Finding: Us | [Discontinued]

Chappie 13

HYUNRA POV

"You still haven't told me what you saw in the magazine yesterday." I smirked at Jeonghan as we were eating breakfast after waking up to find myself in his arms.

Reminds me of the past. I smiled to myself.

"Not much... Just you and some other good-looking guy..."He mumbled sheepishly.

I let his words seep in, "Oh! You mean Mingyu! Yea, we had a photoshoot together. You made such a big deal out of it." I told him and then paused to think about it.

"Wait, are you jealous?" I smirked and poked his cheeks adoringly as his ears grew red.

"Aw, someone's jelly!" I sang and he tried to shoo me away in embarrassment.

"I'm clearing the plates, you're in my way." He tried to convince me but his ears were turning redder. I found it cute.

"Sure, sure, whatever you say." I mockingly said.

"I couldn't recognize him though." Jeonghan told me. "Who? Mingyu?" I asked and he nodded in response. "I guess he grew hotter." I teased and wore an evil grin on my face before there was a dramatic gasp.

"Don't go falling him love with him! You were also way too close with him in that photo." He grumbled but I just found it adorable.

"Don't worry, I won't leave again..." I reassured him with a gentle smile and surprised him with a hug from the back. I pressed my body onto his back and tightened my grip on his shirt as if he'll disappear again but then relaxed my fingers again as I tried to reassure myself that it won't happen again. I hope.

"I'll hunt you down if you vanish again, even if it means chasing you to the end of the world." I chuckled. I then pressed my face onto his warm back, giving a sigh of relief as his familar vanilla scent filled my nose.

"I won't." He said.

"You did it once though... how do I know for sure it won't occur again?" I was reminded of the tough nights I had alone, crying myself to sleep as I couldn't get Jeonghan off my mind, trying so hard to hold myself together and not crumble into broken pieces over and over again.

"It won't happen again, I swear." His gentle voice was so soothing. I forced a dry chuckle, "I have no choice but to trust you." I squeezed my arms around him tighter, not wanting to let him go although I was late for my meet up with Seungcheol who was still at my place.

If he saw this scene right now, me hugging Jeonghan while he embraces me, he'll probably freak out and charge towards us to break us apart. Then lecture us about 'acting appropriately'.

I didn't feel myself wrapping my arms around Jeonghan tighter and tighter but he sure did as the next minute he was softly smacking my arms.

"Stop! Too tight, I'm suffocating!" He yelped. I let him go immediately and gasped for air.

"Geez, I know you love me but you don't have to show it by hugging me to death." He laughs and ruffles my hair playfully before scurrying of to do the dishes and I scoffed sassily but I smiled to myself after he disappeared from my view completely.

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"Geez, what the heck took you so long?" Seungcheol tutted and rolled his eyes at me. I chuckled sheepishly as I thought about waking up with Jeonghan this morning and felt myself grow hot.

"Why... are you blushing?" Seungcheol squinted his eyes suspiciously. "You never blush!" He gasped and suddenly widened his eyes. "That's right.... you weren't home last night... and you weren't home this morning either. Where were you? Who were you with? Why weren't you home? What were you doing?" He shot numerous questions all at once.

I quickly cupped my face shyly, "I'm not blushing... Like you said, I don't blush..." I said timidly and softly but ended up letting out an almost inaudible and small giggle when reminded about Jeonghan again.

But I think that just made my protective brother even more suspicious about my whereabouts.

"Whatever! Let's go have our lunch now." I quickly changed the subject and grabbed his wrist, dragging him away.

"Wait, you haven't answered my questions!" He exclaimed and protested but I only rolled my eyes and ignored him.

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He ignored me when I finally asked what happened with the girl he was with in LA.

I persisted but he kept changing the subject. It didn't seem like he was sensitive to that subject, it seemed more like he was hiding something or lying about something as his eyes darted around nervously whenever I questioned him about the girl.

It's nothing to be proud of but I was a good liar while Seungcheol was a terrible liar, he was a Pinocchio. This meant that he couldn't lie without hiccuping. So I can't blame him for being a terrible liar.

"Are you hiding something from me?" I narrowed my eyes at him and asked as gently as I could, which by the way, wasn't very gentle.

He gulped and whimpered a soft answer that sounded more like a question, "No?"

But his hiccuping betrayed him as he was ambushed by a few hiccups that he tried to muffle by sealing his lips tight first and then covering his mouth with both his hands.

"You're hiccuping." I pointed out the obvious for him.

"I've been having hiccups recently, it's not related to my condition." He tried to convince me but it was obviously a lie as he only ended up hiccuping even more. But even then, he still wouldn't spill what he was hiding.

I sighed and huffed in defeat when it was clear he wouldn't tell his secret, "Fine then."

"Is it related to anyone I care about and love?" I couldn't help but ask my last question.

"No." More hiccups.

"So it is then..." I frowned.

"Please don't worry about it, it's nothing much." He said in the middle of his hiccups.

"I'm not very convinced by you when you are literally hiccuping the life out of you. You really shouldn't lie. But fine, I'll stop asking questions." I said.

"You have a lot to deal with in your career, that person especially told me to keep you out of this. Please respect his decisions." Seungcheol told me.

My curiosity was still burning but I nodded and left it alone then, not wanting to pressurize him too much.

So this person is a guy... I don't have too many guy friends that I cared about and love other than...

Author notes 📝 :

Hey I'm back after so long... I apologize for the long delay for this chapter😔

I'll update a lot less frequent due to my own reasons.. I'm not exactly sure when the next chapter will come out of how long this book is going to take to complete but i know its going to take quite a long time.

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