After the Business Trip

Chapter 10

A/N:  Here is another chapter and I hope you enjoy it.  

It took me several days to write it.  I just wasn't satisfied with what I was writing, and even now, I'm not 100% happy with it, but I'm not going to prolong it anymore.  

Pete POV

I nervously sit at the table. I'm so afraid that my mother will find out that I helped to take Ae's clothes off. What would she think of me if she knew that I did that while she was in another room? I still don't know how I managed to control myself after seeing Ae completely naked, but I did manage to help him into the shower. I even found him a little chair to sit on in case he couldn't stand on his own while taking a bath.

I know that he was hoping that I would strip naked and take a bath with him, but I just couldn't do it. If my mother wasn't in the next room, I would have done it without a problem. However, I still feel extremely guilty with what I did knowing that my mother was here.

I glance at my mother, and she smiles at me and asks, "So, how long as Ae been here?"

She knows all about me meeting Ae on the business trip, but I was so excited about Ae moving here to be with me, that I had totally forgot to tell my mother about it. I nervously shift around in my seat as I mumble, "He came yesterday."

I quickly glance at Ae and he is smiling lovingly at me and then he turns towards my mother. "I'll be honest. I couldn't take just talking to him on the phone or video chats anymore. I needed to be here with him. I missed him so much." He takes a deep breath. "I know it may sound crazy, but I fell in love with him the first moment that I saw him, and I just have to be with him. So, I packed my things and I moved here, without telling him, hoping and praying that he wanted a deeper relationship too."

Oh, he is so sweet. How can anyone be so sweet?

My mother smiles and looks at me. "I don't think that you have to worry about Pete not wanting a relationship too. I can see in the short time that I've been here exactly how worried he was when he got home."

My mother turns and looks at Ae. "May I ask why you hid when I came into the apartment? Why didn't you just come out and introduce yourself?"

Ae softly chuckles and scratches the back of his neck. "Well, I didn't know if you knew about me and I didn't know what you would do if you saw me. I don't have anywhere else to go, so I immediately hid. I just didn't know that you would stay as long as you did. I'm sorry. I should have been brave and came out right away."

Oh, Ae. My mother would have never thrown you out. Well, I don't think she would have.

My mother smiles at Ae, but she seems to be in deep thought about something. After a few seconds, she finally says, "All you would have had to tell me is that you know Pete because of his business trip, and I would have instantly known who you were. Actually, I've been wanting to meet the individual that made my son change so much."

What! No, I haven't changed.  What is she talking about?

Immediately, I protest. "Mother! Ae didn't know that I told you anything about my business trip. How would he know to say anything like that?"

My mother smiles and shrugs her shoulders. "Regardless, I'm someone who you shouldn't fear. Even if he was afraid that I would try and throw him out of the apartment, he should have come out and met me. This whole thing could have been avoided if he would have just faced his fears."