Title: “Four Years”
Date: 2013 October 14
Characters: Woori & L, Eunhye, Naeun
Genre: Romance, fluff
Words: 1038

What the hell was I thinking?

He was a child!  And I?  I was an adult, a full grown adult who should have known better!  But who am I kidding?  I had no clue at all that he was just a kid!

“Yeah, what were you thinking?  I mean, he may be an adult, but he’s still so young.  And what are you?  Four years older?  You should have backed off once you found out how old he was.”

I stared at my friend, Eunhye, trying to come up with reasonable excuses that I didn’t get his age at all and didn’t even think about asking.  It was just something that I forgot at the moment, and because of that, it effected me much more.

“Yeah, well, it’s a good thing you can just go to him and cut it off, right?  Since he just happened to pass by and you just happened to choose him as a fake boyfriend, it should all be fine.”

“Yes,” I slowly replied, but it was much harder than I thought.

When my ex-boyfriend confronted me about how I broke up with him because I had another guy was a lie, I panicked and suddenly noticed that this very handsome boy was walking our way.  At the spur of the moment, that handsome boy was the first person I could think of who could help me, and I was so fortunate.  The boy, L, understood the situation through my eyes and went with the flow, pretending to be my boyfriend.

I was saved in my situation, but he said I owed him the same favor, so now I was stuck doing the same thing until the girl who was clinging on to him backed off too.

“I don’t understand why he would choose such an old woman anyway.  She’s already so unhealthy, having back problems and such already.  And besides, I’m so much more beautiful than her,” Naeun, the girl who followed L everywhere, remarked one time when I was heading over to his apartment.  It just happened that she lived in the same building to always be sparking up a conversation about me in the lobby whenever I passed by.

I tried my best to ignore her, because it wasn’t like L really liked me anyway—but if he did, oh boy.  I would definitely be happy to hear that!  Who wouldn’t want a handsome boy to confess to you?  Anyway, it was just