A Regular

Part 3

I smoothed the nonexistent crumples on my T-shirt and my bang for the last time. Then, I took a good deep breath. Straighten my back, I picked my baseball hat from my table.

Looking good there, I grinned at my thought after checking myself in the mirror one last time.

"Mom, Dad, I'm going!" wearing my running shoes, I shouted to my parents. I heard my mom's 'okay' before I shut the door of my house.

I pedalled my bike excitedly, smiling at my neighbours that I met along the way.

Guess where I'm going, can you?

Nah-uh, wrong answer, haha. No, I wasn't going to meet Irene if that's what you think. I'm going to Chaeng's house because I promised I will accompany her to buy school supplies today. But no, I wasn't excited about the shopping thing. I was excited because I just called Irene this morning. I asked for Irene's number and address from Chu the day after that party. Let's say after a bunch of questions, teasing and more teasing, she gave it to me in the end. No bad things can erase the smile on my face today, nothing.

Arriving at her house, I saw Chaeng waited for me at the porch, playing with her phone.

"Chaeng-ah, let's go!" I waved my hands to her.

She looked up from her phone and smiled at me. Picking her baseball cap, she walked towards me. She just wore a crop top, sweat pants and a pair of sneakers. A small fashion backpack hanging on her back.

"Are you planning to catch someone's eye today?" I asked her while looking at her outfit and her face back and forth, implying something. Seeing her confused face, I planted a smirk on my face.

"What do you mean?" She asked me, frown visible on her face. She looked so innocent that way, and a little bit dumb if you asked me. Don't tell her I said that, she will smack my head for sure!

"Oh, nothing. Hop on!" I said not want to tell her what's on my mind.

"Weird." I heard she mumbled while wearing her hat, but she hopped on my bike anyway.

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"Lisa-ya, look at these pens. Should we buy matching pens? They're so cute." She dragged me to the pen sections and show me the pens with various characters etched at the top.

"Look! Pikachu! Chu will like this." She grabbed the yellow pen with Pikachu character on it.

"If you want to buy a pen for Chu just say it Chaeng-ah, no need to pretend we should buy a matching pen," I smirked at her teasingly. She froze and I saw a red tinge on her cheek.

"Yah! It's not like that!" She playfully smacked me to hide her embarrassment. I just laughed at her cuteness.

This chipmunk here had a huge crush on our Chu but never dared to confront her. When I asked her why she just said that she didn't want to change anything among us.

She was scared if Chu didn't feel the same, it will just ruin our friendship. Well, she got a point there. But every time I saw her cling to Chu, Chu seemed unbothered by it. It was a different case if that's me who tried to act clingy to her. She will just shove me away and tell me to stop, saying that I made her sick that way. Harsh, jeez.

That's what made me think that Chu had the same feeling towards her but Chu being Chu, she didn't or can't express it in the right way to Chaeng. It frustrated me somehow but I can't do anything about it. I didn't want to meddle in their love life. I will only observe them for now.

"Okay, okay, I will shut up. Don't smack me!" I managed to tell her in between my laughter.

"You better!" She said sulkily. "Let's go buy lunch. I'm hungry. It's on you because you just teased me!" She continued and started leaving me with a sly smile.