#twenty-eight

In Cinderella's Shadow

-Weird

I slandered down Seoul downtown, holding a box tightly against my chest.

I saw Jiho's translation office approaching and smiled unknowingly. Looking down at the box I grinned even wider.

I entered and one of his friends, I supposed, greeted me shortly.

"Ah...ehm, Jaehyo sshi, right? Is Jiho here?" I smiled and he nodded, pointing to the back. "But don't let our boss see you, he doesn't like people going to the back of the office."

I gave him some hasty nods and disappeared. My high heels loudly stamped on the floor and I finally arrived Jiho's work place, stopping my shoes from making noises.

He looked up and his smiled twitched upwards. I blushed lightly and Jiho stood up rapidly, almost tripping. I just laughed over him once more and wandered towards him. Holding the box his way, I threw a smile at him. "For you. Take it. And don't let it waste."

"Hey, nice to meet you, too." he chuckled sarcastically and kissed my lips carefully, "What's inside?"

"Take a look." I folded my hands and placed myself next to him. Jiho did how told and opened the top of the small carton-like box.

"Yeonnie ah~ don't tell me-"

"Eat them well...I did them myself." I giggled but Jiho just stared at me. "Seriously?"

I nodded and he sighed, kissing my temple. "You did them...for me?"

Silence followed by a slow nod of mine. He looked at the cupcakes again. "I'm dating a baker...this is so awesome."

I hit him softly yet patted his arm. "When is your shift over?"

"Six...sharp." he glanced at the clock and back to me. I smiled widely. "Can I come over then?"

Jiho's eyes beamed warmly quickly. "Sure...no, wait." he went back to his desk and closed the box, shortly rummaging in the pockets of his jacket. He fished out some keys. Jiho then came back to me, holding them in my direction. "Want to wait for me at home?"

I hesitated to take the keys from his hand. Smiling he leaned over and kissed me slowly and sweetly. As he pulled away he turned around immediately. "So...if I come home and there's nobody opening my door then I will-"

"You will do what? Tickle me to death?" I stunned my hands on my hips and bend forward a bit. Jiho nodded and raised his nose up high as he sat down in his comfortable chair. "Exactly this is what I'm going to do. Now, go, this man here has to work."

"Psh." I shook my head and left his office. I took the bus and arrived quickly at his home, opening the door with the given key.

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Narrator;

Jiho scratched his cheek before ringing his own doorbell. Some tippy-toes coming towards the door were heard and he started smiling.

You opened the door and took some steps back. "You may go in now."

"In my own house..."

You nodded and he shook his head at your adorable little sprint back into his kitchen. He watched you standing in front of the cooker, obviously cooking. Jiho bit his lip and walked towards you, hugging you from behind.

He curtly kissed your jawline and chuckled into your ear. You tensed up as he suddenly said "Déjà-vu".

You shook your head and looked at him. "Are you alright?" He nodded soundlessly and let his head rest on your shoulder. "Any my wifey decided to cook for me tonight?"

Now you were the one laughting slightly. "Yes...I was thinking, when I get home to you first, why not just cook something before this man will come home as well..."

Jiho let go of you and smiled in satisfaction. "Sounds about right...when did you start cooking."

"I'll be done in less than five minutes...keep calm for some time." you chuckled and felt two lips pressed against your temple.

"Yeah, yeah...I just wanted to know." Jiho went back and sat down on one of the kitchen chairs.

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You;

I laughed loudly over the joke Jiho just did over the phone.

"But it is true. You should've seen my friend, he was covered in flour from head to toe. We had a good time...Ah, Yeunja ah?"

"Yes?" I blinked and paid even more attention, if that was possible, and Jiho exhaled. "Are you free this evening?"

I nodded for myself and answered right back. "Yeah, why?"

"Your boyfriend wants a date, what else?" Jiho snorted into the phone but cleared his throat again. "Just kidding...but...want to go out tonight?"

I smiled into the phone over-happily. "I'd love to."

"Great! So...urm, shall I pick you up? Around seven?" Jiho asked and I agreed rapidly. We bid goodbye and I sighed loudly, joy welling from my heart and I fell back in my pillow, waving around with my arms and legs.

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The doorbell rang and I hurried down the stairs while slipping in my black high heels.

I opened the door and Jiho looked at me shortly before capturing my lips for a lovely kiss. We parted and he looked at me. "Stop getting prettier day by day."

I bit my lips and laid my hands down on my waist. "Do these jeans look good...and my shoes...and the plain tank top...and the jacket over this?! I mean, not that I ju-"

"You're perfect...like always." he grasped both of my hands and pulled me outside. I closed the door and followed him into the car.

"Where are we going?" I looked at him and Jiho smiled mysteriously. "It's one of my favorite hangouts. You can order drinks, food or just sit there and talk. I hope you're hungry, 'cause I am."

I smirked shortly and nodded. He laughed and drove down the street, through the town until we reached it.

It was a rather small building. I didn't seem to have a second story and also, its façade wasn't the best either.

"It's really pretty inside, believe me." Jiho replied as if he heard my thoughts and entwined our fingers. I smiled up at him and he opened the door.

He pulled me over onto a couch which surrounded a small round table. "And don't wonder when the employees call me by my first name. Most of them know me personally because I come here so often."

I nodded eagerly and took the small card in my hands, checking and scanning all kind of food and drinks they offered here.

"Before you start getting confused...take 134 or 67...I know you'll love it." he winked at me and I checked the names of the numbers. I indeed loved both of these meals and bit my lip in anticipation. "I'll take that!"

"Me, too." he scooted closer and s his arms around my waist, "Hey...we're soon dating for four months."

I nodded in bliss and leaned against Jiho. "More to come?"

"More to come." he spoke with a low voice and pecked my cheek.

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Our food came and I gaped at it. This neighborhood store might be looking cheap but the food looked beyond perfection.

"Dig in! It's fabulous!"

I wanted to do so but stopped. "Did you just say fabulous?"

"Can't I say fabulous?" Jiho countered touchy and I smacked my lips loudly, acting. "No...no, you can't. Boys aren't allowed to say the word fabulous. Only girls are-"

"Wooooo Jiiihooooo!" a man's voice cut me and both of us looked in front of us. A man walked towards us and Jiho smiled his way. "Hyung! What're you doing here?!"

He fixed his styled up red hair. "This, that...chilling. I brought along our friends as well. You said you were busy." he looked next to Jiho, right at me.

"I am busy, hyung." Jiho scoffed and some others appeared behind the red-haired guy.

"Jihoon ah!" Jiho called out and high-fived with a young man who smiled my way. "Oh~ who's that, hyung?"

Jiho chuckled and went back to me. "Oh right...Guys, this is Kang Yeunja. She's my girlfriend."

One guy almost spit the coke he just took a sip from. "Woo Jiho and a girlfriend?! What?!" he started laughing and I blinked confused. Jiho rolled his eyes annoyingly. "Yukwon...shut it. I have a girlfriend, live with that fact."

The one with the red hair snickered before in his lips.

"Kyung, you, too!" Jiho narrowed his eyes at him and one lifted up his hands. "Chill, man. We didn't want to be offending. We just said what we thought."

"Ignore them." Jiho casually chuckled into my ear and I crossed my legs. He took my hand and smiled at his friends. "Want to take a seat for some time?" Jiho looked at me again, "If this is okay with you."

"Your friends should be my friends." I smiled and Jiho beamed back, looking at them. It really didn't affect me. There was much space and besides the small, friendly bickering just now they sounded pretty nice.

"So..." Jiho trailed off and the red-haired boy cleared his throat. "I'm Park Kyung."

I bowed my head lightly and the next one came up, the one who almost spat his coke all over the floor. "Kim Yukwon."

"Pyo Jihoon!" another one wildly shook my hand and I laughed at his cute expression.

"Lee Taeil." he seemed the most normal out of them and the last one spoke up. "Just call me Ugly Duck...I don't like being called by my real name."

I nodded weirdly, but smiled in the end broadly.

"And..." Kyung turned to us after some time, "How long are you dating now~?"

Jiho grinned genuinely. "Next week it will be four months." my face lit up just like his and Kyung nodded with big eyes. "Alriiiight~ seems like a lot!"

"It is." Jiho looked at me and I blushed slightly at the soft gaze in his eyes.

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Two hours passed and right now we were all cracking up about what Jihoon had seen in a club he was at last week. I held my mouth and flailed my other arm wildly, sitting back in the comfortable couch.

I shook my head and took the drink in my hand again, taking a sip. Jiho leaned back, too, whispering into my ear. "Are you having fun? If not, I can tell them to go, we wanted to have an evening for our own."

"No, no! Your friends are a lot of fun! I like them!" I chuckled and pecked his cheek. He pulled me closer and put his arm around my back. "Really...just tell me."

I nodded and Jiho leaned in to kiss me. He smiled and deepened the kiss slightly. I tilted my head and sighed quietly.

"Get a room, guys." Kyung shouted over to us and we looked his way. I averted my gaze somewhere else and flushed madly.

"Did you hear what Jihoon said?" Ugly Duck asked and Jiho spun his head at him. "Uh, no...what?"

"Too preoccupied~?" Kyung asked and Jiho hit him. "Shut up! What did he say?"

Jihoon smirked Jiho's way. "We should go out more again! You know...Running around the town..."

"Enjoying life...The old times. Vivid, Buck, you know."

"Ahahahaha, bro, shut it~" Jiho laughed loudly at Ugly Duck's statement and I blinked at him.

He smiled at Jiho once more. "Come on, badass-ing around again. We need to repeat-"

"Shut. The . Up. Hyung." Jiho fiercely glared at him and Jihoon and Ugly Duck put their hands up in surrender. "We were just asking you..."

Awkward silence filled the air and I gulped loudly, softly trying to get out of Jiho's grip.

Narrator;

"I'll go to the restroom for a second." you pardoned yourself and smiled, leaving.

When you were out of sight Jiho bent over the table slightly. "Are you kidding me? What the was that just now?!"

Kyung blinked. "Yah, Jiho ah, what's the matter?"

"Can't you behave normally for just some hours? Just around her? I told all of you that I'm out with my girlfriend tonight and-"

"Wait, wait, wait...Normal? Explain, hyung." Jihoon narrowed his eyes at his older friend. Jiho just sighed and rubbed his eye for a second. "Okay, listen. I love Yeunja. Damn it, I love her so much okay, I love everything about her. Her character, her outside, her voice...I don't want to ruin this relationship, she means so much to me."

Taeil suddenly laughed. "When did Woo Jiho became a poet?"

Jiho shot him a death glare and continued. "I...I've changed okay. You know I won't do such things again. It's in the past, I've grown up. Can't you see? This was funny at the age of thirteen and plus. I'm twenty, I should start getting a life."

"And this is no life with us, or what?" Ju Kyung jerked his head to the side slowly and Jiho inhaled. "You're all my best friends...but I can't keep doing on the streets like that...If we keep doing such things we'll get arrested. We're ing adults, we should behave like that." 

They looked at him.

He just sighed again, with a smile. "And please, don't bring up that topic today. I haven't told her about, uhm, some things. I'm going to do it myself. I don't want us apart."

"Jiho really is in love~" Yukwon cooed and Jiho facepalm-ed. " yes, I am. Shut up now, please."

All of them laughed and about a minute later you came back to the table as well.

"Did I miss something?" you asked and Jiho shook his head, kissing you shortly. "Everything is just like you left it...Are you thirsty? Want to grab a last drink?"

You nodded and Jiho waved over a waiter, ordering.

 

  AUTHOR NOTE;   yo guys.......sorry for making p.o. cute in this fic....he's
a cutie patootie in all of my fics tbh xDD
and also, I really really love Ugly Duck but
I can't find anything about him on the internet except for his songs O: srsly
just like crush, and I need crush's infos for a fic ;D I need his name at least
*feeling so stupid since I love Ugly Duck and Crush but srsly, if anybody knows something, please help me xD*

about five months of ing searching and I found out about both of them
last saturday, , I almost cried out of joy xDDD

 

 

 

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natsumi4ever
#1
omo~!such a cute trailer~!!!^_^
claribelmiranda #2
Chapter 40: awwww....love this story, done reading this one, though it has many chapters, worth to read and time :)
-sleeqi--
#3
Chapter 40: perfffffffffffffff omg how cuteee
so she's pregnant omnomnom von dem wird man doch gern geschwängert ;)))))
OFF TO THE NEW STORY! ♥
amazing work bby :***
-sleeqi--
#4
Chapter 38: okay
I've missed and WOAT
omg loving you so much rn *sobsob*
-sleeqi--
#5
Chapter 33: ahahahahaha jiho I saw what you did theeeereeeee
haha lol no
OMG MAKE THEM BE TOGETHER
Siwon und sie....und.....holy .o.
pyongjihoon #6
Chapter 31: omg>< such a nice storyline, btw new reader here kkkk>//<
LittleFlower
#7
Is it even possible to separate them ? I DON'T THINK SO !
I keep believing Jiho will go to her house and ask her to marry him x).
-sleeqi--
#8
Chapter 31: this took some time again and
NOOOOO FCUKING NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I CRIED OMG CAN YOU NOT???? I HATE YOU
I TOLD YOU DON'T MAKE THEM GO ASDFGHJKL I HATE YOU
jk I loved it *_*
LittleFlower
#9
Chapter 31: Do You Know How Much I Love You ?
(Yes, now I'm going to read it)
LittleFlower
#10
Chapter 30: OM*G !!!!!! Updaaaaaaaaaaaate Soon !!
I'm going to die !
(/Cry)
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(Yeah I know I'm crazy XD )