12 Does he live in her neighborhood?
Ray being a friendly, open guy had become friends with everyone else in just few days.
Everyone liked spending time with him. His funny joking personality would make him surrounded with the people all the time.
Mia would always see him helping someone or taking Hyun Tae to Library or chatting and laughing with the other classmates, making her heart melt like hot chocolate.
Because of him, a lot of classmates would give a hand to him whenever they would see him taking Hyun Tae somewhere.
Mia and Ray were also getting along really well. Mia was now quite open to him while talking.
The people sitting around him would be having a great time always. Mia was so happy and would laugh a lot with him.
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"Hey Mia, Do you have an extra pen?"
Searching through her stuff, she replied, "Oh, I don't have one right now. Sorry."
Ray turned to the other side.
"Hey Copy-cat?"
Anha ignored him.
Mia looked at him confused.
"Huh? Who's Copy cat?"
"This friend of yours.", Ray pointed at Anha.
"Oh…But why are you calling her that?...Please don't say anything to her. She wouldn't like it"
"Oh really?...Let's see."
He again turned to Anha calling her, "Hey, Copy cat…..Copyyy cat."
'Ughhh…'
Anha looked at him with an annoyed expression as she always did.
"What is it?", she said harshly.
"Oh, so this is the way to talk with your classmate, Miss Copycat?", Ray said with a smirked face.
Anha was getting angry but she suppressed her anger.
Calming her tone down she said, "What do you want, Ray?"
"Can you lend me a pen...please?"
Ray said with a bright smile as nothing has happened.
Anha clenched her fists.
'Ughh…..'
"…Here…"
"Thank you!"
"See, Mia? She liked her new name. Isn't it Miss Copy cat?"
Ray said teasingly.
Anha looked to the other way but didn't say anything.
'What is wrong with these two?....And how come Anha is not saying a single word to him.....Weird...', Mia thought.
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"Mia? Come on get ready.
We'll go to the market today."
"Yes, Papa. Coming right away." , Mia answered from upstairs.
She got ready and came downstairs.
Her father was already standing by the door.
"Let's go.."
"Does Jina want to come?", Mia asked.
"Where is she?"
"She is in the toilet.", answered her mother.
Mia went to the door of the toilet and knocked the door.
"Jina….hey….Jina…"
"…."
"Jinaaa…"
"….What?"
Hearing her weird tone Mia laughed.
"Haha...Do you want to come to the market with me and Papa?"
"….."
"Heyy…."
"….N…No…You can go."
"Okay…..", then she added teasingly.
"Sorry that I woke you up. Keep sleeping on the toilet seat. Okay? Good Night.."
Mia laughed again.
Jina remembered how she had teased her sister for dozing off on the toilet seat the other day.
'Next time, I'll see you sis....'
These two sisters were really lovely. Both of them would always make fun of each other, play pranks and tease each others.
Their relationship was not only sweet ; rather it was sour, tangy and spicy too.
Though both of them used to make fun of each other a lot, one couldn't live without the other.
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Mia ran out laughing. Then she sat behind her father on his scooter and wore the helmet.
Mia loved going out with her father on his scooter.
Roaming through the city, going to the park or even running some errands.
It was her one of the most favourite things to do.
As they were on the way to the market, they passed through a nearby playground.
There were a lot of kids today. All were playing football.
"Hey….Here..here…Pass the ball here…"
'Huh?....That voice is….', Mia's eyes widened in surprise.
Her gaze wandered everywhere through the playground to find the person she was expecting.
She saw the guy running towards the net with a ball in his feet.
He was really fast.
Suddenly a guy came across him to stop him, but then the guy kicked the ball in the air and as it was coming down he jumped high and hit the ball with his head.
"GOALLLLLLL!!!!!!!"
"Yessss"
"Yayyyyyyyy"
"Hurrayyyy"
….And her father's scooter passed the playground.
'Ray!.....That was Ray!!.....'
Mia couldn't believe her eyes. She was really happy to see him because…
'That means…..that means….He lives nearby!'
