Riyoung POV

Ricky told me what really happened last night.

Damn. I still can't believe that I freakin' held on to him so tightly that he was forced to sleep on top of him.

ughh. .the embarrassment.

But now, we are all in the dining table.

Eating whatever Cap prepared for us. Yes. .PREPARED. That smell earlier came from something he made, not ordered. Much to the other guy's dismay.They all looked like they were going to have nausea just from looking at the food. 

I scrutinized it. It was pretty. .normal looking. Western stuff. Fish fillet, steamed rice, waffles, bacon and a big ham and cheese omelette.

It didn't have a weird color or anything. No suspicious-looking things sticking out. I can't see eyeballs or fish-scales, that's always a good sign.

It smelled great too.

The fish smelled like fish. Rice smelled like rice. Waffles smelled like waffles. Bacon smelled like bacon and the omelette smelled like an omelette.

But despite those, the guys still looked like the wanted to vomit right here and now.

I furrowed my brows. I don't get it. It looks fine.

"It's a trap." Chunji, who was beside me, suddenly mumbled. Garnering everybody's attention. Ljoe subtly elbowed him.

Realizing that everybody heard, he immediately covered his mouth.

Cap looked at him, his face still blank, but kind of 'less-blank' than usual. "You . .don't like it?"

"Uh. .of course not!" Chunji lied. "ahaha. .it looks absolutely. . delicious."

The edge on his voice was undeniably obvious that even someone as dense as Ricky could notice it.

"Oh. .then, by all means. Go ahead." Cap motions for him to start eating. His eyes looking a teeeeny bit expectant.

The other look at him. All feeling sorry. I can't believe how bad actor's they all are. It's impossible for Cap not to notice their complete fear for the food.

A corner of Chunji's mouth flinches. He takes a breath and takes a small peice of fish. At first he looked fine. But then after a moment his face broke. WHAT's UP WITH THE FISH?

but he forced himself to return to a normal expression. He continued all his chewing, it seemed like forever.

how chewy is that thing.

The loong chewing needed for the fish prolonged his agony. I gulped.

Is it really that bad?

Before he finally swallowed, Ljoe stifled a laugh. Which obviously annoyed Chunji.

"Waah.. hyung, that was . .so. .amazing." Chunji said after subtly drinking a glass of water.

Cap smiled. Making his face look almost. .unblank. I've seen that face of his before, when we were in the rooftop. It made him look less gloomy I guess.

The guys paused when they saw it. It seems like Cap's smile is rare to them. Like it should have it's picture taken for documentation or something.

"Ljoe. .why don't you have peice of waffle?" Chunji suggested with an evil grin. Ah. revenge.

Ljoe glared at Chunji. He had this 'I will kill you' look on his face.

But Chunji just sheepishly grinned at him. But I bet inside he was saying 'If I'm going down, you're going down with me.'

Wait. .why am narrating their probable conversation in my mind? -.-

Anyways. i guess I'll help Chunji out since he saved me from that closet and all.

"Yeah. .Ljoe. Why don't you try it?" I say with a smile.

Ljoe looks at me, a bit surprised how I him and took Chunji's side. I thought that he would scowl at me or something, but instead, he. .pouted?

Okay. .that made me feel a tiny bit guilty. 

He fearfully slices the waffle. Stalling as much as possible. As he raises a piece to his mouth, he looks at it ruefully. Then he pops it in his mouth and chews. His eyebrows furrowed, but otherwise, his face was straight. Chunji looks at him with utter amusement.

When he manages to swallow, he immediately downs a glass if water.

"How was it?" Cap inquires.

"Um. .it was pretty. .innovative of you, to uh. .mix chocolate and raw soy-sauce marinated squid to make the stuffing for the waffle." He said, a bit shakily.

Oh God. .it really was a trap. If that was what Ljoe ate, I didn't even wanna know what Chunji was eating a while ago.

One by one, they all took a bite of something. All of the food is apparently crazy- disgusting.

Based on my skills of deduction from what they were saying afterwards.

It seemed like the fish was actually not fish flesh but fish innards wrapped in a bread and sugar coating..

The bacon was apparently soaked in peppermint sauce, sugar and something bitter. It's texture was also like cardboard.

The omelette. .oh the omelette. I don't even KNOW what was inside that thing since after Niel took a bite, he pretended that he needed to pee. It must've been real bad to have such a quick effect.

I guess it's my turn now to pick something. I decided to pick the bacon, since, it will hopefully be the least disgusting.

Before I could get one, I was stopped by Cap.

"I guess that since you're sick, it's not advisable for you to eat stuff this heavy. I prepared some instant oatmeal for you."

God loves me. TTvTT

He takes the oatmeal out. It was just a single bowl.

Wait. .what if.

"Uh. .you didn't add something did you?" I ask bluntly.

He chuckles. Which shocked the others, apparently Cap chuckling is rare for them aswell.

"No. .it's just hot water, milk and instant oatmeal."

I took an experimental sip.

Woaaah..normal. I never knew that instant oatmeal could taste this delicious.

bwahahahahahhaahahahaha!

When I continued eating to let the others realize that it was normal they all got jealous.

"Ugh. .now I want a fever." Changjo who was beside me almost inaudibly mumbled.

bwhahahahahahahahhaha. My luck is unparalleled. Keep eatin' that crap ya losers. Okay, I'm getting a bit crazy here. But I'm just so happy. xD

A few moments later. The guys left. Probably to go to the bathroom and all that remained was Cap and I. Even though he ate alot of what he made, he was fine.

I couldn't believe that those disgusting stuff were finished.

Poor guys. .

But it WAS pretty amusing. Just thinking about their faces whenever they took a bite is just too funny.

I hear Cap chuckle.

"Funny right?" he asks. As if reading my mind. He was looking at the boys who were desperately trying to race as to who gets to go to the bathroom first.  

I was taken aback. "So you DID know that your food ."

Cap raises an eyebrow and grins slightly. "Even Ricky would know in my position." he said. "haha. .I never do get used to your bluntness."

My eyes widened. "That's what I said!" i informed enthusiastically. But then I headed towards a more important question. "Then why do you keep making it?"

He sighs as he slowly clasps his arms together, all detective-like. "Well, it's simple. Cuz they keep lying. And I want them to stay true to themselves."

I roll my eyes and look at him knowingly. "Oh cut that corny crap. You can't expect me to buy that don'r you?"

"But I am telling the truth. .well another reason is cuz. . well. it's FUN." he says with a blank expression. His words sounded evil but his expression remained a poker face.

I take another spoonful of my normal oatmeal and stuff it in my mouth.

"You're pretty effil arnncha (you're pretty evil aren't ya)?" I say while chewing.

"haha. Well. .I guess so. But come on. It is pretty funny right?" he said.

I nodded thoughtfully. Yep. .it's pretty funny

"But anyways, even though their iies have a good intention behind them, I still don't think that people should lie to each other, no matter what he reason."

"Why is that?"

He paused, and for a moment, pursed his lips as if he was pondering on what he would say.

"I'm the son of my dad's mistress." he said bluntly, making me almost choke. Quickly drinking water to down the oatmeal currently stuck in my throat.

*cough* *cough* *hic* I wheeze and cough as I try to swallow the food properly.

"Woah. .you okay?"

At first he looked a bit panicked but when I managed to breathe properly he just laughed. That's so mean. 

"Damn you Cap, did you just say that just to make me choke?" I say crossly with a matching glare.

"Come on. I'm not that evil." he defends, raising his arms slightly in a defensive manner. "It's true though. I really am the son of a mistress."

I just look at him. Not quite sure of what to do. Whether I should just listen to whatever extent of information he would give, or whether I should press for more information. The topic sounds so sensitive, and judging by his tone, I guess he's not lying.

Why is he telling me all this anyway?

"When I was a kid, I really thought that I was the real son of my dad and his legal wife. I grew up in ignorant bliss and enjoyed a pretty much normal life as a kid." he paused for a bit, like the words he just uttered were bitter.

"Suddenly this woman showed up, she revealed herself as my dad's fling a long time ago. The issue almost tore my family apart. I despised her. I kept telling myself that 'why would she show up? just to mess with us?'. What's even worse is that she said that she was actually MY mother. Of course. I didn't believe her. After I rejected her offer to go with her, she left. Then,. .she got into an accident and died." he said.

"It happened that she really was my mother. I found out last year. My dad and my apparently fake mom whom I thought to be my real one for most of my life lied to me. I felt so messed up, thinking that I played a part in my mom's death, that I even dropped out of school for awhile."

I was in awe as I looked at Cap. He was looking at the wooden table. Away from me, but even so, I could tell that his gaze was absolutely different. It was filled with emotion. An emotion that I couldn't quite put my finger upon. An emotion so unlike his normal, dazed, lazy and carefree one. Like he was hurt and guilty.

One thing was for sure, seeing him like that made me uneasy. I'd rather talk to a poker-faced, meat-bun-addicted Cap than a sad and melancholic one. But,. .I really don't know what I should do. Should I comfort him and stuff? But I'm also not good with those. Every time I try to comfort someone, I almost always just make them feel worse.

GAH! why would he tell me all these things?? why so suddenly?

He then lifted his chin and looked at me. His face in a melancholic smile. "Heh. .I don't even know why I'm telling you this."

"Yeah. .why d-did you have to drop a bomb on me like that." I complained. "Now I don't know what I should say."

He chuckled. "You don't have to say anything." he said. "I just wanted to tell you, probably because I know that you're too blunt and obtuse to lie to me. No matter what I say. I really have a good and light feeling when I'm around you Riyoung. "

He leaned in a bit closer as the right corner of his lip tuggged upward in a subtle smile. ". .Like I can tell you anything."

At first, I couldn't help but get flustered by all the sudden things that he said. But then I raised my eyebrows. "Oh come on, you're saying that about me even though we've only had only one decent conversation?"

"Well, maybe one conversation is enough  for me to like you."

When his sudden words of endearment registered in my brain, I felt all the blood in my body rush to my face.

What in the dang world is he saying so suddenly?

"Wh-wha-what?" I asked, looking everywhere but his onyx-like eyes. Which, from the corner of my eye, I could see was looking at me with slight amusement.

"What? you want me to say it again?" he says a bit teasingly. Ugh. .I wanna hit him.

"Okay. .then Riyoung. .i'm saying that I li---" 

I cut his voice my screaming.

"AAAh! I don't wanna hear it. What is WITH you all of the sudden? Weirdo Cap." I exclaim while flailing my arms around.

"What? there are tons of definitions for the word 'like', maybe you're thinking about the wrong definition?" he says with a sheepish grin.

I glare at him. What?. ..as I thought, he's just like them. He's just joking with me.

When he saw my fiery glare, he flashed me a smile. It was a different kind of smile. Different from what he usually shows. It was a bit. . i dunno. ..alluring?

He leaned closer again as he rested his chin on his palms, with that. .that weird smile. 

"Oh. .don't get so angry. I do like you." he says. "But. .currently. I'm still confused as to what kind.. " he trailed off for a moment.

". .or how intense it is." his voice barely above a whisper.

His words matched with his intense gaze made my spine tingle. 

He's so. .straightforward. The hell.

"Damn you Cap, almost making me unable to think of things to say." I say while looking slightly down. To hide my embarrassingly blushing face and undeniable pout.

"Heh. .I'm just taking after you. Since you're so blunt. I got interested and wanted to try that out for a change."

I heard the chairs creek. He got up and headed towards the direction the others went into. "Well, I guess I better check on them. it's my fault after all", he said with a good-natured chuckle.

I just sat there. Still comprehending what exactly happened back there. 

Was that  a freakin' confession??

it sounded like one. .but since it's coming from Cap I don't know WHAT to think.

When he was almost out of the kitchen, he turned around.

"Yah." he says gently. 

I look at him, trying to look as unflustered as I could.

"Wanna know another reason while I told you that story?" he asked.

 I nodded.

"I wanted to show you that everyone has a past. .their own secrets. Maybe you should start accepting yours too."

My eyes bulged. Just when I was about to call for him to ask what he meant by that, he already closed the kitchen door.

What the?

Does he know??

about Gongchan?

How?

Why?

But. .it's . .it's not possible. I didn't even tell anyone in school.

I look at the door. 

"Cap.. you're so mysterious that I can't even place finger as to what kind of person you are." I mumble to myself.

I stay there for a bit.

But then, a sudden realization dawns on me.

WHAT ABOUT THE FREAKIN' DISHES!!?

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hahahahahahhaah! finally an update that didn't take so long.

xD I kind of like writing this chapter. Idk. .writing Riyoung's and Cap's scenes just goes naturally for me. I didn't even need, to think that hard on what was going to happen next.

Ohh. ! and since i absolutely at photoshop. Does anyone know where I'll be able to request a good poster for my story? =D