Love Contract / Mark Lee

Chapter 54

Areum and Jeno walked around the empty apartment.

"Damn... I really am leaving this place." She whispered. Jeno nodded.

"This was my first big purchase with my own money. Every single penny I spent... was in this apartment." She mumbled, patting the wall.

"We have a lot of memories in this apartment. I took my first sip of alcohol here. I fell in love with Master Chef here... God you and I had some adventures here." He mumbled. Areum chuckled.

"Remember when we convinced this one girl that you and I were dating because she was obsessed with you. And then she got so flustered that she switched colleges." Areum chuckled. Jeno nodded.

"God that girl was so obsessed with me." He sighed, earning a laugh from Areum.

"Yeah well, it's gonna be hard for you to be my wingwoman when you live far far away." He mumbled. She chuckled.

"Don't worry. We live in a day and age with phones and facetime." She mumbled.

"Where are you gonna be living? You never told me you found a place." He asked, causing Areum to sigh.

"That's because I haven't found one yet. Mark and I will be staying in the house that we bought until we both find another place." She explained. Jeno furrowed his eyebrows.

"You think that's a good idea? I mean you put two horny dumbasses in one room... something's bound to happen." He mumbled, earning a slap on the head from her. Areum was about to continue when they both heard footsteps walking up the stairs.

"Guys everyone is waiting downstairs," Jaehyun said, before walking out of the apartment and back downstairs.

"I need to start over Jeno... but getting married? I already promised Mark I would commit to him in our marriage. Look how that turned out. I just don't know if I can get married again to someone else." She mumbled. He nodded.

"But you still want kids?" He asked. Areum sighed.

"Maybe later. But definitely not right away" She explained.

"Jeno I-... Is it ok that I don't want to get married again but I want kids? I know a lot of people think you need to be married to have kids but-"

"You do know that my parents had my older sister when they were still dating, right?" He said. Areum furrowed her eyebrows.

"Wow. That's one thing I need to add to a list of things I didn't know about Jeno." She said. He scoffed.

"You have a list of things that you didn't know you knew about me?" He asked. She nodded.

"I didn't before but I do know!" She mumbled. He nodded.

"They really wanted a kid but they weren't ready to get married. And they didn't need to prove to anyone that they had to be married to have a kid. That's what they wanted. And I would completely support you if you wanted that too." He explained. She sighed, nodding.

"How is your sister anyway? I talk to her a few times." She asked. Jeno shrugged.

"She's alright. She took the year abroad. I just realized that we don't talk about her ever. Like this past year... her name barely came up." He said. She nodded.

"Yeah if the past year of our life was a book written by some 16-year-old fanfic writer who writes at three in the morning because that's when she has the best inspiration throughout any other time of the day, then your sister would just be mentioned once in like the second to last chapter." Areum blabbed. Jeno furrowed his eyebrows.