Torn between Love and Hate

Twenty-One

Dara and Kyle are finally back in SoKor after three weeks from being in America. They have decided to extend their stay as their mini vacation, since they have not taken a break ever since they moved to South Korea. Dara and Donghae rekindled their relationship and so far they have gone into an agreement that Dara will never consummate her marriage to Jiyong.

"Good morning Ms. Dara! Welcome back!" Mrs. Kim excitedly said upon seeing her.

"Good morning Mrs. Kim! Thank you! How are you and everyone?" Dara asked excitedly as well.

"Everyone were sad and scared when you weren't here." Mrs. Kim answered.

"Awww! But wait! What do you mean by scared?" Dara asked.

"Oh did I say scared? What I meant was they were scared that you will not be coming back." Mrs. Kim tried to segway her answer but in reality because of the grumpy Jiyong.

Dara furrowed her brows but did not comment. She then turned to go upstairs to her room. She took off her whitewash jeans jacket and shoulder bag, placed them on the chair and went straight towards her balcony and opened the sliding door. She stayed there for a while just thinking of random stuff most especially her marriage. She's wearing a white see-through sleeveless top and a white ripped jeans paired with white sneakers. She has her hair up in a messy bun with medium size silver loop earrings. Her face is bare of make up but her favorite strawberry shear lip gloss. She closed her eyes and apparently did not hear the knock coming from her door and someone's foot steps.

Jiyong heard noises downstairs as he was coming down but paused when he  heard a very familiar voice. He was about to go down to his office to check something, even though it's Saturday there are still some last minute documents that he needs to review before signing them. He silently went back to his room as he heard her coming up the stairs. He noticed how fast his heart is beating and that he was holding his breath. He felt nervous and excited at the same time. He waited until she went inside her room and paused by her door. He listened first and waited a few more minutes before he knocked but there's no answer. He knocked a few more times but still no answer. "She might be already sleeping or maybe taking a shower." He thought to himself and so he was about to leave when he heard her opened her balcony sliding door. He decided to knock again but still no answer and so he opened her door. There he finally saw her leaning on the balcony rails. He studied her for a bit though her back is facing him. "She surely has a nice back and a nice a**." He thought to himself and felt his member waking up. "Oh geez! Calm down boy!" He was telling his member and felt crazy for doing that. He took a step to approach her slowly but did not want to alarm her and so he paused by the sliding door of her balcony. "Ahemm!"

Dara opened her eyes and slowly turned around for she knows who it is.
She has a smile on her face when she turned to face Jiyong. She noticed him gasped but it was a quick one. "Hello Ji!"

Jiyong felt like his breath was taken away when she smiled but quickly recovered. He returned her smile and greeting. "Welcome back."

"Yes. I...am...back. Yay!" She sarcastically said.

Jiyong furrowed his brows but pretended not to take it to heart even though he felt a little prick. "Wow!You sound extremely excited that you're back." He sarcastically teased her.

Silence...more awkward silence.

Jiyong finally broke their silence battle. "Well...you probably feel tired from your flight. I...will go ahead and take my leave so you can rest." Though he doesn't want to leave but he doesn't have a choice at the moment. Dara could only nod her agreement.

Jiyong finally left but his feet feel so heavy when he was leaving her room. He made it downstairs to his office and slowly closed the door. Instead of going straight to his desk he went to his mini bar and poured himself a drink. He went to stand outside in his own balcony. His office balcony leads to the open backyard same side as Dara's balcony is facing. He stopped to look at the long field of grass and down below is the overlooking city of Seoul. He took a sip of his drink and just closed his eyes. Not thinking about work but of only one person...Dara. "She's finally back." He thought to himself. "But she doesn't seem happy to be back." He sadly thought to himself. "Is it because of that man?"

He was about to go back inside when he noticed his wife walking across the grass towards the swing that she requested to be installed. He watched her as she slowly sat on the swing. She then slowly pushed herself and swing as her feet goes higher up in the air. He watched as her eyes closed with a smile on her face as she swing. He couldn't seem to take his eyes off of her. She really does look so beautiful.  He continued to watch her for a long while until his cell phone buzz. He was going to ignore it at first but when he saw who was calling him he picked it up.

"Hello." He answered.

"Sweetheart. About tonight. My friends invited me to go out clubbing with them and I want to go too..." Yu Na was not able to finish what she was going to say.

"It's fine. You can go." Jiyong blankly said.

Yu Na squealed on the other end. "Thank you sweetie!" I'll call when I can. "Love you!"

"Hmm." As Jiyong's answer and both hung  up the phone.

Jiyong then looked back to where Dara is and she seems to be going to stay there for a while and so he proceeded to go back and do some work. But promised himself that he will have dinner with his wife tonight and maybe...just maybe have a friendly conversations with her if she allows it.