Bunny House
Chapter 18: Ice Princess
-YongGuk P.O.V-
_______ dragged me through the mall instill we hit the closest ( and in my opinion the biggest I’ve seen yet) prop store in the mall.
“Remind me again why we’re going to the prop store to get disguises when 1 I’m already wearing a disguise and 2 no body knows who YOU are in the first place!” I hissed when we entered. Ignoring my question and complaints _____ bowed to the casher and headed to the back of the store. I stood behind her, looking around suspiciously.
“Girls and their shopping habits” I muttered as _____ began pushing through a rack of girl costumes.
“I don’t shop often and when I do, might a well make it fun” she shot back at me pulling out a random dress and giggling to herself. Curious I peered over her shoulder and she spun around. Stretching out the bring pink fairy dress in front of her to admire it she glanced up at me with her green eyes shining
“what do you think?” she asked
”I never thought of it until now but I guess you are a fairy type…” I began and turned around to grab the devil horns that stood on a rack of headwater behind me and grinned at her.
“An evil fairy!” I chuckled as he put the dress away, “Besides, of you go out in the mall like that you might get kidnapped again.” I added to have _____ turn towards me violently. Before she had the chance to say anything I continued, “Kidnapped by the circuits,” I leaned over her tugging on a strand of her red hair, “They might want their beaded lady back!”
She spun around picking up a huge foam hammer and began wacking me with it. “I do not have a beard! You are such a jerk! I should have called Himchan! At least he would have been nicer to me!” she stopped and put the hammer down after getting a dirty look from the storeowner and headed down the clothing isle to look at other things. I felt bad and at the same time angry. What did Himchan have that I didn’t? And more importantly, why was being compared to him (and more importantly placed BELOW him) bother me so much? I turned to the headwater rack again, angry at my own thoughts and began spinning it aimlessly. Should I apologize?
-YOUR P.O.V-
I pushed through the rack of princess dresses angrily (don’t take it the wrong way… I’m not a fan of princess dresses, but on days you’re angry or upset… you sometimes feel like doing things you wouldn’t normally do, wouldn’t you agree?). Humph I don’t have a beard! Or facial hair for that matter! What a jerk! I should have called DaeHyun or Himchan…
”______” called the jerk from behind me tapping my shoulder.
“I’m not talking to you!” I shot back and continued to flip through the rack. An outfit caught my eye and I pulled it out, examining it.
“You’re talking to me by saying you’re not talking to me you know…” YongGuk added and I trend around furiously.
“you know wha-” my words caught in my throat before I finished the sentence and I covered my mouth to keep from laughing so hard. YongGuk wore white bunny ears and a red mask over his mouth. Overtop his street clothes he had the pink fairy dress I was looking at ( how he fit in it? That is a question even I don’t know the answer to). It made him look bulky and just play… dumb and ridiculous… I felt my anger trickle away into nothing as I laughed.
“I’m sorry for calling you a bearded lady…” he said in a baby voice that made me giggle even more. I could see his ears turning red and decided to milk this thing a little further. Pouting I turned my head away letting out a sharp humph sound (like those snobby girls do in the movies… XD over acting I know but he was buying it!), pretending to be occupied with the clothing rack.
“Oh come on what do I have to do to show you I’m sorry? I mean I put on your idiotic dress! What else do you want me to do?!” he yelled frustrated and embarrassed convulsing like a little child who was having a tantrum fit because he didn’t get what he wanted. . I turned around and took the bunny ears off his head and put them on mine. Reluctantly he bent down to my size and gave them to me, removing his mask. I took the mask too and put it over my mouth. Bang looked at me with tiered and pleading eyes and I caved.
“Come to the photo booth outside with me and take a picture in the fairy costume… AND pay for supper and I’ll forgive you.” I said giving him an eye smile. Bang deliberated, putting his fingers to his chin and stroking his invisible beard.
“Okay, fine but you have to dress up too!” my jaw dropped as bang pointed to the Ice Princess costume I was holding.
I frowned.
”Deal or no deal?” Bang teased. I sighed loudly and headed for the changing room with him trailing behind me…
-YongGuk P.O.V-
I had pulled on the fairy costume and say outside the changing room waiting for ______ to emerge in her costume. Honestly I didn’t care what she would look like as long as I wasn’t the only idiot dressed up.
“Hurry up will you!? I can’t be seen in this in public!” I yelled as the door to her changing room opened and my jaw dropped. Her red hair was scattered around her thin and fragile looking collar bone that was revealed by the off the shoulder ice blue short dress. It ended at her knees and clung to the waist beautifully before puffing out at the bottom. _____ gathered her red hair to one side and turned back facing me.
“Can you zip me up? I couldn’t reach….” she muttered a little embarrassed. After a short pause to gather myself I approached her bare back, carefully zipped up the dress. The heat from her warm skin burned my fingered even though I didn’t even touch her back… HOLD THAT THOUGH!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU BANG YONGGUK GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!!! JUST BECAUSE THE RED HAIRED DEMON PUT ON A DRESS DOES NOT MEAN SHE IS A GIRL!! Well it does but not in your eyes! She is you managers niece and… And… What if she wasn’t….?
“YongGuk? Are you okay? You look like you saw a ghost or something…” she muttered and passed me to go into the photo booth. After convincing the store owner to let us go to take pictures we finally did. She forced me to do aegyo posed and I made her do the same in return.
“It’s not like you’ve never been to a photo shoot before! Come o. Act professional YongGuk!” she argued and I frowned.
“I’m use to photo shoots in pants not in dresses so sorry of I don’t feel like I’m in my comfort zone!” I hissed back. We did a few poses again. Then a noise came from near _____ and I turned to look at her. She was hanging on to her stomach, cheeks red. A moment of silence as we stared at each other and then burst out laughing. The final picture snapped and it as by far my favorite one.
“How about we edit the stickers and go eat?” I said and rubbed my watering eyes.
“Good idea!” ____ laughed and headed out of the booth to edit pictures. While waiting for them to print we changed. ______ bought the red mask I wore and I bought large glasses with no lenses in the and a hat. Secretly I bought the white bunny ears thinking it would be fun to teas her with them later, something funny to show the guys too. As I paid _____ ran into the store with the pictures, excited. “They look great!” she exclaimed and split them into two giving me one copy of each.
“You two are such a cute couple!” the manager commented and I felt my face heat up.
“We’re just really good friends that’s all” laughed _____ awkwardly, “we’re not dating. We would end up killing each other if we dated! We are too different” she added and something in my chest tightened with every word. I watched her carefully. Did we really mean that? As _____ walked ahead of me the lady that owned the store called to me,
“Young man! Don’t be disappointed. Sometimes opposites attract! Don’t give up! Fighting!” she smiled politely at me and I bowed and with a smile followed after _____ to the food court. Pausing at the door I look at the picture of us laughing…. smiling to myself, I opened my wallet and shoved it in the clear picture slot of it (the one that’s the first thing you see when you open your wallet) and then tucking the others away and admired the photo.
” BANG! You’re so slow! Come on!” ____ called and I ran after her.
“HEY RED HAIRED DEMON WOULD IT HURT YOU TO CALL ME OPPA ONCE IN THE WHILE” I yelled as I ran after her She did merog at me sticking out her tongue and laughed. I couldn’t help it but smile back. Laughing, we went to get food and then some ice cream.
We sat at a table in the food court eating out ice cream. Me chocolate vanilla twist and her peanut utter chocolate.
“So what happened earlier today that made you call me?” I asked finally. I was curious for a long time and finally got the chance to ask. _____ hesitated and then looked up at me with her green eyes peering straight into mine.
“If I told you I missed you would you believe me?” she asked in a hopeful but in a joking tone.
“I am more likely to believe Zelo if he said he wanted to wake up early and cook for all six of us than believe that.” I said with a wide smile.
“Spill it kiddo, you at least owe me that. I mean I bussed here for heavens sake!” I said and lucked my idea cream
“Wait, you bussed!? I thought you drove! You’re old enough!” he said amazed and surprised.
“I don’t have a license, Himchan is the only one who does…” I muttered a little embarrassed and ______ laughed.
“Nice going oh all mighty and charismatic leader… who can’t drive!” she laughed “Yeah yeah! What ever laugh while you can! You still haven’t answered my question though!” I added and suddenly ____ was serious.
” I ran into someone from a long time ago…” she said softly.
“You’ve been doing that a lot lately, I mean first Joon and now this person, whoever it is… speaking of which, who was it?” I asked leaning over the table towards her, curiously.
“Ok Taecyeon” _____ responded quietly under her breath. She licked her ice cream and didn’t look up at me; I could tell she was remembering something. “Isn’t he from 2PM” I asked breaking the silence. _____ looked up and then nodded slowly.
“It seems like it…”
“Why did he upset you so much that to wanted leave fast? Did he do something to you?” I questioned feeling anger swell up. _____ looked at me and her eyes softened, she smiled at me and shook her head.
“Not today when I saw him. Just brought back some memories…” she muttered and licked her ice cream. Her eyes trailed to my hand and them up at me again. She covered her mouth with her hand.
“what?” I asked when she continued to laugh.
“Cool down hot shot! You’re making your ice cream melt all over you hand! Look!” she burst put laughing as I jumped. My hand was covered and I quickly began to lick it to keep it in the cone.
_____ handed me some napkins and sighed looking up.
“You know you can tell me anything right? I mean we do yell at each other a lot, but that doesn’t mean I hate you or anything… it’s completely the opposite actually…” I stopped talking feeling like I was babbling. I looked up again to see her green eyes peering at me, thinking.
-YOUR P.O.V-
You know you can tell me anything right?
He said the same thing to me a long time ago… before…
I dropped my head again after realizing I was staring at Bang. Should I trust him?
“Well… If you don’t want to tell me that’s fine too! It’s best if you talk to someone about it though… I’m just saying…” Sighed YongGuk a little disappointed and slurped his ice cream.
“Tech and I are friends from a whole ago… actually originally it was Tech Joon and myself… we were a team I guess.” I began without looking up… I knew Bang’s eyes were on me and I didn’t want to meet them. I wanted to stop talking too… but I don’t think I could at this point.
“So what happened?” YongGuk asked. I realized that my pause was talking too long so I sat up and slouched back into my chair.
“Well… Joon and I grew up together from when we were little, he was older than me but we still went to the same school. Tech came into the story when we were in about 6th grade… Joon and I looked up to him as an older brother… he looked out for us too… We were inseparable. When Tech would have bad days, he would climb into my window and sleep over… he didn’t want to tell Joon because he said Joon would be angry. So I kept it a secret. He always told me everything that troubled him… and always told me that I could trust him too…” I sighed at the bittersweet memory. YongGuk was listening quietly, occasionally slurping his melted ice cream.
“But I was wrong… Tech changed… he became involved in a gang when we reached grade 8… and then it went down hill…”
“Did he threaten you guys or something?” Asked Bang curiously, he was sitting at the edge of his seat with an angry expression on his face.
“No, nothing like that… he would never hurt us no matter what would have happened…”
“Then why…”
“One time a guy from my class confessed to me… it turned out that the girl who liked him was also in my class and saw the confession. I turned him down… but she wasn’t satisfied. As a matter of fact… she decided that the best way to get back at me would be to make me a target…”
“You mean she…”
“Yeah, her brother was the leader of a gang… the same one that Tech was in…”
“Did he stop the gang or…”
“He didn’t… I don’t know if he even knew… I don’t think he did.”
~Flashback~
“I’ll see you guys later okay? I have to go get something from the office!” Yelled Joon, his hair sweaty from P.E class that he had last period. I had my school sweater tied around my waist walking with another one of his teammates. (my hair was still black at that time, and as for my body shape… well let’s just say I was a few pounds over what I am now…)
“Do you want me to wait for you?” I asked, taking my bag from him.
“No, you go on I’ll catch up! See you at home Ace! See you Yong Min!” Joon yelled happily and ran back towards the school.
“I’m gonna dead off too, you gonna be okay to walk home Ace?” Asked Min, and ruffled my hair.
“Yes Oppa, I’ll be fine! Thanks for asking! See you Monday!”
On that note we parted ways.
I walked home slowly, giving Joon the opportunity to catch up to me but he was taking long, so I decided to take our usual turn home. It was weird, I felt… not alone.
A shadow crossed my path and suddenly I felt nervous. I knew this wasn’t good… my heart leaped into my throat but I didn’t show the fear.
“Hey shorty!” yelled the male figure in front of me. He walked towards me, swinging some kind of long necklace on his finger.
I began backing away to where I came from only to have my back hit something. Another guys.
“In a rush somewhere bunny?” he asked in a sly voice that sent shivers down my spine.
“She’s a nice one! Your sister picks them nice for us to play with!” the guy behind me said, his fingers curling around my shoulders. I jerked away from him taking a few steps forwards that I knew wouldn’t do me any good… I was stuck in the middle… and more were coming.
“Aww look at that! She’s scared! Boys I think we scared our little bunny to death!”
they laughed.
“Hey, isn’t that the girl that hangs with Tech… Ace? He called her Ace I think?” said one of them, he was tall and had softer features than the rest. My guess was he was new.
“Oh yeah! You’re right! From what we’ve heard you’re a fighter!” Said the first guy I saw that I made out to be the leader. He neared me, lifting my chin to him to examine and smirked.
“I like them strong!” I jerked my head away and the guys oo’ed. There were hands on me again and this time my own arms were raised above my head.
“Myung Lee said to teach her a lesson first than we can have fun.”
~Flashback Interrupted~
“Myung Lee? You mean the bitch from your school that Zelo talked about? The one that beat you up the first time!” Exclaimed Bang.
Now that he mentioned it I knew I have seen her somewhere. I shrugged.
“I guess…”
“YOU GUESS!? DON’T YOU BOTHER TO REMEMBER THE PEOPLE THAT HURT YOU!?” He asked frustrated.
“What’s the point of keeping grudges? All they do is eat you from the inside.” I said looking him straight in the eye. After a moment of wrestling with himself on the inside, Bang sat down and motioned me to continue.
~Flashback Continued~
Without a second thought I took a deep breath and exhaling dropped straight out of the guy who was holding me. Dropping out of his arms I elbowed his grin and turned to run. Seconds later I was caught and a punch was deliver into my stomach, dropping me to my knees.
“Little bitch tried to run!” Yelled someone behind me and then something came down on my back hard. Pain shot through my body and next thing I knew I was on my side.
My vision blurred as I rolled over onto my back, to face my attackers.
“Not so tough now are you little slut?” Hissed the leader as he raised me by the hair. I winced.
“ACE!?” Yelled a familiar voice and all the heads turned that direction.
“Tech! You’re just in time to join the play!” said the leader… last thing I remembered was stretching my had towards Tech… trying to call his name… but no words came out…
I came back to my senses only for a little bit when I was being carried to the hospital. My whole body was numb and I couldn’t see well. All I made out was Joon’s face and voice. He was muttering to me to stay with him and that we were almost there. He was cursing Tech’s name and glancing down at me occasionally. I turned my head to rest against his chest and realized that it was entirely soaked with red… I had no idea who’s blood it was at the moment but I prayed that it wasn’t his.
~End Of Flashback~
“I woke up in the hospital a few days later with Joon at my bedside. It was also my last day I saw him… I received the news of him getting the audition… Joon became very busy and then… my parents passed… Tech never showed up again… and that was all…” I licked my ice cream in thought hen looked up at YongGuk who’s jaw was set. As we sat there I wondered… did Myung Lee remeber me or did I change so much that she didn’t recognise me at all…
-YongGuk P.O.V-
Unbelievable… she was alone after all that… but something in the story didn’t add up to me…
“Why are you looking at me like that?” _____ asked, her eyebrow raised.
“No reason… Hey, lets head home? I think the guys are worried.”
She shrugged and we got up to leave.
Walking down the mall in silence a question dawned on me.
“Hey, why didn’t you give your co- worker your cell number, you gave him the number to the dorms…” I asked glancing at her.
“Because… I… don’t have a cell phone…” she muttered and I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Hey don’t be mean! I just told you my life story! Be polite!” ______ yelled pushing me over lightly as she pulled her red mask over her mouth.
“Okay! Okay I’m sorry. Hey… could you wait for me here a moment?” I said stopping her in the middle of the mall.
“I’ll be back really quick, don’t go anywhere.”
After running to the electronic store and getting the same IPhone I had I quickly rushed back to where I left ______.
She was still there waiting for me with an impatient look on her face.
I hid the present behind my back and smiled down at her.
“Guess which hand!” I said rocking from side to side. She gave me a strange look and attempted to peek behind me.
“Just show me what it is!” she said and tried to reach behind me. Laughing I raised the box above my head.
“Come and get it!” I said andwaved it above me.
“BANG! JUST SHOW ME!” she laughed and poked my side. I caved and presented her with the cellphone I got her.
“Take it back.” She said to my surprise, giving me an angry look.
“WHAT!? THAT IS NOT SOMETHING YOU SAY TO A PERSON WHO JUST BOUGHT YOU A PHONE! YOU SAY THANK YOU OPPA I LOVE IT! NOT TAKE IT BACK! WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU!” I yelled angry and surprised.
“I can’t take that! It’s… It’s a phone! It’s expensive! And it’s-“ I interrupted her.
“And it’s yours. Your uncle will get you a B.A.P phone case and if you keep it on, the phone is all yours.” I said and smiled at her.
Sighing she submitted and took it. I watched as excitement sparked in her face as she turned it on and it began working. She entered my number into it and looked up at me, giving me an eye smile.
“Thanks Oppa.”
Those two words… they were all that it took to make my stomach turn inside out.
“… don’t call me oppa…” I said coughing.
She looked at me surprised and a bit angry.
“YOU SAID TO CALL YOU OPPA! YOU BIPOLAR ASSHOLE!” She said glaring at me.
“Yeah, well it sounds weird so call me YongGuk like you always do…” I said and walked ahead.
She stood on the spot for a moment.
“BIPOLAR BASTARD!” She yelled after me
“WHAT EVER RED HAIRED ICE PRINCESS!” I yelled back laughing. I heard her steps running after me as she yelled.
“ICE PRINCESS!? WHAT THE HELL!? YAH! BANG! EXPLAIN YOUSLEF! YAH!” and with that we headed back to the dorms.
_______ dragged me through the mall instill we hit the closest ( and in my opinion the biggest I’ve seen yet) prop store in the mall.
“Remind me again why we’re going to the prop store to get disguises when 1 I’m already wearing a disguise and 2 no body knows who YOU are in the first place!” I hissed when we entered. Ignoring my question and complaints _____ bowed to the casher and headed to the back of the store. I stood behind her, looking around suspiciously.
“Girls and their shopping habits” I muttered as _____ began pushing through a rack of girl costumes.
“I don’t shop often and when I do, might a well make it fun” she shot back at me pulling out a random dress and giggling to herself. Curious I peered over her shoulder and she spun around. Stretching out the bring pink fairy dress in front of her to admire it she glanced up at me with her green eyes shining
“what do you think?” she asked
”I never thought of it until now but I guess you are a fairy type…” I began and turned around to grab the devil horns that stood on a rack of headwater behind me and grinned at her.
“An evil fairy!” I chuckled as he put the dress away, “Besides, of you go out in the mall like that you might get kidnapped again.” I added to have _____ turn towards me violently. Before she had the chance to say anything I continued, “Kidnapped by the circuits,” I leaned over her tugging on a strand of her red hair, “They might want their beaded lady back!”
She spun around picking up a huge foam hammer and began wacking me with it. “I do not have a beard! You are such a jerk! I should have called Himchan! At least he would have been nicer to me!” she stopped and put the hammer down after getting a dirty look from the storeowner and headed down the clothing isle to look at other things. I felt bad and at the same time angry. What did Himchan have that I didn’t? And more importantly, why was being compared to him (and more importantly placed BELOW him) bother me so much? I turned to the headwater rack again, angry at my own thoughts and began spinning it aimlessly. Should I apologize?
-YOUR P.O.V-
I pushed through the rack of princess dresses angrily (don’t take it the wrong way… I’m not a fan of princess dresses, but on days you’re angry or upset… you sometimes feel like doing things you wouldn’t normally do, wouldn’t you agree?). Humph I don’t have a beard! Or facial hair for that matter! What a jerk! I should have called DaeHyun or Himchan…
”______” called the jerk from behind me tapping my shoulder.
“I’m not talking to you!” I shot back and continued to flip through the rack. An outfit caught my eye and I pulled it out, examining it.
“You’re talking to me by saying you’re not talking to me you know…” YongGuk added and I trend around furiously.
“you know wha-” my words caught in my throat before I finished the sentence and I covered my mouth to keep from laughing so hard. YongGuk wore white bunny ears and a red mask over his mouth. Overtop his street clothes he had the pink fairy dress I was looking at ( how he fit in it? That is a question even I don’t know the answer to). It made him look bulky and just play… dumb and ridiculous… I felt my anger trickle away into nothing as I laughed.
“I’m sorry for calling you a bearded lady…” he said in a baby voice that made me giggle even more. I could see his ears turning red and decided to milk this thing a little further. Pouting I turned my head away letting out a sharp humph sound (like those snobby girls do in the movies… XD over acting I know but he was buying it!), pretending to be occupied with the clothing rack.
“Oh come on what do I have to do to show you I’m sorry? I mean I put on your idiotic dress! What else do you want me to do?!” he yelled frustrated and embarrassed convulsing like a little child who was having a tantrum fit because he didn’t get what he wanted. . I turned around and took the bunny ears off his head and put them on mine. Reluctantly he bent down to my size and gave them to me, removing his mask. I took the mask too and put it over my mouth. Bang looked at me with tiered and pleading eyes and I caved.
“Come to the photo booth outside with me and take a picture in the fairy costume… AND pay for supper and I’ll forgive you.” I said giving him an eye smile. Bang deliberated, putting his fingers to his chin and stroking his invisible beard.
“Okay, fine but you have to dress up too!” my jaw dropped as bang pointed to the Ice Princess costume I was holding.
I frowned.
”Deal or no deal?” Bang teased. I sighed loudly and headed for the changing room with him trailing behind me…
-YongGuk P.O.V-
I had pulled on the fairy costume and say outside the changing room waiting for ______ to emerge in her costume. Honestly I didn’t care what she would look like as long as I wasn’t the only idiot dressed up.
“Hurry up will you!? I can’t be seen in this in public!” I yelled as the door to her changing room opened and my jaw dropped. Her red hair was scattered around her thin and fragile looking collar bone that was revealed by the off the shoulder ice blue short dress. It ended at her knees and clung to the waist beautifully before puffing out at the bottom. _____ gathered her red hair to one side and turned back facing me.
“Can you zip me up? I couldn’t reach….” she muttered a little embarrassed. After a short pause to gather myself I approached her bare back, carefully zipped up the dress. The heat from her warm skin burned my fingered even though I didn’t even touch her back… HOLD THAT THOUGH!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU BANG YONGGUK GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!!! JUST BECAUSE THE RED HAIRED DEMON PUT ON A DRESS DOES NOT MEAN SHE IS A GIRL!! Well it does but not in your eyes! She is you managers niece and… And… What if she wasn’t….?
“YongGuk? Are you okay? You look like you saw a ghost or something…” she muttered and passed me to go into the photo booth. After convincing the store owner to let us go to take pictures we finally did. She forced me to do aegyo posed and I made her do the same in return.
“It’s not like you’ve never been to a photo shoot before! Come o. Act professional YongGuk!” she argued and I frowned.
“I’m use to photo shoots in pants not in dresses so sorry of I don’t feel like I’m in my comfort zone!” I hissed back. We did a few poses again. Then a noise came from near _____ and I turned to look at her. She was hanging on to her stomach, cheeks red. A moment of silence as we stared at each other and then burst out laughing. The final picture snapped and it as by far my favorite one.
“How about we edit the stickers and go eat?” I said and rubbed my watering eyes.
“Good idea!” ____ laughed and headed out of the booth to edit pictures. While waiting for them to print we changed. ______ bought the red mask I wore and I bought large glasses with no lenses in the and a hat. Secretly I bought the white bunny ears thinking it would be fun to teas her with them later, something funny to show the guys too. As I paid _____ ran into the store with the pictures, excited. “They look great!” she exclaimed and split them into two giving me one copy of each.
“You two are such a cute couple!” the manager commented and I felt my face heat up.
“We’re just really good friends that’s all” laughed _____ awkwardly, “we’re not dating. We would end up killing each other if we dated! We are too different” she added and something in my chest tightened with every word. I watched her carefully. Did we really mean that? As _____ walked ahead of me the lady that owned the store called to me,
“Young man! Don’t be disappointed. Sometimes opposites attract! Don’t give up! Fighting!” she smiled politely at me and I bowed and with a smile followed after _____ to the food court. Pausing at the door I look at the picture of us laughing…. smiling to myself, I opened my wallet and shoved it in the clear picture slot of it (the one that’s the first thing you see when you open your wallet) and then tucking the others away and admired the photo.
” BANG! You’re so slow! Come on!” ____ called and I ran after her.
“HEY RED HAIRED DEMON WOULD IT HURT YOU TO CALL ME OPPA ONCE IN THE WHILE” I yelled as I ran after her She did merog at me sticking out her tongue and laughed. I couldn’t help it but smile back. Laughing, we went to get food and then some ice cream.
We sat at a table in the food court eating out ice cream. Me chocolate vanilla twist and her peanut utter chocolate.
“So what happened earlier today that made you call me?” I asked finally. I was curious for a long time and finally got the chance to ask. _____ hesitated and then looked up at me with her green eyes peering straight into mine.
“If I told you I missed you would you believe me?” she asked in a hopeful but in a joking tone.
“I am more likely to believe Zelo if he said he wanted to wake up early and cook for all six of us than believe that.” I said with a wide smile.
“Spill it kiddo, you at least owe me that. I mean I bussed here for heavens sake!” I said and lucked my idea cream
“Wait, you bussed!? I thought you drove! You’re old enough!” he said amazed and surprised.
“I don’t have a license, Himchan is the only one who does…” I muttered a little embarrassed and ______ laughed.
“Nice going oh all mighty and charismatic leader… who can’t drive!” she laughed “Yeah yeah! What ever laugh while you can! You still haven’t answered my question though!” I added and suddenly ____ was serious.
” I ran into someone from a long time ago…” she said softly.
“You’ve been doing that a lot lately, I mean first Joon and now this person, whoever it is… speaking of which, who was it?” I asked leaning over the table towards her, curiously.
“Ok Taecyeon” _____ responded quietly under her breath. She licked her ice cream and didn’t look up at me; I could tell she was remembering something. “Isn’t he from 2PM” I asked breaking the silence. _____ looked up and then nodded slowly.
“It seems like it…”
“Why did he upset you so much that to wanted leave fast? Did he do something to you?” I questioned feeling anger swell up. _____ looked at me and her eyes softened, she smiled at me and shook her head.
“Not today when I saw him. Just brought back some memories…” she muttered and licked her ice cream. Her eyes trailed to my hand and them up at me again. She covered her mouth with her hand.
“what?” I asked when she continued to laugh.
“Cool down hot shot! You’re making your ice cream melt all over you hand! Look!” she burst put laughing as I jumped. My hand was covered and I quickly began to lick it to keep it in the cone.
_____ handed me some napkins and sighed looking up.
“You know you can tell me anything right? I mean we do yell at each other a lot, but that doesn’t mean I hate you or anything… it’s completely the opposite actually…” I stopped talking feeling like I was babbling. I looked up again to see her green eyes peering at me, thinking.
-YOUR P.O.V-
You know you can tell me anything right?
He said the same thing to me a long time ago… before…
I dropped my head again after realizing I was staring at Bang. Should I trust him?
“Well… If you don’t want to tell me that’s fine too! It’s best if you talk to someone about it though… I’m just saying…” Sighed YongGuk a little disappointed and slurped his ice cream.
“Tech and I are friends from a whole ago… actually originally it was Tech Joon and myself… we were a team I guess.” I began without looking up… I knew Bang’s eyes were on me and I didn’t want to meet them. I wanted to stop talking too… but I don’t think I could at this point.
“So what happened?” YongGuk asked. I realized that my pause was talking too long so I sat up and slouched back into my chair.
“Well… Joon and I grew up together from when we were little, he was older than me but we still went to the same school. Tech came into the story when we were in about 6th grade… Joon and I looked up to him as an older brother… he looked out for us too… We were inseparable. When Tech would have bad days, he would climb into my window and sleep over… he didn’t want to tell Joon because he said Joon would be angry. So I kept it a secret. He always told me everything that troubled him… and always told me that I could trust him too…” I sighed at the bittersweet memory. YongGuk was listening quietly, occasionally slurping his melted ice cream.
“But I was wrong… Tech changed… he became involved in a gang when we reached grade 8… and then it went down hill…”
“Did he threaten you guys or something?” Asked Bang curiously, he was sitting at the edge of his seat with an angry expression on his face.
“No, nothing like that… he would never hurt us no matter what would have happened…”
“Then why…”
“One time a guy from my class confessed to me… it turned out that the girl who liked him was also in my class and saw the confession. I turned him down… but she wasn’t satisfied. As a matter of fact… she decided that the best way to get back at me would be to make me a target…”
“You mean she…”
“Yeah, her brother was the leader of a gang… the same one that Tech was in…”
“Did he stop the gang or…”
“He didn’t… I don’t know if he even knew… I don’t think he did.”
~Flashback~
“I’ll see you guys later okay? I have to go get something from the office!” Yelled Joon, his hair sweaty from P.E class that he had last period. I had my school sweater tied around my waist walking with another one of his teammates. (my hair was still black at that time, and as for my body shape… well let’s just say I was a few pounds over what I am now…)
“Do you want me to wait for you?” I asked, taking my bag from him.
“No, you go on I’ll catch up! See you at home Ace! See you Yong Min!” Joon yelled happily and ran back towards the school.
“I’m gonna dead off too, you gonna be okay to walk home Ace?” Asked Min, and ruffled my hair.
“Yes Oppa, I’ll be fine! Thanks for asking! See you Monday!”
On that note we parted ways.
I walked home slowly, giving Joon the opportunity to catch up to me but he was taking long, so I decided to take our usual turn home. It was weird, I felt… not alone.
A shadow crossed my path and suddenly I felt nervous. I knew this wasn’t good… my heart leaped into my throat but I didn’t show the fear.
“Hey shorty!” yelled the male figure in front of me. He walked towards me, swinging some kind of long necklace on his finger.
I began backing away to where I came from only to have my back hit something. Another guys.
“In a rush somewhere bunny?” he asked in a sly voice that sent shivers down my spine.
“She’s a nice one! Your sister picks them nice for us to play with!” the guy behind me said, his fingers curling around my shoulders. I jerked away from him taking a few steps forwards that I knew wouldn’t do me any good… I was stuck in the middle… and more were coming.
“Aww look at that! She’s scared! Boys I think we scared our little bunny to death!”
they laughed.
“Hey, isn’t that the girl that hangs with Tech… Ace? He called her Ace I think?” said one of them, he was tall and had softer features than the rest. My guess was he was new.
“Oh yeah! You’re right! From what we’ve heard you’re a fighter!” Said the first guy I saw that I made out to be the leader. He neared me, lifting my chin to him to examine and smirked.
“I like them strong!” I jerked my head away and the guys oo’ed. There were hands on me again and this time my own arms were raised above my head.
“Myung Lee said to teach her a lesson first than we can have fun.”
~Flashback Interrupted~
“Myung Lee? You mean the bitch from your school that Zelo talked about? The one that beat you up the first time!” Exclaimed Bang.
Now that he mentioned it I knew I have seen her somewhere. I shrugged.
“I guess…”
“YOU GUESS!? DON’T YOU BOTHER TO REMEMBER THE PEOPLE THAT HURT YOU!?” He asked frustrated.
“What’s the point of keeping grudges? All they do is eat you from the inside.” I said looking him straight in the eye. After a moment of wrestling with himself on the inside, Bang sat down and motioned me to continue.
~Flashback Continued~
Without a second thought I took a deep breath and exhaling dropped straight out of the guy who was holding me. Dropping out of his arms I elbowed his grin and turned to run. Seconds later I was caught and a punch was deliver into my stomach, dropping me to my knees.
“Little bitch tried to run!” Yelled someone behind me and then something came down on my back hard. Pain shot through my body and next thing I knew I was on my side.
My vision blurred as I rolled over onto my back, to face my attackers.
“Not so tough now are you little slut?” Hissed the leader as he raised me by the hair. I winced.
“ACE!?” Yelled a familiar voice and all the heads turned that direction.
“Tech! You’re just in time to join the play!” said the leader… last thing I remembered was stretching my had towards Tech… trying to call his name… but no words came out…
I came back to my senses only for a little bit when I was being carried to the hospital. My whole body was numb and I couldn’t see well. All I made out was Joon’s face and voice. He was muttering to me to stay with him and that we were almost there. He was cursing Tech’s name and glancing down at me occasionally. I turned my head to rest against his chest and realized that it was entirely soaked with red… I had no idea who’s blood it was at the moment but I prayed that it wasn’t his.
~End Of Flashback~
“I woke up in the hospital a few days later with Joon at my bedside. It was also my last day I saw him… I received the news of him getting the audition… Joon became very busy and then… my parents passed… Tech never showed up again… and that was all…” I licked my ice cream in thought hen looked up at YongGuk who’s jaw was set. As we sat there I wondered… did Myung Lee remeber me or did I change so much that she didn’t recognise me at all…
-YongGuk P.O.V-
Unbelievable… she was alone after all that… but something in the story didn’t add up to me…
“Why are you looking at me like that?” _____ asked, her eyebrow raised.
“No reason… Hey, lets head home? I think the guys are worried.”
She shrugged and we got up to leave.
Walking down the mall in silence a question dawned on me.
“Hey, why didn’t you give your co- worker your cell number, you gave him the number to the dorms…” I asked glancing at her.
“Because… I… don’t have a cell phone…” she muttered and I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Hey don’t be mean! I just told you my life story! Be polite!” ______ yelled pushing me over lightly as she pulled her red mask over her mouth.
“Okay! Okay I’m sorry. Hey… could you wait for me here a moment?” I said stopping her in the middle of the mall.
“I’ll be back really quick, don’t go anywhere.”
After running to the electronic store and getting the same IPhone I had I quickly rushed back to where I left ______.
She was still there waiting for me with an impatient look on her face.
I hid the present behind my back and smiled down at her.
“Guess which hand!” I said rocking from side to side. She gave me a strange look and attempted to peek behind me.
“Just show me what it is!” she said and tried to reach behind me. Laughing I raised the box above my head.
“Come and get it!” I said andwaved it above me.
“BANG! JUST SHOW ME!” she laughed and poked my side. I caved and presented her with the cellphone I got her.
“Take it back.” She said to my surprise, giving me an angry look.
“WHAT!? THAT IS NOT SOMETHING YOU SAY TO A PERSON WHO JUST BOUGHT YOU A PHONE! YOU SAY THANK YOU OPPA I LOVE IT! NOT TAKE IT BACK! WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU!” I yelled angry and surprised.
“I can’t take that! It’s… It’s a phone! It’s expensive! And it’s-“ I interrupted her.
“And it’s yours. Your uncle will get you a B.A.P phone case and if you keep it on, the phone is all yours.” I said and smiled at her.
Sighing she submitted and took it. I watched as excitement sparked in her face as she turned it on and it began working. She entered my number into it and looked up at me, giving me an eye smile.
“Thanks Oppa.”
Those two words… they were all that it took to make my stomach turn inside out.
“… don’t call me oppa…” I said coughing.
She looked at me surprised and a bit angry.
“YOU SAID TO CALL YOU OPPA! YOU BIPOLAR ASSHOLE!” She said glaring at me.
“Yeah, well it sounds weird so call me YongGuk like you always do…” I said and walked ahead.
She stood on the spot for a moment.
“BIPOLAR BASTARD!” She yelled after me
“WHAT EVER RED HAIRED ICE PRINCESS!” I yelled back laughing. I heard her steps running after me as she yelled.
“ICE PRINCESS!? WHAT THE HELL!? YAH! BANG! EXPLAIN YOUSLEF! YAH!” and with that we headed back to the dorms.