The Assistant -LeeKnow

Chpater 23

"Honey, is everything alright?" Jinae, the kids' stylist, asked Naeun as she set up in the dressing room.

"Hmm? Yeah. I'm fine," Naeun told her with a small smile, not straying her eyes away from her work for too long.

"I mean with you and Lee know. Are you two alright?" She asked, concern in her tone.

"Oh," Naeun said, looking up at her, her mouth rounded perfectly from the interjection.

"Oh?" She asked, her eyebrows heightening in question.

"I mean, its fine. I don't know," Naeun said, waving her hand through the air as she continued to set up the table for making protein shakes and smoothies.

"Han said you two had a fight," she brought up.

"Yeah, he said that, didn't he?" Naeun asked through a clenched jaw, wishing Han would just shut up about it already and quit drawing everyone's attention to her and Lee know.

Naeun sighed and dropped her shoulders. She really liked Jinae, but the last thing she needed was to have this conversation with someone who didn't really know what was going on because she had no idea how to even explain her relationship with Lee know, let alone a stupid fight they were having – a fight that they seem to always have, because that was just life with Lee know.

"What's really going on? Are you two not getting along?" Jinae asked, looking concerned. Ding, ding, ding.

"I don't know. I feel... I feel like maybe we shouldn't be together," Naeun told her quietly, squeezing her eyes shut tightly, knowing Jinae couldn't see her expression.

"And why do you feel like that?" She asked, pressing her further. Naeun turned to face her, feeling almost queasy to be on such a topic.

"I don't know. I just feel like... like we shouldn't have gotten together in the first place. I know we shouldn't have. Believe me, I know that. It was irresponsible and I just think it's better if—" Naeun began rambling without a kill-switch until Jinae interrupted her.

"Naeun, that is just crazy," she said, sounding a bit exasperated. Naeun had to stop and gape at her, because she knew how she was feeling wasn't crazy.

"You and Lee know are old enough to make your own decisions. I've seen the way he looks at you. You bring out so much good in him. It's so wonderful to see," she said, beaming at Naeun, making her stomach turn.

How did she possibly gather that from any of the public displays of their sham of a relationship? It didn't make any sense.

"I don't know what you're fighting about, but if you and Lee know are happy, then what does it matter?" She asked.

"It's not—I mean, it's not... I don't know," Naeun said quietly, looking down at the ground .

"Seriously, whatever it is you're fighting about, it isn't worth it. Believe me, I know," Jinae said, smiling at her.

"Yeah," Naeun nodded, but she was still so confused.

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"LEE MIN HO ," he heard Jinae's stern voice as he sat in the dressing room playing Call of Duty with Felix.

"What?" He asked furrowing his brow, but not taking his eyes off the screen as he shot up a sniper from an opposite rooftop.

"You need to get up from that couch and go find your girlfriend," she said firmly.

"What?" He asked again, even more confused.

"Naeun. You need to go talk to her," she said impatiently and he swore he could hear her tapping her foot.

"Why?" He asked, still focusing on what was happening in the fictional world on the screen.