Crush ˙˚ʚ('◡')ɞ˚˙ (Ricky - s.qr ❤)

Chapter 18: Back to Seoul

A/N pt-1 : My college has reopened and I already wanna kms T_T. Fck mandatory 75% attendance policy.

A/N pt-2 : this is for the readers who have been reading this fic for a while, go to the character info chapter and see the new and permanent fc for Yumeko.

Korean: Normal text.

Bold: Japanese

This one is in Mandarin

This one is in English

The following day, Yumeko was feeling a bit down even though it was a Sunday. This was primarily because Ricky was leaving. Both of them had grown so close as friends; the connection was genuine.

The 20-year-old girl sighed while doing her assignments, mind wandering back to the time she had spent with Ricky in Yokohama. During lunch time she called Ricky. Thankfully he picked up the call.

"Hey Ricky, are you having lunch now?"

"Yeah, you?"

"Me too. When's your flight today? Have you finished packing?"

"I am almost done with packing and my flight is at 2:30 am. Wanna visit me? Jinko?"

"I will drop you off at the airport. Yes, I can drive."

"Jinko...I need to make it alive and in one piece to Seoul."

"Bitch-"

On the other end, she could hear Ricky laughing his ass off.

"What a foul mouth~ Just kidding, I like it when you curse."

"You are impossible...Anyways, don't say no to me because..", Yumeko's breath hitched for a bit as she sighed and decided to tell him the truth, "I want to spend...I want to spend as much time as I can with you before you go back...I don't know when I can meet you again...."

Ricky's heart fluttered at this and a soft smile played on his lips as he held the phone to his ear. "I will miss you too, Yumeko...Sometimes, I wish that I could spend more time with you like a normal young adult...."

"Maybe then we wouldn't have met...You would've probably studied in USA or China while I would've been mostly in Japan and sometimes in South Korea. Probably it's fate that even with our differing circumstances, we met and became friends...Good friends."

"True....I am glad that I bumped into you that day in the mall and made you drop your boba...and then decided to get you another cup as an apology."

"I still can't believe that it had happened. But I am happy. Not just because you are one of my favourite kpop idols, but because I got to meet Shen Quan Rui, who is a wonderful and hardworking human being, someone whom I consider to be a dear friend who deserves the best."

Ricky felt a lump in his throat as Yumeko's words sank in. For a moment, there was only silence on his end, save for the faint sound of his breathing. Yumeko began to worry she might have overstepped, but just as she opened her mouth to apologize, Ricky's voice came through softly.

"Yumeko... you don't know how much that means to me," he said, his usual playful tone replaced with something far more tender. "Thanks a lot....for always supporting me."

Yumeko smiled at this and said, "I will always be cheering for you and your bandmates."

Ricky's eyes softened at this, even though Yumeko couldn't see. They shared a few seconds of comfortable silence before he quickly switched gears, his tone suddenly playful. "Seriously, Jinko, are you trying to ruin my cool, mysterious image? Making me emotional before my flight—how dare you!"