The Liar And Her Love

chapter 02:

-January 2019-

Just a few months before the final examination, everyone was studying, manipulated into believing 8th grade marks decided your future.

It was a history class, the revisions were going on, teacher too busy to teach let the students self study while she dealt with her business. Taeri had a few friends now, but she still didn't feel like home here. She looked at the list of absentees again, kim ae ra. The girl seemed to hate school more than taeri did, she was more rare to see than a blue moon.

A beautiful rich girl, not conventionally slim but fun and smart. She was the definition to no fucks given. Taeri was always curious about her. "Taeri do you like girls?" One of the guys seating next to her ask. Duri belonged to a group of popular kids, along with anjie, who over time had turned against taeri and gi yeon's their gofer. Taeri never actually retialited against them. She didn't see them worthy enough.

She turned to anjie sitting just behind her. " I don't know" taeri replied, the boys started laughing. "Does that make you gay?" Duri said when taeri fell silent before replying. " We call them lesbians, women who like women are lesbians and guys who like guys are gay-" she said and they were visibly annoyed.

"You are not a girl are you? You should be a guy" duri said once again. "Why?" She asks. Duri chuckles before answering, " you are not petite and we have heard you fight and curse and also scream. You are so big" he said and taeri once again stayed silent. "But you are petite and have no muscles, what's the criteria" taeri said duri starred at her.

Taeri turned around and continued with her work. "Forget it, I am going out with taehyung on Monday. What should I wear?" anjie said duri looked even more annoyed now. Taeri turned to them "Who is he?" She asks.

Gi yeong looked at her for a while, "aren't you like a tennis player, how have you not seen him, he is like a very popular basketball player of our school." He said.

"Oh"

"Do you know jimin?" Anjie asks and taeri shook her head. "It's funny how she didn't run into them for a whole year"

Taeri looked back and forth among them, when gi yeong sighed and looked at her, " he is a short fair guy, with fluffy hair and his hands are very small, he is taehyung's best friend." he said and taeri looked at the weirdly.

"JUST AVOID HIM, HE IS TROUBLE. NOT MORE THAN YOU, BUT HE IS"

-August 2033-

Taeri pulled back off the hug and pat soo min's back. "I can't believe you actually became a doctor, good job. Is this hospital your parents'?" She asks.

Soo min nods with a nervouse chuckle. "So you do remember us, well hi, Song soo min, neurologist. Yeonsei hospital" he says, he could also see jimin nod sarcastically with a sly smile while eating his rice.

"What I don't remember is... Didn't you like not like each other when were in school, how did you end up like this." She asks while pointing fingers back and forth. Jimin and soo min look at each other before soo min answers. "long story, we kept on crossing paths, from the same class, to the same med college, and here, we just decided to accept our fate and become friends. The friendship is strong for almost a decade now." He says with a smile while taeri looked at them with admiration and then turns to jimin.

"So you work here too? What have you specialised in? Didn't you like wanted to study psychology and become a psychiatrist? She ask.

Jimin stopped midway and turn to taeri.

"how is your memory so freaking good. It has been over a decade now? I was like 16 or 17, goals change. I'm a cardiologist now, I'll finish my residency this year. " He said and taeri arched her eyebrows.

"Oh" she didn't say much. Before it got weird, a nurse called taeri. She turned around and the nurse returned a black card. Taeri took that back with a smile and a small bow of courtesy.

When she turned around to keep that back in her purse, the boys finally notice the quality of items on her. They did get an estimate of her wealth. She was financially comfortable when they were in school, but she never spent on expensive brands, her net worth literally drips from her black card, the purse that doesn't have a logo, but soo min who once had a fashion designer girlfriend immediately understood that's a Celine purse.

He exchanged looks with jimin. "So, I'll be leaving. Stay in touch" she says and turns around to leave when both of them ask her a question at the same time.

"What did you pay for?
"What do you do?"

Jimin's question was on what she paid for and soo min's question was on her occupation. She paused and chukled for a minute before answering.

"I paid for the saline bottles, I didn't know you worked here, so I paid, it wasn't much, don't bother" she said and turned to soo min, she looked through her purse befire taking out a leather card holder. She pulled out a beautiful visiting card in pastel shades.

It read-

Dr. Seo Taeri
American Psychological Association

Advisor and Head Reasearcher for world psychology.

Ph- 010-xxxx-xxxx
Email-dr.seoTr.apa@gmail.com

He was reading the card when she spoke.

"I work as an advisor for the American psychological association. I just finished my PhD a few months ago. I work as the advisor and Head Reasearcher at apa. Currently I'm unemployed but I'm contemplating a professorship and yeah something here and there" She says it with such humour, while both of them keep starring at her.

She was always an over achiever, what exactly happened to her. Then jimin remembered what he saw at the graveyard. The grave, with her parents. She is an orphan now!? He does remember about her younger brother, where was he?

The boys kept looking at her while she walked away with the beautiful attitude she has now.

"Jimin, taeri is in a whole different league now, she has a doctorate, she was from liberal arts. She has a freaking PhD in psychology, oh my god, I remember her parents were influential, I wonder if this is why-" he got interrupted by jimin.

"She was probably at her parents grave today" he said in a serious tone and soo min pauses miday.

Both of the guys look at the direction she left in. " Makes me curious about her" soo min comments and jimin nods too.

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