Perhaps Love / Yug

Untitled Part 28

[Seoul, South Korea,
On the road,
open field,
outside Gangdong Gu,
5.15pm]

"Hey." Nad answered at once, putting Kimpi on speakers.
"You picked my pickup." the girl said. Nad gulped, looking panickly from Kimpi to the road, trying to breathe slowly.

"Ye. I... I really didn't wanted the trash around until tonight." she said, managing to keep her voice steady.
"Are you driving safely?" Kimpi asked.
"Ne... I'm about to hang out... It won't take me too much anyway."
"Hey, Kimpi-Noona!!" Yugyeom suddenly exclaimed, getting close to Nad's phone.
His shoulders entered Nad's view, flustering her.

"Gyeoma-!" Kimpi quickly stuttered. "Kim Yugyeom, you dare to get on Nad's nerves and you're dead." she threatened him with a severe tone.
Yugyeom smirked and cracked a little laugh. "Ne, ne. I'll take good care of her." he said.

Nad then moved his body from her phone with a hand, making him giggle even more, and said: "He won't have the slightest effect on me. See you later babe." hanging up.

Nad was led again from Google Maps's directions.
From that moment on, they kept the ride silent.
However, finding and reaching the b&b was easy. The bins were open and available right outside the building and no one was checking on them. They quickly carried the bags and trashed everything.

On the way back tho, Nad couldn't keep some annoyed thoughts here and there.
Because of them, she inhaled and exhaled her whole soul with her nostrils tensed and her mouth a straight line.
"Listen, Nad..." Yugyeom started slowly. He was playing nervously with his rings on his fingers and was obviously not able to handle the tension. "About what Liz said..."

"Do you think the same things?" Nad couldn't help but ask.
Her voice sounded incredibly calm, eyes fixed on the road, as if she wasn't feeling anything.
Yugyeom turned his head so fast to look at her that he almost snapped his neck.

"Of course I don't!" he said, taken aback and sounding rather offended.
"Then..." Nad stuttered, trying to speak, but feeling overwhelmed by the whole situation, to the point where she felt like losing her breath. "Why did she... why would she say such things?"

Yugyeom almost laughed from outrage. "Racism? Sexism? The brain of a plankton? No brain at all? Who knows?" he snapped, looking at Nad with disbelief. "For sure it's not because I share such rubbish with her!" he exclaimed, defensively.

Nad nervously turned her head, looking now at him now the road, feeling kinda anxious she truly hurted him. And even in a situation like that, Nad couldn't help but thinking the man was genuinely cute.
He had a different way of talking, mostly when angry.
His pronunciation was mouthful and his voice would raise a little, but not too much because he naturally had this high pitched tone...

The girl then looked around, found a similar, empty field and curved to park the car, starting to slowly stop the pickup.
She turned it off and released the belt.
"Mianhae...!!!" she suddenly whined, her head buried in her hands. She did not dared to look at him. "It'll be four months next Monday that I started working at jype, and I'm already a slut..."

Yugyeom did a cynical, ironic laugh. "You don't even know the shit you're enlisted girl friend is in then." he said, clearly referring to Sophie.
But Nad didn't care about others' reputations.
If rumors didn't affect them, then for the best. But she... there it was again, the complex of people assuming false things about her.

The sun was glazing on their backs; she raised her head and turned it over the window.
Yugyeom moved a little closer; he wanted to caress her head... But stopped his arm in mid air.