The Liar And Her Love

chapter 05:

-May 2019-

"Noona, can you give me some money" the small Ryan asks, he was just 6 years old and had a bottle hung on his neck. Taeri looked at him for a while before pulling out a bill from her phone cover. She extended it to him and he grabbed it happily.

"Saranghaeeee noona, bye" the kid screams before running into his elementary school. Taeri too was in her uniform, she chuckled at the sight of her brother running to school, she turned to go towards her's, with hands in her skirt pocket, she walked while looking at the sky, a wonderful season.

She was in ninth grade, the last year of middle school. School wasn't so far from her brother's school. The little distance wasn't much either, she kept thinking about her new crush. Park jimin.

She didn't realise when she was in school, dodging the rucus, and the kids running around she entered her classroom without getting hit. She swung the door of her class open when she saw jimin there with a bouquet knelt down for her friend Gae Da Hye.

"Da Hye" he called, the crowd was silent. So many kids in the room made a circle around them, Jessica grabbed taeri's arm and pulled her closer into the inner circle, where she was just a foot away from jimin who was on his knees for da Hye.

"Yes" she says in a coy tone

"Will you be my girlfriend?" He asks. Jessica giggled next to taeri and so many girls swooned. Da Hye looks around for a while before she grabs the flowers and smells them. She looks back at jimin, "yes".

With that the whole class roared in cheers, Jessica left taeri's arm and ran to high five some random girl in the class. Taeri felt someone's hand on her shoulder, she turned to see it was Ae ra. She grabbed taeri's arm and pulled her out of the class.

"Let's have some snacks before school starts. I'm sure you didn't have break fast" saying this both of them left the class.

Nobody except jimin noticed taeri leaving and he was confused.

-August 2033-

"How did you get my address!?" jimin asks. Taeri smiles drops and her face turns into a thinking expression. She scratched her head from her index finger before turning to answer.

"Long story, I tried taehyung but I couldn't reach him, heard he is busy with some military shit or something that makes sense, then I called venessa so she could ask Jungkook who actually knew about your address so here I am." she said that with a smile.

"Why are-" he was cut short by Ryan. "Who is he?" Ryan asks his sister.

"I'm not sure if you remember, he is park jimin. My schoolmate" she tells Ryan who nods. "I don't specifically remember the name but then again I was just 8, thank you for inviting us" Ryan said and pushes jimin aside to enter.

Jimin who was shocked follows Ryan by then taeri had entered too and closed the door behind her. "Owww, cozy house. Is this your hideout?" Ryan asks. "No, wait. Why are you here" Jimin asks in distress when Ryan and taeri noticed the young girl in a skirt colouring in a file.

"Who is she?" Ryan asks pointing at her. Jimin sighs before looking back at him. "Sarang" taeri comments with a blank face totally just looking at Sarang "Sarang, my daughter. Sarang say hi" he says and Sarang scans the new faces for a minute before covering her face.

She dramatically gets up and runs to Ryan. "Daddy he is so beautiful" she grabs Ryan's legs and hugs him. This makes taeri laugh and Ryan's ego was in heaven.

Taeri simply looked at Sarang.

Jimin widens his eyes and runs to snatch his daughter away when taeri grabs and pulls him to the kitchen. Meanwhile Ryan puts the basket and the bags away and lifts Sarang. "Hi Sarang I'm Ryan" he says and Sarang hugs him tighter.

"Wyan Oppa so pretty" she says and Ryan chuckles.

"Hi, Sarang. This is Seo Taeri" she shook hands with her and when Sarang smiled, Taeri took a deep breath.

"Wow, Wyan oppa, She is pretty but you are prettier" that made the siblings chuckle.

"Taeri! my daughter" jimin whines.

"Jimin! my brother" she retaliates and chukles at the joke. "Anyway what's for dinner" she says and puts the bags on the counter. Her eyes fall on the packet of ramen. "No way, Sarang is like so small, she will be stuck with that height if you feed her ramen." Taeri says and drains the ramen into the sink while jimin is horrified at her actions.

"What are you doing?" Jimin asks controlling his rage. Taeri pauses and turns to him. "Saving the gas bill, I'm here to invite you to a dinner at your place, don't neighbours do the same when they shift" she says and jimin looks at her confused.

"You shifted here?" He asks.

"Ani, I live in platinum towers, 2 kms away" she says and jimin has a fine face. "That is too far to be neighbours" he says and taeri thinks before answering. "But we are in the same city, makes us neighbours" she says and opens the bags. "jimin, get the bag from Ryan. Shoo" she orders jimin who sighs before going to the living room. He sees Ryan listening to her daughter's interpretation to her colouring so carefully that it gives him goosebumps.

And everything inside him was calm. He thought his daughter will cry today, the both of them will cry eating ramen but it took a different turn. Exactly then Ryan looked up. "Oh hyung can you take that basket and packet to noona, I'm busy with Sarang. Thank you" he says and gets back to Sarang.

Jimin just nods and picks up the bags, he returns back to the kitchen to see, taeri put an item on the shelf from the packets she brought. They were ramen, meat packets, few vegetables, sausages, chips, munchies etc.

He looks at taeri and realises, what she was doing. He notices taeri was trying to reach till the top shelf. He smiles and walks closer to her after putting the packet and basket on the counter. He stands just behind her before taking the box of ready made noodles and put that on the top shelf. Taeri gasps at that moment. He could easily reach the level taeri couldn't even if she was tip toeing.

After putting that back jimin steps back. "So, should we order something or what?" He asks.

While taeri was still there stuck in the moment back to the teenage days. Old memories engraved deep in her head.

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