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Episode 17 (is right here!)

"how was your knees?"

seokmin almost jumped out of frightened upon hearing an unexpected voice of his boss from his back that he almost screamed good thing that he controlled himself from doing such but he cannot controlled how he clutched his chest because his heart was beating faster by being shock. he was alone in the kitchen kasi and the lights from the salas and from the hallway was off and since the kids are already in their respective room prolly was sleeping dahil its almost midnight, so nagulat talaga sya when his boss, joshua suddenly just came out of nowhere.

he heard joshua chuckled prolly the older saw his reaction but seokmin cannot glare to his boss so wala syang nagawa but to composed himself as he heave a sighed and bit his lower lip, getting himself back to his senses. nakita nya may kinuha si joshua from the refrigerator besides to the sink, and seokmin watched how his boss close that thing and he just looked away when he realized that joshua was walking towards to his direction, where he was sitting on his usual seats in the dinning, both feet placed on the chair in front of him prolly checking his knees.

"my knees are okay, but it has bruises." then seokmin looked at his knees to see the purple mark on both of it, though the right one has a light purple nalang since medyo isang linggo nadin lumipas then the other one na purple talaga dahil kanina lang nangyari. "and they didn't hurt that much unlike the first minutes when i accidently bumped them."

the younger heard joshua chuckled again. "here, use this." seokmin slowly shifted his gaze to the thing in front of him which was being held by his boss. it was an ice wrapped around the clean white clothe. "maybe it could help reduce the color. it looked worse."

"t-thank you, sir."

seokmin slowly took the cold compress from his boss' hand and gently, he started to tap the cold compress to his left knee where the bruise was severe and as per joshua said, it looked worse because the color of it was really purple. though seokmin was busy tapping the cold compress into his knee, but his peripheral vision doesn't stop him from watching how joshua sat in front of him, just one chair away and even the way joshua opened a canned drink probably a light beer one since nakita nya yun kanina sa ref when he arrange the stuffs they bought from the groceries.

and because none of them was talking, seokmin could feel how loud his heart beat was and how that certain moment that happened earlier between the two of them, him and his boss kept ricocheting inside his head like a GIF. and that's enough for him to feel his cheeks started to heaten up once again as something inside his stomach was alive just like how he felt it earlier. he tried to hide his cheeks from his boss who's probably could see him right now dahil wala namang ibang makikita si joshua kundi sya. and seokmin tried to forget about it by continuing to tap his bruise using the cold compress.

and by remembering what happened earlier, it finally sank into his head when he realized that he wasn't able to say his apologies earlier by him not doing his responsibility once again to serve his boss and to cook dinner more early than what happened today. he slowly lift his head to see his boss in front of him who is drinking the canned drink and instead of saying his sorries, seokmin just blushed a bit more harder when he caught joshua was staring intently at him as his heart beat started to thumped even more rapidly making him swallowed hard to restrain himself.

they stared at each other for some seconds before seokmin cleared his throat silently. "s-sir... i want to say sorry po pala kaniㅡ"