Coward » Kim Jaehwan

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"What's this?" Yi Chisoo asked and rolled over to where his daughter was. She was standing in the kitchen, an apron around her waist and her hair in a high ponytail. "Yi Bona, I am talking to you." Bona looked towards her father that was sitting in his wheelchair, as usual; eyeing her with eagle eyes. "Why are you cooking? Taeho invited us for Dinner tonight." He spoke and Bona sighed.

"I'm having a Guest over tonight, that's why I asked Samchon to take you out for Dinner," Bona said and Chisoo widened his eyes. "Is it Loverboy?" He asked and rolled closer to his daughter. "Appa!" Bona squeaked in embarrassment. "What? Am I wrong? You like that boy, right?" Chisoo continued to ask and Bona sighed.

"I do feel attracted to him. I can't deny that. But don't call him Loverboy. That's... too much!" Bona begged and her Father laughed. "Okay, okay. I got it. Won't call him Loverboy anymore." - "Appa!" Chisoo left the kitchen laughing rolling over to his place by the window where he usually sat.

Bona watched her Father for a while before walking back into the kitchen and to the fridge where she had stored the cupcakes she made for her and Jaehwan later. She picked out a pretty one and closed the fridge with her hip before walking over to her Father.

She bent down next to him and held the cupcake into his face. Chisoo cocked his eyebrows in surprise but took the cupcake off his daughter's hand. "What's that for?" He asked and Bona shook her shoulders. "Don't know. Just because." She smiled, pecking her Fathers forehead and rushing off to the kitchen to finish cooking her Bolognese.

Chisoo watched Bona and smiled sadly. "She grew up so much. She is a woman now, dating a man and all." He sighed but smiled at the cupcake in front of him. "But I'm still her number one!" He chuckled before eating the cupcake. 

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"Take care of him, Samchon!" Bona called and held the door of the Diner open for her Uncle and her Father. "I know, Bona-yah," Taeho spoke. "I'm not going to kidnap him or anything. We're just going to have a nice dinner with Brothers. Right, Hyung?" - "Just shut up, Taeho. And Bona!" Bona looked at her Father. "Behave. And don't do it on the couch, okay? You have a bedroom." - "Oh my god, Appa!" Bona yelled and held her cheeks. "You're so embarrassing!" She waved the two men that were laughing like maniacs before locking the door and walking back upstairs finishing the Dinner.

After the Dinner was done, Bona quickly took a shower and slipped into a fitting black dress and large wool cardigan that always slipped off her shoulders, revealing her skin. She bit her lip while she looked at herself in the mirror, fixing her bangs and walking back into the living room. 

She had already set the table and decorated the living room with scented candles, making a romantic atmosphere. She had a pile of DVDs on the couch and a bowl of popcorn prepared. She smiled shyly while grabbing her phone texting Doeun, asking if she should make anything else. 

A minute later Doeun called. "Bona, Bona, Bona. I think you're more prepared than anyone else. This is your guys' first proper Date and you make it seem like you're going to propose to him." Doeun laughed while Bona kept whining. "That's not funny, Doeun. I am really nervous. What if I mess up?" - "What should go wrong?" Doeun asked before started laughing. "The only thing that could go wrong is that he doesn't have any condoms on him."

Bona stopped moving around the flat frantically. "A-Are there still guys like that outside? Not having condoms with them?" Bona asked and Doeun sighed. "Does your Uncle have some in his bachelor room?" Doeun asked and when Bona denied Doeun sighed. "Hurry up to the next convenience store!" Bona was already putting on her shoes and her coat, grabbing her keys and rushing out of her flat.

"Why didn't I think of those things beforehand?" Bona asked into the phone and Doeun laughed. "Your last 'DVD & Chill' was too long ago, Bona. You're out of tune." Her best friend laughed and Bona sighed walking into the next alley and into a GS25. "Oh lord. I don't even know his size?" Bona whispered standing awkwardly in front of the shelf with the condoms.

The Highschool student behind the counter was eyeing her with glossy eyes. He surely didn't expect a girl in a flowy black minidress to enter his shop and stand awkwardly in front of the condom section. "Take regular ones. They should fit. Better than nothing, alright? And maybe you're lucky and he has some on him." Doeun said and Bona picked out a box and walked to the check-out.

She quickly threw the condoms on the counter and the Highschooler blushed scanning the item. "3.400₩" the boy stuttered and Bona quickly handed him the money, bowed and left. Her heart was beating faster while she walked through the alleys and back to her flat. 

Once inside she hid the box of condoms behind a couch cushion and freshened up her make-up when the doorbell rang. She bit her lip and rushed over to the front door opening it to see a ginormous bouquet of yellow sunflowers in front of her.

"Hello, Bona!" Jaehwan smiled and appeared behind the flowers. "Those are for you." Jaehwan smiled and handed Bona the flowers. While Bona took the bouquet in her hands her eyes wandered over Jaehwan's appearance. His hair was messy and under his caramel-colored coat was a black Duran Duran shirt. He wore distressed pants and black vans, looking like the rockstar/bad boy type Bona had loved during Highschool days.

"You look very handsome." Bona breathed out when she invited Jaehwan into her flat. "Why thank you!" Jaehwan chuckled awkwardly, taking off his shoes at the entrance and hanging up his coat. Bona caught herself staring at his biceps when he was hanging his coat on the hanger. She wondered how it would feel if he would grab her with that.

She quickly shook her head. "Y-You can take a seat at the dinner table. I'm just going to put these in a vase." Bona whispered and walked into the kitchen, doing what she said she'd do. After catching her breath she took the plates with the Pasta to the Dining Room setting one in front of Jaehwan. "I hope you like Pasta." She whispered and Jaehwan looked at her before his eyes wandered to the low neckline of her dress, revealing her slight cleavage.

Jaehwan bit his lip and looked at the plate in front of him. "It looks delicious, Bona." He smiled and watched Bona take a seat. "I-I have a dessert as well." She smiled before digging into the food. "Oh, I forgot! What do you want to drink?" - "What can you offer?" Jaehwan asked, only realizing how wrong that sounded. "We have beer, juice, water?" - "A beer please," Jaehwan asked and Bona nodded, walking off to get two cans of beer.

The tension in the room was already too much for the young woman. How did this cute date that Bona had planned turned into something this heavy already? But Bona couldn't deny that she felt physically attracted to Jaehwan. And the presence of the condoms behind the cushion seemed to radiate with heat. Bona took a deep breath handing Jaehwan his beer before sitting down and taking a big sip of her own.

Jaehwan eyed her doing it and gulped seeing a few drops of beer running down her chin. This wasn't what he had expected from a first date at all. But her kinda liked the tension between the two adults. He was thrilled to see in which way this evening was going.