Keeping Space From Her

Map to My Heart

Jonghyun, stop. I need to stop thinking about Seungyeon. I'm going to get hurt more. I think I still need space away from Seungyeon. I should try not to be too close to her anymore.

Jonghyun laid on the bed and took out his notebook, laptop, and Ipod. He plugged in his earphones and his Ipod. Jonghyun began to write the song began in the plane.

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Seungyeon finished washing the dishes and went to the living room.

"Where's Jonghyun?" Seungyeon asked.
"He didn't come yet. Just sit down and watch. He'll come later." Krystal told Seungyeon, totally immersed into the movie.

Seungyeon ignored Krystal and went up to check on Jonghyun. She slowly opened the door. She saw Jonghyun singing along to the music and writing something. She didn't want to disturb Jonghyun, so she silently closed the door and joined Krystal and Doojoon.

Doojoon, Krystal and Seungyeon had finished watching the movie and cooked lunch already also. Jonghyun had been in the room by himself all that time.

"I'll go get Jonghyun." Seungyeon said and walked upstairs. She opened the door and saw Jonghyun there still writing something, she knocked the door. "Jonghyun, lunch is ready, come eat." she said.

"Okay..." Jonghyun mumbled not taking his eyes off his notebook. Seungyeon stared at him. "Come quick okay, or the food gets cold." Seungyeon said.
"Yeah..." Jonghyun said still not moving anywhere. Seungyeon turned away and walked downstairs.

"Isn't he coming?" Krystal asked when Seungyeon sat down on the table. "I guess he will soon." Seungyeon answred and started eating.

Doojoon, Krystal and Seungyeon had all almost finished eating their lunch when Jonghyun finally came down. He sat down beside Seungyeon and started eating silently.

"Seungyeon told us you were thinking about going to see the beach after lunch, it's okay that me and Doojoon also come right?" Krystal asked looking at Jonghyun.
There was a moment of silence. "About that Seungyeon, is it okay that you go see the beach just with Doojoon and Krystal.. I have some things to do." Jonghyun said glancing at Seungyeon. I need to keep space from her...

Seungyeon looked at Jonghyun.. "Oh... you don't want to come?" Seungyeon asked feeling disappointed.
"I will come see the beach some other day okay. You guys go and have fun." Jonghyun said.
"Come on Jonghyun, come with us.. " Doojoon tried.

Jonghyun quickly finished eating his food. "I'm going first, thanks for the food.." he said and walked back upstairs to compose the song.

Krystal looked at Seungyeon who looked disappointed.
"Maybe he is just tired, let's just go the three of us.."

"Yeah..." Seungyeon smiled faintly.

They soon headed out leaving Jonghyun alone to the house.

"Ahh... The weather is great today!!" Krystal smiled brightly and held Doojoon's hand tightly as they were walking down the road to the beach. She noticed some flowers down the road. "So pretty! I want to take a photo.. Seungyeon can you?" Krystal handed Seungyeon the camera and dragged Doojoon with her to pose with the flowers.

Seungyeon snapped a photo of them then handed the camera back to Krystal. "Do you want to have a photo here too?" Krystal asked Seungyeon.
"No, it's fine." Seungyeon shook her head.
"Come on, I know you want to." Krystal smiled and pushed Seungyeon to the flowers. Seungyeon put on a small smile and Krystal took a picture.

They soon arrived to the beach, there weren't many people there at that time.

"Woah!!! This is so cool, we can come swim any time we want to!" Krystal jumped up and down happily.

Doojoon noticed a beach ball on the sand. There was no one around so he grabbed it.

"Let's play with this!" Doojoon smiled and threw it to Krystal. "Seungyeon catch!"

Krystal passed it to Seungyeon. She caught it and passed it back to them. Doojoon and Krystal both tried to catch it but as they tried to do so they bumped into each other and Krystal fell on the sand.

"Yahh~~" Krystal whined.
"Mianhae." Doojoon helped her up and looked at where the ball had gone to. "Baby, I promise to buy ice cream if you catch that ball before I do, if you don't then I won't." Doojoon said.
"Deal." Krystal smiled and started running towards it.

Doojoon ran after her and tried to block her way by grabbing her from her waist. Krystal tried to get away by tickling him.

Seungyeon just stood there watching how the two were playing happily together. She couldn't help but feel left out.

The beach is pretty...

Seungyeon looked around but just couldn't feel so excited about being there as she had thought she would have been. She was disappointed that Jonghyun had not come with them too.

She stared at the waves and walked closer to the water and sat down on the sand. She let the water touch her feet and looked to the distance. She could hear how Krystal and Doojoon were giggling further away.

Seungyeon sighed and grabbed a little stone on her hand and threw it on the water.

Did I say something to Jonghyun that now he doesn't want to hang out? ... maybe I should've just stayed in Korea...

She took another stone and threw it on the water too.

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Jonghyun got tired of composing so he went downstairs to check if they had left for the beach. Just like he thought he was alone in the house. Jonghyun went to the kitchen to get some water.

"Let's see." Jonghyun opened the refrigerator.

Jonghyun took out the water and poured some into his cup. He suddenly remembered that there was no lemon juice in the house. Jonghyun knew that if Seungyeon didn't get her lemon juice she'd get grumpy.

Jonghyun went upstairs and put on some sweat pants and a tank top. He also left a note on the counter explaining that he was going out. Jonghyun put his running shoes on and decided to jog to the store and get the lemon juice after he went running.

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Jonghyun ran to the nearest park and began to workout there on the outdoor exercise equipment.

"Hey. You new here?" A man came up to Jonghyun and said in Korean.
"Yes. I just moved here yesterday. I'm Jonghyun." Jonghyun introduced.
"Hi, I'm Joon. I've been living here for about a year." Joon introduced. "So what brings you to Italy?"
"Modeling. An agency called a couple of my friends and I go come to learn how to model for 6 months." Jonghyun said.
"Spring Models?" Joon guessed.
"Yeah. How did you know?" Jonghyun asked.
"I'm in the program too. I'll be here for another 3 months before I go back to Korea." Joon smiled.
"Chincha? I guess you're my sunbaenim." Jonghyun smiled.
"Yeah, but call me Joon. I feel old when people call me sunbae." Joong laughed.
"Okay. Well Joon, please help me out since I'm new here." Jonghyun bowed.
"Will do." Joon bowed. "Now let's work out."

Joon and Jonghyun worked out for 2 hours before running around the park. After that they ran to the store.

"What are you getting?" Joon asked Jonghyun who was looking for lemon juice.
"Lemon juice. My friend wants some." Jonghyun opened the door to the fridge.
"Eww. Is that any good?" Joon made a sour face.
"It isn't really, but it's good for you. My friend likes it though." Jonghyun pulled out 3 cartons.
"Isn't that too much?" Joon looked at the cartons.
"No. She drinks at least one cup with every meal." Jonghyun unconsciously memorized Seungyeon's lemon juice drinking habit.
"Oh." Joon replied thinking how weird Jonghyun's friend was.
"Do you know where the granola bars are?" Jonghyun asked.
"I'll take you." Joon led the way.

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"We're home." Krystal said as she, Doojoon, and Seungyeon entered the house.
"I'll go find Jonghyun." Seungyeon ran up the stairs eager to see Jonghyun.

Seungyeon was disappointed to find their room empty. She slowly walked downstairs, sadly.

"I think he went out. He'll be back." Krystal handed Seungyeon the note Jonghyun left.

Seungyeon read the note and plopped herself on the couch bored.

"Since it's still early want to play Monopoly, before dinner?" Doojoon held out a board game that they bought yesterday.
"Yeah!! Seungyeon let's play." Krystal grabbed Seungyeon and pulled her to the table where Doojoon was setting up the game.

As they started the game Seungyeon couldn't help but wish that Jonghyun was there too since Krystal and Doojoon were practically only playing with each other.

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"Thanks for showing me around and bringing me to that new gym." Jonghyun bowed to Joon.
"No problem. It's a lot easier then the outdoor gym at the park." Joon laughed. "I'll see you around."
"Yeah. Bye." Jonghyun waved.

Joon and Jonghyun separated a block away from Jonghyun's house. Jonghyun walked home by himself.

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"Seungyeon you owe me $200." Krystal said after Seungyeon landed on her piece of land.

Seungyeon was paying her money when Jonghyun walked in.

"Jonghyun!!!! Where did you go??" Seungyeon ran up to Jonghyun and hugged him.
"Out. I made a new friend. He introduced me to a gym nearby." Jonghyun pried Seungyeon off himself, despite wanting to hug her back.
"Gym? Really? Next time take me there." Doojoon said excitedly.
"Ewww. You're such a gym lover. But I guess it's okay since you workout and get abs for me." Krystal kissed Doojoon's cheek.

"Why do I feel like I'm intruding on a honey moon trip?" Jonghyun mumbled to himself.
"Me too." Seungyeon mumbled after hearing Jonghyun.

"What did you say?" Krystal asked.
"I said I bought lemon juice for Seungyeon." Jonghyun handed Seungyeon the juice.
"Thank you!!" Seungyeon beamed and skipped to put the juices away.
"I also bought some protein shakes Doojoon, if you want some." Jonghyun put the shakes away.
"I'll take some thanks." Doojoon went to see where Jonghyun was putting the shakes.
"Also I bought some granola bars since I like to eat them for lunch and snacks." Jonghyun put those in the cabinet as Doojoon went back to the game.
"Seungyeon it's your turn." Krystal called her.

Seungyeon tugged on Jonghyun's shirt. Jonghyun looked at her.

"Can you help me play Monopoly? I'm losing really badly. I know you're really good at it since last time we played you beat everyone and owned practically everything." Seungyeon begged.
"Umm..." Jonghyun said. He wanted to help Seungyeon, but he knew he needed his space away from her other wise he'd start crushing on her again.
"Please." Seungyeon begged again, this time making a puppy dog face.

Jonghyun couldn't resist Seungyeon's puppy dog face.

"Okay." Jonghyun agreed.
"Yey!!" Seungyeon cheered and dragged him into the room.

Seungyeon put a chair next to her chair. Seungyeon sat down and Jonghyun sat down next to her. Since the space by the table they were siting in was small, Seungyeon's chair was between Jonghyun's legs and Jonghyun was sitting sideways facing Seungyeon.

"Roll the dice." Jonghyun instructed Seungyeon.
Seungyeon did as she was told. "12!! And doubles. I roll again!!" Seungyeon beamed and moved her piece 12 paces.
"Buy the lot." Jonghyun told Seungyeon.
"But I don't have much money." Seungyeon frowned.
"But buy it. You'll see." Jonghyun smiled.

Seungyeon did as she was told and bought the property and rolled the dice again.

"Buy this one too." Jonghyun instructed Seungyeon when she landed on another open property.

"My turn." Doojoon rolled his dice he landed on the property that Seungyeon had just bought. "Man." Doojoon paid Seungyeon.
"He just paid me!!" Seungyeon said happily to Jonghyun.

They played the game until it was time to start making dinner. With Jonghyun's help Seungyeon beat both Krystal and Doojoon.

"Umm.. like Joongki oppa told us yesterday.. it's guy's turn to make dinner tonight." Krystal grinned tapping Doojoon's shoulder.
"Ahh... Can't you do it babe? I'm no good at cooking.." Doojoon whined.
"Nope. W need to keep things equal." Krystal said firmly.

Jonghyun got up and went to the kitchen to start making dinner. After a while Doojoon also followed him because of the pressure Krystal was giving him. Krystal smiled and took a magazine from the table and started reading it while she waited.

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OurLoveGoesOn
#1
I've finally caught up!!
Loving it so far, glad you're back.
Update soon ❤
hundredthou
#2
Chapter 37: update soon~
hundredthou
#3
it sounds interesting. cant wait to read
OurLoveGoesOn
#4
Chapter 2: Ah, you updated~~
Poor guys. Both stuck in the "friend-zone".
Update soon <3
OurLoveGoesOn
#5
Chapter 1: Sounds interesting so far.
Update soon <3