AERODROME | JiKook

Chapter 12

Years passed by and we're growing better day by day. I am almost done with my senior year and a lot had happened.

So much had happened in just a year and a couple of months. Since the tragedy happened last year, the season and even the opportunities escelated quicker than I imagined. Though it was never been easy, my last year in college brought out the best in me.

I've undergone great troubles and shakening. I've encountered completely awful situations. I almost gave up.

I was at a certain point in my life that I should be laughing at myself as to why I'm still continuing to live my life, out of all the murderers surrounding me. I mocked myself for being an idiot. I made fun of me because I still don't give up my gloves and continue to fight the battle against the enemy.

But today, I totally realized that my enemy of the battle is none other than myself.

Now, I'm standing in front of a crowd that has faces with smudged mascaras and pinkish eyes. Holding a rolled paper in my right hand, I swept the tassel that blocked my teary eyes and continued my speech as the summa cum laude of all the students in medical class.

"The only force that drove me up to this level is dedication." Everyone clapped with the adoration of the words I delivered. I even heard howling from the right side of the hall and I looked at there, and there also seated the people to whom I dedicate my life to. Eomma, Appa, Mara, and Jungkook. I also have Jeri in my heart, so I count him in, too.

I wrapped up my speech and after a while, the ceremony was done right after we threw our caps in the air and screamed 'Success'. People were coming at me to ask for a photograph. Everyone's smiling and tearing, my classmates handing me letters and stuffs for farewell. Everyone is making the most of the remaining time we have with each other because after today, everything in life will all become busy.

As we go on
We remember,
All the times
We had together.

We took off our togas and wore our school uniforms. One of my classmates ran to me with a Sharpie on her hand and it took me a second to realize what she was trying to do. She held my shoulders with both hands and positioned me, her facing my back, and I felt strokes of the point of the Sharpie on my back. Everyone came across the hall, doing the same thing to our other classmates. I did the same, and made sure I got to write on all of their backs, saying a little prayer on each of them.

And as our lives change,
Come whatever,
We will still be
Friends forever.

We gathered at the center of the hall after doing our activity. Our uniforms look like sheets of paper being wrapped around our bodies. But it was fun, though. It was fun making memories with the people I once considered to be the worst part of being in school. The tables had turned, and they were my reason why I stayed even longer, and overcame my fear. I could have given up. They're changing little by little, and as they were changing, I was mirroring them.

It's time to say our last goodbyes. We called each other with our dream profession and our surname, making me be Dr. Park. It was pleasing to hear and to acknowledge that another phase of my life had ended and I'm one step closer to the finish line. All of the dreams of the young Park Jimin are slowly getting into life.

Flashing of cameras, but one thing that was caught by my sight is what I could say, brighter than the flashes of the cameras surrounding me; his eyes. His feet pointed at my direction, he walked with a large box, had a resemblance of a gold color, with another small box held by his two fingers above the big box.

He welcomed me with a hug and handed me the treats in his hands. "Congratulations! I am so proud of you."

I felt footsteps behind my back and before I could turn around to look at them, I already know who they were. They did not say anything.

Jungkook broke our hug and stood in front of me, keeping himself collected as he saw my whole family staring at us, hugging.

My Appa broke the awkward silence and before even greeting me, he attended to Jungkook first and thanked him for being their guide for today and for being warm and approachable. Atleast they didn't mention what they saw earlier.

"You seem so close with each other. You hugged for a long time." Mother had to start it, though. But it was fine. Jungkook seems to be a cool person and he's cool with everything so he can handle awkward situations pretty much everytime.

My mother kissed his cheeks, and at first, It was awkward for me to see my mom do that, but a strange feeling bloomed inside of me, afterwards. A feeling that I also wanted to do that.

We went outside, and went to the parking spaces where our car has been resting. I placed his gifts in our car and changed my clothes. My family are all inside now, waiting for me. I was about to go inside when Jungkook suddenly pulled me and ran to a deserted portion of the parking area.

He softly, slowly lifted his arms and wrapped them around my waist. I also lifted mine and twirl them around his neck. I am trying to inhale his scent and also trying to absorb the whole situation. Uhm, what does this suppose to mean?

He held my head, wiping the sweat off my forehead, and he went in. He gave me a peck on my forehead and it sent shivers down my spine like an electric current was flowing through my veins, making my body die and come back to life, again.

I couldn't dare to look at his eyes. I can't. Because if I do, I would give all in. My family is waiting, we have some errands to run throughout the day, but the only thing that's in my mind right now is the person in front of me. As much as I wanted to think, my body moved out of its free will, as if it has its mind on its own, and made my hands tighten their grip around his neck, and my feet stood on tiptoe, and my head decreasing the gap between us, and

Locking our lips together.

It was the first time,

But it felt as if it happens everyday.

So, this is how it feels like.

This is how he feels like.