Sobi ...

Min Yoongi POV,

The next day,

I woke up because the sun shone on my face. I rolled over to the side and saw the clock on my bedside table, it was 8 in the morning. I got up to a sitting position and stretched my body. I looked at the view of Seoul which lay before me. It's rare that I can enjoy my morning like this, usually I always start my day in a hurry because of the many schedules we have.

I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face. After that I left the room and went down to the first floor. The smell of freshly brewed coffee excited all my senses. I really like the smell of coffee in the morning.

"What are you doing Sobi~aah?", I asked when I got to the kitchen

"I'm making breakfast,", she replied without looking at me

"Do you have coffee? I want to drink coffee", I muttered walking over to her and looking for a glass in one of the kitchen drawers

"The coffee machine is over there ...", Sofia said, pointing to the corner of the kitchen table

"Americano ... americano ... is there no americano?", I asked, picking out the coffee capsules in the rattan basket

"The red one is Americano," added Sofia

"Ah, ye ... gomawo", I said as I put the small capsule into the coffee machine and pressed the button

"Do you want breakfast, oppa?", Asked Sofia, putting an omelette on a plate

"Ani, it's still too early to eat", I replied looking at her carefully. "Are you going somewhere ?", I asked, frowning seeing her dressed neatly

"Ye, I have a class today, then I have to go to work after that ", she replied as she sat at the kitchen table and started eating her breakfast

"What time are you coming home today?", I asked, opening the refrigerator to get ice cubes

"Maybe around 11 or 11:30 p.m.", she replied, poking the tomato slices with her fork and putting them in her mouth

"Arasso", I replied sitting next to her after filling my coffee with lots of ice cubes

"Oppa, I want to ask something", she continued after sipping her coffee

"Huh ??", I said nonchalantly

"Oppa! I'm talking to you ...", Sofia said looking at me impatiently

"Are you talking to me? Did you forget the rules we made yesterday?", I replied after sipping my coffee

"Huh ??", she said confused. "Aaah .. jinja? You want me to call you that? I thought you were just joking yesterday ... arassoo~ ... Yeobo! I wanna talk about something ", she said with annoyance

"Aish, speak softly", I said with a frown

"Waah jinjja? ...", she sighed irritably. "Yeobo, I want to ask something, please answer it, okay? ", she said softly

"Ye, what do you want to ask?", I replied smiling as sweetly as possible at her

"Ugh, you make me lose my appetite. Ah, never mind. I want to ask, do you know about the Bighit new boy group?", She said

"Huh? Wae? Why do you ask that?", I immediately answered seriously

"I have a call for an interview at Bighit tomorrow, I'm applying for an internship to become the stylist staff. Do you know what kind of concept they will bring at their debut?", she asked, looking at me intensely

"Stylist staff? Are you sure? Work as a stylist team for a new group that will debut is very difficult ... you will be very busy all day, even don't get enough sleep and so on. Are you sure you want to intern in the entertainment world?", raise my eyebrows

"Ye. I think working as a stylist team in the entertainment world will really help me gain experience. I know, their mobility must be very high. But it would be nice to be able to design their stage costumes", she replied excitedly

"Are you sure ??", I asked again

"Ye. I think this is a good opportunity. What do you think? What should I prepare for the interview tomorrow so that I could impress them?", She asked again

"Umm it's simple, in my opinion. You just have to be yourself, Sobi. They will definitely be attracted to you if you show the real you, find your uniqueness and sell it to them", I smiled at her

"Be myself? My uniqueness? Arasso", she replied nodding her head

"Are you sure Sobi? The work will be very tiring, not to mention when the group comeback, you must always be ready 24 hours every day ...", I said to make sure again

"Ye. I know ... my seniors have interned in this industry, she said that she had an extraordinary experience. So I think I want to feel it too," said Sofia with sparkling eyes

"Do what your heart wants. You can do it no matter where you will be your internship, Sobi", I said while sipping my coffee

"Anyway, I've been wanting to ask you about this for a long time, oppa, uh yoebo ... why do you always call me Sobi ?? My name is Sofia, Han So-fi-a ...", she said leaning her body towards me

"Huh? Sobi? That's because ... umm because your name is hard to pronounce, you know right ?!", I said nervously seeing her body so close to mine

"Jinjja? My name is so simple ... and it has a good meaning too. Why are you changing it ...", she said with a frown

"You used to like that nickname ... why now you don't like it?", I said shaking my head

"I used to like it? do you mean when we were kids?", She asked, frowning

"Did you forget ?? Waah jinjja, how can you forget everything that easily ...", I said

"I don't know why I forgot it ...", she muttered, poking her omelette impatiently

"Hey hey, slow down, you want to crush your food? If you don't want to eat it, just give it to me", I said trying to pull the plate from her

"Andwe (don't / no), I still want to eat it", she said trying to defend her plate

I sighed and took my hand off the plate. Then tilted my head to see her more clearly.

"Since when did you lose your memory?", I asked softly

"Huh? I don't know ... maybe since the accident that happened to me and my father", she replied while shrugging her shoulders. "After I moved to England I do not remember my life before the accident. And I also didn't know what caused the accident, because my mother never talked about it," she replied, looking down at her plate

"Jinjja? And you never remember at all? Have you ever consulted a doctor while there?", I asked looking at her

"I did a few times, but all the doctors I met just said that I lost my memory due to trauma. Maybe someday I will get my memory back ... but until now I never remember it", she replied with a heavy sigh and started stabbing the eggs again

I forcefully took the fork from her hand and ate the egg.

"Hey!", she said, startled

"You seem to have no intention of eating it, so let me eat it", I replied while chewing eggs in my mouth

"Waah jinjja ...", she said looking at me in disbelief

"I'll help you to remember ... ," I said after finishing the egg on her plate

"Huh ??", she said, raising her eyebrows

"I'll help you ... if there's something you want to know, just ask me", I said seriously

She looked surprised by my words so she didn't say anything. We just stared at each other in silence.

* ringring

The sound of the cellphone ringing startled both of us, I immediately turned my gaze to the backyard. Meanwhile, Sofia was busy looking for the cellphone in her bag.

"Yeobosseyo?", she replied

"Jiwoo~aah, wae? My sketchbook ? Ah, yee ... we'll talk about it when I arrive. Ye see you later, bye", she said as she stood up from her seat

"Oppa! Uh, I mean yeobo, I'm leaving now ... are you going to be at home all day?", She asked while taking her bag and car keys from the dining table

"Ani. I have to go back to the dorm this afternoon. Maybe we'll meet again after new year", I replied a little awkwardly

"Oh, arasso ... fighting yeobo! I have to go now, bye ... see you again", she replied, smiling at me

"Ye, be careful on the way. Don't forget to call me !!", I said when I saw her going down the stairs to the garage

"Ye", she replied casually

I sighed and sat back in the chair in front of the kitchen table, tidying up the plates and glasses from our breakfast. I will see her again in about 2 weeks, why do I feel that something is missing ?, I thought. Am I comfortable in her presence ?, haha ​​how could that be ?! We fight all the time ... I thought, shaking my head.

I walked to the backyard carrying my coffee and stood silently looking at the busy Seoul below me. My thoughts go back to Sobi, how can I help her remember her past again? Will she remember us again after listening to my story? Well, I honestly doubt that.

Slowly a smile appeared on my face when remembering our first talk ...

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Flash back,

Daegu, Summer 2005,

School just ended, my friends planned to stop by a teokbokki (rice flour snack) shop near the station, but I decided not to come with them because I had to save my pocket money, so I just went home by myself.

On my way home, I saw a red-haired girl sitting alone on a swing in a park near my house. I knew her as our new neighbor's daughter. Just yesterday afternoon her family came to visit my house to get acquainted.

The little girl was wearing the same school uniform as me, maybe two or three years younger than me, I thought. I looked at her from a distance, hesitant to say hello. Is she sick ?, I thought.

"She's crying ...", I muttered when I saw she had just wiped her eyes with her sleeve

Without realizing it, my feet slowly walked over to her. I couldn't see her face because she kept her head down. Then I decided to sit on a swing beside her and started swinging slowly.

"Gwaencana?", I asked without looking at her

"Huh? Are you talking to me?", She replied in a low voice while looking at me

"Ye. There is no one else here except you and me", I said quickly

"Oh ..", she replied

"Did something happen? You just moved here, right?", I asked again

"Ye ...", she didn't say anything for a long time before continuing, "I don't like living here, I prefer my old house", she said, sobbing softly

"Wae?", I asked again

"Nobody wants to be friends with me here. All the friends in my class say that I am strange because I look different from them. There is even a boy who said that I am look like a witch", she said while trying hard to hold back her tears

"Jinjja ??", I asked, surprised

She nodded and lowered her head again. She did look different from the other children. Her skin was pale -just like mine- , her nose was small, she had a big caramel doe eyes, her lips were full and rosy, and what made her stand out the most was her ginger red hair. I never once saw a child who had hair like her.

I realized that her hair was just like her mother's. I've seen foreign women before, but my neighbor's looked completely different, in a good way. According to my mother, the aunt who lived next to my house came from a very far country from Korea.

"I want to be friends with you ...", I said as I got up from the swing and stood in front of her

"Huh? Really?", She said, raising her face and looking at me with her big beautiful eyes

"Ye", I said smiling at her

"I know you ... you live next to my house, right?", Said the little girl

"Ye. My name is Min Yoongi. What's your name?", I asked, holding out my hand to her

"I'm Han Sofia," she replied as she stood up and stretched out her hand to shake hands with me

"Han Sopi?", I asked again, frowning

"Han Sofia, So-fi-a", she repeated

"Waah your name is very difficult to pronounce. Usually a common name is only 3 syllables and there is no F in the Hangul", I said while scratching the back of my head

"Ani. My name is not difficult. My father said Sofia has a good meaning", she replied with an adorable face

"Ye, I'm sure your father did give you a good name. But the pronunciation of your name is quite difficult for me", I explained

"Jinjja?", She asked

"Ye. Like my name ... min-yoon-gi. There are 3 syllables", I said while showing my fingers like counting every time I say a syllable

"Or my brother's name, Min-Joon-ki", I said again

"Ooh ... like my father's name too, Han-soo-jin", she replied, showing her fingers

"Ye. Like that .. but your name has more than 3 syllables. Han-so-fi-a, look! There are 4 .. I have trouble saying it", I said looking at her

"Ottoke ? Can we still be friends?", She asked a little sadly

"Ani. We'll still be friends, but I have to find a nickname for you ... Han-so-fi-a ... so-pi-a ... the letter F is usually replaced with P or B", I said with a chuckle

"Haha ne, ... but my name sounds weird", she said with a grimace

"So-pi-a ... so-bi-a ... ah! How about I just call you Sobi?", I asked excitedly

"Sobi sounds better than Sopi ...", she said, smiling brightly

"Okay, I'll call you Sobi from now on," I said again, smiling broadly

"Ye. I like that nickname. Gomawo oppa, because you want to be friends with me", she said smiling at me

"Woah kyeopta (cute / adorable)", I said scratching the back of my ear. "I'm happy to be friends with you too. Alright, let's go home Sobi~aah, your mother must have been waiting for you", I said smiling at her

"Ye, kajja", she replied excitedly

We walked side by side towards our house, this little girl is very adorable. During our on way home she told me about her former residence in Ulsan. I never thought that her presence could make my days more fun.

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This time,

A smile crossed my face and unconsciously my mouth repeated the word "Sobi". The call was just a coincidence because it started from my tongue which had difficulty pronouncing her name.

Will she remember it someday? I thought. I sighed and looked up at the sky, praying that things would go well for both of us.

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