The Boy Next Door

serious sensibility

"So did you.... want to hook up or something?" Sunwoo asked.

"W-what??" I whipped my head to look at him.

"I'm not opposing the idea it's just that I thought you would've gotten out of the car already." He nodded towards my house which we were parked outside of.

"I'm-I'm just-" not wanting to go back to my old self.

"If you want to just say the word," Sunwoo's hand resting on the compartment between our seats inched closer to me.

"NO!" I said too loudly.

His eyebrows shot up, like he was surprised anyone had ever said no to his offer before.

"I-I mean not yet--I mean I'm not that kind of person, I think you have the wrong perception of me, which is unfortunate, because I kind of liked the idea of you thinking I was that kind of person, but really I'm not." I shut my mouth and turned my face away from him with embarrassment.

He made me nervous.

But Sunwoo just laughed, and I felt a soft touch on the side of my cheek. He tucked a strand of hair behind my ear and tsked.

"I'll think of you however you want me to." he said in a low voice. He definitely knew how to seduce someone, and it was definitely working.

A small part of me just wanted to lean over and kiss him, just for the sake of kissing a guy in a car before going back into your house, it sounded fun to me.

But then a pair of headlights blinded the both of us, and I came to my senses.

I recognized that car and that cautious driving.

"You have to go," I flew out of the car, slamming the door and stumbling out.

"Alright Cinderella," Sunwoo turned the engine on and it roared loudly. He put two fingers to his temple and saluted me before zooming out of the quiet neighborhood.

I was left in an absolute daze seeing him go, I nearly forgot about the other issue. Changmin parked his car perfectly into his driveway while I stayed mesmerized in the middle of the street.

"You are so lucky." He slammed the door and locked the car. "I didn't wake up your mom."

I snapped back to reality.

"I should have called you." I said.

"You-" he rubbed his forehead. He sighed once and then walked over the lawn separating our houses to my front door.

I followed him inside and shut the door after us.

Changmin had always been the silent kind of angry. He would yell at people when he was annoyed, but when he was actually truly angry I knew he was one to stay silent. And when we got in fights he would turn to the silent treatment, and I would force him to be friends with me again.

And I was usually the ones who asked a bunch of questions when I was worried about him, not the other way around. He didn't often express his anxieties to me, or to anyone for that matter, but I knew he still had them.

"Why didn't you?" Changmin asked. He stopped walking in the middle of the living room.

"What?" I said.

"Why didn't you call me??" He said. "Did you drink or something why are you so out of it??"

"I didn't drink," I said calmly. I smoked. And I almost just kissed a cute boy in his Jeep, of course I'm out of it.

"Was that your Uber? And where the hell did Yuri go and what happened with that guy??" Changmin asked frantically. "What happened to your knees?"

"you may as well have woken up my mother," I crossed my arms. I didn't know what not to tell him and what to tell him. I wished I could have kissed Sunwoo and went back to my room with no interruptions and just laid in bed smiling to myself in the dark.