FAKE WIFE

13

"Love is the beauty of the soul"

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I was looking through the window; wondering if he really mean it when he said he was in love with me. I was unsure with my own feeling because I didn’t want to waste my time loving someone who I didn’t sure if he love me for real or not. I was unsure with my own feeling because I didn’t know if the feeling that I had suppose to be called love or just comfortable being around him. Both of us didn’t say any words since we entered the car. The silence was accompanying both of us inside the car. No one said anything yet both of us were having our own thought; Jimin was focusing on the road while me; with my daily woman habit which was being an over thinker. Out of the blue, he started to talk. “Hyura, are you okay?” He asked. That was so random but I really like when someone being caring like that. I smiled before answering him. “I’m okay, why?” I asked. He smiled and continued focusing on the road without even replying me. That was so weird because he was the one who started it first. Maybe he was just trying to break the silence between us.

“Yah Park Jimin! Where are you actually trying to bring me?” I asked; more to shouting as I noticed that it wasn’t the way to go to school. Was that why he asked if I was okay? He was bringing me to somewhere else with our uniform? People will notice that we were skipping school. He smirked while driving. “You’re driving me crazy, Park Jimin.” I shouted and folded my hands on my chest while pouting; showing that I didn’t agree with his idea. While we were still inside the car, his phone was ringing but he didn’t pick up the call yet he just ignored it. The same unknown number was calling him for a few times and it was very annoying as I kept on hearing his ringtone repeatedly. “Do all handsome people around the world experience this?” He suddenly said and I looked at him with giving a disgusted look. He knew that I was annoyed by what he just said. It kept on ringing, “Answer it for me, Nerd. Why are you being so dumb, I’m driving.” He said. I looked at him and rolled my eyes before taking his phone. “It is once in a blue moon for you to ask me to answer the phone call for you.” I said and picked up the call.

“Hello” A very familiar girl’s voice started to speak up. I knew that voice and I totally remembered her. The voice that I might be missing yet I didn’t want to hear her at all. “Hello, Jimin. I knew I didn’t have a wrong number, I’m very sure.” She said while chuckling. I remained silent as she was still talking alone. Did she knew that Jimin was married to me; her freaking arch enemy? “Yes you’re not wrong. This is Jimin’s number. Haven’t heard about you for a long time.” I said to her through the phone while Jimin was looking at me with his confused look as he had no idea who was calling him and I knew her. She kept quiet maybe she can guess already who was speaking. A smirk of victory appeared at the corner of my lips as I knew, it was correct, the person that I had in my mind; she was the one who was speaking. “Nyra, hello.” I said as she still didn’t say anything. I just wanted her to get the real thing that I was talking to her at that time.

“Wait, I don’t get this. Who are you?” She asked. Oh she was still confused with what happened. Did she already forget my voice? That was impossible because I remember hers. “Your best friend. Oooppss I mean you closest friend but not the best.” I said sarcastically. She laughed a few seconds after I said that to her. It made me curious of what she thought so funny but I didn’t care of the reason as I knew, she possibly already knew me. “Hahahah b***h, don’t ever think that I don’t know you.” She said while laughing. Jimin was trying to take the phone away as he noticed that my facial expression changed after picking up the call for him. I smirked after hearing what she just said. “Said the one who didn’t get it at first.” I said. It was true as she didn’t know it was me who was talking to her when I already knew her voice since the first she said hello.

“Didn’t know that you’re the type that simply takes someone else’s phone.” She said. It’s confirmed, she didn’t use her brain before she talked. Why she didn’t make any assumptions just like how she always did. I laughed; making Jimin to look at me weirdly. I knew, there must be a lot of things in his mind at that time. “You’re always wrong; he gave me his phone by the way. Let’s just say you’re not that important to him.” I said; making her to become mad as she heard what I just said. It was what I wanted to do as she always wanted to win when she always got everything wrongly. “Oh by the way, Nyra. Do you actually want attention? But we’re sorry; we didn’t give it nor sell it to anyone at this moment.” I said. Jimin who was sitting beside me was trying very hard to not to laugh over my words.

“You’re telling me that you’re dating him, don’t you?” She asked. Not even dating, Nyra. We’re married and it had nothing to do with you. I chuckled after hearing her question. “Better than dating you, am I right, Nyra?” I said, without intention to become rude but just that was how we usually talked back then. I mean, that was how she usually talked to me before. Imagine, she talked like that in front of your face. “What the f**k are you trying to say. Look at yourself first before you talk.” She said. It was more to shouting actually but it didn’t hurt me at all cause I’ve been insulted by her enough until I became emotionless towards her.

“I have to go now but before that, I would like to tell you something. Buy yourself a mirror because the one in your room is not big enough for you to look at yourself because you should know that calling someone’s husband is not a right thing to do because I believe if someone calls your husband, you’ll become crazy.” I said and quickly ended the call because I didn’t want to hear her yelling my name after what I just said to her. It was insane as I never have any courage to talk to her like that; she usually dared to talk like that to me. After I ended the call, his hand was placed onto mine that was trying to put back his phone to the place where I took it. He nodded his head while smiling with his eyes were still focusing on the road but he did take a glance on me. “The last one sound like you’re jealous and being protective over me.” He said and continued with smirking. I rolled my eyes as I heard what he just said. To me, there was nothing wrong for me to be mean with her as she’s my enemy before so why not? “What protective? What jealous? I just don’t like her.” I said strictly to make he didn’t misunderstand over what I just did.

“Answer me honestly, Jimin. Do you have any relationship with Nyra?” I asked him. We were about to arrive at the shopping mall. It was located a little bit further than our house. We stopped at the traffic light at the corner before entering the shopping mall. He turned his head to face me. “Argh, I don’t know that you’ll also figure this thing out.” He said. My eyes were getting wider as I heard what he just said. He laughed as he saw my reaction. I also had no idea why I joined him laughing at my own reaction when I was extremely shocked when he said that. Was that supposed to mean that they were together? I must be very embarrassed with what I just said to Nyra just now if they’re together.

Trying very hard to not to sound jealous, my eyes were plastered on the road. Without even trying to look at him. “Okay maybe that is not so funny but you did laugh. But trust me, Nera is no one.” He said. I felt better as I knew that she wasn’t anyone to him, but the fact that he pronounced her name wrongly, I laughed right after he said that. “Nyra not Nera.” I said. Jimin was laughing along with me while we were parking the car. I sighed but I was happy a little bit, maybe because I already understand my feeling towards him even more. Both of us were walking and sat in a restaurant. We took our seat and ordered for ourselves foods to eat while we were still talking about Nyra because he wanted to know.

“I knew her better than what you might think.” I said. Yes we were still talking about her even after we went out from the car. He smiled before he started to talk. “The more we think that we know someone, the least we actually know about that person trust me.” He said. His words were heating me at my head. I somehow agreed with what he just said as we thought we really know each other very well before but we ended up not understanding one another. Maybe that was what he tried to say. “Okay, I get that.” I said. Jimin was still staring at me; hoping that I’ll continue my story. The eagerness that he showed to listen to my story made me felt at ease and wanted to share with him about my life. And to let him know more about me, but I wanted to know, he really did want to hear my story or he actually didn't want to? “It’s okay, we might waste our time ‘escaping’ from school just talking about someone doesn’t important anymore.” I said. Jimin sighed. By his action, I knew that he wanted to know what happened between both of us until we became complete strangers. He placed his hands onto mine on the table and stare into my eyes. It wasn’t as awkward as before because I’m getting used to it already.

“Share with me, if you think that this will keep on bothering you again.” He said. His eyes were deeply stared into mine; making my heart beating unconsciously. I knew that I should tell him, shared everything as he was offering himself to listen. “She’s the best person I’ve ever known. We lost contact after I got transferred into our school. But to make it short, we didn’t contact at all and she didn’t even reply to my texts and didn’t answer my calls.” I told him everything.

“And I was extremely delighted after I was informed that a new transferred student was her, until she walked past me to your ex girlfriend, Hyejin. She didn’t greet me or said hi. She did a lot of things to me, saying that I was the reason our friendship ruined in front of Hyejin. That’s how we became strangers.” I continued. Jimin was listening to me all the time until our foods were served. I didn’t take a long time to tell him my story but Jimin was being a great listener as he gave me a good response. “So that’s the story. I see...” He said while drinking his water. “We were so childish, right?” I asked him.

“Hey, okay listen. Deep inside your heart, what do you feel about her?” He asked. I shook my head as I was drinking my water; to show him that I didn’t feel anything at all. But I stopped after I realised what I actually been holding for a long time. “I...I miss her so bad.” I said. A weak smile was given from me to Jimin. I forced myself to smile as I knew, if I cried, I’ll look weak in front of him. “I knew it. Hyura, no matter how huge her feelings towards me, she can’t make my heart beats crazily as you do.” He said. I looked at him; looking very serious and he was staring at me after saying those words. I didn’t want to make it awkward and I also didn’t want to tell him what I actually felt about him. I looked at him and make a straight face before realising he was chuckling over my face. “Seriously, Jimin. You are so flirty. Don’t try any other girls with your flirty words or I’ll kill you slowly.” I said. Sounded like a psycho but I was just joking around. After we finished eating our foods, we made a decision to go into separate ways as I wanted to go to the spa for a while and didn’t want Jimin to wait for me as it would take a very long time. I stood up and we both walked out from the restaurant. “I’ll go first, just call me okay.” I said and was about to leave. As a few people started no notice Jimin already, I should be going faster. He grabbed my hand stopping me to start walking away from him. “Make sure to lower down your head, I don’t want any other guys to take a glance on you.” He said while giving me his sweetest smile. Some of his fans that were standing near to us heard that made few noises as they were giggling over what Jimin just said. “Whatever.” I said and walked away. Jimin was shouting at my back. “Bye baby!” B..Baby? I blushed right after he called me with that. I walked faster so that no one will notice the changes of my face. My heart was beating so fast.

After having a ‘ME’ time alone in the spa, I called Jimin and asked him to meet at the restaurant that we just went for lunch. But he didn’t come even after fifteen minutes I’ve been waiting for him.

I couldn’t help from thinking of bad things that could happen to him but I’ve tried my best to clear all the negatives off my mind. "I should go and look for him". My legs were moving fast simultaneously with my heart. It didn't stop beating fast. His name was on the tip of my mouth. I was afraid if something happened to him. Or if he left me at the shopping mall alone. I've went to the second and the third floor but I still couldn't find him. I walked to the nearest bench and took my seat. It was too tiring. While I was sitting there doing nothing but still worried about him, I grabbed my phone from my pocket and quickly dialled his number. " Park Hyura, turn around." A voice from the announcement speaker made me shocked. But my body still did as instructed. My hand, touched the screen of my phone and ended the call as I saw Park Jimin standing there.

“Do you actually feel the same, Baby? Ask yourself, why are you so worried?” He asked me while holding a stalk of rose in his left hand. My heart was asking me to walk towards him and give him a hug, but my mind thought vice versa. They said to follow you heart but I didn’t have any courage to do that. So I stayed. “As what I’ve told you, I love you sincerely. I couldn’t wait to hear the same thing coming out from your mouth. I want the feeling to be mutual.” He said and few people started to show up; holding black roses in their hands. My eyes were looking at all of them; when did he even prepare for all of these? That was what I’ve been thinking at that moment. He started to take a few steps closer towards me as people were cheering for him. “Idiot...I was worried because I have no idea how to go back home if you’re not around. Tch...” I smirked. He chuckled after he heard my excuse.

“Whatever. What I want you to know; I’m not standing right here in front of you as an idol with the supports from my fans. But I’m standing here right in front of you as man, with the supports of everyone, I’m making myself as a man who wants to tell his wife how much he loves her.” He said. His words could make me melted right away because I felt his sincerity. My face became as red as tomato. I was so embarrassed by his actions but honestly, he was very romantic and I liked it. I mouthed at him to ask him to stop using the microphone as I felt embarrassed because everyone was looking at us; knowing the he'd know what I've been telling him. But he didn't stop and yet he continued. “They say we’re cute. But they didn’t know you’re cuter when you’re jealous. But you’ll never admit it every time you’re jealous.” He said. People chuckled after hearing what he said. I smiled after hearing that too as I thought that I was so dumb; pretending not jealous but he already knew it. He walked closer and placed his hand onto my forehead. With a sweet smile and he stared at me, he continued. “This girl is very sensitive, so I would be glad if the rumours of me with any girls can be stopped. I belong to her.” He said; announcing to everyone our status. I smiled but I only thought of something in my head. I wanted all of these to stop. I hold his hand that was holding the microphone down as he was standing right beside me. “Jimin, I think I don’t like this idea. Stop or I’ll leave you here.” I said to him but he shook his head; showing that he didn’t want to stop what he was doing. I turned around and walked away.

I took a few steps away but stopped walking as I heard someone’s singing. That voice belonged to Jimin. He was singing the song that I really like beautiful lyrics.

I found the love,

For me,

Darling just dive right in,

And follow my lead.

Well, I found a girl, beautiful and sweet,

I never knew you were the someone,

Waiting for me..

While I was mesmerising the lyrics of the song with Jimin’s beautiful voice, he stopped singing. That made me turned my body around with curiosity. He was looking to my direction when I turned around. He gave me the sweetest smile I’ve ever seen from him. “Hyura, let me prove it to you, that I am the man that you need. Give me a chance to feel loved by someone like you. Because the only thing that I want you to know is, I like you.” Our eyes were locked to each other. We stared at one another until we realised that we were not the only couple who was there, cause there were a lot of people watching. “There are still words that I didn't say. But I'm hooked and interested in every single thing you do. Thank you, Jimin.” I said. He was very shocked with what I just said as I never said something like that to him. Maybe he was shocked by the words ‘thank you’ because I personally thought that was the most sincere thank you I’ve ever said to him.”My pleasure.” He placed his left hand around my waist and waved at the audiences who watched: they were actually his fans. Simultaneously, they waved their hand back to him with their wide smiles on their faces. Also, they smiled at me. I understood why Jimin enjoyed being with his fans, they were all sweet and supportive. We were both walking together. It was a little bit awkward to be honest as I just told my real feeling indirectly; not even mentioning those three words just like what he did. His hand was still wrapped around my waist while we were walking towards the direction of his car. To make it less awkward, I hit him with my hand and said, “Yah this is all your fault. We skipped school and didn’t buy anything.” He laughed after hearing my words. It was an awkward laugh I’ve ever heard. Was he really awkward or he was just pretending? He stretched and placed his hand around my shoulder after that. “We’ll come again okay, baby. But we all know that you’re grateful that we didn’t go to school as you really enjoyed the surprise I made.” He said while smirking. Still, the word baby that he said to call me was still making me blushed even though it was the second time e called me that. I walked faster; a few steps away from him before he ran after me and pointed to his lips. I looked away before turning my head back and gave him a quick peck in his cheeks instead of kissing his lips. After that I ran towards the car earlier that him as I was embarrassed of my own action.

I didn’t sleep in the car but it was a very silent ride that we’ve even been into. We both didn’t talk at all and it was getting darker. As we arrived, Jimin parked the car at the porch at our house. He quickly unbuckled his seatbelt and ran towards my door. I opened the door by myself and met him outside with his pouty face. “I should have done that for you.” He said still with his pouty face. I smiled as he was very cute when he pouted. “If you are going to do everything, what’s left for me?” I asked. He smiled, as I saw him smiling and assuming he was already satisfied with what I just said, I started to walked away. But our hand hooked as he grabbed my hand and stopped me from continued walking. “Hyura.” He said softly. I looked at him while making a confuse look. But my eyes were getting wider as he carried me bridal style and our faces were an inch apart from one another. He moved his head closer and I closed my eyes but nothing happened making me to open my eyes again and saw him smiling over what I just did. “Do you think a quick peck just now is enough?” He asked and walked into our house while carrying me. He was talking about the quick peck that I gave at the mall just now but what he’s going to do?

He carried me all the way towards our bedroom. But then, at the same time, he was asking me to tell him the truth. “You like me, don’t you?" he asked me but I just replied him with a smile which making him to smirk. I had no idea why I didn’t just say those words saying that I love him but I just didn’t. Hr carried me all the way to our bed room; my heart was beating so fast as I was very nervous yet so excited. He opened the room’s door and placed me onto the bed while he walked towards the door to close it again. “Don’t worry, I’ll be gentle.” He said and closed the door. Thing that happened after that showed how much we actually love each other from hating each other a lot before.

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I was very embarrassed of what happened last night, so I woke up earlier than him as I needed to take shower before him. I did enjoy it by the way. I was about to walk off from the bed slowly as I didn’t want to wake him up as he was still sleeping soundly but all of sudden, a pair of hands wrapped around my waist; pulling me to lay back and pulled me closer to him. “You’re doing great, baby.” His morning voice was hot. I removed his hand from my waist and tried to walk off the bed once again but he pulled me even closer and hugged me even tighter. “Don’t leave, or there’ll be a second round.” He said. I forcefully stayed on the bed for a few minutes more. After a few minutes, I escaped from him and wore my shirt and short pants before going back to see if he was still sleeping. “I’m going to the kitchen okay.” I said and walked out from the bedroom.

“Kayra, is there anything that I can help?” I asked while walking at the stairs towards the kitchen. I saw Kayra was preparing breakfast. Since there will be few maids that didn’t come as they had few things to handle, I offered to prepare the breakfast while she can do something else. “By the way, Hyura. Did you enjoy last night?” She asked. I was taken aback because of her sudden question that was related with me and Jimin last night. I looked at him with a very serious and curious look. “What do you mean?” I asked just to make sure. “Oh I heard Jimin did a surprise to you at the mall.” I felt relieved as I heard what she just said after that. I nodded my head and smiled before continued to prepare breakfast for all of us. A pair of hands was wrapping around my body and I knew it was Jimin as I knew his scent. “You want me to do it for you?” He asked. I shook my head and continued doing it while his hands were still around my waist as he was back hugging me. I laughed and smiled at him as he was the one who smiled first at me without any reasons. “Why? You look so happy?” He suddenly said. I placed the foods on the plates and serve them on the dining table with him following me. “Why? Can’t I be happy for nothing?” I said; replying to what he just asked.

“Oh let me guess...there’s something happened last night, right?” He said while a smirk started to appear at the corner of his lips. I started to blush and quickly covered his mouth using my hands. I just didn’t want the maids to hear what he said as they might get the idea. “By the way, Baby. Don’t you think that people gets old day by day?” Jimin with his random questions, always. I nodded my head; agreeing to what he just asked. “I’m going to replace daddy soon in his company.” He said. I nodded my head as I already knew about that and the reason why we had to get married was because of that too by the way. “Can you be straightforward?” I said as he was taking a long time to say what he wanted to. He was describing and talking a lot. “I want kids. Do you think by doing what we did last night only once can make us have a baby, baby?” He said. I was shocked by his words.

“We’ll talk later, privately.” I said and winked at him before walking towards the dining table to have my breakfast. I was then joined by Jimin.