Promise You

Chapter 21.1: Bitterness, Advice, and a Droplet

Yesung's POV

Aissh, her carelessness strikes again. Leaving the door slightly open, is she trying to invite trouble? Inyeong is doing a great job then.

"Inyeong-ah," I knocked on the door first, though it is open. That rule was agreed on. "I'm coming in." "Hmm? Is she in her room? No one is here," I thought as soon as I completed a scan in the living room. 

I hear a vibrating noise from nearby. The rattling phone catches my attention. "An incoming call perhaps." I pick it up and decide to hand it over to her, personally.

"I'm coming in," once again, I knock on the door of her room.

"Yah, you le-!" I stop and.. stare. Wet hair, flawless skin with droplets dripping down, and wrapped in a white towel... My eyes goes up then down, more than thrice. Are my lips slightly open? I feel like they are. God! Help me control myself.

As soon as she turns to my direction her astonished expression becomes evident. With a face red as tomato, she screams on the top of her lungs, "Kyaaahhh!! Get out get out get oooouttttt!!" Inyeong starts throwing whatever she holds at me. 

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Now there's an image I can't forget. My mind drifts back to the incident earlier.

"Ya~ah!" I snap back to reality because of her cry. There is something about her look which makes me think I've made her upset. "Don't ever try to think about it again! Not even telling a hint to others."

"Oh? What it?"

"Stop playing tricks with me!" her voice raised. "You know what I mean."

"Why are you behaving like this?" I bluntly asked her. Sure, it is natural for her to be upset. Any person will, may it be a man or a woman. But her reaction is over the line. Knowing her, Inyeong wouldn't behave like this unless... something very disturbing bothered her. "In an early hour you're so hot blooded."

"Who wouldn't be?!" There goes her voice being carried away for the second time. "Just when the person is too busy and thoughts are flooding in, you show up and-!" she halts and catches her breath. Her pissed glare does not stop showing how dramatically upset she is.

This is a one-sided debate is she only gets to explain herself. Might as well speak up to defend myself, "First of all, I am not aware of your mental state and it was not my intention to peek on you while you were busy doing your thing." Inyeong remains unsatisfied with my reasoning. However, there is one thing I want to clarify. "Are you sincerely upset because of the incident TODAY or is your behaviour the result of LAST NIGHT's incident?"

Her eyes both widen in astonishment. "Don't be ridiculous! That's unreasonable of you to think it that way."

Is it? Or are you hiding it through your lies again? I congratulate you for becoming a hard-to-read person then.

... Or am I over thinking the matter too much? That should be it. I am still affected by last night's happenings to the point where I eagerly want to know if the kiss means something to her. Even if it would turn out bad I want to hear from her.

Inyeong passes by me like I am the wind.

"Wait!" I just so happen to catch her arm in the nick of time. "Where are you going?"

"Isn't it obvious yet?" The tone of voice she has remains constant. "Some place far from here; work."

Why is she so bitter to me all of a sudden? 

Inyeong’s POV

“Master, you have a new message. Master you have a new message,” and it goes on and on. Jongwoon’s fingers do not wear out? His messages are flooding in my phone’s in-box, minute by minute! It’s annoying.