Ari

Chapter 10

Telling Jun goodbye properly was harder then not saying anything to him at all. We spent the night before his flight no more than an inch away from each other, kissing, laughing, and just watching a movie wrapped in each other's arms.

He told me would go back and get straight to work. Finish the shoot for the drama and not pick up any new projects for the next few months. He strictly expressed the next few months were to be exclusively spent with me whether it was here in Harrison, in Seoul, or on a remote island in the pacific if I wanted. The thought of seeing Jun in bathing suits all day. It wasn't a bad idea.

But in those next few months we would also make plans. How to merge these two very different worlds we lived into one reality. That was going to take steps, time, and patience. We braced for it to not be as easy as things were now, but in the end we knew it would be worth it.

I pulled up to the airport to drop him off and knew this was the start of everything different to come. He tried to smile to keep me positive but I couldn't hide my feelings.

"Don't worry. I'll call you everyday. FaceTime you when you're lonely or in a different kind of mood," he grinned, raising his eyebrows humorously. I could help but to smile. He saw my change in mood as an opportunity to lean in for a strong, deep kiss, taking my breath away.

"Just a few more weeks on the schedule, and I'll be back. Ok?" He said looking into my eyes. Tears couldn't stop themselves from falling. "Aw, baby, you're going to make me not get on the plane like this."

I wiped my eyes and exhaled to calm down. "Don't miss your flight. Call me from the future," I chuckled thinking of the time difference.

"I will," he snickered getting out of the car with his bag. "And Ari, I love you." Just like that Jun closed the car door before I was able to respond. He waved at me with that warm delicious smile as he walked through the automatic doors, gone from view.

Warmth rose up from the bottom of my feet all the way to burn in face. His words lingering in my mind as clear as he said them. Ari, I love you.

I grabbed my face with its stupid grin still in the bubble of the moment until the Police officer blew their whistle at me to move. This was reality. He did say that. And the anticipation I felt was like butterflies as I waited for him to come back so I could hear it from him again.