FIC - [CONSTANT HAPPINESS] CHAPTER 2 PART 1
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
Yoona sigh as she throws yet another rock on the lake. Whenever she feels the down, she will come here at the lake not far from her house, trying to have some peace of mind before deciding to go back home.
Everything happened years back can still be recalled by her.
And the memory was still vividly clear on her memory.
Yoona still believes that was the reason Hangeng left the group to go back to China was because of her. They had massive fight a day before she decided to leave the group.
And when she left, Hangeng was equally devastated, left the group as well. Though she had heard people said he was seriously sick and need to have medical attention and seeking for a concrete reason to leave the group, she never really trust that. After all, he really left the group after their arguments.
Come to think of it now, the reason that sparked the arguments was too small, not even worth to make both of them to leave the group and jeopardizing their team’s future. It started with a simple disagreement of how Yoona didn’t agree to the routine Hangeng just created because she believes this is not sexy dance group. This is a hip hop group, a free style dancing group!
“We are no stripper” as she recalled when the idea of lifting shirt came in.
“It’s for the sake of performance Yoona” Hangeng said trying to convince the back-then 16 years old Yoona.
But believe it or not, the argument got out of control, both sides trying to show how strong head they were and ended up the group now has no leader and no core female dancer.
I was being immature she told herself now that she think of it. Of course, being a 16 years old teenager back then, she just spoke her mind if she didn’t like something and just being outright with her opinion without caring to hear what other has to say.
According to Hangeng, that was the thing that made her more ‘concrete than any other girl. “At least you are not plastic” was what he said to be exact.
But because of that she hurt someone that is close to her, closer than like blood-related brother.
And because of her words, she no longer dance even when she itches to do so.
She had a hard time trying to refrain herself from dancing whenever she listens to music.
What am I doing to myself??? And yet another rock is being thrown into the lake.
Yoona was upset as she already has but then she heard someone calling her.
“Hey choding” Yoona heard someone greet her in a very familiar way. There is only one who will call her with that. So she turned and faced her horror of the last person she wanted to see on this planet.
“Donghae…” she heard herself saying out his name.
“Are you upset?” he asked, taking his place next to her without being invited to do so.
Yoona was still surprise seeing him here turn to the lake to hide her embarrassment because he knew why she will be here.
“Something happens that upsets you?”
He knew she will be here throwing stone on the lake when she is upset. He knew it. Why ask? And why NOW? Why it didn’t have to be during the first day he decided to ignore her which happens the day after he joined the School’s Olympiad Team? And that was like two years ago!
Yoona still did not answer him. To be honest, his sudden appearance is burdensome right now.
“You are not going to tell me anything?” he asked again.
No she wants to answer him There is nothing to tell right? We never talk all this while why suddenly you care to ask?
But no, she did not say anything. So the silence is eating their time.
Yoona thought with the silence treatment, Donghae would back out, move away from his spot and just move his butt away from her sight.
But no, he did not.
He stayed instead, following her action of throwing the stones to the lake. And that really annoys her.
“Why are you here Lee Donghae?”
“Why are YOU here?” he asked her back
“You are not supposed to be here. Your house does not take this route. You are not supposed to be here, next to me interrogates me with questions and following my action!” Yoona said all in one breath.
Donghae laughed. And he really laugh like it was funny, like Yoona just said something fun that tickles his funny bone. Yoona looked at him weirdly before throwing her sight back to the lake in annoyance.
“First, why am I not supposed to be here? This is a public place Yoona,” Donghae said and he glanced at Yoona whom right now has turned purple in rage.
“And secondly, this route DOES take me to my house. I call this route a secret route” and Donghae heard Yoona snorted. Doesn’t he love teasing Yoona so much?
“Thirdly, of course I would ask you a lot since you didn’t answer my first question and that leads to the second and third question. And why I can’t be here next to you doing what you did?”
Yoona pouts.
This is pointless! She said at the back of her mind. Arguing with Donghae who seems to have answer to everything is painly useless.
“There is nothing to tell” Yoona answered him to he will not ask her any further.
“You know Yoona, I know we are not talking right now…” “Glad you notice THAT!” she cuts him and he saw her rolling her eyes “…but” Donghae sighed “but you should know, I care for you. As friends”
Yoona snorted “I notice that thank you very much.” she replied his concerns with sinister tone.
Donghae finally get up from his seat and take a few steps away from Yoona. Before he went away for good, he turned once to look at her once again.
“The Yoona I know never give up easily. So whatever it is, just get up and fight again for what you want.” Just then, he walked away.
“The thing is, I am not the same Yoona you knew back then”
**
“Hey Sasum Im!” Henry called for Yoona while she was busy reading. Yoona was taken aback by surprise when Henry calling her by her dance stage name.
“Don’t call me that here!’ Yoona hissed.
“I have been calling you several times but nothing reaches your ears, so you force me!”
Yoona rolled her eyes.
“What do you want foreign man?”
Henry smiled at Yoona’s remark. This might be the second time they talk to one another but it was like they talk to each other more than twice. The friendly tone, the joke, it all seems natural.
“Okay since you called me that, you have to do more than what I ask you. First, this history project”
Yoona’s eyes brighten upon hearing the word “History”. Henry knew he had asked the right person for the job.
“What about it?” Yoona asked him back.
“I am confused for the Data collection method. Are we supposed to visit the Palace or is it okay to look up on the internet only?”
“About that, actually it is better for you to go the place of research rather than looking up on the internet. It’s okay to look up but the information might not be accurate.”
Talking about History project made Yoona even more excited and unknowingly tuck her strands of hair that were lose from her hair tie.
“I see. Have you finished it?” Henry asked her.
“Me? Nope. But I was planning to go this weekend and to finish everything.”
Just then, Henry has the brightest idea.
“May I join? I don’t know much about this place.”
“Yeah okay. This Saturday, meet me in front of the school gate at 8 in the morning and we’ll go from school together. With public transportation.”
That was too easy Henry thought.
And that was the beginning of their friendship. But Henry needed to complete his mission. He must make Yoona come back to the dancing world.
**
“Stop staring at me like that!” Sunye nudged Donghae’s arm.
“Why? I am just admiring the beauty made by God. I am amazed still”
Sunye laughed and how her laughed just colors his world. That bright laugh was the reason he fell deeper into her.
So he continued to admire her face, her laugh, her cute teeth, her small nose, her smiley eyes that turn crescent when she smiled.
“Okay Lee Donghae, you better stop doing that! You scare me”
“Well, I have no intention too.”
There is only thing that Sunye could think of to make Donghae takes his eyes of her.
Sunye shoved to him a piece of paper.
“Now, let’s bet on this question.”
Donghae sighed as he looked at the content of the paper. She sure know how distract him. a good challenge of math question would do the trick. The question reads
2^2005-2^1999
“Okay. Let’s wage on this weekend date” Donghae said.
“No, I’m sticking to our library date. I have so much to catch on. History that I have to finish reading and the project…’Sunye sighed. Donghae can’t help but smiled.
“That’s why I want to wage on that. Say I finish this question faster than you which I always did, we don’t have to go to Library. Instead, we finish the history project. We’ll go to any historic place around Seoul together.” Donghae saw Sunye’s eye brighten upon the suggestion.
“But where should we go? Seoul doesn’t have that many historic places” Sunye asked him, pouting her lips.
“Well, the Gyeongbok Palace is here for nothing.”
“But I’m sure there will be a lot of students choose to go there as well” Sunye said wisely with her hands supporting her chin.
“Trust me, I ask them. They won’t do it until the due date which is 2 months away. They always do work last minute. Never blame Sang Ryul teacher for giving them low marks for low quality work. Plus last minute work calls for internet research rather than going to the place of research itself”
Sunye looked at Donghae and smiled with amazement with the words said by her boyfriend.
“You are so smart huh Lee Donghae?”
“I am so hurt you just notice that” Donghae clenched his shirt, pretending his heart was hurt by Sunye’s words.
Sunye smirked looking at his action.
“You should know that you are so bad at acting” she said.
“I know. That’s why I sing so well. God is fair”
Sunye smile while shaking her head Oh why do I get involve myself in this mess! She said to herself.
“Let’s do the question now. But I bet we are going to my choice of date. I always finish first anyway” Donghae starts to show off.
“We’ll see. Okay. Ready go!”
Donghae and Sunye started scribbling the paper and try to finish the question as fast they could.
And as expected, Donghae won.
“And I want a picnic too. Let’s go to grocery after school. We’ll buy a few things”
Sunye just sighed with a smile.
How could she deny him?
**
As promised, Yoona waited for Henry in front of the school. She hates to make someone wait for her so she would always be at a promised place way earlier. It’s okay to wait but never let other people wait on you, she believes in that.
Henry arrived a few minutes later.
“Hey, you are early” was the first thing she said when he saw him.
“I am not. You are. I arrived right on time. See,” Henry shoved his watch in front of Yoona’s face, “its 8am right now”
“Well…” Yoona trying to think of thing to say.
“Well history freak, let’s get going”
Yoona pretending wanting to hit him with her book and Henry laughed at her and they proceeded to the nearest bus stop.
**
“I can’t focus writing if you continue to be like this!” Sunye said pushing Donghae’s camera away from her.
“What? I am trying to capture someone important in the history” of course Sunye can sense that he was lying. All he did was taking her pictures in whatever she does. instead of taking the pictures of the beautiful historical palace.
“What history?”
“My history” Donghae said while going through the pictures in his camera.
Sunye sighed. His words are too sweet to deny. No wonder girls are falling for him way too easily because his words hit right on spot, right in the heart of the girl.
“Was this how you win me over? By pouring all those sweet words?” Sunye said while looking at him suspiciously. Donghae was still busy going through his camera, looking at all the pictures he has taken before.
“You fell for me in the end still, didn’t you?” he said. Sunye smiled secretly. He did win her heart after a few conversations.
“But still there is one girl who is hard to talk to. I still can get her to understand me no matter how hard I tried” Donghae said, somehow it seems like he blurted everything unconsciously.
Sunye notices when Donghae is too absorbed in doing something, he will say something, a fact, a secret he would hid so well, unconsciously.
“Really? Who is that person?” Sunye felt a little jealous of that girl.
“Yoona” Donghae started to play with the camera’s lens, trying to capture some good pictures around Gyeongbok Palace.
Sunye had heard about Yoona. The girl in question said to be his best friend before Donghae and Sunye went out. But he never tells her about Yoona.
“Really?” Sunye, looked down and said in between her heavy breath.
“What?” Donghae finally gives his attention to her.
“What?’ she repeated after him. Clearly, he didn’t remember what he said just now.
“You said really all of sudden, so really, what?” Donghae said while hang the camera around his neck.
“You said something before that.”
“Really? Well, it must have slipped out of my mind. Come on,” Donghae pulled Sunye’s hand “We have so many things to do today”
Sunye followed along.
Did he really forget what he said just now?
But for now, Sunye chose to believe his words
**
“Henry, stop it!” Yoona feeling bored with the foreign guy who was so amazed with every little thing around the castle.
Ever since they pay for the entrance, everything seems to fascinate Henry. He took pictures of every scenery around the castle with his DSLR camera (show-off, Yoona thought). It has been 20 minutes since they arrived and they hardly reach the main gate of the castle.
This is the downside of bringing someone new here. If only she was alone, she could finish everything quickly, search for what is important for the project, gather every possible information and have a peace of mind walking around this historical palace (even perhaps visits the Yolsang Chinwon Spring later). But now here she was, dragging a Henry, yes A HENRY who troubles her with his picture taking. Imagine oif there are five Henries. Her life would be miserable.
“Ya! Could you please be fast, we have 5 main castles to visit yet you spends one hour just to get to the main gate of one castle!” Yoona finally vent out her anger.
Henry finally stopped taking picture and walk towards Yoona whom was about 50 meters away from him. He fixed his lens.
“Try to be understand, it’s my first time here.”
Yoona ignored his quest and walked towards the main gate of Keunjeong-jeon, the royal throne hall. Now she thinks back, she was excited the moment she reached here. Just like Henry, very much like Henry, she was fascinated, taking pictures of the palace and the scenery. Historical place has such beautiful aura around it. It tranquilized her soul.
And the day Donghae decided not talk to her, she came here, pay 3,000 won just to find some peace of mind and walk around the place. But the 3,000 wasn’t a waste. She came back home, and just like history subject, their friendship would be a beautiful memory that she might cherish.
Might.
But up till today, she thinks she didn’t cherish it that much. Especially after their encounter at the lake a week ago. She thinks she might still be pissed off with him.
“Hey Yoona,look!” Henry the spoilsport vanishing her day dream.
“What is this place?” Henry looked around her while looking amzed by the structure of the historical building.
“You can read there” she said while pointing to him the large information board that looks like a royalty board.
“You know my Korean level well Yoona. I can read it as fast as a snail. We’ll be spending the next two hours here just to wait me finish reading one explanation. Look at how long the explanation is!”
Yoona sighed as she heard him reasoning himself.
“There is English translation Henry Lau. Stop giving excuses!”
“Then I’ll be sleeping in front of the board before I could finish reading everything” He said with a pitiful face.
So Yoona explained to him. at first it was a half-hearted explanation but as she explains further, she got excited herself because this is the thing that interest her and she understand it by heart.
By the end of the explanation, Henry could hardly close his mouth.
“Close your mouth or a fly might find that hole an exciting place to explore” She said as she saw Henry’s reaction.
“Okay, now let’s move on to the next place” Yoona said, smiling sheepishly but deep inside feeling proud of herself.
So Yoona and Henry walk around the palaces, moving from one place to another, jot down important fact to be wrote down on the report.
By 2pm, they managed to visit three important castles around the place.
“Are you hungry?” Henry asked Yoona who is fanning herself with paper she used to jot down the notes just now. Summer in Korea is too hot and she can hardly stand the heat. Resting under the tree after the walk is something relaxing to do.
But Yoona didn’t answer Henry.
Henry tilted his head and look at the girl.
“Ya, your face is red!”
Duh, of course, it’s too hot! She wished she could say that but the heat has taken over her body. She couldn’t blurt out a single word. So she rested her head on the tree behind her while closing her eyes.
“Ya, you look sick!”
Henry took the initiative to feel Yoona’s forehead, checking her temperature.
“YA, YOU ARE HOT!!!!”
At first, it sounds wrong to say such words but Yoona get what Henry meant. Henry meant it literally. Yes, she is hot but it’s her raising body temperature that made her hot, not the sexy-hot thing expression.
“YA, I THINK IT’S HEAT STROKE! Wait here, I’ll buy you a drink and cold thing! And keep on fanning yourself!”
Yoona couldn’t even nod but she followed what Henry asked him to do though she hardly had the energy to do so.
Yoona is such a strong spirited girl. She is strong physically and emotionally but the only thing her body can’t take is the heat. Her mum said she has been like this ever since she was 5. Her mum told her that was when she fainted for the first time when she was out playing with Donghae at the playground one hot summer afternoon.
Suddenly she felt a cold towel placed on top of her head. The towel was cold like it has been dunked in an ice water. Yoona touched the towel on top of her head. It soothes her but then she felt Henry’s hand still on top of her head.
“Ya, move your…” she said weakly and she was about to scold Henry to move his hand, that she can take of herself but no words came out the moment she opened her eyes. It was not Henry.
“Choding-ya, you can’t even resist heat, why play under the sun?” Donghae asked, with eyes full of concern and still his hand on her head, pressing the cold towel on her head, leaving her hair wet.
Yoona was still in dazed with heat and now having Donghae pretending to be an angel, things couldn’t get any worse. Yoona could see a few bullets of sweat running from his forehead. His face was red. Like he had been running. And it looked like he did ran. Yoona could see he was hiding his panting.
“Here, drink this” Donghae said while passing her the cold mineral bottle. Donghae was shaking as he handed Yoona the bottle. Yoona can’t even say anything but just drink the water.
“Here, take this. You must be dizzy” he handed her painkiller. He stood up and running away with his plastic bag without looking back.
Yoona clenched the painkiller in her hand. A few minutes later, Henry came with plastic bag but was surprised seeing Yoona seems like she had already been attended by someone.
“Hey, who gave you that towel?” He asked as he approached closer to Yoona
Yoona didn’t bother to answer him.
How on earth did he know I was here?
**
“What took you so long Hae?” Sunye asked him as he reached at the gazebo where they rested and took their lunch.
“The nearest store was quite far. It’s not near at all.”
“You are sweating!” Sunye realized how the sun has eating her boyfriend’s energy. She wiped his forehead with her hand.
“It’s okay Sun,” Donghae said while slowly pushing her hand, “You are going to use the hand to eat. Plus, it was really hot” he said with a smile on his face.
“I’m sorry, I was busy packing the lunch I forgot the water to drink” she said with a sorry face.
“It’s okay Sun. As long as I can eat your delicious lunch, nothing else matter.” Donghae said as he took his place next to Sunye. The smile has never left his face.
Deep inside, Donghae prayed for Yoona to recover fast. That was the only thing he could do when he saw her under the tree, fanning herself. He knew she got heat stroke then when her face was flushed and the moment she leaned against the tree, he knew it worsen.
After all, they had been friends for as long as he could remember so he knows everything about her, her strength and weaknesses. No matter how strong she appeared to be, heat is her losing battle.
While waiting for Henry to realize that Yoona was under heat stroke, Donghae ran again to the store, bought three bottles cold mineral water, two to dip the towel and one for drink, towel, ice and painkiller.
How he wished he could stay but with Sunye waiting for him, he could just do his best to make sure she was okay until Henry came back.
He prayed so hard Henry would come back soon.
So he ate the kimbab prepared by Sunye.
“It’s good! You have improved a lot Sun”
And they exchange a sweet smile.
Please recover fast Yoona
**
M Y N O T E
- sorry for the lateness in updating. a shout for karen_ren for patiently waiting. You even went to sleep first before I could update. Sorry dear dongseng. Sleep well^_^
- I was so shattered when I heard the news of Sunye's father. My heart is with her so I hesitated to update last week. I was mourning with her. my condolence to her T_T
- and Donghae went there to support her, it was such a beautiful sight. Sunye needs all the support she could get. ( and I pray Jay would be there as well)
- This chapter is split into two part because it was too long.This only has eaten up 11 pages=O. So the preview I gave you was meant for the next update.
- And yes, from now on, I'll be posting my fic on my personal journal^_^
- I am not that smart about Korean History. Everything was taken after reading it from here. Now I think I am an expert.LOL!