180 Days (TeacherxStudent)

Chapter 17 - Change

"Gah- Yejun!" I laughed. He pinned me down on the bed and tickled me more. I tried to push him off, but he didn't budge. "I-I'm going to k-kill you!" I uncontrolably laughed. He finally got off of me and I shot him a glare.

I then took a good look at his face and noticed there was a bruise on his jaw. "Who hit you?" I asked. He touched the spot and smirked. "I fell."

Before I could protest, he began to tickle me more.

School resumes on Monday, so we decided to spend Saturday together. He stopped tickling me and we started chilling after. Our eyes were glued to the ceiling. "Do you know the game 21 questions?" I asked.

"21 questions? Is it trivia?" he responded.

I smiled. "Same, but not the same. I ask you a question about yourself, you answer it, then you ask me a question about myself, or something like that."

"Okay, I go first."

"Hey!"

"I called it bae! Okay..." My heart warmed when he called me bae. He's such a bum. "Have you been to Jamaica? If so, what was your experience like?"

"That's two questions you goat, but I have." I responded, "Apparently I went when I was a baby, but I don't remember that. The last time I went was in 2006... It was beautiful, but I was always on house arrest. I also wasn't allowed to play with the children down the road because my father said they weren't very clean... I still played with them, but ended up getting a ringworm."

I paused and sighed. "They told me that was my lesson, but I felt so bad. Just because they're less fortunate doesn't mean they're dirty- it's not like they gave me the ringworm..."

Yejun turned over and looked at me through his lashes. "The fact that you had that mentality at a young age means a lot. Don't beat yourself up over it." I gave him a small smile and cleared my throat. "My turn to ask! Can you play any instruments?"

"Yeah, I can play two. Actually, one second." He got up and went downstairs. After a minute passed, he came back up with a giant black case. He laid it on the bed and opened it. "This is my keyboard."

I stared at the 88 keyed keyboard with admiration. He turned it on and cracked his knuckles. Suddenly, his fingers glided over the keys as he played Canon in D major.

"Yejun..." I muttered as he continued to play. My eyes involuntarily closed and I began to softly hum along. It sounded so graceful until his pinky landed on the wrong key. My eyes shot open and he groaned. "I messed up, sorry Len."

I hit his arm and he scowled at me. "Don't be sorry! It sounded great, everyone makes mistakes!" He shrugged and dusted his hands off. "Can you play?"

A laugh left my mouth and I shook my head. "I know a little, but not enough to actually... be good." He rolled his eyes and scooted over. "Come." I sat in his spot and stared at the keys.

"There's this game I played a while ago... I'm not sure if you know it, but it's from Final Fantasy XIII."

"Ah! I know of those games but never played them. I wasn't really allowed to play games." I frowned and he gestured back to the keyboard. "Play."

I looked down at the keyboard and started playing. Five seconds passed and I already messed up. I nervously laughed and he put my hands back on the keyboard. "I don't know the song, but what I do know is your hands are too stiff. Can you pull the song up?"

"Sure." I got my phone and went on YouTube. "The Promise..." I muttered as I typed. The song began to play and he nodded. "Stop."

I stopped the song and he played the chord. "Can you play it one more time?" I replayed it and he nodded. "Alright, that's enough." As soon as I stopped it, Yejun started playing the piece.