Love Hurts [Johnny Suh]

Nine

Chittaphon and I were out looking at appropriate locations for the current event I was planning. Since he wasn't busy and claimed to be bored, Jungwoo tagged along with us, occasionally giving his opinion about some random thing in the area or chatting it up with Chittaphon.

Jungwoo had decided to hijack my partner and had left to check the rest of the place, leaving me at the main area to check out small details by myself. I was just minding my own business, strolling around the room and admiring the surrounding when I bumped into someone.

I looked up and my eyes met the big brown ones of Johnny.

"You're kidding me..." I groaned to myself as I turned to walk away with the mind of getting Jungwoo and Chittaphon to leave.

"Well, it's nice to see you too." He said as he fell in step with me.

"What are you doing here? How did you even find me?"

"Sadly, not everything I do is because I'm trying to get to you. I have a valid reason for being here."

I looked up at him with suspecting eyes. "I promise." He said with his hands raised in surrender. "I happen to come here every Thursday and Saturday. Jaehyun and I have a radio station that we do. You should tune in, or better yet, you could come on as a guest."

I looked him up and down before returning my eyes to the decor on the wall in front of us.

"Go out with me." He said, breaking the comfortable silence between us.

"This again?"

"I told you I could be persistent." He said with a smirk and small shrug.

"Why don't you just give up?"

"Give up??? I... I don't know this 'give up' that you speak of."

"Tsk. Leave me alone, Johnny." I said softly with a subtle roll of my eyes.

He chuckled lightly, but said nothing.

I breathed out a long sigh before turning to look at him. "If I say yes, will you leave me alone?"

He looked at me with a small playful smile, as if he was sure he was going to win. "Depends."

"On what?"

"If I enjoy the date or not."

"If you enjoy it?" I asked with a brow raised and he nodded, his playful smile becoming cheeky. "What if I don't like it?"

"Never heard of such..." He said matter-of-factly.

"You sound so sure of yourself."

"Because I am." I didn't respond, but rather, rolled my eyes again, and continued moving, looking at the the decorations. "So... You'll go out with me?" He asked with a newfound child-likeness in his tone.

"Yeah, sure. Whatever." I said dismissively as I released a deep sigh.

"Well don't sound so excited." He said sarcastically. "Anyways, how about seal the deal properly."

"And what might "properly" be?" My left brow was practically in the air as I looked up at him.

He opened his arms wide as the smile on his lips gradually widened. "A hug..." He said.

"If I hug you, will you leave me alone?"

"Cross my heart."

"Fine..." I hugged him back, his giant form swallowing me up and probably hiding me from the other side.

"Scar?" I heard Jungwoo's voice from behind Johnny and I moved a bit so that I could see the man who is sporting a confused look on his face, Chittaphon right next to him with an amused expression.

"It's not what it looks like..." I said quickly, moving a few steps from Johnny.

"It's exactly what it looks like." He said with a sly grin, putting an arm around my shoulder and pulling me closer to him,, prompting me to hit him on his arm.

"Shut up."

"What's going on here?" Jungwoo asked as he walked closer to us.

"Nothing—" I said as I pulled myself from Johnny's hold.

"She agreed to go out with me..."

"What?!" Chittaphon practically yelled, his eyes growing wide.

"Really?" Jungwoo asked me and I sighed.

"Yes. Now can we do what we came here for? Don't you have somewhere to be?" I asked Johnny and he looked down at his watch.

"Shoot, I'm late." He said before looking down at me and smiling. He was quick to bend down and give a kiss to my cheek before leaving. "I'll text you the details!" He yelled behind him before he disappeared behind a corner.

"Since when was this a thing?" Chittaphon asked with a playful smirk.

"Can we not talk about it?" I asked as I moved on to another room, the two men in tow right behind me with childish remarks and teasing questions that I ignored.