Unsung Melodies | ♡ Completed ♡

Chapter Forty Four

The night camp ended without much hassle. I avoided Jungkook whenever I could and I did feel that I was losing the friend I had found in him. I didn’t want to lose him for a stupid love affair. Nevertheless, I could not challenge myself and love him anyway. He needed to understand that love flows naturally; it cannot be forced to flow.

It being the weekend, I headed out to find a part-time job. I was really good at paperwork, yet I had zero skills in social interactions so, I wondered if someone would really offer me a job. I always believed that working part-time was fun and easy, as it was depicted in Korean dramas, but when I got turned down for the millionth time, I understood how much they expected from a part-timer. It added to my disadvantage that I was still schooling.

I walked downtown. My legs hurt from the long walk I had taken from Seoul to here. My empty water bottle screamed that I needed water, yet from whom could I ask water? Being a foreigner, I was in a way, a level below the natives here. I cannot lay any blame on them. I was an outcast. My family also turned me out. My mom, my dad and my sister did shut me out. It's only Yoongi that accepted me.

I sat on the pavement. I just couldn’t walk anymore. It was at times like this, you feel so lost and abandoned, like a stray kite caught in a typhoon. You had no direction and nothing would hold you back.

“Oh my dear, you look terrible for a high school girl.”

It was an elderly woman’s voice. When I turned back to face her, she was coming out of a shop.

“Yeah I am terrible... in many things.” I gave a faint smile.

“Why, did your boyfriend breakup with you?”

“No, it is not like that... I am just on the lookout for a part-time job and I have received nothing but rejections. They say that I don’t look pretty enough to be a waitress even. May be that they are true, I just ... I don’t know where I should turn to, halmeoni ...”

I couldn’t stop the tears that had begun to trail down my cheeks.

“There there... ” The lady patted my shoulder and sat on the stairs of the shop she had just come out from.

“I am looking for someone who can run errands for me and manage the Book Warehouse I own. I am growing old, so it is becoming really difficult for me to maintain the shop. Even the second hand, thrown away books get new loving owners. But some are still so desolate that they need your love.”

Second hand ... Junk ... Useless ...

The words haunted me, yet I blocked them from my line of thinking.

“Are you ... offering me a job?” I was in shock.

“I cannot pay much for you, yet I can pay decently enough for your schooling and rent.”

She smiled in a way that made me feel so loved.

“I will take it up, have no worries!!” I shot up like a rocket and bowed to her.

What could be more exciting than being with books!

“You are better than most of the kids these days. My grandson hated being with books and there he is ....” She pointed a bony finger of hers at a Kumamon mascot.

“May be that he loves being there at the Kids’ Play Area at the Chicken Place.” I tried to be suggestive.

“Yeah... he says that it makes him forget what he wants to forget. The boy went through a lot, so I didn’t stop him from being a mascot.”

The Kumamon was playing with kids and it was nice to see the frisky little ones. I used to love Kumamon too. Kumamon looked silly like me and was dark... like me.

“Shall we go to the Warehouse then... Oh, I didn’t even introduce myelf. I am Mrs.Min.”

There were so many people with the same surname here.

“Thank you so much for offering me the job, Mrs. Min. I am Kristene Andrews.”

“Call me Halmeoni, pretty girl. It is good to be a grandmother of a pretty bunch of lilacs like you.”

“Arasso, halmeoni.”

“Let’s get going then.”

She held my hand and walked down the narrow road. The more we walked down, the plains looked deep and vast.

And I was a tiny girl in the vast chaos.

Yet halmeoni’s grip on my hand was strong.

Junk... useless ... second-hand...

The bothersome words started to echo inside my head again.

I shut my eyes tight and let the thoughts subside.

I just hoped that the scary words would disappear forever, but why were being so revived ... again?

Could it mean that ...

No, this should not be happening.

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A/N :

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