✔︎ 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐍 | 재성.

09

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time skip - two months later.

nara grabbed her phone and headed to the cafe.

she entered the bustling yet somewhat calm and new place and walked over to the male who had looking at her, with a smile, since she had entered.

"hey, my love."
nara chuckled softly, "hello, jaeyun."

deep down inside, of course, the poor girl was scared.
but what could she do?
if she acted any different, jaeyun would know that jay told her.
she would cause jay injured or hurt, and she couldn't risk that.

"what do you want to drink?" the male asked, grinning from ear to ear.

she smiled softly, "maybe a cafe latte, or some tea."

"alright," he smiled.

soon, the waiter approached their table.

he was a young and attractive, tall male.
he has dark brown hair that was styled with a side parting, some of his hair hung loosely over his face.

"are you ready to order?" he smiled.

"one cafe latte and one iced americano," jaeyun replied, clearly not liking the male in front of him at all.

"alright, I'll be back with your orders soon," he beamed, and left.

nara chuckled at his enthusiasm, forgetting about how jaeyun had looked at the male earlier.

"do you like him?" he asked.

"what? no, I just... I just thought it was funny how someone could be so enthusiastic after working all day long, standing for the most of it too," nara replied, quickly, laughing nervously.

jaeyun nodded slowly and begun using his phone.

nara sighed softly.

seong
god.
I don't know how much longer of this I can fucking survive, jay.
sorry, darling.
but if you leave out of the blue, you know what's going to happen to both of us.
I know, jongseong.
but it's hard.
I keep forcing myself to see him as something he's not,
a sweet and loving guy.
I'm going to pretend I didn't see that.
anyways, are you at the cafe now?
yes.
there's this waiter, he has a cute smile.
you better not let jaeyun catch you saying that.
but what's his name?
I know, I know.
I think his name was sunghoon, if I read his name tag clearly.
sunghoon, what a name, not one I've heard of much, barely actually.
but yet, it sounds familiar.
well, I guess he won't be hard to find LOL.
true.
I think he's a kid tho...
he looks familiar...
like some guy I saw ice skating once, on youtube.
also seems like he has fans.
oh...
I remember where I've heard that name from.
park sunghoon, he's a figure skater.
but yeah, he's sort of a kid LOL
I think he's only 22...
child...
oh well, children do have cute smiles!
pedo.
shut up.
I'm not a pedo
if anyone's a pedo it's y

"nara?"
"hm?" she looked up.
"who are you texting? is it something important?" he questioned.
nara shook her head and put her phone away.
"is it work? you're always on your phone on our dates," he pouted.
"tch, you were using your phone just now," she muttered, under her breath.
jaeyun heard her and chuckled, ruffling her hair.

"jaeyun! don't mess up my hair!"
"why? are you trying to look pretty? for me?" he grinned.
nara rolled her eyes, "I'm trying to look presentable."
jaeyun pouted, "tch."

"here are your drinks," sunghoon said, bringing over their beverages.

"thank you," nara smiled.

"are you the figure skater, park sunghoon?" jaeyun questioned.

'what the fuck? did he read my mind? how the fuck did he know? what if he has a app in my phone? what if he can see my messages?' nara thought and questioned, nervous.

sunghoon nodded and smiled, "yes, my family owns this cafe, so I just work here sometimes to help them out."

jaeyun nodded and thanked sunghoon, bringing his attention back to his 'precious girl', as he called her.

flashback - one and a half month ago.

"nara-ssi... I know this might be a bit sudden and soon, but, do you want to... be my girlfriend?" jaeyun asked, handing her a bouquet of roses.

nara felt uneasy, not knowing what to say.

she looked around them, the empty park, just them, his decorations and an awkward question.

nara hesitantly took the flowers and nodded her head slowly.

jaeyun grinned and ran up to her, picking her up and spinning her around.

nara chuckled, but in reality, she was chuckling because she was nervous and very much questioning her life decisions.

end of flashback.

as they both finished their coffees, jaeyun interlaced their fingers and walked to the park.
nara dragged her feet as she walked, exhausted.

jaeyun frowned, realising that his girlfriend wasn't walking properly.
"baby?"
"hm?" she smiled, tired.
"what's wrong?" he said, wrapping his hands around her waist.

nara anxiously shook her head and removed his arms from her waist, "I'm just tired."

jaeyun sighed and nodded, "do you want me to piggyback you?" he chuckled.

nara laughed and shook her head, "no, it's okay."

jaeyun pouted, "tch, why don't you ever use pet names for me, baby?"

nara smiled, sheepishly, "sorry, love," she hesitatantly muttered, causing a grin to plaster over the player's face.

he interlocked their fingers once again and walked with nara, along the seaboard of the park.

nara felt uneasy around the male, yet there was no way she could escape without getting anyone hurt.

her heart felt heavy and she felt stuffy, this isn't what she had wanted.

maybe when they first met, but not anymore. not after she knew what kind of person he was.

jaeyun on the other hand, felt butterflies in his stomach.
his heart raced as he strengthened his grip on nara's hand.
he didn't want to let her go, ever.
she was all his and forever his, and there was not a single soul who could take her from him, he would make sure of it.

nara smiled sheepishly, feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable that people around them were looking at them.
she desperately wished to remove her hand from his, wanting to stop the skin-ship, but she couldn't.
if she did that, he would start to realise that she was acting different, probably allowing him to soon enough, realise that jay had already muttered the truth to her two months ago.

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