chapter 8

" You know what, I don't want to talk about it anymore."I sighed pushing my tray further. It is another typical lunch time at school, and with lines like this on the cafeteria, it really is handy to have someone to talk to." But, did they ground you?" Yuri asks, giving her tray to the lunch lady. The lunch lady puts a cup of rice on her tray with a slice of fried pork chop and a small portion of kimchi."Aniyo! They were just reminding me how exams are supposed to be the most important thing in our lives.", I say remembering what happened yesterday after I got back home from filming with Yoongi." Look " Yuri whispers while she's taking her tray back. " There's the guy that made your parents scold you."I followed where Yuri was looking and there was Yoongi, together with his friends, sitting on the farthest table from us. They all have something they're munching on but not food trays from the cafeteria. Most of them are chips and colas, while Yoongi's hands are empty." Hey! It's not his fault." I say. " It's our project and doing that project will help me get better grades. Mom needs to understand that."Yuri stands by my side and waits for me while my tray is getting filled with food."Oh my god..." Yuri whispers while looking at me in a shocked expression, her eyes as wide as saucers." Do you....?"" What?" I ask, taking my tray back and holding the sides with both of my hands. " I'm hungry. Let's just eat."Yuri gave me another look, almost squinting her eyes at me. I laughed at her and decided to look for a place to sit but all of the tables are full. Except the one right beside Yoongi and his friends. I groan internally reminding my first encounter with them. Out of ALL the tables, why is this particular one available right now???" Let's sit over there." Yuri points at the table , and heads towards it without waiting for me.I follow her, looking as much away as I can from Yoongi. For some reason, I feel very uncomfortable, I feel shy... I feel like.... I don't know. Why do I feel this way?" Dara!!" Yuri suddenly yells, catching all the attention of the people around us, including Yoongi and his friends." Hurry up! Your walking like a sloth."Well, Thankyou so much Yuri.I walk as fast as I could and sat hurriedly beside Yuri, hiding as mucha s possible from Yoongi. I felt stares from his friends even though I wasn't looking at them. " Oh, isn't that the girl you've been hanging out with?" A girl from their table asks. She had a bob cut hair that almost made her look like a cartoon character I've seen before. I look at them from the corner of my eyes only to see each of them staring at me except Yoongi." They're talking about you." Yuri whispers while pretending not to care ." I know, okay?" I shush her. " I have ears."I start eating from my plate, not minding what I eat. I just want to finish it and go back to the classroom , away from this cafeteria."We have a project we have been working on, remember?" He says, this time looking at me. I jerk my head to the other side as soon as I see him looking at me." Dara, your face is so red." Yuri comments holding my shoulder." Are you okay??"" Y-yes." I continue to eat, much faster this time." Dara." Yuri calls in a calm voice but I continue to eat. A few more spoons and I can get out of this place." Dara!!" She shouts while holding both of my shoulders. I stopped eating and looked at her, her face expressionless." What?" ,I irritably asked." Do you like someone right now?" She asks in a very serious tone." No" I reply quickly ." I've never seen you act this way before over... someone.""What do you mean? You know I'm an introvert. I'm always shy."No, this is different. You are extra shy."I sighed. Was it that obvious?  But why do I feel this way? It's not like I've done anything wrong. There's nothing for me to feel this way about. What the hell is wrong with me??" It's Yoongi,isn't it?" She finally asks, letting her impatience taking best of her uncontrollably." Ofcourse not." I say in a loud voice, forgetting that we're in a public place. As soon as I see people looking at us again, I gradually calm myself and give them a nervous smile."Aigoo!" She shakes her head. " If you really don't like him, -"" I don't have to prove you anything Yuri. Just believe me, it's probably the oil from the pork that's making me feel nervous. Oil is bad for me, it gives me acne and it makes me like this and I don't know why but it's oil i promi-"" Talk to him if you don't have any feelings for him. He's a human, you're a human. Two humans talking. That's normal, right?" She asks raising her eyebrow. " Prove it Dara."" Fine!" I accepted her challenge, standing up from my seat. Yuri had a smirk on her lips, her brows still raised. She points at Yoongi and mouths the word ‘ fighting '.I walk slowly towards them, feeling my heart thumping all over my chest. My throat suddenly went dry, making it almost impossible to talk. They all look at me as I stand on the end of the table, and I gulped before speaking." Y-Y-Yoongi," I stutter, making him look up at me. " What do you want?" The girl with Bob cut hair asks." Are you going to steal him away from us again?" Another one of his friends asks.I shake my head," No,no. Ummm..."He silenced all of his friends and looks back at me," What is it?"I look back at my shoulder to see Yuri smiling at me. I turn my head back and try to think of anything to say to him. Packets of chips and candies are all over their table but there was nothing on Yoongi's side. O yes!" Have you... Have you eaten yet?"Snickers and snorts was all I heard from his friends. I locked my eyes into Yoongi's, not caring about others. He's the one I should talk to anyways, so I shouldn't mind what other people would say or do, regardless that they are friends with him." I-I don't eat lunches." He says sheepishly.Why not? Is that why he only had a cola when we ate lunch together for the first time? Does he have some kind of health problem that he can't eat lunches? Why can't a person eat lunch?" Is that all? You can leave us now if it is." One of his friends say." Y-yes." I say turning my back at them. I deeply breathe in before deciding to walk back to my table. Yuri claps slowly with her hands as soon as I take a seat beside her." Hm." She says. " Not bad."" See?" , I say trying to be confident. " I told you it was nothing."" Yeah, right." She says, " You almost passed out."" Whatever." I roll my eyes at her with a faint laugh.I continue to eat in peace until Yoongi and his friends start talking about the field trip coming up after the school exams. I finished eating in time and started to focus on their talk." I think we're going to Busan. I heard there're a lot of markets and malls over there."" I thought we are just going to go bunjee jumping?"" What? Aren't we going to watch theatre play or something? Classical music is so boring. I don't even want to go."" But what if they're just saying that so we won't go? What if we are actually going to swim on beaches? Busan's well known for that!"" It's so lame. Let's not go. We could always just kick the arcade centre or something."" Yeah, let's not go. It's for losers."Everyone was talking and exchanging their ideas except Yoongi who was sitting quietly on his own." Yoongi! Are you going?" Someone asked, making him look away from his phone." No." He simply says." Done with eavesdropping?" Yuri whispers right beside me." Shh! Let me listen. My curiosity is at peak." I shush her and concentrate on the talk again." Why not? It's not like you have an important thing to do, you wouldn't go with us to arcade,anyways."" I think it's a  waste of time and  money."" What a buzz kill." One comments throwing an empty pack of chips at Yoongi.They all laugh and start throwing various things at each other. After a moment or so, they all stand up and starts moving away." You guys go ahead, I'll follow you in a bit." He says , waving his hands." Dara." He says as soon as his friends leave the place." Have you finished editing the scenes we took?"Yuri looks at him, then looks at me. An unexplainable look on her face." Y-yes. Do you wanna see?" I say, about to take video camera out of my bag. But as soon as I grab a hold of it, bell suddenly rings." It's okay. Just show it to me later after school." He says before leaving.Yuri follows him with her eyes and as soon as he is gone, her eyes transfers to me. " It's like he didn't even see me, he only saw you."" Oh don't be funny! He just doesn't care about people. I bet he only cares a little  about me because I'm his partner for this major project." I look at the video camera before putting it back in my bag." What a buzz kill." She says throwing a crumpled tissue paper on my face.I chuckled and tore a piece of my left over tissue paper and began rolling it into a ball between the plans of my hands." Don't you dare!" She says and starts running away from me. I laughed and sprint towards her, throwing the piece of paper at her back. But Yoongi isn't going to field trip....