You hated that he was right. That it was the alcohol in your system that was screwing your brains up. 

You couldn't even remember how much you drank the previous night, only assuming that it must have been really high in alcohol content, since you were still angsty even after waking up the for second time later that day. Though partially it was maybe because of the fact that you were woken up by someone else, and that you didn't wake up on your own accord. 

'Hyewon?' Jaebum whispered softly as he patted your arm gently. 'Wake up.' 

He watched as you grumbled, pulling the blanket over your head as you turned away from him. 'I don't want to.' 

'You have to wake up, you haven't eaten anything for the entire day.' 

And you werre beginning to get annoyed at his voice. It's just the alcohol. It's the alcohol. 'I'm not hungry. I'm tired.'

'Then at least drink some water before going back to sleep.'

And that was exactly what you did. 

And the weekend that the both of you looked forward to so much, was over just like that. 

However, what followed that week was even worst. 

And you wanted to blame it on the alcohol so badly. 

Short answers, he understood that, since you were never fond of telling him everything.

Not responding to him when he called you, he assumed that you were busy. 

Not eating lunch with him at the company, he persuaded himself that you wanted to spend time bonding with your colleagues. And it was better that way. 

But he knew that something was terribly wrong when breakfasts and dinners were soon dead silent. 

And you slept dangerously close to the edge of the bed, backfacing him every night. 

It wasn't hard for him to realize that you were angry. But the tough part was to figure out the reason as to why you were angry. Or else it would mean that Jinyoung's plan whatever it consisted of, was going according to how he wanted it to. 

'We'll leave first then, Hyewon?' You looked up from the documents before you, to see your colleagues by your desk, packed and all ready to end their day. 

'Mm! See you tomorrow!' You smiled, waving them off, just like any other day. 

'Don't stay till too late okay? And thank you so much for your work!' 

One by one they returned home, and you were soon the only one left in the office. For the third time that week. 

'Freak.' You mumbled when you were greeted with a blank screen on your laptop. Did I save my work? I think I did, right? 

'Maybe it's a sign for you to go home now.' And you were shocked out of your wits to find a voice coming from behind you, only to find Jaebum standing there, looking straight at you. 

H-How long has he been here?! 

'About an hour.' 

And he saw how your eyes widened. Finally, for the first time that week, he managed to figure out what you were thinking, probably because you were caught off guard. 

'Why are you doing this?'

'D-Doing what?' 

'You haven't been eating lunch with me, you haven't been answering my calls.' 

'I've been busy.' 

'Don't lie. I heard that you've been volunteering to do others' work.' He paused. 'Unless you meant, 'busy avoiding me'. Sure, you've been really busy.' 

You could tell that Jaebum isn't trying to be nice anymore as he glared at you. And the words he said, wasn't nice. The tone he used wasn't friendly.  

He didn't know what was going on with you. Why is she avoiding me? After that day, she cried. Asking me not to leave her. 

And right on the following day. You started treating him as though he was thin air, or a stranger that you were living with. Gradually, you didn't even go to and fro work with him. You would wake up extra early, and by the time he was done preparing, you were already gone. And you would always come back when he was just about to sleep, claiming that you had work that you had to complete.

However, it was easy for him to find out. As long as he asked someone from your department, they readily told him everything, apparently not noticing anything weird about your behaviour. Maybe because you were still smiling around them, as though nothing was bothering you. 

You bit onto your lower lip as you lowered your eyes to the ground, afraid to even look into at him right then, much less his eyes. 

'Are you not going to say anything again?'

'Are you for real now? All these avoiding all of a sudden, treating me as though I'm non-existent, and you don't give me an explanation?!'

He sighed when he saw that you still were not giving in to him, but was alerted when he saw a lone tear rolled down your cheek. 

Taking a deep breathe, he spoke again, with a softened tone this time. But what he said didn't help. 'I don't want to see Jinyoung bringing you home again.' 

'What's wrong with that?' He didn't like it, that you answered him like that. And that you only responded when he brought up Jinyoung. 

'Jinyoung isn't your husband. I'm your husband.' 

And you didn't like it that he was picking on Jinyoung being around you. 'Fake. Fake husband.' 

That was it. 

'Kim Hyewon.' 

'What?' 

'Hyewon, what's wrong with you?' Jaebum asked as he placed his hands on your shoulders, startling you when his voice boomed, echoing through the empty office. 

But your reply, in a soft tone, and how he felt something warm dripping onto his arm, told him that he chose the wrong way to get you to talk. 'Your girlfriend has been taunting me. That's what's wrong.' 

Well, he was the silent one now. 

'I don't even know why I'm being so uptight about it. You're a fake anyways. It shouldn't matter if you have a girlfriend. I'm just an idiot for having feelings for someone like you. And actually thinking that you would like me when we just met.' 

With you bringing up something that he had totally no idea bout, he didn't know how to respond. 

But it was that silence that gave you the answer that you needed, though it wasn't the answer that you wanted. 

'H-Hyewon, I think there's some misunderstanding going on right now.' 

'There isn't.' You said as you lifted your head, pushing his hands of your shoulders. 

I'm making her cry again- The second time this week- Im Jaebum you bastard. 'Hyewon, it really isn't what you think it is. Heck, I don't even know what you're talking about! What do you mean my girlfriend? Where did that absurdity even come from?'

But nothing was going into your head. 

'Hyewon are you listening to me?' Though your eyes were still on his face, nothing was entering your head. Somehow, that girl's image was filling your mind. And an imaginary Jaebum was with her. 

And that scene was enough to make you blood boil. 

'Okay, just tell me who that person is hmm? The person who is claiming that she's my girlfriend?' 

His tone became gentler again.

And you hated it. You hated how he could seem to calm you down even for the slightest bit. Despite the fact that he was the one that made you mad right from the start. 

'Hyewon-ah?' 

He could see that you were still staring blankly at him as your tears continued to flow, and wrapped his arms around you. 

'What happened? I can't do anything if I don't know what exactly you're talking about. I told you from the start. When we first met. That I don't have a girlfriend of any sorts. Why would I lie to you?'

'Why wouldn't you?'

'Because I like you. I liked you once we met.'

'Now that's a blatant lie.'

'I didn't know at that point in time. But now I know that I liked you since we first met.'

'You didn't know at that point of time, but you can have a girlfriend all of a sudden for all I know.'

'Hyewon.'

'Repeating my name wouldn't help.' 

For a brief moment, he thought that it was working. But apparently it wasnt.

He looked at you as you pushed him away, rubbing your tears off with your hands. 'I'm going home.'

'I'll bring you-'

'I'm going to my mom's home.' 

'No you're not. We're going back to our home.'

'Shut up.'

'You shut up.' You froze when he threw the insult back at you. There was the feeling of deja vu. Just that it was the other way round this time. 'Am I not given the chance to explain either? Am I just supposed to leave you thinking that whatever is going on in your mind is true?' 

'You're just lying!'

'If you don't even trust me, why would you trust whoever who told you about that crazy thing about me having a girlfriend when I already have you?'

'She appeared! In front of me! Last night!'

'So what? Do you not find it weird that she only approached you when I wasn't there?' 

'If that's the case then what about the call? How would she know that you weren't available when she called!'

'That was pure luck! She didn't even answer when I called back. And she hung up straight away when I called using Mark's phone and said that I was Jaebum!'

And you hated how he was actually making slight sense to you. 

'I don't believe you.' 

'Then do you want to call Mark to ask?'

'The other night too! When you were drunk at the bar and throwing things around. You were wailing about how you liked her and that someone was taking her away!'

'That was you! I was wailing over you!'

'Wha-'

'It's all because of that idiot Jinyoung and that stupid be-' He fell silent when he realize where he was going, and from the way your eyes met his, he could tell that it probably wasn't a good idea for him to stop short in his sentence. 

'What did Jinyoung oppa do?' The both of you was breathing heavily from all the shouting. 

'Nothing. He did nothing.'

'What about Jinyoung oppa?'

'I don't like the fact that he's close to you before I got to know you. I don't like the fact that you would use to go to his house so often. I don't like the fact that Jinyoung knows more about you than me. I don't like how he was the one who brought you back that night. And I don't like how he's the one you find when you're troubled. I don't like that he's stealing you away from me.'

You didn't know. You didn't know that it bothered him that much. You thought that it was fine just because they were close friends since a long time ago. 

'Is that enough? Do you still think I'm lying when I say that I like you? When I'm actually dumb enough to get mad at my best friend for being close with you?'

'There's nothing between me and Jin-'

'I don't want to hear his name from you when you still don't trust me.'

'But-'

'But?' What else is there to but? Isn't it enough? After all that I said? 'Do you really still think that I have someone else? If I really do, will I be trying so hard to get you back now?'

You stayed silent as you avoided his eyes, a sense of guilt surging up your chest all of a sudden when you heard his hoarse voice. 

'Hyewon, do you really not believe me after all that?' He asked again, lifting your chin up such that you had to look at him. 'Hmm?'

'I-I believe you.' And finally, for the past few days, Jaebum finally managed a smile. 'I'm sorry for being mad at you without even thinking.'

'Of course you have to be sorry. You have to be really sorry to me and pay by staying by my side every free minute you have. And return all that work you offered to do.'

[A/N] Update! 

(Just a heads up, I will not be able to update until early October since my papers are starting in a week's time which I have yet to start revision on ahahahahah) I'll try to update this once my paper ends which if I didn't remember wrongly is about 30 Sep or something xD (I'll edit this when I check my exam schedule tomorrow) (It's deep in my file by my feet and I'm lazy and it's currently 1.06am) Haahahah

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