JiEun's Short Stories

It was the last day of high school. I was about to graduate, and I hadn't spoken a word to anybody.

The class of 2014 president began speaking.

-Blah blah blah - is all I can think, I glance up to the class president, Luhan. He was so intelligent and attractive all the guys wanted to be him and all the girls wanted to be with him. So it was just my luck that I had him as a partner in my science and math projects

Luhan was unique, there was nobody quite like him. But I don't care, there is just one last person for me to care about. I finish my graduation and begin walking home, head down, earphones on, ignoring everyone. Suddenly i feel a tap on my shoulder, I turn around and there he is, smiling brightly at me.

I pull my headphones down so they balance around my neck.

"Hey, JiEun, congratulations on graduating." he says happily, was he being sarcastic, thinking I wouldn't graduate and that he was better than everybody else. "I was wondering if you'd like to come to the grad party at my house tonight." he continued. Was he serious? He knew out of everyone that I wasn't a talker, he had took the lead in most projects speaking up for the both of us, he probably knew i wasn't much of a 'party-goer' so why would he invite me.

I stand there puzzled. "Great, I'll see you there!" He hands you a note with address time and date. Christ. Why me.

He wasn't serious was he. Me the mute at a party, oh great what was I going to do there? Read a book quietly in the corner of a dimly lit room with a torch. Fall asleep on the couch only to be drew on and laughed at.

No. Parties were definitely not my thing.

There is no way I'd go. I couldn't. Could I. I sit at home in my empty house, I hated not having parents, and this just made it worse when my maid wasn't here, I'd given her afternoons off.

I lie back on my bed. 'At least I'll never have to see any of them ever again.' I think to myself.

I sigh and then slowly proceed to stand up normally. I walk over to my wardrobe. I open it up to see a brand new unused outfit there ready to be used, I never would have a chance to use it. Not really. I try it on and it still fits, I rip the tags off and look at myself in the mirror, i didn't even look like myself.

I curled my hair without using heat and I put make up on for the first time in over four years. I didn't look like myself, I was completely different, should I fashion up a complete new identity I laughed silently to myself.

I put on some really high heeled shoes and then I text my driver to pick me up and take me to this party. I could bare not using an outfit before giving it away.

At seven o clock I arrived at the party, I was half an hour late and everyone else had arrived, I took the latest book with me, just in case. I knocked on the door and to my surprise it actually opened for me and I was let inside. I bowed to the girl who had opened it and turned to see Luhan looking my way.

"Hey," he said casually. "I didn't actually think you were going to come, you know, i thought youd have better things to do without us."

I bow and begin to walk over to an empty seat. "Hey, do you want a drink?" he asks me I nod and he goes away and returns with a drink of alcohol. I have never drank before. I could feel eyes glaring at me as Luhan spoke to me.

"Do you want to dance, with me?" He asks me. I didn't know what to say, should I say yes, is that what is expected of you, or should I say no because thats what I wanted.

"Do you want to dance with me?" he repeats like I didn't hear him the first time, but that's probably what he thought due to the loud music surrounding every room. I nod eventually and he holds he hand out for me and I take it and he leads me into the dance room.

He begins to dance like everyone else, but with more style, I followed his lead but was actually terrible. He puts his hands on my hips to my horror, but then I realise he is actually trying to help me dance normally. Half an hour passes and I end up getting really tired of dancing, and he notices that.

"Do you want to get out of here?" He asks me.

I nod and he grabs my hand and pulls me away from the crowded room and upstairs.

He puts me into what looks like his room. "Here, have a drink." I bow to thank silently and I sit on a chair near to the door. He sits on his bed, it is really quiet here.

"Why don't you speak?" He asks "Even when your having fun, you don't say a word, I can never understand what you are thinking or anything, it is really difficult for me, you're unusual."

I bow my head to look at floor.

"Maybe that is why I like you." he says.

What? Why would he like me I was hearing things, but maybe I wasn't this party was already way out of the picture for me, maybe getting a pet unicorn was next, or being told I was next in line for the queen of England.

"JiEun," he calls. I look up and he signals for me to move over to him. I do so, maybe this was my coronation of becoming Queen. "I like you, a lot JiEun. Would I ever have a chance with being with you at all." I am shocked I wanted to scream at his face I wanted to slap my own this cannot be real. I shrug in answer to his question.

He is the single most liked person I knew, you could walk at school down one hallway and hear one conversation or rumour about Luhan turn a corner and hear three other rumours about Luhan. In fairness he was an exact replica of Jay Gatsby from the Great Gatsby, hopeful, extremely well liked for his parties and very clever person. In that instant I noticed we actually did have a few things in common, he didn't have any friends either, there were no images of any older family members at all, and we were both going to the same university in five months’ time.

"Does that mean, I have a chance to be with you or that there is no chance in hell." A sudden rush of admiration for him appears to me when I realize our similarities I nod and put up one finger. "So I can have a chance?" I nod.

I see him smile, but then I come back to my senses, this is all such a set up, I glance around the room for cameras, but when I realize there is none and he is writing something down and seals it in an envelope he proceeds to hand it to me. "Don't open until you are alone."

I nod, we make our way downstairs, a lot of people have left and I realize how long we have been upstairs for. I bow goodbye and begin to make my way home.

At home I get undressed and sit in my bed with a cup of warm green tea. I glance at the envelope sitting on my desk next to my bed with temptation I open it.

JiEun, I never thought I'd let you know that I liked you, not even through a stupid letter. Remember when I was first introduced to the class because I'd just moved from China? That is when it all began, I think even if I didn't become you partner, I would have still liked you, it was just fate you were the only one without a partner for that year. I was going to let you know through actually talking, but I thought because you don't talk and you've never said a word to anyone, it would be better to say it through a letter. I wasn't sure if you acting all cold is just a way of coping with school idiots or for something worse, I know you are on medication and it is partly the reason you are so sad all the time, but I want to get to know you more. I'm sorry, I am pathetic and this letters even worse. -Luhan

I tried to smile at the fact he liked me, he wasn't the first boy to tell me he liked me, but he was the first since my parents died and the first to do so through a letter. It wasn't pathetic it was adorable and I was going to tell him.

I pick up my pen and paper and begin writing to him . "Luhan, I am grateful for your letter, and even more so the fact someone like you can even think about me this way, I will be forever grateful for you speaking up for me in class and all those other times. I knew you knew I was on medication for my depression and you didn't confront me with it, you just tried to cheer me up which I can see now so thank you. As for the fact of you liking me, I'll admit, at times, when i have glanced at you working hard I have felt a little attracted to you and you smile sometimes outside of school on your own, and don't pretend you don't cause I see you walking past my house, I've always wanted to know what you were thinking. The letter isn't pathetic it's adorable, and you are not pathetic either. -JiEun.

I finished writing and told my maid to go and deliver it to Luhans address. It was already late and they wouldn't let me out of the house, I am pretty sure the party would be over by now as a lot of people had left before I did. I went back upstairs and fell to sleep.

In the morning I woke up early thinking I was heading back to school, until I was reminded by my maid that it had finished and I was going to start getting prepared for University. I sat down and began to eat breakfast, alone as usual. Until there was a knock at the door. I looked around until my eyes met the maid who opened the door. There stood a tall, well built man with a letter in his hands. "For JiEun" he said and walked back off to his black car.

The maid handed it to me and I immediatley stopped what I was doing to open it. I recognised the handwriting immediately. Luhan. He had replied.

"JiEun, if i had known you felt even slightly attracted to me, I would have made my move sooner, haha, and I didn't realise I was doing half the things i did for you, it just came naturally. When I walk home from school I walk past your house I smile because of something you did earlier that day or because you think I didn't see you dance your way into your house but anyway I am always thinking about you on the way home. That is why I smile. You said the letter wasn't pathetic but adorable, you said I wasn't pathetic, does that mean I'm adorable too? *pout pout* Luhan.

Thus began our friendship through letters, I didn't leave the house for a month, I was too busy reading and writing letters to him, I got to know him more than ever, his parents died the same year mine did, hence why he moved to Korea to learn the language and to become a performer.

We would write about anything, what we had done that day, for me it was always the same, sitting out in my garden with my pen and paper listening to music, playing music or writing letters, and he was always studying music or always studying academics and writing.

Everyday, we'd send two letters each, I felt sorry for my maid until one day, she said . Just go and meet him, so I did. I had over sixty letters off him, each one over a page long, thats more than I do for essays at school. I put on my best dress and shoes and grabbed my headphones and began walking towards Luhans house. I pause when I get there, was I going to speak to him, I began approaching the door. I knocked and waited. I saw movement inside and then Luhan opened.

"JiEun!" he exclaimed.

I waved, i went to open my mouth but no words came out, and he saw this.

"Come in, do you want a drink?" I nod "Is tea alright?" I nod. "Grenn tea?" I nod again.

I had never been inside his house apart from the party, but there was little time to look at the interior of a house when it is full of extremely loud k-pop and a hundred people, now there was just us too.

He came back in the room, whilst I was admiring a unique painting, it was very beautiful. He came and stood right next to me and handed me a cup of warm tea. "I painted that back in China, when I was eight." He turned around and sat down on the chairs we did a month ago at the graduation party.

"I'm really happy you came, I was going to come to you but everytime I was going to, something happened."

I nod as he speaks, I got lost in his words, and couldn't hear anything but the odd word here and there, was I falling for him. I was sure of it. "You said you want to learn chinese?" I nod, I heard that bit. He told me to wait a couple of minutes and he would get all his old work books and a spare notebook for me.

I looked around again, there was still no sign of any pictures of him when he was younger. I was still confused about his whole life, how come he lived such a solitary life? Like I did.

He returned a couple of seconds after my thoughts died down with what he said he would bring.

He began teaching me general words to start off conversation, although it wouldn't really be necessary for me, because I didn't speak anyway.

We decided to visit each other often before University, which we would be attending together.

He made a plan that everyday, he would either come to mine, or I would go to his. We would study together and still sent each other letters when we were apart. I couldn't argue anyway, so he knew the plan would work.

After a few weeks, I really had began to fall deeply for him. I couldn't talk to him just yet but there was so much I wanted to say. Suddenly I had an idea, I found the very first letter he gave me and I asked the maid to send it back to him. I wondered what he'd think, would he understand.

After a long wait, my phone rang, I picked it up and to my surprise it was Luhan.

"Hello, JiEun, is that you? If it is look out your window." he puts the phone down.

I walk to my window and there he is holding a sign up. 'I still like you' I smile and walk down stairs. I open the front door and stare at him. It is a good few seconds before I make any movement at all. A sudden urge comes over me and I rush out to him he drops the sign on his left hand side and opens his arms as I half walk half run into them.

"I like you too Luhan." I say

Notes

this will probably be in a few parts. So keep an eye out! - Let me know if anyone wants a fan fic written for them