Forbidden Love

Meeting New People

Chapter 17:

Jihyo looked down to her lap after sneaking a peek of what the outside would look like. She shook her head, and thought maybe it was just a dream.

But then a voice calls her.

"My lady, gwenchanha?" Albert, Jongin's butler asks from the front seat of the car.

And then she ends up looking outside the tinted window again, seeing a lot of paparazzis crowding the stairs that leads to a prestigious mansion.

"What the heck is going on?" Jihyo unconcsiouly asks the smiling man in front.

"Ah, young master said that he's walking out now." Albert nonchalantly says.

Jihyo's eyes were glued to a young man's silhouette in an instant, it was Jongin walking down the stairs. He was ignoring all the paparazzis that were bombarding him with questions.

All he could see over all the flashes of cameras, was the car he was familiar with. And he knew who was in there.

Jihyo on the other hand was suddenly nervous, her heart thumping so hard that she thinks everybody can hear and feel it.

She knows that Jongin was wearing the regular suit and tie, but he looked so good while matching with her.

She had a cute white dress that was full of embellishments, while Jongin wore a black suit with an embellished white tie.

When Jongin was right in front of the car door, he smiles, knowing well enough that Jihyo was looking at him even when he can't see her through the dark-tinted windows.

It makes him excited to see her.

He pulls on the car door, making a clicking sound and he easily swings it open. And his mouth falls agape. She looked better than what he expected.

He recomposed himself and smiled, lending his hand for Jihyo to take. And she did, bowing her head a little to say her thanks, and then they shifted to locking their arms.

Both of them had their heads up high as they walked up the stairs.

"Omo! Is that your girlfriend young master Kim?" A reporter asks.

Jihyo looked shock for a second, but then Jongin leans over to her ear while they walked and whispered, "ignore them, they would only twist whatever you're going to say."

And Jihyo nods obediently, making their way into the mansion uneventful.

When they stepped inside, she could breathe much more easier.

"Was that really that hard for you?" Jongin chuckles beside her.

"The real question is, how could you handle that like it was nothing?" Jihyo asks, annoyed. "Oh, nevermind, you've been doing it for years. I forgot."

They walked to a nearby table near a wall, in the back of everything fancy in the party. Where they can feel like it's only the two of them.

"You look very yippeun tonight, Jihyo." Jongin changes the topic, making Jihyo blush.

"A-ah, gomawo." She says, touching her warm face in an attempt to cool it off. "They actually didn't put that much make up, your stylists said that I had good complexion that they didn't want to ruin it by covering it by make up."

"Ah, so you're bragging now?" Jongin chuckles.

"Aniyaaa! I'm just repeating what they said." Jihyo defended.

"Dae, what they said was true. Very yippeun." Jongin repeats, making his seosaeng look at him weirdly.

She then places one of her forehands on his forehead, "Are you sick? Who are you? What did you do to Jongin-ssi?"

Jongin surprised her by grabbing her hand and keeping it in his, "you ahjumma."

And thwy laughed together, before other people started to come to their table.

"Kai-oppa~" Krystal flirtingly called while walking towards them with her date.

"W-wait. Tuan-ssi? Bwoyah?" Jihyo was shocked to see her student as Krystal's date.

"Ah, Mark Tuan." Jongin says as if he just realized something, "that guy who put the bucket of paint. I should have known. Is this the promised prize for humiliating a seosaeng?"

Mark only looked away.

"Ah, bingo." Jongin states, anger starting to boil inside him.

"Jongin-ssi, let's not." Jihyo says while putting a hand on his chest.

"Araso." Jongin bit his lips, why was he even listening to what she's saying?

"Ah!! What did you do to oppa?!" Krystal over dramatically asks.

"That's what I asked him earlier too.." Jihyo whispered.

"No, I was asking you." Krystal glared at her.

At least three more girls approached their table, annoying the heck out of Jongin.

He only felt better when Baekhyun, Kyungsoo and Chanyeol came.

"Ah! Baekhyun-ssi and I assume Kyungsoo-ssi?" Jihyo says, as she saw their familiar faces. "Jongsuk-oppa wasn't joking at all, your sister does scarily looks like you."

Jongin held back a laugh while Kyungsoo did his best to smile, "nice to meet you seosaeng."

And before they can say more words, two adults approached their crowded table. They were unfamiliar faces to Jihyo but she noticed how Jongin quickly dropped his head in anger.

"Ah, Baekhyun, Kyungsoo, and Chanyeol. It's always nice to see you guys every year. Where are the rest?" The lady with such a nice body in a skin-tight red dress asked with an astounding velvety voice.

"Ah, gomawo. They said they were going to be a little bit late." Baekhyun answers for them three.

"I see," the lady says, "It's nice to see gongju Krystal here too."

"Ah, kamsahamnida eomoni~" Krystal tried her best to be all cutesy.

"Jongin," she calls and walks over to him and gives him a kiss in the cheek.

Making Jihyi wonder what these twos relationship with Jongin is.

"Oh! And you are?" The lady asks her.

"Ah, Song Jihyo-"

"She's my date." Jongin cuts her off and says coldly.

"Nice to meet you." The lady shakes her hand. "So Krystal, what are you going to be again in the future?"

"An ulsa eomoni." She easily answers.

"How about Mark?"

"Ah, I'm going to be an architect."

"How wonderful! How about you Jihyo? What are you going to be?"

Jongin was getting annoyed, he knew where this was going. They did another one of their check-ups with his date.

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Author's Note: Well, there you have it! 3/3 update. I hope you guys liked it. My brain's all burnt, now I don't know when I'll be updating. jkjk. Ofcourse I'll be updating next weekend. ♡

Sorry if there were alot of mistakes on this one, it's cause I still have hw to do. But I wanted to fulfill my promise.

Oh, calling out ARMYs! I just started a BTS short story collection. Please do check it out.