MY LOVE BLOSSOMS IN KOREA...!!

Chapter 29 (Why are you suddenly in my bathroom canary?)

A trip home that feels really fast. It feels like being alone for longer with Brother Ji-Sung. It was a feeling I had been confused about all this time. Gathering solid evidence that I really like Brother Ji-Sung.

Until home at dinner time, I helped Aunt Nari prepare food at the dinner table.

“Yoon-Hee-ya, call Yoon-Jin, say we've been waiting in the dining room,” said Aunt Nari while arranging the glasses on the dining table.

“Yoon-Jin did not attend Eomma's dinner, because he had eaten at his campus friend's birthday treat,” Yoon-Hee replied.

“Oo... Today you stayed here, right Ji-Sung?” now the view of Aunt Nari leads to Brother Ji-Sung.

“Emm... Ne, Ricka and I will continue the lessons that were delayed yesterday,” replied Brother Ji-Sung while glancing at me.

“Are you tired?” he asked me.

“Anniyo, I was too excited to study tonight,” I replied in a tone that was like someone winning the lottery.

After dinner, Ji-Sung goes straight to my room. I've prepared some of the books I previously studied with Brother Ji-Sung.

“Aaa... yesterday we learned some vocabulary, have you memorized it?” He looked at me seriously.

“Not yet, I was too busy thinking about Brother Ji-Sung” my ray and instantly made him surprised by what I said.

Brother Ji-Sung laughs loosely,“Wooah... Learn where those words come from?”

I just answered with a thin smile.

“Ricka... We start the lesson.” He opened one of the thickest books.

“Ne...” I replied with passion.

Ji-Sung's sister was so patient in teaching me some words that I thought were very foreign to me. Several times I have practiced it wrong. The pattern of sentences that are much different from the Indonesian language makes me confused to string it up. Not to mention the letters hangeul which I think more complicated both the shape and how to write it with Latin letters make my eyes not strong linger studying it.

“Kak...” I looked at him fixedly.

“Ne?” sahut Kak Ji-Sung without taking his eyes off the book he holds.

“How does Brother Ji-Sung feel about me?” The question just came out of my lips. I was also surprised why I got those words out so quickly.

He looked at me and closed the book,

“Didn't you feel it?” a very difficult question I answered. Then a few seconds later he approached me, getting closer. I felt her hand touching my chin looking up to dare to look at her. “Saranghae...” the word comes out very gently. I doubt if I heard it or not.

(Saranghae: I love you)

Ah... What should I do? My brain did not command my whole body to move away from it, but my heart seemed to ask me to avoid it and reject all of this. There's no way this could happen to me. I wish there would be a cell phone ringing again, ah... Brother Ji-Sung must not have brought his phone and my phone is in a state of silence now. Ah... How is this? I closed my eyes slowly. As if receiving her face that was getting closer to mine. Aish... I really didn't expect that until it happened. But ah... is this going to happen with this kind of stuffy feeling? I want to cry it feels. I want to scream but why does my whole body feel so stiff? I really wanted something to happen so my brain would obey me. But what can I do? I increasingly feel the closeness of his face which is only a few inches from my face. At that moment….

Braaaaaackd…

A loud sound came from the bathroom door in my room. Rebellious to make me realize and close my face because I was too surprised by the condition I was experiencing. Ji-Sung's sister reflexively looks towards the source of the sound.

“Yaa…! Can't anyone hear me, huh? Are you guys so serious about studying that you don't realize I'm locked in the bathroom?” shouted a man who was none other than Yoon-Jin. He suddenly came out of my bathroom by breaking down the door. I gawked at her which I did not expect to be in my bathroom at times like these.

“Yaa…! why didn't you tell me your bathroom door was broken?” He continued his shout while looking at me sharply and raised one of his eyebrows.

I also kept quiet to see it. Yoon-Jin is my prince this time. He saved me from a condition I really didn't want. I'm stuck between my brain and my heart for a ceasefire.

Yoon-Jin casually walks out of my room without any guilt.

“Ricka-ya.. Does Yoon-Jin bathe in your bathroom frequently?” Now Brother Ji-Sung asks me with a look that I can hardly understand.

“Even more than that..” replied Yoon-Jin who apparently heard a question from Kak Ji-Sung for me.

Brother Ji-Sung and Yoon-Jin exchanged gazes that I find very difficult to interpret. There was anger and resentment lodged between their gazes.

“Yah... I'm really not in a Korean drama, right?” whispered in my heart. “Why am I stuck in a position like this?” mumbling again.

“Ricka-ya. You better take a break. Okay?” Ji-Sung's sister returns to tidying up her books. I nodded and saw him move out of his place. I saw him come out of my room. I immediately threw my body on the bed.

“Ah... This is madness,” my murmur looks at the ceiling of my room.

I closed my eyes and imagined the events that would happen if Yoon-Jin did not show up at the right time, surely Brother Ji-Sung would really kiss me.

But suddenly then a blurry shadow came again.

“Ah... who is sheaaaa??” I shouted stifled while ruffling my hair. I adjusted my already irregular breathing from earlier.

“But... why did Yoon-Jin suddenly get in my bathroom? The bathroom door is broken? It seems not, because the last time I entered the key and the door handle was functioning normally. After all, I really didn't hear her screams in the bathroom. Is it possible that she saw me and Ji-Sung…? Aahh... But anyway Yoon-Jin saved me this time,” I told myself.

My mind was glaring, wondering what had happened to me lately. I remembered the words of Brother Ji-Sung that I just heard a few minutes ago. “Saranghae...” a word I often hear in Korean romantic dramas. A simple word but it has such an incredible meaning.

Brother Ji-Sung expresses her feelings to me. Aah... does he really love me? And why this feeling? Why don't I like it? Yes.. I like it. I have to be happy. For 22 years of my life, I've never loved more than this. Andra, I just got to the point of her secret admirer. I was never close to even talking a word to her. But now, the feeling that had been so long before me instantly disappeared as soon as I set foot in this Gingseng Country.

Am I then free from that curse? Or later when I go back to Jakarta curse it I'll get back? Aah. I'm tired of this feeling game. Who is the blurry-faced man who often stops by in my dreams is always a big question mark. Every time I close my eyes, I'm afraid to dream again.

I was afraid of meeting that blurry man, I was afraid that my love for Brother Ji-Sung was diminished by it. Either the ending I will be happy with Brother Ji-Sung or not. I'm going to get rid of that feeling. I have to be happy from now on. Aah.This feeling really torments me. I have feelings, but I am confused to interpret them. Am I a weak Ricka who can't control his own feelings? Oh. so pathetic.