Sugar & Cream [A Jeong Jaehyun FF]

Chapter 6- Cotton candy

[Two weeks earlier; Paris]

The sunlight crept inside the room through the gaps in the curtains and fell on me. I rubbed my eyes and looked around to realize that I wasn't in my hotel room. I felt a weight on my stomach and found a muscular hand on my stomach. I shifted in my place and took a glance at the guy who was sleeping beside me. 
I recognized it and the memories of last night came flashing. I covered my mouth in shock when I remembered everything. I forgot the number of times we had sex or the number of times he kissed me and made me forget everything that had happened before. Soon enough, a wave of guilt came rushing in because I didn't want to be that girl who uses someone to get over the other. 

"Y/n... he asked me out" I closed my eyes and that sentence kept repeating inside my head

I didn't even know his name but he made me feel so many things in just one night... which I didn't want to feel. But I didn't want him to wake up and ask me any questions... because I didn't want to make him feel used which is why I slowly lifted his hand which was on my stomach and got off the bed quietly making sure not to wake him up. I realized that I was clean... which means he would have done it after I fell asleep. I smiled as I picked up my clothes that were laying on the floor and got dressed up. 

I grabbed my purse which was somehow on the sofa but I didn't leave yet. I walked to the bed and stood by the bed before I leaned him and kissed him softly on his lips

"I'm sorry... I wish that I wouldn't have to leave like this... but at the same time, I wish I could tell you everything that happened... everything that broke me.... goodbye, my perfect stranger"

Call me selfish, but feelings are a lot more complicated than it appears to be and you can't just move on from someone just because everyone tells you to. 

[Present day]

"Y/n" I blinked my eyes a few times when I heard my name being called out. I looked in front of me and it was Taeyong. Now, will someone please tell me what is he doing here? I looked at Ji-eon who had a teasing look on her face. Of course, who wouldn't when their best friend's crush is standing in front of her? 

"Umm... what's up?" I asked making him chuckle

"Why do you sound so nervous? Anyways, do you want to get some ice cream after classes get over?" He asked and it took me a minute to process what he just said. I was too shocked to say anything.

"She will come... I'll bring her" Ji-eon answered on my behalf and Taeyong smiled before he left

"I think, he is finally starting to like you back too!" Ji-eon said squealing in happiness

I wish it was what I was thinking.

[After classes]

Even though I had been squealing along with Ji-eon ever since what happened, I felt something wasn't right while I was practically being dragged by Ji-eon. Even though I kept saying that something didn't feel right about this, she still managed to take me where Taeyong had asked me to wait for him. Ji-eon stayed with me because she thought that I'd go back and she was right... I wanted to go back because something didn't feel right.

Minutes later, I spotted Taeyong from across the street. He was waiting for the signal to be cleared so that he could cross the road. He was wearing a simple white shirt and blue jeans with his bag hanging on his right shoulder while he held a bag in his left hand which I suppose had ice cream in it but... why would he need a bag for just two ice creams? He could just hold them in his hands.
Soon the signal was cleared and he crossed the road and now he was standing in front of me. 

"Did you wait for long?" He asked 

"No, we arrived a few minutes earlier" I replied and he smiled in return. He put his hands inside the bag and took out an ice cream and handed it over to me, he got one out for himself

"Thank-" I was cut off when he took out another ice cream and forwarded it toward Ji-eon. He gave her the strawberry-flavored ice cream, Ji-eon's favorite ice cream flavor as for me, he gave me mint chocolate... I don't even like mint chocolate. 

"I have a sore throat," Ji-eon said. She lied and I know why she said that. Taeyong left after he gave us the ice cream. I'm sure he was planning to stay if Ji-eon had taken the ice cream. After walking me to the bus stand, Ji-eon left too once her bus arrived. I didn't want to go home yet which is why I started walking on the streets while having the ice cream

Ice cream has always been my comfort food but for the first time... it did not comfort me... and it was not because of the flavor. 

I kept walking until it was evening. The sun was yet to go down and the sky had taken the color of strawberry-vanilla-flavored cotton candy. I decided to visit the bookstore where I would usually spend my evening when I didn't go to university. The bookstore had fewer people during the evening but it was mostly packed in the afternoons. 

When I entered the bookstore, the owner of the bookstore smiled at me because I had been visiting the bookstore for a long time now. She appeared to be an old, grumpy lady but actually, she had the softest heart ever. I walked among the shelves trying to find a book for me to read when I saw him. Jaehyun.
He was still wearing what he wore during the class indicating that he didn't go home either... like me. He always wore simple outfits yet those made him look so attractive. Just a plain black shirt and black jeans yet he looked so beautiful in them. For the first time, I felt myself walking to him until I was standing beside him
He noticed me and smiled at me.
My god! He smiled!

"Hi," I said with a hint of hesitation in my voice. He closed the book that he was reading and kept it back on the shelf. I managed to take a look at the title of the book and it was "A million kisses in your lifetime" 

"Didn't know you liked romantic books... I guess Paris makes everyone a romanticist" I mention that last few words on purpose. He chuckled at my statement and leaned against the shelf... and damn, he looked hot. 

"I don't know about the last part... but I'm a sucker for romantic books" Jaehyun replied and this time it was I who chuckled 

"Are you okay? You didn't look so good when I saw you standing across the shelves" 

"I'm okay... I'm just a little... tired" I replied

"Then... do you want to have some cotton candy?" He asked

"Cotton candy?" I asked again to which he nodded and before I knew it, we were out of the bookstore... running while he held my hand. I had no idea why we were running but it certainly made me feel a lot better. We stopped in front of a cotton candy shop. Jaehyun came to me with two cotton candies and he handed me the blueberry-flavored one.
"What flavor do you want?"
"Blueberry! It's my favorite... also, the fact that I have never had cotton candy after drinking alcohol"

He remembered... he remembered my favorite cotton candy flavor