“Oppa, what are you doing here?” I asked him right away when I opened the door of my apartment for him.

He gave me a light pecked on the lips and entered my humble abode like it’s his own. He sat at my sofa and patted the space beside him showing me where I should be seated. When I didn’t make a move, since I’m waiting for his answer, he held my hand and pulled me smoothly beside him. He placed his arm around me to make us more closely.

“I just want to visit my beautiful girlfriend.” He said with a sweet smile.

“But it’s already late and we still have exams tomorrow so we need to study.”

As goody-two-shoes I needed to study to maintain my grades and remain on the top 5 of their year. Why I needed to do so? I’m not a scholar, money was never my problem since my parents have jobs that have high salaries and they provided me whatever I needed. So why? Simply, because I enjoyed studying and I wanted to make my parents to be proud. I knew they worked hard for my sake so it’s my payment to them. Wasn’t I a good daughter?

“But I miss you, babe. We rarely see each other at school and when we did, we acted like we didn’t know each other.”

I knew where this conversation’s going to lead. He always brought that topic whenever we rarely see each other because of school stuffs and he always started like that.

“I miss you too. But we have exams the whole week and we need to study. We’re now seniors so we should never take exams easily as before. And you know why we do that, Jae. We had talked about that hundreds of times before.”

He removed his arms around my shoulders and turned to face me.

“I know, babe. But it’s really hard and tiring to have our relationship kept in the dark. I want the whole school to know that I have a wonderful girlfriend. I want other boys to envy me because I have the most amazing girl in my life. Why can’t we just reveal our relationship and be like any other couples out there?”

I heaved a sigh.

We’ve been in this secret relationship for almost 8 months now and we had this kind of talk many times before and I thought that he really understood me the last time but seeing that he brought this topic again, I guess we will argue about it. AGAIN.

“Do you want me to die?” I asked him seriously but it seemed that he took the question as a joke.

“Babe, what are you talking about? What’s the connection of your death and us revealing our relationship?” he asked me completely clueless of what I’m trying to point.

“You’re the Kingka. Students and even teachers are expecting you to date a beauty queen slash a super model type of girl like your previous girlfriends. Every girl at the academy has a crush on you, and they will make anything just to be with you. Boys look up to you as if you’re some kind of a prince. Do you think they’ll accept the plain me if they’ll know that I’m your girlfriend? They probably take it as a joke or think that I bewitch you or something like that or worse they might think that I seduce you. And your fan girls are scary.”

He chuckled. What the, he just chuckled. So he thought that I was joking?

“Yah! We’re having a serious discussion here and you’re just laughing at me.”

“I can’t help it… I didn’t know that you think highly of me, babe.” He gave me a grin. This guy, seriously. He started this topic and now he’s not being serious.

He cleared his throat… probably he noticed that I was not amused to what he said.

“But why do you care so much what other people will think of us? Let them think whatever they want but it’s our life and they have no say to our relationship. If you’re afraid that they’ll make fun of you, I’ll protect you. And baby, why are you downgrading yourself? Remember that you’re the most beautiful and wonderful girl for me… don’t you ever forget that.”