Out of the Shell

Was that an accident?

Soojin's POV

I was playing with Apollo in the outside paddock as we both like to do. He is a really big foal deep inside. Games are his favorite. He mostly loves it when I bring him a fitness ball, that one with a handle so that he can throw it here and there. I was sitting on the fence, sketching him playing while he threw the ball all around. 

"He looks happy." a voice from behind me startles me, that I almost lost the balance, but two hands landed on my hips steadying me in place. "What the hell?" I yelped. Hands immediately left my hips and a familiar face appeared in front of me. "Mr. Lee you can't scare me like this..." I sighed, returning my gaze to my drawing. "Oh, sorry for that." he chuckled. "Why are you here?" I asked him straight forward. "Oh I missed Cinder." he said nonchalantly. "Oh really now?" I didn't buy it. "Alright. I brought the papers from the headmaster of the school I am teaching at. He needs your signatures." he explained. 

"Oh, but why, Mr. Lee?" I slide down from the fence leaving Apollo to play. "Just Minho." he smiled. "He needs your consent to take responsibility for what is happening here, in case of injuries and things like that." he said walking beside me to my office. "You think something might happen, Mr. Lee? Aren't your students disciplined?" I asked.

 "Oh come on... call me by my name, would you?" he whined chuckling on his own tone of voice. "Why should I? You're obviously older." I rolled my eyes taking the papers from his hands, on which, our hands brushed on one another briefly and he looked deep in my eyes like in one of those pesky Korean dramas. "Because we are in Mallorca, not Korea." he said, almost whispering. "Fine... Minho." I gave up and signed the papers. 

"Will you walk me to the parking lot?" he asked when I returned the papers. "Why would I do that?" I asked. "Because it is a nice thing to do." he shrugged his shoulders. "Oh, and who is this?" He looked at the husky who was playing with a butterfly. "That's Hunter, which means Shadow is near. They're the security of this place." I smirked seeing how Hunter struggled with butterflies, so I petted him. So we continued walking when we were passing one of the paddocks with horses. "You have quite a lot here." he said, looking at the bunch of horses. "Those are not for riding. I'm selling those. I'm keeping up the studbook of the previous owner of this place." I said looking the same direction of horses of all ages. "Studbook?" he asked. "Uhm, breeding line." I explained. 

After a while, we made it to the parking lot and to his car. I am not good with cars, but by the look, it was a sport one and probably a good brand. He just stood there by the car, looking right at me. "Why are you staring?" I asked. "No reason," he replied, not breaking eye contact. "Well then..." I breathe out ready to turn around and walk away, but he grabbed my hand... 

"Wait..." and pulled me back... which resulted in his lips landing on mine as he was helping me regain the balance after that pull... It was just a second on a brief touch, before I jumped back, horrified at what just happened. "What the hell?!" I covered my mouth with my hand, looking at him wide-eyed. "Uhh..." he scratched the back of his head averting my gaze. "Uhm, see you some time." he said quickly, sliding into his car and driving away.