Night Sky

21

The clouds in the sky are a calming color of white dancing in the warm blue sky. Their cotton candy fluffiness are gracing my sight and no matter how blinding the sunlight is, I can't seem to take my eyes off of the distraction it provides. I don't know how, but I somehow ended lying down in the grass outside the wide orchard in front of the university's huge library. The tree I was originally leaning on holds the only shade that protects my eye from the midday sun.

When I finally got tired of staring into the warm nothingness that is the blue sky, I finally closed my eyes. In about a few minutes, a shadow loomed over me covering the excruciating heat and I forced my eyes to open wide.

"This is definitely weird. I wouldn't peg you to do things a homeless person would do." Looking up from where I was laying, I see the black haired girl I haven't met in a long time with her hands on her hips and the same sarcastic tone I've grown to love for a year.

"Unnie. You're back." I call sweetly while sitting up. Pam stood there with all her authority. An aura that is a mixture of strength and sophistication that even the most confident man would falter.

"I've been gone, for what? A month? And you look like how I met you the first time." She said worriedly.

I smiled at her concern and motioned her to sit beside me so I can give her a hug. "I'm ok. Just tired I guess."

"Yeah? And not because of a certain bulletproof boy?" I sighed and laid my body back down to the soft green grass of the university's orchard.

"I'm really gonna kill Jae, I swear." I groaned.

"You know that guy still talks about you nonstop, right? He feels like strangling someone when he told me how you were all cuddly with Kim Namjoon last weekend. I was so pissed off since I just got off the plane and he was whining like someone stole his favourite toy." Pamela and Jae was already inseparable even before I entered their little group. She's a couple of years older than us and is currently in law school. Why she's in Korea? I'm not even sure. There's something about talking about her past that gets the lawyer out of her and as a person that constantly avoids confrontations, I just let her take her precious time in fully opening up that chapter of her life.

Not that I know nothing, I know enough to know that just like me, she's trying to live up to her parents' expectations. But unlike the coward I am, Pam unnie knows what battles to choose and how to win them.

"I don't want to talk about it, unnie." I sighed.

"So something did happen..." she trailed out.

I stayed silent. I'm not gonna dig my own grave by telling Pam how I shamefully kissed Namjoon at the back alley of the Anarchy.

"Are you gonna tell me or am I gonna force it out of you?" I pouted at the idea of being interrogated by Pam. She's not on the top of her class for nothing. Once she starts asking questions, the flow will be so seamless, you don't notice you've already fallen for the trap she has set. Good luck to whoever gets prosecuted by her.

"We...kissed." I whispered.

"Stop mumbling your words, Yumi. You know I hate that." She said with a stern voice.

I sat up. Getting ready for the inevitable speech that I know is about to be given to me and took a deep breath.

"We kissed." I said in a much louder voice. "I mean I kissed him. He did kiss back. But...ugghh! Why am I still thinking about it?" I said while angrily messing my already messy hair.

"And?" she said calmly. Why is she so calm when I'm already losing my mind just thinking about it?

"And nothing. We just kissed. It was nothing. Yes, it was nothing." I confidently said. But even I heard how my voice faltered at the end.