jinri knows
jinri knows
chanlli (chanyeol/jinri)
g
au, romance, angst
oneshot
It was a bright sunny day, the day they broke up.
"Jinri."
"Don't." She shook her head, avoiding his eyes. "It's no use, Chanyeol."
She left without sparing him a second glance, leaving him all a crying mess.
She was afraid of him recklessly driving his car afterward and end up no good, but she believed he's not that kind of guy.
Jinri knows.
-
Three months later, she's twenty. Jinri is all over loved, on the other side of the country, by her new classmates and is about to be pushed down into the nearby pond, when she receives the message.
She smiles, looking up to her expectant friends, "He texts me."
It's simple. Hi, happy birthday, all the best for you. godspeed! and Jinri is all good with all the foully smell, top to toe, blame Sehun who gave the idea in the first place.
-
"He deleted my pictures." She says, drawing imaginary circular motion on her screen. "He deleted them all."
Soojung looks at her expectantly.
"What?"
The latter sighs, and stands up bringing all her books.
"Jinri," Soojung calls from behind. "You should consider it one more time. I don't want you to regret it later."
She stops to listen and let the words being absorbed by her very ears. But she decides to leave it all behind.
She is no one to take back her words.
-
On sunny days, Chanyeol would sleep until the sun is on the peak of the day.
On Monday mornings, Chanyeol would get his breakfast on this pancake house by his faculty building. He'd get mango waffles, vanilla ice cream to top it, and a cookies and cream smoothies.
That day, is a fine sunny Monday morning when Jinri has a day off and decides to grab her favorite strawberry smoothies at the exact cafe, when she realizes it's a very fine sunny Monday morning.
Quickly, she hides herself behind a big newspaper that's big enough to hide at least her fade red hair. This could work.
As if God answers all the questions, the awaited boy arrives with his eyes half opened, walking like a corpse with his dishelved hair and hanging lazily specs on his nose bridge, wearing her favorite red shirt outside his black oversized tee.
Jinri couldn't help but smile.
"The usual please," Chanyeol says to the waiter and he walks few steps to that one table by the pond. He looks at the fountain with his wide eyes like it's the most interesting view he's ever seen, altough he should've seen like like a hundred times from the first time he entered college.
Someone comes and the bell on the door rings, waking Chanyeol from his sudden dozing off and looks up expectantly to the 'take ur order here' table. He smiles, walking past straight to the delightful sight.
"Sorry I'm late, Jongin was quite tardy to get off class." A voice in the background says. "Happy with the smoothies, I see."
Chanyeol is quite distracted to hear his junior slash friend is being mentioned, but hearing no other response from her -- from the voice he acknowledges as a her -- talking partner, he decides to let it go and brings his tray back to his seat.
"What. Are you kidding me." That voice says again.
"Lower your voice!" This time, another voice hisses.
"Oops. My bad. So are you going to stay here or what."
Chanyeol chuckles a bit, that's very sound like Soojung. And to think that she's no different, the way she talks loudly in a whispering manner albeit being warned.
He then tries to closes his ears from the unnecessary but cannot help to eavesdrop, plugging his headset to his ears and being drowned in the sound of Coldplay.
-
"No way." Soojung grins.
"Yes way." Jinri sighs. "Come on, get me out of here."
"Why? He didn't look at you anyway."
"He didn't but he could!" She gulps down her smoothie in one shot and Soojung is amazed somehow that she doesn't even feel sudden nausea or something like that. "Come on, cover me."
"You know this is getting ridiculous."
"Oh please, it's too early to get noticed in real life."
Soojung looks at her one last time who's already arranged her hair that she now looked like one of those emo teens.
"You look ridiculous."
"I know." Jinri moves a string of her hair to cover her eyes more. "Now will you please let me stop this ridiculous action by instantly walk me out of this cafe."
"You're so gonna regret this." Soojung finally stands up, one ice frappucino in hand.
"Nah, I don't think I will."
-
When Chanyeol feels like Jinri is around, he makes a mental note that he has to let go and move on.
Because everytime Chanyeol's feeling that way, Jinri is always seem like being happy go lucky with that cheeky smile and crescent eyes in her SNS posts, signaling that she's all okay.
Because he just misses her, to the amount he cannot cry over her anymore.
-
"This junior has been eyeing you."
Jongin would say at mile 0.
"Stop checking him out. You're getting nowhere."
Sehun would say miles away from Jongin.
"Is it...okay for me to try?"
Chanyeol would say to reply Jongin, and Jinri would say, "I'm already this far, Sehun, I just think I won't be able to stop," in response to Sehun.
-
Chanyeol wants to have a marriage at a bright sunny day, with the trees fresh from last night rain, and the birds are chirping around, and he simply wants it black and white.
White carpets, black tuxedos, and white veils.
Of course, Jinri still remembers it. Especially the way Chanyeol kissed her that night and telling her, he wants her to be the one walking down the aisle, where he'd be waiting by the end of the way.
But Jinri knows, exactly 2 years after their broke up, Chanyeol met the love of her life who, unfortunately, wasn't her, of course. What is she? Just a girl who dumped a kind and loyal and faithful 19 year old Chanyeol for a lame excuse of I want to be alone for the time being.
Hah.
Jinri knows every time Chanyeol opens up her SNS accounts because she didn't change the password the latter already knew. Jinri also knows when Chanyeol stopped doing that.
Jinri knows when she was hospitalized for having an acute asthma attack, Chanyeol was there until either Sehun or Soojung came. Jinri also knows when Chanyeol was on the bed with the IV line, she didn't come in and passed the flower to a concerned look girl who happens to be the bride today instead.
Jinri knows Chanyeol cried, Jinri knows Chanyeol suffered, Jinri knows Chanyeol was sleep deprived and couldn't even eat properly, and Jinri knows it was all because of her.
But Jinri knows that he's better off that way, with the smile is back on his face, watching the woman he truly loves in front of him and kisses her tenderly.
Jinri knows that it's not karma that's playing tricks on her, it's just the life that is giving lesson.
a/n i dont even know how did i come up with this....i guess i just miss writing and poor bb jinri became the victim :c sorry bb