"Your smiling face is really ugly!"
"That's her right? The girl who never smile,"
"Yeah. She never smile even once."
"She's kind of scary, isn't she?"
"Hey! Keep your voice down! She'll hear us!"
I already heard you all. I shot a glare to the girls, enough to make them shut their mouth and walked away. I sighed and continued to walk towards my apartment.
"Long time no see,_____-ah!"
I looked up and saw a familiar face in front of my apartment building. Shocked, I stopped on my track. Why is he here?
"Surprise!" He smiled happily. I calmed myself down and looked sternly to the man before me. He didn't change much. I always saw him on the tv though. His playful self was still the same like always and his smile was still the same. Only his hairstyle was different. What am I thinking? Of course his hairstyle change! He's a famous idol now, remember?
But.. I still can't forget what he said.. Yes. The words that made me didn't smile again.
"Your smiling face is really ugly!"
"What are you doing here? I thought a famous idol like you are busy the whole time," I walked pass him. He followed me slightly pouting.
"Eyy~ I just want to visit my childhood friend," Baekhyun grinned.
"I don't recall being your childhood friend."
"Aww! Are you still mad at me because I hid your favourite book before? Mianhae!"
"More importantly, how did you know that I live here?" I unlocked the door and walked in with Baekhyun following.
"Ahjumma told me of course!" He sat on the couch casually. I put my bag on the table and sat in front of him. Aish... Omma.. Why did you tell him..
"How are you?" Baekhyun suddenly spoke up.
"Fine."
Since I was not going to be a rude person, I went to the kitchen and poured the apple juice I made yesterday into two glasses and handed him one.
"Did you miss me?" He smirked.
I almost choked at his question,"Miss you? More like I'm happy because you finally out of my sight."
"Ouch! That hurts!" He made a painful expression while his hand was on his chest. I rolled my eyes in annoyance.
Irritating. As always, Byun Baekhyun.
After he became a trainee in SME, I never saw him nor talked to him again. And after he debuted with his EXO members, I would saw him on tv but I never really care.
"It's weekend so I decided to pay you a visit," Baekhyun stood up and looked at some photo albums on the shelf. He quietly flipped through the pictures and smiled. He showed me a picture of us playing fireworks when we were still kids.
"Do you remember this? It's fun, right?"
"Yeah it is. Until you burned my favourite book with the lighter." I said calmly.
"Well, you're not suppose to bring a book when we were having fun!"
"I never agree to play the fireworks with you. You're the one who dragged me!"
Baekhyun laughed. He kept looking into the pictures and would chuckled when he saw certain pictures.
"You look like a crazy person."
He pouted,"I'm just remembering some funny moments!"
A few minutes later, he sat back on the couch, watching me reading my new horror novel. Feeling bored, he would poke my book and sometimes waved his hands in front of my face until I couldn't stand it and slammed my book on my lap.
"What do you want?!"
"I'm bored~" He pouted and suddenly brightened up."Let's go somewhere!"
"No." He puffed out his cheeks and held my wrist tightly, yanking me forward.
Shocked at his suddeb action, I widened my eyes,"Wha-!"
Baekhyun dragged me outside and brought me to a park nearby. I looked at him confusedly but he just smiled and asked me to follow him. I sighed and let him dragged me near a tree. He kneeled down and opened an old box under the tree.
"Meow~"
Cat? I kneeled down beside Baekhyun and peeked inside. There were two kittens inside the box. One with a black and white fur and the other one with black and orange fur.
"Kyeop..ta.." I muttered slowly. It had been a while since my cat died and after that, I never had a pet again because I was busy with my studies and I was afraid I didn't have enough time to take care of them.
Baekhyun took the black-and-white kitten and placed it in my arms. I rubbed its head and the little kitten purred happily. Slowly, my lips curved into a smile.
"You finally smile," I looked up and Baekhyun grinned widely. "You haven't smile since I moved out,right? Ahjumma told me."
"It's your fault," I accussed him.
"My fault?" He looked at me confusedly.
"You don't remember? Your smiling face is really ugly!" I mocked him.
"Oh! That..." he bowed his head down sadly. "Mi-mianhae.."
"Hmph!" I turned away with an angry face. Baekhyun grabbed my shoulder and made me faced him.
His eyes looked so serious and a slight guilty,"Really, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say it. It's just... at that time, your smile is so pretty that I became shy."
"Shy? It's normal to people to smile! There's nothing to be shy about!" I said angrily.
"Because I like you! Don't you know that smile made me blush?! I want to look cool in front of you!" He half-yelled which made me stunned.
"Wha- What?!"
"You heard me clearly. Saranghae, _____-ah!" I thought he was joking but after seeing the serious look.he had in his eyes, my heart started to beat faster.
I would be lying if I didn't have any feelings for him back then. Evem until now, my feelings for him hadn't change. The way he would protect me from the other kids when we were little, and seeing him singing on the tv... would always make me happy. I tried to forget him because of his words back then but every time I came to visit his grandmother, she would always tell me about him and my love toward would grow. And when he suddenly appeared today, I felt slightly happy because he still remember me.
Baekhyun released his grip on my shoulder and smiled sadly,"It's okay if you can't return my feelings. I understand that you're still mad at me because of my stupid words."
He slowly stood up and tried to walk away but I quickly tugged on his sleeve, preventing him from walking away,"Wait, Baekhyun! I-"
He turned towards me and took my hand in his,"You what?"
"I.. still mad at you.. but.. I would be lying if I say that I don't have feelings for you," I mumbled.
His face lightened up,"So that means..!"
"Well.. I'm not used to saying something like this buy this is an exception.." I looked straight to his eyes. "I like you too, Baekhyun."
Baekhyun's smile went wider and he pulled me into a hug,"Yeayy!!!! Gomawo!"
"Y-you're choking me!!" I coughed and Baekhyun quickly released his hug, saying sorry.
I regained my breath and smiled again to him. Together, we walked home, bringing the kittens, helding hands.
