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XIV : SILENT "Tell me, what am I to you?"
Chapter 14
Throwback
"Honey, you sure that you'll be fine? Don't you want me to send you at your classroom?" She smiled and shook her head. There's no need for you to do that for me, mom. I'll be fine.
Her mom sighed. "I can't believe that you're already in highschool. You were just this small when I used to send you–" Lia snorted and shook her head again. Stop it, mom. I'm going to be late if you keep doing that.
The beautiful transferee went inside the campus. She switches her gaze awkwardly every time the students lay their eyes on her. Her name is Lia.
Lia lowered down her head to avoid having an eye contact with them. Because she's afraid that someday, one of them will insult her.
Once she had entered her classroom, she sat on a seat that is vacant, which is very far from the front. Her classmates would sometimes glance at her and give her a smile. And it was because they found her beautiful. But right after they knew that she couldn't speak, her existence seems forgotten. They all forgot her except for this boy who urged to come to her.
"Hello, I am Winwin." the boy smiled slightly as he lend his hand to hers. The girl named Lia hesitantly reached for it.
But Lia, she is a boy.
Well, who cares? It is rare to see someone approach her. At the end, she accepted his hand. Since then, the boy always stay beside her.
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Current
She wonder why he is so mad. Since they've been together, she never saw him as furious as this. Lia couldn't do anything but play with her fingers while he keeps throwing words at her.
Winwin scoffed. "Oh, I forgot."
She lifted her head to see him. His veins are appearing on his neck and it was evident that he can explode anytime. Lia is scared. She's scared what will happen next.
"I suddenly forgot where I stand..." he smirked. But his eyes expresses so much pain. But Lia was blind enough to see it. She is just a mute but not blind. But why can she see him like how he see her?
"I FUCKING FORGOT WHERE I SUPPOSED TO STAND!" She flinched at his sudden scream. He wanted to destroy all the things in the mini-park. But he is afraid that he might scare her.
'Enough.' Lia gestured. However, Winwin didn't mind it.
After the long keeps and resistance he experienced, he though that this is the time where he could say everything he feels.
"Tell me... what am I to you?" he gritted his teeth. Lia cannot even look at him anymore. One question from him made her thought all the days she was with him. It is like her mind played the moments they had since they've met.
Winwin's eyes are pleading and expecting for an answer from her. He wants to hear songs from her but it is impossible. Because she can't speak.
When Winwin found her still at her position, he smiled sadly. She wasn't feeling the same thing as mine.
"Go.." he looked away. "Change your clothes. You might catch a cold."
Winwin's pain in the eyes didn't escape Lia's gaze. She felt her lips shaking. Not because of the cold but because she felt like crying.
She looked at his figure, realizing all the things that happened lately. As she have noticed, Winwin's clothes are still the same as they came here. His clothes are inappropriate for swimming.
Lately, Winwin followed Jaemin and Lia. He want to watch her and look for her. Seeing her smile because of him made a sting on his heart. He doesn't want that. He doesn't like any man who can make her smile.
When Jaemin and Lia were about to kiss, Winwin didn't hesitate to run towards them and jump on the pool. I swear, he was breathing heavily. He wanted to punch Jaemin, only if she wasn't there.
"Lia." he called her to remind her again but he was paralyzed to his place because of the next thing she did to him.
She wrapped her hands around him. She hugged him tightly.
"L–Lia..." he mumbled.
Her grip on his shirt tightened. Both of the clothes they are wearing were soaked. However, they didn't mind. By this time, she totally forgotten about the words Yna told her. She'd rather be selfish than to lose him.
Lia closed her eyes as she felt again her fast heartbeats. That. That was the reason why she avoided him. It was because of the abnormal change of her heart rate whenever he's around.
It was an awkward silence for the both of them. When Lia turned back to her sanity, she slowly pulled back. Winwin remained shock because of what she did lately.
She pities me.
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LIA
It's been two days. Two days since that incident. And yet, I cannot think properly. Jaemin was the one who sent me home. I didn't finished the party Mr. Han prepared.
"Lia, are you okay?" Jaemin asked me before I could open the door of his car. I weakly smiled as I slowly nodded.
He sighed. "Sure?"
When Jaemin got my assurance, I already bid goodbye to him. Since that day, I didn't had a conversation between the two of them— Jaemin and Winwin.
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I switched my gaze to my door when somebody knocked it. Later on, it opened and revealed my mother. "Drink this soup. This will help you to lower down your temperature." she told me and rested the bowl on the table next to my bed.
"Thank you." I gestured. She nodded and smiled. "You shouldn't have went to that party. Look at yourself. Are you feeling cold?"
I raised my fingers and gestured her 'a little'.
She sighed. "After that, drink your medicines, alright? I'm just going to make an excuse letter for you. Or maybe I'll just talk with Winwin so that he can tell–"
I got myself burned from the hot soup.
"Slow down, honey." she told me. She was about to left my room when I immediately held her wrist. She watched me confused as I took my pen and paper out. I wrote something on it and gave it to her.
