Once More, Love 2

27. What If

Sana pulls the sun visor of the shotgun seat to tidy her bangs on its small mirror.

Dahyun glances at her and smiles while continuing to drive. "Yeobo."

"Hmm?"

"Are you sure you don't want to go with Chae and the others this weekend?" The manager slowly asks. "It could be a great way to catch up with everyone. And also meet other people."

The artist awkwardly smiles as she pushes the visor up to its original place. "Umm... I'm— I'm not sure about that, babe."

"What do you mean? Our adorable Chaemi is going to be there. He loves you, you know that."

Sana smiles. "When you say it like that... the idea becomes tempting."

"I know, right?" Dahyun faintly chuckles. "Also... you never had the chance to get close to Tzuyu. Jinjja. It's a mystery to me why in the world are you two practically strangers to each other. She's one of my best friends. Believe me, Yeobo. She's a great person despite how people from our university back then described her as the ice queen."

"That's—" Sana slowly exhales. "Yeobo. As much as I want to understand where you're coming from, we have already made reservations for our own escapade this weekend."

"Jeongyeon Hyung's also there." The K-pop manager pushes his persuasion. "You already met him multiple times when we're at his restaurant. I know you two go well. Not to mention I would want to meet his new girl who was there at the concierge when we—"

"Dahyun." Sana spoke in a very serious tone. "I thought we already cleared it up that that woman on the conceirge and I have nothing to do with each other now? You have nothing to worry about her."

"I know. And if you only let me finish, I could've mentioned that I wanted to meet her because she is Hyung's—"

"KIM DAHYUN."

The manager immediately shut up and nervously glanced at the woman in the shotgun seat who is obviously not pleased with wherever their current conversation is going. "W— wae?"

"We already have our own plans."

"N— ne." Dahyun fakes a smile and heaves in a deep breath. "Sorry for trying to—"

"For the record, I already said no the first time Chaeyoung asked! Why are you still bringing it up?!"

"H— Huh? Wait—" The manager rapidly blinks. He slowly stepped on the brakes and began monitoring his right side mirror after hitting the signal light. "Yeobo... Why do you sound mad? What do you mean? I was just trying to—"

Sana cuts him off in an annoyed tone. "We can catch up with them some other time. We made plans for ourselves first."

Dahyun has now pulled to the side of the road. He turns to his side to slightly face his wife. "Okay. Fine. I acknowledged that. Don't be angry at me now, please? How could this conversation heat up this fast and turn into something else?"

The artist lets out a sigh and slowly faces the man on the driver's seat. "Sorry. I just— I was just— Maybe I'm just tired. We were up so early and we had quite an energy consuming chat with Mina and Chaeyoung back at the dance studio."

The pale guy sincerely smiles. He gently reaches to Sana's hand to give it a squeeze. "I'll drive us home so that you can go to bed early, okay?"

Sana just smiles back and nods. "I'm really sorry, babe."

"Hey—" Dahyun makes circles on his wife's hand using his thumb. "No pressure. You've got a good point that we already have something scheduled. I really just wanted to take the opportunity since—"