Chapter 41 - Woohyun and Hoya

The In Between

Woohyun stood there, crossing his arms in front of his chest, waitin for you to answer him. You on the other hand, just stared at him, thinking of how he could even manage to walk into your house.

 

“Are you going to stand there and stare at me?”, he sopke again, more like scolding than asking. You cleared your throat and tore away from his gaze.

 

“Y-Yes, that was Sungyeol. He… drove me home after shopping for awhile…”, you said, trailing on your words since you weren’t sure if Woohyun would be okay to hear you going with Sungyeol. Woohyun stared at you with investigating stare, like a mom finding her daughter making out in her room. You were nervous as you felt his gaze penetrated through your head intensely. Woohyun raised a brow, not satisfied with your answer.

 

“You don’t understan, he… drove me to the airport to pick Hoya up, but-“

 

“Don’t worry, I believe you”, he cut your sentence as he walked closer to you. And I already knew about the airport things”, he continued. He helped you opening the front gate and let you in. You just stared at him in confusion. ‘How did he know?’

 

Woohyun cleared his throat before taking your wrist and dragged you along with him into the house. You just let him to do so, but your mind was still full of questions popping from nowhere.

 

“Oppa, how did you get into the house?”, you asked as finally both of you reaching the front door. Woohyun turned his head to you for a second and went back to the door.

 

“I still remember where you put the spare key”, he said shortly and twisted the doorknob. He then stepped into the house with you following from behind. You frowned inwardly to know Woohyun still acted coldly towards you. But as soon as you smelled something good from the kitchen, your expression was brightened.

 

“You cooked?”, you asked, not hiding the excited hints on your sentence. Woohyun chuckled softly and nodded. You unconsciously clapped your hands and a little bit jumped on your feet. Woohyun noticed this and smiled softly, before taking your wrist again and took you to the table.

 

You sat in front of the dining table while Woohyun preparing the food. Various cookings were served, and your eyes grew bigger everytime Woohyun took another plate of different food to the table. You really liked his cookings, but it was difficult to make him cook for you, so seeing so many foods he cooked for you, you just couldn’t help but to stare hungrily.

 

Woohyun then took a seat in front of you after finished taking out all the food he cooked. He noticed your amazed stare and couldn’t help but chuckled. That made you raised your head to see him smiling softly on another side of the table.

 

“Why did you cook this much?”, you asked.

 

“I’m a good Oppa right?”

 

“I thought you were-“

 

“No, I’m not mad and I wasn’t either”

 

“So, we’re-“

 

“Yup, we’re good. Let’s eat, I’m hungry”, he cut your sentence off as he took his chopsticks. You did the same, while your eyes searching for which food to eat first. But then, you remembered Hoya maybe hadn’t had his dinner yet, and you found it wasn’t nice of you to eat first. You then hesitantly put your chopsticks down, before managed to take any food to your plate. Woohyun noticed this and gave you a questioning look.

 

“I… want to wait for Hoya”, you said as you bit your lower lip. You couldn’t help but to drool over the various foods in front of you, but being a good girlfriend, you thought it would be more proper to wait for Hoya to come first.

 

Woohyun clenched his free hand into hard fist at the word of ‘Hoya’. It drove him mad to hear that name again. He felt the sudden urge to scream out loud to your face for mentioning that name in front of him. But he knew he couldn’t.

 

“Just eat first. Hoya will understand. Besides, he probably won’t be back until midnight”, he said shortly with pure annoyance in his tone, as he took in random foods to his own mouth. You just sat there, not giving a reply, neither took some food.

 

Woohyun felt annoyed to see your stubborness, and at the same time pitied you to see your skinnier body and a dark circle that formed under your eyelid. They weren’t obvious, due to the make up you used, but still, being the one who cared about you the most, Woohyun managed to see them. He gritted his teeth to hold back his anger. He knew all those things were because of Hoya. If you weren’t that stubborn to wait for him until he came, you probably would have sufficient sleep time and eat enough food. Reading all of your texts, although not replying them, made Woohyun knew how much of your time was spent on waiting for Hoya. You kept waiting for him to come before doing anything—sleep and eat—although you ended up doing anything alone since Hoya would directly go to his room and sleep, being tired from all day work.

 

He groaned before finally stuffing some foods to your plate, forcing you to just eat them. You stared at him, and he just motioned his chopsticks, telling you to just eat. You pouted at first, before starting to eat the food on your plate. Your eyes brightened as the delicious taste danced on your tongue.

 

“This is delicious Oppa, you’re the best!”, you exclaimed and put your thumbs up. You then continued your eating and literally stuffed as much food as could afford. Woohyun just smiled, while cursing Hoya in his mind.

 

‘___-ah being like this because of you yet you still say something like that? You’re pathetic Hoya’

 

***

-flashback-

Woohyun walked into Hoya’s room after the secretary let him in. Inside, he saw Hoya sitting in front of his desk with several papers stacking on it. Woohyun shook his head in amusement as he looked around the room. It was spacious, simple, and comfortable. Woohyun then stopped looking around and just plopped himself in the couch.

 

He glanced at Hoya who wasn’t even responding on his coming. He chuckled at him, reading and signing every paper that stacked in front of him. His phone was buzzing on the desk, yet he ignored it. Woohyun shook his head once again to see that scene.

 

“Still busy? I thought you were with ___-ah”, Woohyun said.

 

“Yes. And no”, Hoya said, his eyes still glued on the paper.

 

“That was a very polite answer you said”, Woohyun teased, but again, being ignored by Hoya. Woohyun just sighed before moving his gaze to the empty wall in front of him.

 

“She didn’t pick you up?”, Woohyun asked again.

 

“She did”, Hoya answered shortly, still not seeing his hyung in the eye.

 

“Then why are you here? Shouldn’t you be going somewhere with her?”, Woohyun asked. Hoya’s answers were way too short for a talkative person like Woohyun to understand.

 

“I was already on my way when she arrived there”, Hoya said again, a little bit longer than before, yet still leaving Woohyun with other questions. Woohyun sat up straight and stared the younger intensely. He sensed something wrong was going on.

 

“You… left her there?”, Woohyun asked in disbelief tone. He couldn’t even believe how on earth he could ask that. He hoped he was wrong, but Hoya’s answer just boiled his head off.

 

“You can say that”, Hoya replied shortly, still with his eyes glued on his work. Woohyun couldn’t take this anymore. He stood up abruptly and stormed to Hoya’s desk, slamming it as hard as he could. The sound of slamming was echoed in the room, and seems like it could be heard from outside, but Woohyun didn’t care. He only cared about you.

 

“Say that once again”, Woohyun said in a dangerous low tone. Hoya looked up to him to see the anger firing off from his head. And when Woohyun found a sigh to be an answer, he slammed the desk once again.

 

“You didn’t feel any guilt?”

 

“I did… But I couldn’t do anything about it”, Hoya said again as he rubbed his temple.

 

“YOU COULD HAVE JUST MADE YOUR WAY BACK THERE AND MET HER THERE STUPID!”, Woohyun yelled straight to his dongsaeng’s face. Instead of seeing shocked or scared expression, Woohyun saw tiredness radiated from Hoya’s face as he raised his head up.

 

“I had a meeting…”

 

“Yeah sure, just go to your meeting and leave your girlfriend alone at the airport”, Woohyun sarcastically replied.

 

“She wasn’t alone. Sungyeol was there”, Hoya said in defense. Woohyun’s eyes widened to hear it.

 

“She was with who?”

 

“Sungyeol. I read her text and she told me Sungyeol was driving her there. At least she wasn’t alone and I know Sungyol wouldn’t be such a pathetic guy to leave her there”, Hoya said again.

 

“Yeah, he’s not a pathetic like you who left his girlfriend with another guy. You just don’t know what you’ve done Lee Howon”

 

“He’s only her boss, Hyung. Not more, not less”, Hoya said.

 

“Yeah, for your information, this boss of her is the one who sent her flowers earlier, dear Mr. Naïve Lee Howon. You’ve just let your rival had one step closer to her!”, he said again. And before Hoya could react, Woohyun stormed to the door and flung the door opened, before running his breath out to your house.

 

Hoya rubbed his temple again in desperate, as he muttered, “I know you won’t ever change your feelings… right ___-ah?”

 


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Chapter 55: I hope you update soon enough...:D I want team woohyun... hihi!
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Chapter 1: I'm blushing just by reading this

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Chapter 36: omg. i dont know if i can continue reading...AHH! i'll cry if she deosnt end up with hoya. >.< Update soon Author-nim! :) love the story!
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Chapter 54: Finally you update!
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