A/N: I dont do this normally but adding this part to the middle of the story was necessary, please pardon the inconvenience and read this chapter. And I think it would help if you'd read the last part of Chapter 47 (part 1) to get in the flow ^_^
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"So, the theme is bad hair day and?" Luna asked as she lay down on the grass of Haemin's lawn.
And as he set up the tripod, he said, "Well, since we're not wearing makeup and are not dressed up so.. raw and naturally beautiful?"
"Huh, I like it."
"Alright, first off, we're gonna stand in front of the peach coloured paper flower plant. Because peach and green is my personal favourite contrast."
Luna stared at him with adoration as he came and stood next to her, ready for the shot.
And when she wouldn't stop staring and the camera's timer was about to go off, without turning to her he tilted her head towards the camera with his finger.
She chuckled and Haemin couldn't stop himself from following her and the camera clicked.
"Okay, let's try a pose with a serious face. Like..." He looked for an example to describe it to her.
"Like Red Velvet's concept photos, dead, like human dolls or erect corpses?"
Haemin stared at her with a hint of mock horror in his eyes and went to set the camera again, "Yeah, like that, when did you get into kpop?"
"Iv always listened to music of every language, my friend Molly used to download hits from every country into the mp3. But, Yumi showed me Red Velvet."
He came back to stand with her, "How many languages do you know? And shall we tilt our heads creepily?"
"Eight and yeah okay."
After the picture was taken he showed an impressed expression.
They proceeded to take photos and now they were lying on the lawn, Luna's head on Haemin's chest, posing for another picture, and also talking.
"I stopped drooling over chocolate about two years ago and started giving other flavours a chance too and now I love vanilla cake and strawberry ice cream." Said Haemin.
She could only faintly hear him talking, his heart beat was music to her ears and she wanted to stay like that with him forever. But he had stopped talking now and was waiting for a reply,
"Exactly the same with me! I feel like chocolate is an every kid thing, and as you mature your taste buds mature as well and other things interest you as well."
He gave a smouldering look to the camera and after the click, he replied, "Mhm, shall we take a break?"
They got their smoothies from the tray of breakfast Mrs. Lee brought them and sat on the grass.
After a sip, Luna casually asked, "How did you fall for Ella?"
"Oh!" He put his smoothie down after gulping down the whole thing, "I forgot to tell you. You were there actually."
Luna tilted her head, "I was?"
If she was, she quite possibly missed a chance to be Haemin's love, dang it.
"When we were eleven, at the 'Le Caprice'. I was a shy kid, and apparently weird as well, because none of the kids wanted to play with me, not even the Asians, let alone the foreigners. Their chauffeurs and butlers were nice though." He spoke with a smile on his face as if taking a peaceful walk down memory lane, but his words didn't settle with Luna, who dared to hurt this precious boy?! And why did I not play with him? Where the hell was I?
"Anyway, I was kinda bummed out I guess so my mum asked the chefs to make me a special strawberry cake that even had the drawing of Ryan on it."
Luna laughed, "So, those Ryan pyjamas you have, you must wear em often."
He cringed, "Must you bring that up? They really are just my backups now, and who asks that kind of question, you're weird!" He playfully attacked her and she just laughed even more.
"There I was, walking through the park to the benches to sit down and eat my cake when I accidentally bumped into a blonde haired girl and 'almost' dropped my cake on her. That was Ella."
"Oh did you share your cake with her or something?" She asked casually while inside her head was the question, where was she at that time? She was always with Ella and Mark at Le Caprice.
"No, she yelled at me for 'almost' getting the cake on her and flipped the plate making my cake go plop on the ground."
Luna gasped, "That's horrible! How on Earth did you fall for her after that? Do you have some weird kink or something?"
"Come on, we were just twelve, and no, it wasn't because of that, it was because of what happened later. Anywho, I ran away to my room crying and Im pretty sure some kids laughed at me too, it was horrible, I used to cry over that memory even. I had thought that she was like all other heirs, stuck up and arrogant, wanting to show their power wherever they went. But later that night when I was in my room, someone knocked on my door and when I opened it no one was there except... guess what?"
"An apology letter?"
"Close! It was a strawberry cake! AND WITH RYAN ON IT!" His enthusiasm almost made him trip the tray over but Luna settled it.
"I was so touched that I vowed to never judge a person by what's on the outside. And I also kinda started to like her, I mean she is really pretty don't, you think?"
The whole story that Haemin just told her seemed so familiar, and little details that he expressed pinged some memories in her brain yet she couldn't remember anything, it puzzled her immensely.
"Luna?"
"Hm? Oh! Yes she is.. I'm sorry, what were you saying?"
He smiled, "Never mind. Let's finish up quickly and snap a few more poses before we get ready for uni."
"Okay."
"Ya know, I was thinking, ever since I found out that you lived next door, Iv been meaning for us to go for a morning jog and then eat breakfast and then go to uni together. And today it happened."
She looked at him with a tilted head, "Why did you want to do that?"
He looked down at his bowl of rice, "I don't know, I mean we have the same first class, we're friends, and we're neighbours , it felt like something we had to do."
She sighed inwardly, why must you do that to my heart, Haemin Lee? Why must you kill me with kindness?
Even after she left his house, her mind was wrapped around Haemin's story of the Le Caprice.