Standing in front of the mirror, you were looking at every detail of your black dress. It didn't have much detail but it was absolutely beautiful. As much as you loved this dress you hated how uncomfortable it was and the fact that you had to wear high heels.
"Do I really have to wear these high heels?" You asked turning around to face Jiyeon. She came over to help you pick an outfit. You didn't ask her to but she said "I'm a fashionista, you'll need my help. And I know you don't like getting out of your confront zone." Well it is true. But you definitely thought you wouldn't need her and will do just fine without her.
"Yes." Jiyeon said "You look beautiful like that, I chose the perfect outfit. Well, it's me anyway."
"But why so high? And this dress is so uncomfortable. And what makes you think you chose the perfect outfit?" Jiyeon glared at you.
"Listen missy. I will explain why I chose every single thing in this outfit. You're not the colorful type of girl so black is your color. And we all know black is the best color for such occasions because it defines elegance and glamorous. And your heels and the form of the dress gives off the 'femme fatale' feel. So it's perfect. Especially for you, just look at you, you look stunning in this dress. And the answer to your question is that you're too short in this dress plus the higher the heels are the better the outfit is." You signed.
"As for the rest I don't think you need a lot of accessories. Just some big earings and a simple necklace would be awesome." She commented making you give her a look.
(Found this on amino, just choose what you like.)
"I know you don't like big earings but your hair will be in waves so small ones will disappear in it." You sighed.
"Fine, I'll let you have it your way. Just because I know grandpa will be disappointed if i don't look 'amazing'." You said making her raise her eyebrow.
"You know he always wants me to go shopping and do all those girly stuff. You know make an effort."
"Shame on you Y/n, even your grandfather tells you to make an effort on such things."
"Excuse me?" You asked knowing perfectly what she said but to give her a chance to say something else.
"No, nothing." She got off the bed and went to your dressing table opening one of the drawers taking out a curler along with a few other things needed. She looked at you
"Come here." She said patting the chair in front of the dressing table. Y You walked over to her and sat down facing the mirror. She took a black cloth and covered the mirror with it making you look at her confused.
"What's that for?" You asked.
"So the transformation will be a surprise."
"Just don't transform me into a clown." You scoffed. You couldn't see her reflection on the mirror but knew she was glaring at you.
"Whatever." She muttered starting to work on your hair.
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"And done!" You heard Jiyeon say, she came and stood in front of you admiring her work. She clapped happy with it. You removed the cloth to finally be able to see how you look.
It wasn't what you expected but can't deny that it was amazing. You wanted something more simple but guess trusting her was the best idea. She used dark tones on your eyes, black eyeliner on the top and the bottom and a little bit of pinkish brown eyeshadow. These things made your look dark and intense. Your eyes were like a cat's more than it naturally is. Your perfect shaped lips were in bright red.
"You would look even better with some contour." She tried to convince you again.
"I told you I don't want that. Also this lipstick makes my lips look too plump, i want a matte one."
"You always have something to say."
"But you did a good job." You said trying to show that you are grateful which made her smile brightly.
"Let's get a matte lipstick." She said opening a drawer filled with different types of lipstick.
"Wouldn't pink look better?" You asked honestly preferring pink. And she nodded in response.
"Way better." She responded going through the drawer.
"Omo, this would look so gorgeous." She said taking out a lipstick. "It's.... gorgeous rosy pink. Gorgeous like i said."
"We bought it together, didn't you try it?" You said, you remember when she saw it at the store and got one. She also got one for you even though you weren't really interested in it. She shook her head
"I think I remember that time but I didn't get the chance to use it."
She grabbed the make-up remover wipes and gave it to you, you wiped the red lipstick and let her apply the pink one. You then looked at the mirror, satisfied with how you looked you nodded at her making a bright smile adore her face. You heard your phone ring and quickly picked up knowing who it probably is.
"Hi, honey." He spoke making a small appear on your face.
"Hi, grandpa."
"I'm in the parking lot." He informed
"Okay, coming." You said then hang up looking at Jiyeon.
"Have fun and take care of yourself remember be careful, there might be dangerous guys there. You know you look flawless." She joked smiling at you.
"What's that? Are you acting like a mother now?" She chuckled a little bit at your response. You grabbed your clutch bag putting your phone and keys in. You took a glance at Jiyeon and said
"Have fun, with your 'Oppa'." Shooting her a small wink, you could see the small tint of pink that appeared on her cheeks making you smile a bit. Followed by Jiyeon you walked to the front door saying your goodbye and left. Once in the parking lot, you got greeted by your smiling grandpa wearing an elegant suit. He wrapped his strong arms around you hugging you tightly. You pulled away looking at him as he smiled widely at you.
"You look beautiful. I guess I'll have to keep my little girl away from bad guys."
"Thanks for the compliment but I'm not a little girl." He laughed.
"Let's go." He said opening the door for you. You smiled at him and bowed slightly getting in the car. He followed you letting the driver drive off.
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The party was going fine, well the hotel looked amazing the service seemed good and the food was nice too. But you were bored, you did expect it. Your grandfather was busy talking to some people and you didn't know anyone there, so you were just sitting looking at the people conversing,drinking, laughing, enjoying the party.
You liked everything about the hotel.
From the huge chandelier that was hang in the middle of the gigantic room, the huge windows giving an amazing view to the immense yard and the pool, the classical molding, the extremely polite workers, the amazing menu with many different things, the moroccan drawings on the ceiling, to the the mosaics on the floor forming a beautiful butterfly.
You were used to these kinds of places but never saw the butterfly with the mosaic idea. You were really amazed and in love with it.
While your eyes were wandering around the place, it landed on a person. Someone you never expected to see again and never wished to. You froze, fear was taking over you and you just wanted to run away. He was looking at you with disgust but then smirked. You gulped, you just wanted to leave the room at that moment, you didn't know where to go but just wanted to leave. To run away. To hide. From this monster. Your father.
You got up and started walking as fast as you could taking the steps two at a time. Once you were out of the crowd you started speeding more, not knowing where you were going. After a few good minutes you finally stopped, not wanting to stop in the middle of the hallway, you quickly opened a nearby door and stepped in and immediately closed the door behind. You tried to catch your breath from the running and to also calm down. Your feet were aching since you were wearing high heels. You couldn't find a sharp reason why you panicked, but you were scared of him. "Maybe because of that nigtmare?" You supposed, thinking back of the nightmare you had in that morning. But after all, you haven't seen him in two years, and you wished to never see him again.
After finally catching your breath and calming down, you slowly lifted your head observing your surroundings. You found different types of classical instruments in the room while a huge piano was in the middle. You slowly started walking towards it, smiling to yourself as a thought crossed your mind. The room wss extremely quiet that you could only hear the sound of your heels colliding with the floor that echoed through the room, as it was away from the crowd in the hall, it made you realize how long you've running for to end up in a room so far. You delicately touched the piano pressing a key hearing the sound echo in the room. Since a really young age you loved instruments, you really loved piano, but prefer violin way more. On the other hand, it's Jiyeon who loves piano. You remember perfectly when she was always forcing you to come and hear her play a new play she learnt, she always had to whine a lot and beg so you can finally agree. You pressed some more keys, each one coming with a wave of memories washing over you.
"You seem to be liking this room." An unfamiliar voice was heard in the room startling you and making you instantly spin around on the tips of your heels, only to come eye to eye with a tall guy around your age wearing a black suit leaning on the door frame while his hands were in his pocket. He slowly closed the door and slowly started walking towards you.
"Who are you?" You asked firmly looking at him in the eyes.
"Oh, don't worry you'll know sooner or later, babe." He smiled.
"Don't call me by that, it's disgusting." He raised his eyebrows at your response.
"You look like an innocent girl but in reality you're a fierce one." He commented approaching. A smirk grew on his face.
"But let's see if you're gonna keep that personality for long." His steps were getting bigger and bigger one after another, making you take step back. Stumbling you fell on the chair putting your elbows on the piano pressing a few keys. When you got up again he quickly grabbed your wrist pulling you and making you sit again. He held your other wrist, preventing you from getting away.
"What the hell do you want?" You spoke through gritted teeth.
"You." He responded. You tried to hit him with your legs but he trapped it between his legs with force causing you to wince in pain. You struggled trying to break free and with no success. His smirk grew wider as he slowly approached you.
"What happened to the bad mouth?" He whispered next to your ear, you found it absolutely disgusting and tried your best to push him away but of course he was too strong.
"Still the same." You managed to say.
"Not for much longer, babe." You could feel his hot breath on your neck and it was disgusting you. You felt his lips connect your neck making you bit your lip still trying to break free.
The door swung wide open, freezing you both at your spots. You were relieved that you could get away. You could care less about who it was.
"Get away from her." You immediately recognized the person talking. "Baekhyun?!"
The unknown guy's grip on your wrist lightened giving you the chance to push him harshly off you, when you did Baekhyun walked to you and held your wrist pulling you to him making you face him. Being so close to him made your heart beat extremely fast. You looked up at him and saw him glaring at the guy. He looked really angry, it was the first time you saw him like that. You turned your gaze to the guy, he raised his hands up like he was surrendering.
"Wow dude, chill."
"You will never change will ya, Hyunsik." Baekhyun said making you look at him.
"You know him?" You asked looking up at him. He slowly looked at you, his eyes instantly changing into soft ones.
"Yeah." He nodded "Let's go." He turned around walking away holding your wrist with you following.
"Hey, there is something I want you to know." The guy who seems to be called Hyunsik spoke stopping both of you in your tracks.
"What?" Baekhyun turned around.
"This girl and I are somehow related." You were shocked by his words but you didn't turn to look at him.
"My parents and her father have decided that we will get married a few years from now."
"What?" Baekhyun exclaimed, you stayed quiet. As much as you were scared hearing about your father in all of this, you were angry knowing about this ridiculous decision he took. "Even after all he did, it's still not enough? Can't he just leave me alone? And he thinks I'll give up easily and go along with his plan? Ridiculous."
Baekhyun looked at you, as if he was asking if it was true. Once he saw how you were looking down shocked and didn't say anything, he understood that you didn't know about this either.
"And well, I don't mind. She's hot after all."
"Hyunsik. Are you serious about this?"
"If you think I'm joking, you can ask him yourself, he is here. He's the one who told me where she went and that she came anyway. What was your name again? (Similar name)? Oh yeah, it's Y/n right?" Baekhyun slowly nodded a bit shocked by the decision your father just took by himself.
"He can't just decide something like that. She has the right to decide who she wants to be with. I'm sure she won't give in. And I won't let him do anything to her." His words went deep inside and gave you a feeling you couldn't understand. Of course, the negative feelings of what you just discovered were still here, but it felt like a huge part of it wasn't there anymore for a while.
He turned around again this time leaving the room with you. But as you were leaving the room you heard Hyunsik shout
"You know your father."
In fact, you knew he can do anything to satisfy himself. Which means he won't think twice about hurting you to make you give in. These four words were enough to destroy the positive feelings Baekhyun gave you with his words.
Silence took over as he walked with you through the hallways. Finally stopping in front of an entry that you recognized as the place you ran away from, he turned to you and asked
"Do you want me to keep you company?"
Concern was clear in his voice, speaking in a low voice as he looked down at you waiting for a response.
"I don't want to stay here." You said quietly.
"Don't you need you to tell the person you came with first?.... I mean if.." He stopped talking when he saw you nod a little bit and reach for your bag to find your phone.
You called your grandfather saying that you were tired and were going home. He wanted to drop you because it was late but you reassured him telling him that you weren't alone. He wasn't really sure about letting you leave but he eventually let you but in one condition, that you call immediately when you arrive home. You turned around gazing from right to left searching for Baekhyun and saw him coming back with his phone on his hand, it seems like he informed someone that he'll leave too.
He smiled at you and stuck out his hand for you. You looked at it hesitating whether you should take it or not. Your pride was screaming at you not to take it, but your body wouldn't listen. It felt like your hand moved on its own to his holding it. You somehow found yourself liking how your small hand was in his beautiful bigger one. You looked up at him and saw his smile grow wider.
"Let's go." With that both of you headed out.
Once you were outside, you took a cab to your apartment building and each of you awkwardly sat at the end of the backseat. The ride home was silent, you were still scared hearing about your father, seeing him. You remember the fear that took over you the moment you locked eyes with him. And you wondered, what will he do if you refused and stood up against him? Will he hurt you? That is something he won't hesitate to do. What will happen? How can you endure being with this guy? Countless questions lingered in the air, and you were seriously scared to find the answers.
When the car stopped in front of your apartment building you slowly got out of the car and Baekhyun after. You turned to him looking down.
"I'll be going now, don't worry you'll be fine. Good night." You slowly nodded lifting your head to look at him.
"Thank you." You thanked him quietly barely audible, but apparently he heard and smiled.
"No need." He turned around wanting to go back into the car when you did something unexpected.
You stopped him.
You gently held the back of his jacket lightly pulling him.
He turned to you, his eyes wide in shock as he looked down at you. When you processed what you did you immediately let go of his jacket and took a step back. You had to find something to say.
"I'm fine, i-it's just that- that I'm really tired. That's all." His expression didn't change and he remained silent.
"Don't get so full of yourself, why would I want you with me. You're too noisy."
His expression turned from shocked to serious as he walked to the cab making you let out a huge sigh of relief. But it wasn't exactly what you thought, because Baekhyun turned and walked to you again.
"What are you-" You got cut off as you felt yourself being pulled and your cheek come in contact with his chest, he wrapped his arms around you.
"Cry as much as you want." You didn't have the time to fully understand what is going as your hand moved to his back gripping hard on his jacket. You started unconsciously sobbing softly on his chest hugging him tighter as you felt your knees getting weak. You didn't realize how broken you felt until that time. The nightmare, even what Hyekyo said had a small effect on you and to complete your father had to show out of nowhere. Baekhyun kept stroking your back in a soothing way. You stayed in his arms silent for some long minutes.
When he felt you being completely calm again and your grip loosen a bit, he broke the hug and looked at you while he wiped your tears before brushing some strands of hair tugging it behind your ear, he then held your chin trying to make you look at him. But you avoided his eyes, looking anywhere but at him. But you found yourself getting tired of looking elsewhere and finally let your eyes meet his. The moment they did, they got lost in his eyes, his brown eyes were soft and it felt like an ocean without an end.
"We should go inside." He spoke breaking the long eye contact and getting you back to earth. You nodded your head and let go of him making your way to the building.
Awkwardness filled the air with both of you in the elevator. You never felt so awkward with someone before. You both stood as far as possible from each other. You were blushing hard and looking down hiding your cheeks with your hair. You couldn't believe you just unconsciously hugged him tightly, remembering how you squeezed his jacket made your cheeks burn even more, embarrassment filling. And you just showed him your weak side, this was like a huge slap to your pride.
You stepped in your apartment quickly getting rid of your heels. You motioned for Baekhyun to pass, he did allowing you to close the door while he was getting rid of his shoes. You didn't know what to do, luckily a question came to your rescue, it's a normal question to ask when someone comes to your place but your nervousness made it longer to remember.
"Do you want a drink or something?" He nodded.
"Just some water please."
You went to the kitchen and he followed you and took a seat on the counter. He watched you taking out a a glass pouring in some water and handing him the glass. He thanked you and slowly drank and you poured one for yourself trying to find a distraction. You weren't thirsty, but his presence made you nervous and you just wanted to find anything to distract you. He gulped down the last bit of water and looked at you. He looked like he was hesitating but he eventually spoke
"He won't do anything to you, will he?" You looked at him for a second then looked down. Your silence made him regret asking.
"If you don't want to talk about-"
"He will." You cut him off still looking down. He didn't say anything and just looked at you worry filling his eyes. You gave him a small smile.
"I don't know what he will do but if it's still the same person I know he'll do anything to make this happen." You put the glass on the counter still holding it tight.
"That's how he is, he only thinks about himself. I'm sure he wants me to marry this guy because it'll help him in someway and since I'm the only daughter he has or more like the only one who can be available in a few years, I'm chosen for this. Since I don't really know if he has others. Otherwise, he wouldn't even remember me."
It was silent, he found it hard to say anything so instead he placed his hands on yours intertwining your fingers while stroking your other hand with his thumb.
"Don't worry, I'm here for you. Nothing will happen to you." He whispered making you smile a little bit. It was really sweet of him but you weren't sure if he would be able to help you.
He still felt the nerves in you so decided to try something else, other than comforting you.
"Cutie pie's very different today. Where is the bad mouth I know?" You somehow understood that he was trying to lift your mood.
"Didn't I forbid you to call me by this annoying nickname?" You said pulling your hand back. Your response made him smile proudly. He placed his elbow on the counter leaning his chin in the palm of his hand.
"I can't help it, that's what I see in you." You felt your cheeks heat up at his statement. He smirked.
"Why are you blushing?" He questioned.
"What?" You asked pretending to be confused.
"Why are you blushing?" He repeated himself as you felt your cheeks burn even more. You quickly turned away hiding your face.
"Wh-what are you talking about?"
"You're blushing." He got up taking the turn and walking to you, your back was facing him.
"Don't be an idiot."
"You are blushing ."
"No."
"You are."
"No" You insisted, your pride getting the best of you. He held your shoulder turning you so he can face you. He held your chin leaning in.
"Why are your cheeks so red then?" He teased again.
"STOP." You shouted at him looking down. He was shocked by your action, he started regretting as he realized he went a bit too far, and took a step back.
"I'm sorry." He apologized quietly turning around and walking away.
But you couldn't control yourself.
You held his arm making him look at you shocked again.
"Why are you doing this to me?" You asked, lightly hitting his chest.
"I hate you."
"Is what I thought. Is what I wanted to believe. But why do I feel like lying to myself so hard whenever I think about it?" You hit him again.
"I tried staying away from you, avoiding you, but whenever you come to me I can't ask you to leave." Another hit.
"I tried to be cold to you and show you the face I show to 99% of the people but you managed to be part of that 1% who get to see a different face." You punched him.
"Even after telling you to stay away from me a part of me regretted. And I found myself getting filled with happiness when you came to me."
"The smallest things remind me of you and sometimes I can't even get you off my mind. I feel like I'm possessed."
"Why? Why do I always feel this weird sadness when I have to leave you? Why do I feel like missing you when you're not around? Why do I feel my heart racing when I'm close to you? Why do I always blush when you tease?" You wanted to hit him again but he stopped you holding your wrist.
"Why am I telling you all of this?"
"Are you sure that's how you really feel?"
"Idiot, don't you have a better way to reject someone?" You shouted raising your other hand to hit him but he stopped you again. He shook his head.
"How could you possibly think I would reject you?" He asked making you look at him.
"It just felt too good to be true."
"I've always tried to approach you but you always kept a barrier."
"I've fallen for you way before Y/n." Your heartbeat increased in a second.
"I love you Y/n." You shook your head.
"I really do. I love you."
You lowered your head.
"Can you promise me one thing?"
"Anything you want." You looked at him again.
"Don't you dare leave me."
"I promise, i won't."
"Don't leave me."
"I won't."
"Don't leave me."
"Never."
His eyes slowly left yours to your lips. He leaned in and you found yourself blushing again as you stepped back. He took a step closer to you and you stepped back again. You kept going backwards and him stepping closer to you, until you felt your back come in contact the counter you placed your hands on it having nowhere to go. He trapped you between his hands, stepping closer to you. He held your chin and made you look at him. He licked his lips and started leaning in before slowly attaching your lips together.
TBC
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I don't even remember the last time I updated. I'm really sorry, things have been pretty difficult lately and I have a lot of exams. I'll be done by Thursday so I'll update between, Thursday and Friday. I really hope you liked this chapter because I worked hard on it. Thank you so so much for reading. 사랑해어 ❤