Chapter thirteen: An Unforgettable Morning

“Hey, are you awake yet?” a voice asked beside me.

“What…?” I yawned with my eyes still closed.

“Are you awake,” the voice whispered again.

“Mm…” I opened my eyes slowly and Jung Ho's face was in front of my face. “AHH!” I yelled and rolled out of my bed.

“Morning sweetheart.”

“What the hell?!” I yelled. “What are you doing here!” I quickly stood up and wrapped myself with my blanket. I was only wearing a pair of shorts and a long sleeve.

“I wanted to see you this morning and take you to school,” he smiled.

“No! I’m fine. I can drive there. Please, I can get there myself…”

“But, maybe you’re tired of driving and I just thought---”

“No! It’s fine. Jung Ho. Please. It’s 3 in the morning. I have four more hours to sleep and school doesn’t even start until 8. Leave me alone,” I yawned and crawled back into bed.

“Fine…” he sighed.

“Yes, thank you. I’ll see you there.” I turned twisted around in my bed and faced the opposite direction where Jung Ho was standing.

“I guess I’ll just… stay here with you!” he said gleefully and jumped into my bed next to me.

“AHH! Get out! Get out!” I yelled. I grabbed my blanket and pushed him off my bed.

“Yah! Why did you push your own boyfriend off your bed?”

“Ugh! You’re not really my boyfriend. This is temporary until I can stop getting you to blackmail me,” I sighed.

“Yeah, yeah. Whatever, scoot over,” he said.

“No! Get out! Wait… how did you get in here anyway?” I asked.

“Ji Sung gave me a spare key since he didn’t want to wake up so early to open the door for me.”

“What?! Ji Sung Oppa?! Ugh! He’s gonna die!” I almost yelled and jumped out of bed. “That stupid a**hole… I’m going to kick his a** as soon as I wake him up.” I started walking quickly towards the door and Jung Ho stood in my way. “Get out of my way.”

“No. Don’t get mad at him. He’s one of my best friend. Get mad at me for all I care. At least you’ll be thinking about me,” he smiled.

“No!”

“Stop yelling. Your parents are gonna wake up and see you and me in the same room together…” he began.

“I’ll just tell them the truth.”

“They won’t believe you. You’re the innocent one of the family and won’t let anyone in your room at all. They’re not surprised if Ji Hye and Ji Sung have friends in their rooms this late at night, but you’re different,” he grinned. He was so right, d*mn it.

“Shut up… Will you just please leave? I need those extra two hours of sleep," I whined.

“Fine… fine. Can I stay in bed with you?” he asked.

“No!” I yelled.

“Can I stay until you fall asleep?”

“No!”

“Please?” he asked again with his puppy dog face.

“No!”

“Ji Eun! Is that you yelling this early?!” Umma’s voice yelled from upstairs.

“No, it’s Ji Hye! Sorry Umma! I’ll keep it down.”

“Go to sleep Ji Hye!”

“Yes Umma!” I yelled back. “She’s half asleep now and won’t remember any of this in a few hours.”

“So, let me just stay and you can sleep. I’m not gonna do anything to you while you’re sleeping if that’s what you’re thinking.”

“No… Still, you’re a weird guy on the inside… Just leave. I don’t want to have this argument right now. I’m tired!” I groaned.

“Oh, our first argument. Good,” he smiled with that perverted look in his eyes.

“Ergh… I don’t know exactly what you’re thinking right now, but I really don’t wanna know. Just go…” I sighed.

“Come on, can I please stay?” he whined.

“Oh, you whine too much! Go sleep with Ji Hye or Ji Sung or something.”

“Ji Hye… are you kidding? She’ll try to seduce me. And if I sleep in Ji Sung’s room, that’ll just be plain gay,” he said bluntly.

“Yeah, true. Oh well. Get out of my room…!”

“I’ll sleep on the floor," he offered.

“No! Get out!” I stood up and went up to him and dragged him out of my room. He stood in the hallway and I slammed the door on him. “Good night Jung Ho,” I said from the other side of the door. I crawled back into bed and switched off my light. I closed my eyes and went to sleep again…

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“Ji Eun, Ji Eun,” a voice said as they shook me awake.

“Ehh, okay school, I know, I know Appa. Please, just another minute, I was rudely interrupted last night…” I yawned with my eyes still closed and put the covers back on me.

“Get up. It’s almost eight o’clock!” the voice yelled.

“What?!” I said and jumped up. Jung Ho was standing in front of me again. “AHH! You again! What do you want?” I yelled.

“I heard you start mumbling something in your sleep last night and you started yelling. So you forgot to lock your door and I thought I might as well come in and see what was wrong. You were just yelling. So I slipped into your bed next to you to help you calm down… and I kind of fell asleep too,” he grinned.

“Whaaaa? AHH! You… and me… in the same… bed?! Ergh… Why me? Oh why me?! Of all people, how did he have to get stuck with me?!” I said with my hands up and my head staring at the ceiling.

“Stop being a drama queen. You know you liked it. You stopped screaming as soon as I put my arms around you.”

My eyes widened. “Your arms were around me?! Ahh!” I cried. I slammed a pillow in my face and fell facing forward onto my bed.

“It’s not that bad.”

“Don’t you understand? I don’t like you one bit! I don’t. I just don’t. You’re not even near my type. I don’t even have a type. I hate love. Love is for losers who can’t find a better thing to do in life than to admire one person. Ugh… I have my school work that I admire greatly. The only people that’ll be in my hear are the members of TVXQ, Fly to the Sky, and Kim Jung Hoon. They can come love me any day. Besides that, then I have no other love besides my parents,” I stated.

“What about Ji Sung and Ji Hye?” he asked.

“They’re just related to me. I have to love them by default. I don’t like them as much as I don’t like you, which is a lot. Trust me.”

“If you didn’t like me so much… why didn’t you tell me?” he questioned.

“I did!” I retorted.

“Yeah, I know you did. I just like teasing you,” he smiled.

“Okay, you’re wasting my morning routine time. I need to go brush my teeth still and wash my face and change… You’re such a bothersome guy, you know that? I don’t like you. Please just give up on this whole trying to get me to like you thing, please?” I asked.

“No. I know inside, you really do like me. You just haven’t realized it.”

“No, I don’t like you as a friend, I don’t like you as a boyfriend, I don’t like you as a person, period. Now get out of my room so I can change!” I yelled and pushed him out. I slammed the door and locked it shut this time. ERGH!!!! I looked over at the clock and it was 7:39 already. School started in 20 minutes and I wasn’t even near ready. I ran into my bathroom and brushed my teeth and washed my face in the fastest I’ve ever done. I slipped on my long knee high socks and my skirt and on top, my button up school uniform blouse. I grabbed my bag and books and ran downstairs. Everyone except my parents (they went to work early at around 6 and came home around 4) were eating calmly.

“You didn’t tell me Jung Ho was coming over,” Ji Sung mentioned.

“Yeah… he did with the spare key that you gave him! And what are you all doing just sitting there. We have 10 minutes to get to school!” I yelled as I hopped around the kitchen trying to grab something to eat.

“What are you talking about. We still have half an hour…” Ji Hye explained.

“What?” I asked. I pulled out my cell phone and it read 7:29... “AHH! What is wrong with all my clocks!”

“I don’t know sweetie, just sit down,” Jung Ho suggested and pulled out a chair next to him.

“Jung Ho, how come you didn’t sleep in my room last night?” Ji Hye asked.

“Because you’re not my girlfriend. I don’t like you,” he answered.

“Hmph,” she pouted.

“Anyway, I decided to go have some fun with my baby,” he winked at me.

“I was considering sitting next to you up until now,” I said.

“You guys did what?!” Ji Hye interrupted.

“Nothing Ji Hye. Shut up," I answered her.

“Just because I’m stupid doesn’t mean you have authority over me. I’m 2 minutes older than you!”

“How do you know? Umma never told you that. She said she doesn’t know who was older because she named us after we came out and by then she couldn’t tell. Funny, since we didn‘t even end up as identical twins,” I sighed.

“Hmph, whatever,” she pouted again and began eating her food.

“I’m going to school now,” I said as I took a piece of toast and stuffed it in my mouth. “I have enough of you guys here and school, I need some alone time to myself.”

“Want me to come with you?” Jung Ho asked as he stood up.

“No, Jung Ho. Stay with them. Just let me have my normal morning. I’ll see you at school,” I mumbled and left them at the table eating. Why me…? Why was I stuck with this guy? Why the hell did I say yes to his request in the first place…?!