A/N Hi guys. I'm back with another update. I wasn't going to update this week actually, because I'm in the middle of final exams. So been quite busy cramming stuffs in one week. but guess what? It's my birthday today, so I'm kinda giving myself a break.  yayy me! Actually, I've just had an exam this morning.yeah, final exam on my birthday! I didn't celebrate it at all because, I'm kinda away from my family and friends. sad. all I have is this story to cheer me up. so enjoy this very loonnggggggg chapter. :)

“Are you sure you’re going to be fine?”

“I am, Taetae. It’s only college.”

“But it’s your first day, what if you got lost or something?”

“I won’t. I have the map, and I do have a sense of direction.”

Taeng scoffed. “You got lost in the school once.”

“I found a way back.”

“That was because I came for you.”

Tiffany clicked her tongue at him. “Can you just leave already? You’re making me nervous.”

Taeng chuckled. “Arasso, I’ll leave.” He kissed her lips sweetly. “I’ll pick you up once you’re done, and then I want you to tell me all about your first day.”

“Why do you sound like you’re my parents?”

“I’m not your parents, I’m a concern boyfriend.” He grinned and kissed her forehead, before ruffling her hair. “Call me when you’re done.”

“I will. I love you, Taetae.”

He smiled hearing those words. “I love you too.”

Tiffany took a deep breath and her heels to head into the huge entrance of the college she will be attending for 3 years doing her degree in business.

She slowed her steps once she neared the entrance and glanced back, only to see Taeng smiling while waving his hand at her from his car. She shook her head at him. She felt her phone vibrated.

                Goodluck, my love. I’m rooting for you. :)
 

She looked up from her phone and saw him blew a kiss before driving away. She couldn’t help but to smile at herself because of her dorky but sweet boyfriend’s gestures.

That was the first day she stepped into her college, and just like the first one, her boyfriend was always there for her, sending and waiting for her after college ends.

Tiffany entered the purple car while throwing her bag somewhere in it.

“Ouch!” the driver screamed in pain as his face was hit with the bag.

She didn’t even bother to check on him, her eyes were still angry about something that happened in class.

“What’s wrong, baby?”

She huffed.

“I can’t help you if you’re going to be like this.”

She turned to look at him and saw his serious eyes, gazing at her. “I’m fine.”

“I just got hit by your bag, and you’re telling me that you’re fine?”

She didn’t answer him.

“Want some cheering up kisses from your awesome man?” He tried to joke but again, his attempt was ignored.

He sighed and pressed into the gas pedal, moving his car finally and drove away with the quiet girl beside him.

The next day, after dropping off Tiffany at her college, he didn’t drive off like always do, instead he searched for a parking spot and parked his car there.

After that, he started to walk around his girlfriend’s college to find the her first lecture hall which he has peeked at the day before. Once he found the hall, he sneaked in and took a seat at the back so that he can find the girl. He spotted her sitting right in front and couldn’t help but to smile at himself. My nerdy girl.

When the two hours lecture finally ended, he waited for the rest of the students to leave and saw his girlfriend talking to the lecturer. He waited until she was done before approaching the clueless girl.

Tiffany’s eyes widened once she spotted him. “What are you doing here?!”

“Syhhh, the professor will hear you.”

She turned around to see if the professor was paying attention to them and was glad when she saw that he was still engrossed with some papers in his hand.

“Why aren’t you at work, Taetae?”

“Because my girlfriend has been ignoring me for a day.”

“I didn’t do that.”

“You weren’t talking to me.”

She pouted. “I’m sorry, I just got a lot of things on my mind.”

“I know, that’s why I’m here to cheer you up!” He grinned at the girl.

“You can’t come barging in here you know, what if you got caught?”

“I won’t. I looked like a student don’t you think?” He turned around to let the girl examine his choice of fashion.

She scoffed. “Where did you get that glasses?”

“I took it from some nerds I bumped into just now.”

Tiffany gasped.

“I was kidding, Fany-ah.” Taeng moved closer and pecked her lips lovingly. “Hungry? Let’s have lunch together.”

“But I still have class after this.”

“We’ll eat at the cafeteria.” He smiled, before dragging her with him towards the cafeteria, although he has no idea where it is.

After a couple of minutes wandering around, Tiffany finally took the lead and guided them towards the cafeteria.

“Sit here, I’ll get us food.” He kissed her head before going around the cafeteria to see the choices of food there.

Taeng quickly sat down next to Tiffany once he got their food. “There’s no much of a choice, but I found your favorite spaghetti.” He put the plate in front of Tiffany.

“Where’s yours?”

“We’ll share.”

Tiffany raised her eyebrow, “Who says I’m sharing with you?” She stuck out her tongue before pulling the plate closer to her.

“Why you Miss greedyHwang.”

“Go get your own.”

Taeng sighed before standing up again to buy his own food.

Tiffany laughed at his expression and waited for him to get back.

Somebody touched her shoulder and made her turn around.

“Hi, it’s me again.”

She groaned. “What do you want?”

“Come on, I just want to be friends.”

“You said a different thing yesterday.”

“I was wrong okay, I didn’t know you have a boyfriend. Let’s just be friends then. I..”

“Sorry, dude. She’s taken, and no, she’s not going to be friends with you.” Taeng interrupted the tall man who was offering his hand to Tiffany.

“And who are you?”

“I’m her husband-to-be.”

The guy’s eyes widened. “But Tiffany said that she only has a boyfriend, she didn’t say anything about getting married.”

“Well, I don’t know about you, but when I’m in a relationship, I mean serious business, so marriage is the only end to this, so technically, we are engaged, aren’t we?”

The man gulped, also getting the warning glares from the girl’s man. “F-fine. I’ll be on my way then.”

“Good, keep on walking.” Taeng shrugged him off before taking a seat beside the girl. “So, he’s the one who’s responsible for your awful mood yesterday?”

Tiffany nodded weakly. She didn’t want any trouble if she was caught lying to him again.

“What did he do?”

“H-he tried to k-kiss me.”

Taeng’s clenched his fists. “Did he manage to?”

Tiffany shook her head.

“Good then.” He said, although his eyes were blazing in anger.

Tiffany held his arm, “Nothing happened.” She tried to convince him, afraid of a reoccurring event.

He nodded. “I know. I’m just a little pissed off. Don’t worry, I’m not mad at you.” He leaned over and kissed her forehead. “I trust you.” He finally smiled before picking up his fork to eat his food.

“Thank you, Taetae.” Tiffany leaned over and placed a peck on his cheek.

Taeng answered her with a bright smile and gestured towards her to start eating her lunch.

“You know what?” Taeng spoke after finishing his food.

“Umm?”

“I think I should go to college now. Maybe I’ll even take the same class as you.”

“Why so sudden?”

“To fend off all these fanboys of yours, of course.”

Tiffany giggled. “Why would you do that? Aishh, I can handle them, Taetae.”

“So you DO have a handful of them.” He said while noting it in his mind.

“No, I don’t!” She tried to deny it when she realized what he was thinking of.

“Too late, Fany-ah. After this, we’re going to take a little walk around this college of yours while claiming you as mine and only mine to every single person we meet.” He grinned suspiciously.

Tiffany’s jaw hanged open hearing her boyfriend’s possessiveness. She thought he was only joking again, but the glint in his eyes told her the opposite of it. Oh, Tiffany would be in so much trouble after this.
 

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The college girls giggled seeing the usual sight of a guy leaning on a luxurious, holding his Ipad with one hand, scrunching up his eyebrows at the screen. The giggling caught the guy’s attention as he held the device down and smiled at them embarrassedly.

“Here, Oppa.” One of the girls bravely approached him, and handed him a gift completely wrapped with a ribbon on top of it.

He looked at the object confusedly, hesitant to receive it.

“It’s for you, please accept this.”

He was surprised to receive something like this from someone he barely knows, it was rare for him to be treated like this especially when the people he usually interacted with were older than him, hence, an innocent gesture like this was a little bit foreign for him.

“Ermm,” He scratched his head, “I’m sorry, I can’t.”

The girl frowned. “But I bought it for you.”

“Why?”

“It’s… It’s Valentines Day today.”

“I know.”

“So I thought…”

“You should give this to the person you like.”

The college girl blushed.

It took a whole minute for him to realize her attention. “You like me?” He pointed to himself.

She nodded shyly.

“But why?”

“Because you’re cute.”

His ears went red instantly. “..Thank you.”

“Please accept this?”

“But..you know I have a girl already, don’t you?”

She nodded. “It’s just a simple gift.”

“I can’t accept a Valentine gift. It’s not right. I’m taken, you see.” Taeng tried to explain it to the girl without hurting her feelings. He didn’t know her that well, only saw her a couple of times but he knows that the girl has a big heart.

She smiled. “Then accept this as a gratitude for helping me the other day.”

He raised his eyebrow. “Alright then. Thank you, Jinae-shi” He finally took the present from the girl.

The girl smiled and bowed to him before walking away with her giggling friends who were watching from afar.

Taeng smiled seeing the giggling girls and started to look at the present he just got.

“What is that?” A familiar voice was heard from a distance, he looked up and saw his fiancée approaching him.

“Hi baby.” He hugged and gave a kiss on her cheek.

“Did I make you wait long?”

He shook his head. “I just got here.”

“What’s that?” She pointed to the gift he was holding in one hand while his other hand was around the girl’s waist.

“Oh, this? It’s nothing.” He opened the door for the girl. “Come on, let’s have dinner.”

She raised her eyebrow.

“Fany-ah, I’m really hungry.” He pouted. “It’s been a long day.”

Tiffany decided to ask about it again later, since she was hungry too.

They arrived at a restaurant shortly, as he led her towards a table in the middle of the restaurant.

“What do you want to eat?” He asked as they took a seat.

“I’ll have anything you’re having.”

Taeng grinned before ordering their food to the awaiting waiter.

Tiffany looked around and noticed something odd about the place they were dining in.

“Taetae..”

“Yes, baby?”

“Why is there no one else in this restaurant?”

Taeng looked around too. “Umm, maybe because they decided to stay in today.”

She raised her eyebrow. “Why? Isn’t today supposed to be a lover’s day?”

“It is?”

“Yeah,” Tiffany looked at the man sitting across her. “You didn’t know?”

He shook his head. “It’s been a busy day at work. I didn’t notice anything.”

She inwardly sighed, she thought that she could at least have some kind of celebration for their first time celebrating the lover’s day together. But she was left disappointed since her fiancé seemed clueless about it.

“How’s your day, Fany-ah?”

“It’s fine.”

“Did you talk to your lecturer about that assignment you’re confused about?”

She nodded her head. “She had explained to me once again, and said that if I have a hard time with it, she can guide me.”

“That’s good.” He smiled, and took the girl’s hand that was on the table, caressing it softly. “Why haven’t you smiled at me yet today?”

She frowned. “Should I smile at you?”

“Of course.”

She rolled her eyes.

“Rolling your eyes doesn’t count as a smile, you know.”

“Who said anything about smiling at you?”

Taeng frowned. “Did I do something wrong?”

“No.” She retracted her hand.

Before he can ask anything further, their dinner came and the couple continued to eat quietly.

Taeng kept on stealing a glance at the girl in front of him, noticing her bad mood since they got into the car earlier.

After their dinner was finished, he was about to order some dessert, but the girl stopped him.

“Let’s just go home.”

Taeng raised his eyebrow. “Why?”

“I’m tired.”

He sighed. “Alright. I’ll just go get the bill.”

“I’ll wait you in the car.”

Tiffany went to Taeng’s car, and opened it with the keys he gave her earlier. She started the car’s engine and switched on the air conditioner. She felt around the back seat to get her sweater, but her hand caught onto something else.

“This is what Taetae hid from me.” She pouted and looked at the box carefully. “Is this for me?”

She looked at the card attached on top of the present and her expression changed immediately. Her heart felt hurt once she read the content of the card.

The driver’s door opened, and Tiffany quickly put the box back to its original place.

Taeng wore his seatbelt as he took a seat and glanced at the girl. She was closing her eyes now, with her back towards him.

He leaned over towards the girl to put the seatbelt around her before giving a gentle peck on her forehead.

He drove home with a heavy heart since he knows something was not right with the girl all day.

Taeng opened the passenger door to carry the girl inside since she was sleeping, but he was pushed out of the way and saw the girl walking away in a hurry. He hurriedly grabbed the girl’s hand to turn her around. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.” She said, but her eyes betrayed her since he can clearly see the tears in them.

He cupped her face and kissed those tears away. “Tell me, please. This is hurting me, seeing you like this.”

She bit her lips. “Who is Jinae to you?”

“Sorry?”

“Who is she?”

Taeng was confused. “I don’t understand.”

She exhaled. “I saw your Valentine gift.”

It took Taeng quite a time to understand what she was talking about. “She is no one to me.”

“But she gave you a gift.”

“I didn’t want it.”

“But you still took it.”

Taeng took a hold of her hands and kissed them. “It doesn’t mean anything.”

“Yes, it does.”

“No, it doesn’t.”

“Taetae, admit it. You like that girl.” She had seen the said girl talking to Taeng a couple of times while he was waiting for her. She didn’t say anything before since she thought that he was just being friendly.

“W-what?”

“You like her, that’s why you took her gift.”

“She likes me, I don’t like her.”

“You took it.” She narrowed her eyes at him.

Taeng sighed, he went to his car while dragging her along with him. He took the box and threw it away somewhere in the garage.

“There, I throw it out.”

She blinked her eyes at his harsh action. It was still a gift from someone.

“What is it with you today? You weren’t smiling, you didn’t talk to me all day, and now you’re mad at me for something like this? I don’t understand.”

“I’m fine.” She looked away.

He cupped her face make her look at him. “I love you, you know that don’t you?”

She hesitantly nodded.  “I know, it’s just that…”

“What?”

“I don’t know.”

“How am I going to fix this if you don’t even know what’s wrong?”

She grew silent.

“Let’s talk about this somewhere else.” He pecked her lips quickly before dragging her to go above ground using the elevator.

They were in the girl’s room now, still quiet, not talking to each other. Taeng was determined to make her talk first before he would say anything. He stared at the girl intensely who was leaning on the headboard of the bed, hugging her knees.

“You didn’t even propose to me.” She started slowly. “I don’t even know when we got engaged to each other. You started calling me your fiancée ever since that day at college.”

Taeng’s eyes widened. “W-what?”

“I didn’t even receive any ring from you.” She mumbled sadly.

“This is why you’re upset?” He was starting to feel amused by it.

She shook her head. “I wasn’t upset about this at first, because I thought it didn’t matter because I know how busy you were. But at dinner, you acted like you didn’t know anything about today. Then, I found a Valentine present from another girl sitting in your car, how was I supposed to react to that?” She sighed. “I just thought you just didn’t care to celebrate our love together. That you have no interest in me anymore.” Her voice was shaking for the doubts she had.

She had heard it before, that a guy is different when he is courting a girl, he is going to change right after he got the girl. She can clearly see it happening with Taeng. And she was not happy about it. Was he going to be any different when they are finally married? Will he see another woman interesting as she once was to him?

“How could you think that?”

She shrugged.

Taeng moved closer to the girl and put an arm around her shoulder, making her lean on him. He took the girl’s hand and made it touched the right pocket of his pants.

“W-what are you doing?”

“I was going to do something special tonight. But then, I saw your mood, and saw how tired you was. So..”

She blinked her eyes confusedly as the man kept on brushing her hand on his thigh.

“Take it out.”

“N-no!”

Taeng raised his eyebrow. “Just do it, Fany-ah. I promise it’ll be worth it.”

She shook her head.

Taeng grew impatient, he took the girl’s hand and shoved it down his pants, making her squeal in shock.

“Aish, don’t be too loud, my parents could hear you.” He let go and let her take her hand back, pulling an object from his pants.

“What’s this?” Tiffany asked as she eyed the small black box in her palm.

“Open it.” He smiled before sneaking a kiss on the girl’s red cheeks.

Tiffany opened the box and saw the content of it. Her eyes widened in shock to see two rings, one of them with a small pink diamond on it.

“Marry me, Fany-ah?”

She looked up from the box and saw the man’s face very close to her, he was looking very serious and was waiting for a reaction.

“When did you..”

“It has been in my pocket for months.”

“But..”

“I was looking for a right time, but you know how it has been at the office, and when I finally have the time, you're busy with your college stuffs. So I have to wait for the right time for both of us.” He sighed. “I thought it’ll be today, since it’s Valentines and all. Didn’t think you would throw a fit.” He joked to lift up the mood.

She smacked his shoulder in protest.

“But since my fiancée was sulkin