Promise • 전정국 (DISCONTINUED)

35 | Ending On a Good Note

"Careful of your feet, careful of what you say."

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"And then there's this one." I giggled as I showed Amy one of the many pictures I secretly took of Jungkook while we were at the aquarium.

"So he doesn't know you have these?"

I shook my head. "He'd beg me to delete them and I wouldn't want to do that."

"I bet you'd beg him to delete the photos if it were vice versa."

I looked up and then back to my best friend. "I would but that's beside the point. His birthday is in September and I wanted to gift him with a little book filled with pictures like these that I took of him. I want to write little notes on it and stuff too."

"Wa! You're so cute! I'm sure he'd love that a lot. Isn't September like 5 months away though?"

"Never hurts to start preparing." I slid my phone back into my pocket and started swinging myself back and forth on the swing that I sat on.

"It's so weird yet it's weird in a good way," Amy spoke with a soft voice.

"What's weird?" I swung my feet back and forth, holding onto the metal chains on each side of me.

"I've never seen you be so, what's the word—passionate, towards someone. Especially a boy. I'm just sort of shocked."

"You're not the only one." The corners of my lips rose. "He just really helped me find a part of me that I never knew existed before." After a small pause, I suppressed a small laugh. "Who would've thought, that the cute brown haired boy who bumped into me at a restaurant and dropped my phone would become my boyfriend?"

"Not me, that's for sure. Even bumping into each other on the bus seemed so far-fetched."

"Tell me about it. Enough about me though, I haven't heard you talk about Yoongi, do you guys still talk?"

She did a fast rapid nod in response to my question.

"We keep things very low-key, that's all. I swear, I learn something new about the guy every day. Yesterday, he told me he raps. He's pretty good at it too."

"You guys should make a collaboration." I teased, knowing my best friend likes to rap as well in her free time.

"Yeah, okay." She scoffed. "Can I tell you something?"

"Sure."

"Yoongi and I may or may not have gone past the making out stage."

"Amy! I did not need to know that."

"You said I could tell you!"

"Yeah, but I didn't think you were going to say that. I forgot you're very free-spirited about the things you share with me."

"Always." She winked and her face soon crinkled with laughter.

"Y/N? Amy?" A familiar voice jumped into our conversation.

This little interrupting my conversation type of thing was starting to become like déjà vu.

"Mina, hey. What are you doing here?" I raised a brow, wondering how she happened to be at the same park as me and my best friend.

"Chels told me where you guys were."

"Chels? I thought you two didn't ta-"

She cut in. "It's a long story. Anyways, I don't mean to intrude but-"

"Well, you did." Amy stopped her before she could continue her sentence.

"Amy." I whisper-yelled to her before nudging her in the stomach gently with my elbow.

"It's okay, Y/N. I guess I deserve that."

"After you helped me that night at your party? I think you deserve a lot better. Amy is just, you know," I shrugged. "Amy."

I could hear Amy let out a sardonic laugh.

"Oh, that—that was nothing, really."

"It was something to me. I don't know how I could have handled being in that state of mind if you hadn't come to help me. I don't even want to think what would happen if some drunk guy had set his eyes on me and started forming crazy thoughts. I just never really got the chance to give you a proper thank you, so, thank you."

"You're welcome, Y/N. Us girls have to look out for each other, right?" She smiled.

"Right." I nodded swiftly. "There must be some reason you came down here though."

"There is. I wanted to apologize. Not just to you but to Amy. Shit, I'd apologize to every single person who knows me if I could."

"Apologize for what?"

"I know you both talk with Chels now. I wouldn't be surprised if she's told you some things about me either. I wouldn't blame her."

"Well, she did tell me some things."

"Which she ended up telling me." Amy piped in.

Mina nodded, taking in both of our words.

"I thought a lot about my past actions and feelings towards others and it made me realize that this isn't the person I want others to see me as. If people were to love me, I'd want them to actually mean it. I know it might seem like I'm asking for a lot, but do you think you can forgive me? I'd just like to end things on a good note. Especially since we're graduating soon and going to be moving on in different directions."

Amy and I wordlessly looked at each other, both of us each in slight shock at what we were hearing. Amy was the first to speak.

"You know, for helping out my best friend and for knowing you were in the wrong, consider yourself forgiven."

"You already know my answer." I grinned.

Mina formed a smile on her face, eyes sparkling with delight and happiness.

"Just one little thing, Mina, if I may recommend something to you." Amy bit her lip.

"What's that?"

"With all due respect, you should seriously think about wearing something that covers your ass."

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