Act of Benevolence

06

Taeyong smiled and shrugged, "I know, don't get too antsy-" his eyes widened and he scrunched his brows,

"Honestly, I'm going to need you to repeat what you just said." He looked at her.

"I'm not going to repeat, but I want you to just leave, I don't care about your girlfriend."

Taeyong scoffed, coughed, and roughly grabbed Hobak's arm, "Are you insane? Do you need a doctor?"

"Are you insane? Are you going to die because you're not attractive to everyone? What the hell get you hand off of me!" Hobak slapped his arm.

Hobak scurried off to Round 1 and saw the girls, "Hey everyone! Let's get our party started!"

"Who's this Ho?" One of the other girls asked Hobak. 

"Who? Eunhwa?" Eunhwa laughed at Hobak's answer and pointed her eyes behind Hobak.

Hobak turned around to see Taeyong followed her giving a thin smile and waved.

"I want to go the the claw games first!" Hobak said avoiding to introduce Taeyong and the girls don't let her go easily.

"We all should pair equally, and there's about 5 girls including you, so go with him."

Hobak stood and waited for Eunhwa to say something, but she did not.

"Guys, seriously? It's a girl's night out."

"Stop playing hard to get, we'll eat after the games, alright?" Eunhwa says.

In disbelief, everyone left to play games, and Hobak was left unfortunately with Taeyong.

Hobak walked to the claw machines and Taeyong, of course, followed her to the game.

"Aw, this penguin is cute!" She slipped a coin in and Taeyong mimicked at the other claw machine.

"I bet I'll win it." Taeyong said with confidence,

"Okay, good luck." She focused on her game.

Taeyong's machine buzzed "loser" to him and he slipped another coin but Hobak cheered when she won.

"I got a blue penguin! How cute!" She squeezed it and he laughed at the sight,

"Very cute, but I was just testing the claw."

She carelessly nodded at Taeyong and walked away to another claw game.

"Dang it, I wanted that penguin." He muttered.

"A GORILLA? YOU DON'T SEE THIS EVERYDAY." She hopped towards it; winning it as well.

Taeyong's mouth dropped at her skills, "How?" He frustratedly ran back to the penguin machine.

He tossed another coin and wasted it 15 times before excusing himself to the restroom.

Hobak nervously stared at the red penguin Taeyong was eyeing, and when she knew he was walking back, she met him halfway.

"Yah, my hands are getting full with these dolls. Can you hold them for me?"

"What's the magic word?" He teased and she did not laugh.

"How about I hold it by myself then." She answered annoyed.

Taeyong sighed and said,"Yes, I can hold them Hobak."

"Can you hold this penguin first?" She passed the red penguin in his arm.

Taeyong frustratedly shook the penguin, "How? This is not fair! I wanted it." He whined.

"What a baby, just keep it." She smoothly said and walked away to the video games.

"You look like you're having trouble," Taeyong observed her dolls cover her body. "I can't even see you." He stated.

"I have you know I'm 5'4." She confidently said, but coincidently they passed a height chart and she didn't meet 5'4".

"You lied in front of me!" He pointed.

"Stay here, I'm measuring you." Hobak steadied her breathing.

She's just frustrated at his closeness..? Closeness? What? Right? Huh?

"You're literally 5'3.5 Hobak, I'll let it pass." He chuckled and shuffled her hair.

"I don't care." She responded fixing her hair,

"Who said you can touch me? You need to learn to stop." She pointed at him. "I don't like it."

"Okay, but let me hold your bears and stuffed animals." He got ahold of them.

"There, go play." Taeyong smiled.

"You're so creepy, I hope you know that." She goes to a car game,

"Creepy? Strange, I would get called "Romantic" by now." He bragged. 

"No, you just irritate my insides. When will you get the sign?"

"I see it, I'm just rebellious." He choked when he saw her win first on a racing game.

"You're really good at games. How do you do it?"

"You won't believe me if I tell you." She watched him get closer to hear her from the loud volume.

"Tell me, I believe you." He said.

"Believe in yourself." She said back.

"Okay, I did not expect that as an answer, you could have just told me you didn't want me to know! How selfish!"

"Whatever, it's the truth, but it's about time the girls are gonna eat. I'm going to tell them I'm going home." She walked away and Taeyong followed her.

"Do you want me to take you home? I brought my car." Taeyong offered,

"No thank you." She drops her stuffed animals one by one.

Taeyong picked them piece by piece quietly.

"Goodnight Hobak, see you in school."

"You followed me to my car?!" She made an outburst.

"Don't be dramatic, my car is right there and your stuff fell." He stuffed them in the trunk and waved goodbye holding a car handle.

"Goodbye Taeyong." Hobak pulled her window up after that.

"Excuse me kid, that's my car." Taeyong moved and quickly bowed.

"Sorry." He went to his car and drove home.

[a/n: I hope you enjoyed this chapter! :) I'm alive! Are you? lol.]

[Sept.20,2019 note update: isn't Taeyong cute?]