In Love With Mr.Dimple #14

#14

Ha Nee’s POV

“Arghh…”

There she goes again.

“ Soo Il-ah, if the pillow got ears, it’d must be deaf already because of you.”

Soo Il moves the pillow from her face. Looking at me, she pouts. Now she start to mumble by herself again while crumbling the pillow in her hand. Now the pillow had become her hands’ victim?

“And if it got blood veins, it’ll be full of bruises.” She darts at me, unsatisfied.

“Is this pillow your friend? Or is it me?”

Huh? Did I hear it wrong? Did she just….sulk?

“Huh?”

“Never mind.” Laying her back on the bed, she let out a sigh.

“Soo Il. You are a bit weird these past few days, you know?”

“I know.” She answers, bluntly.

“You know?” I ask again.

“I know. But I can do nothing with that. My heart and my head didn’t want to listen to me anymore.”

“Huh?” Excuse me?

“Am I being weird again?” she asks.

“What happened to you this past few days, Soo Il?”

“Many things happened. Ani…if I think back, it wasn’t that many. In fact, it just one thing. He is the main cause of my weird actions.

Is she talking to me, or just to herself just now?

“Who is that ‘he’? Jungsoo oppa?”

“Huh? How did you know?”

I look at her, unbelievingly. Soo Il…everyone can guess it in one glance.

“Is there any other ‘he’ in your life? Yeah, of course except for those classmates and clubmates. I don’t think they are the reason of you being like this. Plus, you and Jungsoo oppa is being weird this past few days. I didn’t even see you two together in nearly two weeks already.”

“What’s so weird about that?”

Is she seriously serious? She asked me what’s so weird about that? Don’t you realize it Soo Il?

“Because, since I know Jungsoo oppa, there’s not even any single day he didn’t greet you if he’s in the college. He always pop-up here and there. So, isn’t it weird when he suddenly keep himself in distance like that? Something happened between you and Jungsoo oppa, right?”

She looks at me with a bulge eyes.

“What? Don’t tell me you don’t even at least realize that he did that?”

She nods – slowly, weakly.

“Now, when I think back, you are right. He always greets me. Always, every single day. Even if we didn’t meet, he’ll never fail to text or call me.”

She lost in her thought again. This girl seriously is clueless. How come she didn’t realize that?

“I should have believed you.” She suddenly blurt out.

“Huh? Believe me? Believe what?”

“Remember when we met him at the library’s hallway, when he greet us and you ask me how do we know each other?”

I nod.

“At the café later that day, you tell me that he might like me right?”

I nod again.

“You were right.”

“Pardon me?”

“You were right.” She repeat, and add,

“He likes me, since long ago. Even before we met him.”

“Soo Il-ah, what are you talking about right now? Can you explain to me a bit?”

“There’s nothing to explain since I don’t know the details either. I’ve tried to ask Kyuhyun but he said it’s better to hear it from Jungsoo.”

She paused. She looks like she want to say something but then, she retreat. Lying back on the bed, she sighs again.

“Soo Il, did you by any chance, like him too?”

“Huh?”

“Did you like Jungsoo oppa too?”

“Why did you ask me that? So sudden, on top of that.”

“Because it’s so not you to be this weak, sighing here and there, just because a guy like you. Don’t you usually just push them away politely?”

She just look at me, with an expressionless look.

“You like him right?” I ask again.

“What’s with the smile? I don’t know. What I know is, Jungsoo is not just any guy who I can just ‘push politely’. So, don’t ask me.”

“Then who should I ask? Jungsoo oppa?”

“Ha Nee…”

“Think about it Soo Il. Think. Why did you become like this. Think on what you feel whenever he’s around, and whenever he’s not.”

“Ha…”

“I said think. Don’t answer it now.”

We both keep in silence and just looking at each other.

“Ha Ne…” she calls for me, and looks outside.

“What?”

“Can you accompany me to a dinner the day after tomorrow?”

“Dinner? What dinner?” What’s with this sudden dinner thing?

“It’s going to be Mr. and Mrs. Park anniversary in two days. I met Mrs. Park few days ago and she invites me to the dinner. And Mrs. Park told me to bring you along too.”

“Mr. and Mrs. Park? You mean Jungsoo oppa and Kyuhyun’s parents?” I ask.

She nods, still looking into space.

“Oh, and we need to look for something for their present. Do you have any plan tomorrow?”

I shake my head, indicating a ‘no’. but since she’s too occupied with what she’s looking at outside the window, I add,

“No, I don’t.”

“Let’s go out together then.” She said, finally looking at me, and give me a smile.

She takes out her new MP3 player and put on the earphone before closing her eyes, and as usual, get immersed in the songs again. I take out my phone and looking for the number. Done with my text, I send it and wait for the reply.

*****

“Jungsoo hyung, what are you doing?”

Turning his head to his younger brother, he shook it.

“Nothing. Just looking at the stars.”

“Looking at the stars? You?” Kyuhyun shook his head and let out a smile.

“Aren’t you cold, hyung?” he asks, and sit next to his brother.

“I’m fine. It’s not that cold tonight.”

Both of them fall into silence. Looking at his side, Kyuhyun observe his brother. He is just looking at the star with nothing shown on his face. Once in a while, he let out a smile. What is he thinking? That’s what in Kyuhyun’s mind.

“Hyung.”

“Erm..?”

“Are you okay?”

“Why wouldn’t I?”

“You and Soo Il…”

“I’ll just wait for her answer, patiently.”

“That is why you didn’t contact her at all? Because you want to ‘wait’?”

Jungsoo turns to Kyuhyun, surprised that Kyuhyun knows that.

“She told me that. We met the day before you come back.” Kyuhyun explains, understands that his brother is surprised.

“Is she okay?” Jungsoo asks.

“Why don’t you ask HER that?”

“I don’t want to make her confuse with my presence, Kyu.”

Kyuhyun sighs. Both of them are just too clueless. He thinks.

His hyung want to give her space to think and decide. While on the other hand, Soo Il is waiting and seeking for him to help her decide.

“That’s not the right way, hyung. You can’t use the ‘give her some space to think’ method on just anyone, hyung. Soo Il is different. She needs someone to lean on. She would never come with a decision if you let her think by herself. With that, the relationship between you and her will always be like this. And when the times keep moving, you’ll become awkward, and more awkward as time passes by. In the end, both of you would gain nothing. Ha nee told me earlier. Soo Il is acting up again. You said you love her. Do you want her to become more miserable day by day, thinking of what she should do with your confession? Oh, and while I’m on that, why didn’t you tell her how you met her two years ago? How you fall for her? She’s so bothered by that.”

“Huh? Why would she?”

“How should I know? But, honestly. When someone suddenly tell you that she’s been in love with you for years while you actually just met her recently, won’t you be curious too?”

Jungsoo really don’t know what he should say. Kyuhyun was right. While he was still thinking, Kyuhyun suddenly pat his shoulder and stand up.

“Think about it hyung.” With that he walks to the door, leaving Jungsoo behind, still lost in his thought.

‘Keke..mian hyung. It is okay for me to lie a bit, right? I just want to help.’ He stops at the door for a while and looks at Jungsoo before he takes out his phone.