{SHINee} Lee Taemin - One Last Wish

Chapter 5: The Virtual Wife

I decided to cease my fancy thoughts off. I stormed my way back in, and walked lightly on the slick floor, trying hard not to trip with my socks. I neared the corner next to the dining area when my feet hindered down and retreated one step as I heard their voices.

"Ah~aniyo, umma, don't say that. She's not my girlfriend yet."

I heard Taemin's chuckling voice from the smooth wall that bounded between us.

"Hmm...you two just got married--so it's doubtless that you're committed to each other now." Eomeoni stated before their laughs echoed through the room.

'Mwo?!' My mind screamed. My eyebrows began to clench, trying to figure out if my ears caught the right words---I wish I heard it wrong. I leaned on the wall, pressing myself in as I felt my head throb.

'Is he dating someone already?' The daunting question casted in my hazy mind.

'I-I, uh, what do girls love to receive--I mean a gift--from a guy?' I recalled what he asked me back in the tree house. He's probably giving that lucky girl a teddy bear. Who is she? Why does it sound like she's too special to him?

I was unable to move on my spot, envy was buiding in me. It was too strong as my eagerness to pull it back before it could make myself miserable. Why would I feel these things when I don't even have a hold on him. I am a total stranger to him and I couldn't just make him do what I have been longing for.

My eyes began to swell with every blink of frustration from the bleak words that whirled in my head. My feet began to take its path to my bedroom. I locked the door and slammed myself on the bed as I stared blankly at the white ceiling.

I began thinking of happy thoughts---but I could only think of his face, smiling back at me. I was defeated as a tear rolled on the corner of my eye, breaking out first before the next one drops. This is what he do to me. And there's no way to escape it---perhaps a part of me don't want to rather run away.

***

I stretched my arms, feeling the new sheets of my bed as I drift to consciousness. It was two days after I last saw him by that glass window. I didn't even saw him leave that night as I fell asleep without even drying my tears.

I got up from my bed. It's another sunny day in the midst of Korea. I grabbed a towel hanging on the wall, before leaving the room. I greeted eomeoni when I found her silhouette beside the kitchen's counter.

"Goodmorning as well!" She said after turning at me with a beam. She was dressed with a fine long-sleeved mint green top and a dark blue pair of thick leggings. Her hair was perfectly styled into moogyul waves that flowed down her shoulders.

"I'm going to the market. Do you want to come?" She asked, while closing the refrigerator after bending down to look inside.

"Ah~neh, sure eomeoni. I'll just get dressed."

I hurried to my room after taking a hot shower. I slid into a white turtle-neck sweater, paired with brown jeans and black boots. I dried up my damp hair and pulled it up into a messy bun. I then grabbed a sling bag and hurried outside.

"Let's go?" I found eomeoni on the living room. She turned the tv off before I nodded in response. We then made our way outside.

This would be the second time that eomeoni and I will be going out. The first one was a girly shopping in Myeongdong that was amusingly filled with too much people. I'm surprised that no one notices Taemin's mother. Then I'd figured out that eomeoni chose to turn her back to the celeb life which runs after her.