The Universes of Love

Chapter 5.2: {Star and Moon}: Even the Star has his Struggles

The sun bid through the clouds and once again, the star's shine was gone. With the ray of the sunshine, the star always turned into any other ordinary person, hiding his actual identity for the night.

Jimbae sat on his bed and moved his body back and forth, his chin on his upright knees. His sleep was gone. Because the thought of not being the star of the night anymore tired him away. Being an ordinary person, not caring about other people, pretending to not know the people he knew for years was never who he was.

No matter how mad or upset Jimbae was, as much as he cared about other people, he wanted others to not worry about him as well so he always brushed it off and put on a wide smile to convince everyone and himself that he was fine. And he knew that that day, the minute he entered school, he'd think of Carrot, wondering how she was.

Though Carrot might not feel the same anymore, she might not think about Jimbae as much as he does but that was just who Jimbae was. The Jimbae everyone knew. The star.

As expected, that day, when Jimbae entered his class, the first thing his eyes went to was Carrot's seat next in the classroom. "You miss Carrot, don't you?" Asked Title.

And even though Jimbae, from outside, looked like the happiest person on earth, Title knew him well but Jimbae didn't have the energy to answer, probably because he knew that Title already knew the answer to the question.

Not long after, the teacher arrived. While taking attendance, a bunch of guys in university uniforms interrupted the class, barging in. "Teacher!" One of them yelled.

Turned out that they missed their school and were there to visit and meet the teachers. In the very back stood Joe. Noticing Joe, Jimbae totally forgot about what he was worrying about. It's like he had some kind of magic that led to vanishing Jimbae's memory.

The other university students, who were most probably Joe's friends, were busy talking to the teacher. "We miss this place.", "It's been a long time since I last saw you." Jimbae heard them say but neither him nor Joe was paying attention to the teachers or those guys. They were busy staring the soul out of each other.

Joe stood there, both his hands in his pocket and stared right into Jimbae's eyes as if throwing rays of love potion. "We'll go now."

With the sentence from one of Joe's friends, Joe came back to his senses. "Wait!" He shouted, not wanting to leave the classroom with Jimbae yet. All his friends turned to look at him. "Don't you have anything to give her?" Joe asked and everyone nodded.

Almost all of them handed the teacher different things: pen, flower, candy and Joe handed her a note, all while still staring at Jimbae. It's like his eyes were locked. He couldn't turn away no matter how much he tried.

After it was finally time to leave the room, there were no excuses left. Joe locked eyes with Jimbae for one last time before winking and turning away from the classroom. The wink made Jimbae almost melt. He could hear his heart beating very fast. Could he be actually falling in love already?

"Isn't that phi Joe?" Traffic asked from beside Jimbae.

"He looks so different now. So hot!" Title murmured. Jimbae didn't pay attention because his eyes were still busy following the sight of Joe through the classroom windows until he was totally out of sight.

"Jimbae? What are you looking and smiling at?" Title landed a hand on Jimbae's shoulder and asked.

"Don't mind him. He's always smiling," Traffic replied and brushed Title's hand away from Jimbae's shoulder.

Jimbae looked back at his open book in front of him as the teacher continued taking attendance. He sighed, his smile slowly fading for the first time in the whole day as if his cheeks felt tired. But the minute he looked up again, the smile was back.