The Great Seducer : Another Road

Chapter 7

"Do you ever love her?"

"Seriously? That's the first question?"

"Why? That's the most important question... Can't you answer it?"

Shihyun smiles. "I thought I did...but like you had said before...I confused gratitude, guilt, and love..."

"How did you know that? You didn't believe the last time I said that...."

"Because....she's not the one I missed...it wasn't her face that I was looking between the crowd...it wasn't her smile that keeps popping up every time I closed my eyes..."

"Then who was it?"

"It was Sejoo...", Shihyun rolls his eyes. Why did she even ask that? "It was YOU...paboo...", he pokes her cheek.

Sooji smiles. "Really?"

"Yeah...Strangely...I missed your nagging....I missed how you keep telling me that I looked like pabo when I eat...I missed massaging your hand...I guess there's really something wrong with my head..."

"Yaaa...", Sooji smacks his hand playfully.

"Auch!!", Shihyun strokes his arms, pretending to be hurt. "I love YOU...not her..."

"Were you happy when you were with her?", Sooji asks slowly. Does she really want to know the answer? Will it change anything?

Shihyun sighs. "I was...", Shihyun can feel Sooji's trying to pull her hand away from his hold. But he won't let go. Instead, he held it tighter. "I was happy...for a moment...Taehee came right in time when I needed an escape...when I need a place to run away from all of my problem...from my Dad...from my feeling for you...I...", Shihyun takes a deep breath. He's trying to find the right words to explain it to Sooji. "I was a coward....my mom left me...my dad left me...so I left you...before you got a chance to leave me...I run away...I am sorry..."

She didn't expect him to say that. "Okay...."

"Just okay?"

"I understand what you were saying...", Sooji looks at him. "I am sorry...for making it hard for you to love me...."

"We both guilty...so let's call a truce?", Shihyun smiles. Sooji just nods. "Okay...enough for the pity party....now, you should get some rest..."

"I still have one more question.."

"Another one?"

"Yup..."

"Okay..this the last one though..."

"Did you sleep with her?"

"WHAT?!"

"Oh wait...I knew you sleep with her...I saw she came to your room that night...in pajamas...", Sooji snorts. Shihyun just too shocked to respond. "What I mean was...did you two have sex..."

"YAAA!!!"

"Or make love...or fuck each other...or ha-"

"YAAA CHOI SOOJI!!! I know what having sex mean...", Shihyun glares at the girl beside him. How can she make him in love and annoyed with her at the same time?

"So....", she really wanted to know the answer.

"Are you serious?"

"Of course...we are an adult...why can't I ask about that?"

"Yes. I slept with her.", he answers coldly.

"Just slept?"

"Had sex with her, okay? Happy now?!"