Mark smiled over at Jia as he put his phone away. “Checking up on Jackson again?” she asked as she pulled the drinking straw from her lips. Mark could only hum in response as he nodded his head. He had already spent over half the day with Jia, and they had yet to talk about what happened at the party the other night. Mark had also been checking on Jackson every 10 minutes if not more often, Jia was probably annoyed with him for it, but he couldn’t help himself. Jackson had looked so broken when he left to hang out with her. “You know…” Jia began to say, making Mark look at her instead of checking his phone for a reply from Jackson even though he knew he hadn’t gotten one yet. “…I couldn’t get a single word out of Youngji last night. She did try to tell me something, but all I could hear was mumbles and sobs,” she continued as she stirred her drink with the drinking straw. Jia looked at Mark with expectation, obviously wanting to know what Jackson had told him last night. He was pretty close to the girl sitting in front of him, but he couldn’t tell her that Jackson was sort of going through a uality crisis. “There’s this other girl that he likes,” Mark said hesitantly, not even sure if he should tell Jia anything, because how could he know if Jackson had told Youngji he was interested in someone else or not. “So, what, he just stormed out of the room?” Jia asked while frowning. “I don’t understand how that could even make Youngji cry like she did. Unless they…” she stopped everything she was doing and looked at Mark with wide eyes. To be honest, Mark found Jia quite scary looking like that. Mark felt his cheeks heat up a little as he visualised Jackson and Youngji having .

“Y-Yah! Why are you blushing!?” Jia almost shouted as he reached over to hit Mark. “I-It’s nothing,” Mark insisted as he shook his head and fanned himself with his hands in hopes of cooling himself down. Why was he even imagining Jackson ing Youngji? That was just stupid. Jia frowned before rolling her eyes and flipping her hair. “Well anyway! The only reason for her to cry like that would be if Jackson rejected her after having , she’s head over heels in love with him you know and she doesn’t cry easily,” Jia explained, and now it was Mark’s turn to frown. “Jackson’s not like that, he doesn’t do stuff like that,” Mark clarified, feeling highly offended that Jia would even insinuate that Jackson was a hit and run type of guy. They had both been in a serious relationship before they decided to lose their ity. Back then, they always did everything together or on the same day as the other. Mark remembered how they both decided they would have for the first time on the same day, that way they were sort of with the other without actually being there. It was a li