Chapter Two
"Daffodil"
He loves me, he loves me not
She loves me, she loves me not
Chanyeol was so taken aback that he had suddenly let go of the fish he was currently holding, making it plunge
into the water and scurry away as fast as possible. "Were you trying to kill it?" the girl asked as she went nearer and looked over the fish, making sure that all of them were okay. She was wearing a huge white chiffon dress and looked really pretty, he noted. "Yes," he replied, just to see her reaction to that. She looked mad at first, and then started looking at him quite pensively for a while. She wrinkled her nose and shook her head.
"No, you weren't," she suddenly said in a matter-of-fact manner. "How would you know?" Chanyeol frowned.
"Because Nanny Eunji said that if a bad person did something wrong, he'll never admit it to anyone else. If a
good person tries to be bad, he'll try to let other people see that he did something wrong even if he didn't in
the first place. So I guess you're just a good person trying to be bad. Although I haven't really figured out
why," she explained confidently to him while sitting on the pond's stony edge.
"I'm Krystal Horvejkul by the way, and you are?"
"C-Chanyeol Park?" Chanyeol answered, still frowning and looking confused to what she just said. "Are you trying to hide from your parents too?" Krystal suddenly jumped off of the stone and scooted over to whisper at him, making him step back a little because of their sudden close proximity.
He wasn't used to any of that and he could feel his cheeks getting a little warmer. "Are you trying to be a seer?" He scowled at her. "I'm right then!" she exclaimed excitedly, until she suddenly clasped a hand on her mouth, looking like she just made a big mistake by shouting. "Let's go," she urgently whispered while unabashedly taking his hand and pulling him with her.
Chanyeol couldn't do anything but just walk with her and stare awkwardly at their joined hands. Their hands together were quite sweaty but it seemed that she didn't notice it at all as she continued to walk nearer into some garden shrubs adorned with little tubular scarlet flowers borne in cymes. "Mother's garden has all the flowers in the world." She smiled at him before picking a dense rounded cluster of the little red flowers from the ornamental shrub. Slowly and carefully, she then plucked one of the blossoms. She pulled the tiny little red stem with nectar inside and sipped on it gently.
Little Chanyeol stared at her, frowning in curiosity. "Here, have some," Krystal invited as she plucked another little flower among the cluster. She selected one of its stem which was filled with drops of nectar and offered it to him. Chanyeol hesitated for a while, but then realized he was too curious and his interest was too piqued not to try what she did. And so he slowly bent his head down to meet the little stem of nectar she was offering at him to sip at it. It tasted sugary and sweet. He suddenly found himself smiling a little.
"You like it, don't you?" She beamed at him. Her tiny freckles shone with the sun. "It can make you immortal, you know," she whispered at him seriously. "It's a beverage of the gods, though I'm yet to discover how to get some of their ambrosia. Tantalus must be a really clever person to have stolen one from them. I don't want to be like him though. Nanny Eunji said stealing is a very serious offense. Tantalus was greatly punished for that crime. He'd been forever hungry and thirsty after that," she told him. Chanyeol realized she was talking about Tantalus from a Greek Mythology story. "You read too much," he replied while plucking another blossom and repeating the process she had just done a while ago. It was quite fun.
