Hello guys. In case you forget, this is the story about a girl named Lee Ahreum who made a deal with Eunhyuk to date each other for 30 days, hence the title. Ahreum is Sungmin's cousin and had loved Eunhyuk since 5 years ago. This chapter is Day-15. At Day-14, they celebrated Ahreum's birthday and made the hell out on top of his car. Enjoy!

P.S. Don't forget to read the author's note at the end of the chapter.

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You and I go hard on each other like we're going to war

You and I go rough, we keep falling things-

 

"Hello?" Ahreum picked up her phone with a bit effort as she was doing her nails with a newly brought lavender nail polish from the store across the coffeeshop.

"What took you so long?" the person on the other line complained, faking his annoyance.

Ahreum rolled her eyes with a smile forming on her face. "Sorry for making you wait for like, two seconds?"

“Four, to be exact. But hey, who’s counting?” Eunhyuk sat relaxly in front of a mirror at the hair salon, waiting for his turn to be styled.

Ahreum didn’t answer back to his witty reply and just chose to rest her head on the sofa.

Sensing that she wasn’t going to say anything back, Eunhyuk asked another question as he watched Donghae coughed from the amount of hairspray beeing used at his hair. “What are you doing?”

“I’m doing my nails, oppa.”

“Really? What color?”

"Lavender," Ahreum blew on her nails.

"It suits you," Eunhyuk smiled like a fool while playing with the hem of his jacket, earning him an eye roll from Kyuhyun.

Ahreum chuckled at his answer. "You haven't even seen it yet."

“Everything suits you," Eunhyuk replied quickly and then shuddered a second later from his own cheesiness, "God, that was embarassing. Sorry."

Ahreum laughed heartily and put the phone in between her ear and her shoulder, trying to get back on doing her nails. "Why are you calling anyway?"

"Do I need a reason to call you?" Eunhyuk raised an eyebrow.

"Well, yeah..." Ahreum nodded slightly as she was stating the fact.

Eunhyuk sighed in annoyance. He understood that it was just the way Ahreum behave. She didn't like to sugar-coat anything, what you see is what you get. But sometimes he just needed her to put in some good words just to save him from the guilt.

He chose to ignored her remark once again. "Did you watch my live interview earlier?"

Ahreum frowned for a while, trying to remember what she was up to earlier. "I was doing my shift at the coffeeshop, oppa. I just got home." She answered casually as she the TV. "Why?"

Eunhyuk scoffed as he sat up straight on his seat."So you didn't watch it?"

"No, I told you-"

"I need to go, I'll see you tonight." Eunhyuk suddenly cut her off and ended the phone call abruptly, not even waiting for her to reply.

Ahreum's eyes widened at his sudden outburst. "Oppa? Hello? Oppa?" She got nothing in reply except for the continous sound which indicated that the phone call had been ended.

"What a bipolar guy," Ahreum shook her head and put her phone back in place. She started talking to herself out of confussion. "Just last night he-" She didn't continue as her cheeks was burning from the memory of the night before.

"What was he fussing about anyway?" Ahreum rubbed her cheeks slightly and pulled her laptop closer. She was about to launched the browser when she caught the time on the bottom right of the screen. It was only half an hour before her meeting time with Eunhyuk.

"Shoot!" She literally ran over to her room and bumped her knee on the coffee table in the process. "Aw! Damn!" she cursed as she limped halfway through and slammed the door behind her.

Meanwhile at the hair salon, Eunhyuk's mood had turned 180 after his brief phonecall with Ahreum.

"How would you like your hair today?" The stylist asked him as she combed his hair with her hands.

Eunhyuk stared angrily at his own reflection in the mirror. "Whatever. Just make it good."

"Okay..." The stylist backed off a little and sent Donghae who was sitting next to Eunhyuk a confused look.

"Yah, what's with the sudden attitude?" Donghae turned to the side to take a look at his friend, but the stylist turned his head back to the front as she wasn’t finished with his hair. Donghae gave her a small pout.

"She always watched the shows with me in it!" Eunhyuk stated angrily.

"Who's she?" Donghae frowned in confussion.

"If it is a habit, you don't expect the person to do the opposite, right?" Eunhyuk turned angrily at Donghae.

"Well, sometimes you-" Donghae tried to answer the question eventhough he didn't have the slightest clue about the topic. But Eunhyuk cut him off impatiently.

"Right?!" Eunhyuk emphasized his question with a menacing glare thrown at Donghae.

Donghae met eyes with his stylist through the mirror and gave her a helpless look. "What are we talking about again?" He whispered in panic, afraid that Eunhyuk would burst out in anger even more.

Eunhyuk faced the mirror in front of him once again as he spoke with annoyance dripping from each and every word. "Out of all days, why would she missed the one show I was hoping for her to see?"

Ahreum fixed her scarf as she carefully entered the venue hall through the back door. She showed the guard her backstage pass and walked around nervously, trying to find the Super Junior's waiting room.

She pulled her scarf higher, covering half of her face as she bumped into several idols on the hallway. She felt self-concious about her appearance, which according to her, was as plain as a carrot compared to those y female idols.

She sighed a breath of relief as she found a room with "SUPER JUNIOR" written on a paper plastered in front of it. She put her hand on the handle and slowly opened the door. She peeked inside and met eyes with Donghae. She smiled and opened the door wider to let herself in.

"Hey there. You look pretty," Donghae gave her a brotherly hug. Ahreum blushed at his compliment and returned his hug with a smile. Her eyes caught Eunhyuk sitting in front of one of the mirror, not paying attention to his surrounding as his ears were plugged with earphones.

Donghae followed her line of vision and chuckled. "I'll leave you two. Play safe," he before he playfully sent a wink.

Ahreum rolled her eyes and chuckled at his words. She turned her head towards Eunhyuk after Donghae closed the door behind her and let out a sigh. She was nervous that night for some unknown reason. She had a weird feeling in her gut, as if something bad was going to happen. But she shrugged it off and slowly walked towards Eunhyuk, carefully approaching him.

She stood right behind Eunhyuk, but he didn't notice her at all. Ahreum could see from his reflection on the mirror that he was busy with his cellphone. She let out a small smile seeing him fully concentrated with whatever he was doing. She decided to give him a little surprise, seeing there was only the two of them inside the waiting room.

She put her hands through his shoulder and intertwined her fingers in front of his chest, giving him a back hug. Eunhyuk jolted on his seat and turned his head to the side, trying to see the person who gave him a shock just now.

Ahreum took the opportunity as he turned his head to pinch him on the cheek. Eunhyuk's eyes widened as he immediately plugged off the earphones. "You scared me!"

Ahreum laughed as she stared at him with mischievous eyes. "Sorry, can't help it. You looked so adorable."

Eunhyuk only mumbled some incoherent words as he put away his earphones.

Ahreum observed him carefully. “Are you still mad?” She asked with a soft voice.

Eunhyuk took a peak through her reflection in the mirror. He finally stood up and turned his body around to face her. “I’m not. Haven’t you check your phone?”

Ahreum furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. “I haven’t. I put it in my backpack eversince I left home. Why?” What a random question.

Eunhyuk chuckled and released a relief breath much to Ahreum’s confusion. “Nothing.” He shook his head a litte and offered her a shy smile.

“Okay...” Ahreum trailed, unsured of the situation. “Anyway, I was thinking maybe we could go shopping for that dress I told you about earlier and then we’ll head back to your dorm and I’ll make you dinner.” Ahreum needed to buy a dress for her role as Snow White. She almost cursed as Jieun told her that they had limited budget, so the casts needed to shop for their own costume.

Ahreum desperately needed a second opinion. And who could be better than her own boyfriend?

“Yeah, about that... You don’t need it until next week, right?” Eunhyuk took her hand absentmindedly and started drawing soothing circles with his thumb. A gesture he usually did everytime he wanted to ask her something she might not approve of.

Ahreum narrowed her eyes in suspicion. “Why?” She noticed that Eunhyuk had now intertwined both of their hands and smiled michievously down at her.

Ahreum couldn’t help but smiled back as he was being more and more suspicious. “What? Tell me.” She tried to sound demanding. Although it was hard as Eunhyuk had closed the distance between the two of them and leaned close into her ear. She could feel him smiled as he kept their hands laced with each other.

He pecked the skin underneath her ear once before he whispered, “Let’s go meet my friends.”

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Never once in Ahreum’s life that she dared to imagine sitting inside a VIP room of a sophisticated club surrounded by her boyfriend’s closest non-celebrity friends. But there she was. Squirmed uncomfortably in her seat as people around her kept on chatting and laughing out loud at their inside joke. It wasn’t too crowded. There were only seven people inside the room including Eunhyuk and herself.

Eunhyuk had his arm rest protectively around Ahreum’s shoulder. He waited for the waiter to finish jotted down his friends’ order before placing his. “One coke. And do you have vanilla milkshake by any chance?”

The waiter had a dumbfounded expression on his face. “Certainly. One coke and one vanilla milkshake coming right up.” Eunhyuk could almost read his mind. Who the hell order a milkshake at a night club?

Ahreum let out her first smile eversince Eunhyuk broke down the news that they were about to meet his friends that night. She felt touched knowing that Eunhyuk still tried to take care of her no matter what the situation was. It almost felt like as if he trully loved her. Almost.

Ahreum was more afraid to meet his non-celebrity friends rather than his celebrity ones.

They felt more real  to her.

These people knew about the real Eunhyuk. Not the Super Junior’s dancing machine, but the handsome boy with the gummy smile, Lee Hyukjae. She was afraid to learn about his past. She didn’t want to know more about him, ‘cause she was afraid to fall even deeper.

She made a promise to herself at the beginning of their fake relationship that she wouldn’t go in too deep. But this, meeting his friends, was already way deeper than she originally planned.

Suddenly, she felt a pair of soft lips pressed against her temple. Eunhyuk kissed her briefly before asking, “Hey, are you okay? You’ve been awfully quiet.” Eunhyuk stared at her with worry written all over his face. “I’m sorry for not telling you earlier.” He then stared at his lap out of guilt.

It was then Ahreum’s turn to feel guilty. Who was she to ruin his night with his friends?

She cupped his cheek with her hand and smiled softly. “It’s okay. I was just wondering what was it that made you change your mind, though.”

Eunhyuk stared back at her almost immediately. He covered her hand that was on his cheek with his larger one and kissed her palm lovingly. “What do you mean?”

“Well... You told me you didn’t want anyone else to know about our relationship. Especially not your friends. So what made you change your mind?” She ignored the heat on her cheek as she felt his lips made contact with the skin on her hand.

Eunhyuk mirrored her blush as he processed her question. “Oh, that. Well, um, here’s the case. Um, I’ve decided that I would try to-“ his sentence was cut off in the middle as one of his friend suddenly yelled from across the table.

“Hyukjae-ah! Aren’t you going to introduce her to us?”

Eunhyuk and Ahreum turned their head at the same time as they were snapped from their own world. The others started to say the same thing.

“Yeah, at least tell us her name.”

“Woah, you’ve gotten yourself a beautiful one , haven’t you?”

“Wait, is she your girlfriend?”

“So you’re dating publicly now?”

Eunhyuk laughed heartily before he his seat to face his friends completely. “Her name is Lee Ahreum,” Eunhyuk stopped for a while and looked down for a second at Ahreum with a smile on his face before facing his friends again and continued, “and everyone who have a pair of eyes in this room could surely tell who she really is to me.” He finished with a mischievous smile on his face.

His friends groaned and threw protests here and there. Eunhyuk picked up his glass of coke and put it up halfway in the air. “And she is indeed, beautiful. Cheers,” he said as he gave a subtle wink towards Ahreum.

Ahreum laughed at his childish behavior and clanked her milkshake glass with his. “Cheers.” Then she offered a timid smile towards his friends.

They couldn’t help but laughed at Eunhyuk for trolling them and finally joined in the cheers.

Ahreum pulled out the instax camera from her backpack and took pictures of the two of them holding their drinks with happy smiles planted on their faces.

“So you’re not actually his friend’s cousin, are you?” Suddenly a man who had been sitting beside Eunhyuk for the whole night threw a teasing question at Ahreum.

Ahreum racked her brain trying to remember his oddly familiar face when suddenly it clicked. “Ah... Joon, isn’t it?” She said softly, afraid she might be wrong. Joon was the guy that bumped into Eunhyuk at the night market two days ago.

“Yup,” he said, popping the letter ‘p’. “So, are you or are you not?” He asked one more time with a teasing smile still attached to his face.

“Yah, leave my girlfriend alone.” Eunhyuk smacked the back of his head lightly while laughing at his curiosity.

Joon rubbed the nack of his head and sent glares at Eunhyuk. “Aha! So you’ve admitted that she is indeed your girlfriend!”

Eunhyuk rolled his eyes and smiled at Joon. “Only because you’re my bestfriend in highschool.” He laced his fingers together with Ahreum’s and gave her a gentle squeeze. “And keep your voice down. Geez.”

Joon automatically clamped his mouth with his hands. “Right, sorry.” Then he shifted his attention back at Ahreum. “So Ahreum, do you want to hear some embarassing story?”

Eunhyuk choked a bit on his coke. “Don’t you even dare.”

Joon chose to ignore him and popped a peanut inside his mouth. “So, you know how in highschool we took shifts in cleaning the classroom at the end of the day, right?”

Ahreum nodded her head in interest. Joon tried to suppress his laughter as he continued on with the story. “There was one time when we all wanted to prank Hyukjae. So we put syrup mixed with ketchup on a bucket. Hyukjae was the one who was in charge in cleaning the teacher’s lounge that day. So he used the bucket, and-“

Suddenly Eunhyuk shoved a handful of tissue into Joon’s mouth and then covered Ahreum’s ears with his hands, effectively stopping her from hearing the rest of the story.

Joon choked and shouted profinities at Eunhyuk. “Dude, what the hell! Was it used tissues?!”

Eunhyuk just shrugged his shoulder and turned his attention back at Ahreum as she struggled to get his hands off her ears.

“I want to listen to the rest of the story!” She sighed in defeat and unconciously pouted, which was a very rare sight for Eunhyuk to see.

He couldn’t help but laughed at her cuteness and leaned down to give her a peck on the lips. Realizing his attention, Ahreum turned her head to the side at the last second. Eunhyuk pouted back at her as his lips only landed at the corner of her lips.

Ahreum’s face was as red as tomato and Eunhyuk found it even cuter. So he settled with another kiss on her cheek.

Joon apparently hadn’t give up as he tried to continue the story. “As I was saying, he smeared the whole floor-“

“Shut up!” Eunhyuk shoved him another bundle of tissue and effectively choking him one more time.

Ahreum laughed seeing the two bestfriend bickered and finally relaxed as the night continued on with Eunhyuk’s friends kept on offering her embarassing  and funny stories about him.

She found it adorable that he once tried to help the lunch lady distributing the food. Or when he wanted to help a cat who was stuck on a tree but then he couldn’t come down either. Or when he stood up for his friend who was accused for stealing money.

She found it all precious.

By the end of the night, she felt like she got to know Lee Hyukjae all over again. She got to know the other side of him that made her fell even deeper.

And that, was the exact reason why she was afraid.

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“How was it?” Eunhyuk suddenly asked as they walked leisurely hand in hand towards Ahreum’s apartment.

Ahreum stared at him for a moment with a soft smile playing on her face. “It was nice.”

“And?” Eunhyuk had gotten used to her by now. Ahreum was a girl with a few words. He had to coax her into saying what was really on her mind.

Ahreum shrugged her shoulder a little. “It feels like I’ve gotten to know another side of you,” she stopped to face him and fixed his hoodie to cover his face a little bit more, “and I kinda like it.”

Eunhyuk laughed as they arrived in front of her apartment’s gate and faced each other under the street light. “So that means you won’t mind meeting them again another time, right?”

“Sure. Joon is fun.” She giggled as Eunhyuk hugged her closer and circled her waist with his hands intertwined behind her back.

“Joon is a troublemaker.” Eunhyuk rolled his eyes at the mention of his friend.

She hummed in content and rested her hands on his broad chest. She decided to just play along for the moment. She knew it won’t happen again in the future. They were already half way through their deal anyway. Fifteen days from now, she would be gone.

“What are you thinking about?” Eunhyuk asked as he smoothen the crease in between her brows. He was starting to mimic Ahreum’s habit.

Ahreum shook her head and decided not to tell him. Instead, she opted to ask something else that had been bothering her for a while. “Why are we walking? You could just drove to my apartment and dropped me there instead of parking your car at the park.” She didn’t mean to be a brat, she was just worried it would tire him even more. “We could save the time and you could get more rest.”

Eunhyuk smiled and the wrinkles underneath his eyes showed up one more time. “You just need to ask, don’t you?” He leaned in closer and whispered to her ear, “I want to spend more time with you. Holding your hand and talk about anything and everything... That’s what I like the most.”

He already decided that he would make the most out of the time he got left with her. In fifteen days things would end and everything would go back to norml, right? He had done this before for many times. He had lots of ‘flings’ that didn’t last for a long time. It had always been so easy for him to forget and move on. So why would it be different this time?

Fifteen days ago, he hated the girl. And it scared him how fast she had slipped her way into his heart and made him lose control of his own feelings. He knew the answer already. But he refused to think about it.

She’s just another girl. Just another fling. All of this means nothing. Get a grip Lee Hyukjae! Eunhyuk kept on chanting the words in his head. But one look at her beautiful doe eyes, he knew he was doomed.

Ahreum’s cheeks reddened and she chose to cover it with a witty comeback. “If you like it that much to spend time with me, then why were you mad earlier?”

“Ah, that. You should just check your phone when you get home.” Eunhyuk smirked as he leaned in and planted a kiss on her left cheek and trailed small kisses towards her lips.

As there were no one else around, Ahreum didn’t make a move to avoid him. He hesitated a little when he was about to kiss her lips, but seeing she didn’t deny him, he finally landed his lips softly against her.

The kiss was chaste and wasn’t hurried. It was different from the kisses they shared yesterday. Yesterday was all about confronting each other’s feelings. Yesterday’s kiss wass passionate and hot, from the way Eunhyuk held her close to his body to the way his lips moving against hers. Everything screamed possesiveness.

But tonight, he kissed her delicately. He massaged her lips with his softly and slowly. One hand cradled her face and the other one rested on her waist, drawing soothing circles with his thumb.

Ahreum intertwined her fingers behind his neck before she slowly ran her fingers through his air, earning a contented sigh from him.

They finally broke the kiss as they were both gasping for oxygen. Eunhyuk chuckled and rested his forehead against hers.

Seeing the shy smile on her face, Eunhyuk couldn’t help but leaned in for another kiss before he reluctantly let go and said his goodbye.

“I’ll see you tomorrow, Snow White.”

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Ahreum went inside her apartment and let out an excited giggle. That night had turned out much much better than she had expected it to be. She thought she had to deal with a grumpy Eunhyuk all night long, but no. The night had been perfect.

Then suddenly she remebered that she needed to check her phone. She fished it out from her bag and she saw there were a few notifications from LINE.

 

Lee Hyukjae: Where are you? (7:16 pm)

Lee Hyukjae: You’re not answering. Are you mad? (7:32 pm)

Lee Hyukjae: I’m sorry. You didn’t deserve it (7:32 pm)

Lee Hyukjae: I miss you~ (7:44 pm)

Lee Hyukjae: Why aren’t you here yet? (7:44 pm)

Lee Hyukjae: Make sure you watch my interview later, okaaay? (7:50 pm)

Lee Hyukjae: Have I said it already? I miss you :) (7:50 pm)

Lee Hyukjae: Alot (7:50 pm)

 

Ahreum grinned from ear to ear reading all the messages Eunhyuk had sent her. She didn’t bother to check her phone since she was already on the bus. She giggled like a school girl and replied.

 

Lee Ahreum: I’m gonna watch it now, oppa (11:57 pm)

 

She put away her phone and took her laptop to her bed. She made herself comfortable and then started browsing for Eunhyuk’s interview. What’s all the fuss about?

The interview was about idol’s dating life. The interviewer went from one idol to another, asking them random questions about their love life and ideal types, catching them off guard. It was pretty funny watching all their flustered faces. Then the interviewer finally knocked on Super Junior’s waiting room.

Siwon was the first one to be attacked. All the other members joined in to and they all had a good laugh until the interviewer finally turned to Eunhyuk.

“So I heard you’re the cassanova of the group, huh? With your dancing ability and bad boy charm,” the interviewer started while wiggling his eyebrows..

Eunhyuk laughed out loud. “What? Where did you hear that?”

“Tell me about your ideal type. I can tell alot about someone from their ideal type.”

Kyuhyun answered before Eunhyuk could open his mouth. “Eunhyuk hyung likes y girls with long lean legs!”

Eunhyuk laughed and elbowed Kyuhyun right on the stomach, earning a groan from him.

“Yeah sure, what Kyuhyun said was right. I mean, who doesn’t like y girls, right? y girls are everybody’s ideal type.” Eunhyuk laughed slightly then stopped to think for a moment.

“But instead of that, I’d like it if she has long black hair and pale skin.” He started with a dreamy smile on his face. “It’ll be nice too if she’s small, so she can fit perfectly in my arms. Since I’m not too tall and all,” he continued while laughing slightly.

“It’s okay if she seems kind of cold at the beginning, ‘cause I’m sure deep down she has a warm heart. And it’ll feel nice knowing that I’m the one who gets to see that side of her.” He ended with a shy smile and all the other members snickering at the back.

The interviewer was stunned for a moment. “Wow, it almost feels like you’re actually talking about a certain girl.”

Eunhyuk laughed and gave a vague answer. “You like to conclude things on your own, don’t you?”

“Anyway, have you met any girl that matches with ‘everybody’s ideal type’? The y girl with long lean legs?” The interviewer laughed back and asked curiously.

“I’m surrounded by them everyday, can’t you see?” Eunhyuk answered with a laugh, pointing to the fact that he was surrounded with beautiful female idols and female celebrities everyday. The other members nodded slightly in agreement.

“But instead of that, it’ll feel much much better if I can find that small girl with a warm heart inside.” The dreamy smile started to make its way back to his face.

The interviewer got  even more suspicious and threw him another question. “Let’s just say you’ve met that girl. What is it that make you choose her over any other beautiful celebrities?”

“’Cause she’s real.” Eunhyuk answered calmly and stared straight into the camera.

Ahreum’s breath got caught on as she felt as if his eyes were staring straight at her.

 

“And she’s enough for me.”

 

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Hello guys. I know, it's been over a year since I last updated the story. I can't explain the reason here, cause then it'll be too long.

All I wanna say is. sorry. And I really mean it. Sorry for making you guys wait without any proper announcement of my hiatus. So so sooooo sorry.

Anyway, I'm back now. With one long a*s chapter. You can see here how Eunhyuk had an internal battle with himself. He wanted to spend the rest of their time together happily and then planned to moved on just like that after the deal is over. How could he do that?!   >:(

But you and I both know that it won't be that easy, haha.

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