He loves me.
Okay.
He said he loves me.
He said I should let him love me again.
I didn't know what clouded my mind and how I managed to sleep after hearing those words from him or if I even fell asleep or just simply forced my eyes shut, because the voices in my head didn't.
I just kept on recalling his words that night. Maybe he has finally lost his mind that time? Maybe it was the lack of sleep affecting how his brain functioned? I don't know!
The following morning with Kiefer wasn't that bad after all. I woke up and saw an already made breakfast on the table and even fresh milk on the side. He wasn't saying anything, he just willingly did all the chores like how we agreed on.
Of course my conscience won't let me be at peace, thinking that I am somehow making him my slave. He also cleaned up the mess we made last night while watching the movie and here I was, busy doing everything just to cancel this wedding.
"Kei? Are you almost done? We might run late." his muffled voice called out from the other side of my door. I glanced at my phone only to see that we only had 20 minutes left to get to school. Panicking, I quickly wore my pearl earrings and grabbed my bag that was sitting on top of my bed.
Once the door flew open, his beaming smile greeted me. Oh for goodness sake! I genuinely want to smudge that smile off of his face, the same smile that caused me to fall for him entirely years ago. "What are you smiling about?" I sneered at him, yet instead of answering me, his smile grew bigger as he shook his head.
"Nothing, it's early and you're already furious at me. I might just think that you still like me." He said as he made his way out of the unit.
"Wow! The audacity to assume that you're even the slightest likeable is baffling!" I shout after him, not caring anymore if the other tenants feel disturbed because of how loud my voice was. "My God! Kiefer Kim, I'm telling you now, one day you'll never wake up from your sleep."
"You can bear that?" He looked back with a smirk. The elevator we had to get on was packed, his sudden grip and pull at me made me jump slightly. His hold on me was firm, because one wrong move and I'll probably bump into everyone around us, "Can you please stay still? Stop pushing my girlfriend around." Kiefer hisses at the guy that looks around our age who would frequently push me further.
"Hey, no fights." I reminded him. I held his hands that were around my waist and caressed it to calm him down, the last thing I want in a packed elevator is a fight. Though I despise his guts, I don't want him to be engaged in a fight because of me.
I could feel his irritable state as we walked through the parking lot, I didn't know what words to say as I was afraid to make him even angrier than he already was, "Keira, next time, don't wear that, okay? We'll really get into trouble." He says when we got settled in his car. "If you didn��t stop me earlier that would've been real bad."
"What's wrong with what I'm wearing?" I asked with a frown on my face. I can't believe he'll even police my own clothes!
"Nothing, nothing is wrong with your clothes, but those who look at you are the problem." He sighed. "I just don't want you to be disrespected, I hope you understand and don't get mad when I tell you to change your clothes, okay?"
I scoffed and turned to look at him, "As you said, there is nothing wrong with what I'm wearing, it's the people that have no basic human decency who are the problem. No matter what I wear there will always be people like that, they're rude and should be heavily educated. Women shouldn't limit the way they express themselves just because some people don't know how to act properly!"
I didn't talk to him after that, I didn't have the energy to.
Almost everyone turned to look at the parking once they saw us coming out from the same car. I was fuming as I walked away from him, never halting or looking back even though I heard him call for me a bunch of times.
"Kei!" I slowed down and turned to face Shai and Kiesha who were nearly stumbling just to get to me.
When they did, they instantly linked us together and of course, the hot seat began, "So, how was your first night with Kiefer?" Said Shai with a smirk on her face. "Surely you didn't play Pop the Cherry Up game last night, hmm?"
My eyes grew wide as I processed what she was trying to say, hands immediately flying to the ends of her hair, "Are you crazy? You're so embarrassing to be with at times, I swear to God."
"Did you like my gift, sis?" Kiesha asked while giggling tremendously.
I glared at her and grabbed her hair next, "You witch! I thought it was something useful!"
"Why? Sis! Come on, you can seduce Kiefer and you'll be together again!" They squealed loudly in the hallway and I could only sigh from what I heard. I let them go and slightly ducked to avoid people's gazes.
"Can you please stop? I'm having goosebumps over here." I sped up and attempted to leave them there, but they ran after me and linked my arms to them once again.
"Come on! We were just kidding, I'm sorry." Kiesh coos at me. "But don't throw those out, okay? You never know, it might come in handy one day."
"Stop!"
"Well, finally?" Hanna addressed me crankily and shoved a box in my hands, "Kiefer's sibling wanted me to hand you this."
"Poor girl, even made you the middleman hmm?" Shai mocked. It was obvious that Hanna was holding her anger back at that moment. Must not want anyone else to discover her true identity.
"Ms. Choi, I have no time to talk about bullshit." She retorted and walked past us. "Sit down, you're blocking the entrance."
Later on, Kiefer entered the room along with Bobby. It looked like he's pestering Kiefer about something, but keeps being ignored.
He hardly smiled at me when our eyes met while Bobby was full on waving at me, "Well isn't he happy?" Kiesha points out sarcastically as she gives them a side eye.
"Do you have a crush on Bobby?" The question suddenly popped up in my head.
Surprise was evident on her face and shook her head furiously, "No I don't! You wish! we're not like that!" I squinted my eyes at her. I've known her all my life and I know when she's lying, she is definitely lying right now.
"Is there something I don't know about?" I asked her intently.
Scratching her cheeks, she leaned closer to whisper a surprising news, "After your engagement announcement with Kief, the emcee also called us onto the stage." I gasped, especially when she showed me the ring on her finger. "I have no idea what our parents are thinking, but just like you, Dad's selling me out."
I felt a pang of conscience hit me, I was so busy hating on Kiefer that I forgot to ask how my sister was. "How about Kieth? Is dad selling him out too?" I wondered.
"That's what I'm confused about, he's the only one that Dad doesn't want engaged when he's literally the oldest and at the right age to get married." I shook my head in disappointment. Typical, this is one of the reasons why I hate my family. They don't even try to hide the fact that they don't care for their daughters.
This isn't the first time, because our eldest sister, Chaerin, was also forced to marry the son of a well known tycoon. It was part of their business, to make it grow.
"How's your set up? Are you staying in one condo unit too?" I question which she denies straight away.
"Oh I'm glad we're not! Or you might not see me whole again." She sighed. "And I really hope Daddy doesn't think of kicking me out of the house too."
"Wow, can't relate." I whispered with all the bitterness in me, "I could only dream about not being kicked out."
"Shush! I'm sure it isn't like that, maybe Dad had other plans on why they did that. Maybe Kiefer wanting to make up with you is one factor about it, don't you think?"
I just groaned in defeat.
I wish it was that easy, but even just a day with him is enough to send me to a mental institute.
Lunch time.
It was supposed to be the usual one, but somehow Bobby managed to persuade us into joining our table, "How are the live in partners?" Bobby remarks and snickers, right as Kiefer sat next to me.
I immediately gave him a glare, causing him to show me a peace sign, "Keira, I know Kiefer can be a pain in the ass, so don't think twice to throw him out of your unit if he does something to you." Jayden directed at me.
"Will do, Jayden, don't worry." I said and raised an eyebrow at Kiefer who's watching us in disbelief.
"And oh, Kief? Kei's naturally grumpy. Don't be surprised if she suddenly throws random stuff at you. It was her hobby."
Signalling Kiesha by staring at her intently, she finally decided to stop while Shai was unfortunately, still chuckling beside her, "Careful you might fart." Instead of stopping, it only resulted in her wheezing louder than before.
"And yeah, she's not the same girl you met at the music camp years ago. This is her real self, Kief and I hope you can bear with my sister's attitude." She added and smiled at me. "Don't you ever hurt her again, because I won't hesitate to ruin your life if I see her crying for you the second time."