Hidden lust

Chapter 27

"Hi Tae" I said when she answered the phone, I could feel the tensity already but Jess was there, holding my hand through it.

"Why are you calling me? Jessica is there isn't she?" Taeyeon replied

Jess heard this and nodded.

"Yeah... Tae, I need to tell you something...." I sighed and squeezed Jess's hand

"She knows doesn't she" Taeyeon read my mind.

Jess gave me a reassuring smile and bowed her head a little, maybe feeling sorry for me for the outburst that could possibly come soon.

"I assume she's listening in on this conversation?" Another sigh from me answered her question. "Jessica?" She called

"Hi Miss Kim" she replied.

"I'm not asking you to keep my secret. But I'm asking you that you protect her if it gets out, do you understand?" She asked, referring to me.

"It's not going to get out Miss Kim, I won't tell a soul but Tiffany really needed someone to talk to and I guess you really need someone too. So I'm offering to help you both as much as I can" 

There was silence on the other line, she was contemplating it. Then I heard a sob. I went to grab the phone but Jess beat me to it, taking it off speakerphone and telling me to leave the room.

"But..." I started but Jess shushed me and pushed me outside and then locked the door. 

I stared at the door in disbelief, were they talking about me? I guess it was only fair though since we talked about Taeyeon most the night without her knowing and Jess was right....she needed someone to talk to as much as me. So in the meantime, I walked to the kitchen to prepare some popcorn for our next movie while I waited.

Around forty-five minutes later, Jess came out and exhaled the air she had been holding. I looked to her expecting her to tell me everything immediately but she joined me on the kitchen table and held her head in her hands.

"She's a tough one Tiff."

"How so?" God my curiosity was killing me

"She asked that I kept some things confidential for now, but I was right. She's been hurt in the past, cheated on, humiliated, abused....I'm not surprised why she's so terrified of starting another relationship."

Taeyeon? Abused? Cheated on? What the fuck?

"Her last relationship was with an alcoholic who beat her every time he saw her even look at another man. She managed to get out after a year but the constant physical and emotional abuse she took lowered her ability to trust to a zero."

I felt sick, she went through that? I opened my mouth to talk but nothing came out, I was in shock.

"And I was also right about the student-teacher thing. In the school before her last one, she walked in on a meeting where her friend and coworker was getting fired for having a relationship with her male student, six years age difference just like you two." 

Finally I found my voice and just whispered a "Wow"

"She watched as the woman pleaded that the owner of the school and the headmaster didn't call the police but they did. She was fired and arrested for breaching their trust and breaking the frowned upon rule of not taking advantage of or not falling for a student. Taeyeon never saw either of them again and only wonders where they are now."

"But...."

"So you'd better be damn appreciative that she gave you that necklace because that was a big step for her"

"I am, I am" I replied.

"She really likes you Tiffany. Really likes you. She took a liking to you on the first day, she told me"

"I was a bitch the first day" I frowned

"She mentioned that. She said it was refreshing to see someone stand up to her because she was used to people either drooling over her or being over kind. You were neither, and she liked that."

I smiled, she liked me on the first day when I was at my worst,

"I asked her the same question I asked you, about lust or love? Her answer was exactly the same. So tomorrow, she is coming over your house and you two are gonna sit down and talk, you can have a night in and watch a movie or something, but no kissing until you understand each other better otherwise it will be nothing more than a continuous hook up and I think both of you are worth more than that."

I agreed until I remembered..."My dad, he's home...a teacher can't come to my house when he's here"

"I asked my father to invite him round for a couple of beers and to watch a football game tomorrow night. The beers will make sure he can't drive back and will have to stay in the spare room."

"Thank you so much Jess" I hugged her tight, she was the perfect friend, even more so.

"I suggest when she comes you keep her car in the garage, because what if Khun stopped by and saw his teachers car parked outside your house?"

"I guess we could say I was getting tutored but yeah, good idea."

"And that's all I have. The rest is private which I think is fair since I didn't tell her everything we talked about either. You two will have to talk amongst yourselves tomorrow night.

I hugged her again and we retreated to my room with the now semi-cold popcorn and the movie.

"She loves horror movies so make sure to go out tomorrow and get a good one and clean your room and change your sheets as well" Jess said, pulling up my bed sheet.

"Um....why?"

"Because she's sleeping over."