

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The next day, I walked with Ning Ning and Lucas at school as we talked. "I never heard anything about the video." Lucas said. "Well that's good, I can go back to being invisible." I sighed in relief. As soon as we got to my locker I saw a bunch of people gathered around it and felt sick to my stomach as I saw a picture of me making out with Sicheng in the hot tub at the resort taped to my locker.

I didn't even know how to react but thankfully Ning Ning ripped it off and crumbled it up. I pushed people out of the way and tried to get out of there as Ning Ning followed behind me. "Woah, what's going on?" Sicheng said as he saw me walking past him, looking very obviously upset. "You just let people think we had sex in that hot tub and did nothing about it." I said loudly. Ning Ning shoved the paper at him and he looked at it as I walked away from him.

"Listen up, nothing happened in the hot tub okay and if I hear any of you talking about Nami or anything about that, I will seriously kick your ass." Sicheng said to the crowd. Ning Ning rolled her eyes as Sicheng walked over to me. "Look, I'm sorry, if I had any idea who did this-" he said but I cut him off quickly. "I know who did and you should too." I said.

"Okay let me talk to her." He sighed. "No, this is my fight." I said and I marched off and ended up finding Elkie in the bathroom. I walked up to her and confronted her, of course she denied posting the video but was happy about it. "What is your problem?" I said. "You kissed a boy that I like." She said angrily. "Wait, are you talking about middle school?" I questioned, thinking about how she had randomly hated me since then.

"Yes, you kissed Sicheng when you knew I liked him." She said. "It was spin the bottle, it wasn't a big deal." I said as I rolled my eyes. "It was a big deal to me." She said before storming out.

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It was after school and Ten had come over to talk to me. We sat on the couch and I explained everything to him as he listened. "Okay, you were the first boy I ever really liked..you were the only one of all the boys in the letters that I ever really knew like that." I explained. "I didn't realize how I felt until you started dating Amber." I continued. "Those feelings eventually faded..it wasn't love." I said.

"You could have told me." He said. "I didn't realize till..Sicheng" I said.

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No one's POV:

As Nami talked to Sicheng, she had no idea that Yifan had snuck down the stairs and was listening in on their conversation.

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Nami's POV:

We talked about how I felt different with Sicheng and how he had lost his love for Amber eventually after she broke up with him. "Do you love Sicheng?" Ten asked. "I do..I know you don't like him though." I said. "I do like how he stood up for you today though." He said. He tried to convince me to tell Sicheng about how I felt as I said everything had been real to me.

"You can't write love letters forever. I mean these letters lead you to him for a reason." Ten said.

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No one's POV:

Yifan overheard all of it and eventually snuck back upstairs unnoticed.

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Nami's POV:

As we kept talking I heard Yifan walk into the room and we both turned to look at her. She was holding a small box with a ribbon on it. "Nami, I saved these because I saw you throwing them away and I figured you might really want them some day." She said.

Hey guys, thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed. ~-winney-