He's Back Pt. 1

All through High School, Mi-Young and I were inseparable. We had most classes together and she was the best thing that had ever happened to me after Jimin Hyung.

When I first mentioned Mi-Young to Hyung, he was jealous that I had replaced him. It took me a while to convince him that they both hold a special place in my heart. He eventually was okay with it because he said that "as long as Mi-Young isn't a boy" then it was fine with him.

Jimin Hyung and I have been texting lately. We still email each other, but since we both got cell phones now, we tend to text more than we email. Every day at 8 PM, I would send Jimin Hyung a 'Good Morning' text. It's 6 AM in the states where he is at and he is usually up by then getting ready for school except on the weekends because he would be sleeping in. He would often reply within minutes of receiving my text as if he has been waiting.

I've mentioned Jimin Hyung to Mi-Young too, though she never really showed much interest in him. She was always more into her studies. She always placed first in all her subjects. I mean, I'm not too bad myself as I place 2nd right alongside her.

And as always, the guys would always try to get with Mi-Young through me.

-Yah, give me her phone number!

-How did you become friends with the hottest girl in school?

-I'll buy you anything you want!

-Let me just hold her hands!!

"YAH! DO YOU ALL WANT TO DIE?!" I shouted at the many voices that were surrounding me causing a major headache for me. So much for trying to ignore people in school. Ever since I became friends with Mi-Young, I never get a quiet day of no confession. I was her love messenger. I am so glad that this is our last year of High School and it was going to be over soon.

"Here," I tossed a white teddy bear that was holding a red heart that read 'I love you' towards Mi-Young who was lying on her tummy on my bed.

"I don't want it," she replied not even glancing in my direction but solely concentrating on her book.

"Then tell all your damn boyfriends to leave me alone! I'm not cupid or a love messenger."

"Just tell them I already have a boyfriend."

"Wait, you do?! Who and how dare you hide this from me!" I shouted at my best friend.

"My boyfriend is you," she replied and finally looked up from her book. She smiled ever so sweetly back at me.

I laughed and flicked her forehead with my middle finger.

"Pabo."

"If you didn't drag me into the bathroom and prove to me that you were a girl, I would still have thought you were a boy to this day," she grinned and got up to pull me down to sit next to her.

"I can't believe I was crushing hard on you thinking that you were a handsome fella," she giggled again at me.

"The guys at school know who I am, so sorry but that won't work on them. I'm willing to say that to strangers though," I smiled back at Mi-Young.

"Arasso! You are now my boyfriend," she grinned widely back at me.

"Okay, girlfriend," I said as I held her waist.

We role-played a bit more before she kicked me out of my room so she could study for the final exams coming up before school ends.

Aigoo, It's my room but she acts as if it's hers.

Mi-Young is secretive about her family. In the 4 years that I've known her, I've never met any of her family members. All I know is that they are rich. She buys me expensive things that I always turn down. When I attempt to ask her about her family, she waves it off. She never really wants to talk about them and is always over at my house with my family. Mi-Young comes over so often that my mom acknowledges her as her own daughter since her real daughter is a tomboy who does not like to go shopping as often and do anything too girly together. I've tried to do things with my mom, but I usually end up hating it so I just stopped going and had Mi-Young go in my place.

************

Finally! It was Friday and Summer break starts today! I loved summer breaks because if I'm not hanging out with Mi-Young, then I would be catching up with Jimin Hyung over the phone. No homework and school to stop me.

I got home from school with Mi-Young and we both ran upstairs to my room to change out of our uniforms. We were going out to watch a movie tonight so I just grabbed whatever was cleaned and comfy. Mi-Young, however, have to take her time. She has to shower, dry her hair, do her make-up, do her hair, and then finally gets dressed, which takes another hour because she can't decide on what to wear. Since she practically lives here, she has a good amount of clothes in my closet and her make up scattered all over my, I mean 'her' vanity desk. I have no use for it anyway.

It had been a few hours now and Mi-Young was still taking her sweet time. It was almost 8 PM so while waiting on Mi-Young, I scrolled through Twitter to see if Hyung has updated anything.

Huh? No update?

Now that I think about it, it's been a few days since I last talked to Hyung. I've been so busy with studying and the final exams that I've slept early the past few nights so I didn't get a chance to text Hyung. I quickly exited out of the Twitter app and opened up Line.

'Good morning Hyung. Are you up and getting ready for school? When does summer break start for you?'

I waited and waited for him to text me back. 20 minutes passed, no text back.

He's never taken this long to text me back so I hit the call button. His phone was turned off...

Why would he turn his phone off? He's never turned it off before. What if... What if something happened to Hyung?!!

All the negative things a person could ever think about entered my brain and I was freaking out. I called his number over and over again but it was still turned off.

"I'm ready," Mi-Young calls out to me.

"Can we skip the movie tonight? Hyung's not picking up my calls. I'm worried something might have happened to him. He's never turned his phone off before."

"Hani! You promised me! He probably forgot to charge his phone or purposely turned it off because he went to school already."

"But..."

"Please, Hani? He'll be fine. Let's go. The movie is going to start soon."

Mi-Young had been bugging me a lot about going to see this movie with her and I did promise to go with her. Although I'm worried as hell right now, maybe she's right that he already left for school. If anything, Mrs. Park would have called me by now.

"Okay Girlfriend. I'll try to call him again later tonight after the movie."

"Yay! Thanks a bunch Hani!" She hugged me tightly.

*2 hours later*

"The movie was so good! I love it! Did you enjoy it Hani?"

"Huh? Oh yeah, sure."

She stopped walking and turned around to face me. She looked mad.

"Liar! You didn't even watch it with me! You were touching your phone the entire time," she pouted at me.

"Sorry, Mi-Young. I was just thinking about Hyung. I've been checking my phone to see if he would text back, but he hasn't even seen my message yet."

"Whatever. I'm not talking to you," she angrily stormed off.

"Mi-Young ah! I said I'm sorry!" I ran after her.

When we arrived outside of my house, I took out my phone once more to text Hyung again.

'Hyung, is everything okay? You haven't texted me back. I'm worried about you. Text or call me as soon as you see this message.'

Mi-Young glares at me before opening up the front gate. She quickly walking in first and slam the gate shut in my face.

She is really angry at me.

While looking down at my phone to see if he would text me back, I opened up the gate and stepped inside. As the gate closed behind me, I saw the little words that my heart had been waiting to see. 'Read'

His phone is turned on. He read my message!

I saw the three bullets next to his name to indicate that he was texting me back. I waited impatiently for a reason as to why he turned off his phone. I slowly walked towards the front door while not even looking up from my phone.

'Hani-ah, watch where you are going.'

Huh? He made me worried like crazy about him and he just tells me to watch where I'm going? What the hell Hyung? I texted at the speed of light back to him.

'How is that a reason why you made me worried sick about you Hyung!'

'Look up Hani...'

To Be Continued...