Lover Next Door

Chapter 42

The next day

We all agreed to spend the entire day at the beach. I'm in the room getting ready as Mina and Seola so the same.

"Yujin it's hot outside are you gonna keep that hoodie on the whole time?" Mina points out the hoodie I have on

Last night had to be those nights where my makeup could barley cover up the marks left by Jaehyun. Out of embarrassment I made him give me his hoodie and my excuse would be that I was cold. However that's not gonna work in this scenario

"No I'll take it off. It's just I can't right now" I begin to explain
"Why not?"
"I have some...things on me right now"
"Things? Show me" her curiosity grows stronger

I don't want to. But she'll only continue bothering me till I do
"Cmon it's fine I won't tell the others"

I hesitate, but I slowly remove it and reveal the hickeys imprinted on my skin. Including some in my chest area that I didn't notice were there till this morning.

"Oh shit!" Mina exclaims
"How? Who?"
"Who else? Jaehyun got touchy with me" I sulk
"So that's why you guys took forever. You were getting rowdy" she smirks
"Not even"

I notice from the corner of my eye Seola was eavesdropping on our conversation. At one point I noticed her observing the marks and making faces over it

"You know no one likes nosy people" I call her out
She stays quiet, but her face turns red. She then quickly tried to walk away

"You just love to piss her off" Mina laughs
"If I have to be forced in a trip let alone a room with her I might as well make the most out of it" I shrug

-

While everyone was already getting in the water I pulled Jaehyun to the side

"I have a problem"
"What?" he asks
I move my cover up to show him what he left on my breast
"Oh" he laughs
"I'm serious I don't know what to do"
"Just embrace them"
"Embrace?"
"Just to let everyone know you're mine" he leans a bit more closer to me
"I can leave some more if you want" he whispers in my ear
"Absolutely not" I lightly push him

It suddenly hits me that he was shirtless the entire time. I can't help but catch a glimpse of his body, Breathtaking.

"You like the view?" he catches me
"Hm?" I try to play it off
"I feel like you have other things in mind rather than being at the beach, not that I mind" he smirks
"Stop being so dirty minded" I walk away

He always catches me lacking

We all spend the day as we swim and enjoy each other's company. It's times like this where I feel like a happy kid again, if only life would be this simple

As it slowly starts to get darker we all begin to go back inside and we begin to take turns to shower and change into more comfortable clothes

When I finished I went to the patio to look at the waves again. The calm wind were so relaxing to me it felt like peace to me. I feel someone's presence and I open my eyes to see Taeyong

"Hi" I greet him
"Hey" he sits next to me on the steps
"Did you have fun today?" he asks me
"Definitely. Did you?"
He nods

"I've noticed we don't really hangout anymore" he says
"Yeah we don't" I begin to realize it as I think about it more
"I miss it. I miss you" he faces me
"Taeyong"
"No I get that you're in a relationship and I respect that. But my feelings for you don't seem to want to go away" he rubs the back of his neck

I remain silent. I notice the distance ever since I started dating Jaehyun. But I had no idea he was still having feelings for me. I always thought we left it at the fact that we would only ever be friends

"Um. You know what just forget what I said" he gets up and walks away
"Tae-" I was about to follow him when I notice right by the door was Jaehyun. Who probably had heard everything

"Hey" is all I can say to him
"He still has feelings for you" he says
"I guess so" I feel myself getting a bit nervous
"What do you have to say about that?"
"I mean, I don't know"

"Yujin, is our relationship being taken serious?" he suddenly asks
"Of course it is what are you talking about?"
"Then why do I feel like it isn't?" he asks
"What? If it's about Taeyong i've already told you he's just a fri-"
"It's not about Taeyong" he interrupts me
"Then what?"

"Do you love me?"

His question leaves me stunned. I don't know what to even say. While my feelings for him a truly there, am I at the point where I'm in love? I've never really had any good experience with it, so should I know?

"What is this about Jaehyun?"

He sighs as he lays his head on my shoulder

"I feel like I love you so much, but you don't feel the same"

His words crush me inside. Have I really been avoiding any sort of strong feelings towards him? Besides the ones I already feel?

"It's not that I don't love you"
"I'm scared that if I love you too much it'll end up hurting one of us" I feel my eyes watering up a bit

He doesn't say anything. He stays still, most likely processing my response

"Fuck this" he mutters as he gets up and walks back inside

"Jaehyun" I try to call him back

I see Jiyoung walking up to me and trying to put together what happened

"Hey what's wrong?" her face grows concerned
"I think I fucked up" I now feel tears streaming down my face
"What?"

I explain to her everything. From Taeyong still having feelings to me telling Jaehyun my feelings for him

"Oh my gosh okay" she tries to think
"You need to talk to Jaehyun"
"And say what?" I ask her

"Yujin, You do love him. It's so clear that you do. You're only scared to say it to him" her clarity is very comforting

"You have to tell him" she repeats
"Okay" I nod

We both walk in and I try to look for him

"Where's Jaehyun" I ask Johnny
"Um, upstairs" he looks like he had just seem a ghost

I walk up to go to the room he was staying in

"Jaehyun I need to explain myself-" I'm quickly stopped by a horrific scene

I feel myself go numb as I find Jaehyun and Seola kissing

Fuck my life...

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