His Secret Girlfriend

➺CHAPTER TEN

School ended and the three of us - Haneul, Channie and I are at a dessert shop. We borrowed a game board called Risk and began setting it up.

I made an eye contact with Channie to secretly team up to defeat Haneul. But after few rounds he quickly caught on that we're against him.

"Guys stop teaming. Play fair,"  I laughed. When will I ever have these moments again. Then I thought about how I had to break the news to them. Or lie to them to cover it up.

"Hey, I've been thinking if I should give up on going to K ARTS this year and take up the acting instead..." I told them carefully, not knowing how they'll react to this sudden news.

"It's because of your wrist isn't it" Haneul interrupted me before I finish my sentence. "How long have you been enduring it? Months right? Why are you so stubborn?" He began to raise his voice.

"How did you know?"

"Sehun told me." What a snitch.

"I'll, visit the doctor soon." I lied.

"Why can't you just go now?"

Tears started to form. I thought about when I visited the hospital the other day with Channie. I just couldn't bear myself to get it checked out alone and he was being supportive and also comforted me. Again, how could I stop playing the piano. It's a part of my life, how I relieve my loneliness, how I express my happiness.

"I... went before... they told me if I had to operate my wrist, I'll never be able to play the piano again."

Haneul didn't say anything and just hugged me tightly while Chanyeol just held my hand. I cried even harder, I didn't want to worry my parents. I cried at the thought of not being able to play the piano again.

On the same day, Haneul told my parents about my situation and they insisted to fly back to Korea but Haneul reassured them that Chanyeol and him will be taking care of me for the mean time. Since, I will be going to Taiwan soon and meet them there. Kayla came and heard about everything too and we had another round of our crying session.

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There's a week left to the performance and at the same day, I'll be leaving Korea too. So instead of crying all over again I decided to spend most of my time with Kayla and Haneul, mostly going to karaoke or cafe hopping and also with Channie we'll just movie marathoning.

I had read the script that the director himself had emailed to me. The plot is almost the same as my situation right now. We even skyped and I told about my current situation and he had everything planned out and pushed some scenes to be taken earlier.

I laid on my bed, thinking about how I should tell  the other Exo members since I asked Channie to keep it a secret and what should I get them as a farewell gift so I guess I have to trouble Channie into distributing it to them when I leave. Although I'm only leaving for a year, a year means a lot, be it severing ties or keeping them as close as ever.

*******

A week passed by quickly and it was the audition and here I am in the dressing room with Haneul but not performing.

"All the best, I'm leaving straight away once you finish performing." I said and hugged him tightly. One year is going to be long, I guess.

A student played a piece that I was supposed to play, I can't help but envy her and teared a little. Would I play as flawlessly as her? Will I get distracted and make a mistake? If only I got my wrist check out earlier instead of delaying for it to get treated, I could have been there performing with Haneul.

Then again, what's the use of pondering over the what ifs when we have so much to live for right now.

"Haneul is performing a piece which is also dedicated for his partner as his partner had to withdraw due to personal reasons."

Despite having to change to a new piece, Haneul pulled it off perfectly till the end. I'm sure I was already crying by then. Once I saw Haneul going back to the backstage, I left with Channie.

I didn't tell exo of course which by then my phone was spammed by them. I replied to them with Channie by my side. I had three hours to kill before I leave.

*******

We played at an arcade and won lots of tickets which we gave to a cute kid who's around Dae Han's age. We also took lots of Neoprints and pasted it on the back of our phones. After realising we're attracting attention from the middle schoolers, we decided to leave.

"Jae don't leave us," I heard it from Channie's phone. Baek sent a voice message to him.

"Goodbye forever." I sent a voice message back, trying to be as solemn as possible.

That's when we receive a FaceTime from him. Chanyeol accepted the call and put both of us on the screen.

"Wait she's really leaving?" I heard Kyungsoo asked.

"Yes, but it's not forever and Baek stop being dramatic,"  I scolded him. If I stayed with them, they're capable of persuading me to stop leaving. That's why I didn't tell them anything about me leaving.

"Wait, is he leaving with you? Please take him as well," Kai begged me, "Please, he's too noisy."

"Haha, you're gonna get beaten up when he comes back to the dorm," I snickered as I looked at Channie.

We hung up the call as it's time for me to check in soon. After checking in my luggage, we stood near the screening gate, reluctant to bid farewell to one another. He just stared at me not saying anything.

"Hey stop, you're gonna make me cry." I flicked his forehead.

"I'll miss you, a lot." He sighed as he hugged me. That felt like the longest hug ever.

"Well it's not goodbye, I'll see you soon," he nodded.

"Visit me when you're free, or I'll find a new guy." I said and he punched me playfully on my arm.

"I have to go in now." I said so he'll loosen the hug.

He reluctantly let go and lowered his face down to kiss me on my lips. Are we supposed to move our lips and kiss with our eyes open?

It's about time for me to be friends with WikiHow and learn how to kiss properly.