Diamond : Choi Youngjae

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I kept my promise, and he kept his. I tried to stay away from BamBam and he tried to stay away from Ah Yeon. Though every once in a while, we would contact the other, but we wouldn't ask to meet up.

By this time, they were all fine by Jackson leaving for Hong Kong. After all, a month had already passed by now. They were bound to move on, but not forget.

"Just this one day," I pleaded. "I need to see BamBam,"
"Why?" he raised his eyebrows.

And they still haven't made up...

"Just because..."

He thought about it for a while, nearly thirty seconds, actually... He finally let out a sigh and directed a nod towards me.

"Fine. Go."

I smiled brightly and half-hugged him, which made him tense up a bit.

"Thanks, Jae!"

I ran away from him and literally ran to his house. Honestly, BamBam just asked me to come by his place, telling me that he had something important to tell me, so here I am. Running towards there like my life depended on it, and I found that a bit weird, since he's not dying nor is he my boyfriend...

"Rong!" he said happily, getting up and hugging me when he saw me. "I missed you... Youngjae is a bit too possessive over you..."

I laughed and pulled away, breaking the hug.

"What's the important thing you have to tell me?"
"Ohh... About that..."

His bright smile faded and I swear, my heart almost skipped a beat, not in that happy I'm-in-love way, but in a bad what-the-hell-happened one. What exactly happened?

"Sorry, but...." he trailed off, pausing for a minute, before speaking again. "My sister's visiting me and she said she wouldn't come unless I finally found a girlfriend. And I miss her so much, that I lied and said I did..."
"How is that an important thing?"
"Well... The thing is... I said you were my girlfriend,"

Curse this idiot...

"I hate you, BamBam,"
"Look, I'm really sorry-"
"When did you tell her that? Why did you even say you had a girlfriend?"
"She was going to tease me if I don't!"
"Why me, then? Out of all people, why did your fake girlfriend have to be me? It could have been one of your girls from the club-"
"You expect me to find them? One by one, and ask them, 'Hey, can you do me a favor and be my girlfriend for a week?' and keep on trying until one of them says yes? I barely know their names!"
"So you used me... I can't believe you!"

I was annoyed with him. He knew I had no plans to even act as a person's girlfriend and this happened. One week... How am I supposed to keep away from Youngjae that long? If I did, that would mean I'd be breaking our promise...

"How will you explain this to Youngjae, then? You know I can't meet you that often anymore. How can you force Youngjae to let me meet you for a week?"
"I'll take care of everything," he told me.
"If he gets mad?"
"I'll take the blame,"

I took a deep breath and pushed my hair back, shooting him a death glare again. But I could see the desperation in his eyes; he was pleading for me to agree.

"It's not like I have a choice, is there?"

A small apologetic smile formed on his face as he stepped forward and hugged me.

"Thanks a lot, Chorong. I owe you, big time,"
"You bet you do," I muttered.

He pulled back and smiled faintly. There was a tinge of guilt in his smile and his eyes seemed to tell me the tons of apologies he couldn't say.