The Only

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Joohyun’s POV

“Can’t everything in this world stay the same?”

It was just another ordinary day, well not for Joohyun. It was her 16th summer and her family just moved to a new town in Daegu. That afternoon she was on her way to visit her grandma at her little corn dog shop. She was simply wearing a lavender sleeveless shirt, a black denim pants and a white Keds shoes. She had already visited her shop every time her family visited the town, but this was the first time she was visiting it since they moved in town. She always loved going to her grandma’s shop. Every time they visited the town, she'd spend most of her time at her grandma’s shop doing anything she can with her. She'd help at the shop, play a round of cards, tell each other stories, no matter what they did together she’d always have fun.

As she was about to enter the shop she was surprised when she was greeted by an unfamiliar face of a boy who just came out from the shop. He was wearing a grey long sleeve shirt tucked in his pants with the sleeves rolled up a bit just enough to make his wrists visible, a pair of black jeans and a pair of plain white Adidas shoes.

“Hi, are you here to order?” Joohyun didn’t answer, “Well you can just wait over the counter” The boy smiled so brightly that for a second, you’d almost think he was closing his eyes.

When she realized she had been staring for too long she explained that she was there to visit her grandma.

“Oh, you’re Joohyun, it’s nice to finally meet you. I'm Junmyeon, granny told me about you but I wouldn’t expect her mentioning me to you” he chuckled “Granny called me to come over she said it was urgent but it turned out she just needed company, so I guess she's not expecting you to come?”

“Umm...”, “No”, she thought, in fact her grandma was the one who insisted she would visit today. Joohyun laughed and answered “Yes, she doesn’t know I'm visiting, and she actually told me bit about you.” He was surprised

“So, she told you about me” He was looking down now, smiling, with one of his hand massaging his nape, embarrassed. Joohyun wouldn’t admit she found it cute, she didn’t even realize she was already smiling at him.

“Don’t worry she didn’t tell me anything embarrassing like the time you...” She laughed not finishing what she was supposed to say. He was confused and took a moment to process what was happening, when he finally realized...

“She told you about that? Wow this is unbelievable, she promised she wouldn’t tell anyone we even had a deal” Junmyeon couldn’t believe how he was betrayed. Meanwhile Joohyun was just looking at him giggling. When Junmyeon realized this, he looked back at her and smiled back. Now the two of them were just there smiling at each other.

She couldn’t believe this, she normally kept her distance with boys despite the fact she was constantly chased by them. When she realized they were smiling at each other for too long she quickly asked if she could come in and just at that moment her grandmother was already walking towards them. Her grandma welcomed her with a hug and bombarded her with questions, more questions came before she could even answer any of them, she missed her, if she could she would stay like this forever. Junmyeon was just there looking and smiling at this reunion he was witnessing. When the two finally broke their hug, her grandma looked at Junmyeon then at her.

“Ahh so you met Junmyeon already, he was just helping with the shop” she noticed her grandma’s smile getting wider, she answered with a smile and a nod.

“You promised you wouldn’t tell anyone. We need to revise our deal” Junmyeon finally spoke out and her grandma, guilty, smiled at him as a response.

“Okay, okay but you have to go now I know you’re still busy, we’ll see each other later okay?”, Junmyeon let out a pout and she unconsciously smiled at this.

“Okay, but we’ll settle this later okay?...  Then I guess I have to go now” He looked at her “It was nice finally meeting you”

“It was nice meeting you too” he smiled at her for a while, she smiled back while her grandma was just at the side excited with this small interaction.

When he was finally gone her grandma started with…
“So? how was he? What do you think?” she looked at her grandma, eyebrow cocked

”Is this why you urgently called him to the shop for so called company?” Her grandma smiled, guilty with her actions.

“It’s just for assurance” she cocked her eyebrow more. “He’s perfect for you, he’s smart, kind, and funny”

“You sound like you’re the one falling for him, and we all know you only laugh at lame joke”

“And we all know you do too” her grandma fired back “He's good looking too, those men who kept on chasing you only ruined every picture you have with them”

“You’re being too harsh on…” she couldn’t finish what she was about to say when her grandma stuffed a corn dog in her mouth.

“This is a new recipe I’m trying, is it good? Junmyeon helped me with that” she noticed she was changing the topic but she didn’t mind anyway. She wouldn’t want to spend her time with her grandma just talking about boys.