just one day

13.

I sat outside of the school sitting on the steps, looking around to see if I saw him coming. For a couple of moments of waiting, I saw him walking down the steps.

I sighed in relief, standing up. "Jimin" I call out for him causing me to turn in my direction.

He looks at me, and a smile appears on his face. I walk towards him, "hey" he responds awkwardly.

It has been awkward between us hasn't it. I just wanted to clear things up between us.

"Can we talk? Unless you're busy?" I ask him praying that he wasn't.

"No.... I mean no I'm not busy and yes, we can talk" he says causing me to smile. As his limo approaches us, "where to, my lady" he says jokingly causing me to laugh at his corniness.

"Eat. You promised to take me out to one of those ramen shops and you never did" I point out.

"A promise is a promise" he shrugs not arguing with me. The driver gets out and opens the door for me causing me to nod to thank him.

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"And for you, Miss" the waitress asked trying to get our orders. I look and turn to Jimin, "I'll just have whatever he's having" I say causing her to nod as she picked up our menu's.

"So" Jimin says awkwardly.

"So" I say back not sure how to start off apologizing for treating him the way I did.

"I— we both say at the same time causing us both to laugh. "You first" he tells me causing me to do.

Before I get to speak he stops me, "actually... can you let me go first" he says causing me to nod.

"The other day I told you I liked you" he pauses causing my heart to stop.

Oh god.

"It's true I do" he confesses as if I hadn't already known that. Why did he think I was avoiding him for so long.

"But I wasn't asking you to acknowledge it, and I'm not now either. What I'm trying to say is ... that these are my feelings, and I'll take care of them. So don't go around avoiding me like that, again" he tells me.

"Sorry"

"Sorry?" He asks in confusion.

"I just... Uh... I wanted to apologize for my behavior recently... me going off at both you and our professor. And then ignoring you for days was completely wrong of me and I'm sorry. You were just being a kind person and you didn't deserve that" I say finally getting that off my chest.

He nods understandably, "I just... I was going through something at the time and I sometimes have trouble dealing with certain things. And I don't want you think that you telling me that you liked me had anything to do with that. Because I didn't" I explain.

"Then what was it? If you don't mind me asking"

"My mom went back to the states, because my dad did some pretty shitty things. And for those days I wasn't in school, i was trying to cope with that my mother was struggling and suffering and there wasn't anything that I could do" I tell him honestly causing him to look at me.

"So you've been living alone for the past week and half?" He asked as if that was the only thing he heard.

"Basically. But it isn't as bad as it sounds. Besides my mom will be home sooner or later. I just have to wait" I tell him.