LOVE BET || Mark Tuan 【EDITING】

1.04 [EDITED]

I sighed in relief knowing that everything had been fine.
"Why me?" She asked "There are a lot of girls in our school", she walked behind me as we left the restaurant because she 'wasn't feeling well'.
My parents insisted that I take her home, I was obviously against the idea, but I had to make this whole act believable.

"Do you think I liked this idea?" I replied bitterly.
She didn't say anything back and just sighed, "I'm talking to you." I grabbed her wrist, "What should I answer? Yes Mr. Tuna. I don't like that idea too: right now I could be at home with a bag of chips and a good film to watch, I could be sleeping or having a serious conversation with Sky or Jaebum. And you know what? I hate the most the fact that you lied to your parents like that. They seem like good people, and I'd be hurt if my son lied to me like you're doing. I shall not forget about the fact you're a Casanova, and this shitty plan you made is going to screw up" she raised her voice at me throwing her hands in the air dramatically.
"First of all: I'm older than you and you should pay some respect to me, and second I don't like to lie to my parents but I had no other choice, if Sky accepted you wouldn't be here, and by the way, you accepted no one else forced you to do it, so the first person you should blame is you, not me, not anyone else cause you're not better than me" I raised my voice to the point it cracked up.
My grip on her wrist became tighter and soon tears started to form and roll down her pale cheeks.
"Oh gosh. Why are you crying?" I let go of her wrist and blood stains were on my hands.
My rings probably made small cuts on her wrist, by now it was bleeding heavily.
"I- Cecilia I'm sorry. I didn't know that-" I stumbled out, "It's ok" she wiped away from her face the few tears that rolled down, "I'm going home" she said facing me again "Tuna".

"I have to go with you. It's dark. And you're a girl. No matter how much you hate me or I hate you it's dangerous" I tried to persuade her, she didn't reply so I took it as a yes.

We walked in deepest silence for 30 minutes.
And her wrist kept bleeding.
"Listen wrap this around your wrist, it's going to make it stop a little bit" I offered her a handkerchief my mom gave me, "It's okay, this is just going to leave a scar. It's not a big deal" said looking at her wrist.

My phone started to ring, I checked the ID caller and it was my mom: "Mom? What's the matter?"
"Tomorrow invite again Cecilia. We will go to the beach, let's meet for lunch, I'll send you the place address later" she spoke excitedly, I rolled my eyes "Yes. See you tomorrow" once the call ended I slipped my phone back into my pocket.

"Tomorrow we will go to the beach. And I'll pass to pick you up since I know where you live and this 'act' will be more believable" I said turning my head to face Cecilia.
"Sure. Can I bring Sky too?" She asked pressing the small piece of clothing I gave her.
I nodded replying the her question, "I'll see you tomorrow then" she walked through the open gates and disappeared inside her house, I lightly slapped my face "Dang it Mark Tuan".

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Cecilia's POV

"Sky. Tomorrow you're going with us to the beach" I stated as I barged in her room without even knocking at the door, "a-Alright. Hold on- Your wrist is bleeding!" She ran to the bathroom to get the first aid kit.
Who did this?" Her eyes were full of anger as she looked at me while ramming her hands in the box.
"I tripped" I lied.
She hummed although I knew she didn't buy it, but luckily she didn't ask any further, "How did the dinner go?"
"Well, not that bad since his parents actually believed it" I replied while I applied the bandage around my wrist.
"You should act like this for a while. His parents are going to follow you two to see if your relationship is real or is not, but if they actually believed you It's a good start" She said proud of me.
She watched me struggling to wrap well the bandage and helped me "There you go".
"Thank you-" I was abruptly cut off by my brother "Im Cecilia is that real? You're dating Mark?" His eyes widened to the point I thought they would pop out of their sockets.
"Oh hello, how does it come that you two were eavesdropping?" Sky said sarcastically, Jinyoung, who was just as surprised as Jaebum was if not more, was standing there with his jaw hung low.
"Whatever. Explain, everything, now" Jinyoung still didn't pronounce a word, instead my brother was doing the whole interrogatory.
"First of all, I'm not seriously dating that douche, he has been forced to meet his arranged wife and the idea wasn't that pleasing to him, so he asked me to pretend for a while to be his girlfriend so his parents would stop thinking that he doesn't want a serious relationship. I don't like him nor he likes me back, between us there's pure hatred" I explained, finally both of them let out a sigh of relief and Jiyoung finally spoke "Okay", as I said he was clearly more relieved than before.
Maybe, after all, I can make him a bit jealous, right?

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"Im Cecilia wake up!" Someone was shaking me, I yawned and stretched a little bit.
With my eyes still half closed I recognized Mark's voice, I opened my eyes and  shouted, "The heck!" I pulled the covers over my shoulders.
"Get out!" I started to threw my pillows at Mark.
"Stop throwing pillows! You're not naked!" He dodged them and, instead, he picked them from the floor and threw them back at me, "Get out. I need to get changed" I coughed to adjust my cracked voice.
He exited my room closing the door behind him.
I wondered who let him in, but pushing aside this thought I went to my bathroom to wash up and get changed.

Eventually I was ready, Sky was already sitting on the couch waiting for me.
"Let's go" I jumped the last few stairs landing ever so lightly on the wooden floor.

A driver took us to the beach, and as we arrived the sun hung brightly above our heads threatening to burn us.

"Come on Cecilia, let's go to swim!" Mrs Tuan kept asking me, I refused various offers each time with a different excuse.
The last one was "I don't know how to swim, I'll just watch the bags", actually it's true, I can't swim.
"Then Mark: stay with her!"
No shoot.
He, as a good son as he could be, sat next to me.

Obviously it was so silent, not to say it was more than awkward.
I cleared my throat ready to ask him something but apparently he preceded me "Listen I got a text message from a g- someone. If my mom comes back tell her I went to the bathroom" he got up and walked away.
I nodded but he was already a few meters away, dang he's fast.

After an half hour Mark came back.
He was happy and hyper a stupid smirk was plastered across his slightly tanned face.
I searched for my earphones in my bag to listen to some music.

I lay down the sun kissing my skin and listened to the notes of each song, from time to time I would open my eyes, "Hey baby" an unfamiliar voice spoke, the music stopped because my phone went off, "How can I help you?" I asked politely.
"Maybe a drink with me?" He winked playfully, his teeth super white, I kind of got lost into his eyes "No thanks" I said in a broken Korean, "Oh why not?" He pouted cutely, he's good looking and he knows it, "Because, ugh how do you say it in Korean?" I said half in English and half in Korean, "I don't drink," I finished off in English, "What a pity, then can I have your phone number? We can go out for a fancy dinner" he replied in a perfect English.
I was kind of stunned but then I quickly got myself together "Actually I don't have a Korean phone number, I just came from Am-" I started to say but then Mark interrupted me coming back from who know where, "Here's your Coke" he handed me a ice cold can of the said drink, "Who is this guy?" He kept on asking in Korean, I mentally facepalmed, "Oh I see, can I still have your phone number though?" He questioned me in Korean.
I sighed and typed it on his phone, and now that I took a better look at him he seemed to be a foreigner too, anyway he thanked me and walked away winking attractively one last time.

Once he was far enough Mark started laughing, his laughter was calming to hear, I got hooked but then I quickly came back to my sense.
He's not calming, the last thing he could be is calming, he's just irritating.

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Edited: 19-04-2017