My Beloved

"You like a boy! That\'s something new. This is my first time hearing that you have someone you like other than Sean. Oh no, Sean is your crush but this case is different," Han Luo tapped the tea table while her eyes gleamed mischievously. She suddenly leaned forward trying to interrogate her friend, "So, who is this guy? Is he from our class?"

Beth answered, "Nope, he isn\'t a nerd like me. He is from Year 10 Set 4. He is also a reader of my gossip column. Coming to this thought, I\'m such a popular blogger, how can people don\'t know about me?" Her tone turned slightly narcissistic to the end as she grinned happily at Han Luo.

\'Year 10 Set 4, hmm, he is fourteen years old and a year younger than Beth. He isn\'t a bad student but he isn\'t good either,\' Han Luo thought. Thinking of this, Han Luo eyed her friend with some suspicion, "Since he is from Set 4, how did he contact you? Did he do that through the chat board on your blogger?"

Beth didn\'t think too deeply, she excitedly replied, "Yes! He said that I was the most amazing girl he had ever known. His messages were so dreamy…"

Han Luo\'s lips twitched. Staying in Paris, she had learned that men would only use superficial words to woo women when they had ulterior motives. She realized that she needed to knock some sense into her best friend. She took a deep breath and exhaled loudly. She started, "Listen, Beth-"

Beth went on without hearing her friend. "I told him I\'ll meet him tonight with my bestie and he agreed." She took Han Luo\'s hand and suddenly suggested, "Luo, let\'s go together."

Han Luo froze at the sudden turn of events. She opened her mouth and tried to refuse, "Beth, I don\'t think I should…"

Beth tilted her head. "Why is that? Are you tired?"

Han Luo replied, "That\'s not it…"

Beth cut her off after she got her answer. "Then hurry up and get ready. This is the first time I\'ve ever liked a boy. I want you to meet him."

It\'s her first date with the boy she likes; she can\'t help but feel giddy.

\'Since she is asking so much, I shouldn\'t let her down. Why don\'t I make use of this opportunity to find out what kind of a person approached her,\' after coming to this conclusion, she agreed to go along with Beth.

While surfing through her old clothes, Han Luo was mortified. Since she had grown three inches in two years and with the obvious changes in her body, most of her previous dresses couldn\'t be worn at her current size. She could still wear her party dresses if she mended them but the same couldn\'t be done in case of other dresses.

"What\'s taking you so long?" Beth asked from the bedroom. She had brought her clothes with her so that she could dress up in Han Luo\'s bedroom. She was already done with getting ready and came to check up on Han Luo.

In the end, Han Luo chose a cocktail dress and walked out of her closet. She asked for her friend\'s opinion. "I don\'t have so many choices right now. What do you think of this dress?"

Beth looked at the dress and was speechless. It was a pink cocktail dress with printed flowers. "What are you? A kid? You cannot wear anything like this. Wear something sexy or a glamorous one. Something more mature."

Han Luo was confused. "Why? It\'s your date, not mine. Also, why do I have to dress up like an adult?"

"It\'s because we are going to an adult\'s place." Beth winked at her.

Han Luo had a bad feeling about this. She became alert, "I don\'t like what you are saying. Who chose the venue?"

"I did," Beth answered. She hummed a song and checked herself out in front of the mirror. Then she turned to face her friend and asked, "Do I look beautiful?"

"You do," Han Luo answered.

After choosing a dress from her latest party clothes and then finishing up their makeover, Han Luo inquired, "So, how are we going to go there? I don\'t want to ask Noah to drive us to the adult place you mentioned. Even if I ask him to take us there, he is surely going to ask thousands of questions."

Beth gave her a simple solution. "We can always ask for Yujin\'s help." She continued dreamily, "He is so kind, he won\'t say \'no\' to you and I\'m sure of it." It seemed that she had already planned out everything.

Han Luo smirked. "I thought you liked your date. Why are you still fantasizing about big brother Yujin?"

Beth winked playfully at her friend, "Crush and love are two different things, honey. I can only love my boyfriend while I can crush on hundreds of guys at the same time."

Han Luo shook her head. Sometimes, she really didn\'t know what went around inside Beth\'s head. She shared her opinion. "I would rather crush on a single person, fall in love with him, and then marry him. I don\'t need a hundred men."

Beth teasingly said, "I want to know who the lucky boy is."

"There is no one," Han Luo blushed at her friend\'s teasing and shyly replied. Before Beth could ask any further she said, "I\'m ready. Let\'s go and coax big brother Yujin."

"Let\'s go!" Beth left the room first.

Han Luo checked herself in the mirror one last time before pairing a dark green overcoat with her dress to go along. She followed her friend out.

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"Where do you want to go?" Tang Yujin closed the magazine and looked at Han Luo.

"My friend is having a party at her house and invited Beth and me to come. I want to go there with Beth. Big brother Yujin, please take us there," Han Luo pleaded. In her heart, she praised herself for coming up with a reasonable excuse. \'I\'m a genius!\'

"You have friends other than Beth?" Tang Yujin thought that something was out of place. He only saw her with Beth when she attended school. He never saw her hanging out with other boys or girls.

Han Luo swiftly lied. "Yes, she is Beth\'s close friend and we got acquainted back in middle school. I haven\'t seen her for two years. I want to go."

In his opinion, it\'s not much of a deal to take her to the party. However, he was concerned about her health. "Are you sure you want to go there? Aren\'t you tired? You had a long journey."

"I took a nap after lunch, did I not? I\'m now full of energy." She tugged his sleeve and asked cutely, "Big brother Yujin, pretty please?"

Tang Yujin couldn\'t take her innocent, puppy eyes. He finally gave in. "Fine, I will take you there."

"Yay! Big brother Yujin is the best!" Ha Luo clapped her hands. She realized that in front of her big brother Yujin, she was nothing more than a child.

For some reason, she always acts childishly in front of Tang Yujin. She doesn\'t know why she does that. She just likes to be a child in front of her Big brother Yujin. She has never given it much of a thought.

Tang Yujin asked his driver to send these two girls to their friend\'s house. He tagged along with them as well. Since Tang Yujin was with them, Noah wasn\'t worried and permitted them to go.

Beth told them the address and they reached their destination in no time. Han Luo and Beth unbuckled their seatbelts and got out of the car. Han Luo looked around. It was a residential area. This place was quieter than the surrounding areas.

"Are you sure this is the house?" Tang Yujin asked.

"Yes, we are off then. Thank you so much Yujin. Bye bye!" Beth clasped Han Luo\'s hand and dragged her to an apartment.

"Wait, when should I come to take you back home?" Tang Yujin asked from behind.

"After ten," Beth replied.

Han Luo waved her hand at Yujin as she walked beside her friend. Afterward, she lowered her voice and asked, "Whose house is this?"

"It\'s my house. Hurry and come or else Yujin won\'t leave. Man, I didn\'t know he was so overprotective," Beth whispered.

Han Luo said, "You didn\'t even see my big brother Ming and big brother Yuan. Compared to them, he is less worrywart."

Standing in front of the door, Beth knocked on the door and her mother opened the door for her. Mrs. O\'Connor was stunned to see her daughter and Han Luo. "Oh, I didn\'t know you two would come here. Welcome to our house, Luo. Come inside."

"Thank you, Mrs. O\'Connor," Han Luo replied.

They went inside. After talking to Beth\'s mother for a while, Han Luo went to Beth\'s room. She took a bowl of grapes and put them one after one in her mouth carefully so that her lipstick wouldn\'t be ruined. She offered some to Beth and asked, "Did big brother Yujin leave?"

Beth replied while taking some grapes into her hand, "Yes, he did. I\'ve called a taxi. It will arrive soon."

As she said, soon the taxi came and they headed to their real destination. Once they reached, Han Luo\'s eyes widened. She internally screamed and grabbed Beth\'s hand. "Beth, why are we in the night club?"

Beth grinned, "I always wanted to come here."

"But this is a night club! Why did you choose this place for a date?" Han Luo had wanted to go to nightclubs ever since she came to London. However, she was underage and so she couldn\'t go.

How will they enter the night club when they are only 14 years old?"