HEAL || Lee Minho

22. The Affection None is Used to

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"You're staring again.", Haejin spoke, voice groggy, eyes only half open but open enough to make out that Minho had been looking at her. He was, once again, indeed staring at her while she was asleep, the only difference this time being that he was admiring her, the girl he likes.

"Yeah, because you're pretty.", Minho spoke, in the most monotonous voice he ever could and Haejin thought that he was joking again.

"I'm not gonna fall for it. Too bad.", Haejin spoke, sticking out her tongue in his direction, waiting for him to react but he didn't.

But, when Minho replied, it caught Haejin by surprise because the reply was something she least expected from Minho.

"I was serious this time. Too bad.", he spoke, now sticking out his tongue but ended up laughing at Haejin's flustered reaction. Her eyes were wide open hearing the reply, her face turned into a beautiful shade of pink which Minho found cute and her heart started beating against her chest, which Minho probably knew about too.

Sure, they had confessed last night to each other. They even had kissed each other, somehow Haejin could feel his lips on hers till now, the exciting yet soothing feeling which she had felt while kissing him but, she wasn't used to Minho actually complimenting her. Little did she know, she should get used to it as soon as she could because Minho surely was going to shower her with compliments.

"Aww, someone is shy.", Minho spoke bringing Haejin out of her flabbergasted state by ruffling her hair. "Cute."

And Haejin went into her flustered state again. It was somehow, a bit new to her, the concept of showing and receiving affection from Minho particularly. The platonic relationship they have had all these years was a big reason behind it and she only wondered how will she survive his lovey-dovey side when one word compliments were getting her so worked up.

"Did you sleep well?", Haejin asked trying to divert the topic so that she could calm her heartbeat in the mean time. But, that wasn't a very successful attempt because of Minho's sweet reply.

"I did. I always sleep well when we cuddle.", Minho spoke and this reply of his caused fireworks in Haejin's body. Yeah, they did cuddle, a lot at that but the way he mentioned it so casually got her shy again.

"Oh god!! will you stop with the sweet words?", Haejin whined, turning her back on his, not being able to survive the lovely, adorable Minho

"Hmm, my wife really is shy.", Minho spoke, his tone a bit teasing. He sure was enjoying seeing Haejin's reactions to his words. Not to mention, he found them so cute and the fact that he could now openly compliment her and see and react to her reactions was something he was so happy about.

Haejin, on the other hand was on the verge of exploding. Sure, Minho had referred to her as his wife countless times from the time they had got married. She should have gotten used to it by now and she thought she did but the way her heart fluttered just now when he called her his wife was unexplainable. It wasn't as if he had called her babe, baby or something like that. It was a simple word, wife, which was common for him to call her as, but the fluttering of her heart was not a common reaction.

Was it the fact that he might have actually meant the words this time? Nonetheless, her reaction to his words was completely opposite to that of the feelings she was feeling. She kicked Minho.