Shared Spaces & Hidden Desires • Seungcheol

8 - Surprise

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A few days passed with him being more upfront and open with bringing different girls home all the time. It annoys the hell out of me. Some nights it gets so loud that I can't focus on my work or even go to bed. Everyday I wake up the next day seeing a different one exiting his room.

With him being so reckless about bringing girls home all the time, his behavior also slowly started changing. He's become further and further from the Seungcheol that I know and grew up with.

But what threw me off is the fact that he's also become way bolder towards me with his actions and words towards me. He's become much more flirty, seductive and coy towards me, occasionally keeping his eyes on me knowing that I get uncomfortable from his gaze. Or sometimes he'd openly come up to me and start playing with my hair or caressing my arms as he whispers teasing words.

I was always nervous at first, wanting to just escape at the first chance I got but I grew to start challenging his behavior by flirting back. With all that pushing and pulling between us, the tension grew more and more strained.

Our words and actions were as bold as can be yet we were both too cowardly to make a move on the other. What an irony.

I'm sitting on the couch alone watching whatever I found when I suddenly heard the elevator ding. I almost immediately jumped out of my seat when I heard the familiar voices of both my parents along with Seungcheol's parents, "Surprise!"

Oh my god. No one told me they were coming. Does he know? Fuck he's outside, what if he comes home bringing a girl home?

I got up from my seat and immediately walked over to my parents and hugged them both tightly in my arms, "Oh my god! I missed you guys! Why did no one tell me you guys were coming?!"

Then I remembered, Seungcheol's parents were also there watching me reunite with my parents and I instantly let go and bowed towards them, "Hi auntie! Hi uncle! I didn't know you guys were coming too. Does Seungcheol know you guys are here?"

His mom replied with a smile, "Hi dear. It's so nice to finally see you again and no, he doesn't know we're here. We all came to surprise you both."

Well shit. I better let him know not to bring a girl home today before it's too late.

Then Seungcheol's dad patted my shoulders, "Hey kiddo. It's good to see you doing well. Is Seungcheol home or is he out in the wild?"

I giggled a bit from his dad's bad jokes and offered, "No, he's out but I'll let him know you're here so he'd come home if you want me to?"

"Ah no no, leave him be. You'll ruin the surprise kid," he chuckles. "Oh yea.. I didn't think of that," I scratched my head and smiled awkwardly.

"So honey, how are you? Tell us all about college," my dad asked as he guided us all to sit at the couch.

"It's great. I made great friends and classes are pretty easy so everything is going so smoothly for me," I informed them not wanting to include the part where I never attend classes anymore.

Right then I remembered. Shit I should call Seungcheol right now so he doesn't bring a fucking girl home to his parents sitting here.

"I'm gonna go to the bathroom for a second," I excused myself quickly and walked as fast as I could to the bathroom.

I hurriedly pulled out my phone from my pocket and dialed his number. "Pick up. Pick up. Pick up," I kept repeating until he finally picked up.

Seungcheol