When We're Together [양정완]

41.

Yang Jungwon but his bottom lip, trying his best not to show the immense panic that was rising in his body as he nodded at Aera. "Yeah, everything's fine."

The female raised an eyebrow at him, clearly not buying it, but she still turned around to grab her bag without further questioning.

The two made it up to the male's apartment which was fairly high up, providing a clear view of Seoul's vast skyline, or at least usually it did. At the moment, it was too snowy to see much.

"Where's your family?" Aera asked as she used the boy's broad shoulder to keep her balance while she took off her sneakers and gazed around the neat interior or the male's home.

"My parents are at work, but I don't know about my sister. She's probably out with her friends or something." He said shrugging as he led Aera to the kitchen. He was still internally panicking, but as time passed he was starting to improve his acting. Or at least he thought so.

"What should we do? It's probably going to be a while before I can head home," Aera remarked as she stared out of a nearby window at the thick snow falling from the sky.

The male followed her gaze out the window to see a white sheet of snow falling between the window and the city view. "Hm."

As much as he wanted to find a solution, the male was still nervously biting his lip as he tried to decide whether he should tell Aera his mistake and risk death at the female's hands, or keep quiet.

The latter honestly sounded pretty appealing, but as the boy gazed at the girl, who was furrowing her brow at the window with a slight pout, he knew he would have it come clean sooner or later.

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After getting a snack and many blankets and pillows, the pair set up a sort of pillow fort on the boy's bedroom floor. But as the female was about to lay down, a small, white dog suddenly ran straight into the fort's wall, causing it to collapse over north Jungwon and Aera.

The two burst out laughing as they dug their way out of the pile of pillows on top of them. The male, still not sure how to bring up the topic of he and Mr. Char's misunderstanding, was about to risk it and simply tell her, but he was interrupted by his foot slipping out from underneath him on a blanket.

Before he could even blink, Yang Jungwon realized he was practically on top of Aera, unintentionally trapping her between himself and the blanket covered floor with his arms.

Aera stared into the boy's enormous, deep brown eyes. The boba eyes that made her smile just by looking her way.

In that moment, there was only one thing on the boy's mind, and that thing, or person was right in front of him. It was as if she had been a painting come to life; everything about her was so beautiful and elegant, yet soft and gentle.

His eyes shifted down to her soft looking lips, and he wondered if they had ever met another person's before. His certainly hadn't.

Aera felt her face becoming hot as she stared up at the boy's cat eyed, dimpled face. Part of her wanted to wriggle out of his arms, but the other part was frozen in shock and embarrassment.

She could feel his quick breath and almost hear his heartbeat. Suddenly the moment was broken by the male's voice. "Aera, I have to tell you something."

The female's heart started to race as she sat up to face the boy who had finally moved the arms that had been trapping her. "Yeah? Tell me." Aera held her breath as she glanced at the boy's prominent dimples that were showing due to his nervous, pursed lips.

"Well, uh..."

"Just say it."

"You won't be mad right?"

"Uh- I mean it depends I guess... wait why would I-"

"Your dad thinks we're dating."

The room suddenly felt silence as Aera froze in shock, her mouth still open as if she was about to speak. "H- He what? We..? How?"

As the female struggled to form a cohesive sentence, Jungwon suddenly clapped his hands together as it praying for her forgiveness, or at least that she wouldn't be angry with him.