Hidden: Strings of Fate

CHAPTER 43

"Leosshi, I thought I told you guys to stay." I told him as he stood by my side.

"Since when did I start listening to you?" he bluntly replied.

"For once in your life, would you stop being so stubborn(!)" I half screamed. He grabbed my arm and dragged me into the lift.

I tried to yank my arm out of his grasp but failed. I tried for a second time and failed. By the third time, my arm had started to hurt from his grip. "Leosshi, would you mind letting me go now? You can come then, just don't blame me if you get shouted at too." He let my arm drop. I rubbed the spot where he had held me. He pressed the emergency stop button. I looked at him wide-eyed. He turned towards me hands in his pocket.

"Why are you so informal and friendly to the other members but cold only to me?" He mumbled.

"..."

"Why do you not call me by my birth name too? Or call me oppa? It's always Leosshi. Never Taekwoon. Or even Taekwoon oppa! You always called me Leosshi or Leo." He spoke, this time more confidently.

"...D-d-do you want me to call you oppa?"

"De! And call me Taekwoon oppa not Leosshi." He said while pouting.

"A-a-arrasso. T-taekwoon o-oppa." I guess he was right. I mean at first I did it consciously because I was awkward around him but later I guess it just became an unconscious habit. He put on a shy smile and pressed the restart button.

The lift had soon reached the ground floor and both Taekwoon and I exited and started to walk towards the car. I headed towards the driver's seat but Taekwoon stopped in front of me and held his hand out. I looked at him confused.

"Keys." Without thinking, I fumbled on my pocket, looking for the keys. I gave them to him. He headed over to the driver's seat. I headed towards the passenger's seat.

"Oppa, do you even know how to drive?" He didn't say anything, just merely adjusted himself in the seat and waited for me to get in. Once I got in, the weirdest thing happened. Taekwoon reached over and grabbed my seatbelt. I gasped. He caught my eye. We sat there for a while, in silence. Just studying each other. Memorising each other faces. Plotting and marking each beauty spot, each facial expression, each part of the thing that made up the other person.

I broke the silence. "Oppa, I can put it on myself. I'm not completely useless as you believe." I said as I clicked in the belt.

"Who said I think you're useless?" He stated, as a matter of fact. He sat back in his seat and put on his own seatbelt.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw 5 figures sprinting towards us.

"Oh! What are the oppas doing here?" I pointed them out. Taekwoon's head turned towards them. He rushed to get the key inside the ignition. The boys weren't far from us when I heard the car ignition start and Leo put the car into gear and sped away, leaving the 5 silhouettes stranded and panting.

"Oppa, what are you...?" I began to question. He put a hand up to stop me.

"I need to think."

"You need to think...? So, what you decided that it'd be best just to leave your group members, stranded?!"

"Yes."

I took a deep breath. I'm sure they would be fine. I mean they're tough boys and they're close the apartment. I'm sure they won't do anything stupid. Plus Min was there... right?

"Just get to Mr Hwang's office as soon as oppa, please." We soon got there after a short journey. I left Taekwoon to park the car and sped it into the building dodging people and running past them like a bullet.

I stopped just outside his office to catch my breath. Once I had, I knocked on the door.

"Come in," the voice on the other side of the door answered.