[FANFIC] CONSTANT HAPPINESS - CHAPTER 3
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
C H A P T E R T H R E E
“I wonder why we have such a short summer break, like only two weeks for resuming with the school session” Henry groaned when they are walking down together, heading Kimy’s for practice.
Yoona smiled as the wind slowly kissed her cheecks. Walking under the umbrella, Yoona notices the weather had been very nice today, not too hot for the summer. The season will change soon judging by the coldness of wind. Summer will be over finally.
“This is what you get when you go to elite school. Elite school is always different from public school.” She explained to him.
“That’s why people said elite school students are a freak” Henry continued his complaints
“You are a freak too then” she said with a smile as she turned her umbrella that she held.
Henry glared at the girl. It’s true she had smiles a lot nowadays but the sharpness of her word never seems to be wavered over her cheerfulness. No wonder Hangeng adores her so much.
“Public school has the whole summer for the holiday but we have the whole season for holiday. I questioned the rationality of this school” he continued his complained ignoring Yoona’s remark earlier.
Yoona just smile at Henry’s words. “It’s always better to have long holiday during winter. We have Christmas to celebrate but we have nothing but hot weather during summer.” Yoona continued to rebut Henry’s points.
“Winter is much better than summer. I always like winter better than any other season” Yoona continued.
Henry sighed. Henry bet if Yoona is not in dance team, she’ll be a perfect candidate for the debater’s club.
“I beg to oppose”
**
Sitting on the wooden bench under the tree, it was such a relaxing day after a long day at school. Though they were released early during summer school, the word school itself means tiring day of learning. But Donghae is not complaining as he gets to see Sunye everyday at school.
The summer wind blew softly as it hit his face.
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate;”
Sunye read out the famous Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare with a very clear English pronunciation. Donghae smiled at her randomness. And Donghae decided to continue.
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date”
Sunye chuckled.
“You need to work on you pronunciation” she said commenting on his weird pronunciation.
“Mine is not good as yours my dear. That’s why I need you to teach me”
The wind blew stronger until a few strands of Sunye’s hair when out of place. It makes her even more beautiful. Sunye never tie her hair which makes it fell down beautifully over her shoulder.
Donghae caressed her hair, locking the strands behind her ears.
Sunye smiled at his action.
“Why do you think Shakespeare used Summer?” Donghae asked her.
“Summer is the symbol of beauty, warm and perfection” she answered him. Literature is after all, her favorite subject.
“But summer is hot” he rebutted her
.
“The best vacation is during summer. You can go anywhere under the sun. Even summer rain is beautiful.”
Donghae looked up at the clear blue sky. The sun seems to be hiding behind the cloud and it makes the day seems a little shady than the usual hot summer.
He looked up before turned his attention towards Sunye with a smile on his face and calmly said
“But I always prefer winter over any other season”
**
Because they have no summer holiday, the school management has been trying their best to make sure the students attend the school by having a lot of summer program. But there is one event that everyone has been waiting for every year and that is School Summer Festival.
The festival though it’s not something Yoona would wait. To her, the Summer Festival is worst than Valentine. All she could hear is stupid confession on stage. She for the past two years, she had been saving her spot, far back at the end of the hall just in front of the door. And she chooses the wing that close to the toilet. Who knows she might puke at the overload of cheesiness. The school can’t seem to control that either since they want to keep the students happy as an exchange for the short summer break they will have.
Pray, aren’t they going to enjoy the long winter holiday?
And for the past week, Henry had been begging her to join on the stage for dance performance to save for the cheesiness.
“No, I won’t do it!” Yoona responded to Henry’s request.
Though her dancing skills never seems to be toned down despite the break she had from the team, she still refuse to do it.
“Come now Yoona! It’s not like you are not used to performing in front of everybody! You have been dancing on the stage for God-knows how many times”
“No. Just… no!” Yoona being stubborn.
Of course, Henry was right, she never had problem dancing in front of the crowd. Never, not even once she feels nervous to dance in front of the big crowd. Her passion drives her will.
However there is one problem that stopped her from agreeing to Henry’s suggestion, the fact that Donghae will be there in the crowd. Now that scares her.
She didn’t understand that feeling herself but she just knew she cannot perform knowing his eyes would be watching over her.
Oh Yoona, he won’t be watching you! Isn’t Sunye with him and will be there by his side? He’ll never notices you!A soft voice from deep inside her soul seems to take over her mind.
Yeah, why she should be worrying over that? It’s not likely for Donghae to care about her anymore. It’s not like he will or MUST watch her!
Highly unlikely!
Wake up Yoona!
But still Yoona refused, for whatever reason she had on top of her head, she just refused to perform at the school festival.
As expected, during the festival, Yoona took her place at far back of the hall. Henry has been messaging her nonstop asking her whereabouts forcing her to get out from her ‘safe place’ to the point where his endless messages annoys her. In the end she switched off the phone not for the sake of the show but to avoid Henry.
“Omo! Ladies and gentlemen of the floor!” The MC shouted that shook her to reality “Did you enjoy the parody by JoKown just now?” .The MC, Park Jungsoo, was this school ex-students and was always there to be the MC for summer festival. He is the school’s pride for being nation’s top MC at such a young age. So each year he would returned to the school as a way for him to pay the school for making him who he is nowadays.
The audience applauded followed by a unison yelled of “YEEEES!!!”
Of course she wasn’t paying attention on what was happening on the stage but she knew exactly what was going on even without looking. The funny guy Jo Kwon always make fun of the popular dance from the popular girl group in a very exaggerated way. That guy is such a joker!
“Okay now, we are going to enjoy a dance performance from a superb dancing team. These guys had been in a few competition that put them in the professional level. May I present to you Henry and The One Way Crew!!!!” and the rest of the hall were screaming frantically.
The music started and the dance took away the stage. The girls were breathless and the guys were jealous.
Most of the students in her school already knew the fact that Henry is in a dance team. And most of them knew Yoona was in the same dance team as Henry but she was less popular as a dancer. Sadly most of the students especially the girls recognized her more as Lee Donghae’s ex -best friend and there was nothing to be proud of.
How she wished people would acknowledge her talent more than her mere history with the school’s most popular guy.
As Henry and The One Way crew show off their dancing skills on stage, Yoona observes carefully. Even with last minute practice, Henry sure knows how to pick the right guys. One Way Crew is quite good with the dancing but they never really been to any dance competition. They dance for fun. When they finished the dance routine, Yoona found herself clapping loudly, brimming with proud seeing Henry danced so well.
“Woah! That was sure great!” The MC once again took over the stage. Yoona didn’t notice how long she had been daydreaming or how many performances she had missed until the MC announced the special stage.
“This special stage was made by a very special guy for a very special girl that has owned his heart. Do you know who I’m talking about?” and the rest of the crowd (girls mostly) screamed like crazy.
“Lee Donghae!!!!!!!!!!”
The curtain slided open and revealed a guy on piano. The spotlight was focusing on him and the rest of the crowd went silent.
Lee Donghae hit the key of the piano. The songs sounded so familiar. Yoona suddenly recalls the first time she heard the song.
It was last two years, a night before Christmas. Yoona went to Donghae’s house because he called her. Emergency he told her, forced her to run so she could reach his house as soon as possible. In the end she found out he just managed to play the song he had been practicing and when the clock strikes 12am he played it.
“My gift to you” he said before singing to the song. “I’ll be the first one to give you my gift.This song is dedicated for you” she recalled it vividly clear.
“You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.
You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it's time to face the truth,
I will never be with you.”
Yoona sat still as she heard him singing the song he sang her years ago. James Blunt’s song that she hated to listen to now because it would remind her of him. But then she was not too sure why he would sing this song now, on open occasion like this.
“For you” the hall echoed with Donghae’s voice. It was not Yoona’s fault that her heart was beating so fast. It was not her fault that the stage was the only thing she could see right at this moment.
“For you…” Donghae repeated himself “…Sunye”
OF COURSE!
How stupid she was for thinking it was her. It would never be her. They have no feelings like that for each other!
He is your ex-bestfriend Yoona. He was a friend Yoona she kept on reminding herself.
Yoona adjusted her ponytail and get up from her seat, finding the exit of this stuffy hall.
She knew she can’t take anything that comes next from him.
**
A few days after, Yoona heard Donghae wrote a song for Sunye.
It was called “Beautiful”.
“It was really good Yoona! Had Rnb feelings to it” Henry complimented Donghae.
“Now don’t tell me you are falling fir his charm” Yoona said as she did her stretching before dancing.
“I am not gay Yoona.” Henry glared at her.
“One doesn’t have to be gay to fall for him” Yoona said jokingly.
In less than a blink of an eye, Yoona’s forehead was being flicked hard by Henry.
“HEY!”
“Okay team!” Hangeng voiced broke the place before Yoona could have her revenge “ready for the stage!” and everybody gathers around. The team consists of Henry, Junho, Hangeng and Yoona herself had been practicing hard for today’s competition.
As Hangeng said final words before going to the stage, Yoona’s mind flew somewhere else. She wasn’t listening.
She didn’t have a very good feeling about today’s competition.
And she didn’t understand why.
**
Donghae stopped their step as he makes a stop not far from of the crowded stage.
“Why are we stopping here Hae?”Sunye asked.
But he does not even listening to what she was saying. His eyes are fixicated on the stage, looking at the girl who’s doing her routine, trying to scares off her opponent.
He smiled.
The girl who is pretty but stubborn, the fierce girl whom he met during his childhood had changed when he looked away from her. He wonders how over the past two years one could grow up so beautifully and now even dance in front of the crowd.
Im Yoona, the name echoes in his head.
One thing that he always like about Yoona is that she never afraid to show her true self. About Yoona, there is no pretence.
“Who is she?” Sunye asked, the question that blacken his day dream, quitting any memory he had of her.
He turns to face the girl and he saw the jealousy was written all over her face.
“You know her right?” Donghae looks at her lovingly, locking some of her hair behind her ear, a habit of him.
Sunye quickly smiles, it’s not like her to doubt him.
“Your classmate?”
“Yes and used to be a childhood playmate”
“Used to be? You never tell me about that.”
She is Yoona right? She wanted to ask him that so bad
“Yes used to be. Growing up…” he look at the stage to see Yoona’s powerful dancing was over “… growing up,” he repeat after himself “we have grown apart”
“Why?” Sunye still wonders.
“It doesn’t matter now does it? I have you now. It’s not like I care to look at any other girl” he said looking at Sunye and only Sunye, as if his world revolves around her.
Heck, his world does revolve around her.
He always know what to say with Sunye, though they did not say much words most of the time but when words are exchange, it’s always right.
So they walk away, hand in hand.
And he totally forgets about Yoona.
**
Yoona was still devastated.
She knew, she JUST KNEW she could get the routine right but why JUST WHY suddenly she messed up. Though their team won, she still felt unsatisfied because she scored the lowest during the solo part and if not for Junho scoring the highest, she will be the reason of their lost tonight.
But it was lucky, or a miracle they won that night.
“Yoona, you babo!” she said it to herself, punishing herself with a hard knock on her head using her knuckles.
“You want me to help you with the hitting?”
She turns to see the owner of the voice. There is this sick feeling on the pit of her stomach.
“Donghae…”
She didn't know how long he has been there, behind her back but after living here for so long, in the same neighborhood for the longest time, their path hardly crosses ever since they went to junior high, the same junior high school. So this was like, the first time in what it seems like 100 years.
And why this guy keeps on appearing out of thin air lately? Especially when she was down like this!
“Hi…” he said casually.
“Hi” she replied back, no smile, no cheery feeling, just… a reply of formality.
In all honesty in this world, there is this feeling of embarrassing of being caught in her dance outfit. Not like it was too revealing or anything but still Donghae had never seen her in baggy pants and white wife beater with her team cap on top of her head and her white DC dancing shoes. And worse, she leaves her hair untied!
She still remembers the reason she tied her hair was because Donghae. Yes him! Because he once told her he likes her hair untied. It makes her look pretty he said. Ever since then she always tied her hair. 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. She was so sure that if this one stupid fact is learned by his ‘fangirls’, hair tie will be out of business by now.
And she always thinks that was the reason why they are friends.
Or were friends.
But today, it seems like was her bad day because her hair tie was broken when she tried to tie her hair out of anger on her way back just now.
“It has been long since I saw your hair untied” Donghae said the things she didn’t want to hear.
Whatever Donghae said, Yoona didn’t realize that her face has turns crimson.
“Yeah, it was broken just now.” She tries to put her hair in bun and push it inside her cap but her attempt lead to failure. Her hair would just come out anyway because either the cap was lose or her hair was too thin and soft. So her long hair went down.
Or it’s just too stubborn.
‘What are you wearing?” he asked, not out of curiosity but more like sinister manner to Yoona’s ears.
“How many languages can you say none of you business in?” clearly Yoona is annoyed. Having him to catch her with her hair being untied and now her dancing outfit, this is just not her day.
He is the devil send from down under to make her more devastated!
But Donghae just laugh. Like what she said was meant to be funny.
“So you are going back to dancing now?”
Yoona froze. Her step died down.
How did he knew she dances?
“Before you think I am stalking you, no I don’t. I just knew you dance when we were in our Elementary school. Did you still remember when you won the award for the best dancer?”
“Yes of course! That was my first but I lost when the teacher pair me up with you the next year” she pointed to him.
Donghae laughed again.
“But Donghae, that was long time ago. I might have stopped dancing now.” She tries to run way from discussing about her.
“Oh no, you are not! The Yoona I know is so determined in what she does and she will give her best and her all”
Yoona was surprised. Little did she knew, her face has turn deep crimson. Donghae secretly look at her before continued
“You were so mad at me when we lost. You blame me all the way even refuse to walk back home with me. But a day after, I saw you dancing again in the art room, doing the same routine and when I came closer to apologized, you totally forget about it, asking me to be your partner. In the end I did not apologized. So after all these years, I still owe you an apology.”
Yoona went silent. She honestly has no recollection of such memory.
“Are you sure you did not make up story?” She asked him, starting to be suspicious.
“What do I gain if I lie?”
But before Yoona managed to answer him, his phone rang
Donghae didn’t even care to look at her as he answers the phone.
“Hello…” his voice changes and it was… well hard for her to admit but it was sweet.
“I’m on my way back. Where are you, Sun?” and so Donghae took junction to his house. And he did not care to look back to at least say good bye to Yoona.
Yoona stared at his back until he vanished from her sight.
“You might get our friendship back
F I N OF C H A P T E R T H R EE