The Nearness Of You

6

Seungri

My hands are busy steering the car wheel but my mind is preoccupied with a lot of things. I threw occassional glances at this girl sitting right beside me and I also wonder about what goes on inside her head as well. I couldn't believe I'd be this close to her. Honestly, what happened awhile ago, with her telling me that we should leave that place and pulling me away was so surreal. I just kind of expected that we would only have a casual talk but it turned out much better than that. And now I'm alone with her. We're riding in my car going some place else. Wait. Where are we supposed to go by the way? I look at her and see her staring outside the car window with a tiny smile on her lips, it made me wrinkle my eyebrows and smirk at the same time.

I cleared my throat to have her attention. "Where do you wanna go?" I looked straight and pretend to concentrate on my driving. It's already a little late and I can't think of any place where we could go.

"Oh. Yeah. I almost forgot we're supposed to go somewhere else." Jinnie softly spoke. My eyebrows creased once more.

"Seriously?" I ask her looking perplexed. I turn to look at her and our eyes met for a moment. She look bemused herself. I let out a small laugh. "Well? Where to, beautiful miss?" I ask her again and gave her a smile.

"I'm not beautiful but thank you for such compliment good sir." I hear her chuckle. "How about your place? Anyway, it's too late. I don't think there are a lot of establishments still opened at this very hour except for bars or coffee shops. And I don't feel like going to those kind of places right now."

My eyes widened for a bit and I almost lost my focus in handling the wheel. Did I just hear her right? Did she just ask me if we could drop by my place to hang out? I blink a few times. Is this really happening?

"A-Are you sure?" Was all I could say.

"Uh-huh. Pretty much." Her voice was sweet and endearing. It was mesmerizing. So melodic.

I wanted to look at her and see her expression as she tells me those words but I prefer not to. I might lose control of the car and we'll end up crashing on a pavement or a lamp post or whatever. My mouth went dry as well as my lips. I swallowed hard and wet my lips.

"Uh.. O-Okay.." I chuckled. Whew. This is so overwhelming. Calm down, Seungri.. Calm. Down.

"Is it near?" She asks me again but I still don't face her.

"Just a couple of minutes more." I keep my calm and answered coolly.

"I see.. It's a bit far from the bar we came from. I'm amazed how you can still manage to drive yourself home after having a drink there."

I smile a bit, hoping I didn't look uneasy. "I can still drive, yes. But there are times when my friends are the ones who drives me home. I never tried to drive myself home if I had too much to drink. I can never try actually. I always pass out if I'm totally drunk. Someone will have to drag me out of the bar and into a car and take me home." I laugh as I remember the instances when Yoongi had to carry me on his shoulders and into his car and drive me home. I always laugh at his soured up face because he was pissed at me. He would keep on ranting on the way home while I, on the other hand, will just keep on laughing at him. Poor Yoongi. But I know very well how he cares for his hyung. I shook my head and smile. I hear Jinnie giggle and it made me turn to her. She was staring at me looking amused.

"What?" I ask her, still smiling.

"Nothing. I just think that was cute and funny. I wonder what you look like everytime it happens. I feel sorry for your friend though. Maybe he should let you have a taste of your own medicine sometime." Jinnie answered and then laughed. I also did. But I went puzzled afterwards. She just used the word "he" when referring to my friend I was talking about but I don't remember mentioning to her that the friend I was telling her was indeed, a guy.