Chapter 2 - sitting toget (1/1)

**********Yoona’s POV********** Yuri and I are best friends. She and I were both born in Mokpo, in the same hospital and at the same month. She was born 15 days before me and strangely when Yuri’s mom was discharged from the hospital, my mom was placed in Yuri’s Mom bed. Perhaps that is why I always have the feeling that I’m behind Yuri in everything. She is always a step faster than me, even in love.  Mokpo is a small city where everybody practically knows about what happens in the next door. When we were still in Mokpo, my house was three block from Yuri’s house. She has always been an early bird since the elementary school.  Every day, Yuri would come to knock at my door to hurry me up in the middle of my breakfast in order to go to school together. I should let you know that my parents had wondered if I was born in the wrong life. They told me that I should have been a buffalo in my past life because I eat too much, especially rice.  So we spent lot of time together since we were little girls. We also share many interests in common. People, who didn’t know us, thought that we were twin sisters. We both were very active in the sport clubs at school and we have won many prices together. Yuri has always got the first price. I hated it when she purposely lost against me. But I’ve beaten her once during the tennis competition in high school. It was the first time I discovered her weak point; despite her strong physical endurance her arms were actually weaker than I thought. Since then, I continued to practice my tennis skill like an ace. Yuri could beat me in everything but I would never let her win any tennis competition.  Beside the sports, we both were popular with girls. However, Yuri had more chance than I because she knew how to please the girls, made them laugh. I must admit, she is very caring toward girls and they fall for her easily. As for me, I’m lacking of expressing myself. When I love someone, I could hardly confess. That was why I lost Jessica against Yuri.  Jessica and I met for the first time in the accounting class when Yuri and I moved from Mokpo to Seoul to pursue the bachelor degree. At the first year of college, Jessica and I were teamed for homework by the teacher. We often studied in the library together. At first I saw Jessica as a friend but the more we worked together the more my feeling grew for her. I still remember the day she fell asleep on the book in the library, she looked so beautiful that I secretly caressed her hair. My heart beat really fast at that moment because I worried that she would catch me by surprise. I started to love her. I made many excuses in order to work with her in the library. I was sweating each time I lied to her that we needed to work together. I didn’t want to make it too obvious that I had feeling for her because I didn’t know if she also had feeling toward me.  And then one day my heart was like broken apart; I came back home and saw Jessica sat leaning on Yuri’s chest. Their fingers were interlacing.They were lovey dovey to each other in front of the TV. Yuri was explaining the tennis rules to Jessica. It was the first time I heard and saw Jessica acting cute. Her smile was very sweet. But it was not toward me, she showed that cutess to Yuri. I felt like the sky just fell on me, my world became suddenly dark. I stood frozen and looked at them for a moment. I should be with Jessica not Yuri; I should be the one to explain the tennis rules to Jessica not Yuri. I remember they said hi to me then returned to the TV screen like I didn’t exist. That day, I wanted to move out from the apartment immediately. I wanted to disappear from their life but I didn’t because I still wanted to see Jessica every day. I guess I did a good choice because if I left on that day, today I would not be able to go out with Jessica.  After three year together, Yulsic broke up and it was my chance. I don’t know where I got the gut from but I kissed Jessica that day when I found her crying alone in the back yard of the school. I really had no idea of what I was doing but by reflex I wiped her tear and cupping her face. She looked at me because my action was unexpected. Without thinking I kissed her. She pushed me out and ran back inside the school. It took her more than a year to accept me. Today we are going on vacation together but the person who sits beside Jessica is me instead of Yuri. I can now put my arm around Jessica's shoulder and not afraid that she would push me out. Perhaps, Yuri is evious because of us.