Fool // k.j.m

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They rode his car in silence, with Donghyun kept on clearing his throat and Wooseok constantly try to start a conversation but failed abruptly when Jungmo glared at him from the mirror. Minhee just feel suffocated in this car that he hoped he was now home, sleeping and eating chicken foot.

But Mina, she did not sense those.

"Where are we eating?"

Jungmo was startled a bit, but he quickly regain his self and glanced at her. Wooseok and Donghyun started to have their ears fully on them, with Minhee was about to dozed of to sleep.

"There's a noodle store at our elementary school, let just go there?"

"But it will be far, with this rain-" Minhee tried to interrupt but the boys shut him up by stuffing Donghyun socks on his mouth.

"That's a good idea. I'm dying for something hot in this rain"

She said with a pure happiness in her face and Jungmo couldn't help but feel butterfly in his stomach. The ride continue to be silent but five of them like it. Donghyun slowly dozed away with Minhee but Wooseok wasn't. He knew that Jungmo choose that stall because it was far from their high school and the latter was too sure that the three of them will be asleep to hear their small talk. So he acted he was asleep to, and Jungmo was tricked.

He was right. Jungmo glanced at the mirror, just to smirked at how three of them were now asleep. He slow down the radio, and even the speed of the car. He just want to talk with her, even the silliest things. Mina realise his action, so he turned back just to see the three of them sleeping at each other shoulder.

"Your friends are cute"

"When they are not infront of girls. Donghyun told me that girls in our class treated them bad because they were not handsome as other boys in other classes"

"Yulhee told me the same thing. She's head over heels over Yohan. But tell me, who wasn't right?"

She remarked, and Jungmo felt a little bit hurt knowing that she also on of Yohan secret admirer. He hummed in response, but he was clenching his steering wheel and his gaze was sharp.

" But I'm not one of them. You know I don't like perfect mans."

Just as Jungmo was about to smile, it died back when she said the word perfect. Memories of her rejecting him still hunting him till now. And he was dying to know.

"Why? Not all perfect guys are bad"

She chuckle hearing his question. Glancing at the car window, she sighed.

"My sister, the one who died ten years ago, married a man. We thought he was very perfect. He had the looks, a stable job and income and a good personality. But then, I overhead my sister rant about how her husband was a workaholic, and sometimes forget about her"

She stopped for a moment, eyes at the scenery outside. It was still raining, and variety colors of umbrella caught her eyes.

"Then, my sister got a cancer, by the time she knew she was already too late. She didn't have the chance to tell him, and she couldn't even held her phone, she was too weak to even lift a hand. My brother in law was having some work at China, so he clearly doesn't know what happened. All he knew, she got a fever and he flew to China"

He thought he needed to calm the girl and told her that she can stop if she felt it was hard to tell him, but seeing how calm the girl is, he knew she doesn't need him to calm down.

"I got mad, furious at how irresponsible he was, so I called him. Then he knew about it, he got to take the first flight back to Korea, but my sister was already giving up on fighting for her life. He only got to see her for two days, and she passed away. I blamed him. I told him, there's no use being perfect, if you couldn't care for others. He felt regretful, and I do believe he felt guilty, so he always visit us, doing things that he couldn't do when my sister was still alive. "

" I'm sorry about your sister"

"No, no it's okay. At least know you know why I don't like perfect mans"

Jungmo slightly smile and focused back to his drive, but the girl was still thinking about why she don't prefer the perfect boys out there,especially him.

'You kept on doing things that makes me confused, but then denying that you like me. I don't like that too'