It was around 2pm, when my flight landed in Kolkata. Kolkata is one of the biggest and known city in India. I got in plane around 7am, it took me nearly seven hours to reach here.
I was exhausted from my journey in the plane. I got off the plane and collected my luggage from the airport.
As I got out of the airport, I saw my brother standing there waiting for me. As soon as I saw him, I ran with my luggage towards him and gave him a tight hug. God only knew, how much I've missed him. He hugged me back.
"How are you doing, brother??", I asked breaking the hug, tears welled up in my eyes.
"I'm doing great", he replied with a bright smile.
"What about you, how are you??", he asked.
"I'm good", I said and we made our way towards his car.
"Woah!! Is this new car??", I exclaimed excitedly.
"Yes!", he replied.
"Seems like, your business is going well", I said with a cheeky smile on my face.
"Yes, it going great", he said sounding very proud about him and his business.
We placed my luggage in the back of the car and we got inside as well. We were on our way back to home, when mom called on my brother's phone.
"Hello Mom!", he answered.
"Yes, she's with me", he said.
"Yeah, she's ok and we are on our way back", he said and hung up the phone.
It nearly took us another hour to reach home. As I looked at the place where I've spend my entire childhood and had made so many memories, tears again welled up in my eyes.
"Sis, you go inside, I'll put the car inside the garage", he said looking at me, I just nodded my head and went inside.
As I went inside, I was shocked to see everyone, my parents, grandparents and relatives.
"WELCOME HOME", everybody said together.
My mom ran up to me and gave me a bone crushing hug.
"You're finally back! I missed you so much.", she said and started crying.
"Yeah, mom I'm back", I said smiling at her brightly.
My mom was a bit taken aback when she heard me.
"Why are you speaking like this??", my mom asked curiously, rubbing her tears off.
"What do you expect, after staying in Korea for so long obviously my bengali would sound like that", I said with a straight face.
"Ah, I'm sorry. It doesn't matter though, what matters is that you're back", she said smiling at me.
"Will you finish all your talk there only, let her atleast come inside", my dad suddenly said.
I went inside and gave my dad a hug, he patted my back.
"Do you know how much your mom and I've missed you", he said looking at me, there were tears at the corner of his eyes.
"I know and I'm sorry", I said.
"Come and say hello to everyone, they've been waiting for you for a long time", my dad said.
I greeted everyone and we all went inside the living room to chat. After sometime, I got to know that my brother had planned this secret welcome party for me.
Almost every one of my relatives have came. I was happy to see all of them together. It has been more than a year since I've last seen them.
We were all inside the living room, talking and laughing happily, when suddenly my phone started ringing.
It was a video call from Minho. As soon as I saw his call, I remembered that I promised him that I'll call him to let him know that I've landed safely. I'm going to get a scolding as I forgot to call him after I got off the plane and if I don't take the call now, he's going to kill me when I will get back.
I said everybody to be silent for a bit, as I took the call.
"MINJIIIII....you dumb woman!!", Minho shouted as soon as I picked up the call, he was speaking in korean so nobody understood anything.
"Forgive me! I forgot to call you", I said speaking in korean.
"Do you know how much worried I was, stupid", he said glaring at me angrily.
"I know, I know, but look I'm ok", I said as I sat up straight, showing him that I'm already.
"Hmph! Did you eat anything on the flight??", he asked a bit softly now.
"Yes, I did", I replied.
"Ok, then you enjoy your vacation. I've something to do, so I'm hanging up", he said.
"Yeah ok", I replied.
"And you better take care of yourself", he said in a heavy voice, seemed like he was warning me that if I don't take care of myself, he will break every bone in my body.
"Yes, I'll take care of myself", I said.
"Ok, bye now. Love you my princess. I'll call later", he said with a bright smile.
"Yeah, talk to you later. Love you too Min Min", I said and quickly hung up the call before he could shout at me again for calling him Min Min.
I put aside my phone, looked up and I saw everyone was staring at me. I shot my eyebrows at them and they started to talk again.
'Weird people', I said in my mind.
"Umm dear, who was that guy??", my mom suddenly asked.
"Ah, he's my best friend back in Korea and he's also my colleague", I said and continued to eat the snacks mom has given me.
"Colleague!?", she asked sounding curious.
"Yeah, he's also a doctor in my hospital. He's the chief of the Cardiological Department there", I said causally.
"Oh, it's that Minho guy, your friend. You told me about him", my mom exclaimed.
"Yeah, it's him", I said.
"I see", she said and went inside the kitchen to bring me something more to eat.
We all sat together, talking, laughing and having fun. Everyone asking me numerous questions, which was pretty annoying though, but I can't deny that I was not having fun with everyone around.
As we continued to have fun, I suddenly started to think about Minho and Junsoo.
'What are those guys doing right now??', I thought to myself.
Then suddenly a certain person's thought came in my mind.
'Ho-jun, what he might be doing right now?? Is he fine?? Is he missing me-', I pulled myself out of that silly thought about him missing me.
'Minji, girl! Are you mad or something, why will he miss you?? How long have you guys known each other', I said to myself.
"Dear, can you come here and help me a bit??", my mom suddenly asked and I pulled myself out of my silly thoughts.
"Yes, I'm coming", I replied and went to my mom to help her.
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'Is Minji thinking about me?? Is she missing me??', I thought to myself and sighed a long sigh.
"Jungkook, what's happened, why are you so sad", Jin hyung asked.
"Oh! It's nothing", I said laughing nervously.
"Is that so.....", Jin hyung said and looked at me curiously.
I didn't say anything more and started to eat the food on the table.
"So, whose the girl??", Jin hyung suddenly asked.
Jin hyung caught me off guard and that made me choke on my food.
Namjoon hyung passed me a bottle of water and I took large gulps from the bottle. My hands were trembling as I placed the bottle on the table.
"So Jeongguk, spill out everything! Whose the girl??", Jin hyung asked again.
"What!? A girl?? Jeongguk, you like someone", Jimin asked excitedly, grinning from ear to ear.
"What girl!?", Namjoon hyung asked looking at everyone.
"Omo! What is this about??", Hoseok hyung also asked.
"Jeongguk tell us, what's going on??", Yoongi hyung asked with a straight face.
I let out a sigh and told them everything about Minji. Who she is, how we met and how I pretended to be someone else in front of her and also told them that why I couldn't come to celebrate Christmas with them, as I went to her.
After I finished saying everything, there was a long silence in the whole room, nobody said anything.
"So, you like this girl then", Yoongi hyung asked breaking the silence, as he looked at me with a straight face.
"No, no, it's not like that", I quickly explained.
"Then, why are you so interested in her that you even celebrated the Christmas with her", Jin hyung asked shooting me an eyebrow.
"Umm.... that's- I don't know", I replied.
As soon as I said that, everyone burst into laughter. They all were laughing like crazy. I didn't say anything and just watched them.
After sometime, they stopped and looked at me, there was smiles on all of their faces.
"Jeongguk, I didn't knew you were this innocent", Hoseok hyung said while pulling my cheeks.
"Hyung, I don't understand-", I said.
"Namjoonie, you didn't understood anything when you saw him with her last time??", Jin hyung asked smiling at Namjoon hyung.
"What should I understand??", Namjoon hyung replied innocently, looking curiously at Jin hyung.
"You little boy, you don't have to understand anything", Jin hyung said as he patted Namjoon hyung head.
"Jeongguk, why did you tell only Taehyung about this, you should have told us all about it", Jimin said smiling.
"That's-", I didn't knew myself only, why I didn't told them about all of these.
"Our little Jeongguk, is in love", Hoseok hyung suddenly exclaimed excitedly.
Everyone cheered and started to jump about excitedly. I didn't wanted to spoil their happy moment, so I kept quiet for the time being.
The truth is, I myself don't know what's happening. Why I'm thinking about Minji out of all people out there. Why I feel happy when I see her smile happily. There were too many questions and I didn't had answers for any of them.
Meaning of few words:-
Bengali:- A language spoken by most Indians.
Omo:- Oh My God in Korean