Want me to teach you? (7)

I got to know him better when I found out he was my cousin's classmate. I happen to meet him when I went to my cousin's house to play, my cousin lives next door, so I visited his house to play the new game World of F*nal F**ntasy. I like how cute the chibi characters are. When I entered my cousins' room that's when I saw him again. My cousin introduced us and got to know each other. At first, we don't get along, but as we spend time together and play games we eventually became close. Even though we tend to bicker from time to time, we are fairly close to each other.

I don't know when it started, but when I realized that I like him, I became somewhat obsessed with him and somewhat a bit of a stalker. I will always look in my window to see if he is visiting my cousins' house. When I know he's there I will make any excuse that I can think of so that I can go there. Be it playing games, making "too much food", doing assignments, you name it and I will use it as an excuse just to go there.

I have always known that he is popular, so to make sure no other flies go near him, I always try to intercept their attempts to go near him. I even accepted their request of me delivering their love letters, so I can either throw them in the trash outside school or take it home to burn them. I even indirectly insinuated that he's more into guys than girls, still, stubborn flies are buzzing around.

As I was looking at them or rather at him, I can hear they are talking about something. "So, The8, what do you think about Jung Areum sunbae?" One of his friends asked. Huh? Jung Areum from year 3 class 3? Why are they talking about her? I suddenly felt this queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach. I waited for him to answer but didn't hear anything. I looked at him and saw that there is a smile on his face.

"I knew it! You like her right? She's your type she's cute and kind as well." His other friend said, stupid Mingyu telling him that! I'll deal with you later! And when I look at Minghao, again I saw him just smile! Does he like her? Then what about me?! While I was thinking that, I heard another one asked, "Then what about Seora noona? I thought you guys have a thing for each other?" Nice one Ji Hoon! I looked at him anticipating his answer when I saw him looked away from his friends! I couldn't see his reaction, but I heard his answer.

"Seora noona is nice, funny and all but she is just like an older sister to me. I never had any siblings and she is like an older sister that takes care of me and looks out for me." What the heck? Why the hell are you so serious when answering? I silently left and avoiding the door so that they won't see me. I hurriedly walked back and took a detour to calm myself.

Since my mind is jumbled, I didn't notice that someone is in front of me and bump into them. I almost lost balance but I was able to steady myself, I just mumbled an apology then hastily left. I returned to my class and leaned my head on my desk.

I kept thinking about what he said. Older sister! I'm just an older sister to him! I thought I had a spot in his heart because even though we bicker from time to time we still spend time together… Well, more like I keep on intruding in his space, but still, we were spending time with each other, right? I couldn't help but sigh to keep me calm. I feel like my world was torn apart and angry as well. I mean, for the past year, what the hell was the point of doing all of that for!? I kept all the annoying bugs away from him because I thought… Well, I assumed that we have something going on between us, I know when I asked for his help in something he will complain and all but still, he'll help me in the end. Now to know that I'm just an older sister to him, I just don't know how to feel about this.

I was getting angry and at the same time, I was contemplating the things that happened until this point. I was angry, thinking that if he didn't like me that way then he shouldn't have sent me mixed signals that made me think that he liked me. On the other hand, if I'm going to analyze it from a different perspective, he never did anything confusing. Thinking about it, he was nice to everybody, helps his friends out, sweet and thoughtful only to his close friends. That might be where I got mixed up, I didn't think, everything was viewed like in an otome game where the heroine was being pursued by the male lead. I didn't filter it with reality to distinguish which is real and which is not.

While I was berating myself of how stupid I was, my classmate called me because some girls came looking for me. When I looked up to see who it was, I instantly knew why they came. "What do you want?" I drop the pretense since I know why they are here, don't need to act like a nice girl since I know they are here to kick my butt.

"Follow us, we need to talk to you." The girl sneered at me then walked ahead. I just followed them, since I want to vent my anger and they willingly offered themselves, so why not indulge them? They led me to the back of the gym and saw a couple more girls there. I smirked, why am I not surprised?