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Chapter 19

"Dreaming of my brother?"

Eunmi looked at the person who spoke. "Oh, Taeyong-oppa..." She smiled.

Taeyong sat beside her, "You know, you and my brother are really alike..." He said, looking away.

"What do you mean, oppa?" She asked.

"He also loves to stay here at the garden." Taeyong smiled. "He got detention once, because a teacher caught him sleeping here." He laughed at the memory. "It didn't stop him from staying here, though."

Eunmi sighed and looked down.

"Mark is my only brother, that's why he's very dear to me. When mom died last month, believe it or not, he cried so hard. That was the first time that I saw him cry like that. I mean, don't get mad, he also cried when Jiyeon died, but not as much as he cried when mom died..." Taeyong said, chuckling at those memories.

"Our dad is in Europe, working. Our mom... well, you know where she is." Taeyong chuckled bitterly. "Mark... to be honest with you, he's like my son... even if I'm only four years older than him..."

Eunmi was just listening intently to what Taeyong was saying. She feels that she would miss everything if she would miss a single detail.

"There's a thing that only I know... well, you'll know it too." He said, pulling his wallet out.

Her eyes widened and she suddenly burst out laughing. "Oh my gosh, HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Taeyong handed her the picture that was in his wallet. "This is him?! Oh my gosh, he's so cute back then!" She giggled.

"I've been keeping that for a while now.. I found it at a book in our library." Taeyong shrugged. "You can have it."

"Jinjja? This would give him a good scare though." She laughed. "Thank you, Taeyong-oppa."

"No problem."

She removed her phone from her phone case and placed the picture inside since her wallet was in her bag, at the classroom. She placed her phone and it lit up. Taeyong's eyes widened when he saw her wallpaper.

She immediately covered it due to embarrassment and he laughed.

"Where is that?" He asked. "Where did you two toom that photo?" He laughed.

"I secretly took it without him knowing." She looked down, blushing. "We were rehearsing..."

She opened her phone and let Taeyong see some of her stolen shots. Her eyes widened when she saw an unfamiliar photo that she couldn't recall she took.

The two of them were at Namsan, hugging each other, while he was kissing her forehead.

Well of course, she wouldn't remember that photo, it was Mark Lee who took it.

"You look good together." Taeyong said when he saw the photo.

She smiled, "Thank you, oppa."

"A thing you need to know about him is that he likes composing songs... like... he really loves doing it." He said. "That dat when you and Jaehyun moved in to the house next to ours and he shouted at you? He was composing one back then."

She nodded, "Oh that's why..."

"But for music. He'a the music club president and yet he's failing music." Taeyong sighed.

She laughed, "For real?"

Taeyong nodded.

"Why are you telling me all of these things all of a sudden, oppa?" She asked.

Taeyong sighed, "I just want to thank you for waiting for my brother patiently. Thank you for loving him, and thank you for saving him." He smiled at her.

"Who wouldn't love him?" She smiled.

He looked at Eunmi and smiled, "You'll be back, right? You promised..."

She nodded, "I will, I'm sorry."

***

"Noona, do you want ice cream?" Chenle asked her.

"Sure, thanks Lele!" Eunmi smiled.

Yeri scoffed, "How come you asked her but didn't ask us?"

Chenle rolled her eyes, "Such a drama queen. As if I'm not the one who'll be paying for what you'll eat here."

Eunmi looked at the scene in front of her, thinking if this would still happen if she was gone.

"Why is everyone here? Don't you guys have classes to attend?" She asked out of the blue. They were inside an ice cream parlor which is inside the university.

Yuta shrugged, "We want to make the most of it. You're leaving soon."

Irene nodded, "We'll be spending our time with you!"

She smiled, "Thank you..."

She opened her phone to look at the picture that Mark took. She zoomed it to his face and smiled, thanking the heavens that they met.

"It's a pity that Mark isn't here." Winwin said.

"Should we call him?" Taeyong asked.

They all looked at Eunmi who was looking outside.

Jaehyun sighed, "Eunmi-yah, should we call Mark?"

She nodded, "I'll call him."

She dialed his number and it rang a lot of times before he answered it.

"Baby? Why did you call me? Is everything alright?" She blushed when she heard Mark call her 'baby'

"Yeah, everything's fine..." She became silent for a while and looked around, noticing that everyone was looking at her. "Hey, do you have minutes to spare?"

Mark, on the other hand, looked at his wrist watch then gave his planner a quick glance. "Yeah, why?"

"Could you... could you... go here at the ice cream parlor? You're the only one missing here..." Eunmi said.

He raised a brow, "Jinjja? Hyungs and noonas have their classes though?" He stood up from his swivel chair and locked his mini-office.

"Yeah, but they're all here..." She said.

He laughed, "Alright, alright... be there in a few."

"Okay."

He smiled, even if Eunmi couldn't see it, "Okay..."

"And Mark?"

"Hm?"

"I love you."

"I love you too."

Was it just him or she sounded sad when she told him those three words. He shrugged the thought off and ran towards the ice cream parlor.

He opened the door and saw his friends laughing at one table. He smiled when he saw that everything was alright.

He approached them and sat beside Eunmi. He kissed her cheek and hugged her from the side. "Hi~"

"Yah, can you not?" Eunmi said, laughing.

Mark just laughed.

Little did he know hat before he arrived, she cried her heart out. Fortunately, her eyes weren't swollen enough for him to see.

"Why are you guys here? You should be in your respective classes." Mark said.

Joy shrugged, "We just felt like cutting classes."

"Yeah, and besides, Chenle is here with us." Wendy laughed.

Chenle could only roll his eyes.

—tbc.