The Book of Literary H'Enjoyment.

D is for Diary of a Serial Dater.

(This will be a series, this is the first chapter)
Dear Diary,
I sighed pitifully at my diary. I was a 22 year old who still kept a diary, as weird as that sounds.
I was still confused on how to begin my entry.

I had just come back from my third date in two weeks, and it was the same outcome, rubbish. I simply could not keep a man.

Every relationship I engaged in usually ended in a big flop. From Im Changkyun, my science class partner in the 10th grade, to Choi Seungcheol, the cutie that always rapped at the back of the class to Lee Jooheon, that dick that only dated me because he felt I had a big African Butt, and all others.

But let's start from the beginning shall we. Back to the very first man (boy) I dated.

BamBam was the definition of a 'hottie' back then in the 9th grade. Well at least that was how I felt when I got past the fact that he was named after a prehistoric animated baby.

He was two grades above me, I remember the first glance I took at him. Sorry let me rephrase that, the first gaze I took at his beautifully featured face starting with his medium starry brown eyes, going down to his straight nose, and those pink, plump, succulent lips.

I still get tingly when I think of him.

Last time I heard of him, he was doing amazing in the entertainment industry, that was expected of course.

But there was a problem, he had a woman. A real nasty girl. I could never forget her, Mina. She was beautiful, hell yeah. But you've heard of those kind of girls whose attitudes are so nasty that they begin to look like gargoyles.

That was her.

I had fallen hard for BamBam and I couldn't get up. I had to get Mina out of the way. But I couldn't bring myself to doing it, I was frightened of being bullied.

But I also couldn't sit and watch the love of my life waste his attention and care on her. True love was something that could be shared by BamBam and I, and by us alone.

So, like the idiotic earthworm I am, I walked up to BamBam one good afternoon and spurted out my rubbish.

'BamBam I really like you, and I know you might never think of me the same way. But ughhhh I JUST LIKE YOU OKAY!' I screamed and ran off not wanting to see the creeped out or terrified look on his face. A few minutes later I realized that I didn't even use honorifics when I yelled at him. Fml.

I didn't hear from him after.

'Obviously.' My inner self rattled.
'Yeah whatever.' I say back.

'Hey tell them about that time he came to your class —' I cut my inner self off.

'Hey tattletale, I'm the one telling the story, not you.' I yell at myself.

Back to the story, sorry for that little diversion. I talked to myself often, some people say it's a sign of insanity, others say it's a sign of intelligence. So let's go with the latter.

One hot afternoon, the class teacher decided not to show up for a class and a nuisance arose. So much noise and screaming, coupled with idiot boy arguing about video games. I just sat at the back of the class and start at the poem I was writing, the noise was reducing my concentration on the extra romantic poem I was writing for BamBam in my BamJournal.

Yes, I'm pitiful. I agree. I had a journal dedicated to BamBam filled with poems, stories and erotica. Hehehe.

Right there, and then, the class went silent. I looked up in surprise, only to see BamBam, Yugyeom and Jungkook. The three hottest guys in the school.

'Who is Rita Evans?' BamBam asked. My heart stopped beating. He was asking of me. A thousand thoughts when through my mind. Was I in trouble? Did he just find out my name from a student and come to call me out in class in a formal manner so that he can beat me up in private for my stupid display weeks ago?

I stood up, my legs shaky, I felt like a warm sluice of urine would go down my long legs any moment from then.

I moved slowly, with calculated steps as I made my way forward to him.

'You?' He said with a surprised look but quickly masked it with a nonchalant look. 'Mr Kang is looking for you.' He said and began to leave with the boys.

He looked back and I saw a tiny grin.

I left the class and it's noise came back.

I walked back to class after seeing the teacher. 'Evans!' Someone screamed from a distance. I looked back and saw BamBam and the other boys looking at me. I pointed at myself and they nodded.

I walked over to them with my heart in my mouth.

'Yes BamBam sunbae.' I said catching his eye and looking down immediately with fear.

Goodbye world, goodbye friends, goodbye BamBam and goodbye to the relationship that we never had but I relived on and on in my dream daily.

'Jungkook, why is she shaking?' Yugyeom asking in an amused voice. Shaking? I looked down at my legs and to my bewilderment they shook with such velocity that I thought they would fall off.

Guess the fear got to me real bad. Then I felt an arm wrap around my shoulder. I looked up and saw Jungkook holding me and smiling softly. I could feel my lips gale wide open. For the first time in three years in this school, I just realized how handsome Jungkook actually was, but I still had eyes only for BamBam.

I finally looked at BamBam who to my surprise was smiling down at me.

'You are so bold RiRi. I can call you that right?' He asked.

You can call me anything, honey, sugar, baby, I thought to myself.

'RiRi sounds nice.' I said meekly.

'It's nice seeing a junior that's so bold these days. I guess I'll see you around RiRi. I'll talk to you some other time.' He said before giving me a hug. A huggggggg.
And the other guys hugged me as well.

I ran into the nearest toilet and did my deformed happy dance. And that my beautiful people, was the beginning of a beautiful love story in which we would hide out in the Chemistry lab to give each other a few kisses.

Sigh, the beautiful picnics we had on weekends in the park, and the games we would play and the way he would kiss my forehead when I lost.

All that Disney trash ended three months later, when he graduated.

I guess I should have spoken up sooner. It was a great first relationship.