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"Friends are supporters, they pull you up.
But true friends give you wings to get up on your own as many times as you fall."

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Yoonbi

"You must know that my diary is in the last drawer of my night stand. There you'll find all the things my family needs to get into my bank account." SoMin continues talking in a nervous tone as we walk to her family's restaurant.

"Why are we going to the restaurant not your house?" I look at her and she smacks my head, not really because I didn't feel anything.

"Our house is behind the restaurant, it's all one building dummy!"

"Oh." I realize.

"Here we are," she says as we stop in front of a cozy restaurant building, "remember everything I told you!"

"Well, I don't remember any of it. Don't try smacking me again because it won't work." I remind as she grumbles, "now every question they ask me, you answer it and I will just say what you say. Simple."

She stops moving for a while, then stares at me intensely, "that's pretty smart, why didn't I think of that?" She muses.

I flip my hair, "Yoonbi is here."

"Shut up, let's go in now," SoMin and I start walking towards the stairs that lead to the restaurant's door but before we could make it to the first stair step, the restaurant's door opens from the other side and we stop on our tracks.

A boy with a well build physic but a pretty average height comes out. Everything goes in slow motion, in one hand he carries a trash bag and the other combs his hair to the back, a signature habit.

And these moments when these cute guys make their first appearance in a movie and the camera focuses on them and everything goes slow with some music happen in front of me.

SoMin screams in my ear.

"Hey! What are you doing! My brother is going back inside! Talk to him!" I look at SoMin grumpily and frown at her loud voice.

"Okay," I mutter as Jimin walks back to the restaurant after throwing the trash in the dumpster.

"Okay so I will tell you what to say, right?" SoMin whispers.

I roll my eyes and take out my phone, "you don't have to whisper, they can't hear you to begin with."

"Oh, okay cool. Now talk to him."

I nod and put my phone back in my coat, the boy walks to the stairs just like I do and, finally, he notices me.

Senpai.

"May I help you?" He turns to me as we climb the few stairs, I take a while comprehending how good he sounds.

I'm being creepy. He's just my friend's brother. "Yes please," I reply in a formal tone and hear SoMin snickering, with a mental eye roll I continue, "I want to talk to the family who owns this restaurant, the Park family."

As if I don't know you're their only son now, Jimin. He stops midway from opening the door and turns to me, "sure, come in." He says and I obey.

We go in, "there," he gestures to a table not so far from the kitchen, "I'll be right back."

"Okay," I take a seat. "Weird, why didn't he tell me that he's from the Park family?" I whisper to myself.

"He doesn't talk much anymore, maybe it's not obvious but he changed. I miss the old Jiminie. He went to call my parents."

I nod to SoMin.

Soon Jimin and an older couple walk out of the kitchen, the older man was drying his hands in his apron while the woman had a small towel.

Jimin walks behind, his hands shoved in his black jeans.

"Wait till you see Jiminie's smile, I mean if you ever will."

Blah, of course I will!

"Hello," I stand up and greet the man with a handshake, then the same for SoMin's mom.

"Hi dear," SoMin's mom smiles at me and my heart swells with warmth as I involuntarily smile.

"Uh," I forget what I actually was going to say.

"The bank account! The money!"

Oh right.

"My name is Yoonbi, Lee Yoon Bi." I introduce myself, how do I put this! I apologize for ruining the little family's mood, I act as if I was waiting for some kind of recognition from them then go on, "I'm SoMin's friend?"

Too far too good, my acting skills need an Oskar, now I had the whole family's undivided attention. All of them look up at me in surprise.

"Did none of my friends ever visit? Is it that bad?"

I was conflicted between laughing at SoMin or comforting her but then again, it's not like I can do either or they'll think I'm mental.

"Oh sit down dear," the mother ushers me to a seat and the whole family sits as well while SoMin stands beside me.

"You know that my daughter is..." I take a guess on the rest of the father's sentence and choose to cut it off.

"I know," I mutter and look at my twisting fingers.

"Come on! You could talk to me all you want later if you miss me so much, now get your job done, actress."

It's my fault I'm trying to do my best!

"I have something to give you," I begin with a breath, "back in the day, SoMin and I had a bucket list that we were saving money for, but..." I stop and take another breath, "we couldn't."

"Where were you for the past year?" Jimin asks and if I'm not mistaken he sounds mad.

"I-I..."

"You were overseas! I talked to Jimin about some friend who went overseas. He won't know it's not you."

"I was overseas."

Jimin takes a step back and his eyes gleam in a nostalgic manner before his shoulders slump.

"And what do you want, dear?" The mother asks politely. I nod in admission.

"I want to show you something, this saving mission was a secret between us. No creature knew about it. And I assume you didn't know either, did you?" Why am I asking questions I know the answers of, ugh.

"You're doing a great job! Go on."

I almost fail in hiding my smile at SoMin's clapping so I look down to hide my face with my hair.

"We didn't know about it." The father answers patiently.

"I came here to give you the money she left," I take out an envelope from my purse and put it on the table.

"What are you doing! This is your money! This wasn't the plan Yoonbi! And how much are these, oh my, no no. This wasn't the plan."

SoMin blabbers in rejection as the father opens the envelope and raises his eyebrows at the amount of money inside. None of the family members utter a word.

SoMin is an exception because she was doing her best to stop what's happening, this isn't even the fun part.

"This is only half of SoMin's money," I remark and they look at me incredulously.

Including Jimin, his eyes were wide open too. He looks cute.

"What-" I pay no attention to what Jimin had to say and follow to my next part of the plan since SoMin's shouting was too distracting by now.

"Can you take me to her room? It's in there." I speak.

"Sure dear," the mother smiles at me and moments later the four of us are in SoMin's room.

"You shouldn't have done all this, Yoonbi."

Well, make us five.

I watch SoMin as she walks to her night stand and points at the drawer aforementioned. I follow her and open that drawer. All her moves were lifeless, she was still sweating it.

A friend got to do what a friend got to do. Just get over it.

She points with her hand to a light blue diary under a couple of novels, I follow and take the small book out.

"In the inner pocket of the cover is the card and a paper with all the information needed to have access to the money inside the account."

I nod to SoMin and hold the diary tightly between my hands, I turn to the Parks and open the diary. I take out the card and the note and show it to them.

"Here it is, the card and a paper with all the information needed to have access to the money inside the account." I quote SoMin.

"But dear, you could've just took your money and not give it back-"

SoMin's mom stops when I smile audibly, "it was a friends pact and a friend got to do, what a friend got to do." I reason, "I believe SoMin is still watching all of us till now, she's still here." I smile at SoMin and she nods with glittering eyes.

Before I know what's happening, I am engulfed in a hug by Mrs Park, I almost cough from how tight and sudden it is, "you're a really kind young lady." She praises.

"SoMin's aptitudes grew on me, you know." I joke and hug back, savoring the motherly embrace.

I look up at the other two males to see the father looking at us proudly while Jimin was... Smiling.

And that smile, I feel accomplished.

He looks so beautiful.

"See, I told you how good his smile is. You see those eye smiles? Those half moons? I have them too!"

I snicker at SoMin. Yeah you wish.

Mrs Park lets go and I leave after she makes me eat a meal cooked by herself. It was delicious!

"Thank you so much," I bow, "absolutely loved your food." I tell them as we stand in the restaurant's exit.

"Thank you, Yoonbi." The father shakes my hand in a formal manner and I slightly bow again.

I smile at Jimin one last time and turn to leave, we had little to no talks. He's somehow quiet.

I turn to leave with a last wave, when I'm on the street with SoMin by my side I take out my phone and put it on my ears as a cover up.

"Your family is so amazing!" I tell her as we walk away from the cozy building.

"Oh I know." She laughs pridefully.

"I love your mom's cooking! Too bad I'm moving soon." I say in a low spirited tone.

"Well, who knows."

And something tells me that SoMin knows something I don't, albeit I don't attempt to invade her thoughts again.

I smile and put my phone back in my pocket as we walk silently to the other pavement.

"Yoonbi!" Someone stops me.

I turn around in oblivion and see Jimin on the pavement of the opposite side of the street.

"Wow, he was running. What does my brother want from you?" SoMin asks and I shrug as Jimin comes to us.

Because I'm extra curious I take a step toward him too, without looking if any cars are passing by.

A disturbing horn of a motorbike makes my head turn to my right and I lose all means of movement.

SoMin shouts for me to move but everything around me seemed to drown.

I'm frozen.

//I don't really want you to die, tbh. Protect, protect, ofc.
But this is how it's supposed to go😏
Watch out and be careful, fam.

Ps. I have my SATs coming up, I'm nervous and working on being positive.
Hopeful, Kaye❤️