Gone

3.

"Tell me honestly," I folded my hands around my chest, "Are you stalking me?"

"Stalkers don't need to follow you. They already know where you are going," said Ye Jun.

"So why are you here? Waiting for someone?"

"No, I was hoping that I could see you again, that's why I am here. Your eyes.....I wanted to see them again and capture in my heart."

"My eyes?", I asked while making an eye contact with him. His calm expressions look as if he is trying to say something.

"Yeah, they remind me of someone I used to know," he came closer. "Someone whose life is messed up and has no conscience."

"Who was that person?", I asked and am slowly losing myself in his soul.

"A woman, whose eyes ones held me tight."

"That woman....were you afraid of her?"

"No, the opposite," he came even more closer, "I loved her."

I pushed him back and we both ended up laughing like idiots.

"You are really one of a kind," I sighed and went near him, "What's with you now? And first tell me how you knew I would come here?"

"This place is really nice and separate from the noises so I thought a girl like you would come here."

"You are really good at reading characters, aren't you?", I smiled and kept my bag on the bench after occupying my seat.

"Come sit," I patted the place next to me, "Now tell me what bothers you?"

"I had a doubt in maths assignment. Mr. Han said you are really good at it."

"I am good at everything I do."

"You are just too good to be true."

"Don't say that because of my face."

"No. To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."

I don't even know my own self, so who can know me?

"If that's so then you are more beautiful. Next time when you count beautiful things then don't forget to count yourself."

He smiled, sat down and started taking out his books. Meanwhile I took out my diary 'Living with Dying'. I do read it at this time. I love going through my old memories and recollecting my past. That's all what I have if thought carefully.

"Question number 9 of this exercise," he gave me a pen and passed a notebook.

"Look, first take out the common and multiply all the variables with the square. After multiplying, put it in the formula and solve it. You will get the answer," I said and smiled at him.

"Wow! You are a real genius! Don't lie but are you some what related to Einstein?", he asked with his gummy smile.

"This is going overboard, you know? Maths need practice. That's why it's my favourite subject. You don't have to memorize anything," I said and started reading my diary while he continued with his problem solving.

'Living with Dying: I love unnie and unnie loves me. ~kang su.'

I smiled reading the message.

"What are you reading which makes you smile so big?", Ye Jun asked with his sparkling eyes filled with curiosity.

"It's my diary. I write everything in it. I write every moment and every person I love in it so that I can't forget them. That's all what I have in my small life," I smiled while looking at my treasure and exhaled in peace.