CHAPTER 25

[Dara’s POV]




I yawned as we made our way to the cafeteria… I glanced at CL beside me and noticed that she’s been discretely chuckling since we left our room… what’s wrong with her…? I stopped on my tracks and eyed her… she too stopped from walking and looked back at me with her brows rising…





“What…?”






She asked… huh…? Shouldn’t I be the one asking her that…? Since we left our room all she did was to giggle and steal glances on me… well… not really stealing for I could totally feel that she’s peeking once in a while…






“What are you giggling about…?”






I asked her… but she just flashed me a big grin… waaaah..! She’s starting to freak me out…! As if all the hair on my body stood up just seeing that weird grin plastered on her face…!






She went towards me and I immediately stiffened when she wrapped her arm around my shoulders… squeezing my oh so little body with hers… and then again she started chuckling…






I grabbed her hand from my shoulder and shook it off… that’s it…! Something’s not right here…! What happened to my friend…? And those people at the classroom earlier… they’re all acting so odd…






“Yah…! What’s wrong with you CL..?! You’re acting so weird...! You’re scaring me…!”







She didn’t answer… and instead she just put her arm around my shoulders again… dragged me on our way towards the cafeteria.







“Dara-ah… you’re so lucky aigoo… I envy you… but still… I’m so happy for you…!”







She squeezed me again and after that she continued chuckling… my brows connected… what is she talking about…?!






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We arrived at the cafeteria… Minji’s already on our table… smiling widely… what the..! Even the maknae have gone nuts…?! What’s wrong with these people…?!! I eyed her as soon as I sat… CL went across me on the table, sitting beside Minji…. Now, both of them are staring at me with those creepy smiles on their lips.






“What’s wrong with you two…? Did I miss something here…? Why are you acting so weird…? And could you please quit staring at me like that…!”







Then they looked at each other… smiling before turning back at me…






“Oh…. You really missed something big Dara-ah…”






CL said with her eyes wide open while nodding in the process.






“Yes unnie… and we’re not going to tell you…”







The maknae teased… my eyes widen… how dare them…! Are they making fun of me…?!! And upon seeing my reaction… my two so-called friends laughed at me… how could they…!







“Oh Dara… you should eat now… I don’t want to see myself being scolded at and hear the litany of your boyfriend…”







CL said while wiggling her eyebrows… Boyfriend…?! What the…!! Is she speaking about the jerk…?!! Scolded…? Omo…! Is he threatening them too…?!! How dare that jerk…!







But by the looks of my friends… any hint of fear couldn’t be seen… instead… I could see two fangirls twitching and sniggering… worse than they usually do whenever they see their BIGBANG ‘oppas’… aigoo…







“Wait… he’s not my boyfriend… let me-…”







They both cut me off… as they both stood up from the table






“Eat first… explain later… arasso… stay here we’ll go get our foods…”







CL winked at me… and before I could say more, the two already sped off…







I looked around… some students are staring at me… and as usual… girls are sending me deadly glares… this is just all a misunderstanding…! The heck I care about their god Kwon Jiyong… hmmmph…! If only they know how jerk of a guy he is…!







I then spotted BIGBANG’s table… and noticed that their jerk leader is missing… huh…! Maybe flirting with some girl again…!







Slowly, I could feel my lips twitching… no Dara… don’t waste your time thinking and getting angry over that jerk…!







The guys saw me and waved… I waved back and they all smiled at me… well except for their maknae… who pouted and snubbed me again…! Now what…?! What did I really do to him…?!







I saw TOP winked at me… and both Youngbae and Daesung made thumbs up… I just gave them a forced smile… until now they’re still acting so weirdly…







CL and Minji went back with our foods…We ate silently… finally… some peace… at least the food made their mouths shut for a while… I never thought seeing their smiles would make me a bit annoyed…






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“So…. You have something to tell us Dara…?”







CL asked me after we finished eating… now the two are both in their serious state… I feel like I’m in hot seat right now… interrogation between life and death… ghaaad…! I glanced at the boys’ table… and still the jerk is nowhere in sight… where could he be…?








I turned back to my friends and still they’re waiting for my explanation… I looked down and sighed deeply… after all… this will be a long explanation….








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Silence… both their eyes were wide open… I sighed once again… that was long… I guess every detail of that jerk’s doing for the past weeks is finally out of my system… plus the chaos that I’ve been through being stuck between the two friends-turned-enemies…







“I hate him…”








I told them… looking at my empty tray… I could feel my chest getting heavy… remembering all the things he did to me… playing with my feelings… blackmailing me to do everything that he wants… such an opportunist jerk…








I heard them both sighed… then their hands reached for mine on the table.







“Dara-ah… I don’t think he’s just playing with you…”







CL said in a clam voice… I looked up and saw Minji nodding…








“Unnie… the way he acts towards you… what he did later at your classroom… I don’t think he’s just playing with you…”








The maknae said…








“And when you were absent for days he looked so worried… he even asked me what happened to you and where were you… yesterday, when he came back without you and found you not in the room he quickly asked me again… and he immediately sped off and looked for you the minute I told him you haven’t came back yet…”








CL said… I stayed quiet… what are they talking about…? Why are they saying me these things.








“I never saw oppa doing that for a girl before…”







The maknae added








“He even threatened those girls at the room earlier for speaking badly about you… that was the longest speech I’ve heard from him… and to think that it was all because of you… and Dara-ah…”







CL said… I looked at her








“What…?” I asked








“I’ve never seen him biting his nails just because you’re still not at the room… if you just saw him earlier… he totally looked like some desperate guy waiting impatiently and nervously… I even thought he would piss on his pants… I tried to keep my mouth shut from laughing off at him… and when you came he totally calmed down…”






He did that…?! Oh my God…! I missed it…! I could’ve taken a picture of him acting like that and use it against him…! wuhahaha..! kyaaa…! What am I thinking…?






He really did those things…? But why…?







And just then… trails of memories of him always saving me… giving me comfort… his warm embraces… those kisses… his smiles…. My heart started to thump hard… his possessiveness… stubbornness… mood swings… his … pervertedness…







Gosh….! Why am I smiling about it…?!








“I think he likes you unnie…”








The maknae interrupted my thoughts…








Likes me…? Him…? Are they both out of their minds…?! How could that… that jer-… that man like me…?! But somehow hearing those words from the maknae sounded like music to my ears…








I stayed stiff… it seems like my mind is still processing everything that’s been happening now…









“Why would he tell everyone… without you knowing that you’re his…? Why would he be mad whenever guys come close to you… and why… would he chose spending most of his time with you… he can just fool around with any other girls who are dying to be with him…”








Oh God… he can’t be… right…? Maybe he’s just… ghaaaaad..!








“I-… I don’t know…”








My heart kept its fast pace… his face kept on flashing inside my mind… I think I would have a nervous break down any minutes now.







“But Jaejoong-sshi likes her too… who to choose…? who to choose…?”







The maknae said, tapping her fingers on the table…







“Of course I’m for Jiyong oppa…”






CL said… the maknae nodded…







“Yeah… you’re right… I think oppa’s cooler than Jaejoong-sshi… he’s too pretty for Dara unnie…”







The two nodded while holding their chins… how could they be thinking about those things while I’m in the midst of losing my mind…?







“I think a tough cute guy would be definitely look-…”







I cut off CL before she could even decide for my ideal man… gosh..! They’re really not helping me…! I thought letting out everything to them would release me from my stress…!







“Just…. Just… let’s not talk about this for a while okay…”







I said holding on to my temple… aigoo… I will really be losing my mind if I talkled with these girls more…







And just then CL held my hand again bringing me back from my thoughts.







“Don’t you feel something for him Dara-ah….?”







“Huh…? Who are you talking about…?”








I tilted my head and saw CL’s face scrunched a bit.







“Jiyong oppa… pabo…! Who do you think I am talking about…?”







I then heard Minji laughed… I looked down and sighed.








“I don’t know…”








My throat released those words… and just then realized what I just said… Yah..! Dara-ah…! Why ‘I don’t know’…?! It could mean two different things..! And especially giving a ‘yes’ a definite chance…! Ghaaaad…!








I looked up and saw CL and Minji forming yet another smile….








“I think you could at least give Jiyong oppa a chance…”








CL told me… a chance…? For what…? To blackmail me again…?








And just then… I found myself gazing at their table… still he’s not there… he didn’t even ate his lunch… busy flirting with some girl..? That jerk…