Jerk | Seventeen S.coups 7️⃣

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28 april 2015

"what do you want to have? coffee, iced coffee or tea? shake?"

nayeon pouted before looking through the menu. "i'll have a chocolate shake with vanilla ice cream."

"how about a cupcake?" seungcheol asked and nayeon nodded. "alright. go find a seat and i'll order our food."

•••

seungcheol placed their ordered food on the top of the table before sitting across nayeon's chair. the lady was smiling, ear to ear. she had made up her mind and was sure she'll succeed in her first try.

"i wanted to talk to you about something important, nayeon." suengcheol started.

nayeon's smile grew wider. she could feel it. just like her, she knew seungcheol felt the same towards her and so will confess to her.

but the smile on seungcheol's face faded, contrary to nayeon's. was it only her who was thinking that way? or could be, he was about to play some prank on the lady.

one by one, customers enter the shop. little by little, the area gets crowded.

"nayeon, i'd like to tell you —"

"ma'am, sir, here are your orders. thank you! have a nice meal!" the waitress serving the other table said.

"go ahead. dont mind them." nayeon said, keeping that beautiful smile on her face.

"i'll go straight to the point." seugncheol sighed before continuing, "nayeon, you pretty got the looks, the talent, the brain, the charm... but i don't think what i feel about you is the same way you feel for me."

nayeon's brow twitched before raising it, "what are you talking about? i like you, you like me. don't you?"

"well, i don't."

"what?" she stomped on the table, causing a bit of commotion, getting people's attention.

"i keep trying to tell you i don't feel that way towards you. what did i ever do to make you think i like you?"

"you... you were doing things for me. spending too much time with me."

"didn't you ask for them?" he asked but nayeon just lowered her face and did not respond.

"remember that night with your friends. i didn't say i will go but you insisted. you had nobody to go with you and so i agreed to accompany you. then another incident was when i'm supposed to hang out with my friends but you suddenly called and said you're drunk. i don't know any of your other friends and so i was forced to fetch you..."

"then what is this? what are we doing?"

"i— this? i asked you out to talk on things. it's better to talk about it this way than while i'm driving and we'll talk things out."

"what a jerk! i thought —"

"you dont have the right to call me a jerk."

"but you really are! you make girls fall but you won't accept their heart or even return their love."

she took a sip of her chocolate shake and asked, "is it her? was it jinae? she told you, right?"

"she told me what?"

"that— she didn't say anything to you?"

"is there something that i should know?"

"n-no. nothing. that was nothing. i just asked."

"ah! about today... did you do anything that made jinae leave? you know she went home early."

"i heard she had headache."

"headache? are you serious? jason told me he saw you coming from the wash room where jinae was."

"what? of course i didn't do anything. what could have i done?"

"stop lying and just tell me the truth, nayeon. jinae won't leave the practice without any good reason."

"that's true! she had headache. what does that have to do with me?"

seungcheol put the glass on the side of the table and leaned closer, "stop messing up with her or me. i've made myself clear. i don't like you. i never said i like you. you asked me for those things, it's not me who wanted to do them for you."

"flowers? you gave them to me on valentine's day. even chocolates!" nayeon whined. she sounded sincere, like her interest on seungcheol was real. or was it?

"flowers? and the chocolates, too? you asked them from your friends and well, your friends asked me to give them to you. i've been telling you this on that same day but wow, didnt know you never listened."

"no, you're lying." nayeon said, with her trembling voice.

seungcheol suddenly felt the guilt. he thought nayeon was not serious about him. he thought nayeon was just playing around. but by the way she was acting now, it says otherwise.

it must be real. she must like him for real.

"s-sorry, nayeon. it's just that —"

"you like jinae?" she said, cutting him off.

seungcheol sighed before he ndoded. "i must be in love, not simply interested."

"i thought i had a chance." nayeon said.

"nayeon, you're beautiful. you got the looks, you can sing well. you're kind but you're too fierce. you'll find that man for you. but that's not me."

"because you're for her?" nayeon said and seungcheol nodded. "idiot! you can't even tell her you like her?"

"correction, love. and besides, i don't think she feels the same way."

"so what? you're the guy. you're supposed to make her fall for you if you think she don't have an interest towards you."

"that's what i've been doing."

"and tell her about your feelings. i can see jinae is not the kind of girl who'll assume things. well that's good but you're the one who'll lose here. grab the chance while she has no one around her."

"i know. but... thanks nayeon."

"thanks? no way, jerk!"

"oops. you can't call me jerk." seungcheol said making both of them laugh.