Courage, Dear Heart (Liskook ff)

(50) Midnight Convo

LISA's POV

"Before I end this activity, would you like to hear my personal advice to all of you?" Ms. Song thoughtfully asked us.

"Ne" we answered in unison.

"Uhm class, a friendly advice from Ms. Song. Try to fall in love not just with people, but also with places, things and activities. When looking for love, look for love everywhere. Your existence is such an unbelievably fantastic event in this miracle of life that the best and only real option is to become the most tender-hearted, loving and kind individual you can possibly be. With that, you will always survive and and you will live your life positively. I hope you will take note of that"

"Yes Ms. Song. We thank you" then all of us bowed politely.

In the very next moment, Ms. Song has finally ended our first activity. We sat here for almost 5 hours. One thing I've realized on this session, love can show up in a million different ways, in a million different forms. This means we have a million choices everyday to bring love into our lives, or not. My advice? Choose love.

As we're starting to walk back to our respective rooms, Jungkook glanced over at my direction with a smile.

"Do you like the way I defined love?" he asked, holding my right hand secretively.

"I do" I answered as I looked at his adoring face.

"I would really like to talk with you all night, conversing about some life stuffs. It would perfectly satisfied my night. But my boys already planned something for us gents." For a flicker of second, something changed in his expression.

"That would be so cool! Go ahead and have fun with them. Maybe Jennie and the girls also planned something. We surely have a plenty of next times, so don't you worry." I assured him.

"Plenty of next times?" he repeated. I giggled at his bewildered expression.

"That's what I'm saying"

"YES!" he yawped in delight. As I gawked at the enthusiastic Jungkook, I couldn't help to imagine the thought of leaving him. Of course I won't do it again because that would be something I couldn't handle this time.

We stood together, walking toward the door of my room. When there're only few students left in the hallway, I held on to his hand tightly. For some reason, I dreaded letting it go. It felt like this whole moment was fragile somehow, and if it shifted too much, it might break.

"I'll see you tomorrow then" he promised in a whisper, his nose millimeters away from my ears.

"Goodnight" I pulled back and smiled, still giddy on what just he said in our activity earlier and what's happening between us right now.

I spent the whole night with my girls in our room, just playing uno cards. All of us were really enjoying this moment. Every once in a while, when there was someone lost, she'd let out a long sigh, and in that alone I could hear how happy we were playing.

After three hours with card games, we decided to go to our bed. As much as we don't want to end this day, we really need to get some sleep by this time.

"Goodnight girls!" Jennie said just before she shut off the lights.

And that's when I thought that I really need some sleep but it turned out I was still far from dozing off. I walked outside our room for I was planning to go to the kitchen. I looked up and down the hall. It was empty.