Chapter 10

"GOOOOOOOOOD MOORRRRNNIIIINNNNGGGGGG!" Ji Min yelled at the top of his lungs.

Before pulling the blanket over my head, I picked up a pillow beside me and threw it at Ji Min, who was standing beside my bed with a toothbrush in his mouth. I heard him grunt from the pillow hitting his face and that only made me laugh. I hated mornings like this because Ji Min always thought it was a good idea to wake both Jae Kyung and I up in the morning with his stupid loud yellings, but this only had caused him to get hit from either one of us. For one thing, Ji Min's never learned his lesson because he always got something thrown at him every freaking time.

"Yah. If you two don't get up, I'm going to jump on top of you guys." Ji Min said as he was getting impatient with us. "Come on."

"If you dare pull the blankets off of us, I'm going to break up with you." Jae Kyung groaned under the sheets. "I'm not joking either, so don't you even think about it."

"But you love me too much, Han Jae Kyung." He didn't listen and pulled the blankets off of us. "Rise and shine, beauties... Or should I say-"

"If you comment about how we look in the morning, I'm going to come and tackle you." Jae Kyung had sat up and was scratching her head.

Ji Min opened his arms with a playful smirk on his face. "Come here baby."

"God, can you two please not do this in my room?" I finally gave up and went into the bathroom.

"Don't worry, Ga Eul! It won't happen!" Jae Kyung yelled from the other side of the door. "I broke up with him!"

"YAH!" I heard Ji Min yell.

I shook my head and the water so I could shower. After I showered, I peeked out of my door to see if Jae Kyung and Ji Min were there. Thank goodnesss they weren't. I came out with my towel wrapped around me and ran to my closet and closed the door so I could dry myself off and put my uniform on. When I was done dressing myself, I quickly did my hair and went down to the dining room. There was breakfast already made and set on the table. I went into the kitchen and saw Ji Min washing some dishes. I walked over and leaned against the counter next to the sink and helped him rinse.

"I don't believe you live here, Park Ji Min." I scoffed as I put the dishes onto the rack.

"I forget. This place makes me feel like I'm at home. I can't help but act like I live here." He shrugged as he kept washing the dishes.

"Thanks for the breakfast." I smiled at him. "...And for cleaning the dishes."

"Of course. Of course." Ji Min looked over at me after he finished washing the last dish. "Ga Eul, can we talk before Jae Kyung gets out of the bathroom?"

"Talk about what?" I asked as I put the last dish onto the rack and turned to look at him.

Ji Min handed me a towel to wipe my hands. "Yesterday."

"Yesterday?" I questioned as I put the towel down after I dried my hands. "What about yesterday?"

"What happened at the hospital?"

I looked at Ji Min and then back down at my feet, wondering why he would bring this up so early in the morning and upset that he didn't forget. What had happened yesterday? It was something I didn't really want to talk about at this very moment; it just wasn't the right time, or at least that was how I had felt right now.

"Was it something bad?" He asked me, taking me out of my thoughts.

I shook my head. "No, it wasn't anything."

"I'm sorry that I'm pestering you and all, but Ga Eul, if there really is something going on or if something happened, you know that I want to know and that I'll be here for you through everything, right?" Ji Min held my shoulders and looked me in the eye. "Jae Kyung and I will always be here with open ears, so don't think that you're alone through this, okay?"

I looked up at Ji Min and forced a smile. "Thank you, really, Ji Min, but there's nothing wrong."

"If you're lying, you won't get to eat breakfast." Jae Kyung said as she came into the kitchen towards us. She then turned her attention towards Ji Min. "Why is it that you always pester her when I'm not around, huh, Ji Min?" 

"Do I have to remind you?" Ji Min asked as he walked past her and towards the dining room.

"YAH!" Jae Kyung ran after him.

I scoffed as I made my way after them. These two never failed to make me laugh even after we have serious conversations.

As I was making my way through the hallways of the building after school, I felt a few girls run pass me quickly, making the air brush my skin. I looked at them and shrugged, not caring why they were suddenly all running outside. I gripped onto my backpack and made my way out and started to walk down the steps of the school. Just as I hit the last step of, I heard a few girls scream and I felt like every pair of eyes were staring at me. Since my attention was turned towards the ground, I couldn't help but feel everything pierce right through me. I had to look up to see what was all the commotion.

To my surprise, there was a gap opened up in front of me and standing at the end of the gap was Yoo Seung Ho with a bouquet of flowers. He wasn't wearing his uniform anymore; he was wearing faded skinny jeans with vans and a plain white t-shirt under a cardigan. It wasn't usual to see any of us in anything casual and I felt embarrassed that I was standing there with my uniform on. I held my breath for a split second before letting out a small sigh, wondering what to do or say. I didn't know what to do actually, so I decided to walk first.

I walked towards Seung Ho with my lips pressed together. It wasn't making me feel any better at the fact that everyone was staring at me, as if I was actually on a runway and was showing something off. When I finally got to Seung Ho, he gave me the bouquet that he was holding and smiled happily before he suddenly hugged me in front of the whole school. I was kind of surprised that I didn't know what to do so I didn't hug him back. I stood there as girls around snapped pictures with their phones and squealed excitedly at us. I heard a few guys groan and talk about how Seung Ho was showing off.

"Yoo... Yoo Seung Ho..." I pulled away from his embrace after a minute or so. "Wha-what are you doing?"

"I'm taking you out on a date, remember?" Seung Ho said as he grabbed my hand and interlocked our fingers together.

"Da-date?" My eyes widened as I looked around at the other students surrounding us. "You... You didn't have to make it so big."

"Why not? I wanted to let everyone know that I was taking you out on a date." Seung Ho started to pull me from the crowd. "Come on. There's a car waiting for us."

"C-car?" I asked as my eyes landed on someone nearby.

My eyes were focused on Chen, who was making his way out of the gates with his friends, Lu Han, Xiu Min, and Lay. He was on his skateboard and was strolling along with his friends like he did the first time I saw him. I didn't even realize that I was practically staring at him until Seung Ho stopped walking and I almost tripped over myself. I quickly composed myself again and looked over in front of myself, kind of sad that I couldn't see where Chen and his friends had gone and finally realized that there was a car out in front of us.

"My driver will be taking us around." Seung Ho opened the door and waited for me to go in.

"We can take a bus, Seung Ho..." I never knew that Seung Ho had a driver and it made me feel really embarrassed.

"No, no Choi Ga Eul." He laughed as he shook his head and waved me into the car. "It'll be better like this."

"I can't go looking like this while you're like that..." I was referring to my uniform compared to his street style.

"Oh. Right." Seung Ho got into the car after me and grabbed a bag from the ground and handed it to me. "Here."

"What is this?" I asked, afraid to open the bag.

"I asked Jae Kyung to grab your clothes in case you wanted to change."

I smiled at Seung Ho and looked inside the bag to see a pair of jeans, a plain white t-shirt, and a cardigan as well.

"I wanted to make sure you'd look comfortable." I guess he knew what I was going to wear.

I chuckled at him and leaned back as the car drove off.

I had changed into my clothes at the movie theatres while Seung Ho went off to go get us popcorn and pop to drink. We were going to watch a new movie that had just recently came out and I was pretty excited to watch it since I hadn't gone to theatres for awhile. What made me a little even more excited was the fact that this was our first official date together since the first time, I had gone unconscious due to a cold and couldn't go to the concert with him. I'm sure he was still disappointed since I was too. I still couldn't believe I had missed a SHINee concert!

"Are you ready?" Seung Ho asked as he walked towards me with popcorn and drinks in his hands.

I nodded my head before helping him with the drinks. We walked into the theatre room and sat down at the seat that we had requested. I don't know if anyone could tell, but I was really nervous even though I have sat next to Seung Ho before. This was different. I was on a date with him and we were watching a movie... In the dark. I guess that was a good thing out of all of this because he won't be able to see me blush nor will he see how nervous I was getting. I held my drink in my hands and leaned back and tried to relax myself. It wasn't working.

When the movie started, I couldn't help but feel happy because that meant that I wouldn't have to awkwardly say or do anything with Seung Ho. I guess I was a little wrong on that part during the movie. Every time Seung Ho and I wanted to get popcorn, our hands would touch. I always repelled first since I didn't want to keep my hand there and it was kind of awkward. I know we've held hands before, but I was really nervous for some reason. God, I wanted to mentally hit myself for suddenly being all weird.

What made me even more nervous was the fact that Seung Ho kept leaning over to me and whispering into my ears to talk about the movie. His breath hitting my ear made my heart flip every single time and I'm sure I wasn't going to be able to contain my feelings any longer if he had kept this up. 

After awhile, I didn't even realize that I was focused on the movie and that my hands were interlocked with Seung Ho's again. I looked down and just as I did so, Seung Ho squeezed my hands in his. I looked over at him and saw that he smiling happily at me. I wonder what he was thinking or if he had anything he wanted to say to me at that very moment. I'm sure he would have said something sweet to make my heart flutter, but I guess that could wait a little more. The movie seemed like it was going to be done at any minute now.

We held hands even after the movie was done. I guess sitting in the movie theatre with him made me feel more relaxed than I thought. We got back into the car and buckled ourselves up. Seung Ho grabbed my hand again and held it. I kind of didn't mind that he was doing this anymore; I actually liked it.

"Are you hungry?" Seung Ho asked smiling over at me. "Where should we eat?"

"A food stall? I'm kind of craving for some odeng." My mouth was watering just thinking about eating odeng. "Unless you want to eat something else."

"No, we can go eat at a food stall. Should we go towards downtown more?" He suggested and I nodded in response.

When we got downtown, we headed out towards the busier streets to look for things to eat. Immediately, we had bought ourselves a cup of tteokbokki to eat while we roamed down the streets. For this, we didn't hold hands and I was glad because I didn't want him to feed me. Coming to think about it, I've never had a guy actually feed me other than my father and Park Ji Min, but Ji Min really didn't count. Anyway, other than that, we finally found a stall that was selling fresh odeng that had caught my eye. I ordered a few sticks and carried it around with me as we walked around some more.

"Did you like the movie?" Seung Ho asked as we walked on.

I nodded my head. "I liked it a lot. We should have stayed for one more movie."

"Why didn't we?" He looked over at me and chuckled. "You should have said something. I didn't want to leave."

"Great minds think alike, don't they?" I nudged him lightly and took a bite into my odeng. "Did you like the movie as well?"

"It could have been better. I mean, the romance was just disappointing. I don't understand how anybody could do what he did." Seung Ho shrugged and then sighed. "I mean... He was sick and was going to die, but he still made a girl fall in love with him, only to have to say goodbye at the end. I found it kind of selfish, you know? He left with something good, but she was left with nothing. How could someone..."

My walking slowed down a bit and then I came to a stop. Thinking about this, it didn't hit me until now that the movie kind of related to my life. How could I be so stupid and not see what was happening in front of me? When I was looking at Seung Ho's back, it hurt my heart because if I kept him around and if he fell in love with me, that'd mean that I was going to leave him with nothing... Right?

**A/N: I said there'd be Chen in this chapter, but I lied to you guys. OTL. I'm so sorry for not having him in here, but I promise you, he'll appear soon whether it's the next chapter or the chapter after that! But here's a boring update for you all. Also, thanks for the lovely comments <3 I loved reading them. By the way, I'm happy to see that Kris is back with something :D EXO, Fighting! ENJOY THE UPDATE, loves. Please read and comment. I'd love to hear about your opinions, so please don't be a silent reader. Thank you and read with lots of love! Keke~! Muah