Dara's POV

 

“We are here!” TOP announced as he parked the car in front of a beautiful mansion.

 

‘Wow… such huge house…  so this is Bom’s place’ I stood in agape for a moment right after getting out of the car. The house was lighted brightly and from where I am standing, I could see the vast green garden. 

 

A finger supported my chin to close my gaping mouth. I looked to the side to see Jiyong beside me and I shyly looked away again. There is obviously tension between us.

He started, “About that in the car-”

 

 

“Dara!”

 

“Oh my God! Are you okay!”

 

His voice was momentarily deafened by Bom’s loud shouts. Bom just got out of her house and is anxiously walking her way towards us.  She immediately embraced me after getting out of the gate.

“Dara, you don’t know how worried I was after hearing something like this happen? How could you work in such a dangerous place?” She lets go of me and looked at my body. “And what are you wearing?” She hugged me again. “Good thing they were there!” However, I couldn’t answer her as I felt out of breath from her tight hug.

“Bom, Dara had enough to deal with tonight. The last thing she would want right now is someone to nag her so stop with your scolding.” Jiyong interrupted her. I felt Bom relax her hug on me. Her hand now pulled my hand as she dragged me inside her house. The boys followed us.

 

 

She stopped as she faced me when we entered the living room. “I’m sorry for shouting at you earlier Dara. I was really worried.” I looked at her and saw her eyes glistening as water form on its rim.

“Its okay Bom, I understand. I’m actually thankful to all of you for giving me the concern.”I immediately assured her. She smiled at this. “It’s just that I don’t need to stay with you. I don’t want to be a bother and disturb your family. I’m really okay, trust me.”

 

Her smile vanished. “I’m living alone here Dara. You won’t be a bother…” She sadly continued.

‘What? She lives here alone? In this huge house’ I wandered my eyes on the whole house again.

 

“Dara, Bom-noona’s family migrated to the States last year. She decided to stay here and finished College. You really can do us a great favor if you accompany her here.” Seungri suggested.

“Don’t force Dara Seungri. “ She looked at them for a second then looked at me. “It’s okay Dara, I know you might not get comfortable with me around. I understand.”

I suddenly felt guilty with this. It’s true that I might not get comfortable with the whole set up but I can’t take Bom’s dejected face right now. I looked at the guys at the back. TOP and Se7en looked at me and smiled sadly. Seungri is looking at the floor while nodding his head while Jiyong’s face is looking at me with authority.  I breathe deeply before answering.

 

“I already decided….”I felt them all staring at me now. “…I’m staying here for the mean time..” I smiled at Bom.

Her face lightened up and followed by a hug. “That’s great Dara! I’m so happy.”

“I have this favor to add though…. If it’s okay with you…”

“What is it?”

“Can my friend, Han Byul, stay here too? I know I’m asking for too much but it’s just that she lost her job becau-”

“Your friend is my friend, I don’t need to hear explanations anymore Dara. Of course, if it’ll also make you more comfortable staying here…”

 

The guys rested themselves on the sofa. The two of us followed them. I sat awkwardly as the hem of my dress is too short.  I looked at them and saw their eyes clumsily directed to my exposed legs. Jiyong suddenly stood up while coughing and everyone looked at him. Bom took the hint.

“Ahm, come on Dara. We’ll change you first. Let’s go to my room…”

 

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I am waiting at Bom’s room as she chooses clothes that will fit me. I have just taken a bath as Bom forced me to taking a shower by honestly admitting that she smelled the scent of combined alcohol and smoke. Out of embarrassment, I immediately headed to her room’s bathroom and took a quick shower.

 

Bom’s room is nice also. It kind of have a princess vibe. Well, she is a princess. I roamed my eyes around the room and noticed an old cute pink box at her study table near a lamp. It’s the only thing that is not fitting the whole room so curiosity took over me and I went nearer to take a closer look. ‘What is this? Bom and Sun hee…Wait, I think I heard that name before…Hmmmm..but I don’t remember where..’Anyways, this is probably the best friend Bom is talking about the first time we met. I traced my hand on the names cut outs glued on the top of the box. ‘Is it okay if I look at it?’ But being a nosy person it didn’t took long for me to decide to open the box. I slowly lifted up the cover of the box…

“Dara you think this will fit you?”

I immediately turn my body around to see Bom exiting her closet room with a dress hanging her hands. She wasn’t looking at me. So I quickly took big steps away from her study table after closing the box.  I didn’t saw what is inside the box but I shrugged the thoughts out of my mind.

 

“Y-Yeah.. Anything will do, I guess. I’ll just have to pick up my stuff after school tomorrow. Thanks Bom.”

“Okay, now change to this. I will wait for you here.”As she pushed me to the bathroom.

 

 

 

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“Wow Dara… You look nice!” Seungri blurted out. “I mean you already look pretty but this dress really suits you…”

We are heading out to the living where we left the guys and I couldn’t help but blush at this. Jiyong immediately warned him. “y-yah Seungri!”

“Okay okay, I’ll shut up” Seungri frowned.

 

“Ssantokki, we’ll heading out now. You better rest so you could attend school tomorrow.” I looked at Se7en who fixing his clothes preparing to leave.

“But if you don’t want to go to school yet, nobody’s forcing you…” Jiyong suggested but not looking at me.

 

“A-ani…I’ll attend tomorrow. I’m really okay now besides it’ll be the last day before the week vacation…”

“Don’t worry about Han Byul okay… We’ll take care of that already..”

“yeah, thanks really!”

“Speaking of which… Bom have you already told them…?” TOP exclaimed. We all looked at Bom as she happily announced.

“Dara remember your promise to attend my birthday?....”

I nodded. ‘Yeah, I remember.’

“Well it’ll be next week week… soo….” We all waited for her next words. “..Prepare yourselves… we’re off to Jeju!” She finished while clapping her hands excitedly.

‘J-jeju..? Jeju island?’   O.o

 

“We’ll that’s a great day to celebrate the vacation. I haven’t been in Jeju for quite long” Seungri commented.

“Okay, we’ll be there Bom.” Se7en added.

“Good cause I won’t take no for an answer.” Bom retorted at them.

 

“Okay, we’re off now…” TOP firstly headed out to the door. Seungri and Se7en followed him while Bom walked after them. So that leaves me with Jiyong. Here comes the awkward silence again. I decided to follow the others but was stopped as Jiyong pulled me back. I immediately looked at him but he swooped down on me and gave me a quick kiss on the lips. I was stunned again.

“We’ll have our talk soon. Rest for now…” He whispered after releasing me. I gulped at this. ‘..Our talk?’

He then slowly followed the others and shouted as he reached the door, “I’ll pick you up tomorrow for school by the way…” He smiled and waved happily at me. I however wasn’t amused as my heart beats in uneven pace in dreading the so called ‘talk’ we will have.

 

 

 

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“Dara, are you ready? Car is here…” I looked at my reflection for the last time before answering Bom’s shout at the door of the room. “I’m done, I’ll be out.”

 

I hurriedly went down of the stairs and saw Jiyong and TOP settled in the couch. They both smiled when they saw me. I returned their smile awkwardly since I’m not used to seeing them smile naturally.

 

Bom cut off, “Let’s go or we’ll be late..”

 

They headed off to the door followed by me and Jiyong. “Did you have a good night sleep?”

“Ye..s” I stuttered. ‘Argh kill me now’. We didn’t talk again as we headed out of the gate. ‘Oh my God! I can’t have “the talk” right now!’

“Bom, Can I ride with you guys?” I stupidly asked Bom. They looked at each other and then glanced at Jiyong. I couldn’t help but be embarrassed by my question. ‘How stupid Dara, go ride with them then be a third wheel for the couple’

I felt Jiyong stiffen beside me, guilt consumed my mind.  “Ani, forget what I said. I’ll go ride in Jiyong’s car.” I dragged him to not further embarrass myself in front of Bom and TOP.

 

 

I settled myself in the front seat while Jiyong started the car. ‘No not now please. Not the talk please…’

 

 

I busied myself as I looked at the windows. We were driving for a while now and he’s not talking…

 

yet…

 

“Dara…” he started. As if on cue, I immediately closed my eyes in panic as I’m dreading the talk we will have.  “About last night, I know you’re confused. You’re not the only one though…” I heard him continued.

“Dara, but the thing here is I’m not regretting anything that I did last night…  You see…” He stopped and I gulped at his halt. “Dara..?” I felt his hand on my cheek but I kept my eyes closed pretending to be asleep. I heard him let out a short chuckle. The car slowly stopped and I took a peek with my one eye to see Jiyong and immediately closed it again.  I felt his hand on my other side fixing something. Then the seat slowly lowered and my back went gradually going down. He’s fixing the seat so I can comfortably sleep. He stopped as he finished adjusting my seats then something landed my lips again. The car started to move again and I peeked at Jiyong again, I can see him smiling while driving. ‘Am I the reason for the smile? No I can’t be’.

 

Next thing I knew Jiyong was shaking my body to wake up. I slowly opened my eyes and got up from my slanted seat. ‘I really did fall asleep’ “Did Bom talked to you all night? It looks like you haven’t gotten enough sleep.” He joked.

“A-ani.. I just woke up early since her house was far from the school. I got used to waking up a little late since it’s just walking distance from the school.” I quickly explained.

“Okay, Let’s go.” He got out from the car and quickly went to my side to open the door. ‘Is he sick? Being a gentleman and all...’

I got out from the car but was surprised as Jiyong got my bag from me and hung it on his shoulders, then hold my hand by his other hand and pulled me into a walk. I could feel everybody’s stares so I tried to pull out of Jiyong’s grasp but didn’t succeeded. “I’ll walk you to your class…” He said with finality.

“But I can walk on my own now. You don’t have to.” But he ignored me and continued on walking. I bowed my head to hide my face as we walk hand in hand to my class.

 

“Who is that with Jiyong?” , “I can’t believe oppa is with a girl” , “is that the poor scholar?” ,  “why is she with him?” , “Is that oppa’s new girlfriend?” , “Is she even pretty?” Those were just the few comments I heard as we passed by corridors of the buildings on our way to the room. I frowned. ‘Now her fangirls will bully me because of this.’

 

He halted as we are now in front of my room. I could see everyone in the room stopped from what they are doing to look at us. The room went suddenly silent.

 

“Okay, I’ll leave you here now but I’ll pick you up later after class.” He handed out my bag and patted my head as if I was a pet. I quickly pushed his hand out of my head in annoyance but this only earned a chuckle from him. He then swooped down on me again and closed the gap between our faces. I could hear everyone gasps, I could even hear low cries from the background. I hurriedly pulled out of the kiss and turned my back on him to walk on a seat. I felt my face becomes hot as I peek at him at the door. ‘Why is he still there?’ I gestured my hand to shoo him away. He smiled at me and saluted, “I’ll see you later Dara!” He finished his sentence with a wink and head off.’ I wish the ground will open and swallow me whole than endure the stares and glares for the whole morning.’

                                  

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The news of Jiyong and me together spread in the school like a wild fire. Before the day ended, I was congratulated and cursed almost the same number of times.

 

But surprisingly, I took this lightly. I was more focused on Han Byul so I gave her a call earlier during lunch. She sounded really worried about what happened to me and even resigned after hearing it. She told me not to worry about her but I told her to live with Bom and me, she hesitated at first but I still won her over in living with us. She will move after the vacation in Jeju since she will still fix the contract in the club and her apartment.

 

I was busily walking my way out of my last class when I bumped into someone. He then quickly took my hand and dragged me to the parking lot. “What now? Why are you in such a hurry?”

“Plans changed. Plane to Jeju is gonna leave tonight so we have to catch up with the others. They are already on the airport.”

“Why did you tell me just now? I should’ve left the class earlier…”

“I know you wouldn’t.. so I just told the others that we’ll follow after your class..”

“You should’ve asked me!”

“Okay, my fault. I shoulve asked you. Can we go now?” He mockingly answered. I rested my shoulders in annoyance. He laughed at this. “I’m not joking Jiyong! And it’s not a laughing matter!”

“Okay Boss!” He smiled while biting his lower lip as he found my ranting amusing.

“Stop biting your lips!”

“Why? What’s wrong?” He innocently asked.

“I won’t talk to you ever again if you say another word during this car ride!” I warningly glared at him to make him see I was serious. He firmly closed his mouth. “Good, now drive quietly so I can enjoy this trip.”

 

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and they are off to Jeju..

 

I know I promised to give you the scene with screaming Dara but I decided to cut the chapter here since it's quite long already. I give you a sweet daragon-filled chapter instead...

rest assured it'll be in the next chapter which I promise to post tomorrow.. Thanks everyone for your patience..

 

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