broken promise ; kth!

Petite introduction

Flashback:

"Mommy! Can I have this chocolate bar?" my seven year old self looked at my mom with puppy eyes. "Puh-leaaaase!"

"Sweety, the cart is already full. I'll get it for you next time okay?" she smiled weakly.

"Okay." I said, disappointed. I really liked this chocolate.
It was a miracle for me to find it here, and it was the last bar left. They sold the damn thing once in a blue moon. I knew there would be no next time.

Before going to the cashier, I saw a little boy about my age putting the chocolate bar in his parent's cart.

I stared at him with envy and sad eyes. He stared back, totally blank.

As I was getting out of the store, the boy ran after me and handed me the chocolate bar with the cutest rectangular smile.

"There you go."

I gently took it from his hand.

"But, it's yours. I'm not going to take it from you." I said, giving it back to him.

"It's a gift. I saw how much you wanted it. " He smiled even wider.

How cute.

"Thank you!"

"What's your name?" He asked.

"Chin-Hae."

"Isn't that a boy's name?"

"Ask my mom I didn't choose it."

"Anyways I'm Kim Taehyung."

"Nice to meet you."

"You're really pretty."

That escalated pretty quickly.

"Really?"

"Yes.Even prettier than my mom. Don't tell her I said that."

"You're nice.I like you."

"So where do you live?" He asked.

"Really close to the store."

"Ah, me too but I'm moving far away for my dad's job in a week. I'm going to miss this place. "

"So it means that you won't come here anymore?"

My mom interrupted us "Chin honey what's taking you so long? We're leaving sweety."

"Before you leave, let's promise eachother something." Taehyung said, holding my hand for me not to walk away.

"Okay."

"I'm sure we will meet again when we'll be grown ups. So let's promise not to love anyone before we see eachother. When I'll find you, you'll be my lover. I promise .Do you promise?"

"I promise."

He smiled and waved goodbye as I walked away.

In the car my mom asked me who the boy was.

"His name is Kim Taehyung, and in a few years we will be lovers..."

She laughed.

I took a bite of the chocolate and kept the wrapper in my pocket.

When I got home, I wrote "나는 약속"* on the wrapper for me to remember.

| *oh btw this is "i promise" in korean hehe, i think |

What a stupid thing for me to do.
I shouldn't have taken it so seriously.
We were just kids after all...