SPLIT (COMPLETED)

I can't stay here

Right after reading the message she has been waiting for, Jieun quickly wears her jacket and puts her bottle in the duffel bag getting ready to leave. Just when she reached the door of the personal training room, the door is opened from outside making her head hit it and she groaned a little to the sudden contact with the hard surface.

"Oh, I'm sorry!", Junhoe quickly says as he tries to check if her head got swollen or something.

However, her yelling at him as he tried to check on her makes him froze. She pushes his hands that tried to touch her before pouting angrily. "Can you open the door slowly? Luckily I'm not hurt.", she says as she rubs the part of her head that got hit earlier.

Junhoe nods before apologizing again as he gets inside the room and leans against the door after he closed it. He looks at her from head to toe before he shifts his eyes on hers. He crossed his arms as he sees her trying to avoid meeting his eyes.

"Where are you going, Jieun?", he asks her while calling her name the way she wanted to hear, dropping the formalities between them since Junhoe was the one initiated to be called just by his last name. However, he only calls her by her name at certain times. "Your session will end in a half an hour. You better go back to the bench, Jieun.", he points to the bench that is used for weight training exercises which she was doing earlier.

Jieun clicks her tongue before copying him crossing her arms, "Can't you let me go early just today, Junhoe? Hmm..."

She dares herself to have a staring contest with him as both of them do not speak a word to each other until Junhoe shakes his head as an answer to her. Because of that, she stomps her right foot and purposely steps on his left foot with it. However, Junhoe keeps staring as if he does not feel a thing on his foot.

"Get back to the bench, Jieun noona.", he tells her as he locks the door behind him.

"Seriously? You call me...urgh!! Don't you feel pain? I just stepped on your foot, Teacher Koo!", Jieun purposely calls him that way to annoy him. She quickly goes back to the bench right after that.

"Stop calling me a teacher or I'll extend your training today for another an hour, Lee Jieun.", he says as he follows her to the bench. "Put down your phone, please.", he adds as he sees her taking out her phone as she sits on the bench.

She lifts her hand to the air signalling him to wait, "Just a minute. I need to reschedule something."

"Reschedule what? A date?", Junhoe tries to annoy her back as he gets the weight ready for her.

Hearing his words, Jieun turns to him and hits his arm lightly. "Not a date. The man I'm pursuing is so busy these days.", she tells him with a pout as he wonders who the man she is talking about. "I don't know why he is so busy. The season is over and he rarely reply to my text. You just made me miss him right now. Do you know that?", she keeps talking to him about the unknown man she is pursuing.

"I don't expect you to tell me anything about him. Or anything about your date..."

"I'm not rescheduling a date! Come on...", Jieun cuts him off as she puts her phone in her duffel bag. "Give me that thing.", she tells him as she lies down on the bench looking at the weight he prepared for her.

He scoffs at her cockiness before he hands her the 60 pounds weight for her to lift.

"Be careful and do it slowly.", he reminds her as he watches her starting to lift the weight in her hands.

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Right after they arrive in front of the cattery where they left the cats that morning, Chaeyoung quickly goes out to get them back home. Jisoo and Seokjin remain inside the car waiting for her since she said she will not take long in the cattery. The three of them had gone to the shopping mall that afternoon so they left the cats there since no one will look out for them at home.