A Blank Slate II Completed

Chapter 17

Ch 17

Author note: Hello, everyone! Here is the new chapter, sorry it is a day late but I went home this weekend as it is veterans day here in the U.S. and Friday was cancelled, so I was like what the heck, let's just go. So, I am at home and finally have free time to write this although I had a delicious glass of wine with my dinner, so this chapter might get marginally silly. Enjoy!

"Sooooo" I breathe out as I try to get my thoughts in order. Taehyung just squeezes my hands to let me know he was okay to wait. Smiling at him, I work to figure out exactly what I wanted to say.

"I think by last night—" "and most of the day" Tae interrupts me which causes me to laugh out loud and slap his shoulder.

"shush it you, I'm trying to talk" I give him a playful glare and he just holds his hands up in surrender. "okay, so we both obviously like each other" Tae gives me a look that says 'what, no way' sarcastically. I glare at him in return and continue on, "so we both want this, right?" "Yes, Rose, I do" he returns to serious and sends me a look filled with emotions that I was not ready to delve into yet.

"So, we both want this, but we can't exactly tell everyone about this right?" Tae shakes his head yes, slowly. "So essentially we will be in a secret relationship?" "Essentially" Tae replies.

I let air rush out of my mouth as my minds spins. I know that what I want is to be with Tae, but I have never been or even thought about entering a relationship that needs to stay a secret. I had to admit that I was not a fan of entering one, but I also did not want to give up on us being together. I felt like a rubber-band being pulled into two directions, so instead of breaking, I lean forward and hug Tae close to me. He returns it and pulls me closer, so I am in his lap with his arms tightly wound around me. Reminding myself that the ability to hug him close like this is why I need to be okay with staying a secret.

We sit in silence for a few minutes with the background sounds of the kdrama playing. Eventually I pull away till I can see his dark brown eyes that is staring back into my hazel ones. Looking into his eyes, I absorb the feeling in them and am comforted by the promise of more. He smiles at me and brings his hand up to push my hair out of my face. Lightly, he traces with his pointer finger around my right eye, connecting dots of my few dark freckles that frame my eyes.

"Did I ever tell you that it was your eyes that made me fall for you?" he smiles at me as I tilt my head in confusion.

"No, you have not" I say unsure, with Tae's personality, who knows what he will say.

"It was the day I first met you when you found me at the park. Your eyes seemed to be brown from a distance, then they would seem gold in the light, and green when you smiled" he chuckles at the memory "I kept trying to figure out what eye color you had so I would ty to find any excuse to look" I laugh at that as I remember how he seemed to make a lot of eye contact that first day, but I didn't mind as I was also busy staring into his dark chocolate orbs.

"Well thank you I guess" he just gives me a silly grin "Hmmm, what color are they now?"

"Let's see" he leans in and stares me down. All silliness leaves me as his lips nearly come into contact with mine. At some point, Tae must have wrapped his arms around my waist and pulls me, so we are pressed tightly together. He brings on hand up and cups the side of my face "They look like swirl of green and yellow with a dark red in the middle. They turn this color, I notice, when you look at your happiest" he leans forward and kisses one eyelid then the next slowly. My breathing is shallow as I try to calm myself from his onslaught of kisses. "Tell me Rose, are you happy right now?" before I can answer, he crashes his lips to mine.