FRAGILE TRUTH | Kwon Jiyong

5

She smile at him and stand up and walk out from the room, not giving him any chance to stop her.

When she break the kiss he opens his eyes to see her getting up and walking away. He pouts, sulking, not liking the idea that she's leaving him again. He slowly gets out of the bed and gets up, his legs still feel a little jelly because of the hangover. He shuffles his way to the kitchen after getting out of the bedroom.

"Chagiya... I'm up..."

She can feel a present behind her as she slowly makes her way to the kitchen. She turn around and see him following behind with his wobbly legs.

"Jiyong?"

She stops her tracks and retreat to the boy. He is rubbing his eyes while trying to follow her to wherever she goes.

"I told you to stay in bed and sleep more. I'll keep the food for later and join you on bed"

He pouts, not liking the idea of returning to bed and lying there alone like before. He stops walking. He crosses his arms and sulks.

 "I... Want... To eat... With you..."

He pleads, his lips already starting to quiver. His puppy dog eyes are on the verge of tears. she sigh at the sight. This is the Jiyong she knew before. Nothing is different from before until then. She stare at him with gentle eyes and give him a warm smile.

"Hey.."

She gets closer to him and cups his face. Making sure their eyes locked before she starts to talk. 

"Sweetheart, I'm not leaving you. I'll be joining you later after I'm done making us breakfast. Or do you wanna have breakfast in bed?"

"I still don't want to..."

He sulks, looking like a sulky kid who just lost his mom. I give him a warm smile. I grab his hand and pull them towards me gently.

"Let's eat together then"

He nods and follow her to the kitchen. He help her with some easy stuff and finally both of them were at the table, sitting next to each other. She turn to look at him as they starting to eat. The environment was silent but it is a comfortable one.

Except for someone that's still sulking in front of his food.

"Why are you still sulking?"

"I dont like the idea of being alone in a room. I dont want to feel lonely again..."

She smile sadly at him. The past memories of them came through her mind and she suddenly felt nostalgic. 

She then hold out a spoon of their breakfast in front of him. 

"Say aaa"

He stops and looks at her when she say that, seeing her holding a spoon of food in front of him.

"What are you doing?..."

He asks confusingly while looking at the spoon. He doesn't like it when someone tries to feed him. He doesn't like to be babied by anyone including his mother.

"No airplane?"

She say as she sulk and put down her spoon in her plate. She stared at the plate for some time before he spoke again.

He looks at her, feeling guilt when he sees her disappointed face after he refused her again. This isn't the first time she tried to feed him. She even tried to do this in public too before. 

He stares at the food in the spoon for a moment, remembering the time she tried to feed him something again in public and he immediately refuses... He feels bad now so he opens his mouth slightly.

She noticed him slowly opens his mouth to be fed and she happily does so with a big grin on her face.

After he swallowed the food, he turns to look at her and smile watching her reaction. 

"You're the best cooker I know"

He said, trying to make the environment bright as possible again.

"Are you embarrassed when I did that?"

She asked carefully. His smile slowly fading as he realized that she has the wrong idea of him acting that way.

"It's because I'm shy. I'm not used to those kind of things... and you know that right?"

"That's okay then. As long as I can feed you when we are alone like this, I'll still be happy"

She said, continue to eat her breakfast again. His gaze are still on her as she eats. He realized that he made her feel a bit useless as his partner, or maybe she felt lonely since she cant be doing any of those romantic things with him because he is too shy to do so.

"Can I get one more?"

His sudden request made her jump in her place slightly. She turn to look at him in surprised and just stare at him after.

"Dont just stare at me like that..."

He says, looking away trying to hide his blushing face from her. He doesn't know why he suddenly asked that question but he felt like she cared for him by doing so.

She giggles and feed him again a few more time from her own plate.

"It's not that bad for having a girlfriend that likes to feed you, right?"

She asked unconsciously without even having the second thought. Her face now is slightly pink shade as she realized what she just mentioned.

He looks at her with adoration in his eyes, liking what you just called yourself.

"Yea... It's not that bad.."

He answers her. Not looking away as he tries to adapt with his surroundings.