Maybe It's You

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Flashback 3 yrs ago

Its weekend, tam's from her korean class and now she's roaming around in A famous mall in their place. She enrolled in a korean class because of her work, shes a licensed Architect not related right but she needs to because one of their clients or mostly to say are Korean nationals, its a plus when u can communicate with them thru their language and also she likes to learn korean.

Shes been planning to discover korea and also if there's a chance she wants to work there. Take note shes a certified kpop and oppa addict 😂. She stans exo much, in fact mostly of her songs are sang by exo.

Tam's pov

While strolling around Ayala, i felt my stomach exclaimed already. As usual, fast food restau. She went inside Mcdonalds. While on the line, she noticed a korean thats busy searching something in her bag in front of her. She believed the korean was looking for money to pay her order. The korean was saying something in her language.

korean to herself: fxck shxt, where did my wallet. Oh my gad, this is so embarassing. Pls Lord send someone to help me.

Its been 5 mos when i enrolled in my korean class, and i love it so its a plus that I learned fast. i thought of helping the korean, but ill check first if i have an extra money, the two of us might be both embarassed in the end. Good thing I have.

Tam: (in korean) Hey, yoona? yes its u. i knew it. (i winked for her to ride my acting)

while the cashiers patiently waiting and listening as if she can understand

Korean: Ohh! (she catched already and rode the acting scene) Krystal! Ive never imagined we'll meet here. How r u?

tam: (as if theyre really friends, she held her arms) so much for that yoona, well pay for ur order cause i think the cashier is already pissed. hahaha

korean: yes pls, i dont know how to repay u but thank u so much for saving me.

tam: no problem. well talk later

after that I paid for her order. and that was 480php! I suddenly regretted it. the korean thanked me and I was about to go the other table for myself but the girl followed me.

Korean: hey can i sit beside u? if its not too much to ask?

tam: why? ofcourse. (smiled)

chari: btw, im Park chari Eun. u can call me chari. (bowed as their sign of showing respect)

tam: De la cruz ,Tamia Alexia, u can call me tam. nice to meet u (bowed)

tam felt awkward, because chari's so talkative and shes talking fast like my korean skills is limited only and i need still to internalise every korean word to understand it fully. so without any hesitation i interrupted "chari"

Tam: hihi, chari btw im not a korean. im a filipino, if u can just speak slowly for me to better understand u, I'd appreciate it. 🙊

Chari: ow really, so sorry. I thot ure really a korean based on the way u speak. my bad sorry!

tam: hihi no worries.

So thats the start of our unbreakable friendship. Chari stayed in the phils for 6mos. We instantly became close, chari is so friendly and down to earth so we clicked right away. Every weekend we will find time to meet if we dont have any apointments.I also became charis english and tagalog tutor, I always kidded chari to withdraw her english class and instead just pay me. Chari shared that she enrolled becoz its a ncessity about her work. chari's a business owner/fashion designer started just freshly. Knowing how to speak and understand english is really needed for her work since its the international language and shell be meeting different nationalities. I even met charis parents thru skype/facetime aside from her brother, chari has a younger brother named channie, she rarely talked about him. They became best of friends. And when its time for chari to leave, we both cried a river. We promised that we will not cut our commu and we will send msgs everyday in any way. And till now its almost 3 yrs aftr we met, we're still communicating and updating each other. And comes the time that I was offered by my company to go to a business seminar/training for a month all expense paid, and its on S. Korea. Without any hesitation I accepted the offer and told chari the good news. We're both excited since its been a very long time we last met. So we've planned that I will fly there 2 weeks early atleast for us to roam around korea.