Her Stutters And Mumbles // P.J.M (#23)

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Jungwoo

"Jungwoo, why are you not in school today?" Jisoo's voice almost caused my ears to bleed but luckily I had it on speaker and placed it far away from me so that it would be safer for me. She needs to learn how to tone down her voice when speaking to someone on the phone...

"Because I don't have any classes and I don't have a reason to be in school, and there will be nothing for me to do in school," I told her.

"But you are not here and it makes everything so boring and miserable, I feel so lonely." She whined.

"Don't you have your cousins to play with? You have 2 handsome cousins and your older brother is Kim SeokJin." I sat down on my bed.

"But they are part of my family and even though we are all friends, I am somehow related to them and that only makes us cousins." She replied to me. "You are not related to me so you are my friend and you can come over to campus to keep me company, you are sure that you don't need to have a meeting with Jung HoSeok?"

It has been a few days ever since the birthday party and things have been a little awkward between the two of us, he might not know about it but I am the one who is feeling so awkward after that day.

I know that I don't have any feelings for Jung HoSeok and we are two people who have lived so near to each other for the past decade and we have only recently started to get to know each other again but it is only because we would have to work together for this business that we are doing, Jung HoSeok is the one who is the business owner and I am his business partner which means that I am the one who is helping him contribute ideas and building the business.

Our relationship has always been professional with the two of us being business partners and we are friends as well because we have similar friends and they all are in the same clique, we even went to a birthday party that happened last weekend and that exact birthday party has slightly changed for the two of us, at least for me because I could see the changes.

The way that I look at Jung HoSeok is so different that I don't know how to explain it better so that my brain can understand it better, my brain can't stop thinking about the part where I saw half-naked in bed and then he was shirtless again for the volleyball game, he is good looking but I have never thought more about it, he is a man and I never knew that he could be this attractive.

The conversations that we had with each other has changed as well, we had time to speak to each other without anyone around and we talked about a lot of things. I found out the actual identity of Park JiMin at the birthday party and I was shocked that he was the younger brother of the rapist who went to jail and was executed that same year, I now get the reason why he was so scared of letting anyone find out about it and I was also shocked that Jung HoSeok knows about it and he wanted everyone to know about it but for now, he had chosen to keep this dark secret and only told me about it.

And now I can't stop thinking about him and my heart pounds even harder, I kind of know what the answer is but I would have to confirm it with the love expert. "I will see you in school." I hung up and I made my way to campus to meet Kim Jisoo even though I didn't have any intention to go to school today but now I have because I have a burning question that I have in my mind.

"I am not a relationship expert," Jisoo answered me.

"You are a relationship expert, you have dated someone before so you know love better than me." I sighed. "Can you help me with this? I have a friend of mine--" She stops me by putting a hand up. "When you say that it is about your friend, I am a little confused over the part and I would want you to explain a little better, do you have another friend other than me?"

"It is another friend." She stares at me and I just sighed. "Fine, it is about me. I have a question to ask you about."

"And who is it? Do I know that person personally? Because I might know who that person is." She reached for her iced Americano. "Do you think that Jung HoSeok likes me?"

"Jung HoSeok likes you? I know that he is with you all the time and the two of you guys are going to earn big bucks." She says to me. "But I will just let you go on."

"I saw Jung HoSeok half-naked the other day and I can't stop thinking about him ever since, that image just kept popping up in my head," I said to her, taking one of her cookies. "What do you think about that?"

"Do you think that he feels the same way as you?" I shrugged my shoulders. "Because I will just assume that you are just a pervert and stop being weird."

"Then do you like him?" She asked me. "I hope that you do because you are the one that is asking me that and you wouldn't ask me if you are not interested in Jung HoSeok."

I nodded my head and then looked around me, it would be so embarrassing if someone else knows about this. "But we are business partners and we work together, I don't want our relationship to turn out weird."

"Then do you want him to know about it? Because things would be so awkward if you continue to tell about Jung HoSeok and he doesn't have an idea that you like him, he is a rare gem and he needs to know this before it is too late." She said to me. "You need to hurry up if you like him, Go Jungwoo."