Eleven

Valentine's Day Shenanigans

"Wait!" Jisoo cried hurrying to the closing elevator doors. She ran fast, making it just in time before the elevator doors close.

She stepped in the elevator, panting. She had one hand on her waist while fanning herself with the other. She breathed heavily as if she's alone in the elevator when she heard someone chuckle beside her.

When she turned to her left, it was Jinyoung covering his mouth with his hand, eyes wrinkling as he laughs.

"Hey!" Jisoo said accusingly.

"Hey," Jinyoung greeted back, straightening his back. "Running late?"

Jisoo groaned. "Isn't it obvious?"

"But I called you earlier to wake you up, thought you got ready then?" Jinyoung asked.

Jisoo grinned. "I went back to sleep again and overslept a bit."

Jinyoung looked at his watch. "By a bit you mean an hour?"

Jisoo groaned again. "Yes. And it'll probably take me an hour more to get to the office, that is—" Jisoo looked at her phone to look at the time. "—if catch the bus in time."

"I'll drop you off." Jinyoung offered.

"But don't you have class?" Jisoo asked.

Jinyoung shrugged. "Kids love their professors coming in late anyway."

"Yay! Thanks!" Jisoo said with a cheeky smile before turning to Jinyoung, as if confirming. "Are you sure?"

"Of course." Jinyoung smiled and took Jisoo's hand, holding it in between them. "Anything for my girlfriend."

Jisoo couldn't help but break into a wide, cheeky smile, her eyes lighting up in giddy.

It's been a little over a month since Jisoo and Jinyoung went from one-day pretend couple to real actual couple. Despite seeing each other everyday, Jisoo still feels new with the whole thing.

You can't blame her though, in the twenty-six years of her existence, the closest thing she got into being in a relationship is when she went on a two-week official-dating relationship back in high school. Other than that, all Jisoo had are flings and good for nothing almost-relationships, nothing serious.

Jinyoung, on the other hand, is taking things pretty smoothly. Jisoo sometimes hate it how good he is in this—like he's an expert of something. Which he isn't, really. Like Jisoo, it's been a long time since Jinyoung has been in an official relationship. For the past few years, all he had are flings and no-commitment dating.

It's just that, if this is some kind of a sporting event, Jisoo is probably a rookie player while Jinyoung has been playing the game quite longer, already in the intermediate division.

"Right, that's right." Jisoo pursed her lips, embarrassed.

"What? Did you forget about it or something?" Jinyoung teased.

"No!" Jisoo quickly turned to him. "I-I'm just not used to this whole dating thing, you know."

"There's nothing much different." Jinyoung said, tightening his grip at Jisoo's hand. "It's just me, same old Jinyoungie."

"Exactly!" Jisoo said. "You're same old Jinyoungie and it's so weird."

Jinyoung turned to him, simply staring and not saying a word.

One more thing that bothers Jisoo is that he is Jinyoung. He is her next-door friend who she really likes. He had the biggest crush on him—she can finally admit it to herself and world now, finally—and she felt weird that he actually likes her too.