I Liked You As Soon As I Hated You (Yejisu)

Chapter 32

Spending time with someone is always great. Yeji would always love hanging out around people, but ever since Jisu left, she kind of locked herself away from people.

Just like what her friends are telling her, they can't even believe that they have to force Yeji out of her house just to be able to spend time with her.

Though, they wouldn't be able to do that easily everyday because Yeji would always be asleep at day time. It's almost as if she's starting to not exist anymore.

Hyunjin would always be there to scold her and she has no problem with that, because she knows and notices the way that she has changed over the past few days ever since Jisu left.

Well, her girlfriend left, who wouldn't be sad about that? So, when she met Jiwon, she thought she'd just be another friend who she'll ditch to sleep every morning.

But now that she's there, sitting beside Jiwon in an empty and poorly lit little playground in the middle of the night, she thinks she isn't going to be able to ditch Jiwon for sleep.

Why? Well, the girl is just, simply, amusing and interesting that Yeji keeps on getting curious everytime a word leaves Jiwon's mouth.

It's as if Jiwon's words were so different from her other friend's, like she kept on pulling Yeji in with each story she tells.

She's simply unique.

Yeji doesn't actually know how Jiwon does it. Yeji is just simply hooked.. with her stories, Jiwon was very nice too.

"You hang around this playground often? You seem to be very familiar with this place." Yeji asks, sitting on a rock in front of Jiwon who's sitting on a swing.

Yeji wanted to sit in the other swing too, but it was broken and she didn't want to steal the other swing from Jiwon so she settled on a rock.

Besides, it was much easier to communicate and understand each other when you're face to face.

"I do actually! This is like, my go-to place. I'm usually alone, because it's much more peaceful for me. But that's not the only reason why this place is so familiar to me. I grew up playing in this playground." She giggles as she slightly moves around on the swing.

"So, you do live around here!" Yeji smiled widely. Jiwon nodded, "I used to. But I moved away because of school, had to transfer to a new one because.. you know, if you're different everyone hates you."

With Jiwon's words, Yeji's smile slowly faded. That hit close to home. Because she felt almost the same thing. "Oh.. I'm sorry.. are you alright with talking about that?"

Jiwon only hummed, still swinging back and forth. Yeji didn't want to ask anything, they only met twice, she should know her limits. But it seems as if Jiwon looked very comfortable around her.

The girl smiled, "It's alright. It's all in the past now. There's no need for me to look back at it when I already moved on from it. Anyway, I used to always play here with friends." She chuckles.

"From day to night, I'd never stop playing with them, until some group of boys decided to kick us out because apparently, this was their spot." Jiwon continues while playfully rolling her eyes as if mocking the kids from back then.

Yeji laughs, listening in on Jiwon's story.

"They would always bring in these large bats and would bring an extra ball to threaten us, but I didn't care about their empty threats." She looked back at the playground as if she's seeing her old self, standing up to those boys who were taller than her.

She looks back at Yeji with a smile stretched across her lips, "I made a deal with them. Told them, if they could beat me in their silly little game of baseball, my friends and I will leave the playground and will never play here ever again."