Chapter Twelve
A Ra's POV
"Are you ok dear? You keep smiling and humming to yourself. Did something happen?" Mrs Park asked me while we were cutting up some vegetable.
My plans to study with So Hee got cancelled today so I decided to help Mrs Park with her volunteer work. Even though my plans with So Hee got cancelled, I have been smiling and humming to myself ever since this morning. It must be because I'm excited to meet Mark later tonight.
"Oh, it's nothing Mrs Park. I'm just very happy today," I replied to her question.
I could sense that she wanted know more about my answer but she let it slide. While my hands were chopping up vegetables my mind was thinking of all times Mark called me or text me throughout the week.
The day after I watched his dance videos, he called me and asked me about my day and how I was doing in school. His one simple question turned into a whole conversation that lasted for about three hours. Luckily on that day, I decided to go home after class instead of staying in Uni because from the moment I heard Mark's voice over the phone, I started smiling and I couldn't stop. I was even smiling and being all happy and cheerful while studying for a super stressful paper that I had to take in a few weeks.
The day after that, both of us didn't have time to text each other so Mark decided to facetime when he finished his schedules. He told me that since he finished his schedules, he's going to keep me company while I do my school work until late at night. It was nice to have him there on my phone screen as I worked on my assignments. Occasionally, he would randomly sing and rap some of his group's song; and each time he does that, my heart would beat faster and my lips would curl up into a smile. When I finished one of my assignments, I decided to take a break and talk to Mark for a while. During that break, I met one of his members, Jinyoung. The three of us talked for an hour before I went back to my school work. Since I've been talking to Mark in English since I've met him, while I was talking to Jinyoung, I would also talk in English but he would always reply me in Korean (so the whole time the three of us were talking, it was a mixture of English and Korean). I wanted to talk to Mark more after I finished my school work but when I turned to my phone, I saw Mark already passed out on his bed and snoring softly. I just quietly said goodnight to him and ended the call.
The following days, Mark was super busy with all the schedules that he had so we barely talk to each other. He only sent me a good morning text that was accompanied with a selfie of him and Jinyoung in a van. I answered his text with a photo of me studying my classes with So Hee sleeping in the background. He only replied me late at night, when I was about to go to sleep. He called me and told me about his day at work. I find him super cute when he gets excited while telling stories of his members and the fans that he met that day.
"It's a boy right? That smile of yours must be because of a boy," Mrs Park's voice pulled me back to reality.
I stopped chopping the vegetables and just stared at her. She has a look on her face that screams 'I know what you're hiding'. "How did you know Mrs Park? Is it obvious?" I asked her in English. Mrs Park doesn't speak or understands English but after a while of living next door to me, she picked up a few phrases that I would always use.
"Don't worry dear, it's not that obvious. It's just easier for me to stop because I know you very well," she laughed a little at me when she finished her answer. "So, when can I meet this boy?" she continued.
I just stared at her, not knowing what to say. I didn't know whether I should be shocked or embarrassed when she asked that question. When I didn't answer her, she stopped doing her work and looked up at me. She laughed so hard when she saw my reaction to her question.
"I'm only joking dear. You don't have to make such faces," she said once she calmed down from laughing. "But I do want to know who he is," she continued.
"His name is Mark and he's from the idol group GOT7," I told her after I recovered from the shock and embarrassment. "Remember last week when I went to the café nearby to do my school work? I met him there," I told her how we met but left out the details of how I fainted and he helped me.
She just nodded and stayed quiet for a while. After a few moments of not talking, she asked me another question so casually. "So when did he ask you to be his girlfriend?"
Mrs Park's question keep leaving me in shock every single time. For someone who is quiet and shy in public, she is very direct. She was also so casual and chilled with the entire situation, while I'm here, dying of embarrassment. I couldn't even look up at her after she asked that question. I'm pretty sure I look as red as a tomato right now.
"Mrs Park! How can you be so direct?" I question her bluntness. "Plus, he's not my boyfriend. We're just friends," I explained to her my status with Mark.
Its known that there's nothing going on between Mark and I but for some reason when I was telling Mrs Park that he wasn't my boyfriend, I didn't feel too good about it. Usually when I think of Mark or anything related to Mark, my heart would flutter and I would be all smiles but when I denied the fact that we were seeing each other, I didn't feel any of that.
"He hasn't asked you out yet? He should do it soon then," Mrs Park's words felt like they were meant for herself to hear than for me.
"Why must he ask me out? It's not like we like each other or anything," I muttered under my breath.
Since I tend to mutter under my breath a lot, Mrs Park has learnt to understand whatever I say whenever I speak that way. "It's not good to lie to yourself A Ra. Even if you don't admit it, I can see that you like him," she said to me when she heard my muttering.
Her words keep on repeating in my head. Even if you don't admit it, I can see that you like him. Do I like Mark? Is that even possible when I only known him for a week? For some reason, a part of me believes what Mrs Park said. Another part of me doesn't know what to make of the feeling that I have. Do I really like Mark?
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SHORT UPDATE IM SO SORRY
A long chapter is coming your way soon and it may or may not include Mark and A Ra's third meeting. I have a confession to make, I already wrote their third meeting and actually planned of putting it in this chapter but I thought that I needed an A Ra's POV chapter so here it is :)
This chapter kinds of shows how A Ra's and Mrs Park relationship is like (?)
Storytime (yay): so I whenever I write anything, I would write it on microsoft first then transfer it to wattpad and whenever I write on Microsoft, I would save it in my thumbdrive. So I was doing my school work on my brother's laptop and was using my thumbdrive and I did a stupid thing and left my thumbdrive with my brother while I went and eat my dinner. Idk how but somehow the thumbdrive went missing and I swear I nearly had a heart attack because I just finished writing chapter 11 and I haven't uploaded it onto wattpad and I didn't have any other versions of that chapter anywhere else (plus there were like 3 school projects on that thumbdrive that needed to be submitted so ya, I was panicking like crazy when I lost it). I was searching my whole house for the stupid thumbdrive. I even checked inside my fridge and freezer just in case I left it in there by mistake or something. I was so close to crying when I couldn't find it. Luckily I have an amazing mother who helped me find the thumbdrive. She found it in a pile of my brother's electronics stuff hahaha. Moral of the story: never leave your thumbdrive. After this, I think I'm going to attach my thumbdrive to my phone or something so I'll never lose it. (ok...sorry if this story of mine is super boring for you. I just wanted to share it with someone hahaha)
p.s. the next chapter might take a while since I have a lot of school projects to finish up but I will try to get it up by next week (?)
Ok...bye...
[written: 05.05.17 | edited:- ]
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