Chapter 5 – Allies

So Jiyong and I have been going out for quite a few times now, and, honestly, I think this is one of the relationships that can actually last. Jiyong is a great guy, I really like him…a lot, plus Yongbae is fully supportive of us being together (as are the other members of Big Bang)

We’re going out again tonight, maybe this will finally be it.
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Jiyong and Megan sat across the table from each other, both placing one hand each on the table, within centimeters of each other. They were talking, as usual, but this time it seemed more…intimate, as you might call it. They no longer talked about trivial things, such as likes/dislikes, but more towards what they wanted to do in the future, how they saw themselves.

And, with much hesitation, Jiyong finally took her hand.

“Megan…..” he started off slowly.

Megan could only wait patiently as Jiyong fought hard to put his words in a sentence.

“Will you…..go out with me? As in….on a permanent basis?” he asked slowly, now a trail of sweat visibly falling from his brow.

At that moment Megan was confused. True, she had prepared for this very moment all week long, and she had already prepared what she had wanted to say to him (which, of course, was basically a ‘Yes, yes, oh my god, yes !!!!’) but at that very moment, her cellphone (on the table btw) rang furiously, indicating a text message received. Then, Megan saw it, the picture of her and Yongbae, used as a wallpaper on the screen, and this very picture brought her back to the year before, to the night where Yongbae had confessed everything to her. And although both of them were slurring in their speeches, she managed to catch a part of what he was saying.

“Megan…..” Yongbae slurred as he looked at her, “I love you….”

At that moment, they kissed. And it wasn’t one of those quick-chaste kisses, it was passionate, feeling, the signs of desperation being released all at once.

And as that very moment played through over and over again in Megan’s head, she began to reconsider. Was this what she really wanted? Was Jiyong really ‘the one’? If there was someone else, someone else she had this feeling for….was it….Yongbae?

“Megan?” Jiyong asked as he noticed the too-long period of silence between the two.

“Excuse me,” Megan blurted out. She quickly stood and made her way for the door.
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Megan banged repeatedly on the door, although unsure of what she would say once it was answered.

“Okay, okay, I’m coming,” she heard through the other end.

As the door opened, she was greeted by a groggy and partially confused Yongbae.

“Megan?” he asked groggily, obvious signs that he was in dreamland before he was ever so rudely interrupted.

“Those three words,” she asked, “The very three words you said to me the night before I left.”

“What about them?” a very confused Yongbae asked.

“Did you mean them?” she asked, her voice now trailing quietly instead of demandingly as before.

He waited awhile before answering.

“How could I have not?” he finally replied.

“Do you still?” she asked, a single tear now forming in her left eye.

Yongbae considered all the possibilities. Here was a girl whom he was totally and utterly smitten by, standing at his very doorstep, questioning him about the past. But then again, what would happen to Jiyong if he told her the truth? Would Jiyong feel betrayed? Would Jiyong blame Yongbae and perhaps never speak to him ever again? No…it was too much to risk.

“No….” he replied slowly, “You asked me to forget about you……and I did what you told me to.”

“Oh…….” she then replied.

There was a moment of silence between the two, and neither could tell whether it was a good silence or a bad silence.

“Excuse me…..” she broke the silence.

The next thing Yongbae knew, he was back in his bed, laying on his back.

Nope, he was definitely not going to get any sleep tonight.
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As Megan made her way down the stairs from Yongbae’s apartment, she couldn’t help but wonder if the answer she had gotten really was the answer that she wanted.

Then, she couldn’t help noticing the figure that stood leaning against the lamp post as she reached the ground floor.

“Jiyong….” was all she managed to voice out.

Silence…I hear it’s a wonderful thing.

“How did you…..” she continued.

“I figured this would be the first place you’d be headed.”

At that moment, she no longer cared. Her feelings towards Yongbae were completely forgotten, as she ran towards Jiyong and leaped into his waiting arms.

“I’ll take that as a ‘yes’ then?” Jiyong stated, half-jokingly.

Megan answered, her voice muffled by Jiyong’s shoulder.