So Pretty

Chapter 5

       

"Oppa?" her eyes felt like asking me.

            I smiled. I have finally decided to choose her. I forgot everything about the group study and all my thoughts about Karla just vanished. "What do you want to eat?" I asked her.

            "Ice cream!" she answered immediately.

            "Ice cream? You want to eat ice cream? Ya, this girl, I thought you're hungry?"

            "No. I... I just lied. I... I already... ate at home." She looked cute when she stutters. That's good, I already had dinner too.

            We ate ice cream and drove her home. We were so silent as we went together. I felt the unexplainable tension between us. It was new. We became different as she became unfamiliar and special to me.

            "You're home." We got off from the car. We were in front of their house. Only the thin air was listening to us. I finally voiced out before she got inside and not being able to solve this unexplainable tension between us.

            "Hazel. Are you... mad at me?" What a dull way to start a conversation!

            "Yeah!" she said while looking away.

            "I'm sorry. But I chose you. So why are you still mad?"

            She still looked grumpy and didn't answer me. She was playing hard to get and wanted me to answer my question until I realized, "Are you perhaps... jealous?"

            Unexpectedly, she nodded. She nodded like a crybaby. I laughed. I put my arms over her shoulders. I lifted her chin as she was looking down. She was probably shy. "Tell me. Why?"

            She finally looked up, but unable to look me straight to the eyes. She cleared her throat and replied, "Truth is, I'm jealous not because I envy Karla as her but because I'm jealous every time you are together," frowning and pouting her lips. The more she gets mad the more I get attracted to her.

            I laughed. I looked at her intently and focused on her face. Why does she look so pretty for the second time in my life?

          I was about to laugh but then she threw a fist and said, "You'll be dead if you're going to laugh at me again!"

            After her saying that, I immediately sealed my mouth. She's the only girl who could threaten me like this. "I won't laugh anymore." I pinched her cheeks, "So my younger sister is jealous? Don't worry. From now on, Oppa will gonna choose you over other girls."

            "Really?" her eyes widened. Still so cute.

            I nodded and smiled.

            She blushed. Again. My favorite part of her. It was so obvious that she's flattered. She was trying not to react but her smile was from ear to ear. She wasn't able to say something until she did her cute trick. She quickly kissed me on the cheek and swiftly ran away.

            Wow, that girl just stole a kiss from me!

            She was already near their gate when I called her, "Ya! Hazel! Hazel!"

            She stopped. "Come. Come, come, come here! You go back here." I turned into the old Oppa ordering him. My face looked serious. She felt embarrassed, it was obvious in her face. She walked back to me, like a kid who's afraid to be punished.

            That gave me the drive to do this: I pushed her close to me and kissed her. I kissed her on the lips. It was so soft and sweet. I adore her.

            It was just a few seconds but those seconds felt like a while. I hugged her after. "Goodnight," I said those words and faced her. Her face looked shocked. And once again she blushed.

            She blushed prettily.

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