Is this what you call love?

20-Y

I walk in to my apartment and I exhale loudly.

"Are you okay?" Yuna ask while sitting on the couch.

"I don't know" I sit next to her and grabbing a pillow to cover my face.

"Where were you today? I didn't see you at all" Lia joins us.

"Jihyo didn't tell you?" I remove the pillow to look at her.

"No. She said you're just busy but didn't tell us with what."

"Where's Chaeryeong and Jinni?" I ask.

"They went to pick up dinner" Yuna answers.

"I'm gonna go and take a shower then I'll fill you in with what happened today" I slowly get up to go to my room and grab my shower stuff.

I take a quick shower and get change into my pajamas. By the time I'm done and back out in the living room, Jinni and Chaeryeong are back from getting dinner.

"How did you get home?" Chaeryeong ask.

"Ryujin and her friend dropped me off" I sit down on the floor.

"You were with Ryujin today? Like on a date?" Jinni looks excited.

"No. I was working but she got permission to take me out today instead of hanging out at work."

"Where did you go then?" Lia is curious.

"Golf course. Apparently, it's her golf day so she took me with her. Then I cried in front of her so that's something."

"Wait, what? Why did you cry?" Chaeryeong question right away.

"I somehow shared with her about my parents passing away and I expressed a bit of my emotions."

"How did she react? Like did she leave you alone or she just walked away?" Jinni is the one asking since she knows how I'm struggling with my feelings for Ryujin.

"She got me food and hugged me" I say and everyone stopped moving.

"Ryujin, the same Ryujin we've met? Hugged you?" Chaeryeong seems to be the one that's most surprised by it.

"She did. We even held hands on the way up here" I share and all of them look like their eyeballs are about to jump out of their sockets.

"Please don't tell me you kissed, I don't think I'm ready" Jinni jokes.

"We didn't kiss. Why would we kiss?" I act like she's crazy.

"Because you like her."

"Jinni!" I raise my voice.

"You like her!?" All three of my friends are about ready to jump me.

"Sorry. It slipped out" Jinni tries to hide herself with the pillows.

"When did you start liking her?"

"I thought you weren't interested in dating?"

"Are you gonna ask her out?"

"Was today a date?"

The three of them start asking a bunch of questions.

"I think I'm starting to like her but I need to stop myself because she doesn't like me in that way. She makes it clear that she's only looking for a friendship. I imagine myself being with her if it's something I can do and I don't know if I can. I'm so confused but then she does something like hugging me because I was sad and I can't help but feel my heart flutter."

"I never thought I'd see the day where Yeji will start liking someone" Yuna chuckles.

"Like I said, I support this" Jinni comments.