One and Only // lucas wong (#34)

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Yuqi

I stared at Seo Soojin dumbfounded as she sat down on the floor crying with the weighing scale next to me. "Why are you crying for?" I asked the obvious and she cried even more because I have provoked her even more.

It has been a few days since she has returned home from her lovely honeymoon to Krabi, Thailand where she spent the whole of last week with her new husband, I heard that they went all island to have food and to have fun with each other. And of course, she gained weight, that's why she is crying over it now, it is not like she gained a lot of weight and she is not even that heavy, to begin with.

"What should I do, Yuqi?" She asked me with her teary eyes. "I allowed myself to eat whatever I want for one week and I gained a total of 5 kilograms by the time I return, how the hell did I even eat?"

I heard that a lot of girls start to relax after marriage and they forgot their diets and stuffed whatever food that they can stuff because they have no one to be beautiful in front except for their husbands, they start to gain a lot of weight and they never lose it ever again. That is the thing about married women, they are never same after marriage and they will hate themselves forever for liking food so much.

"5 kilograms is not a lot of weight considering how skinny you used to be, and there is no reason for you to lose weight at all," I told her. "And I don't think Jungwoo would mind if you gain weight, he will love you the same."

"Not until I become twice the size of him, I am definitely going to look so weird next to him and he will not love me anymore." She cried even more.

Is it a thing that married women become very insecure of themselves and they start to blame themselves for everything even though they are not at fault? I mean that I got to see it happen right in front of me, with Seo Soojin crying over a few kilograms that she gained over the past week and I can't relate to that because I am not married and I don't really watch my weight that well, I allow myself to eat whatever I want before I have to puke in the bathroom.

"How about going for a diet? You will lose that few kilograms in no time and you will go back to how you used to be before the wedding." I told her. "It is easy to do so unless you start eating like crazy again. You can hit the gym as well even though you know that I won't be there."

She wiped her tears away and she sniffed in her mucus. "Right, it is easy to go on a diet and I will definitely hit the gym." She looked at me. "Would you want to accompany me to the gym? I know that you hate the gym but I need a lot of moral support and you are the best at doing that and you are the only one who has a lot of free time, you haven't got accepted for a job yet right?"

I nodded. "But it doesn't mean that I would go to the gym with you, I will do nothing and that would not motivate you to lose weight at all, you do know that I don't like to work out at all."

"But you can be my moral support, you can stand next to me while I work out and that is enough for me." She held onto my hands. "Please? You wouldn't want to let your dear friend gain even more weight right?" She looked at me with such puppy eyes that she knows that I can't resist and I will give in the longer she does it, it is not like I can redirect her to someone else because they all have jobs and I am the only one who is still jobless.

I sighed deeply, giving in to her once again and I couldn't help it because I am her friend and she has been there for me through the harshest times of my life. "So where is the gym?"

We left for the gym 30 minutes later and I was in her car because we are already at her place and it is close to the gym that she is planning to go to, it is one of the smaller gyms in Seoul and it is the better places for someone to work out because it is not that big and there is not a lot of people. I wore her clothes because I couldn't go home to prepare one for myself and I don't have a sports attire at all, what is the point of owning sportswear when you don't even work out?

We entered the gym and it is surprisingly filled with smells that are more pleasant, there is a lot of perfume rather than sweat smells or body odour covering the entire place, there is a lot of stations left unused because it is a weekday and not a lot of people work out on weekdays. We placed our belongings in a locker and locked it with the passcode and I followed Soojin to her station where she began jogging on a treadmill and not to make her feel too awkward, I joined her on the treadmill on her right and I set the speed on low so that I wouldn't break into a sweat.

"You have to jog on this treadmill or it will go to waste." I heard of someone familiar and he was in front of me, with his sunglasses and his man bun but I could recognise that smile of his. "Your first time here? Are you new at the gym?"

He works here at this gym?! I was at a loss of words and I can't say a word when he is in front of me like that. "It is her first time here, Mr Lucas."

"SooJin?" And he looked at me. "Nice to see you too, Yuqi." The way that he said my name just made my heart flutter...