His Little Butterfly

9 - Mine

Yuna hesitantly placed her hands on Jin's broad shoulders. She steals a glance up at him and finds him staring at her. She gives him a shy smile before looking away. He looks so perfect up close, she tells herself. Other than the first time they met, this is the second time she got to dance with him. But tonight feels different, he looks at her with more meaning, it's almost as if he likes her. A girl can only wish that to be true especially when it comes from the guy she secretly likes. Maybe she's giving too much meaning to what he's doing. She doesn't want to keep her hopes up. Less expectation, less disappointment.

"All these years, I've been looking all over to find the perfect girl when she was just right in front of me. How could I ever have overlooked you?" Jin said interrupting her personal contemplations. 

Finding his words a little puzzling, Yuna looks at him and squints her eyes at him.

"You are talking to me right?" She asks.

Jin chuckles before he answers.

"No, I'm talking to the lady behind you. Of course, I'm talking to you, there's only the two of us here." He laughs again. "You are so cute my little butterfly."

"Your little butterfly?" Yuna echoes. Ok, she's probably sounding like a complete weirdo to Jin with her questions, but he's just surprising her too much tonight.

"I remember that analogy you told me before, that's very profound but true." Jin replies.

"But I'm not that little neither am I..." Yuna paused because she was a bit hesitant to continue but she decided to say it anyway since she already started talking. "yours."

"No, you're not that little." Yuna is about 5 inches shorter than him. She's way taller than Aliya and is just about the same height as Nari. "If you'd let me, I want you to become mine." 

Just as Jin said his last sentence, there was a loud horn that blasted from the DJ's booth and the crowd started screaming. It's a sign that the partying in the club is in full swing. The place turned dark before there was a display of lights that made the crowd get louder. 

Jin placed an arm around Yuna's shoulders and maneuvered their way out of the suddenly crowded dance floor. Everyone starts dancing at that point so it got too cramped to move.

"Thank you." Yuna tells him as soon as they were away from the dancefloor. "What was that you said earlier before that noise? Sorry, I didn't get to hear it."

Jin was about to speak but he got interrupted. No one heard him mutter a curse. He keeps a neutral expression as he turns to Yuna's friends.

"Yuna, we were looking all over for you." Jenny appears next to them with Ara next to her. The two girls throw a smile at Jin.

 "Can we just borrow Yuna for a second?" Ara asks.

Jin smiles. "Sure." He turns to Yuna. "I'll wait for you at the table."

The two girls dragged Yuna to the ladies' room.

"What was that about?" Jenny asks her.

Yuna couldn't hold back the smile that broke from her face. 

"It's the most unbelievable thing ever. One minute I thought he was going to kiss Aliya and then all of a sudden, he was asking me for a dance and he's saying these things to me that can only happen in my dreams." She tells her friends.

Ara giggles and hugs her. "I'm so happy for you, like seriously, all these years of keeping your virginity might be worth it. It gets more meaningful if you do it for the first time with the guy you love. Look at me, I did  but well...I thought I loved that piece of shit but not until I found out he was cheating on me."