surreptitious : heart's desire -- a markhyuck au

eighteen

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another to lean on
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DONGHYUCK

she invited me to eat with her because she insisted that I'm a guest and she brought enough food, I couldn't refuse anyhow.

now on her couch, with silence reigning between us, but a peaceful silence where it's just our thoughts and us.

I kept thinking about how I shouldn't have burst out and confessed to him. Now it will all be awkward between us and it scared me.

It scared me how this will be the downfall of our friendship.

I sighed and it seems it was the reason of the silence ending.

"hey.." she called out to me softly and somehow her voice soothed me and calmed me down.

"would you.. tell me.. what happened?" she asked me trying to be right with her words and I could tell she's pretty worried on how her words will turned out and affect me. So I smiled at her as a reassurance and I could feel her tense down.

"her girlfriend broke it off with him, and he came home drunk. At some point, I got so mad on how his words seem to make me feel toyed because of how he kept giving me mixed signals. So I had this sudden outburst and apparently confessed to him." she only nodded and went closer beside me.

"thank you for telling me. I can always be someone you can lean on y'know." her smiling made me feel reassurance in her.

"oh I know, probably a bad idea but do you want to drink? Just a light vodka though. I don't want any hangovers tomorrow." and I get what other meaning she implied.

Of course, we just met and be friends and all so it would be awkward if we got drunk because God knows what might happen, and I think she was thinking the same too so we both averted our gaze.

I cut off the awkward atmosphere between us.

"hm drinking sounds nice." and I could see how her face lit up. She stood up and tries to find her cupboard. I just stared at her and I think she felt it.

"you could wait for me at the balcony. Just go to my bedroom."

"alright thanks" I stood up and open her bedroom and it's pretty and fancy. Her walls being pearl white embellished with diamond gold patterns and her walls being elegant, still being gold as well as her flooring. Her ceiling being dark gold with her bed being a deluxe brown and white. Her living room has  gray and gold which is already luxurious but her bedroom is on another level.

and she says she ain't rich.

After I admire her luxurious bedroom I stood up and went to her balcony and it was.. beautiful.

she has a hanging laundry racks which is still elegant and a table and chairs.

this is so calming. I closed my eyes for a brief moment when she went here with a vodka in her hand.

"you said you weren't rich." I rolled my eyes at her playfully. "your bedroom is full of gold" I joked and she smiled shaking her head.

"oh and your balcony is also like a mini rooftop. It's nice."

"hm yep. one of my purpose why I bought a bigger condominium is because of the balcony too." I nodded.

we had few drinks of vodka and our conversation went deeper.