The Fake Date x Goo Kim

16

Another hour later and a silent car journey, you're home. Back at your father's house and Gun is waiting for you to get out.

"Thanks" You say to him, so coldly that even you think it is a bit mean.

"Why were you at Goo's?" Gun asks out of nowhere, even though you were expecting it at least at some point. But now?.

"It doesn't matter"

"Yes. Yes it does"

"Why does it matter?" You question.

"Oh, I don't know. Maybe because you said that you were at your friend's house for the past few days. Then, come to find out, you're at Goo's"

"Yup, I was in fact at Goo's. Shocker now isn't it?" You say back sarcastically.

"Really, that's it. That's the only explanation I'm getting?" Gun spits back at you.

"You're really expecting an explanation. Wow, we're a bit full of ourselves aren't we?" You say back with even more sarcasm this time. But Gun just looks at you and smirks. He knows that he's pushing your buttons and you're also very much aware of what he is doing.

"I'm not, just curious that's all" He eventually says back to you.

"Well can't I hang out at my boyfriend's house?" You eventually say back, giving him a slight explanation. Gun then does something that you were not expecting. He starts laughing. Hysterically laughing.

"Oh come on. You really think Goo called me and didn't mention your little deal with him, hm?" Just from that one sentence, your sense of reality shatters. Goo told Gun. Goo told Gun. Goo told Gun.

All you can think to do at this moment in time is to simply repeat that sentence. Over and over again, until probably on the 100th time, it sinks in. Goo told Gun about your deal. He told him the relationship was fake. That you were in fact, never in a relationship with Goo. Meaning that he must have told Gun about your feelings for him.

"So, what's it going to be? Are you going to tell me the truth about everything orrr am I going to have to tell your father about your little outing?" Gun eventually speaks, drawing your mind back to reality that you lost only moments ago.

However, you can't help but think with his choice of words that he might not know EVERYTHING. So you think carefully about what you say next because you certainly cannot have your father hearing about you staying at a guy's apartment, let alone Goo's.

You collect your thoughts and process what little information you have and what information Gun has let slip. He knows the deal with Goo was a lie. He knows that your relationship with Goo was a lie. But he might not know that you had feelings for him. Ok.

"You want to know the truth? Well here it is" You pause before speaking to look straight at Gun and he's now just looking straight back at you. His eyes are not wavering from yours and then you start off on your lies mixed with truth.

"Yes, I did fake a relationship with Goo. Why? I'm not sure, call it boredom and to see what you might think and wow did that work. The look on your face when we actually kissed, comical" You stop there for a brief moment. Gun's eyes are still glued to your own but you can now see that the ever familiar smirk has been wiped from his lips.

"To be completely honest with you, I really do wish I had a framed picture of that moment. It was amazing. But as for why I was at Goo's house. Let me think. Oh, yes, that's right, when you thought Goo and I actually were in a relationship, you ran straight to my father and then I needed space. So I went out for a walk, ended up in Seoul and long behold it started to rain. I wandered about a little while, trying to find an umbrella, but you know how it is.Then I ran to the subway"

Again you stop, taking in what you've said and by the look and Gun's face Goo definitely didn't tell him about how you had feeling for him. And now you're hoping he also didn't tell Gun about anything else.

"Now let me finish the story, since you are SOOO interested. After running down to the subway, every single message on the board said delayed. So that's when I decided to stay somewhere for the night. I didn't think it would be appropriate to just turn up at anyone's doorstep given the circumstance, so that's when I remembered that Goo stayed nearby. I called my father, explained that I needed some time away and then made my way to his apartment. Oh yeah, thanks for the information on where he lived, it was really useful even though I never expected to be going there at any given moment of my life. But it worked out nicely. So I made my way over, found the building, went in, went up in the elevator and found his obnoxious door and hey presto, it was Goo's apartment. I stayed there for 2 nights and then you came to collect me no more than, oh 2 and a half hours ago now"

You eventually stop speaking after having said everything and you feel accomplished. You've said everything you wanted to say, lie or truth. You've shut down Gun and you've wiped the smirk off his face. You've also avoided your father from finding out and you've avoided a lecture. So yes, right now you feel very accomplished.

Now you're just waiting for Gun to say something back to you. But he doesn't. He's just sitting in silence, now not even looking at you. He's just gripping the steering wheel and you can see that his knuckles have turned white with just how tightly he's gripping it.

You can only think to yourself about what he has to say and that's the worrying part. You're not sure what he will have to say about everything. Sure, you have told him everything that happened, leaving out a few parts. But in the back of your mind your thoughts are still nagging at you that he still might know. That he might know everything. You need Gun to speak so you know, for certain, that he doesn't know everything.

"Well then, I suppose that's all of my question and further questions answered. Apart from one. Why is it that you and Goo, I'm assuming, were getting on like a so-called 'house on fire' until today. What exactly happened, huh?" 

Of all the questions that Gun could have asked, this one wasn't high on your list for ones that you wanted to answer. But you were going to do so anyway to avoid any arguments or lectures later down the line.

"Well, if you must know, we had an argument last night. Nothing in particular just a spat, so to speak" You say, assuming this is enough for Gun. But of course it isn't.

"An argument about what?" He asks.

"Oh you know, he didn't like the way that my toothbrush touched his. Regular things when you're living with someone" You say sarcastically, hoping that Gun won't press on. But of course, that doesn't happen.

"I'm being serious here. What was the argument about?"

"Like I said, it was about a toothbrush" You say again. Gun just looks at you unimpressed with your retort and asks again.

"What was it about?"

"Fine, you really want to know what it was about?" You question.

"Preferably, yes. It would save me telling your father and dim my curiosity" Gun says sarcastically this time.

"Fine. If you want to know that badly then here's the truth. We kissed last night, well I kissed him because that was all I could think to do. Then after I pulled away I said that I was going to bed. Are you happy now you know the truth?"

Gun just looks at you, eyes wide, his grip on the steering wheel even tighter than before, as if he's the one that has a reason to be angry. But he does, you just didn't know it then.