Jiyoon POV:

‘Don’t fall for him! He’s a pla…!’

I don’t know why those words kept ringing in my mind like a broken record. I wandered what Hyunyoung wanted to mean by “pla…” and why made Sungkyu so mad. I looked at him and he was looking at me also. I blushed and turned my head to the window.

‘Why are you so silent?’ he asked me with a soft voice.

‘Nothing in particular’ I lied.

‘That’s a lie’ he said. I get surprised that he could read me so well. ‘I told you already not to pay attention at what Hyunyoung said’. I get double surprised. ‘What is he, a mind reader?’ I thought. He laughed.

‘Why are you looking at me like that?’ Sungkyu asked me amused.

‘Like what?’ I asked him back.

‘I was right, right? You were thinking of what Hyunyoung said’ Sungkyu addressed me getting serious.

‘…Sort of…’ I answered hesitating.

‘Well, don’t’ he said more serious.

‘Why do you care anyway?’ I asked making a I-don’t-care face.

‘I care!’ he answered looking hard into my eyes.

‘Why did you get so upset back there, then?’ I wanted to know.

‘Because she’s always like that! She thinks I’m some kind of a player…!’

I get shocked by what he said. My heart struggle a little. That was the missing word…,”player”.

‘And what is the truth? Are you a player?’ I asked with evident hurt voice.

‘I AM NOT!’ he responded offended.

I didn’t say anything; I just looked into his eyes searching for the real answer. He seemed to be telling the truth. I took my eyes off him and stared to the window.

There was an awkward silence between us. I felt sad and confused. ‘I can’t let myself fall for a player…’ I thought while watching the cars pass us by.

‘…please don’t believe her…’ I heard Sungkyu saying almost in a whisper.

I turned my attention to him. He was looking at me almost begging with his eyes.

‘Why would she say something like that then, if it is not true?’ I addressed him whispering too.

‘…I don’t know… I always wandered’ he responded with a sad look.

‘You should ask her’ I recommended.

‘I did, but I never got a straight answer’ he answered.

‘May be I’ll ask her’ I finally said.

He looked at me surprised. ‘What if she says something bad about me and you believe her?’ he asked worried. I couldn’t help but laugh at this. It was a sad laugh.

‘I’m not the kind of girl that gets convince so easy’ I answered.

He smiled. ‘Then how are you gonna find out the truth?’ he wanted to know.

‘I have my ways’ I smiled back.

‘Please let’s not talk about this anymore’ he begged, ‘I don’t want to argue with you anymore’

I laughed at this, this time naturally. ‘We were arguing?’ I asked amused by his confused face.

‘No, I mean… you… me…’ he tried to explain himself.

I laughed harder. ‘Ok, ok, don’t worry, let’s drop the subject then’

He smiled ashamed and turned his attention to his fingers. By this moment, the car stopped and the driver announced that we were ‘there’.

Sungkyu POV:

I went down the car and helped her to get down too. I said thanks to the driver, he bowed and got in the car again.

I looked at her, took her hand softly and place it on top my arm like I saw many times in the movies the gentleman did in the middle age with woman. She smiled.

‘Gosh, she looks beautiful when she smiles… I have to make sure that that smile never fade away’I said to myself walking her to the entrance of the restaurant, ‘not even Hyunyoung is gonna take Jiyoon away of me!’ I thought raging at the memory of Hyunyoung.

When we entered I saw her admiring the place. ‘This place is beautiful…’ she managed to say still looking at everything with wide open eyes. I felt happy.

‘Reservation for two, 7pm. Sungkyu’ I said to the maid when we approached her.

‘Wait, you have reservations?’ Jiyoon asked me while the maid searched my name on her book.

I nodded. ‘Then why did you asked me what I wanted to do back there in the recording studio? She wanted to know.

‘Follow me please, your table is served’ the maid said and we started to walk behind her.

I smiled at Jiyoon and getting closer to her ear I answered, ‘…it was a surprise…’. She struggled a little.

‘You are full of surprises today’ she said.

I didn’t answer.

We sat and immediately a waitress comes with the menus. He offered one to Jiyoon and one to me.

She opened the menu and started to read. I saw her eyes wide open when saw the prices.

‘Don’t worry, everything is covered’ I said.

‘This is really expensive, you shouldn’t…’ she responded being honest.

‘I wanted to bring you to the best restaurant in town’ I smiled at her.

She got shocked and blushed. ‘…and why is that?’ she asked me still with a little blush in her cheeks.

‘I’ll tell you later’ I answered mysteriously.

I saw her opening to speak but then the waitress came and we had to order.

She dropped the subject and talked about something else.

When the food came, we ate having a light conversation about the recording of the program and other stuffs.

By the time we finished eating it was almost eight o’clock.

‘It’s a little late now but, do you want to do something else? Or do you want me to take you home now?’ I asked looking at my watch.

‘What time is it?’ she wanted to know.

‘Almost 8pm’

‘Oh, is late… but, why did you ask, you have anything else in mind?’ she asked.

‘Only if you want to’ I answered grinning.

‘What is it?’

‘I won’t tell you’ I said still grinning.

‘Why not? Tell me!’ she said in aegyo mode.

‘Gosh, I’m weak when she does that…’I thought before answered, ‘It’s a surprise…’

‘What? Another one?’ she asked still in aegyo mode.

I nodded smiling widely.

‘Ok then…’ she answered smiling too.

I paid the bill and then we went out of the restaurant. The black car was there waiting for us.

‘Mademoiselle’ I said in bad French making a reverence while I opened the car door.

‘Thank you’ she responded and entered the car.

I entered after her and taking out a paper out of my jacket, I handed it to the driver. He took it and nodded. He started the car and it began to move.

We spend the time chatting on some banal things until finally, the car stopped.

Near the Han River

The young couple went down the car.

‘Where are we?’ Jiyoon asked looking around her.

‘You’ll see’ Sungkyu answered smiling. ‘This way’ he said grabbing her arm softly.

The couple turned in a corner and then a big ferry showed up before them.

‘Waa…’ the charismatic girl admired.

Sungkyu smiled. He felt happy making her happy.

‘Come on, let’s go. It’s gonna depart soon’ the boy hurried. She followed him closely.

They entered the ferry and thankfully it wasn’t that crowded. There were couples most of it and they were too much into their own worlds to notice the two young famous. But when Jiyoon saw the people gathered inside the ferry, she panicked.

‘What if they notice us? It’s going to be a scandal!’ she whispered worried to Sungkyu.

‘They won’t. Come on!’ responded him dragging her to the second floor.

It was less crowded. Only two more couples were there, and none turned to look at them.

‘See?’ he said taking her hand and dragging the still scared Jiyoon.

He took her to the edge of the floor where the rails were. She seemed to relax a little when feel the wind in her face.

‘This is beautiful’ Jiyoon said looking at the illuminated city.

‘It is…’ Sungkyu said looking not at the city but at his hand that were still holding hers.

She noticed and took her hand softly away from his without make eye contact with him. She thank the night that he couldn’t see her blushing hard.

He mumbled, ‘…sorry’, and remained silent watching the stunning view of the city. Neither of them said anything for a while; it was an awkward moment for both.

‘Thank you…’ Jiyoon said breaking the awkward aura.

‘For what?’ answered Sungkyu with a confused face.

She gave him a you-know-what look. He grinned. Of course he knew.

‘You’re very welcome’ the boy said making a reverence. She smiled.

They looked into each other’s eyes for a moment that seemed hours to them.

‘Listen Jiyoon…’ he started, ‘…I…I want to tell you something…’

She looked at him interested.

‘It’s kinda obvious though…’ he tried to explain avoiding her look.

‘…I… I like you…’ he finally said fixing his eyes to the floor, then noticing that he didn’t get an answer he forced himself to look up to met the girls eyes.

Jiyoon POV:

‘Listen Jiyoon……I…I want to tell you something…’ Sungkyu started avoiding my eyes.

‘Huh?’I asked in my mind trying to find his eyes.

‘It’s kinda obvious though…’ he continued. I felt my heart starting to beat faster.

‘…I… I like you…’ he finally said after a second or so. He looked to the floor with this.

I get shocked. It was obvious, yes, but those words… I never expect them.

‘Oh crap…What am I going to do?’I said panicking in my head, ‘I want to tell him I like him too but…, what if Hyunyoung was right? What if he really is a player?’.

When I didn’t answer right away he took his eyes off the floor and looked into mine worried.

‘Why are you crying?’ he said nearing a hand to my cheek whipping a tear.

‘What?’ I said confused. I touched my cheeks and they were wet. I didn’t notice the tears running down my face until he said it.

‘I didn’t notice…’ I said cleaning my face feeling stupid.

‘Did I say something wrong?’ he asked me still worried.

‘No, no… Is just… I don’t know what’s wrong with me today’ I said whipping.

‘I’m sorry if it was too sudden…’ he apologized.

‘No, it’s ok… I…I like you too, but…’ I started blushing a little.

‘This is about what Hyunyoung said. Am I right?’ he said with a soft voice but grunting a little.

I hesitated but eventually nodded.

‘I’m so sorry…’ I said lowering my head feeling the tears running down my cheeks again.

‘I understand…’ he said lifting my chin with his hand. ‘When you feel ready, I’ll be waiting for you…’, and with this he bend putting some closeness between his face and mine, and softy and slowly, he kissed my wet cheeks.

When he did that I felt my heart beating so fast I thought Sungkyu could felt it against his chest too.

‘This is confusing…’I thought melting down by his proximity.

Sungkyu POV:

‘DAMN, I HATE HYUNYOUNG SO MUCH RIGHT NOW!’I screamed out loud in my head when I heard Jiyoon saying ‘I like you too, but…’

‘This is about what Hyunyoung said. Am I right?’ I managed to say trying to control my rage.

‘She ruined everything… I HATE HER, I HATE HER!’I kept screaming inside me while Jiyoon said ‘I’m so sorry…’, and then, I saw her crying again…

‘Oh no…, I made her cry again… I promised myself to never let her smile fade away, but now…, not only she’s not smiling, she’s crying…’I thought not knowing what to do for a second, but then, without having full control of my body parts, my hand was reaching her chin raising her head to face me.

‘I understand…’ my voice came out but it was like I was watching someone else doing that.

‘What am I doing?’I asked myself feeling my heart beating fast.

‘When you feel ready, I’ll be waiting for you…’ my voice came out again but this time I felt the strong urge to kiss her. I felt magnetism between her and me. I couldn’t resist myself so I bend towards her and feeling her heart beating like crazy against her chest, I kissed both of her cheeks. They were wet by tears but I didn’t mind it.

The time passed so fast that without knowing, we were already at the port again and we had to go down the ferry. One of the engineers came to say that we were the only ones in the ferry and that we had to go down.

We apologized and went down the ferry to enter the car again.

I told Jiyoon’s dorm address to the driver and he started the car.

We spend the time to her place mostly in silence. Each one thinking of what happened and what will happen.

Suddenly, we were at her building entrance. We stepped outside the car and I walked her to the main door.

‘Thank you… for everything’ she said smiling honestly. ‘This was the best night I ever had’

‘I don’t buy it…’ I said smiling too but in a sad way. I didn’t want to look at her so I simply stared at the empty space.

‘I’m telling you the truth’ I heard her saying putting a kiss on my cheek.

I get shocked. She grinned mischievously.

‘I can make your heart beat like crazy too’ she simply said and turned around opening the door of her building.

I freezed right there. The only sound that came to my ears was the sound of my heart pumping strong against my chest. I felt my head spinning and my sight blur. I barely saw her when she pressed the button of the elevator and she waved her hand before disappearing behind the thick doors.

‘I think there’s no turning back right now…’I thought to myself while forcing my legs to move back to the car. 

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