The Fake Date x Goo Kim

4

The air around you felt heavy and thick. Almost like being crushed, due to the overwhelming anxiety that you could feel with each footstep getting closer and closer to the door.

Eventually you snapped back into reality. Making a dash behind your father's desk and sitting in his chair, legs crossed under the desk, elbows on the desk with your phone in hand trying to look busy and not like you just had an infuriating, yet confusing conversation.

Within a few seconds one of the doors swung open, you made it just in time and thank god you did because it was Gun.

Gun looked confused at first, you however were worried at what he was confused about - Was it because you were behind your father's desk? Was it because you were in your father's office? Or was it because he saw Goo leave and now he's seen you in here as well?.

Your mind raced with all the possibilities of what could be going through his mind, then he spoke and it was the one question you really didn't want to hear.

"Was that Goo leaving here just now?" Gun asked in a stern yet confused manner.

"Actually yes, it was. Why do you ask?" You say somewhat smugly, yet anxious.

"I just never thought I would see the day when you and Goo would be talking, after all we both know how you feel about him." Gun says in a monotone voice, now not sounding confused at all.

This was now your chance, your chance to see if he would react, your chance to see how far you could potentially push Gun.

You turned off your phone, putting it down next to a pile of papers and files on the desk. Then with the most sheepish grin you looked up at Gun and started to speak.

"Even if I do feel a certain way about Goo, why do you care if I see him or not. Hell this whole time I might have been pretending not to like him." You spat. The words coming out as calmly yet as teasingly as you could make them.

Gun stood there expressionless, not saying a single word and not showing a single emotion, at least that was visible. After all, he still had his glasses on so you couldn't see his eyes.

But something felt off, more with Gun rather than anything. You thought that you had finally gotten a reaction out of him, but that's not what it was. Someone was getting a reaction out of him but it wasn't you. That's when you heard it, or rather heard him. Goo was laughing down the hallway, an audible cackle could be heard probably from miles away.

Goo had heard the entire conversation that you and Gun were having. The only thing he could do was cackle at your little comment.

You thought to yourself for a moment that this was the source of Gun's irritation and that off feeling you had and you would have been right, even though you wished it was your comment about Goo. But what you couldn't predict was that the conversation between you and Gun, as well as his expressionless face, was going to change in a matter of seconds after what Goo had just opened his mouth and said.

What Goo said snapped you back into your conscious mind and it rang through your ears, like a blood curdling scream. Like the alarm you had to wake up to every morning. Like nails on a chalkboard or a fork running across a plate. Your confusion about what Goo meant earlier when he said 'sure' was gone within seconds and given that you came up with the idea in the first place, you just had to act like you knew it was coming when you heard it.

"Y'know she's right, she really was pretending not to like me this whole time. Hell if you paid closer attention to her, you would've known that we've been dating for about 2, no 3 months now." That's what Goo said, that's why Gun's expression changed after hearing it and that's what you had to play along with.

Gun now looked visibly irritated, glancing back and forth at you and Goo. Goo with that smug smirk of his and you with your now sheepish yet irritated grin.

He couldn't believe what he was hearing. I mean come on who could?. You and Goo. Like he said, you both hated each other, at least that's what he thought.

The looks between you and Goo continued until Goo spoke again. "Come on, isn't now the perfect time to tell him that we're dating?" Goo said nonchalantly, almost trying to get a reaction out of both you and Gun.

"There is no way in hell, you both are going out with each other. Or as you say, 'have been' for the past 3 months like someone said." Gun spoke in a sarcastic tone, looking directly at Goo when using the word someone and also using air quotes at the words have been.

Goo was away to speak when you stood up from behind the desk, cutting him off before a word could even leave his mouth.

"We actually have been and why are you so skeptical about it Gun?" You question, but also holding firm that you and Goo have had this 'secret' relationship going for the past few months.

"Well, I just never thought that you two of all people would be a couple. But apparently I'm wrong." Gun said in a now irritated voice.

"Guess you were." You and Goo say in unison, looking at each other and giving each other a very odd small smile. Almost reassuring each other that, yes, you both were going to fake date each other and that, yes, you are definitely going to irritate Gun with this.

Gun by this point was taken aback by what was transpiring in front of him, but still didn't believe that yourself and Goo were dating. So that's when he came up with a plan of his own. A plan that not even you thought about.

"Ok I'll give you both the benefit of the doubt that you're actually going out with one another. But only if you kiss each other right now." Gun said, smiling intently while looking back and forth between the both of you, to see and also to make sure that you both were in fact dating.