My One And Only

Sorrow

After a while of conversing with Ryder, no offense but I like calling him green-eyed guy better so I'll call him that, he soon left. Apparently he was at the library to pick up his textbooks for his classes tomorrow. I asked if they had given him his schedule yet.

     "Curious if we're going to have the same classes huh?" He asked, more of a statement than a question.

     "Wha- no! I was just asking." I exclaimed, beginning to blush.

     He laughed, "I'm just teasing. No, they haven't given it to me yet. They're going to tomorrow though, first thing when I get here."

     "Ahhh. Well, welcome! Are you barely moving in?" I asked.

     "Yeah, me and my family moved in a month ago, since I moved from Japan."

     "Oh?"

     "Yeah, my mom's Japanese."

     "That's nice, do you have siblings?"

     "A little sister, and you?"

     "I'm an only child." I responded, feeling a bit jealous that he had a sibling.

     "So you live with your mom only?"

     "Yeah..." I began to feel uncomfortable and sad thinking about it.

     "Anyways, I gotta go now. Hopefully you'll be my tour guide." He said, standing up and leaving.

     I flicked my head up and touched my face, feeling it warm with embarrassment.

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     As I was exiting my last class, I was expecting Jiha to be there waiting for me as always, but she was nowhere to be seen.

     I sighed.

     She's probably having fun with her friends, it's better than escorting me to the bus stop.

     As I was about to step out of the building, it started raining. So, I stepped back and grabbed my umbrella from my backpack. I kept pressing the button to open it up, but it wouldn't budge.

     "Open up stupid ass umbrella!" I exclaimed, forcing it to open until I heard a rrriiiiippppp.

     I crouched down and put a fist to my forehead, feeling on the verge of tears.

     "You're going to cry because of an umbrella." I heard the familiar cold voice.

     I quickly stood up and cleaned up the little tears that fell. "What do you want?"

     He shrugged and pulled out his own umbrella.

     "Here you can have mine, it looks like yours has a huge hole."

     I looked at my umbrella that was on the ground and back at him.

     "I don't need your umbrella, I can go without one."

     "You'll catch a cold if you refuse." he persisted.

     "Just leave me alone." I said, lifting my hoodie and about to turn around to leave the conversation.

     He then grabbed my arm. "Take the umbrella and then I will."

     I took it. "What about your girlfriend?"

     He looked at me, seeming confused.

     "Nevermind." I opened it and lifted it over my head, running towards the bus which was already there and sitting down. I looked out the window and saw him taking the umbrella I left on the ground. He walked with it in the rain.

     Tsk, he should take care of himself too.

~

     "Hi mom." I said, placing the umbrella in the holder.

     "Glad to see that you brought your umbrella today, I was worried you forgot to check the weather again."

     I did my daily doings and put on my work clothes, going to my shift, and again there weren't many customers so I snuck my phone under the table.

     Didn't that guy have a post about his girlfriend with the oscar winning caption?

     I scrolled again through the guy's Instagram feed and found the post again.

     Huh, strange. The post's still there.

     I checked the date of when it was posted and found it was taken a year ago.

     He must've broken up with her then, that makes more sense.

     I put my phone away and to my surprise, I found the green-eyed guy now putting his stuff on the counter.

     "How-?!"

     "You know, you shouldn't be using your phone on the job." He snickered.

     I scanned his stuff. "$4.45. How'd you come in so quietly?"

     "I guess you were so absorbed in whatever you were doing."

     He handed me a five dollar bill and in return, his change.

     "Have a nice day." I call out, following the job guidelines.

     "You too." he winked.

     I roll my eyes, he's definitely a flirt.

~

     Nothing out of the ordinary that night, as I cleaned and closed up, ate with my mom, and now was finishing up my homework.

     Thanks to green eyes, I have more homework to do.

     I sighed, but felt my lips spread to a smile thinking back to our conversation.

     Focus Mai!

     "Uggghhh who am I kidding, I don't want to do this."

     I then felt a vibration from my phone.

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jiji_45 - Hey, sorry I left you hanging today

                                           mai_ - heh it's fine

jiji_45 - No it's not, let me treat you

      mai_ - if you want to, but its unnecessary

jiji_45 - Just tell me what you want tmr, night~

                                             mai_ - night :)

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     I sighed once more and buried my face in my hands. After a few moments of grief, I forced myself to continue the homework.

All editing credits to my dear friend: -xuhao