Heart of aces

small things

When I woke up the next morning, the first thing I did was check my phone. No text messages from him. But I'm not surprised. What was I expecting, a good morning call.

Suddenly, Minji woke up and said "What were you expecting, a good morning call?" She asked me.

"You know me too well. I mean this is ridiculous, Anton? Lee Anton? What's wrong with me. I might be going crazy. You know what, never mind. I don't have crush on him. I was just because of the drinks I had last night." I told her.

I wanted her to believe that, but maybe I wanted to believe that too. We got up and made breakfast. He took out plates to the living room and turned on the TV. It was on the news. And great.

Park Jiwon returns to clear her name with lies.

As soon as I saw the headlines, Minji quickly turned off the TV. There was a silence before she started talking. "They don't know what they're talking about" She said trying to comfort me.

"Nah, I don't even care at this point". I do. "I'm used to it". I'm not.

I looked at my phone and Wonbin's name popped up on Facetime. I answered the phone.

"Did you turn on the TV?" he asked me.

"Yeah, I know, I already saw it" I said.

There was a silence but it wasn't akward at all. It was more of a silence to figure out why people hate me so much. Just then, another face popped on the screen.

"Are you alright?" asked Eunseok. He snatched the phone away from my brother's hands. "You know, I know that reported. We went to high school together and I've always hated him. I'll finally have an opportunity to beat him up."

Suddently, Seunghan apears on the screen. "No one is hitting no one".

"Come on" yelled Shotaro which made me laugh and all of a sudden, the room went silent. When I finished laughing, all seven of them were on the screen. Even Anton.

We talked about the news and how annoying it was.

We talked for hours but then they had to go to the gym and promised to call me back. As they promised they called me back at 8 P.M

Minji joined the face time and we talked about the al times. When mom and dad were still alive and mom would make us the best mac and cheese. The image of my parent crossed my mind. My mom's smile and my dad's hugs were my medicine. It was all I needed after a bad day. The memories filled my eyes with tears. But thankfully, no one noticed.

"Guys, remember the park nears Wonbin's house." Said Sohee as everyone nodded. "Why don't we meet there." he suggested.

"Yeah but it's almost 9, it's cold and it's probably going to hail tonight" said Minji.

"So...?" said Sohee. "Come on, it'll be fun"

We finally agreed to meet them there at 10. When we arrived at the park, I noticed that nothing changed. I haven't been here for nearly 10 years and nothing changed. We spotted the boys on the basketball court and my eyes instantly landed on Anton. We walked towards them and sat on the benches.

The game was so intense they didn't even notice that we were here. If I'm being honest, it didn't surprise me that much I mean if I'm being honest. Ever since we were kids they were so competitive. This on time, they were playing basketball and it started raining but they didn't realize it until the rain stop and they were drenched.

When they finished playing, they started walking towards us. "When did you guys get here?" asked Anton.

"A while ago when you guys were too busy to notice us" I said glaring at him and crossing my arms. I have no right to be mad at him. It's not like we're dating or even talking. We text each other everyday and nothing makes today special.

We decided to go get ice cream from a near by convenience store. While we were walking back we passed by our old house. It's been 9 months since I was were but I still remember every inch and corner, every good memories and bad ones too. I didn't forget anything.

We looked at the house for a moment before walking towards the park again but I stayed. I looked up at the roof and back down to the yard. I saw someone turning on the lights so i guessed that they moved in already.

The thought of being here made me cry.

"Hey" said someone startling me. I turned around to see Anton standing behind me.

"My gosh, you scared me" I said as he chuckled. My tears were still dropping like rain fall and my eyes were red.

When he looked into my eyes, he realized that I've been crying. He walking in front of me to face me. "What's wrong" he asked. I tried to avoid his eyes but I failed. "What's going on?" he asked again.

I wiped my eyes and looked up at him. "Nothing" I said. I walked away from him but he held my wrist. and forced me turn around and face him.

"You're lying" he said with a smirk on hid face. Some how his smirk made me give up. I looked at him. "Let's go" he said.

He walked to the park and we ended u going on the swing. we stayed on the swings eating our ice creams until he broke the silence. "So are you going to tell me why you ere crying?" he asked me.

"No"

He chuckled but I ignored it looking at the moon.

"By the way, what was Mr. Kim saying to you that day?" he then asked. I wanted to answer saying nothing but I didn't want to lie to him again.

"He was talking about my parent" I said.

"What exactly?"

I hesitated for a second before answering his question. "If the rumors were true or not" I told him. He sighed I could tell he was mad but I couldn't do anything about it. I just stayed silent.

"You know you could've just told him to fuck off" He said.

I chuckled and he did the same. Of course I wanted to do that but after being away for this long, the last thing I wanted was drama.

"Aren't you guys coming?" asked Minji yelling from a few feet from us.

We stood up and walked towards them. They were waiting for us. We joined them but we were walking in the back.

Just then, a drunk man started walking towards us. As he was getting closer to me I started feeling more and more uncomfortable. My shoulders tensed and my hands rolled into a fist. Right when the guy was about to bump into me, someone grabbed me by my waist and pulled me towards them. The drunk man then turned around and glared at us. I just bowed and said sorry as he walked away cursing at us.

I looked up to see it was Anton. "Are you okay?" he asked me.

"Yeah" I said pushing a hair away from my face. Just then, I realized that his hands were still on my waist. I looked at them and he also noticed. He let go of my waist and put his hands in his pocket.

It's small things like this that made me fall for him