XXIII - Encounter

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I can't contain my laughter as he, one of namjoon's friend - that's what he informed - peels another apple for me. I have already choked twice on the fruit but his jokes are to die for.

"Do you wanna hear more?" He chuckles.

I hum, unable to form any phrase. By the time he is done telling me another, I am in tears, holding my stomach and leaning my head back against the bolster, too much happiness for someone lying in hospital. It was lethargy that put me here.

Half an hour ago, My eyes opened up to the white hospital ceiling in the following evening with this friend of Namjoon beside me.

"Where's Joon?"

I've not got a glimpse of him since I woke up.

"He's around. Will be here soon." He replies, slicing the red fruit before handing it over to me. I pop into my mouth and right then the door swings back.

He is wearing the same black tux from yesterday while I am in blue hospital gown. Following him, a person pads inside the room, the last one I'd wish to see right now.

"Ari..." Her voice breaks at the end, eyes shining.

She rushes towards me and leans me into a hug which I, for sure, don't return. She pulls back moments later and cupping my cheeks, softly asks, "How are you my child?"

My child? You lost her the moment you decided to run away.

But instead of voicing out my thoughts, I do something which leaves her startled. I remove her hands from my face and turn towards namjoon.

"Joon please tell this lady to leave. I don't want to see her face." He, too is surprised.

By then, tears are leaking out from her eyes which hold an imploring look. She lifts her hand to caress my cheeks but I stop her midway, grab her wrist and sternly speak, "Leave just like you did months ago."

"Arii.." She pleads. The male sitting beside me rises up and grabs her hand.

"Let's go Jieun." He looks into her eyes and it hits me who he really is.

"No let me apologise---" Fat tears roll down her cheeks.

"Later baby." He softly says.

I watch them leave through the door, hand in hand and closing the door after them. By the time they are out of my sight, a layer of tears surfaces my eyes. My face covered with both of my hands, I cry out heavy sobs. The flashbacks reeling back in front of me.

"Baby no."

His masculine arms wrap around me bringing my head to his chest with his large hand caressing the back of it. Soon, I find myself curled up in his lap, sobs growing low and quieter. His slender fingers brushing the hairs out of my hair as he pressed kisses to my head every now and then.

"Joon, how can you forgive mom so easily?" I crane my head to look at him.

"Ari." He leans in to brush his lips to my full ones and adds, "What your mom did was wrong for sure. I didn't forgive her. She left me, she left you, her biological daughter. I'd never forgive such a woman. But it's like her existence doesn't matter to me. I've got you." He cups my face, "you are by my side and I'm beyond thankful for it."

He strokes my cheeks lovingly and continues, "She didn't love me. And we'd never be happy in a relationship like that. It's better that she did chase her love and let me look for the one whose I'll be."

"I'm sorry if that's selfish but I'm happy that she left you, that she left me." He chuckles, his eyes looking into mine fondly while those dimples of his never let go off any chance to turn up.

"Why so?" I tilt my head in perplexion.

His hands spread at my back and pulls me up, his lips passionately capturing mine. My body feels so small in his big manly frame. His lips stretch into a fond smile. I tighten my arms around him and kiss his luscious mouth while straddling his lap.

After tracing the length of my back, as his hands wrap around my nape possessively and anchors my mouth deeper into the kiss, the air around me suddenly feels thick with tension. His tongue playing with mine, I can feel heat radiating from my body in invisible waves.

Slowly, he separates his lips, our breathes mingling. Red, swollen and tempting as always, I find myself helpless in averting my eyes from them. He puts a finger under my chin to make me look at him. His eyes are glimmering with adoration as he softly whispers my name, "Ari.."

"I didn't plan to tell you like this, on a hospital bed for crying out loud." He chuckles, "but I've been keeping it inside me for so long."

"Baby."

His fingers reach out to caress my cheeks and instinctively I close my eyes relishing his touch.

"No love, look at me."

He brushes the strands off my face and behind my earlobe, his cold fingertips sending a shiver down my spine.

"Ari I want to protect you and keep you safe."

His hands are cupping my jawline and another rests on waist as he slowly adds, "but baby at the same time I want to kiss your small mouth..  mark you." With that his face nears mine and brushes a soft kiss to my lips.

"You make me hundreds shades of crazy baby. I love you, I love you so much." He confesses, looking straight into my eyes with so much sincerity in his the pair of his dragon eyes that I can't help but crash my mouth against his.

"Will you be my boyfriend?" I grin widely, my hands cupping the sides of his face.

He laughs and nods. Our lips meet in midway. A wide smile spread over his face which stretches my lips into a one too. Pulling back, I plant one last peck on his cheeks before wrapping my arms around him and resting my chin on his shoulder.

No matter what the future may bring us, the present ie ecstatic and euphoric. And in that moment I realise, I've never felt this happy before. It is incredibly blissful, blissful as the sight of cheery blossoms in the spring, blissful as the rain on a hot summer day, blissful as the night sky filled with stars and blissful as the first snow of the winter.








Stay with me Joon, till the end of every season, till the end of time.











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📍Sep 9, 22; 7:18 pm
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