Gratefulness~ pt.3

"Joakim came", mom looks at me from the doorway and she does not look pleased at all. She clearly doesn't like about the fact that I have forgiven Joakim and we have started to hang around together again. But she's not the only one. Also my friends, especially Riia, have been seriously against our reborn friendship, although now all of them have left their homes and they are about to start studying in colleges around Finland. I myself am too not so sure about Joakim yet but because he needs a friend right now, just like I do, I decided to give him a second chance. At least I have someone to talk to as I'm spending my gap year here at home.

Mom walks back to the kitchen to continue cooking. I put the jewellery which I have been fiddling in my hands aside and lift my head to face Joakim who has appeared in my room. He's smiling mysteriously and holding his hands behind his back.
"Uhmm... What are you --"
"I heard that somebody has birthday today", Joakim shows his hands and gives me an envelope and a Fazer's Blue chocolate bar.
"Oh no... You shouldn't have", I sigh of delight and accept the present. Joakim sits on my bed and watches as I take a look at it.
"It's pretty cheap for a birthday present but I hope you'll like it."
I pull a card out of the envelope. It has a picture of a cute dog on it. I laugh a little. There's also something else in the envelope... My fingers hit two small pieces of paper and I pull them out to see what they are.

Two tickets.

"Hopefully they will cheer you up a bit. I heard that you would like it, so, yeah..."
"Oh. From whom?" I ask.
"Robert told me", Joakim answers.
"Big Bang", I pronounce quietly as I stare at the concert tickets in my hand.

Deja vu...

"I heard that you saw them when you were in China."
"Yeah", I say blankly. Memories flash through in my mind and I don't know whether I am happy, sad or angry. I feel like crying. Joakim looks uncomfortable.
"If you don't like it, I can buy you something else too..."
"Nooo!" I exclaim and smile. "Thanks! I do love kpop music!"
His anxious expression changes into excitement.
"How did you -- You didn't buy these yourself, did you?" I look at him worried.
"No, but it's just that when I heard about what you like, even though Robbie didin't seem to know a lot about you, I found a competition on the Internet where I could win those tickets. I must have written my name and adress millions of times. And then... I won", Joakim tells me proudly and I gasp.
"Wow! Thanks again." A competition again, huh? What a coincidence.
"That was nothing... Even though it took me hours. Haha. And yeah, there's this one thing. I tried to listen to their music but... It's not really my style", he utters an akward laughter. "Could one of your friends go with you? I mean I can come with you if I have to."
I already knew that if he came with me, he would just whine and quibble through the whole concert. Especially if he was in a bad mood.
"Yes, I can ask someone", I say and think for a while. "Maybe Sara could come with me."

The sound of excessive screaming breaks my eardrums and I grin.
"Are you serious?!" Sara shouts and screams a little bit more. I hear her father complaining and Sara tells him to be quiet.
"Hey but", Sara's voice changes to normal again. "Is it ok? Do you really want to go?"
I sigh. "Well, I don't want to throw the tickets away either."
"But we can always just go for a shopping trip to Helsinki. I will buy the tickets as a birthday gift. I mean, without Joakim knowing." She's thinking about what's best for me. She's a real friend.
"No. Let's just go to the concert", I say. "You get to see Big Bang's live performance too."
"Okay. Well, wow! I haven't been to a nice concert for a while! Last time I was at Cheek's stadion concert but only because Dina and Sinna like him so much", Sara explains me. "This is sooo cool!"

MEANWHILE...
"But I thought you wanted to get married quickly and have children", a woman's voice shouts at the phone in Korean.
"Well, what is it then? Am I not good enough? It's about that, right?" She leans against the brick wall and drops her handbag and portifolio carelessly on the ground.
"Yeah. Well, I don't understand what's wrong with you again... What? But that happened like ages ago! I bet everyone of us have changed and grown more mature since then!"
Passers-by look at the woman for a long time and she smiles akwardly back.
"But you love me, right? Yeah? Good. Me too, baby! See ya! Bye!"

Notes

I guess the characters will stay linked for now... No can do.

Anyways...

Here it goes! PART 3 IS HERE!
(I won't be posting new chapters every day like I used to.)

AND HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! ♥

ps. who had a Kris deja-vu when reading the "It's not really my style"-part? *raises hand* Kekeke.

pps. yes, I write in Finnish style here if someone has noticed. F.ex. "It's not really my style", he says. NOT: "It's not really my style," he says. See what I did here? The comma changes place. In Finnish it's on the outside of the quotation marks unlike in English. Sorry not sorry, I'm not going to correct them :D but I mentioned this just in case someone noticed it and was like HEEEY THAT'S WRONG! Yeah, it is. I know!
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Teaser for chapter 2 (that's me in the background by the way.. hehe)