"Love Barrier" | Kim Mingyu

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Jia's POV

Two arms suddenly appear from behind and hug me tight. I was startled thinking it was either Mingyu or a ghost but what I see is beyond believable.

I can't help but slipped out my loudest gasp that caught people's attention to our table, "Oppa!"  Heart beating fast, body getting chill as I'm stuttering to find the right words to say. "Omg, how oppa?"

I know this question is dumb but that's all I can think of as Brian smiling brightly but also slightly nervous, as if he finds it hard to believe too.

At first I thought I lose my mind and hallucinating because no way this person is real. For the past three years I've been wondering where can he be or what is he doing since there's no trace of him at all after that heartbroken incident that left us all grieving. To the point where i was sad thinking he might be leaving me too like his sister.

"It's been a while, do you miss me?" He asked.

I didn't know that my butt was sticking to the chair this whole time and the emotional roller coaster that they put me through today has me forgetting that I have legs and it's working. Because the moment I hear this question, I jumped up so fast to give him a proper hug.

The word 'miss' alone can't explain enough how much I've been desperate to see him. "I think about you all the time, Brian."  There's so much more i want to say and a lot more than my brain can be processing to put it out into words. But one thing for sure is his presence making it feels somehow completed, something in me is at ease. It can be compared to the feeling of 'Finally my mom is home'. It's a lot but all in a good way.

It's not strange that a person might change after three long years, either physically or emotionally connection but I can't feel any sort of unfamiliar in him. Besides his muscles build up, he's still the same. Not sure if my brain is still functioning because I can literally see a glimpse of her through him. Those eyes, those smile, those simple gestures, the two siblings look so much alike.

And for the countless time this month, I started to miss her again. My Garam. My best friend.

"You guys know each other?" Jeonghan voice brings my focus back to the surrounding. Only now that I realised half of the people in the hall are watching us so puzzlingly as if I'm committing a crime right in front of their salad. Especially Mingyu, who is trying to pull me back to make a distance between me and Brian a little bit.

"Oh I forgot. Oppa this my friends Jeonghan, Mingyu, Hoshi, Scoups, Wonwoo and Seungkwan." I introduced them. "So guys this is my best friend's brother, Brian."

Seungkwan pouted his lip and tilts his head in curious while the boy also giving me a weird look as if I'm saying the language outside the ordinary world.

Brian just smile, putting his hand out for a handshake one by one before someone calling him while making his way towards our table. "Younghyun"

Is he mistaken? Why do the man call him Younghyun?

I look back and forth in confusion between him and the old man around his 60 that's approaching us, but the closer he gets the wider my eyes become.

Everyone bow their head 90 degrees as he walk, I can even see from afar that even Scoups and Jungkook's father bow too. All the top people head's are down for him including us kids and me which neck was pushing down by Seungkwan. Because now that I realize he's not just 'the old man'. He's the current President of the Republic of Korea, Kang Young-Hwa.