Stuck

Chapter 9

I heard my door open, so I looked over to see Jisung walking over to me, I felt the bed dip where he sat down next to me.

"Are you sure you're ok? You've been acting weird lately, coming home late, it feels like you're not telling me the truth whwn I ask you how your day was or when I ask you if you're ok, I'm worried about you Jieun. We've barely even talked recently, you don't have to now, but please talk to me." He said while I sat up so we were both at the same level.

I sighed and leaned back against the head board of my bed, "It's nothing really, I'm just stressed with work, and it's a weird change of pace from where I came from, I'm not trying to not talk to you as much, I'm just stressed that's all." I said giving him a reassuring smile even though I didn't tell him the whole truth.

He looked back at me with the same smile and sighed, "Want to eat lunch together tomorrow?" He asked as I just nodded in response, he smiled bigger and continued talking, "Yay!" He said and attacked me with a hug. "Ok ok get off, I love you too, but I do need to go to sleep so I can wake up for work tomorrow, my friend is picking me up, and I don't know when he will get here, so I need to wake up earlier." I said before feeling his body weight remove itself from me, "Fine." He said pouting before walking out.

I sighed before laying back down and rolling onto my side, I feel bad for not telling him, but I know he wouldn't take it well.

I ended up falling asleep while trying to thing of anything but what had happened earlier, I woke up to an earlier alarm than usual, I groaned before sitting up and rubbing my eyes.

I stood up and went to the bathroom to start getting ready, I saw myself in the mirror and I look like a hot mess right now, my hair is literally all over the place, I have bags under my eyes and I feel extremely tired, more than usual.

Once I had gotten myself ready on the outside, as in fixing my appearance, I went out to the kitchen to get some caffeine and some food in me.

Once I was ready, I sat on the couch, shortly after I heard Jisung walk out for his room, we both looked over at each other noticing each others presence.

"You weren't lying when you said you'd be up earlier." Jisung said getting himself some coffee and food.

"Listen, Doyoungs arrival time is one of the moat unpredictable things ever." I said reasoning with him, I noticed Jisung choke on his coffee after I spoke, "Jisung, you ok? Did you forget how to swallow?" I asked.

He nodded, "I had to cough but I had liquid in my mouth, then the coughing got worse and it resulted in choking." He said grabbing a napkin and cleaning himself up.

"Also, did you say Doyoung? Whats his surname?" He asked again confusing me a little bit, "Kim, why?" I asked.

"No reason, I thought I recognized the name." He said as my confusion went down, I waved it off and went back to looking at my phone waiting for a message from Doyoung.

A couple minutes later I received a message from Doyoung saying he was here, I stood up and went to the door, as I was opening it, I told Jisung I would text him where we could meet for lunch. I left after hearing an "Ok." from Jisung.

I walked down the few stairs and got in the passengers side of the car in front, Doyoung greeted me with a smile and a hello, I did the same.

After greeting each other, most of the car ride was silent, until the question I wanted answers to the most came out, "Did Taeyong say anything to you about why you're picking me up?" I asked, he looks like he was expecting that question, he nodded his head, "Yeah he told me, but only me, you don't need to worry about the others knowing, it's just you, Taeyong, and I." He said earning a nod from me before I started looking down at my hands.

"You ok?" I heard him ask, I looked back up at him almost thrown off by the question, "Y-Yeah, I am now at least." I said trying to aound as convincing as possible.

I mean it wasn't a complete lie, physically I'm fine. "You sure?" He asked, "Yeah, I am a little scared though I'll be honest." I said.

"You'll be fine, trust me." He said trying to be reassuring, but as much as I wanted to, I couldn't quite trust him, I just had this feeling deep down that things wouldn't be fine.

Once we got there Doyoung and I were just talking about random things and walking together, we broke away from each other once we had to go our separate ways, I sat down at my desk and got myself situated before getting to work.

Taeyong had given me a small bit more work, which was fine, I just added it to the pile of stuff I still need to finish and got to work, about half way to lunch Doyoung walked through my office into Taeyongs waving at me when he passed, it was silent for a while until I heard what sounded like Taeyongs voice raise, I looked towards Taeyongs office to see Taeyong shocked while Doyoung looked like he was trying to quiet him down.

I wonder what they're talking about, I said to myself before shrugging it off and getting back to work. Shortly after, Doyoung came back out and gave me a genuine but worried smile, it confused me, but I smiled back nonetheless.

After a bit, Doyoung came in again, this time with Haechan, "Lunch time!" He said, I smiled remembering I get to eat with Jisung today.

A/N: by the way if you haven't caught on, I am not going to change the POV of the story, mainly because I personally can get confused while reading things that change the POV a lot and I also want people as readers to be just as confused as Jieun and learn as she does what's going on but if people actually read this and want me to, I will add in chapters here and there with side stories, these would also be 3rd person pov if you are interested.