Is this what you call love?

30-Y

I'm enjoying my time with Ryujin when I hear some commotion.

"What the hell is this?" Mingyu slams his hand on the table causing Ryujin to flinch by the sudden noise.

Both of us let go of each other's hand and sit back up. I notice her close her eyes and she's taking deep breaths.

"Are you okay?" I place my hand on her back to hopefully calm her down.  I remember she doesn't like sudden loud noises.

"Lucy, I'm speaking to you" Mingyu frustratingly say.

"Hold on, okay?" I quickly glance at him then I focus on Ryujin again.

"Ryujin, talk to me. What do you need me to do?" I softly ask.

Her breathing is calming down now. Fortunately, it wasn't loud enough to cause her to go into a full panic attack.

I hug her to hopefully help. I know she's mentioned physical touch isn't her thing but she seems to enjoy my touch so I thought I'd give it a shot.

"I'm here for you" I say to her.

"Lucy!" Mingyu is annoyed.

Ryujin lightly pushes me away while signaling that she's okay and it made me kind of sad because maybe she didn't like my hug.

"What?" I turn to look at Mingyu now.

"That woman up front just told me that you're not accepting me as your client anymore?" He questions.

"Yes. I feel like it's the only way to get you to understand that I'm not interested in you nor will I ever be interested to date you."

"Yet you're here with that bitch that punched me?" He points at Ryujin.

I try to stand up but Ryujin grabs my hand to pull me down.

"She's my friend. She's not a bitch. She punched you to protect me because you were hurting me. What makes you think I'm gonna date you when you don't respect anything I say to you?" I snarl at him.

He scoffs while ruffling his hair from frustration. "Is it my fault that you're too blind to see that I'm a catch?"

"If she sees you're a catch then I can believe that she's blind but since she's not falling for that then I'd say her eyesight is pretty good" Ryujin comments.

"What did you say?" Mingyu snaps his head towards her.

"Are you deaf? You have to be since you didn't hear what I said and you also can't hear anything Lucy is saying. Even I can see that she doesn't want you and that says a lot because I don't normally catch on that easily."

"Ryujin, I can handle this" I say because I don't want things to escalate.

The guard arrives and he grabs Mingyu to try to take him outside.

Mingyu punches him and he starts causing a scene in the bar. He goes to the booth next to ours and throws their plates on the ground. He goes back to our booth and he pulls the table out then he aggressively pushes it to the ground.

"Fuck you!" He screams at me.

While watching his every move, I fail to notice that Ryujin is not holding my hand anymore.

"Stop stop stop!" I hear her scream.

I look back to see her knees against her chest and she's covering her ears while crying.

"Ryujin" I hold her right away.

Her whole body is shaking and she won't stop crying. I'm not even paying attention to Mingyu anymore. I just hear him still causing a big scene.