ღ Chapter Eighteen ღ

What exactly did not now mean? When were we to talk about Kris’ shocking confession if not now? I didn’t know. A week later, it still wasn’t now because we still had yet to talk about the confession at all.

Kris was pretending like it never happened, but the air was different between us now. Different, not necessary in a bad way. We were still as close as before, if not even closer, and it was now that I started noticing all the little things.

I noticed the way Kris always walked a little behind me, using his tall body and shoulder to shield me. I noticed the way he would tilt his head to look at me when I talked, and the small smile he would get whenever I did that.

How had I not noticed before? Maybe I had just been indenial before, because all of the signs were beyond here.

I found myself returning the favor.

When Kris got into an animated story, the stony, cold look he tended to have a lot of the time would slip away, and his face would be full of emotion: happiness, anger, guilt, annoyance. His eyes shined during times like that, and I found it hard to look away. Kris glittered.

Kris

Time. That was what Jae-in needed. First of all, it was stupid of me to blurt out that I liked her like that. It was too quick, and the last thing that I wanted was to force an answer out of her then.

I told myself that I was going to give her just that…time. I told myself that I was going to back off, to distance myself, but it was near impossible. Time, I could give. Distance, not so much.

If anything, we became closer.

Just the fact that she wasn’t embarrassed around me or avoiding me had to be a good sign, right?  

She came over for dinner even more than before. Was it because of me? Or was that too much to hope for?

At the dinner table, things had also changed. Jae-in use