Accidental Rental

One Splash

Despite trying to act tough, it wasn't as easy when Baekho was actually faced with the person herself but he was still determined now that he finally was face to face with Hwang Minyeon in a corner seat of a small diner. The famous actress, model, singer, etc that he honestly didn't care about at that moment.

"Why did you call me here for? It's such a low class diner," she asked the moment she took a seat, leaning her body forward and hands propped up to make herself look threatening. Baekho gulped and breathed in.

"He wanted to meet you," Minhyun replied her. Baekho had another week to prepare for this mentally and emotionally but he still wasn't sure about being rude to her right off the bat. True, they had talked on the phone before but it was brief and he could barely remember what had been exchanged then. Meeting her now, Baekho could sort of tell why most people would like her, he guessed since she was in fact pretty like most females who end up on billboards or outselling albums but to him, that didn't matter.

"Oh? What does he want? Money? Forgiveness? Or does he want to thank me for being able to achieve things that he would never be able to?"

Baekho twitched and frowned, clenching his fist slightly. She didn't even look at him as if she didn't acknowledge his presence but he already knew this would happen since Minhyun warned him before.

"He- No. This is Kang Dongho, my boyfriend."

Minyeon gave Minhyun the wide eyes before a glare crossed her features. "Are you mad? Saying such a thing out loud in public?"

"Maybe but it's not like you didn't already threaten him and his sister."

She pursed her lips and crossed her arms. "Ah... He told you? Tsk. Useless."

"You're unbelievable," Baekho snarled.

"Me? You two are the ones who are unbelievable. Do you know what is going to happen to your career if this goes out? And what of your previous job as well? You're a Hwang. Act like it, Minhyun."

"Then maybe I won't be a Hwang anymore," Minhyun said calmly as he could as he held Baekho's arm, trying to keep him calm.

"That's impossible. Mum and dad will never approve of such a foul thing."

"I don't need their approvals. They can try to destroy me all they like but my feelings for Baekho won't change. I've made mistakes in the past and even now but we can still change, noona. It doesn't have to be like this."

"And you shouldn't be dragging innocent people into this as well. I don't need your charity. You can go ahead and try to drag our careers down but we won't back out," Baekho chipped in and Minyeon's expression was one of a fuming mad lady. "Minhyun is not you or your parents' tool. He is his own person and so are you."

"You lowlife dare try to educate me?" she hissed and grabbed the glass of water on the table, raising her hand and flinging it towards Baekho but Minhyun covered him. His hair down to his shoulders became wet but Minhyun was unfazed although Baekho was shocked. He never would have anticipated this straight out of a drama move to happen to him.

"Minhyun!"

"I'm fine," the other said, brushing his wet locks aside before turning to his sister with a glare of his own. No longer was he going to allow himself to be bogged down by his family. "Noona, if mum and dad wants to throw me out, that's fine by me. If they want to destroy what I've built for myself, they can very well try. But I'm no longer going to sit by idly and be their puppet. I've had enough so I suggest that you don't try to use me just for your own gain too because I'm not going to back down this time."

The small group hadn't noticed the attention they were receiving from other patrons. Cameras were raised and videos were shared. Minyeon let out a frustrated sound and slammed the glass down onto the table. "You will regret this, Minhyun."

"No. I won't."

She stormed out of the diner and Minhyun collapsed back onto the chair, letting out a breath he had unintentionally held in the whole time. Baekho patted his back and coincidentally glanced back, taking notice of the phones directed towards them.

"Crap."

"What?"

"People were recording us," Baekho squeaked and hurriedly turned back around, trying to hide his face. Minhyun glanced back briefly and sighed. "Isn't this bad for your sister? Her face would totally be shown from the angles."

Minhyun chuckled and pushed his hair up. Baekho handed him a dry tissue and he gratefully took it to dry his face. "You worried about her now?"

"Well, I just wanted to stop her from disturbing me and Naeun, not destroy her career instead."

"This is just a small matter. The more troublesome fight hasn't even begun."

"You mean your parents?"

"Mhmm. Let's go back home, Baekho. We will just be a disturbance to the others if we continued sitting here."

"Ah, sure." The two paid for the drinks since they didn't even get the chance to order any food. They left the diner and walked around, taking notice of a fast food shop instead. "Why don't we just take away some food?"

"Great idea. We can get a little snack for Naeun too."

"You sure spoil my sister, don't you?" Baekho sighed and pouted a little.

"Are you jealous?"

"A little. I feel like you're closer to her than you are to me. You tell her more things and you talk to her more often through texts too. I know I'm not a very sociable boyfriend but-"

Minhyun held Baekho's hand and kissed his cheek, startling him.

"Ww-ait. We are in public, Minhyun," Baekho gasped and tried to pull his hand away but Minhyun held it tighter.

"I know but if we start hiding now, it'll be difficult for us to come out later. I don't want to hide you from the world as much as I would love to do that. We can keep our relationship as low as you like but I don't want us to have to sneak around every time we go out for a date or just hanging out, Baekho."

"I... I get what you mean but are you sure this is okay? I mean, you just went back into that world too. I don't want to be the one to drag you down."

"Then I'll just have to drag us both up."

Minhyun grinned and leaned in for a shared kiss.