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"yeah... just me and her."

he nodded. "your mom mentioned something about that."

"really? what did she say?"

he shrugged, looking down at the streed, kicking rocks on the way. "just that your father was a pig who abandoned you guys."

boki tensed at the mention of her old man. it always made her feel uncomfortable. she didn't have plenty memories of him and she was happy to keep it that way.

"well... she's right."

he glanced at her curiously. "when was the last time you saw him?"

she sighed. boki didn't want to talk about her father right now, but she didn't want to deny this kind of information to jooheon.

"i... i can't remember clearly... maybe 10 years ago? i don't know."

he nodded. "i see... do you miss him-

"never." she said with a hurt tone now, her face serious. jooheon quickly understood this was a sensitive topic for her, so he just nodded quickly.

"better that way... don't see the point of missing someone who's clearly not worthy of you- you guys... you and your mom." he said avoiding her eyes.

boki agreed. her father didn't deserve them, not especially after he left her mom for someone younger.

"either way... i am glad he's not in our lives again... he was very- she thought about sharing some insight of how the life with her father was, to jooheon, but she knew it was not worthy either. and to admit it, would kind of bring hurtful memories of it.

she shook her head. "you know what... it's not worthy mentioning it."

jooheon just smiled, he was kind of proud. "yah... that's the attitude... he's a wacko too... i know a few people like him." he immediately regretted saying it. he didn't want to fight boki by insulting kihyun. he knew he should respect her decision of dating him.

but truth be told. he couldn't respect kihyun. at. all.

she glared at him but finally laughed. "it's okay. i know what you mean-" immediately she regretted saying it since jooheon stopped on his tracks and turned to look at her. "what?"

"uh?" she seemed confused. they were out of the lookout and had been walking for minutes now, returning to the restaurant.

boki spotted the place behind jooheon's back, at least two blocks away.

"i mean- she started laughing nervously - i know you're probably talking about kihyun." she said nervously. jooheon's inquisitive eyes remained narrowed, hands inside the pockets of his black hoodie.

"how?"

"h-how?" she laughed nervously again. "ha.... well, because you said it before?" she threw that bomb, hoping that jooheon would just let it go.

he shrugged and kept walking. "i never lie... i never. never lie." he said, finally agreeing with her and not asking any questions about it. the only thought of jooheon asking questions about 

kihyun just shoot her nerves up.

she didn't want to throw kihyun under the bus, admitting everything he admitted to her, to 

jooheon. she didn't want to cause any more trouble between them.

but it seemed, she was always at the brink of spilling the beans to him.

"your mom closed already... let's go." he said once they reached the restaurant place, and noticed the lights were off and there was literally no one there.

boki frowned. "fine." she said as she noticed jooheon just opened a small gate and walked in. she followed him confused.

"h-how do you know- where are you going?" she asked shocked.

she noticed they arrived the backyard of the restaurant and he put the code in the only door. the door opened and he turned to look at her with bored eyes.

"home." he simply said shrugging.

boki glanced behind jooheon and realized it was her house. her mind put the pieces together as she looked at him shocked again. she thought he was going to walk to whatever place he was staying and she was willing to go with him and then return to her house, which was behind the restaurant, in the backyard.

but she never imagined, jooheon would go there too. "so that means that you... that you..."

"yep. that means i am staying with you." he said flashing the biggest smile, dimples sparkling like a christmas tree. 

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a/n: hey guys, double update finally after SO long! please be patient with this story because i am kind of restarting writing from zero because i lost the drafts i had on this. i hope you enjoy and again, really sorry to be updating after almost a year. 

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