It Was Always You

Chapter 4: What Happens Now?

I sat at the base of the willow tree with Mark, we had talked all day, even ditched classes. Ha, the head of the class skipping class, what a riot. I sighed and laid my head on his shoulder and he tensed up.

"Thank you for staying with me and listening to all my bull shit."

He relaxed, "I was glad I could help. So what are you going to do now? Avoid him? Confront him or are you just going to pretend?"

"I have no idea but I don't want to think about that right now."

The last bell of the day rang, "Come on," he stood abruptly and held out his hand, "I'll walk you home or if you want we can get tubs of ice cream from the convenient store?"

"Ice cream sounds great right now," I sigh, "You really are the best, thank you."

He blushed lightly, and I giggled. Cute. We headed to out of the willow tree and in the direction of the convenient store near my house. Sigh, why couldn't Mark be Aaron...?What am I going to do? I guess let's focus on ice cream for now, sigh. We head into the convenient store and explore the different ice cream options till my eyes fall on my favorite ice cream. Bingo! After grabbing the ice creams, Mark and I talk up a storm of just about anything. He cracked a few jokes which made me laugh, and I was very grateful for that. We soon came upon my house, and he walked me to my door.

"Would you like to come in?"

He hesitated, "Umm, I don't know..."

"I don't bite, I promise," I smiled softly, "Besides, I want to make you dinner for helping me today."

"D-dinner?" He blushed, "I suppose I could stay fo-"

The door swung open to reveal a very concerned Aaron and the rest of my friends, "(Y/N)! Where have you been?"

I sighed and looked towards Mark, "Raincheck?"

"Raincheck," he smiled.

Aaron stared in confusion as Mark left, "What was that all about?"

"Why do you need to know?" I coldly questioned.

"What's wrong with you?" He quirked an eyebrow.

I merely scoffed and walked inside bumping his shoulder. Minhyun and JR exchanged glances, and Ren just sat clueless as to what in the hell was happening. Well, what in the hell is happening? I sighed. Anger that was what was happening. I marched upstairs without much of a word, ice cream in tow.

Noticing that I had ice cream Ren sighed, "You guys should leave."

"What?" Aaron said.

"She just needs space right now."

"From what?"

Now he was more confused than ever. Soon JR and Minhyun walked towards Aaron with their heads down, knowing just exactly why I needed space. They pushed Aaron out the door and nodded towards Ren, who merely nodded back. After the door closed behind them Ren grabbed an envelope, and two spoons from the kitchen. He came upstairs and knocked on my door.

"I hope you have spoons," I sniffled.

Opening the door just a crack Ren revealed two spoons, "Yup"

Wiping away a few tears, "Good"

Coming into the room fully Ren sat on my bed, "Do you want to talk about it?"

I stared at the ground, and slowly nodded, "I-I had hope....I thought that he liked me, even JR oppa and Minhyun oppa encouraged me, saying he liked me....b-but he doesn't...I-I saw his confession to another girl, a-and I broke....Mark caught me an-"

"Wait, Mark? As in Tuan? I thought that he was a part of L.Joe hyung's group. He didn't hurt you right?"

"N-no! He, he only comforted me...h-he's not like the others."

Ren then sighed, holding up the envelope he brought up, "Here, I thought this might cheer you up. It's from that college abroad that you applied to."

I hesitantly grabbed it and slowly opened it. This was the college of my dreams, Academy of the Arts... I pulled out the letter inside with a bunch of other packets, and then I saw the very words I needed to see: "CONGRATULATIONS."

I smiled, "I got in! Ren I got in!"

Ren smiled, "What will you tell the others? What are you going to do now?"

What am I going to do now?