Denial || Taemin & Naeun

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"I beg your pardon Kai-ssi?" Naeun questioned in a slightly defensive tone as if she might have misheard me or something. Taemin just kept quiet and shot me a look.

''Would you care to elaborate your question further Kai-ssi? I'm pretty sure you missed out a few important words in your question.'' he raised an eyebrow and gave a slight glare at me.

I knew he was planning to murder me by hook or by crook if I continued this. Teasing him was fun.

I let out a silent laugh. Seeing him like this was quite amusing I got to admit. Taemin is such an easy going person, all it took was just one girl to get him all tensed up. 

Gosh, they really share the same passive aggressive personality trait. I just want to see how far this will go. 

''Oh, you thought I was asking if you both were in a relationship?!'' I let out a loud and seemingly obvious fake laugh. ''That's crazy.'' I added.

Naeun was thrown off guard for a second and Taemin just looked at me with a face indicating his dying urge to execute me right this instance. 

''My apologies.'' I smiled politely. ''I meant to ask how is your relationship going with ADIDAS Naeun-ssi.'' I said, trying to sound as convincing as possible. 

''It's just that I heard SM wants to link me up with some famous brands here in Korea.'' I explained. ''Some of them have already contacted my agency expressing their interest in working with me so since you're already here I might as well ask you right? I need to know how they operate and what's it like.'' I added.

''Oh, I see..'' She replied, convinced of my very obvious lie. ''Well I-''. Before she could could speak, her phone made a small buzz.

''Uhm... hold on..'' Naeun pulled out her phone and took a quick peek at it. ''Oh, my manager is here already. I've got to go. But I can text you the details if you'd like?'' She asked as she stood up from the chair grabbing her purse. 

''Sure. Get back to me as soon as possible. I need to make a decision.'' I smiled.

Naeun nodded her head expressing her promise and waved goodbye to me before leaving.

Not long after she left I was greeted with a whole enraged looking Taemin looking right at me. I stared at his cute little angry face before giving a small cheeky smile and getting up. 

''Jongin''. Taemin called me. I turned my back to face him. ''Yes?'' I asked.

''Why did you do that?" his voice grew softer all of a sudden.

''Do what?'' I questioned. I found myself unexpectedly going along with the lie that I had already created. 

Taemin got up from his seat and folded his arms. ''You know what you did. And I knew what you were trying to do.'' His stern looking face and body gesture made it pretty evident that he wasn't joking around this time, for Taemin has always been the one with the most bubbly personality.

''I don't know what you are talking about.'' I persisted. ''It's not my fault you misunderstood my question at first Taemin'' I said. I honestly feel bad that I was lying to him but it's not like he was going to tell the truth if I asked him directly, no? 

"Misunderstood? I'm pretty sure I heard exactly what you said." Taemin continued to stare at me in hopes that I would give in and finally confess.

"Uhm, yeah but it was clearly a mistake. I corrected myself after that. Which is why you misunderstood.'' I continued persisting. "But that's over already right? It's just a small matter.''

Taemin took a deep breath and sighed in frustration. ''Okay, I'm done here Jongin.'' He grabbed his jacket and his phone and walked straight out the door without a word. I knew at this point I had gotten on his last nerve. I didn't mean to but I did.