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Falling For You

Chapter 43

Rian’s POV

The past few weeks felt like blur. I think I kept doing the same things over and over again. I woke up early in the morning, made myself a cup of tea, dressed up and went to Shi Woo's place. He convinced me we should move in together and since his place was bigger than mine, for those weeks I was slowly packing things and taking them to his place. Some nights I would stay with him, in his arms and fall asleep as if I had not slept for days. It was so peaceful I wondered if I were under a spell.

Then again some nights I decided I wanted to stay at my own place, because I knew I would miss it once I had moved in with Shi Woo. And every time I walked in at my own apartment it felt emptier and emptier – it made me sad somehow. My wardrobe no longer had many clothes, the books I owned were already at Shi Woo's, I no longer had flower pots in my rooms. The last night I think I only had the bed which felt mine. I lay down for as long as I can remember listening to rain sounds from YouTube and slowly drifted to sleep. I lived in this place for so many years as I had gone through many struggles. Although I had friends who supported me with all their might, once I got home I couldn’t help but feel alone and had no one I could talk with and slowly started healing myself with the rain sound that sometimes was real and sometimes was simply a sound coming from my phone.

And now I slowly realized that from now on I would no longer be alone when I get home from schedule. I would no longer have to sleep by myself listening to the rain sound. I now had to think if that rain sound would bother the person next to me or maybe I would no longer need it, because that someone will probably hug me tightly, sing me a lullaby or maybe even read me about a fairy tale. All those thoughts now made me smile; I even think I had a similar dream last night. The moment dreams become reality – I guess I wasn’t far from that.

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“Did you sleep well last night?” today, like usual Shi Woo came to pick me up. I smiled at him and handed him a cup of tea – the only think I can prepare at home on the day I was leaving it for good.

“Yeah. I guess the fact that I didn’t leave this place in a day or two helped me settle my feelings for here.” I think Shi Woo already knew how hard it was for me to actually move in with him. After years of living alone, I think anyone would struggle with moving in with someone. I had friends who would talk with me how annoying their roommates were and how they would never do things properly and cause stress to build up. I myself had gone through that when we moved in a dorm while the contest happened – it was never easy.

But the fact that it was Shi Woo that I would live with kind of made me excited too. Like the feeling when you first realize you have a crush on someone, the anticipation, the nervousness. It was a good feeling and I definitely didn’t regret my decision.

“You know that I’m only happy that we get to live together.” Shi Woo smiled at me with his usual charming smile that showed his dimples. Of course I was happy too – to wake up every day and see this smile, although he would be unable to open his eyes properly because of the sunlight. I enjoyed how he would make me wear one of his shirts when going to bed and he would do the same – then he would pull me in his arms and start talking. It was unexpectedly sweet and calming.

Some mornings we would actually make a proper breakfast that both of us would enjoy and then talk while eating slowly, enjoying every bit of it. Then some mornings we would make coffee and enjoy it while watching TV, sometimes we would go for a walk – that’s when we would wake up before sunrise; and sometimes we would just stay in bed till noon.

Both of us did nothing for those weeks – we just enjoyed ourselves. After my fan meet I think things were calming down. Both of us had written letters and uploaded them to our SNS and after that we weren’t quite active there. We wanted to share our happiness, but we stopped ourselves from doing it. After a week I was officially preparing for a comeback – Lee Hyun Wook insisted I should do it sooner than later. His reasons were that apparently I would feel more discouraged if I wait more – he was kind of right.

On the other hand Shi Woo was considering drama roles. Just like me – he had a thing for acting as well and whenever he saw something interesting he would ask me as well.

“Will we tell Lee Hyun Wook about us moving together?” Shi Woo asked me after a while. I couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow at him and then smile. I already knew that he had asked him even before persuading me. “You caught me?” he chuckled while smiling sheepishly. Nowadays with the slightest glance he would know what I'm thinking, but I couldn’t help but think maybe it was me who was making it easy to him.

“I do realize he us our boss and we don’t need to tell him everything…”Shi Woo started talking.

“I know, you don’t need to struggle with explanations. I know we must be really careful with our actions and everything.” I said. Even before coming out officially and after it, I thought how many rumors would be written and published about me and Shi Woo. Both of us had seen celebrities getting bashed for announcing dating or even marrying. Rumors about the woman being pregnant or being a gold digger and so many more hateful things were being commented in the most careless way.

I prayed that wouldn’t be the case with us. Shi Woo had a spotless image for the past few years after going solo – the Prince Charming I’ve mentioned a few times. Then when I thought about my own image I wasn’t sure if it was as good as people made me believe it was. I would go to shows and interviews and receive nothing but praise but I’ve always thought it’s like that because it’s manners and politeness. I was never 100% sure of myself especially now that I’ve come out like this. Before Super Idol I definitely had a horrible image – I probably deserved it, I won’t lie about that. But after that I things were going better and better, I became more experienced, I had more control, especially now that I was an artist under Lee Hyun Wook. I just wanted to be sure that both I and Shi Woo won't suffer because we are openly dating.

“Rian-ah, you must not worry.  Everything is fine, your fans love you completely and my fans will get used to the fact that I'm in love with you.” Shi Woo was caring as always and I knew he was really burdened by how some of his fans behaved – we both saw it, but pretended it wasn’t that severe. And since I also loved him, I couldn’t possibly go and show him if I was getting hurt by his fans – that would hurt him much more. That’s why both of us kind of beat around