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Chapter 17 - Sixteen: Introduction

"Oh, It's opened! Aish! This girl! I had to suffer a lot for this password!" Dae Ju said and opened the first page. There was a family photo of Lina on the first page. Lina, her mom and her dad. There was a caption of the photo. She looked more charming. Maybe it is an old photo. Her dad was very handsome but he didn't not looks like Korean. He had yellowish bright skin just like Lina. Dae Ju flips the page and from here Lina's story begins. There was a date written on the side of the page. It was 2 November, 2015. But the language was looking different. But he could understand them clearly. He went to the bed, sat down and began to read: "I am Lina." "Ah! Her name is Lina, not Lee Na! I thought it was Lee Na." saying this Dae Ju begins to read again. "I am 18 years old. From today I will write this diary. I will share my happy moments in my diary. It's my hobby so my father bought me this nice diary. I can protect it with a password but I think there's no need for that. My dad said to write my happy moments to me when he gave me this diary. He said that you have to write only your happy moments so that you could feel happy later by watching this. But don't write your sad moments because if you watch your sad moments later you will be hurt once again. So, I have decided to listen to him and share my happy and happiest moments here. My mom is Korean but my dad is Bangladeshi. And for my dad we have to stay in Bangladesh."

"Ah! She is not pure Korean! But she looks like one! And nobody can find any difference!" said Dae Ju in his mind. He didn't realize that he was sneaking into someone else's personal things.

"But I really want to live in Korea. Because I have so much bias there. But, I have grown up here so maybe I can't live in Korea now. My mom has been attached to this country's system, cultures and all things. We are a Muslim family now for my dad. My dad always said that my mom changed after marrying him. But it was a good change. She changed her religion, she obeyed my dad, she became kind and gentle. She is a nice person. She is really very beautiful. That's why my dad fell for her. But why and where their story begins, I don't know yet. I will write about it someday. My mom could speak Bangla well. Though my mother tongue is hangul, I didn't learn it well. I am good at English and bangla. I can read and write Arabic as well. There's a little story I want to remember and that is, My dad had been abandoned after he married my mom. He had to struggle a lot but he didn't leave mom and stay by her side. My grandfather and grandmother didn't visit him for the last 21 years. But today they came to visit us. They adore me a lot. And also they got quite emotional and they said sorry to my parents. I feel very happy but why I cried, I don't know. I am studying at a college here and students are too good here. They are very friendly. I am studying accounting and I am good at it. I can't cook yet but my mom wants to teach me but I am not interested at all. My interest is in drawing and writing poems. But I am not good at poems. So, I lost interest in it. I am very fond of music. And my favorite singer is Kim Dae Ju from 'Extreme Boys'. His voice is so sweet that it touches my heart every time I listen to his song. I wish I had a boyfriend like him! But I can get him only in my dream. I am really happy in my life. I have my mom, my dad and now I have my grandparents also. They love me so much and I also love them so much." Dae Ju took a long breath and said in his mind, "You got your bias not only like your boyfriend, you got me as your husband."

"Seems like you are so happy!" said Dae Ju again and flipped once again. Seems like she didn't write anything for a long time. She wrote in the diary after some months. The date was 24th June, 2016.

"I forgot about my diary but as it is a special day in my life, I have to write to remember it. Maybe I fell in love with someone for the first time. His name is Rumi." reading this Dae Ju stopped and was surprised.

"What? Rumi! That means this guy!" saying this he pointed on his own. He felt curious and started reading again.

"He is my dad's best friend's son. My dad is a businessman and he went to Korea for business. There he met my mom and that person who is his best friend now. They are business partner and I surprised to know that he is also Muslim but pure Korean. Their friendship is so deep that I felt jealous sometimes. However, Rumi came to Dhaka for the first time. He has some business with my dad. Here's one more interesting story that my dad named him Rumi when he was born. And his parents like the name so much that they keep the name permanently. Today he came to stay at our home. I am shy, so I couldn't go and actually I didn't want to go in front of him. My mom called me and told me to say hello to him. I went near him and said hello to him. But I don't know why I was feeling so nervous. And also I was very embarrassed that I could not look at his face. So I can't tell how he was looking. When my dad came to him, he made me sit beside him. Rumi was sitting on the other side and then I could see his whole face. He was so handsome. His eyes were so charming, He was talking very gently with my dad. My heart started to pound heavily and I started to sweat. I have never felt like this before. I can't sit like this anymore. I got up beside my dad and came outside. I was feeling too hot. I came to my room and stayed there from then on. Now, it's 12 am. And maybe he left. I can't forget him. Whenever I close my eyes, I just see his face. I have to forget him or else it will harm my upcoming exam. But I can't." Dae Ju felt more interested and flipped the page one more time. But the page was blank. He flipped some pages together but they all were blank. He didn't notice that the sun had risen and it was giving a warm light. He lied down and searched for more information.

"But she writes it every night! I saw that with my own eyes." Dae Ju said to himself. But suddenly he remembered that it's not his own body so he said again,

"No, I didn't see it with my own eyes. I saw it with this man's eye." Saying this he laughed in his own mind. He flipped through some more pages and found something written in it. "It's 28 January, 2017. We will go to Korea tomorrow. My mom is feeling sick but doctors can't find the illness. So my dad decided to go to Korea and treat her well as the doctors are too good there. But I am so excited. I went there once with my parents. But I was a little kid back then. So I can't remember anything. But now, I will go there and stay though it will be tough to feel happy for my mom, but I am excited. And one more thing is, the person whom I like is there. I just want to see him one more time. I know I am being too greedy, I have to focus on my mom right now but I can't help it. We have a flight tomorrow evening and I packed my bag and my mom's bag. Dad is still packing. He has a lot of stuff to take. Rumi's dad already rented a house for us. We will stay there. I am just waiting for tomorrow evening. I hope my mom will be treated well and she will become healthy again."

"Is this diary written in another language? It's not seem like Hangul or English!" Dae Ju felt curious and took his phone. Then he captured a photo of one page and searched in Google translate. And the result came bangla. "Oh! I have never seen bangla! Then how could I understand it?" He slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep while thinking about this. He woke up by listening to a sweet and angelic voice. Seems like someone was singing in a different language. The voice was so sweet and it was ringing in his ears in a sweet way that he couldn't help it but got up from the bed and came downstairs. He searched for the origin of the voice and found Lina. She was reading something in that sweet way. He went near her and looked at her in a fascinated way.

"What are you doing?" asked Dae Ju. Lina stopped after a minute and said, "Can't you see I am reading Holy Quran!" "Ah! I see!" said Dae Ju and remembered the line where it was written "I can read and write Arabic as well". He could guess that it's Arabic. He saw this before when he went to Saudi Arabia with his teammates to perform. He went close to Lina and tried to read it. And surprisingly he could read it but he couldn't understand it. He was surprised because he had never read Arabic before.

"What is it? What happened to me? Then, will I be able to understand all languages? Wow! It's awesome! Then I can become a linguist! I can become Mr. President's linguist! It will be so cool!" He was thinking so deeply that he didn't notice that he was so close to Lina. She closes the book and gets up. Dae Ju also noticed it now and felt embarrassed. She was going upstairs. Dae Ju feels hungry and thirsty. He poured some juice into a glass and drank it. Then he sat on a chair. He took his phone and started to ask if he really gained the power or not. He could talk in English so he tried it first. Then he tried bangla and he did it well. Then he tried Japanese and he did well in it as always. But when he tried Spanish he failed. He tried Italian, Latin, Russian, French, Dutch and so on but he failed every time.

"I haven't gained any power? Then how could I read and understand her diary?" thought Dae Ju. When he was thinking that, he suddenly remembered that he forgot the diary on his bed and Lina just went to the room. What if she saw it on the bed?

"Aish! How could I forget that?" said Dae Ju to himself and rushed to the room. Lina was in the washroom and she just came outside.

"Ah! I have to prepare the bed." saying this Lina came in front of the bed. Dae Ju was coming from the stairs and prayed that she didn't see it yet.