Us Again | Yoon Jeonghan

Chapter 16

Liseu's POV

"U-Uh, Y-Yes.", I gritted my teeth when I realized that I was a stuttering mess just now. I twirled my toes, trying to come up with something to tell him.

"I-Is this J-Jeonghan?"

Of course he is. And... You just heard his voice!

I waited for him to respond, but there was none coming.

"H-Hello?...", I anxiously started to bit my nails. "Jeonghan?..."

I waited and waited but there was still nothing, and so I removed my phone from my ears and looked at the screen.

'call ended.'

I just faintly smiled while looking at those red letters on the screen. What do I actually expect?

I plopped on my bed and zoned out, staring at the ceiling.I don't regret believing all that he said, that he doesn't have a girlfriend. But every single time, he's giving me reasons to doubt him.

But who am I to complain, I'm the one who likes him, I should expect heartbreaks. I should expect that even if he's being nice to me, in the end he'll go back to that certain person.

It would've been nicer if he didn't looked back at the airport and kept walking until he completely goes away, If he didn't wait for me and would be the first person I'd get to see when I'm off work, and if we didn't had that fake relationship back then in the first place.

I heaved a very long sigh. Would I be not this devastated if I hadn't meet him?

But every moment with him made my heart skip a beat, it gave me a lot of adrenaline rush, and with just the thought of being with him really did made my life more exciting, fascinating, and fun.

So I guess he has a special place in my life, but now, it's time to finally, maybe, move on, but I swear that I'll stop here now.

"Come on! Hurry!", Joshua exclaimed as I was trudging. He was excitedly walking ahead of me but I'm kinda not in the mood to do anything.

Today, he asked me to come with him here in the mall. He said he needs to buy something, and I just decided to agree to go with him, since I don't know when will I have the chance again to go somewhere with him.

"You should walk slowly.", He stopped walking, and waited for me to catch up beside him. I creased my forehead at him. "What are you going to buy anyway?", He pursed his lips and looked around.

"I don't know."

"So why did we go here?", I looked at where he was tending his eyes, and there was nothing, really.

"I forgot. Let's just eat something!", He looked back at me again with his elated face, while I just stared at him confusedly.

"Really?"

"Hmmm..., Now come on!", He grabbed my wrist and pulled me to the nearest food court from where we are.

I'm not in the mood to eat though.

Joshua came back to our table holding two taco's on both of his hands, and by the sight of those food, I think my appetite kinda came back.

"Here's yours.", He placed it infront of me before settling on his own seat.

"Why are you choosing your own taco? Did mine fell on the ground?"

"Of course not.", He chuckled. "Dig in!"

I brought the taco up, but before taking it in my mouth, I first looked at him.

"Why aren't you eating?", He just smiled at me.... suspiciously, causing me to furrow my brows.

I successfully took a bite of it, placed it back on the paper plate, and looked back at him while chewing, but he kinda looked like he was holding back his laughter, making me more suspicious.

"Why?", Suddenly I felt a ticklish but painful sensation inside my mouth. I gritted my teeth while blowing air and later I started fanning my tongue.

"W-Why is this so hot?", I coughed, and he immediately gave me the soda.

"S-Sorry.", He laughed, but he was still trying to prevent it by covering his mouth with his fist.

"Why is this even hot? I didn't ask for one.", I took a sip of the drink again and again as I could still feel my mouth burning, I mean how can a food be this hot, I could almost feel my tongue getting numb.

"Sorry, hahaha. I intentionally asked them to add more hot sauce on yours.", I choked on my drink.

"Why? I can't handle super spicy food."

"You looked really tired since earlier, so I thought... Maybe I should SpIcE things up a bit~", He wiggled his eyebrows.

"Yeah, and you literally spiced things up by burning my entire mouth.", He laughed again, and I just chuckled too. Then again, he never fails to brighten up my mood.

After eating, we strolled around the mall, and bought some few stuffs, now we're inside my car.

"Where are we heading to?", I asked while handling the steering wheel.

"To the airport.", My eyes widened. I took a glance at him and back to the road.

"Airport? Why?"

"It has already been more than a week since I came here. Our vacation's about to end.", I tightened my grip on the steering wheel. I didn't know that this would be the last time I'd get to spend time with him, if I knew that he was going now, I would spent more time accompanying him here.

"Why didn't you tell me you're leaving now?", I furrowed my brows, and I heard him sigh.

"It's okay, atleast I got to spend the whole day with you today."

"Come back here again, okay?"

"Sure, I will.", I heard him chuckle.
Is it really okay that he's leaving like this?

After minutes of driving we've arrived at the airport, and I followed him inside.

"Where's your luggage?", Right, I haven't seen him with one, and even a backpack. Is he pulling a prank on me? I hope so.

"It's already there, I asked my uncle to bring it earlier for me.", He is serious.

I waited for him at the departure lounge, and after some minutes, he came back with his luggage.

"So I guess this a goodbye.", He said still smiling, while I'm on the verge of crying.

"Yeah, I think so..."

Suddenly he pulled me for a hug. I was surprised for a moment, but I eventually hugged him back and placed my chin on his shoulder.

"My grandma told me to spend this whole day with someone important to me, and you're the first one that came to my mind."

"So, who is that someone-", I halted when I realized that I'm the one who has with him the whole day.

"It's you. You're very special to me that you even hold a special place inside this heart of mine.", My whole body freezes. This is the first time he's telling me something like this. He did told me that I was special to him as a friend, but was never special inside his heart.

"You didn't know right?"

Yes, I didn't.

He broke the hug and looked at me for a brief moment, before holding his luggage again.

"When I come back here, I hope you're happier.", He started walking back but I still couldn't utter any words.

"Take care Liseu! Jeonghan told me he really likes you and I have nothing against that."

"W-Wait..."

"Bye!", He waved his hands before turning around and walked away.

How can I witness two person departing here in just a short span of time?