[F2TS] *Once Upon a Time*  (short fic) part 1 Once upon a time... 'I want to fall in love~'  Dohee sighed. '......Dohee, when are you going to see reality?'  I complained again. 'Don't you want to be in love? sebin, you can be so unromantic sometimes.' Dohee answered, looking bored. 'there's no such thing as love in this world!! love is a not real it's just...' I got snapped by Dohee's interuption. 'sebin, sebin, SEBIN.' dohee exclaimed. '...' I looked at her giving a look of 'not ur lectures' 'how many times do i have to tell you more? u don't know love unless you have tasted one.' said dohee giving a look back. 'dohee, i am not going to go thru all that 'oh~this is LERRR ve~' and trying myself not to look ugly or stupid for a guy. what a waste of time! think about it, even if you do fall in love, you can be stuck with a wrong guy for the rest of your life!' I got angrier as I imagine myself in love. 'ok ok, stop STOP!' Dohee blocked her ears and yelled at me. Anyway, Dohee and I are best friends. you might think we sound like worst enemies, but believe me this is us. spending most of days, lecturing eachother about what I or she beliefs. Today is jin's birthday, she's one of the PTS member. PTS = pretties three sisters. unfortunately, they all go to my school. and three of them have 5 same classes with me. which means i have to witness the most absurd happenings everyday. for example, last week jin had, 'Oh no~ i forgot to bring calculator and it's test today!' jin said with such a girlish accent. When she said those words, i thought i was drinking a cup of oil. felt so sick. yikyikyik. but it wasn't few seconds after every guys in class, gathered around jin's desk, 'jin here, use mine.' one of guys said, blushing. then guys started to fight for life to lend their calcs to jin. all the girls start booing at boys for being suck-ups. 'BOOOOO!!! sit down!' Dohee had said. 'Yeah sit down!' one of other girls yelled out. I, on the other hand, was carelessly looking out the window wishing jin hadn't exist. 'JEALOUS?' I exclaimed. after maths class, Dohee started to ennoy me like anyother day. 'yeah, you're are jealous of jin i reckon. you don't have to lie to me. i know you're!' dohee said, looking cheeky 'dohee, are you sure you're my best friend? sure you sound more like jin's best friend.' I answered, almost screaming at her. 'hey sebin, dohee.' jin greeted. Before dohee could say more, I went off to next class by myself. 'what's with her dohee?' jin sound ennoyed. 'i don't know. how's your test?' dohee quickly changed subject. 'i did alright, i am sure you did well too?' jin answered, complementing dohee. I suddenly stopped my way to class, turned around to see if dohee had been following me. no. where's is she? When jin gave invitation to dohee and me to come to her birthday, i was kinda suprised. because she doesn't like us. neither i like her, but i couldn't listen to dohee's nagging to go to birthday party..... nagging for a whole day. you don't want to say no to dohee's nagging... oh man, she sure naggs well. anyways, today's the day. dohee and I agreed to pick out some present for her. we've got like 5 hours to go, so enough time for quick shopping. i don't intend to give jin anything, but then again, you can't go to birthday party looking like crashers. oh well. i'll just buy $2 pen or something from $2 shop. 'sebin, what about this?'  dohee stopped me on the way to $2 shop. 'are you serious? this looks like worth more than $100' I told her. 'serious, sebin you're not getting $2 pen for jin's birthday. it's ridiculous.'  dohee start to lecture me again. 'and i am not getting anything like that!' pointing my fingers at a big forever bear that dohee had picked 'ok, maybe not this one but you don't want to be known as girl who gave $2 pen for birthday present? and it's not just birthday. it's jin's!' dohee started to raise her voice, which was getting embarrassing. I quickly covered her mouth, since everyone was giving us a look. 'ok shhhhhh!!!' 'we'll go over there then' I pointed at shop with name 'gift for you' 'fine, let's just go then' dohee finally had agreed after a hour of arguing. 'can i help you girls?' the shop keeper asked. 'well, do you have something under $10?' i asked lady. 'sebin, stopd that. you're embarrasing me' dohee pssed. 'are you looking for something cheap?' lady asked again. 'yes. that's it. cheap...ha..ha...' I told her again. at this point, dohee was giving up on me.  she sat down on chair in corner of store. 'sebin, hurry up girl' dohee waved with her white hankerchief. 'ok darling~' i waved back. DONG DONG DONG i pressed doorbell. 'how do i look?' dohee asked me. 'i said u look fine! stop asking me. if you ask me one more time, it'll be thousandth' I shooed her. 'ok, it's just that all the boys from our school would be here. and i don't want to look....' dohee went on and on and on... 'ok ok ok ok, let's just go in for a min and go.' I rolled my eyes, still unsatisfied with even giving anything to jin. 'no way! i ain't going at least before i...' before dohee could finish her sentence, jin's house gate opened. 'let's go in.' i hurried her into garden. 'hi girls!' jin greeted us. jin was wearing some kind of wedding dress transformed into casual dress. her hair was hold into noodle shape with lots of hair spray and gel. she smelled like flower, bit too much for my nose i thought. her earings sparkly with diamonds. neckles and rings....... makeups enough to be opera singers.... i was standing there, finding myself for the first time....comparing me with her. ME with HER?! Dohee and I took a quick tour in house.... obviously, she had everything too......money money money. damn. bitch, why WHY!!!! 'sebin, what's wrong?' finally, dohee payed a attention to me. 'i think i don't feel well.....i am going to get some fresh air. come with me?' i asked her. 'no, i think i am going to help jin out with organising stuff.....you should go. you look pale girl.' dohee was enjoying this......i am sure. 'OK! I AM GOING!' 'sigh......' the garden was full of fresh green grass, trees, flowers and water pond.......fishes swiming happily not knowing how i feel. 'what do you care!' i even blamed fishes getting all this fortune. 'who are you talking to?' a voice, suddenly made me froze on spot. '......' i was kind of embarrased with whole fish thing, so i make smiley face and turned......AROUND. 'nobody,' i answered......keeping my eyes on ground. 'do you know that fishes lay their eggs and abandon them? even if eggs get eaten by predators.'  then there was a moment of silence. to break this awakard moment, i kind of said 'really? i didn't know that. it's kind of sad though.' I let my thoughts in with the fish story again. 'yeah it is......are you jin's friend?' the guy asked me oh boy, this guy must be one of jin suckups. if i say no...that would be weird because then i would be here........oh well..'f...friend? yeah...yes, ha.....ha......are you?' i asked him back. 'well, she's my girlfriend.' the guy told me. g~~~~~~~irl friend. king of the suck-ups. 'really...that's, great!' i commented. 'how come i've never seen you. are you school friend?' the guy wasn't going to stop question me. i had to think something to say bye bye. 'oh my....oh...um, look at the time! i've gota go inside and help jin out.' i finally looked up to say goodbye. hm, jin's boyfriend  is he? blue baggy jean, blue shirt, hat almost covering his half dyed blond hair, he had real black eyes.....seemed to be.....oh no. snapping out of my thoughts, i realised that i had been staring at him for quite a while. he was looking me too. with a smile. he must think i am weirdo. 'thank's for the story.' said i. 'huh?' 'the fish thing?' i reminded him quickly. 'oh right. that's my pleasure. any time. um, i didn't catch your name?' he asked me again. 'um.......Sejin' I didn't want to tell him my name........he'll ask about sebin to jin if i told him. 'Sejin, i'm hwanhee.' he offered me a hand shake. oh boy, how long is this gonna go? 'right' i smiled. he smiled back. 'hwanhee~' jin called him from house. 'coming! well, i've gota go inside, r u coming?' hwanhee waited for me to come along.... 'um, i think i am going to stay here for a while....you should go.' i lied..pretended to enjoy this stupid garden smell......which i couldn't take any longer.......it smelled like well mixture of every smell in the world. 'ok, guess i'll see you later.' hwanhee gave a hand wave. 'okidok!' i made a smile. 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SWEET JIN~~~~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!! HIP PIP HURRARY! HIPPIP HURRARY!' 'happy birthday jin, make your wish' Judy (one of PTS) said excited. Jin closed her eyes, revealing her long fake eye lashes. then clink clink clink.... oh boy, now it's present opening time. 'hwanhee, aren't you going to give me anything?' jin wrapped her arms around his neck. i could see hwanhee blushing, he smiled and gave little wink. 'close your eyes' everyone ooooooed... provokidingly, she closed her eyes, putting her hands together infront of him...waiting for something. when jin felt some small weight on her hands, she open her eyes. she start to unwrap small red box, opening a white case......i could see something sparkling. 'oh my god. hwanhee.....this is beautiful.' jin opened her mouth with an amazement.... 'here, let me put on for you.' kindly, hwanhee tookout a silver neckless with small heart shaped diamond pendon. jin lift her long black hair and turn around, waiting for hwanhee to put on the neckles for her. 'thank you.' light thank you kiss on hwanhee's cheek. everyone ooooooed again. oh boy....i hate this yicky lovey dovey thing. i wished the party end soon, so she can go home and sleep. 'i am going to get some drink, you want anything?' quietly i asked dohee. 'soft drink.' dohee answered. 'k, berightback.' i went into kitchen. the kitchen was size of my house living room...even bigger. there was huge refrigerator stuck in cornor......i opened the door, all sorts of food.....rare to everyday food.......looked so good... anyways, 'where's....drink?' i asked myself... 'are you talking to yourself again?' hwanhee's voice, i freaked out and without thinking, i snapped fridge door with my hand inside.......OH SHIT! i tried not to show my shock.......'hi!' 'sejin! your hand!' hwanhee opened his eyes wide.... 'huh? oh that! no problem. see?' i took my hand out of fridge and hold up. unfortunately, my hand was blown twice the size, got really realy red. i was smiling but i couldn't help my tears flowing down on my cheek. 'you....see?' i opened the fridge door, and i don't know what i was trying to aprove of...but i tried to take whole big bottle of coca cola. 'would you like some....' before i could offer him a drink, my hand lost its grip and let the bottle go....onto the kitchen floor..............uhoh... the drink escaped from its bottle and begin to flood the floor with black liquid.... 'oh no......i am so sorry.'  i couldn't face jin........if she finds out her kitchen floor is now going to be sticky for a long time....filled with cockroaches.........SHE'S GOING TO KILL ME! MAKE ME LOSER FROM SCHOOL. am i going to get beat up by suckup boys? while i was filling my brain with stupid thoughts, hwanhee was wiping the floor with mop. 'aren't you going to help me here?' hwanhee waved his hand at my face. 'oh yeah, is there another mop?' i just stood there and asked him. 'sejin, don't worry. we can clean up this mess ok? don't look so pale.' hwanhee was now worrying about me. oh boy, here comes jin. 'WHAT THE HELL!' jin screamed. 'jin i....' i tried to explain but i seemed to lost words when i saw jin's red face. but it was then, 'i slipped my hand ....sejin's helping me cleaning up this mess...don't worry jin.' hwanhee lied.........lied for me. jin couldn't say anything to hwanhee....so she just said 'that's ok. you don't have to. house keeper will do it.' jin told hwanhee.....smiling 'it's almost finished, don't worry about here. i'll be out soon.' hwanhee begin to swip the floor. 'here let me do it.' i snatched mop from hwanhee. 'you should go with jin.' i smiled at him.....and said, 'thank you.' hwanhee walked out of kitchen......with his white socks soaked in black sticky cola. 'bye! it was great party.' dohee said.... 'let's go dohee.' i pulled her hand towards the gate. 'thanks for coming, see you guys at school!.'  jin waved at us from door way. I had to drive dohee's car because dohee got drunk. 'dohee wake up! dohee!'  i tried to wake her up when i arrived at our apartment. 'yum yum....' dohee was in deep sleep. 'oh boy.' i had no choice but to pull her out myself. why the hell is she so heavy? she doesn't look fat. she look skinny. it doesn't look like it.......argh!!!!! oh boy.... in bed, i lie down. thinking about the party.....hwanhee..... then i shake my head.... no no. stop thinking about him! but....why did he stood up for me? does he like me? no no....that wouldn't be right.. he just met me... he doesn't belong to me. he belongs to jin. i shouldn't think about him any more... stop it sebin....stop stop.....ZZ...ZZ.zzzZZZ.ZZzzzz.... 'Sebin! wake up!' dohee jumped on my bed. 'stop that!!.' i kicked dohee out, she fell with funny noise. 'r u trying to kill me?' dohee cried. 'what what WHAT!' i sit up to start this lecture business again. 'i said, for the 10th time, there's a cal for you!!!!!!' dohee hand me a mobile phone...almost chucking on my face. 'huh? who can be calling me so early?' i complained. 'he says he's hwanhee.'  dohee slammed the door as she exit. hwanhee? how does he know my number? i let out sigh.....waited few seconds... 'hello?' i waited for an answer. 'hi! finally. what took you so long?' hwanhee sounded excited. 'i ....i just woke up. how did you know my number?' i asked him 'oh, um, i kinda asked jin.' said hwanhee. 'why?' i asked him again. 'i wanted to talk to you about something...'hwanhee quietly answered. 'to me? about what?' i began to wonder what could be so important that he had to call me this early. 'well....' a short silence. '?' i waited. 'um,' then he said,  'can you meet me today?' hwanhee poped a question... am i dreaming? am i hearing things or have i done something wrong? 'what for?' i couldn't belief what i was hearing........he's going to revenge me with coca incident? or......has he found out about my name and.......... 'i can't, dohee and i have to study for our exams' i lied 'oh i see.....well how about tomorrow?' he asked again 'um, nope.....not tomorrow either.' i lied again 'then when are you free? i just need few minutes.' hwanhee kept on begging. what the hell do you want? should i say yes? oh no.....jin would kill me for sure. 'look can't you say what ever it is, over the phone?' i finally suggested. 'no, i have to see you.'  said hwanhee. 'sorry hwanhee but i can't.'  i hung up 'sebin, what did he want?' dohee finally asked. 'nothing.' i put a cover over my head and went to sleep. DING DONG~ DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG~ DING DONG~ DING DONG DING DONG~ 'dohee!!!! get the door please!' i yelled at her.....very angry about waking up by door bell.. 'ok ok!!! ' dohee finaly ran up to door and opened. 'only 6 o'clock.... oh man, can't i have a nice sleep today?' i felt moody all of sudden. my bedroom door opened and dohee,  'sebin, you wouldn't believe who's at the door waiting for you.'  dohee was in shock. 'what what! who?' i try to sound exciting but couldn't help my self boiling... 'hwanhee!' dohee just said. i didn't move. i pinched my cheek. ouch, it hurts. i rubbed my eyes, dohee's still there. then i said. 'tell him to go away!' by that time, i was really angry. he is really pissing me off!! 'you're not sending him off like that!'  dohee threaten me. 'say i am sleeping.' 'i already said you're awake.' dohee was now opening my drawer. 'what the hell?' i couldn't believe what was happening. 'wear this. hurry up! his waiting outside.' dohee seemed to be pretty keened about hwanhee meeting me. great . 'ok ok.' i will tell him to go away by myself. i put on a pink sweater, brown pants, 'you've got to brush your hair' dohee added. 'i don't care.' 'hi, sorry to wake you up.' hwanhee said, looking little shy. he was wearing same thing from last night. 'the party just ended.' hwanhee added. 'how you know i lived here?' i asked. 'kinda asked dohee.' hwanhee smiled. oh! dohee!!! 'do you wana come in?' i asked. 'no actually, i have to go soon. i wanted to give you this.' hwanhee took something out of his front pocket. it was, ring. my ring......??? 'how did you....?' i looked at the ring....and then hwanhee. 'you left in kitchen....it was dropped on floor.' hwanhee answered. 'it seemed important to you, had engrave on it.....so i thought you might want it back' hwanhee added. 'oh my god, i thought i lost this.' i bit my lip....thinking back those anxious hours searching for ring. 'well i guess i have to go now.' hwanhee took off. 'wait a minute!' i stopped him hwanhee stopped and turn around. 'yeah?' 'do you have a minute? i've got some coffee.....i want to thank you somehow...' i was kinda feeling guilty. 'um, that's ok. it's no big deal, really.  maybe next time.' hwanhee waved his hand and disappeared from the coridor. ring. only thing i've got....it's my mom. she left me with this ring when she died from cancer.... it was long time ago. i could barely remember her face. my dad? mom said he died before I was even born. ...... ring...and dohee's only i've got... 'what did he want?' dohee asked with curious eyes. 'ring.' i just said. 'ring? he gave you a ring?' dohee asked. 'he found my ring....my mom's ring'  i added. 'oh my god! you found it! i mean he found it? oh my god...thank you god.' dohee was relieved that finally she won't get picked by sebin ........until then she was blaming her for lost ring.... 'oh man! you don't know great i am!' dohee was almost praying. 'ok dohee, you can stop now.' i shaked my head. 'hehe' dohee gigled. 'Brian!'  Hwanhee yelled. 'hey hwanhee! what's up man!' brian greeted. 'how come you didn't go to jin's party?' hwanhee asked. 'i had to go to hospital.' brian answered. 'are you sick?' hwanhee poked brian's cheek. --;;;;; 'no i am not. remove your figure at once!' brian punched hwanhee's stomach. 'ouch....man you gettin strong every day!' hwanhee added. 'my grandmother had to go there ....' brian was snapped by hwanhee's next words. 'grandmother? is she sick too?' hwanhee added. 'i told you no one's sick!!!!' brian made bulldog face. 'hahahaha...' hwanhee start crackin. 'so how was party? did you give her neckless?' brian asked. 'party was awesome! and she loved it.' hwanhee's face almost going back to those moments. 'waky waky!' brian snaped his figures. 'oh yeah, i met this girl...' hwanhee went on. 'YOU MET A GIRL?' brian exclaimed. 'listen, i met a girl and she's perfect for you.' hwanhee pinched both of brian's cheek. 'would you stop pinching!!!' brian punched him back. 'look hwan bro, i ain't meeting any girl right now even she's kim hee sun.' brian said. 'you got that wrong, kim hee sun wouldn't see you!' hwanhee added. 'anyways, you've gota meet this girl, she's nice.' said hwanhee.. 'nice? since when do you like nice girls?' brian asked. 'not me. for you.' 'are you sure she wasn't for you?' brian asked again. 'no.' 'sure?' 'yeah' 'k' 'k' '...' .... 'ok, i'll meet her.' brian finally break silence. 'really?' hwanhee suprised. 'yeah' brian smiled 'i think i want to see why you like this nice girl.' brian added 'bro! i never said....' ' ok yes or no....i'll meet her.' brian's eyes twinkling like a star. RING RING     RING RING      RING RING.... 'hello? ' i answered. i was driving a car.....to airport. school is finally over for me....i wanted to get some time for myself. think about my future....so i decided to go to jae ju. island below korea. where my mom and dad was born.... i got a call when i finally reached airport driveway.... 'hello?' i recalled. 'sejin?' hwanhee's voice. 'i think you got wrong.........oh yeah hi.' dangerous momento! 'are you busy?' 'um, actually i am going trip to jae ju now.' i answered. 'jae ju?  are you coming back soon?' 'um, i really don't know. i'll call you back when i get back.....sorry but i've gota go.' i answered. 'oh, well come back to seoul soon!. and have a good trip.' hwanhee added. 'thanks, ok then bye!' i hungup. 'hwanhee, what did she say?' brian asked 'she's going away.' hwanhee said, disappointed. 'going away? where to?' brian asked. 'island jae ju' 'what about my date?' brian begin to sob.. 'don't worry, she'll be back soon.' hwanhee comforted brian.  giving him a $1 'thank you..' brian stopped sobbing... 'let's go then.' hwanhee and brian start walking towards their apartment. 1 year later. **********************************************