Chapter 2 - Him

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Still can't believe it, he's just right in front of my eyes. Just when I thought I won't ever see him again or he already forgot me...he's here, in my house, in Seoul, standing here talking to me...

"You're here..." They were the only words that I could say to him and suddenly my grandmother smacked my head and I whined.

"Granny...it hurts, why did you do this" I said touching my head.

"You little brat, respect him, he's older than you and  when you weren't here he always visited and helped us" and I looked into his eyes and his eyes were on me.

"Nobody told you to come here, don't show up ever again. As you can see, I'm back, they don't need your help anymore" and granny just hit my head one more time. (Hit me baby one more time, okay, I have to stop it, back to the story)

"They didn't asked me to do it, I just wanted to. Welcome back anyway, I...miss-"

"Don't say anything, please just get out of my house, I don't want to see you again." I cutted him off, I know I was too harsh but I don't want him to suffer more, I will be the reason and I don't want to be it.

"LIU JOY, stop talking no sense. You should be thankful to him, he always helped us. He went trough a lot when you moved, he's going to stay here for dinner." Granny said.

Was he sad? Mad? We just stood there, looking at each other.

"Whatever, I'm not hungry, eat without me."

"Joy stop being childish, he didn't do anything wro-" and now grandfather came into the conversation, that's just great!

"I'm gonna take King upstairs so I can wash him up, you can stay, you should thank my grandparents if not I will just kicked you outside" I said as I went upstairs with King in my embrace.

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I never though I would standing in front of him again...I broke his heart, and he's still here, why? I'm nothing good, he should find another person.

It was better if we weren't friends back then, but when you're a kid you just don't know what you're doing and you just want to have friends to play with...Innocent time, I wish we were at that time again, take me back please.

I took King to take a bath and he split all the water on me, and I fell and laughed at the same time, what a pabo.

"King-ah, why did he returned huh? Did he know that he will only get hurt and will hurt me too? Such an idiot, just like me" just as I was talking with King someone was running and came into my room.

"JOY, ARE YOU OKAY?" he burst into the bathroom and I was sitting on the floor looking at him.

"Y-yes. Between, why do you care? You shouldn't."

"STOP BEING CHILDISH FOR ONCE, I wanted to know if you were okay or not, we heard something fell on the ground and your grandparents and I were worried" That was the first time that he yelled at me and I was kinda scared by his behavior.

"I'M SORRY IF I'M CHILDISH! I CAN'T STAND THAT YOU, IM JAEBUM ARE IN MY ROOM YELLING AT ME! I knew that I should have stayed in Greece more, I shouldn't have returned. GET OUT OF MY ROOM! NOW!" I raised my voice to him with tears in my eyes.

"No, Joy, p-please, hear me out, j-just a momen-"

"GET OUT NOW, I DON'T EVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!" and I burst into tears...

"If that's what you want then, I will never bother you again." And he walked to the door.

"I wish you will hear me out one day, I missed you a lot trough this past 4 years" he said looking on the floor.

"It looks like you forgot me or what? I was in Europe for 5 years, not 4." Maybe I thought wrong, maybe he already found the right girl and I'm just being paranoid...

"I know...the thing that you didn't know is...that..."

"What I don't know, what should I know? You're married at the age of 19 years old? You have a baby already?"

"No, stop talking no sense."

"So, I'm the one that talks no sense now? How am I supposed to know? You never sent me messages or anything, not even one message. I thought you would at least send me at the airport to say goodbye, or send me a mail even if you were mad at me, even if you hated me...I guess I was wrong" I said while wiping my tears away.

"And how am I supposed to know how you were? You didn't send me anything too. How can I hate you when you know the best the feelings that I feel for you? Did you forget that? Because, I didn't." He said while entering my room once again and closed the door so no one would listen to us.

"I'm sorry that I yelled at you, I shouldn't have...I missed you, a lot, i just keep saying it because it's real. I didn't came to the airport because i didn't want you to see me crying, I didn't want you to be hurt."  He said sitting beside me, right in front of me.

"What's the thing that I don't know?" I said calming down.

"I-I've been in Italy for the past year...in your same town, in your same school. I wanted to see you so bad that I've been doing that." and then my jaw dropped.

"So you've been stalking me? Why didn't I ever saw you? Why didn't you come to me?"

"You know better than me that you didn't like to socialize back in there so you hadn't many friends and you never came out of the classroom. If I would have told you, your reaction would be screaming at me like you just did before" he said making us chuckling.

"I didn't want you to be hurt, that's why I was such a b*tch...sorry, I shouldn't have..." I said looking at the floor.

"You don't have to apologize, I'm the one that was wrong."

"Stop it, you always say this, since we were younger, if I'm wrong, I'm just wrong. Don't say it's your fault."

We just looked into each others eyes. I don't know what to do, what to say, what's wrong with me? It's not like we don't know each other, we've known for more than 10 years already.

"Do you forgive me?" He said breaking the silence.

"You should be the one that should forgive me, not me to forgive you, I'm sorry that I didn't keep in touch with you. I felt guilty...you said that you liked me, but how can a 12 years old girl know what like and love is? We were both young, we didn't know what this two things were. And also I knew that I would be going in Europe, that's why I started to avoid you, not because you said you liked me."

"Don't say that. I've liked you since we were babies, and my feeling still hasn't changed, I've been waiting for you for so long, now that you're back, I won't let the opportunity go away. I won't let anyone take you away from me Joy Liu." And I raised my head once again and made eye contact with him and I almost blacked out when he said that.

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JAEBUM WAS 'HE'!

In the next chapter I will write some flashbacks so you can know what happened in their childhood.

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