MY R.O.D

CHAPTER 34 - CAN'T LIE

"So...."

I stopped typing on my laptop when I heard a familiar voice behind me.

"Where were you yesterday?"

I'm so nervous on his question that I didn't dare turning my chair around to face him.

Too late.

He grabbed his chair from his table and sat beside me. Then he turned my chair so I can face him. "Again, where were you yesterday?"

"S-shopping."

"Without me?"

"Uh-huh.."

"Who with?"

"Uhh.. n-no one. I went there m-myself."

My gosh, Chaerin, why stutter?

"Really? I went to your house and Harin told me you're going to meet someone. So who was it?"

"Uhhh... I---"

I was about to tell him when he suddenly turned back my chair facing my laptop. "This one... isn't appropriate for the project."

Huh?

What the hell is he talking about?

I looked at him, confused of what he is saying.

"Don't look at me. Look at our work." He spat.

"What are y----"

"Chaerin-ah!" I was cut off by someone calling my name.

"Unni..."

Oh... now I know why he suddenly acted strange. I got a witty man, I see.

She went to my table where Jiyong is also there. She looked at him for a good few seconds before turning her attention to me.

"How was your shirt?"

Oh no.

"Uhmm.. it's fine now unni."

"Shirt? What shirt?" Jiyong interjected.

This is bad.

"I accidentally poured ice cream on her shirt yesterday."

Accidentally.. yeah right.

"I'm sorry, Chae. I left without a notice. Dad called me and he wants to see asap. Sorry I didn't even tell you." She looked at me with pleading eyes.

"Uhh... gwaenchanha."

"That's all I wanted to tell you. Let's hangout again next time. I really had a good time with you."

Of course, you are. You basically put an evil stunt to me.

"Yeah... me too." I faked smiled. "I'm looking forward to it."

"Great!! Oh. I gotta go now. I still have an appointment to attend to. Bye Chae. Bye Ji." Then she left.

"Alone, huh?" He muttered.

Great. I'm caught.

"Uhh.."

"Shhh.. amu malhajima (Don't say anything). You're with her yesterday, right?"

There's no use of lying because that stupid ex of his already spilled it out so I just nodded, not looking at him direct in the eyes.

"I told you not to right?!" His voice kinda raised a little.

"But---"

"You should listen to me." He cut me off.

"But--"

"I don't want you to be near her. That's all I want." He cut me off again.

"..."

"What? Why aren't you saying something?"

"How can I say something if you keep on cutting me off?"

"..."

I sighed by my sudden outburst. Good thing I controlled my voice so no one can hear me but him.

He lowered his head. "Sorry.. it's just--"

"Shhh... I know. Don't be sorry. You just want me anything near her. I should be the one apologizing for not listening."

"Okay. Okay... tell me what happened to your shirt."

"Uhhmm.. nothing serious. Forget about it." I tried to make him shrug that topic off. But I think he's not going to by the looks of him.

"Serious or not, I still want to know. So, tell me."

"You heard her, right? She accidentally poured ice cream on my shirt."

"Yeah... then what?"

"Of course, I went to the bathroom to clean it up but when I came back, the crew told me she already left."

"That b--" he cursed.

"Jiyong... that's fine. She told me she was sorry and it was an accident even if I know that it isn't. Let's just forget about it. No one got hurt." I held his hand while saying those.

"Chae... she purposely did that to you. And you're just going to pretend like nothing happened? Well... if you're going to be like that, well I don't. I'm going to do something about this."

"And what? Blew up our secret? Fine. Do it. I already told you that it's fine. And I promise that it won't happen again. I won't let my guards down this time. Trust me."

"Okay.. but if she does that again---"

"Geokjeongma. She won't." I cut him off this time.

He nodded. "Promise me next time, you'll tell me where you're going and who you are with, arasseo?"

"Ne, Mr. Kwon." I smiled at him and he gladly smiled back. "Now, go back to work before she comes here again and caught us this time. By the way, I like how you acted earlier."

"Hehe. That's what you called fast reflex, darling. You should be well aware of your environment if you don't want to get caught. You should try it sometimes."

"Maybe I should. Go back to your area now. Shoo~"

"Alright." He stood up and gently kicked his chair back to his table. "I'll wait for you at our usual spot after work, kay?" He whispered on my left ear.

"Ne."

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[A/N]

Sorry for not updating for so long. Been very busy these days. And also sorry for the short chapter. I just want to update something for you so you won't feel that I'd already abandoned this book.

Will update again as soon as I can.

Love lots

xoxo