FRIENDS 2: HUANG RENJUN

02 | art class

mayumi

"mhm, see how gorgeous my painting is so far." jaemin spoke confidently, he nudged my arm which made my hand that held a paint brush unsteady. it dreadfully painted a curve line which wasn't suppose to be, it was suppose to be straight. "na jaemin." i exhaled, firmly squeezing the paint brush i had and shut my eyes tightly. "would you stop doing that when you can clearly see i'm painting?" my eyes glared into jaemin's.

"ooooh you're so scary." jaemin mocked while rolling his eyes upwards.

"you don't scare me mayumi, you melt my heart because you're so damn adorable." jaemin squealed and used his index finger and thumb to pinch my soft pale cheek. "look at you trying to look mad." i slapped off his hand exasperatedly. "ahhh so adorable." he muttered and smiled warmly.

i continued to paint my painting. miss bae told us to freely paint whatever we want, speaking of miss bae joo-hyun i have to mention she was an art herself. look how beautiful she is. she is everyone's teacher crush.

anyway continuing with my paint. as you see my painting was our café, the nakamoto café because it represents a lot of amazing memories. a lot of splendid memories was in there, especially mine and renjun's.

i stopped painting and took a brief look at renjun.

there he sat painting peacefully, earphones plugged in while his girlfriend haneul was teasingly annoying him. pinching his cheeks, trying to get his attention but clearly renjun didn't like it. sometimes i wonder and think, how come he act like this towards his own girlfriend? sometimes i feel like he doesn't even put energy or effort to show how much she love haneul. i feel like something's off.

but renjun is probably happy, that's more important. shall i just continue this? watching him be happy while i'm here, crumbling down the floor because of him? we only get brisk looks, sometimes we flash a very very tiny small smile to each other but that's it. we really are strangers to each other now. it's painful.

"yah mayumi." jaemin snapped his beautiful fingers in front of my face. i winced and jumped off my thoughts, my eyes wagged as i eyed him. "yeah?" i spoke a bit confused.

"you always stare at them. why?" jaemin suddenly questioned. my heart skipped a beat. shit was i too obvious? "nothing, i'm not even looking at them... what are you talking about?" i let out a sheepish scoff-laugh and commenced to paint, my hands trembling as i stared intensely on my paint board.

"quit lying mayumi, i know you always look at them, i always catch you and don't even try to deny it." jaemin placed his paint brush and looked at me, showing that he was attentive at the conversation we were about to have.

i blinked and sighed. "isn't already obvious jaemin?" i locked my eyes with his.

jaemin silently exhaled, nodding his head. "you know i'm worried about you. i know deep inside you worry about you and renjun, you're handling it all by yourself and it worries me. you can tell me, if you ever need someone to talk about it i'm always here and would always support and help you because...." he paused and glanced over at the couple, but realized he was actually glancing at jeno who sat silently, being a third wheel. "i'm also devastated about not being with him, especially jeno."

i weakly smiled. i know how strong jaemin and jeno's friendship are, so strong like a solid thick rope... but yes same thing happened with him and jaemin, just like me and renjun. jeno was kind of held back, being the tail of renjun and haneul.

"i'm sorry i'm keeping all of this inside me. i should've have talked to you about this, basically we are feeling the same and i wished i could've mentioned it way sooner." i spoke and sighed, looking down while hearing the giggles in the background haneul and renjun both made.

"it's okay, at least now we both know." he whispered into my ear. "i miss them jaemin... i miss jeno and renjun." i murmured and smiled weakly.

"who doesn't? after that small rat appeared our friendship are splitting apart." jaemin growled, turning his head around to glare at the female renjun was with. "we have to do something, i won't let our friendship... me, you, renjun and jeno just split apart like that... it's pathetic." jaemin fisted his hands, nails sinking down his pale skin.

"what?" i scoffed and looked at jaemin. "what are we gonna do? go there and join them? it seems like haneul doesn't even want to be near me, or near renjun." i raised an eyebrow and showed how hopeless i was.

"i know.... but we both know we can't just stay away and do nothing." jaemin spoke the truth. "i know... it'll just be difficult jaemin." i licked my lips and huffed.

jaemin cupped my cheek and rubbed small circles on it. "it's okay mayumi. no matter what happens, i'll always be here for you, remember that. i won't leave you." he assured me with that warm smile he owned. "thank you."

note: i'm watching would you rather for the 2nd time and i swear i hate it so much. my sisters wanted my parents to watch it. it's sucks ughhh! iris could've lived happily with lucas if she chose the first option!!!