Chapter 1~ Leaving
A/N: hey people guess what I'm actually having trouble on how to start the story. Well this is my first BOF fic, so go easy on me. This fic takes place after Yi Jeong has left to Sweden for 2 years.
Disclaimer: *sigh* It pains me to say this but *a louder sigh* BOF *chokes back tears* does not belong to me!!! *wails loudly* P.S~ If it did I definitely would have added more SoEul and also Woo Bin parts.
21 year old, Chu Ga Eul sat by her window side waiting for her best friend to come. It has been nearly two years since Yi Jeong have left for Sweden and she have been hanging on onto his promise. The promise, that they will be a couple, when he returns. Not exactly a couple but well, closer than before.
"BOO!" came a sound behind Ga Eul. Shocked Ga Eul dropped the bracelet she had been fingering. Turning around she saw a grinning girl.
"Yah! Jan Di ah! You shouldn't scare people like that. What if I had a heart attack??" she joked.
Jan Di didn't reply, instead she pulled the girl into a hug. Ga Eul smiled and patted the back of her best friend.
"Yah! Where have you been? I've been waiting for you for nearly half and hour," said Ga Eul to Jan Di
"Sorry, my spoiled brat of a boyfriend suddenly called. He's still fuming because I ended the call early."
Ga Eul grinned," Fine I forgive you this time."
Bending down she picked up her bracelet that she had dropped and hooked it around her wrist. For some reason she have gotten attached bracelet. That bracelet was the bracelet she had gotten from New Caledonia. Maybe it was the significant reason that the bracelet held.
"Are you sure you will be okay ?" asked Jan Di
Ga Eul smiled, "Yah, Jan Di ah, Have more faith in me,"
"I know but you're going to Sweden. That's halfway across the earth."
'Sweden,' thought Ga Eul, if someone has told her to go to Sweden for a guy, 5 years ago, she will probably laughed at their face. Its not that she had anything against Sweden, its just that, she will never go to that far for a guy. But then again a lot has changed since 5 years ago. Meeting F4, Yi Jeong and everything. Yi Jeong, the name that had caused many of her pillows to be tear-soaked, many late nights and how could she forget the time when she had barely slept just to find the 'place' that Eun Jae was originally going to professed her love to Yi Jeong. Just remembering that scene still touched her heart. It was the first time she seen the real Yi Jeong beneath his cold exterior of a Casanova. After that day, she had thought that everything between them will be okay. True enough everything between them had became okay until he told her the news.
Flashback
'I'm leaving to Sweden," Yi Jeong had simply stated.
'WHAT!?' was what she had wanted to yell was he leaving? 'Is it because of me' she thought. Instead she chose to be cool and composed and said,"When, ani How long?"
"Soon. Probably 3 or 4 years." He replied, "I'm going there to study pottery."
"Oh. Well then come back as a good potter," she had said in relief glad that he is not leaving because of her, "So what's the good news?"
"The good news is that, when I come back you'll be the first I look for, that is, if Ga Eul yang haven't find your soul mate."
"Sunbae," was all she could manage. She could feel the tension in the atmosphere gradually reducing. Ga Eul had smiled to herself.
Flashback ends
In exactly three and a half hours she will be leaving to Sweden. All her hard work for the past year has better not gone avail. She had made her decision to go to Sweden after he left for a year. Today reminds her of that day when she made that decision.
(Last Autumn)
It was a windy afternoon. As usual Ga Eul was working in the porridge shop. That particular afternoon, there had been no customers. Ga Eul was staring out the window thinking deeply about Yi Jeong when her precocious master had approached her.
"Ga Eul ah," he said, placing a hand on her shoulder,
"YAH! Master! You scared the hell out of me! What do you want?" she remarked angrily jumping up.
"I've been looking at you staring at the window for 15 minutes. Why don't you go after him?" her master replied gently.
"I- I don't know what you're talking about," she stuttered.
"Come on, I know you're thinking about Yi Jeong. I'm no idiot you know," he teased
"N-N-No, I'm not thinking of him," she denied but a tint of pink was already creeping across her face, just then Jan Di rushed in clearly out of breath.
"Sorry ,I'm late. The lecturer took a longer time to finish today. What did I miss?" she said quickly.
Taking opportunity of this, Ga Eul tried to change the topic, "Ah, Jan Di, so what did you learn today?"
Jan Di shot her a quizzical look. Normally Ga Eul wasn't interested in her studies.
"Well, uh we -," she began but was cut off by master.
"Jan Di ah, you didn't miss much we were just talking about Yi Jeong," he said, ignoring the deadly looks Ga Eul was shooting at him.
"Yi Jeong sunbae? Hey that reminds me, isn't it his birthday tomorrow?" Jan Di asked.
" Yes," she mumbled looking at the floor. She had made chocolates although she knows it'll never reach him.
"Araso," chorused Jan Di and the master, grinning at each other.
" Well why don't you go to Sweden and see him?" Jan Di asked.
"That's exactly what I said!" the master exclaimed excitedly. "You should go Ga Eul, like what Jan Di did when Jun Pyo went to Macau."
Ga Eul was surprised that even Jan Di was encouraging her. Jan Di had never really approved of her relationship with the renowned Casanova. Maybe she should go to Sweden…. After all she was starting to miss him.
"Okay," she began, "I'll go to Sweden."
"Ga Eul! FIGHTING!!" said both Jan Di and the master, pumping their fists in the air.
There were two problems though, one was her shortage of money that will never be able to afford a ticket to Sweden and the other was convincing her parents to let her go.
Since then Ga Eul had worked hard and started taking two jobs. The other job was as an assistant teacher teaching pottery to little children. After a year, she had finally saved up enough to buy an economy class ticket and her parents have finally relented.
(Now)
" Ga Eul! What are you thinking about? Your plane leaves in three hours!" said Jan Di.
Snapping out of her thoughts, she grins at Jan Di.
"Yah! Jan Di ah, why are you so eager to see me leave?" she said pretending to be angry.
"ANIYO! I was scared you'll miss your plane!"
"Araso, I was just kidding," With that Ga Eul grins and pulled her suitcase out of the room with Jan Di following her.
"Appa, Omma, I am leaving now. You guys take care of yourself ah. Appa, don't forget to take your pills. I've left that on the kitchen table," Ga Eul said to her parents who were sitting in the living room.
"Araso, we are still capable of taking care of ourselves you know. You just go and have fun and take care of yourself and that beloved sunbae of yours," joked her mum.
"OMMA!!" yelled Ga Eul, her cheeks slowly reddening while Jan Di and her father laughed in the background.
"What!?! Its true!," exclaimed the older woman, " Yah, you should go now. I'm sorry appa and I can't see you off but you know how bad I am with goodbyes so this will have to do,"
With that the older woman enveloped Ga Eul in a bone crushing hug. Soon they feel a larger pair of arms wrapping around them. It belonged to Ga Eul's father. The Chus stayed like this while Jan Di watched at a was Ga Eul who broke the hug saying she'll miss the plane if she doesn't hurry. Wiping a tear from the side of her eye she pull away from her parents.
"We will miss you Ga Eul," her usually quiet father said gruffly, "and if that boy ever hurts you, I'll hunt him down!"
Touched, Ga Eul gave her father another hug, "Don't worry appa. I'll take care of myself. Now I really have to leave now or I'll miss the plane."
"Bye then, sweetheart," her mum said.
"Appa, Omma, Anyongi Geseyo (sp?) (Good Bye)," said Ga Eul, dragging her suitcase and Jan Di out of the door at the same time.
(In the bus)
"Ga Eul ah, You will be okay right?" asked Jan Di, were in a bus on their way to Seoul, Incheon airport. Jan Di had offered to treat Ga Eul to a taxi ride but Ga Eul had refused knowing Jan Di's income.
"Jan Di ah, I am not a little girl anymore. That's why I didn't want to tell Woo Bin sunbae or the other members of F4 that I'm going to Sweden. I want to surprise Yi Jeong on his birthday which is two days from now. Jan Di ah, you won't tell them right? You promised," pleaded Ga Eul making innocent puppy-dog eyes at the same time.
"Ga Eul, you should know I'm a person of my words and I won't say anything unless under desperate circumstances." Jan Di replied, "And those puppy-dog eyes doesn't have any effect on me."
Ga Eul grinned and reached out to hug her best friend, "Jan Di I'll be okay. Trust me," she reassured her.
Just then, Jan Di's phone rang.
"Yobosayo?" she said into the phone.
"YAH! GEUM JAN DI! How dare you end that call?!? Blah,blah,blah"rattled the caller loudly enough for Ga Eul to hear.
Ga Eul grinned to herself, it was obvious that the caller was Gu Jun Pyo.
"YAH! GU JUN PYO!! YOU'VE NO CONTROL OVER ME!! Blah,blah,blah!!" yelled back Jan Di completely oblivious to the fact that everyone on the bus except the driver was looking and listening intently to her conversation with amused expression.
"Uhh, Jan Di ah. I think I'll just go the airport by myself," Ga Eul said to her yelling friend.
"EH?! Ani Ga Eul, YAH! YOU SPOILED BRAT! I'M TALKING TO GA EUL!! Ani, Ga Eul, I promised to take you there," said Jan Di helplessly in between her call, "YAH! WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP!!" she yelled to the receiver.
Smiling, Ga Eul pressed the stop button and the bus halted to a stop.
"Jan Di ah, I can go on by myself from here ah," she said gently, "Goodbye Jan Di ah. I'll get you something from Sweden." With that she pushed the aggrivated girl out the bus door.
When the bus's door closes, Ga Eul managed to see Jan Di mouth a 'sorry' to her. Grinning she waved at her friend.
(Incheon Airport)
"Calling passengers of Boeing 771-211A to Brunei Darussalam, this is the last call. Please proceed to the leaving gate immediately. Thank You"
Ga Eul stood, transfixed by the beauty of the airport. The last time she was here waas two years ago when she send Yi Jeong off. The airport had changed a lot since 2 years ago. She checked the schedule of the departuring planes. There were two flights to Sweden. One was at 11 in the morning and the other was at 2 in the afternoon. Her flight was the former. Making her way to the luggage check-in counter she thought exictedly to herself. 'In exactly 13 and a half hours I'll be in Sweden!'
Okay so, this is Chapter 1. Please Review, constructative critism will be appreciated and for those who do,you get a shout-out at the begining of each chapter!! :D