Day&Night (Wonho) COMPLETED

Twenty One

Wonho's POV

SeolHyun is sitting opposite me and I feel like dying from happiness. She hasn't pulled away at all, her hand is still in mine. I'm probably grinning like a fool, but I don't care at all. Neither does she, because she's grinning too. We're pushing it, I know, we should be going really soon, but we both don't want to. 

"How are your livestages going now?" I ask her while my thumb strokes the back of her hand. 

"We're preparing a very special stage", she grins and I want to know what it's about. 

"Which song are you going to perform?" I try to hide the curiosity in my voice as well as possible. 

"Not telling you", she sticks out her tongue and I pretend to be hurt by it all while pulling my hand back from hers. I cross my arms over my chest and look her straight in the eye. 

"That's a pity then", I lift my chin and look around the quiet café. Not a lot of people come here so it is relatively safe for us to be here. We're both not that famous either, so the waitress doesn't know us either. She does keep on looking our way and when my eyes meet hers she turns her head away again. 

"She's totally into you", SeolHyun sighs and I turn my attention back to the beautiful girl in front of me. She seems annoyed by the fact I was looking at the girl. 

"Who isn't?" I joke and it earns me a smack on the arm.

"Don't be a douche", she rolls her eyes and then looks at her phone for a second. 

"I am never a douche. It's just that it's true. All girls love me", I say with a lot of confidence. All I want to see is how jealous she can get of other girls. What is her reaction to this? 

"Oh come on... Not everyone", she states and looks at me bitterly. 

"A lot of girls do, including you", I wink at her playfully but she's not joking anymore.

"You're being ridiculous", she turns her head to the side so I can't gauge her reaction to me. 

"You don't love me?" My head tilts to the side while the words roll off my tongue and out of my mouth. Her expression is unreadable and that's when I know I've gone too far with this. I've pushed her too far from me. 

"Love is a very big word to use", she mutters and fiddles with her fingernails. She used to always bite them when she was nervous or distressed. She can't do it now since they've been taken care off and the others would notice right away. That's why she starts chewing on the inside of her cheek. 

"I'm sorry", I say without thinking. I truly am. I've made her upset about this and it was never my intention to do so. I just want her to be happy about things, about this, about us. Whatever 'us' means. 

"It's fine. I need to stop overreacting to everything", she tries to smile and gets up from her seat. 

"No you don't. You've gone through too much", I take her hand as she tries to pass me by. I stand up too and look into her eyes. "I don't want you to pretend in front of me." 

"You don't even know half of what I've gone through", she pleads and tries to get away from my grip. I don't let her because she is not okay. "And I'm not pretending so please let me go." 

"I will never let you go again, do you understand that?" I whisper so softly only she can hear it. It takes her by surprise. "I've regretted letting you go back then for all this time. I don't plan on making the same mistake twice." And it is true. I want to be in her life again, for however long that may be and whatever role she'll give me.