The Work of Love (Hajeongwoo)

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"Sir! Can you give me until this afternoon to pass my assignment? Please, Sir! Oh... Sir! You look so good with your white polo and ah-huh... you look so stunning with your brown hair! How come there's an angel right in front of my eyes? Unbelievable!"

I laughed with the usual pick up line of my student, Liam, he is a foreign exchange student in my university. He tried to guard me from going our of the room and pulled the books in my arms. This kid is so energetic, he keeps reminding me of someone...

"No." I answered, he started stomping his feet. He continued sticking beside me until we got on the hallway. Kids really.

"Hey Liam! You're bugging Sir Jeongwoo again!" Liam just sticked his tongue out at his classmate.

"Okay, okay. But that's minus five of your score already," I surrendered, this kid will go around with me nonstop. This isn't the first time though.

"Yey! Sir, you are really an angel, let me see if you are hiding wings behind your clothes," he started looking at my back, I ended up laughing.

"Hey, hey, hey kiddo, get your hands off the man, you will get beaten up by his fans." Yoonbin, his brother said. I smiled at him.

"You're here again? Do you miss me already?" Liam hissed, faking to look so done with his brother. I just shook my head.

Yoonbin slapped him with the rolled paper, he is from the site for sure and he is already a successful engineer.

"Do your assignments! Stop giving Jeongwoo a headache!" he slapped him again which made the kid ran away.

"Stop beating the kid," I laughed. Yoonbin just gave me a smile and we both ended up laughing.

We decided to have lunch together. His project is just near the university, the other boys keep coming to see me everytime they have the chance to do so. It became a habit of them and I got used to it.

"Your life revolves inside the university, aren't you dizzy, Woo?" he joked. I shrugged it off.

"It's fun though. And I love teaching," I never really had an idea I will become a professor, I wanted to be an architect but it wasn't for me. I tried discovering what suits me well when I was in America, I did modeling but I am not fun of camera that much and it's such a pressure. For sure I love taking pictures but I can't have it as a profession, more like a hobby.

"But honestly, you look so good. You look happy doing that, you even became more famous," he sipped on his drink. I smiled at the thought.

"But not as famous as him," Jihoon interrupted. He sat beside Yoonbin. He said he will join us and we waited for him for around thirty minutes, that's fine, I got some time to talk with Yoonbin.

He keeps saying the same thing, bringing up Haruto in our conversations, until now hearing his name brings so much pain inside my chest.

"Why do you keep comparing them? They are far from each other already," Yoonbin said. Jihoon shrugged.

"I'll just keep reminding Jeongwoo of Haruto so that he won't be able to move on," he said biting the burger. As if I have plans to do so...

"But I heard Haruto is seeing someone, already?"

"There's a lot of rumors about Haruto's dating scandal that's because he's fucking famous but I think he is not dating anyone though,"

"You can't be so sure." Yoonbin said. As if he knows. I stared at him.

"Hey, I'm just kidding!" he laughed. He's at it again, trying to push me to say something about Haruto.

It's been seven years? running eight years. Thinking about it, I can't imagine I was able to survive years without him. But it was completely different for him, he seemed to move on from me right at the moment he chose to stay in Japan. He studied hard, he graduated with awards and he is now one of the famous models worldwide. Looking at him in screen and magazines, I know it's ambitious of me to think I can talk to him one again or even see him in person.