In White Houses
Ch.14
It was the first day of summer and all of us, minus Taehyung were going to a big festival downtown. My first summer festival in Seoul I was beyond excited!! Especially with my new friends! We finally arrived and boy was it crowded. So many people crowding around a stage watching performers, people lined up at concession stands, lines long waiting to get on rides. There was so much to do!
"Let's all go on this ride!" Jiae pointed to a ride that spin's uncontrollable, I gulped. I'm not a fan of rides, the only rides I was ever comfortable with are merry go rounds. Everyone cheered as they all started heading over to the ride, I stood my place sighing. "You okay?" Jimin asked patting my shoulder. "Uh, yeah, I'm...fine." I nervously laughed.
He looked at me unconvinced, "you're scared to ride?" great, he's probably going to tease me, "It's okay, I don't like rides either, we can do something else." He chuckled. I raised my brows, "Really?" "Yeah, I usually feel sick on those things so I always choose not to." "Oh thank god you're here." I sigh in relief, he laughs patting the top of my head.
"Well what should we do?" "mmmm, I don't know." I shrugged, he scanned the area and then smiled widely, "I can win you something." He pointed to a stand full of plushies, we walked over to it and saw you had to throw balls at the target.
"Care to play?" a man asked looking at us, "You can win these plushies for your cute girlfriend!" "Oh no he's no-," "I'll play," Jimin answered. He stepped right up and took a small basket of balls. "You get 8 balls, good luck." The man said smirking. Jimin took one ball concentrating on the target, he threw the ball missing the target, "dammit."
He took another one and threw it again, missing only by an inch this time. He continued to throw the ball at the target but just kept missing, I was starting to feel bad since he was on his last ball, "Jimin, it's okay if you miss I don't really need a plushy." He ignored me staring at the target, his brows furrowed, he licks his plump lips and began to throw the last ball as hard as he can. The ball actually hit the target and which made a bell ranged.
"oh wow kid, you actually did it." The guy said in wide eyes, Jimin's warm smiled return as he looked back at me, I laughed as he handed me a cute yellow puppy plushy, "Thank you Jimin!" I squealed, "of course," he lightly laughed. "Should we go back to the others?" I said looking over the ride that ended. "Mmm, how about we do things on our own, just me and you." "but, wouldn't they worry...?" I asked he shook his head, "Nah, they'll know I'm with you." "are you sure?" "yes Minjoo," he laughs.
Jimin and I spent most of the night riding kiddie rides unashamed, playing more games and watching dancers and musicians performed on the stage. I had so much fun that I forgot about the others. "man I'm tired." I laughed sitting on a bench taking a bite of my ice cream Jimin bought me. Jimin sat next to me smiling, "Did you have fun?" "yes!" he nodded chuckling, we began to people watch as we rested.
"Minjoo," I looked over to Jimin, he was looking down at the ground with his elbows resting on his knees, it looked like something was on his mind, "Yes Jimin? Are you okay?" he didn't answer, he bit his bottom lip and sighed, "Can I tell you something?" he said finally looking up at me. "What is it?" he was gazing at my face, a piece of hair fell just above his eyes "I uh..." his lips slightly trembled as if he was having a hard time getting the words out, "I...., I..." I raised my brows confused on what he was trying to say, "I...li--..." what is he trying to say? "I....lik.., I'm thirsty, are you thirsty? Because I'm parched! I'm gonna go get some soda, uh I'll be right back!!"
He quickly stood up and powered walked away from me as he disappeared in the crowd. I wonder if he's okay? I waited for him on the bench enjoying watching people pass by. Its the beginning of summer and the night was comfortably cool with some clouds passing by. About 15 minutes passed and Jimin still hasn't' returned, I wonder, where is he?
A few drops dropped on the top of my head, damn, it's drizzling. I quickly got up and headed in the direction Jimin had gone to, it was so crowded. People kept bumping into me as they were trying to get out of the drizzling skies. Suddenly rain started pouring, fucking great! Everyone is now running in the opposite direction I was going, "Jimin!" I called out hoping he was near.
A tall man who was running bumped into me that I fell onto what was now the muddied ground. The puppy plushy Jimin won me was a few feet away from me getting ran over by the running crowd. This is such a disaster I thought. My knee was throbbing in pain since I fell knees first on the ground, I'm soaked and dirty from the rain, why is this happening to me? Tears began to form, how did this become a frustrating night. Two feet stood in front of me, Jimin?...no, it's...Taehyung.
