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1/02/2009 01:31:00 AM ● XMAS SIDE STORY

XMAS SIDE STORY PART THREE [3]

I was waken up the next morning by vigorous shaking. I opened my blurry eyes and find five pairs of eyes staring at me.

“GOOD MORNING NUNA!” Minhwan’s voice echoed through the whole room.

All five of them were surrounding my bed, supposedly all were shaking me to get me to wake up.

“Whoa… What’s wrong with you guys?” I said with my groggy voice and looked at the digital clock next to me.

“Ermmm… You guys are nuts, today is Christmas day! Can’t you guys just let me be in my bed for a while more? It’s only 7am!” I was near to shouting.

“But nuna! We have got presents yet to open.” Minhwan pouted.

Seeing him pouted is like the best thing you can see on Earth, he look so adorable when he pouts.
“Alright alright, I give up.” I got up from my bed and made my way to the toilet.

“YAY!! Nuna is out! We can finally start our gift exchange!” Minhwan is so happy jumping about in the room, not only Minhwan, but the rest of the four are doing the same thing also.

We sat around the tree and started to exchange our presents.

I specially made a necklace with a whole bunch of guitar picks as the pendant for Wonbin and Jonghun and I swear I took me darn lots of hours just to drill the hole into the picks.

I bought a pair of black drumsticks for magnae, together with a piece of shirt which says ‘OMG MY CHICKEN!’

I also got Hongki and Jaejin each a pair of socks with picture of their instrument, and for Hongki’s case, a mike.

Seeing these presents reminds me of getting lost on the shopping mall and ransacking the whole rack of drumsticks just to find the most perfect looking drumsticks for Minhwan.

“Nuna! How do you know this is the drumstick that I’ve been wanting! The hyungs just doesn’t buy for me.” Minhwan is so happily bouncing in his position.

“Of course I know.” I smiled. Of course I don’t know. I know nuts about drumsticks and what he wants. He ran over and hugged me, more like squished me.

The rest are just happily unwrapping their presents, and then…

“Hey! Where are my presents?” All the presents on the floor are already opened up and there is none for me.

“Nuna mianhae! I didn’t have enough for yours after buying for the hyungs. Mianhae, jeongmal mianhae.” Minhwan looked at me with those puppy eyes and they seems like he is going to cry anytime. “Same here Eli, Mianhae.” Jaejin apologised.

“It’s okay guys. I was just asking.” I was forcing myself to smile. I got no presents this year? This is so sad.

I turned to see Hongki and Wonbin having the OH-MY-GOD-I-TOTALLY-FORGOT-ABOUT-IT face.

They looked at me and said “We forgot about you!” both at the same time.

I was just about to say something when something knocked me from the back. It was Jonghun, he settled down with his legs crossed behind me and handed me a big yellow box. “There, your present.”

“Chincha? Oh my goodness oppa I love you!” I was beaming with happiness and hugged him for the present. “Silly girl, open it up!” Jonghun broke into laughter and ruffle my hair.

I uncovered the box and saw this really beautiful bracelet with a piano and a guitar hanging on top of it. “Whoa, this is really beautiful! Thank you!” Right now, my eyes are already watery. I bet this bracelet isn’t cheap at all.

“I gave you this bracelet for you to remember me always.” Jonghun smiled cheekily. Aww, don’t worry I will. “Neh oppa, I will wear it every day.”

The rest of the four were mischievously shaking their head away. “Shake some more and your head it gonna drop.” Jonghun laughed and stood up.

“AH! Paygopa!” Hongki stood up and stretched himself. “Let’s get breakfast! TO THE MALL!!” Hongki did the superman pose.

“AND THE THEMEPARK!” Jaejin added.

“Dirty fellows! At least let me shower first please.” I glared at them and went off to get my towel and outfit.

“Alright Eli, make it fast, anyways, I think we are going to shower also.” Wonbin said as he gets the rest to leave the room. “See ya guys later!”

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“OMO!!! PAYGOPA!” After living with them for a period of time, I caught some Korean phrases. We are at the bus stop waiting for the bus take takes us to the theme park.

“I NEED HOTDOG BUN LIKE NOW NOW NOW.” I was flailing away, causing the boys to laugh.
“Arasso.” Hongki patted my head; I swear I got a few centimetres shorter after that.

We boarded the bus and took the back seats, and Jaejin and Hongki was making us laugh for the whole journey that all of us are having laughing fits.

When we finally reached the theme park, the whole place was jammed pack with people. I see long queues of people waiting to get the tickets to go into the theme park, and another long line of people queuing for hot dog buns. “Omo omo omo omo omo. Oppa! I’m hungry!” I was flailing away to get their attention since everyone was so distracted in just… running. Running to the long line of queue so that we wouldn’t lose out to the others.

“Arasso. A few of us will go queue for the entrance tickets and you and the rest will go for the hot dog bun alright?” Hongki being the oldest was trying to pacify me, and it was being decided than Jonghun and Minhwan will follow me to get the hot dog buns while the rest go get the tickets.

We were queuing up and I was trying to stuff my hair into the beanie when Jonghun suddenly held my hands. “You wore the bracelet I gave you.” I nodded. “It’s pretty on you.” He held onto my hands and linked his fingers with mine. ‘thump thump… thump thump.’ I swear my heart was thumping like crazy and it will pop out from my mouth anytime.

We got a bit impatient because the queue doesn’t seem to be moving. I was staring at the floor when I saw something white fell on the floor, and there was a sudden commotion all around, and when I looked up I saw flakes falling down!

“OPPPAA!!! ITS SNOWING!!!” Jonghun simply smiled and I went back to look at the falling snow. “IT’S SO PRETTY!!” I was totally in awe! “But the roller coaster may not be opened due to the snow.” Minhwan suddenly said and pouted. Both Jonghun and me just looked and him and went back to admiring the snow.

When we finally got our hotdog buns and met up, all of us was already freezing cold and were sipping up our drinks while entering the park. We don’t know whether to thanks the snow or what, but it seems that after it snowed, lesser people were around for the theme park, which makes queuing for the rides easy but it made some rides stopped their service also.

All of us were having fun, occasionally popping into the café to get some hot drinks since everyone is cold, and Jonghun still not letting of my hands.

“Hey Eli, do you know that at night before the closing of the theme park, there will also be fireworks.” Wonbin asked as I linked up my hands with his and walked around. “For this theme park I don’t know, but I know that happens to Disneyland.” I pulled the two of them to queue for another round of the spinning tea cups. “Not again…” Jonghun whined.

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“NUNA!! HURRY!! THE FIREWORKS IS STARTING!!!” Minhwan shouted and waved at me. I let go of Jonghun’s hand and ran over to where Minhwan was standing at, surprisingly, there was nobody else watching the fireworks. “Are you sure there is fireworks session today? How come everyone seems to have gone home already?”

“I’m very sure…” Before Jaejin even finished his sentence, straits of fireworks flew into the air, brightening the sky, and another strait of firework flew into the air. I was enjoying the whole fireworks show when we heard a piano being played.

I started to look around and saw Jonghun on the grand piano which stood in the middle of the parade square. He was in his white suit, fingers delicately moving to and fro betweens the piano keys. The booming of the fireworks and the music coming out from the piano. Everything just blends in so well.

I was just staring at how look Jonghun look when he wears a suit and plays a piano, make me feel all-so-princessy. Then I heard the sound of the drums, and the bass. I turned back and saw the rest of the boys with their instruments. All of them look really good in white suit, like prince charming in the fairytales, no, they look better. Then the piano stopped playing and Jonghun walked over to where the rest of the boys were and picked up his guitar.

“Tock tock tock tock.” Minhwan started the cue to start playing, and as soon as he beat his first beat on the drums, the rest starts to play also.

“I wanna wish you a merry Christmas, I wanna wish you a merry Christmas…”

It was Feliz navidad, a Spanish Christmas song. It totally liven up the whole atmosphere and everyone, including me, was smiling so brightly away. And when they play finish, Hongki boomed through the mike “ELI, LOOK UP AT THE SKY!”

And just when I looked up, the words in the sky was displayed so nicely. “MERRY CHRISTMAS ELIZABETH!”

I was teary already, the boys must have spent tonnes of money on that!

“NUNA!!!” Minhwan ran over and stretch out his hands for a hug, I plugged into his warm embrace, and the rest came over and did a group hug. It feels so great the be hugged by five prince charming on Christmas Day. Santa did made my wish come through. We broke away from the hug and Jonghun was leaning over to kiss me, but he was stopped by a sudden noise.

“BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP… BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP…”

The sound of my alarm went off. I opened my eyes and looked at my clock, ’08:00’. I looked at the bed next to me and Jonghun was sleeping so soundly on his bed. I take a look beneath the Christmas and saw the presents still there. Was that a dream? I felt so real, especially the touch of Jonghun’s hand and their hugs.

I went to wash up myself and waited for the rest of the boys to come over for the gift exchange session. We were sitting around the tree like what I saw in the dreams, but this time round, I have presents, lots of them. I got a new mp3 from Mom and Dad, which surprisingly was being Fedex over to the dorm, a rainbow lanyard, a Donald duck doll and… the bracelet that I saw in my dreams. Shit, just what is happening? After the boys opened up their presents, they ran over to the computer. “YOON EUN HYE!” someone shouted.

NOT AGAIN…

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