Chapter 6: Extraordinary

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“I already told you, I’m not going to say anything.” I said once again to Hye Rin and Yong Yee, as I got on with work, unlike them. Only Myu Ri and me seemed to be working.

“But whyy?” Hye Rin whined “I told you all about my date with Byung-hee!”  She continued, with Yong Yee nodding in agreement at her arguments.

“I never asked you to tell me!” I protested, but it really was no use. They wouldn’t stop, and I knew it.

“Tell us, Lydia! Was Lee Joon chivalrous? Was he timid, or did he had the bad boy attitude throughout the night? Was he a gentleman? Did he kiss you??” Yong Yee kept asking, and with every question, her squealing got worse.

“Jesus, no, he didn’t kiss me, and he wasn’t anything like that. He was perfectly normal, what did you expect?”

“…So, he didn’t do pull any romantic move to get you?” Yong Yee said, sounding a bit disappointed. “Are you sure you’ll make him fall for you?” she asked doubtfully.

Somehow, her comment made me angry. Why wouldn’t I be able to make him fall for me?

“Of course I can do it! I accepted your challenge, didn’t I?” I said loudly, and I saw Myu Ri’s face drop at my words. I knew she didn’t like this situation. She didn’t think it was right. And I partly agreed.

“But if he didn’t do anything to approach you… it’s weird, isn’t it?” Yong Yee continued, and I could swear I would gladly smack her head to knock some sense back to her.

Joon asking me out, Joon finding me a nickname, Joon making me do the stupid dance with him… He had tried to approach me.

Joon’s arms around my waist, his head on my shoulder, his breath against my ear… And he had succeeded in doing so.

I could feel a smile appearing on my lips, and I tried to conceal it.

I failed.

“Eeh?! What’s with the smile? Something happened, right? Tell us, tell us, tell us!”

…I honestly loved Hye Rin, but at times she could really be pushy.

“Nothing happened!” I yelled, making the girls laugh.

“Okay, Lydia, calm down… No need to protect your secrets so passionately.” Hye Rin pointed out cutely. I could kill her right there right now, if I wasn’t sure that G.O would hunt me down afterwards.

“There are no secrets!” I yelled again, just as my cell phone started to buzz, signaling me that I had a new message. I turned my back at the girls who just snickered at my “suspicious” and “secretive” behavior, and I checked the ID of the person messaging me.

It was him. I wondered what kind of message would it be: would he ask me out on another date?

The message I got though was pretty short.

“Lyd? I could really use some white chocolate right now.”

I nervously typed my answer and sent it.

“What happened?”

The reply came quickly.

“…”

I rolled my eyes at his response. Seriously? Of course he replied quickly, since he didn’t actually reply. What was wrong, anyway?

I hesitated a bit before I typed my answer.

“…Where are you right now?”

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“What’s wrong? Are you okay?” I asked as soon as I hopped off of my motorcycle and reached him.

His shoulders were dropped, and he reminded me greatly of the Joon I had offered chocolate to, the first time I had seen him. There was this tiredness in his eyes again, and something else as well, something that I couldn’t exactly identify.

No matter what it was, it vanished as soon as he noticed me. He was smiling as he answered my questions, but I still knew that something was off.

“Sorry for making you worry. It’s nothing really. I was just a bit stressed by work, that’s all.”

His eyes were bright, and I knew that he wasn’t exactly lying. But still, he was feeling bad just a while ago… I just couldn’t stop worrying so easily, for some reason.

“Aishh… That’s why I don’t have a Twitter account, I say things on impulse, and I worry people without meaning to. I’m sorry for causing you any trouble.”

“Are you serious?” I said, deciding that I wouldn’t question him any further about how he was feeling, if he didn’t want to. Instead, I would focus on bringing back the smile on his lips. After all, even when I disliked him, this had kind of been my mission.

And I missed seeing it accomplished, as well as knowing that I had credit into that beautiful smile of his.

“I’m sorry.” He repeated once again, and I shot him a fake angry glare, before beaming at him. “If you say that you’re sorry one more time, I will seriously make your death seem like an accident.”

He smiled a bit, but I wasn’t entirely satisfied. “What kind of smile is that? You can do so much better than that…” I said, but his smile stayed the same, although he putted more effort in making it wider.

I don’t know what happened next, I don’t know what crazy impulse made me do it, but I was suddenly hugging Joon, with a hug that I hoped to be comforting.

I had already admitted that I liked him. And, in a way, that made it easier: admitting that I liked him made it impossible for me to have this hate-that-turns-into-love relationship, and, at the same time, made it easier for me to win the challenge. But, also… I didn’t have to stop myself from caring about him anymore, and I could express my feelings to him without guilt.

He stayed absolutely still for a while, before he slowly wrapped his arms around me as well. His head came to rest at the crook of my neck, and I knew that for once, I had done something right. I comforted him, even if it was only for a little while.

When we let go, his smile wasn’t forced anymore, although it wasn’t as bright as usual.

“Come on, let’s go get some ice-cream!” I said excitedly, wanting to transmit my giddiness to him.

“…Ice-cream?” he asked, a small smile playing on his lips. “Not chocolate?”

I stuck out my tongue at him. “I’m getting desperate here, so I need back-up forces for your case, Joon.”

He laughed, and continued to do so as we climbed on the motorcycle and rode off to my favorite ice-cream shop. It was a small shop, not too crowded, were it was unlikely for Joon to get spotted.

When we got off, took a seat and ordered, he spoke up immediately: “Have you noticed? We aren’t really normal, as a couple.”

I was taken aback. As a couple? He thought about us as a couple?

I didn’t blush. Blushing like a maid wasn’t really my style. But it was true that I was glad that he thought about us in that way.

…Because of the bet, of course. And maybe because I liked him, a little.

He suddenly understood what he had blurted out –accidentally, as it appeared. “I mean, you know, if we are a couple. Like, you know, I’m not sure either –I have so many girls after me…”

Dang he was cute.

“Ohh, that’s too bad… I wouldn’t have minded…” I answered with a wink. After all, I was still playful flirty me.

Apparently, unlike me, blushing was Joon’s style, because he turned crimson as soon as I spoke. Before he could add something though, I suddenly remembered what he had said, besides the couple part.

“Wait! What do you mean ‘we are not normal’?”

“…Well, think about it… You’re the one that flirts with me, instead of the other way around. You are the one that picks me up and gives me a ride, when I should be the one doing it. You make the moves, not I. So, in general, we aren’t very ‘normal’.”

I laughed then, mostly because I was relieved that the problem was only that.

“Oh, Joon… I don’t really see a problem with the way we are. I mean, I enjoy spending time with you, and if it’s the same for you, then… I guess that I prefer hanging out as we want to, not as we should.”

He nodded his head vigorously in agreement.

“After all… Why carry about being ordinary when we can be extraordinary together?” I added softly.

The smile on his face was the one I waited for: wide, bright, genuine. Lee Joon’s.

…

We rode back pretty soon, since Joon’s schedule wasn’t over for the day. I left him in front of his dorm in discretion, from where he was supposed to go on some variety show.

“So…” he trailed off, clearly wanting to say something. I waited patiently for him to continue, but not calmly: I could feel my heartbeat accelerate, for some weird reason.

“Lyd… Do you want us to be ‘extraordinary together’?” he said, dead-serious, looking straight into my eyes. He was nervous, and yet, there was a sort of determination in his eyes. How could he be completely cute and utterly y at the same time was beyond me.

I nodded affirmatively, unable to say anything, as I continued to simply stare at him. I was taken aback once again, but more importantly, I was happy. We were together. As in together together.  He smiled his signature happy smile with my answer, and then…

In a flash, he kissed me on the cheek, in a way that was tender and cute and that made my stomach do back-flips. It was funny, how this kiss created all of these feelings, when other, more heated kisses did little to me. But then again…

Never had I been treated like this:  As if I was something truly important, something at once fragile and strong. I was always the strong kind of woman, the confident one. I didn’t need to be taken care of, or to be protected.

But with Joon, it was different: he knew I was strong on my own. He had no doubts about that. But he reminded me, with that kiss and with every small gesture of his, that he was here if I needed him. I could rely on him, even if I didn’t need to. And it was amazing.

“Goodnight, Lyd” he said, very proud of his action, obviously, and pretty amused by my own lack of reaction.

Because it was a first, really: Lydia being speechless. Especially if the cause was Lee Joon.

But I couldn’t really help it: he really was pretty extraordinary, in the end.

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A/N: Hi guys!
As you can see, chapter 6 is up. I'm not really sure about whether I hate it or like it... A mix of both, maybe?
It was a bit on the fluff side, but it was essential, because in the next chapter, there will be some trouble in paradise *hint: look at the title of the next chapter* ;)
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