[FANFIC] CONSTANT HAPPINESS - CHAPTER 2 PART 2
a dedication to kanae_mizuhito
Constant Happiness
Author: leesarang13
Summary: "She is your happiness, not me"
Rating: PG
P R O L O G U E
C H A P T E R O N E
C H A P T E R T W O PART 1
C H A P T E R T W O PART 2
The incident of heat stroke didn’t seem to change anything between Yoona and Donghae. Everything between Yoona and Donghae returned to how it used to be, them ignoring one another. When they passed by each other on the corridor, Yoona would walk fast so Donghae doesn’t have the chance to stop her. As for Donghae, since Yoona has been running away from him, he had to accept that Yoona was not comfortable with him after whatever happened between them.
The funny thing was, they did past by one another during their visit to the Palace.
But it was Yoona who didn’t notice.
And Donghae accidentally captured her as he was about to capture the scenery. She happened to be there and like a portrait, the picture looks perfect.
As for Yoona and Henry, it was a whole different story. The incident brought them closer that Henry could just comfortably talk to her like a close friend would. “Yoona,” Henry called her in between class exchange. Yoona naturally turned around to face him.
“Yes?”
“Do you mind helping me? I need to go to this place but I don’t know how to get there.”
“What? When you came to me, all you ask is help, favor. Do you have any other thing to ask? Like for example ‘Yoona, do you have chocolate? I am so depressed having to deal with you everyday that I need chocolate’ No?”
Henry laughed.
“You silly. If I said that, you might not help me at all!”
Yoona pondered for awhile at what she just said.
“Point taken. What is it?”
“Could you please show me how to get to Kimy’s?”
Yoona quickly denying his request by shaking her head. Henry knew well she won’t go there. Kimy’s is some sort of dancing academy runs by one of their dance trainer. She was the usual face there. But after she had stop dancing, she stop going there even when she still have close contact with the trainer.
“Why?”
“Isn’t obvious why? I just don’t want to!” Yoona dryly answer him.
Wrong bait Henry, wrong bait!
Talking to her was hard and now asking her to go there with him was hard. Henry doesn’t know what to do. Should he pull her hair and drag her?
Maybe he should resort to something more substance. Something that Yoona would not deny for sure.
“Okay, forget about that.emmm…” Henry cracked his brain. “Will you then, help me finishing my history project? In return, I will help you with the algebra” Henry suggested.
Yoona hesitated but she really needs help with her mathematics. She needs a tutor badly. But since she doesn’t have much friend and those she had (like Nana, who is an expert in Chemistry and Sooyoung who always prefer biology over Mathematics) is at the same level with her. The weird thing is, they still managed to get good mark even when they say they didn’t know anything.
“It just came to me during exam” SooYoung said when she got A during the test.
How she wish she is that smart. Everything just came and the formula will pop out of nowhere and suddenly she is Mathematics genius.
“So?” Henry voice popped out her thought.
“Okay. But not at Kimy’s okay?”
“Fine!” him agreeing to Yoona’s term.
**
Yoona scratched her no-itchy head. The question was so hard for her to solve. Unknowingly, she twisted her pen.
Sitting in the school art room which was vacated, Yoona somehow blaming the stuffy room to her losing of concentration. The summer’s heat also gets in the way. Even with air conditioned, it doesn’t help the room to get cooler. No wonder nobody wants to use this room anymore even when it was located at the heart of the school.
Now Yoona thought Kimy is way better option to study Mathematics.
“I notice you always did that” Henry said, pointing to her hand that was busy twisting the pen.
“What? This?” Yoona shoving her act of twisting the pen to Henry’s face. “It’s a habit”
“That is why you cannot answer it. You see, answering mathematics is all about concentration. If you twist your mind, actually half of your mind was focusing towards the pen control, not the question. Much like dancing.”
Yoona glared him. Mentioning dancing again! She fanned herself. At least the air conditioner is there to provided some air.
“Fine. I’ll stop twisting pen” she stopped. A split second after staying still she sigh. “It’s not working!”
“Do it. I’ll give you three minutes!”
Yoona put down her pen, trying to get the question to her understanding, palming her face. She closed her eyes so tightly, pout her lips, thinking, still.
But then her thinking failed when she heard familiar hip hop song. She opened her eyes to see Henry practicing his dancing.
It seems like the competition is approaching.
Now Yoona didn’t know if she ever made the right decision of making Henry her tutor. In fact, she kind of regretting it now.
Unnoticed, but she sighed loudly. The dance move was bad! Yoona watched him through the reflection of the big mirror that was made ready on the room.
“I’m here to learn mathematics okay!” she said, half warning Henry.
“Whatever you say Sasum Im!”
“Stop calling me that!”
Henry just chuckled as his attempt of trying to tick Yoona off works
She watched Henry as he moved with the music. She swear she was about to get up, showing him the move she had in her head as she listened to the song. But she needed self control so she managed to stay still.
I can’t dance.
“Hey, you should….” but she managed stopped herself before furthering her comment on his movement.
Henry was about to turn, following the music, stopped suddenly when he heard Yoona’s voice.
“Did you say something?” Henry turned to ask the girl who had worried look on her face. And Henry knew it’s not Mathematics that worries her right now.
“No. Nothing.” She firmly said.
“Oh. Okay.” Henry smirked as he turned backing her and continue with his purposely badly, purposely bad choreograph dance.
He heard Yoona sighed again.
As Henry looked on the reflection on the mirror as he danced, Yoona was scratching her head and she looks like she has a lot of things to say.
And so he continued again.
When the music stops, Henry stop with some awkward pose. He turned to face Yoona and Henry swears Yoona’s face looks older by ten years.
He chuckled, again.
Yoona’s forehead formed a wrinkled as her eyes half closed, like can’t believe what she had just watch.
“What’s with the face?” Henry asked in concern.
“What?” Yoona answered him with a stern voice. She pursed her lips, preventing her voice to come out and say out loud her thought.
Do you call that dancing? Don’t be such a noob Henry? The competition is just around the corner!
She kept that to herself.
“Are you done with the question?”
“Blame your stupid dance I can’t focus at all!”
**
A week passed by her unknowingly and season was about to change. In three weeks, they will have the awaited summer vacation. But the day is still hot and Yoona found herself sitting on the art room again. Like a bad movie, the memory of her dancing days passed by her.
How she wished she could go back, doing something she knows she would enjoy.
“Ya, you have been very moody lately” Nana said during lunch hour.
Yoona just went quite and feed her mouth the one full spoon of rice. Nana just shook her head.
“Hungry much? ya, I want to ask you. Did you hear that Donghae would sing a song that he wrote himself for Sunye during Summer Festival? He is soooo romantic!” Nana Clapped her hand together “ Did he ever write you any song?”
“Ya!” Yoona said with her mouth full of food “were wheund! Wak hai of wheund waik hong ho oiy wheund??’ Yoona said out of annoyance. She meant to say ‘We are friends! What kinds of friend write song to other friend??’ It’s incredible how the message managed to be understood by Nana
“What are you saying? Don’t talk with your mouth full!’ Henry said.
Nana laughed at her, wiping the side of Yoona mouth that had some rice. Although Nana could be annoying sometimes, she takes care of Yoona really well. Like a mum would.
Yoona smiled at Nana.
After the lunch time, Yoona did not go back to her class. She walked around, walked along the corridor, trying to get some peace of mind. She could not go out running to the lake right now so she just walked around the school before the bell rings. Because she always walked around the school, she knew the place where no students would like to pass by it. The corridor around the generator room was always silent. Only a few cleaner would past down there. She bowed down to them as she passes them by. Funny how sometimes she caught couple making out here. Of course she would turn and run instead of trying to figure out who it was.
“Choding-ah”
Not here!
Yoona sighed heavily as she turned to see Donghae standing slyly behind her.
“Did you follow me?”
She saw his smile, the most annoying smile she had ever seen.
“I happened to walk around and I saw you take the turn here so I was… kind of curious”
Yoona looked around her. Her secret passageway had just been busted. By her ex bestfriend.
“Why did yo…” “Why are you avoiding me?” he cuts her before she could finish her sentence.
What kind of insanity was this? Who was avoiding whom in the first place?
“What are you talking about exactly?” Yoona who is full of confusion asked.
“You have been avoiding me” Donghae answered her in a calm manner.
Yoona motioned her hand upward towards Donghae’s face, a gesture telling him to stop talking or she will chop off his head.
“Wait” she looked away before turning back to him “Me? Avoiding… you?” pointing her finger at him.
She let out a heavy breath.
“Excuse me but what kind of joke are you trying to tell me? I never avoid you in the first place Lee Donghae-ssi. You should reflect on what you said!” she said walking away.
It was awkward, having her blood suddenly boiled when all she wanted to do was having a peace of mind.
Just why he needed to intrude her and not leaving her alone like how it used to be years ago?
Why?
**
Seeing Henry dance day after day, Yoona finally gave up. She commented on his dance move, telling him which routine that will earn extra point.
“Why just can’t you come back in our team Yoona?” Henry asked one day.
Yoona smiled. “It was stupid. You can’t believe how stupid the reason was.”
“It’s because of Hankyung hyung right?”
Yoona swallowed down her saliva. “How do you know?”
Henry ignored Yoona's pry.
“If he ever come back, will join us back?”
Yoona smirked. “That is impossible. He never comes back. He left without word after all.”
“What if he ever returns?” Henry questioned her again.
Yoona went silent.
“Hey Yoona, I want you to meet someone” Henry said
And appearing from behind the closed door was the man she has been missing.
“Hankyung oppa!” and she ran to him and hugged him, naturally.
The fire that was heated up years ago seems to have cool down as she saw his face.
The older man just smiled and hugged her back. The feeling of meeting a long lost sister makes him unaware of the stupid smile the spread across his face.
“Oppa! How could you leave me! You are going back to China without a word and now?”
“Hey!” Hangeng pretending to be mad and hit Yoona’s forehead “Look who’s talking! Who bailed out first?”
“Who made me????”
“You!” Hangeng said with shameless face.
There was a long silence that fill the air. For a moment, Yoona and Hangeng just exchange looks. Nobody spoke, even the air conditioner stop working all of sudden.
“Will you forgive me, little sis?” Hangeng finally said, lowering down his pride.
Yoona looked at him but the gaze has softened.
"Oppa" Yoona finally said.
“Your Korean has worsen” Yoona said while holding in her smile.
“Ya! I’ve been away for two years! And I haven’t spoken the language ever since. Of course I need to polish here and there.” Hangeng said with no guilt whatsoever.
Yoona trying to hold in her laugh. So did Henry.
“Ya! You dare laughing at your big bro???”
And this time Yoona just laughed, no holding in. it felt good to finally laugh like this again after such a long time.
“Hey, now that I’m here, you will go back to the team right?” Hangeng try to bait Yoona.
“Hey, why you always push the blame on me? You are the one that should be asked if you will join the team back!” yoona snapped back at him.
“I will if you will” Hangeng said while eyeing the younger girl.
“I will if YOU will” Yoona replied back wittily.
Hangeng smiled. Henry smiled.
And Yoona… she just laughed.
With Hangeng back in the team, she had more spirit to fight her dream back.
And with Hangeng back on the team, she has more confident.
“Now, let’s eat everything Korean food that I have been missing for two years. Who’s with me?” and so Hangeng and Yoona walk side by side with his hand on her shoulder, playfully hit her head and Henry suddenly became their spectator and walk behind them while trying to hold in his laughter as he watched Yoona being bullied by Hangeng.
Tomorrow Yoona knew her smile will never be the same again.
Preview C H A P T E R T H R E E:
She likes to go against Donghae’s preferences. She doesn’t want to be like hundreds of girls out there who would do anything to please him.