The next few days consisted of the two spending so much time together, they were considered a ‘couple’ (a very popular one at that), regardless of Jinri being thought of as a not so popular person (but not so un-popular person either), versus Kris who became a school ‘heartthrob’ on his first day.

Jinri just thought of their relationship as friendship. They were just friends that lived together, ate together, watched late night movies together and went out (on ‘dates’) together. Still, there were those moments that made her want to be a little more than friends.

When her heart would beat a little bit faster, when she would smile to herself thinking about Kris and when she would find herself constantly thinking about him and how he was doing. But, Jinri couldn’t help but wonder why those ‘little moments’ were happening to her.

They have been happening since Kris has been treating her like a princess. Not that she liked to take advantage of him. No, not at all. She just felt that most of the time he would care for her a lot more than a friend should be. He would wake up early just to prepare a delectable breakfast for her. Sometimes on weekends, she would wake up with some coffee on the table beside her bed with a little snack or pastry and she’d smile to herself looking at the note that would read something along the lines of: How was your sleep? And; always be careful, take care of yourself. Usually with a little heart at the end.

Those sweet little gestures and actions left Jinri wondering what her real feelings are for the angel.

Also when that one time, a few days back, Jinri got the shock of her live when Kris decided it was acceptable to walk around the apartment shirtless while wearing tight white pants. She then realized that since then, it has been happening a lot more to Jinri.

Lately, to Jinri, Kris has been looking more and more attractive. Kris seemed to be acting sweeter, friendlier and more thoughtful and considerate. You would always see the two together at school when they weren’t with their friend. Laughing joyfully when they talked. The two were very close but,

This relationship was only friendly…right?

Kris’ feelings were somewhat similar to Jinri’s, not completely but comparable.

Since he has long fallen in love with her, Kris wanted to make the most out of the time they spent together knowing that if the other angels found out he would get in seriously trouble and would most likely be separated from Jinri and banned from walking on earth. Not a good thing.

Kris felt that he was getting closer to Jinri and was delighted with that fact. He wanted to get their relationship to move on from being just friends. On that thought, Kris also did not want their friendship to end just when they had started. He did not want to ‘rush’ anything and he didn’t know if Jinri felt the same way for him, but he knew he could and would wait for the right time.

I want to walk side by side with you, using our same pace to play a concerto. Just once would be enough.

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On a weekend when the sun was at its peak in the sky Jinri and Kris decided to go walking. They took a public transit bus to the park they went to before that was close to the high school.

People crowded the busier places of the park. Socializing, walking, jogging, having picnics. Ice cream cones and other snacks were being sold by vendors all around. Kids were running all over the place with ice cream cones, lollipops and various toys in their hands. Jinri couldn’t help it and smiled. ‘So cute…’

Kris kept a straight face and discreetly looked around for a place to sit and relax… There! A tree was sitting at the farther end of the park, with some shade under it. Not much people were around it either.

When Kris turned to Jinri to tell her, she was looking longingly at the ice cream cones the little kids had in their small hands. Kris chuckled lightly to himself, smiling. He then took Jinri’s hand and pulled her to the ice cream vendor.

“Come on.” He told a confused Jinri. “Let’s get you one.”

“Really?!” Jinri’s eyes were sparkling. ‘So cute…’ Kris thought.

“Sure.” Kris shrugged it off and looked to the side, still holding her hand.

“Tch… don’t act so cool while standing in line for ice cream.” Jinri playfully slapped his arm and laughed. Her grin widened when she saw Kris smile too, pleased that she was able to make him smile.

Jinri got a chocolate ice cream and Kris ended up with a vanilla one. He kept on insisting that he didn’t like ice cream all that much, but Jinri saw through it and made him get one for himself.

Kris gingerly his ice cream and Jinri rolled her eyes, they were now sitting under that tree Kris spotted.

“It’s not poisoned, eat it properly…like this.” Jinri began her ice cream in attempt to show. Kris how you eat an ice cream ‘properly’.

Kris felt unsettled when he saw how Jinri was the Ice cream. He couldn’t stop staring at her lips and mostly her tongue. ‘What would it be like if…? How would it feel like if…? No. Stop thinking like this, Kris. Think unicorns and rainbows…’ he thought trying to get himself to calm down. It worked, but in a very minuscule way.

Jinri caught Kris staring at her intently and waved a hand in front of his face. When Kris finally snapped out of his trance and looked at Jinri, he immediately averted his eyes and blushed very lightly.

“Why were you staring at me like that?” Jinri imitated Kris’ ‘lost’ face and smiled at him. But when she looked at him her smile fell. Kris’ expression looked like a mix between frightening and creepy. His eyes looked intimidating and his stare was deep, like he could bore into your soul with his gaze alone.

Jinri’s eyes widened when Kris began leaning forward. She tried to focus her eyes on everything but the man in front of her, but failed and she couldn’t help but admire Kris’ face. Her eyes wandered over his full kissable lips, then his perfect-sculpted jaw line, then back up at his eyes.

Kris slowly lifted his arm up to Jinri’s face, his gaze still fixated on her. Jinri swallowed and looked at his hand. Kris brought his fingers up to her cheek and it gently, then gave her a friendly smile.

“You have ice cream on your lips…” Kris whispered then gently wiped the ice cream off of the corner of Jinri’s lips with his thumb. When he leaned back to his original position, he brought his fingers to his lips and off the remaining ice cream. “Yum~”

“O-oh…” Jinri uttered then brought her fingers to where Kris wiped the ice cream off. She laughed awkwardly, and then looked away blushing.

The atmosphere was quite uncomfortable to Jinri after the little incident, but fortunately for her a group of little girls came up to the two of them smiling and giggling happily.

“Annyeong unnie~” One girl with braids said.

“Annyeong~” Jinri replied waving back.

“You’re very pretty, unnie.” Another girl said looking down. All the other girls nodded in agreement.

 Jinri looked at Kris, shocked. He chuckled at her facial expression. Kris was Jinri smiled and turned back to the little girl.

“Thank you.” Jinri slightly bowed.

“You’re welcome, unnie…um, actually we came here to ask you something.” The girl with braids said.

“Sure, what is it?” Jinri encouraged them.

“Is oppa your boyfriend?” Another girl with little pig tails said cutely pointing at Kris.

“Oppa? Boyfriend?...” Astonished, Jinri turned to Kris again and this time, Kris’ face was serious and looked at the girls in slight disbelief. The girls nodded at both Jinri and Kris, hopefully.

“Well, he isn’t really my boyfriend…were just really good friends.” Jinri said and Kris couldn’t help but notice the hint of sadness and disappointment in her voice and his smile dropped just a little. The girls pouted and looked up at Kris hopefully. He smiled and nodded, confirming that what Jinri had said.

“We just thought oppa and unnie looked cute together, so we thought you were boyfriend-girlfriend…” one girl said.

“Yes, and that we saw how the both of you were looking at each other…it was full of…full of…” the girl with pigtails said.

“…Love!” The girl with the braids said and everyone nodded again.

Jinri and Kris looked at each other, staring into the others eyes. Jinri was blushing and was trying to fight the feeling of butterflies in her stomach. While Kris looked at Jinri and thought the sight was absolutely beautiful and smiled back at her, which in turn made Jinri blush even more. Her face was now as red as a tomato.

“Anyway, thank you oppa and unnie!”

“Bye!”

“See you later!”

They all left, but one girl stayed, the little girl with the braids. She turned to Kris, with her hands behind her back and said,

“Annyeong oppa, my name is JinHee.” She said with a bright smile. Kris nodded in response and smiled back.”

“Oppa I have just something to tell you…” she leaned close to him and whispered in his ear. Jinri couldn’t hear anything, just little mumbles and whispers. Kris was also nodding now and then. Before Jinri knew it JinHee had already skipped off and ran to her friends, after waving to Kris and Jinri.

Jinri then turned over to Kris and smiled sheepishly.

“So…what did she say to you?” Jinri enquired. Kris nodded and started to get up.

“What? Where are you going?” Jinri got up too.

“Nowhere, I just think that it’s getting late, so we should start going home.” Kris walked up to the path, Jinri following him.

“Hey! You! Don’t try and change the subject!” she pointed at Kris’ face. “What did she tell you?” Jinri glared at him, giving Kris the impression that she was determined to get something out of him.

“Why do you want to know?” Kris turned away. Jinri shot him a look. “Fine…”

“She just said that she loved me so much and that she would like to get married to me one day...” Kris smirked and turned to her.

“What?!?” The two were now receiving stares because of the way Jinri was behaving. Kris chuckled at her reaction nonetheless.

“Jeez, I was just joking….” Kris then looked up at the sky and held a distant look in his eyes. “She told me to take really good care of what I love, act soon because it won’t wait forever, and that even if I can’t have it, don’t give up….’You never know what will happen.’ That’s what Jinhee said.” Kris looked back down at Jinri, who was looking baffled, with a face that was scrunched up.

“What the heck does that have to do with anything?” Jinri looked up at Kris. He kept on walking and shrugged.

‘A lot of things Jinri. It has to do with a lot of things.’ Kris thought.

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That night Kris lay in bed thinking about what the little girl said to him earlier.

“Take care of her oppa. I know that you love her and that she means a lot to you, it’s in your eyes. You know I think she loves you too. You tell her you love her soon, she won’t wait for you forever. Don’t ever give up on her, oppa. If you do get a chance to tell her, treasure her, be her friend, care for her, but most importantly love her with all you heart. Ok, oppa?”

‘Jeez, for a little girl…that’s some complicated words she used.’ Kris ran a hand through his soft hair. Confused he sat up from his laying down position on the bed. ‘When do I tell her though?’ he thought of all the upcoming events that would happen at school and in the city.

 ‘I can’t then….Too many people…Oh! Of course. Why didn’t I think of that before? It’s perfect. I’ll bring her out into the garden then just tell her already.’ Kris thought with a smile.