Seraphine was seated under the tree while she played with the flowers in her hand. She did attempt to weave a flower crown, but her lack of skills made it impossible for her to do so. That’s why, she resorted to randomly tearing the petals off of the flower, and this is how she ended up being covered with the petals.
“What are you doing here?”
Hearing Kayden’s voice, she chose to remain silent and began to stay at her own little world. She didn’t even acknowledge his presence.
Seeing her tantrum, he sat down opposite to her and extended his hand, grabbing on to her face. Then, lifting it, he stared at her and questioned, “Were you waiting for me?”
His conjecture met with an immediate response from her as she shook her head. Actually, this was her lying. Knowing that the man would be searching for her if she didn’t return in time, she chose to be at here. With the power in his hand, it would be a matter of se
Seraphine’s eyes were on the portal that had opened up in front of her before she looked at everyone staring at her. Tears welled up in her eyes as she made her way over to them in order to bid them goodbye. This would be the very last time she would be seeing them, and that’s why, she wanted to imprint this on to her memory.Because of help from Elliot, she was able to stand straight for a while.She first made her way over to Lyle and pulled him into a hug. There was no words to be said. She didn’t know what to say. Although there were many things that were going on inside of her mind, she wasn’t able to exactly put them out as words.“Take good care of yourself, and don’t get into trouble,” he voiced out.She nodded her head upon hearing those words of his before saying, “You too. Do not neglect your health, and learn to enjoy life a little. Don’t be so stern on yourself.”He patted on
On the other days, Jiyeon wouldn’t have minded her friends recounting all of those incidents and might have joined along with them on the fun as well. But today, feeling Taeyang’s gaze on her caused her to be self-conscious. For some unknown reasons, she didn’t want him to know of this side of hers.This was actually funny to her since she had never cared about what a person would think of her. She remained true to herself regardless of the situation yet all of a sudden, she began to ponder whether or not Taeyang would be turned off by her.This left a ticklish feeling inside of her chest.“You need to stop ganging up on me,” she voiced out, “If I start spilling your dirty secrets, there is no end to it.”Then, focusing her attention on Taeyang, she asked, “Do you have Enstagram account?”“Enstagram? No,” he responded.Jiyeon’s eyes widened.“Seriously? Do t
Jiyeon believed that she couldn’t be blamed, not when Taeyang had the ability to make her feel akin to a nervous mess. She really felt contradictory right now. As much as she enjoyed Taeyang’s eyes on her, she wanted him to focus somewhere else for it was extremely distracting.“Whoa! How can you not have an Enstagram account with that face of yours? Do you need me to help you make one?” Aera offered.Jiyeon rolled her eyes.“He can literally read the instructions to make it by himself. It’s simple. Why would he need you?” Jiyeon shot back at Aera.“What do you know, You Child?” Aera mocked.“Yes, yes, it is you who knows everything,” Jiyeon mimicked her voice. Shaking her head, Jiyeon went back to eating her food.This is when Aera brought up, “In order to celebrate this friendship with Taeyang, let’s go to Sunrise.”Sunrise was a restaurant all of th
Her mother shook her head and looked at Taeyang, saying, “Yoo Taeyang, the one Jiyeon had been chattering about the entire week.”Taeyang stood up and bowed.“Hello, Auntie,” he greeted.Her mother sat on the couch beside Jiyeon and assessed the polite boy. Taeyang had a faint smile on his features as he sat down on the chair.Her mother then questioned, “What does your parents do?”Jiyeon gave her mother a stink eye at the question. Who asked one about their parents these days? This sounded way too much embarrassing due to how intruding it was.Her mother ignored the frown that settled on her face.Taeyang didn’t mind the question while he responded, “My parents— they run a small business abroad.”“Are they abroad now?” her mother asked.The boy nodded.“Are you living here all by yourself?”“Yes, for the time being.&
That didn’t stop her friends from persisting to know the truth, and Jiyeon had a feeling that more than wanting to know who her crush was, her friends were adamant on proving she isn’t capable of keeping a secret.This is what annoyed her. Despite how her friends treated her, they still were reliable to an extent, and because of their experience, she did want advises from them.But knowing how smug they would be acting after Jiyeon was totally honest with them made her decide against it. Jiyeon held her pride dearly, and because of her competitive spirit, she was now stuck in this mess. The only good thing was that she started to get closer to Taeyang.Of course, this couldn’t be anything positive because even though she had to admit Taeyang was close to her compared with her other friends, it surely wasn’t because of romantic feelings— at least this is how she saw it. He merely enjoyed her company and teasing her.It also ha
It didn’t take Taeyang long to finish making the breakfast, and even though Jiyeon had a large intake of sugar now, that didn’t take away from her appetite when she smelled the pancakes. This caused her to feel sudden hunger.Taeyang placed the glass of orange juice in front of her before serving her pancakes and covering those up with syrup. Yurie’s mouth watered as she held her fork and voiced out, “Thank you.”After that, given how delicious the pancakes were, it didn’t take her long to finish eating them, and once done with that, she stared at Taeyang with impressed eyes.“Whoa! This is seriously good,” Jiyeon voiced out, “You really have a way to lower my self-esteem.”“Don’t worry about that. Collectively, you are way better than me.”This made Jiyeon scrunch up her nose and vocalize, “We both know that is not the case. I am far from being half as good as you.
Jiyeon had to admit that Taeyang was great at explaining her. It was as if he understood her and knew how to keep her concentration on the subject. No matter how much she wanted to distract him or ask him unnecessary questions, he didn’t let that happen.And as for the last part of the session, he gave her few problems to solve, saying, “After you are able to solve them all and get half of them correct, you can go home.”Jiyeon was dumbfounded by the expectations he held on her. Even on the subject she found the easiest, getting half correct was hard for her.“Can’t we lower the bar a little? Today is the first day after all. Let’s settle for forty percent.”He shook his head and voiced out, “If you get more than fifty percent, I will reward you.”That did sound appealing to her, and knowing that there was no place for argument, she attempted the questions I hopes of attaining that reward. At th
“Of course not. What are you talking about? You can feel comfortable at here. You have done a lot for Jiyeon, and we are thankful to you for that,” her mother voiced out.Hearing how gently her mother was speaking made Jiyeon scoff and say, “I didn’t know that you are able to talk in this manner, Mother; I thought you were only capable of shouting.”This caused her mother to glare at Jiyeon and state, “Shut up! Make yourself useful for once, and set up the table.”Although Jiyeon rolled her eyes at her mother, she did as the woman ordered as she made her way over to the kitchen. Tilting her head from the kitchen, she could see that small conversation went on between her mother and Taeyang. This caused her to wonder what the content was.Nevertheless, Jiyeon was quick to her feet and arranged the table without causing much accidents. Once done with that, she took her seat and called for