Chapter 18:: Lovable at times

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"This is good!" Taehyung spoke eating the ramyeon as you nodded saying, "I like the eggs."
"It's just a boiled egg?" He asked as you said, "Still! It's good." He sighed at your statement and picked up the egg on his plate with chopsticks before placing it on your bowl making you confused. You looked at him asking, "Why are you giving this to me?"
"I don't want to eat this." He said as you chuckled saying, "Why are you suddenly being kind to me?"
"If you don't want it then let me just take it back!" Taehyung said about to take the egg back but you held his hands saying, "It's fine. Thank you! I'll eat well." He looked at your hands holding his as a fuzzy feeling arose in his heart. You realized what you did and took your hands back looking away.
"S-Sorry." You spoke as he coughed awkwardly drinking some water. You gulped looking down and quickly ate some ramyeon chewing it as fast as you could feeling awkward.

"Slow down!" Taehyung said as you gulped eating slower, yet awkwardly. Some time passed by as you both were done with your food.
"I'll pay." Taehyung said as you said, "I should pay for mine.." He glared at you making you shut up as you looked down. He sighed before paying as you both got out of the restaurant walking on the footpath as Taehyung spoke, "Do you want ice cream?"
"Huh? It's winter though." You said as he sighed saying, "Ice cream tastes the best in winter dumbo." You looked at him confused as he chuckled walking towards the ice-cream stall followed by you.
"A chocolate ice cream." He said as the man nodded taking one out.
"You?" Taehyung asked you as you thought before saying, "Strawberry." He nodded getting one for you as well. He paid as you took your ice cream. 
"Thank you? But what if I get a cold!" You said as he sighed.
"Dry enough." You made a 'tch' noise rolling your eyes as he smiled eating his ice cream. You walked beside him licking your strawberry ice cream. It did taste very good. Sighing, you started eating it without bothering about the weather.

Though you were a little anxious at first, as you ate the ice cream, you realized that it tasted awesome. It was winter, indeed. But still, your ice cream tasted so good. It fit perfectly with the lively street you both were walking in. Taehyung looked at you before saying, "Thanks for helping me in the research." You frowned looking at him and spoke, "Are you sure you're alright? Why are you being so nice today?"
"Can't I?!" He asked as you nodded looking away.
"You can... it's just not like you." You spoke as he sighed saying, "Then what is like me?"
"Being mean and annoying?" You spoke but shut your mouth mumbling a little 'sorry' seeing his deadly stare on you. 

"Go home now." He said as you nodded smiling.
"Thank you for the dinner." You spoke as he nodded rolling his eyes playfully making you let out an airy breath. 

He lifted his hand calling the taxi passing by as it came towards you both. You got in the taxi saying, "See you then, Mr Kim." He nodded waving at you as your taxi left. Taehyung smiled seeing the car drive away.
"What a weirdo I'm wasting my time with." Taehyung chuckled eating his ice cream. You, on the other hand, smiled looking outside the car window while it drove away.

A few days passed by like this. Every day, Taehyung would work extra hours and you would accompany him. Sometimes, till the end of his work which was 8 pm. Or sometimes you would leave early at 7 pm or a little late. Taehyung was always engrossed in his work so you ordered lunch for him. You tried to do some research at home about the topics of the project and sent the files to Taehyung whether he asked for them or not. And you knew, it helped him. 

His behaviour also changed a little these days. It always changed with him towards you, but these days, he was a little quieter. Probably because of the huge workload on his shoulders. It did make you feel a little down at times but you tried helping him as much as you could. 

"It's 2 days later, right? The presentation." Jungkook asked as Ms Ko nodded. You sat there saying, "Mr Kim seems to work pretty hard. I think it should go well."
"Woah! It's unlike our Ms Do to compliment her boss!" Ms Lee spoke as you chuckled saying, "I just saw him working! That's why I'm saying." Ms Ko chuckled saying, "It's true. Mr Kim might act like a kid and throw tantrums at us often but he's serious about work." 
"Yeah. That's why I find him cool." Jungkook said as you all chatted for a while sitting in the break room. Soon, everyone got back to their work as well as you.

"Mr Kim, how far has the work gone?" You asked Taehyung who replied, "It's not that bad. I think I finished 90% of the work. You also helped me quite a bit." You chuckled saying, "I know I'm helpful enough~" He sighed rolling his eyes getting up from his desk saying, "I'll take a walk outside. I'm annoyed."
"Okay." You said about to exit his cabin but he spoke, "Join me. I don't like walking alone." You looked at him confused as he smiled saying, "Just join me, will you?" You nodded walking with him. You both were in the garden now and suddenly Taehyung spoke, "Do Y/N." making you look at him confused as he said, "I won't call you that from now on."
"Huh? What do you mean Mr Kim?" You asked as he said, "I said I won't call you Do Y/N from now on."
"Then what will you call me?" You asked as he replied, "Y/Nah." 
"That's... not the formal way to address your secretary though." You said as he said, "Are you plain dumb or am I confusing?" 
"The latter one makes more sense." You mumbled as he glared at you shutting you up.
"Fine. You can call me that, you're my boss." You said as he said, "Then... if I call you casually, you should also call me casually."

"How do I do that?" You asked as he spoke, "Stop playing dumb."
"Okay." You thinned your lips looking down as he spoke, "You're not that younger than me. So, I'll let you talk to me without being formal, but only outside work." 
"Really? Are you being serious?!" You asked as he nodded blankly. You smiled evilly saying, "Okay! Taehyung." He looked at you wide-eyed as you said, "You said that.."

"I take it back." He said walking away making you confused.
"What the... did my heart just flutter-" Taehyung gulped holding his chest to feel his heart beating loudly. When he heard you call his name, he felt like heart flutter and he wasn't sure if he took the right decision by telling you to call him informally outside work.
"Sorry- I won't do that again." You said looking at him as he said, "That's... not what I mean. Just...ah! Go go. Let's go back. We have work." He said as you nodded following him inside completely puzzled by his behaviour. 

---Time skip 

"Mr Kim?" You asked as Taehyung looked at you saying, "What?" 
"Aren't you tired?" You asked as he looked at the time, 8:25 pm. 

"No. I'll work a little more. 5 minutes more. You go home." He said as you replied, "5 minutes don't even make a difference."
"Shut up!" He said as you nodded saying, "Taking out your anger on me I see."

"Let's walk together." You said as he said, "What?" 
"Let's walk together to the bus stand. You didn't take your car today." You said as he looked at you asking, "How do you know?" 
"I saw you." You said as he scoffed saying, "What are you? A spy?" He asked as you smiled cheekily nodding. He sighed, closed his desktop and got up saying, "Let's go." 

You smiled nodding as you both exited the company building walking on the streets.
"Why do you accompany me these days? Are you in love with me or something?!" He asked jokingly as you replied, "Maybe? I think so." He looked at you blankly not knowing how to reply before looking away. He awkwardly adjusted his voice saying, "What are you- Is that something you should tell your boss?!" 
"Why? What's wrong with that? I mean, I'm not sure." You said as he tried not to smile looking away saying, "Tch... Aigo! I feel bad for you. You ended up falling for me. Aigo!" 
"I never said I fell for you though." You spoke eyeing him as he looked at you blankly scoffing.
"What a mood spoiler." He mumbled as you chuckled saying, "Let's go then." 

You both got on the bus not much later as Taehyung spoke, "I get off one station later than you." 
"Yeah, I know." You said. He was sitting beside you as you looked outside the window. He looked at you saying, "Why did you join this company?" You looked at him confused as he said, "There are so many better companies. Why did you join ours?"
"Well. Jin Oppa scammed me into this. I was looking for a job after finishing graduation since I'm 25.. but I couldn't even find any proper company to apply for since I didn't have a company I wanted to get a job in. So, Jin Oppa suggested me this one.. of course, I didn't tell him I was going to apply for this one as he said. Good thing your former secretary put up that post of interview." You chuckled as he sighed saying, "Woah... you're just- unbelievable!"
"I know." You mumbled.

"You didn't even know the CEO of the company and applied so casually." He said as you chuckled saying, "I agree... I should've known better." He scoffed looking away. A while passed by in silence as you were looking outside the window for quite a while now. But suddenly, your eyes widened a little as you felt a lightweight on your shoulders. Looking beside you, you saw Taehyung's head on your shoulder. You looked at him sleeping peacefully. 

"He must've been tired." You mumbled looking at him. His face was looking so innocent while sleeping. You had seen him sleeping before but not so close. Your hands made their way to his cheeks as you softly touched them looking at him. 
"Not my fault you look lovable sometimes.."






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