It's all your fault (Lesbian love story part 2) chapter 11

Tara’s POV

When my 10 hour flight landed in Italy, I sent a text to my Aunt Bella on the cellphone she and Mariah had bought me for Christmas that my flight had landed before tossing it into my carry on bag. I rushed through baggage claim with the anticipation of seeing my one and only giving me haste, hailed a taxi and with much less difficulty this time was able to communicate with the driver. In an hour I spotted a familiar school outside my window and my heart began to soar. The cab driver pulled up to the campus and after he helped me unload my suitcase I was left standing there with my heart pounding against my ribcage. I checked the time and saw that is was almost 7am and then took a look around the empty campus. It was already Sunday on January 1st in Italy so most of the students hadn't gone home for Christmas were probably asleep but I still moved cautiously through the campus. It was a lot easier this time since I knew my way around and I was able to make it upstairs to the 5th in no more than five minutes.

My hand shook from excitement and nervousness as I lifted it to knock on the familiar door. After four knocks I heard footsteps approaching the door, then the doorknob churn, then it slowly began to open… I held my breath as my heart leapt into my throat.

“Kim!!” I cried out in astonishment “What are you doing here?!” I asked smiling at her.

“Oh my god…” she said with a blank expression. I couldn’t read the blank stare she was giving so I asked what was wrong. “Erm Tara?” she began, before she stepped out of the way. Once I was able to look past her into the room I saw that nothing looked suspicious but she still had an awkward look on her face that was slowly forming into an even more awkward smirk.

“What?” I asked cautiously

“You won’t believe this but Mona’s not here,” said Kym

“…What, where is she” I asked warily

“America” said Kym with a laugh. My suitcase clattered to the floor as I let go of the handle.

“SHIT!!” I hollered, causing Kym to shush me and pull me inside before she closed the door.

“Mona’s laptop broke and it was going to be a while before she could get it fixed so she just decided to fly out to see you” explained Kym. My mouth dropped open in astonishment. “She left this morning so odds are she arrived around the time you left” finished Kym. For a second I just stood there staring at Kym with a blank look of my own before I just collapsed onto the floor in a heap of laughter and bewilderment.

“I don’t believe this!” I cackled loudly, causing Kym to shush me again. All Kym could do was chuckle at my amusement before saying

“Its 7am Jan 1st here which means that it’s still around 11pm Dec 31 in the states. Just fly back after you get some sleep”

“It’s a ten hour flight I can just sleep on the plane” I suggested

“Well either way you can't sty here, some of the teachers areand students are still over break. Depending on when you can catch the next flight on short notice you’ll have stay at my parent’s house”. It was settled, as soon as Kym was ready to go we hailed a taxi and Kym dropped me off at her house at 8:30. When Kym let me in we found her parents already up.

“Tara! What are you doing here?” They said eyeing my suitcase. “We haven’t seen you in a while”

“She’s flying to the states soon and just needs a place to stay for a few hours, there’s been a family emergency” Kym swiftly lied and she whisked me upstairs before her parents could utter another word. As soon as I was settled into Kym’s room she said she had to leave because she promised that she would an eye on Mona’s room while Mona was away. As soon as she was gone I was left alone in her room with nothing more than silence. With nothing much to do I opened laid my suitcase down on the bed and took my phone out of my bag. When I opened it, it said there were three missed calls and 1 text message all from my Aunts. I opened the text and it read

‘Guess who’s at our house :)’

After reading this all I could do was laugh at my own airheaded habit of not waiting for a return text after texting my Aunts.

Mona’s POV

My heart beat rapidly as my taxi ride ended in front of a cozy looking two story house that matched the address that Tara had mentioned over one of our video chats. I couldn’t wait to see the look on Tara’s face when I showed up on her door stop. As I unloaded my luggage I checked the time and after seeing that it was still morning I hoped I wasn’t showing up too early. I walked up to the fron door and rang the doorbell before I patiently waited for some one to answer the door but no one came. I peered into one of the windows and saw that there were no ligts on. It was a little past 10AM so it's not like I had rude timing. I jogged over to the garage door and peered iside to find it empty. Where could they be I thought to myself Oh well I guess I have no choice but t wait I thought, before I sat down on the door step.

It wasn’t until noon that I saw a car pull into the drive way. When the people driving it came out of the garage they spotted me sitting on their front porch. And as soon as my eyes had met with the two women a smile spread over my face as I recognized them from another one of my video chats with Tara.

“Well hi Mona” Laughed Aunt Bella.

“You’ll never guess where we just came back from” joked Mariah.

Lee POV

It was Saturday afternoon on Christmas day and I was getting ready to go over and see Tara. As I stood in front of my bathroom mirror I noticed my already long hair had already grown even longer. I wasn’t sure what to do with it so just pulled it back and fixed my bangs. Then I put on a nice shirt, some jeans, and some casual jewelry and then checked myself in the mirror again.

As I picked up a bottle of my cologne I stopped myself before I sprayed some on. What are you doing Lee? It’s not she can be your girlfriend I scolded myself and put down the bottle before heading downstairs. On the way towards the door my mother caught sight of me.

“Oh Yeongsuk-ah(his first name)*, where are you going?” she asked me.

“To a friend’s house” I said, trying to hide which friend’s house

“A girl’s house?” she asked

I stopped in my tracks, so much for being subtle.

“Uh… yeah, why?” I asked

“I’ve just never seen you dress up like that since you were with your Ex, Han Sumi, that’s all” she said smiling “Anyways have fun and be back in time for Christmas dinner” she said before I left for Tara’s house.

After a 30 minute drive I pulled up to Tara’s Aunt’s house and saw that there were lights on inside the living room. When I parked my car I reached behind my seat, pulled out the gift I had bought for Tara and walked towards the front door and rang the doorbell. Along the living room window curtain I watched a young female silhouette with long flowing hair and a curvaceous figure, and long eyelashes head towards the door. My heart started to race as I anticipated Tara opening the door and smiling warmly at me, just imaging it gave me butterflies. But when the door opened my racing heart leaped into my throat when I saw a shockingly familiar face that wasn’t Tara’s.

“Mona!” I said, astonished at her unexpected appearance.

“Hi, you’re Lee right? I think I remember Tara introducing us over a video chat once” she said with a smile.

“Y-yeah” I stuttered
“It’s nice to finally meet you in person. Tara talks about you all the time" said Mona
"By the way where is Tara?” I asked as Mona let me in.

“Um, Italy” muttered Mona as we walked to the living room. My eyes bulged. “Yeah, apparently her and I tried to fly to one another and missed each other. I got here this morning and since it’s a long flight she won’t get to Italy until 9pm tonight” she finished. I let out a laugh

“So I guess nobody will get to see her at least for today” I said lowering my head as I eyed the present I had brought over for her. “Well I really only came over to say hi and to give her my gift” I said

“Is that you Lee” I heard, Bella’s voice call from the kitchen before she appeared in the living room.

“Yes, hi Bella” I said with a smile.

“Oh you look nice” she said, surveying my outfit “Come on in, we were just about to have gingerbread man cookies” I tried to politely refuse saying that I only came to drop off a present but Bella insisted that I have at least one cookie. And before I knew it I had eaten 5 cookies and had stayed to craft my own gingerbread man house. It was fun, I got to get to know Mona a bit and I started to see why Tara had fallen in love with her. Some defeat settled into me when I reconfirmed that I had absolutely no business even thinking of coming inbetween them. At that moment strong willed Mikalia popped into my head and a sense of impending dread formed a pit in my stomach.

When it came to be about 5pm I said I had to go home and have dinner with my family. So I said my goodbyes, thanked Bella and Mariah for the cookies and headed for home. After I got back home from Tara’s I had an hour before dinner with my family so I just went upstairs to my room. I tossed my keys onto my desk, sprawled out onto my bed and let out a big sigh. I was really looking forward to seeing Tara and to see if she liked the gift I bought her. It was a jade dragonfly hair clip and it was one of the larger ones that could clip back a lot of hair.

I bought it for her because she was always either constantly pushing her hair out of her face or she would just tie her hair back in a ponytail. I picked this particular one because I thought she would look pretty with it in her long black tresses. I sighed as I began to fantasize about watching her opening it giving me one of her beautiful smiles. I shook off my butterflies and turned over and when I did I was facing my desk where I kept a picture of my Ex-girlfriend, Sumi.

And next to it was a picture of Tara and me that was taken during one of our outings with Shim, Mikalia and my other friends. It was picture from earlier this summer where we were playing at a fountain and Shim had taken a picture of Tara splashing me. I laid there pondering my thoughts as I stared at the two pictures until I was called downstairs for Christmas dinner.






Note*: 1).Lee's full name is Lee Yeongsuk. Even though Lee's American friends call him 'Lee', they're actually calling him by his last name because in Asian cltures the 'family' name aka the 'last' name isput first.
2). The term '-ah' or sometimes '-yah' is a term in Korea used by elders when they are speaking to someone younger than them. '-ah' can also be used as a term of endearment in close relationships (lovers, good friends ect).