Love Me If You Dare

Chapter 46

The windy road lined with bars and nightclubs.  Music blasting from these nightlife establishments fill the streets.  The noise and the humid air from the lake add annoyance to an already irritated mind.   

Taehyung walks until he can’t see Lisa and Jungkook anymore.  He looks at the dark and lonely sky and gives a long sigh. 

He did not take a taxi back to his hostel.  Instead he chooses a bar that has a lively atmosphere.  He walks up to the counter and orders another dozen beers, and sits by himself.  It doesn’t take long for a single lady to spot him and walk up to him. She offers him her phone number by stuffing a note into his shirt pocket.  He laughs, retrieves the note and passes it back to the lady.

“Are you alone?” A man who is also sitting by himself asks him.

“Yes.” They clink bottles and drink.  

I wish you happiness, Lisa.  Cheers.

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On a still lake.  

Lisa is sitting on a wooden chair.  She is looking out to the night lights.  She is quite distracted as Jungkook is sitting beside her, with his arm around the back of her chair again.

The atmosphere was charged with excitement as their passion rose within them.

“You said earlier you are not looking for a boyfriend?” Jungkook asks.

Lisa does not expect him to bring this up.  She doesn’t understand what he is trying to say.  She turns around to face the window, with her back to him, and answers : “I don’t need you to introduce someone else to me.”

She hears some wood scratching noise. Jungkook has moved his chair so he can be closer to her.  Even though she has her back to him, she can feel him coming closer as the warmth of his body is transferred to her.

This man….

Why is he coming closer?

“Who says I am introducing someone else to you?” He whispers in his deep low voice.

She is slightly stunned,  she turns around.  

But because they are so close to each other, as she turns, their cheeks rub each other. 

Lisa freezes.

He leans further in.  There is hardly any gap between the faces.  The tip of their noses are touching.  His arms move and wrap around her to pull her toward his chest.   

They feel the heat rising.  Her cheeks and neck flaring hot.

This is just like what happened at the cinema… the same ambiguity.  

But this time, she can see his face, his thick black hair, his adam’s apple, his hands, and those electrifying eyes.

What… does he want?

This atmosphere…burns. Lisa subconsciously leans back.  

But there’s a hand behind the back of her head, holding it in place, not allowing it to move away.   

Lisa’s heart is racing.  She hears him say : “What are you afraid of?” He smiles: “Don’t you want to kiss me?”

That moment, Lisa is so shocked that she can’t think clearly.  Her throat is also feeling a little dry.

“What about you…. you want to kiss me?”

After she speaks these words, her heart pounds like a drum inside her.  She lowers her eyelids.  She dares not to look at him.  She feels the tip of his finger lifting her chin.