Talking Eyes by Mia Lafreve Pedretti (bill gates books to read txt) 📖

YUMI

I have a bad feeling.

And that feeling hanged on my shoulders, even when we arrived at YG building. I felt odd, uneasy, but as soon as Ji Yong grabbed my hand, every bad feeling disappeared, like ice on the sun. I looked up at him, while we were walking through the corridors hand in hand. I smiled at him. He smiled back at me and gave me a quick peck. I gave him back that peck. He gave it back again and so I did too. But then he kissed me for real this time.

"Omona! That's a french one." Someone commented in front of us.

I pulled instantly away from him and saw that it was Bom. I got agitated and flushed red for the scene we had in front of her. How embarrassing! I instantly bowed to her. "Jae song hamida!" I apologized. Damn me and my dumb head! I bet she was thinking that I was a shameless girl.

"Why are you apologizing?" Everyone asked me at the same time, Choi Seung Hyun included. To be honest I forgot he was still there. It was really dificult to notice my surroundings while I was kissing Ji Yong.

"Hem..well.." Now how do I answer to that now?

"You don't need to apologize Yumi-ha!" Bom told me. She gently lifted up face. "I already knew that you two were a couple pabo. It was so obvious that you and Ji Yong were in love. I knew you would have hooked up in the end someday." She said like it was obvious.

I nodded. "I shouldn't have been so careless in front-" I was saying anyway but she cut me off waving her hand as to stop me.

"You didn't do anything bad." She said patting my shoulder. "And plus we are all grown up people here, so don't get paranoid about me okay?"

"De." I replied.

"Hi bomi-ha." Choi Seung Hyun suddenly greeted her. His voice was odd and his expression too.

"Hi." She greeted him back in the same odd way. What's going on in here? Ji Yong covered his mouth, but I saw his grin before he could hide it behind his hand. He knew something that I didn't know. Before I could ask him anything, the president appeared behind Bom.

"Ah! Here you are Yumi-ha. I was just looking for you." He said in a hurry. "Can you come to my office for a moment? I need to discuss something with you."

"Sure sunbaenim." I said and followed him right away.

"See ya later babe!" Ji Yong shouted back at me.

"De Oppa!" I said back and glanced briefly behind me. He sent me a flying kiss, I couldn't help but giggle. I sent a flying kiss back too as I turned the corner.

CHOI SEUNGHYUN

Ji Yong kept smiling even when she had already turned the corner. I shook my head at that sight. Not because they were all lovey dovey and almost too overly cheesy, but because I was envious. I want to be all lovey dovey and cheesy with someone too. Send flying kisses and cuddle the fragile yet incredible creature named female in my arms. And that someone was in front of me. Gorgeous in her simpleness. With her big brown eyes, long black hair and milky, soft skin of her. Oh..calm down Choi Seung! This is not the right moment to fantasize. Ji Yong and I stayed quiet, but I knew he was grinning inside. Stupid idiot, you should helping me, not stand there chuckling. I mentally sent him, but it didn't any effects on him.

"AH!" Ji Yong suddenly exclaimed from nowhere. I frowned looking at him.

"Someone's calling me suddenly.." He said extracting the phone out of his pocket. "I reaaaally have to answer. See ya guys!" He said and ran away. I knew he was faking, he continious glances and winks as he passed me by were so annoying. I glared at him, but the idiot just grinned running away. I heavily sighed, but I could not run away like him.

Come on Choi Seunghyun! Get a grip already! I encouraged myself and spoke again. "Bomi-ha?!" I begun.

PARK BOM

"Bomi-ha?" He called me.

"De?" I answered, but something felt weird. Why you're so nervous? I asked myself.

I didn't know why, but I felt strange staring at him. It wasn't like that in the past! Of course, it wasn't like that. Because in the past, my hands weren't sweating, my legs weren't wobbly and mostly my heart wasn't beating so fast. Why are you beating so fast? 진짜 왜구래 Jinjia waegurae? I narrowed my eyes, laid a hand upon my chest and took a deep breath to calm it down. It worked, for like two seconds before it started throbing in my chest again. What's the matter with you today?

"I wanted..to tell you something.." He said and I had to pay him more attention. Damn it! He looked serious, everything about him was screaming "Big Deal" Oh Oh.

"Is it a bad thing or a good thing?" I asked kinda worried.

"Actually it's..kinda good." He answered shyly. And even blushed. What..is happening?

"Tell me then." I replied putting aside my nervousness. I was kinda anxious though. He stayed silent. I started to feel somehow impatient. Why it takes you so much to say it? I wanted to ask him, but I kept my mouth shut.

Why are you so impatient anyway? It might not be something so important anyway. My brain replied. Right, I should stop to worry so much. I mean, we never talk about serious stuff in the past years. We've always chitchatted and fooled around. It always has been like this, untill a few months ago. Everything started with odd glances from him during our daily work. I didn't know how to react to those glances honestly, so I acted as if I didn't noticed his odd, charming, eyes looking secretly at me. Wait waht?..Charming? I shoved out of my mind that word. This is Choi Seunghyun..Choi Seunghyun..You can't be fal.. I shook again my head because I didn't even want to hear the end of that sentence. It's not true, it can't be. My brain reminded me. Of course is not true, You're way too old for him.  I looked at him again and felt even more annoyed.

He brushed his short, dark-brown hair back. He looked better with that color on, simple and natural. Not like when he had those extravagant colors on. Well, he looked good with them too, but I liked him more when he had that natural color on. Focusing, I saw the frustration and nervousness though. "왜구래Waegurae? Why you're so nervous?" I approached him. "You said it's a good thing, so what's wrong?" I grabbed lightly his upper arm. He looked straight in my eyes and seemed like he would have finally talked. Come on already! This suspense it's f*cking killing me!

But the response I got, has not be pleasant like I though it would have been.

CHOI SEUNGHYUN

When I looked down, down because she was shorter than me, her big eyes dazzled me and the courage build up, packed up and left me in a sec. I'm not proud of the following thing I did. Don't you dare do it! My manly-side threatened me, but my chicken-side was already on his way. "AH!!" I exclaimed. "I think someone's calling me too!" I repeated like a dumb parrot. I know, I suck.

"..Eh?" She mumbled taken off guard. "Really? I didn't hear anything.." She frowned.

"It was on silent mode, that's why." I made up. Wow, you're really..I can't even.. My manly-side commented. I felt deeply ashamed of myself, but continued with my act anyway. "Sorry, I really have to answer." 

"Okay, sure."

"Bye!" I waved my free hand at her and left.

"Bye.." She said back emotionless. I acted like I was talking to someone on the phone and headed in the same direction Ji Yong went. As soon as I turned the corner, I laid my head on the wall and heavily sighed. This isn't working like I planned. F*ck

"What the hell are you doing here?" Someone asked behind me. I turned my head and found Ji Yong staring at me, surprised and disbelieved.

"And you?" I asked back. "Why are you hidding here?"

"I was spying on you guys!"

"And you say it like that?" I asked back. He looked more disappointed than angry at me.

"Why you didn't do anything? Why you ran away?" He asked me instead, avoiding my question. "You said you would have confessed to her!"

"I know that too!"

"Then why the hell you didn't confess?" He asked. "No one was around, no cameras but just the two of you. It was the perfect time!" He insisted.

"Lower your that freaking voice! She might hear you!" I moved over hushed him. Then I checked on Bom. I silently sneaked my head out, but there was no one in the corridors. She was gone. I was both relieved and disappointed. "She's gone." He looked at me shaking his head, I knew he was disappointed. I'm disappointed too.

"Why you ran away?" He asked again.

"I don't know.." I replied sighing heavily. "I..think I just lost my confidence as soon as we our eyes met. I panicked." I bitterly confessed. We both sighed at the same time.

"Then you must really love her." Ji Yong stated then.

"Of course I love her." I replied. "I love her since I was a simple trainee."

"Then why you don't confess to her already?" He asked as a habit. We already had that conversation before.

"Because I'm not ready. You saw me earlier." I said. "She's also too mature for me, I've already told you that, many times."

"I know, but hyun, I think that you're idealizing her too much." He replied. "She's a woman after all, no matter how mature she might be."

"And what's that suppose to mean?"

"It means, that she might be maturer than you, but deep inside she's like every girl in the world." He stated. "You shouldn't be so chicken in front of her." He added.

"I never have been a chicken in front of her!" I spat at him.

"Oh really?! So can you explain me, what just happened? like two minutes ago? Eh?" He asked raising his brows as to challenge me to say reply.

"Ok." I gave up. I shook my head as I thought about that embarrassing scene of mine. "F*ck! This wasn't supposed to happen." I brutally brushed my hair.

"Come on!" Ji Yong conforted me with a pat on the shoulders. "I'm sure there will be other chances for you to confess. I can't tell when though. You have to decide it by yourself when you're ready."

"I think you're right." I sighed.

"But you better hurry up hyun, or someone else will make the first move." He said. "She's already 30 after all. The perfect age to get marry and stuff.." He added. I was wondering why she wasn't married yet.

"Again, you're right." I said. Bomi was indeed beautiful, funny, clumsy, kind, gentle and sweet. She was 30, but it didn't matter at all. Age is just a number. What mattered, was her beauty and personality, nothing else. And if someone else had noticed all this, he would have befriend her and then took advantage and confessed to her. Choi Seung, you better stop acting like a chicken and confess to her like a real man.