All these years without you is my punishment,
If you would return to my side,
I will never to let you go, never.
It was that age when children ran free around the neighborhood, that age when there was no need to worry about college and what not, the age when two people could spend all the time they want together and not care about what’s going to happen the next day- a deeply missed carefree age of their lives.
‘Yo Fany! Who’s that behind you?’ a cheeky looking child greeted another
‘Hi Ty, this is Jessica, my cousin. She just moved here so she doesn’t have any friends yet. You wanna be her friend Ty?’ she asked enthusiastically while her cousin shyly hid behind her.
‘Sure! Hi, I’m Tyler, Ty for short.’ Ty extended his hand for a shake while Tiffany slowly wriggled out of Jessica’s grip and gently nudged her forward.
‘Hi….my name is Jessica. Nice to meet you.’ She shyly took Ty’s hand and shook it.
‘Great!! Now that we’re all friends, let’s go play!!’ the excited Tiffany took both Ty and Jessica’s hand and led them to the playground.
Jessica hadn’t really warmed up to the cheeky Ty yet but there was something in that toothy grin of his that made warming up easy, which was surprising considering how shy she was.
During first day of kindergarten class a couple of days later, Jessica stayed as close as possible to Tiffany because she simply was too shy to reply the others. It didn’t take long before the other kids started to tease her of being a mute.
‘Hey Fany, are you sure she can talk? All she’s been doing the whole day is hide behind you.’ A boy snickered as he mocked Jessica during recess.
‘Go away Jake.’ Fany glared at the laughing boy but quickly turned back to an already teary eyed Jessica ‘don’t bother bout him, Jessi. Let’s go tell Ms Park.’ Tiffany led Jessica out of the class to look for their teacher.
‘hahahaha she follows Fany around like how my dog follows me.’ Jake continued his mockery when all of a sudden a force pushed him and he landed on his bottom with a loud thud and a cry.
‘Why don’t you pick on somebody your own size.’ An angry Ty towered over a sitting boy.
‘Like you?’ he stood up and pushed him.
‘Yes, like me! Leave Sica alone!’ Ty pushed back and soon the two were rolling on the floor, trying to beat each other up.
‘OH MY GOODNESS!! Stop it! stop it!!’ Ms Park came charging into the class and pried the two kids off of each other.
At the end of the day, their parents were called for a little conference with Ms Park. But Ty’s parents were out of town so Jessica’s mother came instead, since her daughter somehow was the cause of the fight.
‘Ty, why did you push Jake?’ Jessica’s mother asked when she walked him to the car alone, Jessica and Tiffany were already inside. She heard everything from Ms Park earlier but she wanted to ask him regardless.
‘He was being mean to Jessica. He said she couldn’t talk and followed Fany around like how his dog follows him. I got angry.’
Mrs Jung gently patted the little boy’s head and said
‘Thank you but you shouldn’t do it anymore, ok? You’ll get hurt.’
‘Ok..’
***
‘Jessi, why are you packing?’
‘I’m going somewhere…’ Jessica ignored the girl standing at her door and continued with her luggage.
‘And where is this somewhere?’
Jessica let out a sigh and turned to the intruder.
‘Well?’
‘I’m just…going away for a while..ok? now please leave me alone, I need to finish packing soon.’
‘Why???’
‘Because I want to get out of here as soon as possible’ her tone was flat as she rummages her closet for anything that she might need.
‘Why???’
If there’s anything Jessica hate, besides cucumber of course, is a string of whys. Tiffany knew this, and she didn’t care.
‘Why Jessi?’ her menacing whys continued, ‘Why are you leaving when Ty is coming back in two days? Barbeque party, remember??’
‘Because, Tiff, I just do.’
‘Why?’
‘Tiff, enough!!’ Jessica got up and shooed Tiffany out of the room and locked the door.
‘Jessi, you know I have the spare key. I own this place, remember?’ a few minutes later, the sound of keys clanking against each other could be heard and the door knob twisted open soon after.
‘Right, now where were we? Oh yes, why are you leaving?!!!’
‘There’s no point in staying when the person I love doesn’t even look at me anymore.’ Jessica cried and it made Tiffany a bit guilty of sticking her nose in Jessica’s business after seeing the latter had started to sob.
‘Oh no no no no..stop crying please. I didn’t mean to. I mean..i was just curious..i mean..a person’s cousin doesn’t just announce that she’s leaving out of the blue.’ She frantically tried to calm the sobbing girl down.
‘I know…but..it hurts a lot, Tiff…’
***
‘Sica!!!’ a few moments after the shout was heard, a pair of arms wrapped themselves over Jessica’s shoulders and the person buried his face in the crook of her neck.
‘Tyler…let go…you’re making such a scene.’ Jessica blushed.
‘I don’t care’ his face popped up and gave Jessica a peck on her cheek.
‘PDA much Kim?’
‘Aw..you want one too, Hwang?’ he cheekily grinned at Tiffany.
‘haha since when are the two of you on a last name basis?’ Yuri teased the two friends.
‘Since Fany decided it two minutes ago.’ Ty removed her arms and repositioned them around Jessica’s waist, her chin resting on Jessica’s shoulder.
‘….let go..people are staring…’
Still so shy
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A/N: er...so yea..haha it's still not done but i figured i'd just post it anyway. at least you get to see a bit of it before (if) i decide to discontinue it (due to laziness and writer's block lol)
i'd like some comments about this..like what cha think bout it...where do you think this is going..recommendations (encouraged) =D thanks for your time ^^ -bows-
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