CHAPTER 007
[ Surprise, Suprise ]
The first week of summer is gone, with me accomplishing pretty much nothing. They've finally taken Ferica's wheelchair back from her ( "they" being the hospital ) and now she complains about walking and says everyone should be liscensed a wheelchair-- "It's so much more convenient! And don't get me started about 'chairing past those old people!". Luna said that it'd probably cause excessive wheelchair drag racing.
But all in all, it was a week of summer well wasted. I finally caught up to my great loss of sleep and now I'm sitting in my bed, still under my blankets, mentally yelling at umma for vacuuming this loudly. Why can't vacuums be silent? Do we not have the technology? Goodness.
But then again, I'm thankful that I can hear the machine approaching. Not wanting to receive her lecture about waking up earlier and doing "productive things" with my time, I jump into my washroom, grabbing a change of clothes on my way. Right after shutting the washroom door, I hear the door of my room open then close after the dustbunnies had been terminated, but they'll come back you see, and so will she.
After I'm done with everything in the washroom, I open the door and step back into my room. A blue envelope on my computer desk caught my eye. I step towards it then pause mid-step. I put my foot down and just stare at it...whats it doing there...?
I slowly back away, scared that if I get any closer, it'll eat me up alive. I side-step towards my closet and grab my bag and exit the room. Leaning against the outside of my door, I try to answer my question of how it got there. But I stop. I don't want to think about it today. Not today. At all. I take a deep breath and go downstairs. I see JungHyuk sitting in front of the television with a glass of OJ in his hands.
"'Morning, Hyukkie," I smile. He hates it when I call him that.
"Afternoon...you," JungHyuk fails to think of anything to annoy me back with, but he shakes it off. "You going somewhere?"
I answer him as I put my shoes on, "Yeah, I'm hopping over to MinWoo's.."
JungHyuk's eyes grow wide, "And you didn't invite me? I thought we were friends..."
Crap. "Err...do you want to come with me, Hyukkie?" I put on a smile.
He shoots me a big grin, "No, not really, I have plans already. Bye!"
I slam the door as I leave. By the time I get to the lobby and step outside, I regret it 'cause it's burning hot. It feels like I could have a solar-heated barbeque. But I get a move on, it only takes me 5 minutes to get there by foot.
"C'mon, quickly! She's gonna be here any moment! JungHyuk just phoned and told me that she's on her way!" MinWoo started clearing the lving room while kicking ChoongJae to tell him to put everything away.
"Stupid, Teresa. Of all days to be punctual..." ChoongJae carefully placed everything left on the table into a cardboard box as Ferica and Luna take it to MinWoo's storage room.
"What are we doing when she gets here, anyways?" Everyone looks at Luna. Eyes dart around the room looking for the person with the answer.
MinWoo throw's up his arms looking amused, "Don't look at me, I don't even know why you guys are here!" ChoongJae smacks MinWoo in the head and decides that they should all just go out to the park or something.
They all jump into their shoes so they don't even have to try to hide stuff from Teresa and open the front door. Everyone runs into ChoongJae's back, trying to exit the house.
"Ow! What's wrong with you, Jae?" shouts Ferica, rubbing her nose.
ChoongJae turns around and tells everybody to shush. "Look! ...Outside, retards."
They were all confused as to why Teresa got dropped off by a man that drove a silver-streak Celica. The guy in the driver's seat was way too young to be her uncle and they knew that she had no guy cousins. This sparked Luna's interest greatly.
The 4 friends watched as Teresa waved goodbye to the stranger and turn around to see them with their heads poking out of MinWoo's front door. Teresa's head fell as she hit her forehead with an expression that read, "crap."
"Okay, spill them beans, Reese! Who's the stranger?" Ferica was first to ask as they walked to the neighbourhood park.
"He's a neighbour. Like 2 doors away." Simple and sweet. That's how I liked things.
"Don't believe you, there has to be more than that. You don't see my neighbour driving me around in his porshe. Now answer again, who's the cutie?" Luna just couldn't resist asking.
"Neighbour. 2 doors down."
"Wait a minute, he's the guy that ditched you last time, isn't he???" Everyone except ChoongJae and I looked at MinWoo, confused. ChoongJae gasped dramatically.
"...Yes and no, I wasn't ditched, excuse you. And if I remember correctly, you owe me a really big dinner."
"Don't change the subject. Now say again, who's your bestboy, huh?" MinWoo smirk his annoying ego-filled grin again.
"Oh, no wonder! First you deny our theories, then you pay a hefty bill, and now you're getting all punctual on us. You are guilty of...everything." ChoongJae says. And we all just stare at him like he's some weird platypus with a sharp beak on display.
"...Deny ...theories ...hefty ...puntual...guilty?! ChoongJae... have you been...reading ...BOOKS?!"
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