-The next morning-
Jun Li Na opened her eyes in the dim-lit room. Although it was daytime, no one had pulled open the thick drapes leaving the room in darkness. She felt dark clouds roaming over her head. She held her skull with one hand as she felt ache ebbs and flow like a tide.
With the cracking headache, dehydrated throat and cracked lips, she felt like swaying. When she tried to lift her other hand, she realized that she holding onto something or rather someone. She tilted her face in slow motion and the sight before her, stunned her.
"Ah!!!" She screamed all of sudden and picked a pillow to hit Ye Jun who was sleeping beside her, laying on his stomach.
"What the hell?" Ye Jun spoke trying to open his eyes. He sat up and the duvet lifted revealing his bare sturdy chest. He looked at Jun Li Na and asked, "Why are you screaming?"
Jun Li Na looked at his bare body and looked down at her own clothes which were definitely not what she wore the previous night. Her head reeled worse than before as she kicked Ye Jun making him fall to the carpeted floor with a muffled thud.
"Ouch! What was that for?" Ye Jun stood up rubbing his hip. Jun Li Na covered her eyes with her hand when she noticed that the idiot Ye Jun was only wearing his boxers.
Her fear intensified as she felt her eyes stinging. "What happened last night?" She asked controlling her tears.
Ye Jun suspired audibly and said, "Last night was the most beautiful night of my life."
The tears that Jun Li Na was holding on to came gushing down like a stream without restraint. When Ye Jun heard her sobs, he got anxious. "Why are you crying?"
Jun Li Na glared at Ye Jun indignantly. "What else am I supposed to do? I kept myself chaste for so long and to think that my mistake cost me this..." She choked on her words while Ye Jun quirked his brows in surprise.
"You’re celibate?" He questioned.
"Clearly not anymore... You!" She looked at him accusingly.
Ye Jun raised his hands in defence. "Woah! What the hell are you talking about? Nothing like that happened last night. I would have known that you’re celibate if anything would have happened between us."
Then he related the happenings of last night to her in detail.
When he brought her to her apartment last night, she was struggling with her keys. Ye Jun helped her with opening the door and guided her to her bedroom. When he turned to leave, he heard her sobs and instantly halted in his tracks.
She was sitting at the edge of the bed, sobbing with a photo frame in her hand. She looked pitiful and it broke Ye Jun’s heart. He immediately crouched down near her and asked, "What’s wrong? Did I do something? Why are you crying?"
Jun Li Na stared at him with her almond-shaped eyes and after a long while, she spoke, "Do you really love me?"
Ye Jun laughed lightly at her question and answered, "Is there a doubt?"
She asked again. "How much?"
Ye Jun stayed quiet for a minute before speaking, "I can’t answer that but I can tell you that the more I look at you, the more I fall in love with you. But the only unfortunate thing is; I have only two eyes. No matter how much I look, I would think that it’s still not enough. After all, how much one can see through two eyes?"
His words put her in a trance. Suddenly, she chuckled. "Why do you love me? What do I have?"
Ye Jun stroked her cheek with his knuckles and said, "Love doesn’t need a reason. It’s a feeling that you have to feel and it’s a duty that you have to do."
Jun Li Na lowered her eyes and muttered, "Then why doesn’t he love me like you?" Tears fell down her face breaking Ye Jun’s heart further into pieces.
After that Ye Jun stayed until she changed out of her clothes herself. He gave her warm milk and tucked her in the bed before turning to leave. But she held his wrist and said, "Can you stay? I don’t want to be alone." Ye Jun happily nodded and sat beside her on the bed.
Coming back to the morning, she had stopped sobbing and looked confused. "But you aren’t wearing anything," she pointed out.
"Excuse me! I’m still wearing my boxers." Ye Jun felt wronged. "Also, I always sleep without clothes."
"Who does that? That’s so weird." She asked annoyed with his answer.
"Well, for me, the men who sleep in clothes are weird. Like come on, a person deserves to sleep comfortably and I’m comfortable without clothes." Jun Li Na scrunched up her face at his reply.
"Oh, you also said that it was your beautiful night? Why did you mislead me?" Jun Li Na accused him again.
"What are you talking about? How is that misleading?" Ye Jun really didn’t believe that he said anything wrong. "Also, it was my beautiful night because you on your own accord held my hand throughout the night. Doesn’t that make my night beautiful?"
Jun Li Na stared wide-eyed at him. She thought that he really had a weird way of thinking.
"I’m gonna take a shower." She said before almost running to the bathroom leaving Ye Jun alone in the dim-lit room.
Ye Jun wore his disheveled clothes again and pulled open the drapes to let the sun shine brightly in the bedroom before walking to the living room. He was wandering around the apartment when the doorbell rang.
Seeing that Jun Li Na was still in the shower, Ye Jun decided to open the door. He strode towards the door and yanked it open.
The person at the door turned and stared at Ye Jun while Ye Jun stared back at him.
"Who is at the door?" Both men heard Jun Li Na’s voice. Ye Jun turned to see while the man at the door craned his neck to see behind Ye Jun.
Jun Li Na only had a bathrobe around her body while a towel was wrapped around her head. Ye Jun turned back to the man outside the door and seeing his stormy eyes, Ye Jun gulped visibly.
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