Lovebug Again

Flashback 6 years ago Chaeyoung' POV

"Class silence please!"

I've heard the teacher yelled making the students to look at his direction and do as what he says. I gulped behind the door, I knew what would happen next and its making me nervous.

"Class as you heard we have a new transferee, and she's from Australia... You may now come in Ms. Park!"

I heard my teacher called my name in English with a Korean accent making the students to look at him curiously and start whispering with each other. Gaddd this is why I hate the idea of transferring in my last year of high school, if only my parents trust me enough to let me lived on my own in Australia, then I wouldn't have to bear this awkward situation. The teacher tried to hushed the students murmuring and successfully do so. Wow! If this was on my old school, It would probably take more than one shout from the teacher to make my classmates shut up. I guess my new classmates were respectful enough huh...

"Ehem!... As you can see, Ms. Park here was raised in Australia since she was young, that's why she's having a hard time in speaking our language, but don't worry she could understand Korean language very well, just try to speak to her slowly, okay?"

Nobody respond from my new classmates, they just looked at our teacher and then me as if I am an alien. Sensing that no one from my classmates would asked him a question, the teacher directed his sight to me as if he's waiting for something that I should do. I raised a brow at him indicating that I have no idea what he was trying to make me do.

"Ms. Park, introduce yourself please"

Oh?... My gosh! This is so embarrassing. I blushed by my stupidity, luckily my teacher is kind enough to understand my situation. I took a deep breath and tried to look straight at my new classmates. Relax Roseanne try to be cute and sweet in front of your classmates. Remember that first impression is important, what could go wrong?

"Hello! My name is Roseanne Park!, my Korean name is Chaeyoung. You can call me Rose or Chaeng whichever is okay with me. I hope we'll get along very well, Im looking forward to this school year Im gonna spend with all of you. Please take good care of me"

Silence... Their reaction were pure silence, everyone was just looking at me as if Im speaking a complete alien language. Some of my classmates are even holding their nose which got me worried; are they having a nosebleed? Should they go to the infirmary or something?

"Very well said Ms. Park. Now where should I place you"

The teacher looked around the classroom and his vision land on the seat at the back near the window. Cliché, that's where most of the loner was usually sitted- no!, You've outcasted me immediately teacher.

"You may seat at the back beside Ms. Kim... Please raised your hand Ms. Kim!"

"Hereeee!"

A beautiful girl raised her hand while my other classmates released a deep sigh of relief? Is that relief Im seeing on their faces? Anyway I walked my way to the girl who's staring at me with spark in her eyes unlike my other classmates she's looking at me with so much intrigued that it made me blushed even more.

"Hi~"

The girl suddenly greet me, her smile almost reached her ears that I just stared at her not knowing how to respond. Goshhhh she's more beautiful up close.

"Ms. Kim, Im living you in charge of Ms. Park when you have time please do teach her our language"

"Roger that Sir!"

"Okay, good. Anyways, class I have to leave for our faculty meeting. Please study your lessons for today and we'll have a recitation tomorrow"

My classmates celebrate and groan at the same time. When the teacher left, the beautiful girl looked at me again as if she's waiting for something. Ugh?... Why are they always expecting something from me?

"Hello thereee~ new neighbor!"

Crap! I forgot she greeted me just a few minutes ago. Seriously what is happening to me? I swear Im not this dumb before!

"H-Hi..."

I greeted back shyly. The beautiful girl just chuckled at my embarrassing action. Okay this is definitely awkward! Im being made fun of at the very beginning of school year. Sensing my discomfort the girl stopped on her fits of laughter and looked at me apologetically.

"Crap I think I offended her! How to apologise in English again? Oh! I know...Im sorry, me? Not mean it"

The girl cutely pointed at herself wanting to get her words across to me. This time Im the one who chuckled at her actions, she looks adorable, even the sound of her broken English accent was cute for me.

"It's okay, don't worry; I won't hold grudges on you"

"Wow!... My nose is bleedingggg~"

She hold her nose as well just like what our other classmates did. Don't tell me, English can really make peoples' nose to bleed in this country. Oh gadddd, I should start learning their language faster. I don't want to be the cause of massive blood lost in this classroom. I heard Jisoo laughing once again and it made me looked at her in question.

"You look pale~ don't worry, 'me' I'll take care of you"

I smiled at her kindness. I knew everyone is avoiding me because of our language barrier but this beautiful girl was the only one who's brave enough to talked to me even though she's having a hard time in searching her brain for English vocabulary. I should do my best for her and learne this language immediately.

"I knoww~ How about you teach English me and I teach Korean you?!"

She asked in full excitement. Goodness, can she stop herself on being adorable? I don't think my heart can take it.

"Sounds like a good deal for me. Oh! Im Rosea- no, Im Park Chaeyoung by the way, but you can call me Chaeng for short"

I hold my hand to her and she took it for a shake.

"Im Jisoo, Im okay"

We burst out in laughter because of her introduction. I never heard anyone introduced themselves as funny as she did. I knew she did that on purpose, and now finally our classmates are paying me attention, or is it to her? Not minding them, Jisoo and I continue our fits of laughter and started to know each other.

"Chaeyo- Chae...wake up-"

I slowly open my eyes when I felt a hand on my back tapping me continuously. I looked at the culprit and growl at her not happy being awakened from my sleep.

"Im sorry sleeping beauty, but our professor left already"

I suddenly got up from my seat and looked around me. Ohhh sh*t Im still in class and our lesson was over already. Did I sleep in the whole session? Why on earth that nobody woke me up, not even our professor! I hope this won't affect my grades!

"Hey it's okay, Prof. Lee isn't mad at you"

The culprit put her hand on my shoulder seeing that I am currently in panic and repeat the words she had said to calm me successfully. I look at my side and saw my friend Yeri smiling at me apologetically.

"Yeri?..."

I rub my eyes to wash away my sleepiness. I feel so tired, I think I might pass out if I don't get myself together.

"Chaeyoung, what's wrong? It's not like you to sleep on class. You're lucky you've got a perfect score in our quiz, not to mention you're our Prof.'s most favorite student"

Yeri teased me but I can still hear some concern laced in her voice. I looked at her with a timid smile and then nod my head in answer.

"Are you sure you're okay, you look paler than usual. I think you should take some rest Chaeyoung, don't worry I'll inform the manager that you won't be able to help in the restaurant tonight"

"Don't worry about me Yeri Im fine— besides if we don't hurry now we might get late to our part time job. Now you don't want the manager to get mad and fired us, right?"

Yeri stiffened on her place when I uttered those words. I knew that as much as I needed this job, so was she. Her parents cannot afford to shoulder her expenses in law school and preferred for her to take vocational course only; I on the other hand even with educational fund left by parents is not enough to support my daily needs. You could say that Yeri is my work buddy both of us are workaholic. The only difference between us is that she's doing this because her dream is to become an actual lawyer, while I, Im doing this to follow my parents foot steps and make them proud up there in heaven—but that doesn't mean that I am not good on what I am doing, in fact I am the best in my batch while Yeri is the second.

"Hello earth to Chaeyoung, you still there?" Yeri wave her hand in front of me

"Yes, Yeri I am... Geez will you stop doing that, you sounded like Lisa"

"Im not! Im just worried about you"

"And there's nothing to worry about"

I took a deep breath and tried to compose myself to show her that Im okay even though it felt like Im not. The truth is I don't really feel well, I might have a slight fever but I really needed this part time job. Avoiding further questions from her, I immediately put my things in my bag and gave her a signal that we should leave already.

"Come on Yeri let's hurry up, if we arrived late our salary will be deducted"

"Okay okay... Geez you really are a workaholic Chaeyoung. One thing just promise me that you won't push yourself and you'll stop if you don't feel well"

"I feel alrigh—"

I tried to deny her statement but Yeri beat me to it

"I can see through you Chaeyoung, I mean look how tired you looked. Im worried about you please just do what I say"

There's no way I can deny her request if she's looking at me with so much concern and sincerity so I just nod my head in answer.

"Okay I will; Thanks for the concern Yeri"

"It's okay Im you're second best friend after all" I raised a brow at her "Lisa is the first, I've already accepted that"

I laughed at her statement, Im glad to have friends like Lisa and Yeri who care about me. The least I can do for them is to take care of myself...

That's right I need to take care of myself more

"Park, Kim! Here's your uniform, we're short on staff the two of you will be serving outside tonight"

The chef throw the uniform at us which I caught clumsily. On my peripheral vision I saw Yeri scoffing at our head chef.

"But chef its not our job! Our post is here in the kitchen, not to serve those high class people! What kind of 5 star restaurant is this?"

Yeri raised her voice a little, geez this friend of mine is really living on her dream. She's not a lawyer yet but she's fighting already on what she thinks is right. The chef directed his sight on Yeri and sigh to calm himself down and avoid lashing out on her—he knows it would be a loosing battle anyway because my friend here is good in argument.

"I know that Kim, I wouldn't send two inexperience students out there if I have a choice. Look we're really short on staff tonight and that manager of our is really useless"

"It okay for me, but chef, Chaeyoung doesn't fee—"

The two of them continue their discussion. I really can't understand what they were talking about. I actually feel dizzy and I wanted to throw up. My head and my body aches, I also feel so tired it made me want to pass out on the spot. Im sure that I really do have a fever now. The only reason I was able to bear my head and body pain is because of my will.

"Look Kim if you're worried about Park then all she have to do is to get the order while you serve"

Yeri still doesn't look pleased with the chef's bargain.

"I'll asked the manager to raised your wage tonight"

He looked at me with his pleading eyes that it made me feel a little bit guilt. Despite our status as a part-timer and as a students our chef treated Yeri and I fairly like any other employees.

"Okay chef"

He breathe out in relief and thank me with his eyes; on the contrary Yeri is looking at me with concern.

"But Chaeyoung!"

I looked at Yeri and nod my head at her as a signal that she doesn't need to worry and that I can do it. I put my uniform immediately and proceed to my task, the sooner I do this the faster it would end. My first destination is the VIP room occupied by two famous celebrities. I don't know who they were but I guess they really do have a tight connection in this 5 star restaurant considering they managed to occupy the VIP room even without reservation.

When I was in front of the said VIP room, I took a deep breath and compose myself trying to ignore the pounding pain in my head. Ugh... I feel like Im gonna throw because of too much headache, come on Chaeng you can do it! I knock on the door three times to make my presence known; after a few seconds I heard a muffled 'come in' by a feminine voice. Huh so the celebrity is a woman? If this is any other day I bet it would be thrilling for me to meet a female celebrity but that isn't the case for me today, not when I am having a hard time to balance my weight so I wouldn't fall because of too much dizziness. I open the door and tried to walk to them as steady as possible. When I managed to get on the side of their table, I saw that the two guests are still engrossed on the menu that is covering their faces.

"Good evening ladies. Would you like to take your orders now?"

One of them put down the menu upon hearing my voice, but what greeted me shock me to the bone, seeing a ghost cannot be compared to what Im seeing. A goddess would be a good comparison to this person smiling at me with eyes that can make anyone fall for her including my bestfriend Lisa; you probably guess who it was already. That's right, it's Jennie Kim in her glory . Then if she's here that means the person in front of her is...

"Jisoo?"

I muttered her name so weak that it is only audible to me. I don't know if my eyes are betraying me or if it is because of my fever, but I swear I could see that Jisoo Kim is looking at me intently with the same surprised on her face.

Does it mean that she still remember me?

"Ah yes, we'll take our orders now"

Our staring contest was disrupted by no other than Jennie Kim herself who seems oblivious to Jisoo and I. I direct my attention to her once again and put on a smile while ignoring the scowling Jisoo on my peripheral vision.

"Of course ma'am"

"Great! then I'll have..."

Maybe it's because of my sudden encounter with Jisoo but I think my fever has worsen. I can hardly understand Jennie Kim's order— my vision is swirling and my head kept on pounding making it hard for me to stay in focus on what I am writing down, so I just jot down the words I could hear from her hoping that chef will somehow understand my writing.

This is bad my fever has worsen, and my vision kept on spinning. I think Im gonna pass out for real this time. I closed my eyes tightly for a second and bit the inside of my cheeks to fight the dizziness that was starting to consume me.

"Okay that's all. How about you love?"

Jisoo was still looking at me when her girlfriend called for her. Her eyes never leave my figure that it took twice for Jennie Kim to call her just to get her attention.

"Love?"

"Oh?... I'll have the same"

"Are you sure?"

"Y-yeah"

She didn't looked like she's sure, and I think Jennie Kim notice it as well because she's looking at Jisoo with confusion.

"How about desert ma'am?"

"We'll have it later"

Jennie Kim handed the menu back to me with a gratitude. I turned my attention to Jisoo and she handed the menu as well but didn't let go. Ugh!... I almost forgot how hard headed she is. I tried to pull away the menu but her hold on it was so firm we might end up tearing it apart.

Jisoo what the hell are you doing let go of this already!

Seeing my irritation Jisoo finally let go of the menu. Now it's not like she has given up or anything, in fact I can see that she has another plan. Jisoo is about to open her mouth, and I swear, I could read her lips she's about to call my name in front of her girlfriend. I panic on what she's about to do, so I beat her to it before she could say a single word.

"Thank you ladies! Please wait a moment for your orders!"

I said in my Australian English accent that it made Jennie Kim raised a brow at me in amusement. I can't help it, when I'm stressed, I always speak in my natural laguage! Not wanting to embarrass myself further more, I left the room immediately ignoring that I almost trip on my way because of dizziness. When I got out of the VIP room I checked myself once again and indeed I have a high fever, the beating of my heart was beyond normal as well although I think it doesn't have anything to do with my sickness— everything has to do with that Kim Jisoo. I put both of my hands on my face when I realized something after tonight's events.

"Sigh... I guess there's no way of saving myself from you Jisooyah"