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They stared into each other's eyes, lost in the moment they didn't realise that they had spent more than 5 minutes staring into each other's eyes. Haneul was the first to break when her hand moved and knocked over a cup of piping hot coffee onto her hand. This caused her to wince in pain as her hand was drowned in coffee that burnt her hand, making it go all red.
Jaemin grabbed the wrist of the coffee hand and pulled her gently to the sink and began to run cold was on to her now redraw hand. It all happened so fast Haneul could feel much of the pain but after a few seconds, Jaemin took her hand away from the running water.
"Do have an ice pack or something?"
He asked softly to which Haneul nodded in response before pointing at her freezer with her other hand and he let go of her hand to go straight over to the freezer to look through the draws for an ice pack. That was when the pain hit her, it started off small but grew by the second until her hand felt like it was on fire.
"It's...in the ...bottom draw...ah"
She hissed, squeezing her eyes shut tight to conceal the pain before they reopened having felt a cold ice pack engulfing her poor red hand by a larger pair of hands. They somehow made her hand feel all tingly and less painfully for some reason, as well as butterflies in her stomach with a pounding heart.
"Is this any better?"
He asked, cupping her hand in both of his gently, trying not to put too much pressure on it. She nodded in response before looking up at him with a weak smile as they sat down.
"Sit down for a bit, I'll clean up."
He instructed, walking back to the spillage and beginning to clear it up while she sat there looking down at her hand that still felt tingly due to his soft touch. With one hand on her heart and the other resting on her lap with an ice pack on it, the pain slowly subsided.
After Jaemin was done cleaning up the spilt coffee he came back over and sat down in front of her to take a look at her hand.
"The redness has gone down but that burn hasn't yet so I'll go get you some ointment of it and see what it's like after a few hours. Do you have any?"
He spoke while examining her hand that was slightly less red than before but slight tiny burn marks littered it along with one slightly bigger one where she thought the coffee first came in contact with her skin.
"Y-yeah I do it should be in that first aid kit on top of the refrigerator, that blue box to the left."
She pointed to the blue box on top of her refrigerator which Jaemin spotted instantly and effortlessly grabbed it from the top which she would normally slightly struggle with when her brother wasn't around to get it for her.
He then opened it and grabbed the ointment out of it as well as the cotton pads and began to put the ointment on the pads.
"It's going to hurt isn't it, well I'll brace myself then."
With that, she closed her eyes as he began to dab the ointment onto her burn marks that had begun to blister. For a little second, it did sting but not enough for her to keep her eyes closed so she opened them again and took this opportunity to take in his beautiful concentrated features that just made her heart flutter.
"I can see that you are staring at me you know."
He smirked while still having his head turned down but his eyes flickered up to hers that were caught for a quick second before she looked away out of embarrassment. Her face turned a light red colour as she felt his eyes on her but soon enough they were back on her hand to finish the treatment.
"I-I w-wasn't-"
He put the equipment down and clasped her chin gently to turn her head back to face him, locking their eyes once again.
"Yes, you were, I don't mind because I do the same to you so you can carry on while I do the same."
He said cockily, smirking up at her wide-eyed, stunned face that was still red, she didn't think he would toy with her like this. Did he like her back? or was he like all those dickheaded guys that liked to play with girls hearts like this.
She exhaled the breath that she had been unconsciously holding.
"Are you toying with me, Mr Na? Because if you're trying to play with me and then expect me not to catch feelings then-"
"What if I have feelings for you?"
Haneul's eyes widened before she shot up.
"YOU KNOW WHAT, I forgot I need something from my cafe, an ingredient. So I'm gonna go get it but you're more than welcome to stay here and wait for me to come back."
She rambled before heading to the hallway to leave.
But her arm was tugged back just as she was about to grab her coat, Her back hit the wall and she was caged in between his arms as he looked down at her.
"Nana... what are you doing?"
She asked as she looked up at him, only to meet his eyes that were staring down into hers but flickered down to her lips occasionally. Her heartbeat increased rapidly but her brain was sticking to her policies which sent her into a confused state.
'At least tell me your name Nana and then I can let you kiss me and I can kiss you'
She pleaded in her mind.
"You're not running away, I know you like me back Haneul and I don't know how long I can wait to kiss you. I've liked you since I first laid my eyes on you."
He whispered to her as he closed the gap a little between them.
"...Tell me your name and then I'll let you..."
She replied sternly and he sighed, stepping away from her and releasing her from his cage before pulling his hand over his face.
"Sorry, I'm not ready to tell you, I'm really sorry Haneul."
He turned away and took a step towards the kitchen but Haneul was too quick and grabbed his wrist stopping him.
"It's okay, When you're ready, I'm not pushing you to do anything but I can't fall for someone who doesn't trust me even with their name."
She reassured him with a bright smile.
"Well I'll be back soon with my ingredients, but just so you know I do not not like you."
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