Introvspect

Chapter 3 (A Fateful Meeting)

Yoona lead Jasie to an isolated portion of the school area. 

It was a place so well hidden but still well managed since there was the biggest tree that she had ever seen containing all sorts of colorful flowers.

All around it was a small lawn filled with rose bushes encircling the whole scope and it seemed mesmerizing. 

Overall, it seemed like a small park with that small bench just beside the magnificent tree.

Yoona had seen it when she went exploring the school as she had arrived very much too early than most of them. She was an adventurer at heart and would have loved to go around anywhere at anytime. 

She bet that not many students would have found the place since it was further from the main school building. It seemed to have camouflaged along with the scattered trees from afar but at a closer look, it was entirely different.

The part of the tree that came into view did not contain any of the beautiful flowers. 

That was probably the reason why it seemed so uninteresting to go there but overlooking that magical location was really a lost for the others.

They were glad that they had it all to themselves at that particular moment.

Jasie hesitated at first but she did not give it a second thought anymore. She was in her zone and it was thanks to Yoona. 

They silently sat down on the small dusted bench and none of them talked until Yoona reached out from her uniform pocket a printed photograph to show to Jasie.

It was a picture that involved both of them when they were still toddlers. They were in a family buffet restaurant for a celebration. 

Both of them were wearing those sparkly party hats that meant that they were the main characters of the occasion. They were the only ones wearing them. 

Yoona was enjoying a slice of chocolate cake depicted by the dark frosty icing surrounding her mouth. However, it was seen that Jasie was just behind her passing through with Alexon holding her hand.

It was an image encaptured at their most special moment.

"Is that me behind you?" 

Jasie was stunned by the fact that both of them were captured in the same frame with their faces crystal clear. 

"Uhh...yes, obviously. Your eyes are very charming. I always bring this picture with me everywhere. It's like my good luck charm." 

Yoona was so excited to tell her what made it more valuable to her. 

"Wow...what a coincidence. And here we are now talking to each other." 

Jasie was interested in those chance meetings that allowed strangers to intersect paths only to find out that they were fated to meet again when the right time came. 

"Actually, I brought you here to tell you a huge secret. Please, don't tell anyone else." 

Jasie shuddered at the thought that she was going to tell her something really weird and disturbing like "I could not stop thinking about you." 

That would really give her the creeps as they were both little girls still yet to understand those complicated feelings. 

She chose not to look into her eyes as she was about to say it. 

"Promise me that you won't tell anyone." 

What was so great about that particular secret that it needed to be securely kept from people who would only care less?