Chapter 2: I Don't Know
What was I supposed to do? I was behind Leon and soon, we were under a Sakura Tree. It was beautiful, I never seen a Sakura Tree in Taiwan before. Before I knew it, I was touching the tree and staring at the pink petals that fell off the tree onto the green grass. "It's so beautiful!" I commented, very cheerfully. Leon just nodded, I smiled at him, and he just stared a little bit before turning away.
I sighed, "This is the Sakura Tree garden, in the park. There is more, rather far from here." He had told me, I nodded a little. Leon was so cute, so cute that he was so quiet and emotionless with me. Though, I was sad he wouldn't let out his inner feelings out to me. "Let's go."
"Right!" I nodded and ran after him as he walked away from the Sakura Tree. I accidentally ran past him, having him pull my brown hair rather tightly and pull it back. "Ouch! That hurt, Leon!" I whined at him, Leon just huffed and continued walking ahead of me. I felt the little pool of tears come out the corner of my eyes, it was so frustrating too. I may not know Leon very well, but who cares, he seems so stubborn and unhappy on the outside to me.
"Don't go ahead of me." Leon had simply said as he made me walk behind him. I just cleared my eyes and looked down the hills to see Mei Mei and Im Yong Soo still down there. They were laughing. "Alice, are you watching where you're going?" Leon's voice rang, and I didn't notice but I almost tripped over a rock.
Before I fell forwards, I felt my face find something soft. I blushed to find arms around my waists, "I'm so sorry, Leon!" I exclaimed as I pulled away from him.
"Right, just be careful, I suppose." He nodded, letting go of me. I felt something come from him, a glower… Was he unhappy? I wonder if I did anything. I watched where I was doing as I felt him glancing at me whenever I stepped on the ground with no cautious aura. "What do you think of Mei Mei…?" Leon had suddenly asked me, I said nothing. What did I think of Mei Mei? She irritated me somehow, and she looks like she tries to be so cute and elegant.
"I like her, as a friend of course." The hints of lying was dripping down my voice, I bet he could tell I was lying on this. I didn't feel good, I lied to someone I really like right now. "But… What do you see in her?" I had to questioned, I covered my mouth. I sounded jealous, didn't I?
"She's beautiful." He just commented, I already noticed something. "She looks like you, a lot. But only a few minor changes of it." He noted to me, I blinked. How did I look like her? Leon had stopped and turned, how many times if he going to stop? His light fingers had touched my long brown hair, holding it up to his soft lips [What I think though.] and kissed it softly.
I blushed.
"What was…?" I couldn't finish my sentence as he shifted the piece of my hair behind my hair. I felt pampered to him; I could tell my cheeks were burning with passion and embarrassment. "Why did you do that…?" I couldn't stop myself from twitching out a smile into the open.
"Just comparing your beauty to Mei Mei's… You're close to her, but not all." Leon had said, my smile had faltered now. I feel unappreciated as I started to walk off ahead of him, even if he said not to go ahead. I am not listening to him now; I don't want to talk to him anyway.
I don't know why you would compare me to her.
I don't know why you like her just because she's beautiful.
I don't know why you think I look like her.
It pissed me off; those questions had floated in my mind. Screw him protecting me; he doesn't need to protect me anyway! "Oh, hey Alice! Where's Leon?" Mei Mei had waved when I had come over to them.
"Back over there." I just lamely replied, not looking where.
"Let me guess, he pissed you off, and you left him." Im Yong Soo guessed no dip.
"No, really?" I sarcastically had said.
"What he do?" Mei Mei looked confused, of course, she would be confused. He kind of compared me to you, bitch! I hate you, now. Ugh, why am I fretting on this still? I should be over by 15 minutes.
"Compared me to you." I told her.
She made an 'O' face. "She hates being compared to girls, explains why you are so stubborn and angry at me a lot!" Im Yong Soo laughed; I punched him, square in the face. He rubbed his face as her backed off next to Mei Mei. Mei Mei had just chuckled a little bit before holding an ice pack to Im Yong Soo's face, "I'm sorry, don't be so mad at me, da ze…" he had apologized.
"Whatever." I rolled my eyes.
"Are you jealous of me, Alice?" Mei Mei had curiously inquired at me, catching me off guard. For a moment, I was frozen. Then, the next, I was going to hurt her. My fist was caught, and I looked behind to see Leon, and Yao Wang behind. "Leon! Brother!" Mei Mei had smiled widely as she hugged her brother, Leon's hand tightened around my wrist.
I broke away from Leon's grip, which was somehow hard, and he scratched my wrist too. "NEVER. Hurt Mei Mei." Leon had glared; I frowned and hissed at him. His hand had flown to my neck, and I fell to the floor. "Do not do that either." He rolled his eyes,
"Stop being mean to Alice, da ze!" Im Yong Soo whined.
"You, shut up." Leon had warned him.
Everyone was quiet, "What happened, aru?" Yao Wang had finally asked after a whole minute of awkward silence between all of them. No one knew what was happening, just minutes ago, I was happy to be with Leon. But, few minutes later, I'm now angered.
"I hate being compared." I just told Yao.
"Oh, aru…" he nodded.
"It was a good thing, Alice." Leon had frowned, he sighed. Son of a lucky… Before I knew it, I felt Mei Mei's eyes on me. Her eyes were blazing with jealousy for some reason, "Don't be so… stubborn about it." His hand patted my head, he is pretty strong.
"But I hate being compared, thank you very much!" I hissed a bit at him, he gave me a look. Leon keeps acting like he's my father right now. Mei Mei had finally stopped hugging her brother and grabbed Leon by the arm; I watched them with a look. It was like a look or jealousy, Leon didn't do anything. Quickly, Mei Mei had stuck her tongue out at me. I don't know anymore, sigh, and hate her more.
Im Yong Soo could feel my aura around myself; Yao Wang had sweat dropped when he saw my face. Then, I forgot I was hungry the whole time.
"Oh…." I groaned as I felt my stomach.
"Let's eat, da ze~" Im Yong Soo declared as he dragged me down to the picnic blanket. I sat down next to him as Yao had sat in the middle of us. The rest was Mei Mei and Leon in front of us. Right now, I was nibbling on a cookie; Leon's eyes were on me.
Then my phone was ringing.
"Hello?" I picked it up to my ear, "Who is this…?" I frowned as I heard a little of mumbling. Somehow, I knew something bad was up. I listened closely for the voice to clearly speak to me; it was a few minutes until I heard some coughing on the phone.
"Hello is this Alice Yua?" the male voice asked.
"Yes… Who is this?" I asked.
"Your mother's doctor and surgery therapist." He said, oh yes, Mr. Ludwig. He coughed more loudly, I wonder what was wrong. "I have a report…"
"Your mother did not survive the surgery."
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