8

The next morning, Na-Eun couldn't contact Jisung.The basketball team didn't have any practice on that day. So, she simply put the idea of asking Jisung aside. She had a meeting with her friend who also studied in the university as a weightlifter but her friend told her she would be out late because of practice. 

The pool was on the same path on her, anyway. She thought of returning the goggle on her own and went to the pool.

*

Hyunjin's morning was hectic. H e couldn't find where his goggles was. That goggle was important because it was a gift from Jisung. Jisung bought it for him as a graduation gift when their high school life ended and he had given a pair of sneakers to Jisung that he wore every single day he played basketball. 

He walked out from his room, not knowing how to face Jisung who was busy looking for some food in his kitchen. "Morning" Jisung greeted, pulling out a box of cereal from the cabinet and then eating them dry as he sat on the kitchen counter. Hyunjin waved awkwardly at him. "What's up with you?" Jisung sensed something wrong. Hyunjin was never this quiet. He will only did so when he messed up something. 

"Do you want me to cook for you?" Jisung slipped down from the counter and frowned. Now, he was 100% sure something wrong did happened. Hyunjin never volunteered to cook anything for him. Hyunjin wasn't that kind. He usually did this when he felt guilty. "Are you hiding something from me?"

Hyunjin rolled his eyes. "What can I possibly hide from you? Looks like you don't want to eat anything I make...So, I'm going out to swim"Jisung scoffed. "Addicted" He said to Hyunjin.

"by the way! Can you go to the basketball court? I'm sure I left my phone somewhere there yesterday" Hyunjin scoffed back . "You're addicted to the court too" 

When he arrived at the swimming pool, he had already gotten Jisung's phone at the court. There was a lot of notification from a contact saved as 'my angel' but he couldn't open it since he didn't know Jisung's password and simply because he was no bothered.

He walked into the pool and saw a girl looking around. He recognized her face but what was she doing in here. There would be no one there this early in the morning. "Hey" He said when the girl turned around and slipped because of the slippery floor. He widened his eyes and before he knew it, he jumped into the pool when he saw her struggling to get to the surface.

He pulled her up to the surface. The both of them staring at each other, eyes widened. " You can stand up" He said, the girl still not saying anything. She just stared at him with pink dusted cheek. "Huh?" She asked when she finally collected her sense together. " The pool is not that deep...So, you can stand up" She gap her mouth in realization and quickly pulled herself away from Hyunjin, tucking her wet hair behind her ear while looking everywhere but Hyunjin. "Thanks" She said, bowing as she struggled to get out from the pool. Hyunjin easily jumped out of the pool before pulling her up.

"Ah, right!" She said in realization, pulling out a pair of goggles from her pocket. "Do you know, who this belong to?" Hyunjin looked at the goggle and smiled when he saw it. He had been searching for it. "How do you have it with you?"

"oh, it's yours?" Hyunjin nodded. "I found it in the bus yesterday..." 

"How can I repay you back? This is really important to me." She shook her head. She really didn't intend to get anything from Hyunjin. "How about a lunch with me? I will give you my phone number" He said, walking back to his bag and pulling out his phone, giving it to her later to fill in her number.

It really looked like a scene from a romance drama. Anyone who saw it wouldn't disagree including Jisung who saw the whole thing. He didn't know what to feel. Angry? or...betrayed? 

He came there to get his phone from Hyunjin but to see something unbelievable instead. "No wonder he feels guilty" Hyunjin promised to not get in his way but what was this? Jisung felt pain. Jisung felt more pain when he saw Na-Eun giving him a pair of goggles. He wanted to jump out and tell her that Hyunjin already have a pair of goggles he gave to him but he was stuck, standing at the entrance.

He didn't know what to feel actually. His best friend was with a girl that he liked and she gifted him with something. Did Na-Eun ever liked him and did Hyunjin knew she was the girl he liked.  Jisung scoffed. "Of course, he does. I talk about her everyday. He might even saw her sometimes when he came to visit me at the court" Jisung bit his lips.

  "She never smile like that to me and he never accept people's gift other than mine"Jisung sighed, he went to the court. That was the only place he could let it all out. His frustration.

He felt angry, but he didn't know towards what. "Hwang Hyunjin" He muttered with much hatred as he threw a ball into the basket but he missed and the ball bounced back, hitting him right on the face. He threw the ball on the ground angrily. "Hwang Hyunjin!"

He remembered Hyunjin's words, I would never change this...I would only accept gift from you

"Liar"

Jisung made sure to talk to Hyunjin once he return to the dorm but right now, he was probably being all chummy with Na-Eun and he didn't want to see any of that.  If he went there and punch the hell out of Hyunjin, Na-Eun might start hating him.

What Jisung really didn't realize was, instead of Na-Eun hating him, he was more afraid of losing Hyunjin. 

For now, he would be too dense to realize but he will figure it one day and he still treasured Hyunjin. He couldn't just judge everything from one scene.