Pale!
"Yah, Ji-eun ah... that's was long time ago, how could you still remember that?"
"Of course, I remember. That's was a week after Yoongi went to America, you were in a mess. Crying like there's no tomorrow. Eunji and I persuade you for like an hour straight. Luckily it's the end of the class that day."
"Aahhhh please.... that was so embarrassing. Wait, you didn't tell anyone about what I said that day, right?"
"Don't worry, your secret is save with us. I'm sure Eunji didn't tell anyone too about what happened that day. So now tell me, do you still have a feeling for him?"
"I don't know Ji-eun ah. I'm not sure about my feeling for Yoongi, it has been so long. To be honest with you, I was planning to confess my feeling for him on my next letter when he was in America but since I didn't get any reply from him after my last letter, which I've been waiting long enough, I didn't write back. So I didn't get the chance to tell him. And when we met last year for the first time, my heart is pounding, I was so so happy. But for now I think, it is good for us to just being best friend. I don't want to ruin our friendship. And Ji-eun please, don't ever tell him about what I felt about him, okay? This is just between us."
"Understood, don't worry. Just a small piece of advice from me, I think your feeling is still there for Yoongi but in your situation now, you're afraid of telling him your true feeling because you scared it will ruin your friendship, but yet you talked and see him in your daily life. I'm sure, the feeling will develop and getting stronger slowly, we never know. And I don't know, how you'll handle this Yoori, but if one day, let say you couldn't handle it anymore, and you need someone to talk, I am always here for you, just come to me. Hmmm?"
My tears are falling.
"Haish... Ji-eun ah, why are you doing this? You make me cry in the middle of the night."
"Okay, that's it. Let's just clear all this and go to sleep, I still need to work tomorrow and I don't want your eyes swollen."
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I woke up around 11. I did wake up early when Ji-eun go to work then I went to sleep back. When I take my cellphone from the bedside table, I saw Ji-eun's note.
"Yoori, have your breakfast before going out. I have plenty of food inside the cabinet, bread, milk in the fridge, cereals but if you want anything else, just order from room service. Oh, I left my car key, in case you going anywhere today. Love you."
Ahh Ji-eun..I'm so grateful for us to meet here in Jeju. I'm the luckiest person in the world to have friend like you. I promise myself, I would always contact her after this. I'm having cereal for breakfast. I'm planning to go to Jeju Folklore and Natural History Museum today. It's investigates, researches and exhibits folklore remains and natural historical materials collected across from Jeju. I think, it's a great place to visit. I went out around noon but I text Ji-eun before that.
Arrived at Jeju Folklore and Natural History Museum give me a different vibes from other museum that I visit in this island. From the lobby, we can see a diorama of a large fish and marine life as well as the formation of Jeju Island and various natural life. The museum provided different methods of displays to further help visitors understand Jeju's unique nature and culture. It's also provides better understanding of the people of Jeju in the past. I'm enjoying my time at Jeju Folklore and Natural History Museum, so I really took it slowly, checking, reading, looking at all the displayed at the museum. It's actually took only about 45 minutes to explore the whole building but since I took it slowly, its takes me about an hour and a half.
After that, I went to the "Spirited Garden" or locally known as "Bunjae Artpia". Spirited Garden is home of hundreds of bonsai plants in a natural garden with the theme of volcanic cone and water. It facilities include 3-storey observatory cafe. I decided to have my late lunch at their cafe. Also, visitors can see various facilities including stone walls and stone towers stacked with Jeju volcanic stone, the largest artificial waterfall in Jeju and a pond filled with large carp at yhe base of the waterfall. This Spirited Garden provides spaces where we can find peace of mind just by looking at the beautiful and amazing scenery. Ahhh, I'm so glad I went to Jeju, it's such a beautiful Island. No words can't describe how I feel right now, I'm just so thankful, I get the opportunity to see all this.
I reached hotel around 4pm as Ji-eun need her car after office hours as she's going back to her family's house today. I parked the car at her usual spot and pass the car key to the valet parking staff and I text Ji-eun about it. I went up to my room, take a shower and decide to take a nap before dinner.
I woke up around 0730pm and get ready to have my dinner. I choose their all dining restaurant "The Parkview". It's a live kitchen restaurant where not only you can relish "naturalistic" dishes prepared with fresh ingredients, but also you can feast your eyes on the display of culinary art as every food is cooked before your eyes. After dinner, I went to their bar called "Ollae Bar". Its a bar that has all the touches of European library. We can just chill out while reading books or rejuvenate ourselves with a glass of fine wine amidst the gorgeous sculptures and shooting live music at Ollae. I spend time about an hour and a half at Ollae before went up to my room.
I took out my MacBook and planning to write something for my segment next month. While I was listing a few topics that I probably interested to write, my phone rings, and its Yoongi. We talked about what we're doing all day, I told him about Ji-eun and he's asking me about our other friends, until he mentioned about coming to Jeju.
🐱Should I come to Jeju? What do you think?
"What??!!! Noooo!!! What do you think you're doing? I'm running away from you, yet you said you should come? You're jocking, right?
🐱What's wrong with that? You can't avoid me forever. And I don't give a damn, if there's another story of us after this, because we have explained everything.
"Yoongi, please. I’m not avoiding you, but you should understand that I don’t want to provoke any speculation from your fans or those who don’t like you, then damage your reputation as an idol. You never know when, they’re going to use issues like this to bring you down, and I don’t want that to happen. Many people are jealous of your success Yoongi, the success of BTS."
🐱You with the same excuses, everytime we talk about meeting each other. Why can I have my privacy? We didn't do anything wrong. Shit!
Then he hang up.
He hang up...just like that.
What!?? What is wrong with him?
Am I wrong for saying that? At least, I'm telling the truth. I mean, it's not that I don't want to meet him. I am more than happy meeting him and the boys but after the incident, I need to be extra careful. Of course I know, we've explained everything at the press release few days ago and I'm sure right now, everyone knew who I was to Yoongi, to BTS. But then again, I don't want it to be too obvious, like I took advantages just because I'm close with them by meeting in public. No, I'm not doing that. I think, I have to sit with Yoongi and discuss about this. He's being ridiculous right now. We can still communicate with each other over the phone, doing video calls even though we can't meet up.
Yoongi, Yoongi.....what am I going to do with you? And you cursing a lot nowadays, my poor ears.
Okay, let him cool a bit for now. I will call him later. Right now, I better work on making a list of possible topic that I would probably write for my segment next month while ideas come, in abundance.
"Yoongi, I'm very sorry. You must be very disappointed with what I was saying just now. We will talk about this when I'm back from Jeju. Take care & missed you."
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