Strawberries & Cigarettes: (Liskook)

Chapter 21 (twenty one)

It was late at night when he dropped me home.

He stopped his car infront of my apartment and turned to look at me.

"Get fresh and go to sleep early,okay?" He told me and the feeling of being cared by him like he used to do was overwhelming for me.

I blinked in surprise before nodding to him.

"Y-yeah,I will" I replied while he gave me a nod.

"That's better to hear" He said,his hands slowly finding it's way to my cheek.He rubbed it mindlessly with his thump while his black eyes were focused on my brown one.

"I'm glad that we're starting a new beginning" He spoke his mind and I kept my gaze on him to continue. He smiled at me,this time "To be honest,I almost lost hope when I saw you with that xukun guy"

"He's just my good-" I started to say but then I stopped realising that once again I was not being totally honest with him. I wet my dry lips in realisation,casting my gaze away from him, guiltily.

Noticing my change of mood,His one hand moved from my cheek to my shoulder and the other rested on my thigh. He looked worried when he asked me the next question.

"What happened?Is something wrong?"

"Actually...Xukun kind of confessed to me that evening" I told him the truth,my gaze returning to his worried face "He told me to think about his confession and when I tried to say no to him...he said that he wanted to keep his feelings to himself so I don't need to answer him"

As I finished telling him the whole story,An amused smile crept on his face and I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Do you find this funny?" I asked,kind of annoyed and he shook his head quickly.

"No,no! Not at all! It's not funny !" He replied but his amused look on his face was giving it all. I rolled my eyes and shook my head.

"I shouldn't have told you that" I muttered,looking away from him and he finally burst out in laugh. However his hand on my thigh remained there even though he withdrew his other hand from my shoulder to brush off his black hair.

"I didn't laugh because it was funny. But the way you told me was so cute that I couldn't help" He corrected me but intentionally I shrugged, looking away from him.

"Okay,suit yourself" I said,making my way out from his car "I will never tell you about my-"

"Wait! Where are you going?" His hands grabbed my wrist in confusion when I let out my one leg out from his car and I turned to look at him.

"Umm...Inside my apartment?" I said the obvious and his expression changed from a confused one to a puppy look in a moment of time.

"So early? Please stay for a moment!" He requested like a child and I couldn't help but to raise my eyebrows.

"And what will you do if someone sees us right now?" I asked "We are not even dating"

"Then we can just date, What's the big deal here?"

"But you said we shouldn't rush things!"

"Who cares?"

"Jungkook!" I furrowed my eyebrows but an amused smile came out pretty quickly as I stared at him in disbelief.

Being so casual and opened about my feelings for him was really refreshing. I did not need to hide anything away from him now on and the happiness I'm having from this was unexplainable.

I've dreamed about this day where we could see each other's eyes to eyes and tell everything that we are afraid of,insecure of...and the moment that i was sitting before him and was listening to his caring words,I could end up tearing.