Teenage Love

Chapter 52

Hyein called Hanni after a few minutes but she didn't answer. 

She wasn't in the mood to talk to the girl right now.  She could have yelled at her without even being the one to blame for the situation. 

The meeting with Minji had been too much for her.  She had spent the rest of her day at her desk among books after a long, crying shower. 

Her parents knocked on her door but she wouldn't open it.  She knew they would end up arguing.  The only thing to do was sleep.

As old memories of her began to pour into her mind like an exploded water balloon, she felt almost ready to cry again.

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It was late at night. 

Almost three of the night.

You could hear dogs barking and cars whizzing past from time to time.

The neighborhood where Hanni was, It was very quiet but these days, as it was almost like Christmas holidays, people were going to visit their families and the confusion was plausible. 

But something strange pricked her ears. 

She got out of bed hearing a strange sound from the closed window.  Sometimes she would find the stupid teenagers banging on the doors of the houses with rocks, although she had always been one of the girls who loved doing those types of gestures when she was a teenager, but this time her window was the one in danger. 

Knowing the type of teenagers activity, she looked at the window for a moment and, as if it didn't bother her too much, closed the curtains.  She yawned slowly and went back to sleep peacefully.

For a while the noise stopped but after a few seconds she started to be heard again. 

At this point things were getting pretty annoying. 

With a leap she emerged from his blankets.  With her eyes sleepy and red from crying and her hands close to her pajama top to keep them warm, she began to peek with his eyes at her behind the curtain. 

She saw a very stable figure in front of her. 

Only the part above her could be seen, the window was a little small compared to a normal person's build.  She shook her head trying to figure out if she was dreaming or not.  She removed the curtains and opened the window only halfway. 

At that moment a familiar smile appeared in her room. 

His hands were shaking from the cold and his body was floating in a tree, while she reached out with his arm to lean on the small outside ledge of the window.  It looked like a monkey staggering from one tree to another.  It was Minji.

  These things reminded her of old memories of her when her parents forbade her from going out for getting a bad grade. 

Minji would always come to give her a kiss or tease her by climbing the tree and entering her room with a little movement.  But three years had passed and although the tree had grown significantly near her window, Minji was no longer the athletic girl she knew. 

In fact she was there on the end of a large branch holding her legs on the trunk of the tree.  Her hands rested lightly on the window almost as if she was begging to come in.

"Hey," Minji said, smiling as if the pain she was feeling now wasn't possible to intercept.  In these cases, leading to her old memories, Minji would forcefully enter, pushing Hanni into her bed and trying to kiss her. 

Here however it was different, a sense of kindness surrounded the air the entire time.  Hanni crossed her arms trying to hide from the cold coming through the open window.