After coming to their dorm room back, Soo Aha was pumped up with anticipation and was urging Eun Ae to open the message box on the app. Eun Ae was the same but she was also anxious about what Jae Hyuk wants to say her, personally. Her heart was beating like drum as she steadied herself and opened the message box by directly clicking on the notification.
Both Eun Ae and Soo Aha peered closer to the mobile screen unconsciously as if it is a magnet and their faces are coated with iron. Their wide eyes and parted lips looked dramatic like a child who is watching his favourite cartoon with utmost concentrate. But after reading it they looked like a deflated balloon. The earlier excitement vanished like a volatile object in the thin air.
Soo Aha was the first to react. She humped and went to lie on her bed like the whole process has consumed lots of energy from her and mumbled "(1)we have taken off our pants and you show us this!" after saying this she got up to see if Eun Ae had heard her and sure enough Eun Ae was glaring in her direction for saying such shameless words. Soo Aha giggled lowly and winked at Eun Ae, thinking to herself that Eun Ae's reactions are predictable for her now. Once a person gets to know Eun Ae's character, it becomes easy to guess her reaction.
( (1) we were so excited for nothing!- it's a Chinese idom)
Eun Ae sat down on her bed and racked her brain to think about what to reply. What can a person reply to a simple 'Thumbs up' (đź‘Ť)! It simply makes a person feel speechless. She glanced at Soo Aha who was right now writing something diligently and then to her mobile screen's thumbs up.
'what's the meaning of just sending a thumbs up? Should I ask him directly or should I just send some question marks?'
After thinking for a while she exited the app and started staring at her home screen. Her screen's wallpaper was Jae Hyuk's latestly released pic on Twitter. He was wearing a black Adidas shirt which matched his creamy white skin perfectly, the pose he adopted was a satisfied smile and a v(✌) of his hand in front of half of his face through which his eye could be seen, winking at her. Eun Ae caressed his smile with her thumb as if this would allow her hand to reach him out in reality through her phone. She had already realised that she has became obsessed with Jae Hyuk. She is obsessed with his everything, his smile, his almond shaped eyes, his dark intense look, his pink and soft looking lips, his flawless face, just everything. She appreciates even his accessories in her heart. His look in this pic makes her lick her lips everytime. Most of Jae Hyuk's pics in her gallery have one of his eyes covered with his black gelled hairs which makes her heart scream and yearn while it complains for covering such a perfect part of his face. But it makes her long more and more to get an opportunity to uncover it herself. Day by day her desires are making her heart feel more stuffed and impatient.
Actually even if she had denied to go for the interview, in her mind she had already ran her way to the interview's venue and came back dejectedly thinking that she is not professional enough for more than hundred times! The things that are stopping her form going on the interview is her sister and low self confidence. The problem of social anxiety was slowly embedded in her from her middle school. Her own flesh and blood related sister used to make her lackeys bully her for every small thing, with reason or without reason, it doesn't matter and her parents were workaholics who never bothered to give a damn about her life except for meddling in her studies. They had always wanted their kids to be perfect but have never bothered themself with Eun Ae's and even Eun Jung's feelings. To cope up with their unaffectionate world they both chose different ways, Eun Ae distanced herself from everyone and dawned herself in the world of music and Eternal wings while Eun Jung started seeking affection from outsiders, she started making boyfriend and after changing a dozen of them every year, she got a habit of cheating on her ongoing boyfriend. In this way Eun Jung had broken the heart of many boys but they still falls for her because of her looks and outgoing personality.
Eun Ae shook her head and stopped thinking about them as she doesn't want to dig out her old wounds. But the way things are going on right now, she can sense a storm brewing up and getting bigger everyday, one day it's going to sweep away the ties constraining her and that would be the day when she cut down all the chains around her and fly far away from that cage called home.
Now that Eun Ae is thinking about being independent, she needs a job to live independently, which is obvious enough. Should she consider the previous decision of attending the interview? Maybe yes? Maybe it will become the foundation of the rebellion against her parents in future. 'Why not try it?' she thought to herself and smiled, a satisfied smile which was matching the smile on her screen. She felt the shackles squeezing her mind had broken down and she felt more relaxed.
Now she knew what to reply to the thumbs up and typed 'thank you' before sending it, because the thumbs up was supposed to be a compliment (on her post) and grinned with her pearly white teeths shining brightly.