Paper Hearts | Begin

26

Sana

"I'm really sorry I could not accompany you to the backstage anymore or else the apartment's landlady would close me outside." Jean said apologetically to me as soon as the concert came to an end.

"It's fine, all I have to do is take a picture to show it to my friend anyway. I was really glad that I have you to talk to the entire time." I thanked her sincerely because I won't know what to do without her company.

It would be probably so boring if she didn't approached me earlier. "It was fine, I enjoyed your company too. I really like you as a friend, can you give me your number so that I could contact you?" she asked me which made me hesitate.

Our numbers are to be made be private and not meant to be shared or leaked with someone you barely know. I am not sure if I could easily do so, so I was a little bit hesitating at the moment to say yes. After a few seconds I made up my mind.

"Oh sorry, you see I am clumsy and just lost my phone recently and haven't bought one yet. This is my friend's phone and her personal number. I can't pry on her contacts, you can just leave me a card I can contact you through that."

I told her as I let her see my phone which has currently Tzuyu's picture who is back facing so her face was not seen but her figure and long hair signifies that it was not me in the lock screen.

"Oh what a misfortune, okay I will just give you my contact card. You can contact me when you visit south Korea, I could give you a tour." she said as she handed me a card with her contact details.

"Sure..." I responded after accepting the card. "I really have to go, it was nice to meet you Sasha." she added before giving me a hug. "it was nice to meet you too Jean." I responded before she break off the hug.

And then she turned to leave the place while waving her hands at me. When the staff saw that my companion left, he immediately approached to my direction and lead me to the backstage.

The boys were currently laughing while taking about their intentional mistakes on the stage and how they naturally make fun of themselves while they are performing. "I guess we have to return to the dressing room for now." V sunbae said as the other members nodded their heads in agreement.

"We will wait for you two in the parking area, please be safe." Rm sunbae advised as the maknae nodded his head. "We will ask some staffs to guard the door so no one could come in easily." Suga sunbae added.

It was the cue to the other guys as well as the other staffs to leave. When they closed the door behind the bunny immediately hopped to my side. "Did you see me perform well?" he asked me immediately as I nodded my head.

"Indeed, you were a little energetic today and I wonder why..." I responded as he scratched the back of his neck. "I though that you did not noticed. I was really disappointed when you did not show up earlier in the meet and greet..." he added as he placed his right arm on my shoulder.

"And create suspicion base on what I am currently wearing? I would rather not. What was so important with the concert that requires my presence anyway?" I asked him curiously as he placed a box in front of me by his left hand.

"What's this?" I asked him as I took the box from his hand. "Open it..." he demanded that made me pout and had no choice but to open the box. I was shocked to see a ring resting on the small cushion. The other space was already empty so it gives me the hint that there were two rings.

It was ornamented with simple but intricate calligraphy an by the looks of it, I can tell that the ring was made out of white gold and the calligraphy was formed after a series of small diamonds.

"It is a pair actually, I have the other one with me. Although the designs were not perfectly match to avoid any misconception. When placed together they made a promise of forever." he said while staring at the ring.

I understand what he meant by that, when used alone, the ring barely means anything but accessory. But when placed together one could tell that they were supposed to be couple rings.

"And what do this rings imply?" I bravely asked him this time. "I know, I made a mistake when I asked you to pretend to be my girlfriend. So here I am trying to fox that mistake. I want to ask you out formally..." he trailed.

"I want to ask you to be my real girlfriend this time. I was drawn to you since the first time I saw you but I was a coward to admit. Because it is hard for someone like me to be in a relationship due to restrictions." he added.

"Are you sure about this? We will be putting a lot of things in risk if ever I agree with you. You guys are starting to gain popularity across the globe while we are still in a dating ban." I voiced out my concerns.

"No one would know except a few of our staffs and the members as long as we keep everything low." he responded to me as he placed the ring in my left hand on my ring finger. "This will be the first time that I will be in a relationship if ever." I whispered in a soft voice with the hint of worry.

"It will be my first time too, although I had a girl I like from before but we didn't really have a formal relationship before we split up. So it doesn't count." he revealed before he chuckled.

"Wait, you didn't told me that story yet..." I exclaimed to him. "It was all in the past now. It was when I was still so young so it means nothing at all already." he answered but I still want to hear his story.

She is so lucky to be his first love, as I can see from Kookie, he is a very shy man and it is hard for him to approach a girl easily yet she had the luxury to experience his first love and heartache which I find unfair.

Since he is the first guy I had a crush in. "It really doesn't matter now, I am already yours, what matters more is your answer to me. So is it a yes?" he asked me as I slowly nodded myself to answer his question.