Busride (1/1)

Jong Kook was stuck in the rain, the rain had came fast and furious and now he was trapped in a bus stop.  He couldn’t do anything except look at the rain. The rain seemed to be dancing with the wind, occasionally, a piece of leaf would accompany the rain in its dance with the wind. When will the rain stop? He just needed to cross the road to reach his office and he hated to be wet. The buses came and went. A woman came down from the bus and sat down beside him. She seemed to be in the same state as him.A strong wind suddenly blew and the woman inched towards him, trying to find shelter from the strong wind. He got up and sat at the other side of the woman, shielding her from the wind. She looked at him shyly and gave a gratitude smile. The wind seemed to blow away the rain and the rain stopped. He got up, he needed to get to work before he was late. The next day, he saw her again, this time on the bus. She sat down beside him and gave him a smile and said good morning. He smiled back. After a while, he found her nodding away beside him. Before he reached his stop, he politely woke her up. She gave him a blur look and then realised his intent. She also stood up. She gave him a sheepish smile and said, “This going to be my stop too.” He grinned, he found her cute.She seemed to have made him her official alarm clock, she would choose to sit with him so that she could nap somemore on the bus. He let her be, he didn’t mind her doing so. They even managed to strike simple conversation when they met each other at the bus stop in the evening. He found out she was called Cheom Im, that was a pretty name, he had thought. She was working in a building beside his. The day he saw her, it was her first day of work. They would share a bit about their work. They often would chat until she reached her stop.One morning, she was napping as usual when suddenly she woke up and tried to move closer to him, he looked to her side and saw a pervert trying to touch her with his private parts. He felt anger rising and he stood up and motioned her to slide to his place. When he sat down at her place, he “accidentally” stepped on the pervert feet and the pervert screamed. He didn’t say sorry and just sat down. Cheom Im giggled, she felt she was saved by a knight. She appeared with breakfast the following day, she had made it specially for him. From that day on, he would let her sit inside while he protected her.He found that the more he knew her, the more he liked her. He should asked her out, but how. He was in dilemma. He had limited experience in asking women out, he always felt shy around women. He decided to ask his best friends, Tae Hyun, Jang Hyuk and Kyung Min, for help. They met over dinner.“I need help,” he said. All his friends looked curiously at him. He had never needed help before, he was a capable man with good looks. “I … “ he blushed, it was so awkward to tell his friend the problem but he really need help.“Ohh…. The man blushes” Tae Hyun started to tease him. “It must relate to woman then”. Jong Kook blushed deepen.“Stop teasing him” Jang Hyuk stepped in. This brother of his had been single for too long, while the three of them were happily married. “What’s the problem?”“I… met this woman and I …” he let out a sigh. “think .. no I know I like her” his eyes reflected his feeling. “Now I needed to ask her out”“ahhh …. But you don’t know how right?” Tae Hyun made fun of him again. “You came to the right person, I am an expert.”“Expert… “ this time Jang Hyuk laughed at Tae Hyun, “For someone who married his first love and only date his first love .. unless you tell me you secretly dated some others” Jang Hyuk dared Tae Hyun to said that.“Ee.. look I watched a lot of movies and dramas ok.” Tae Hyun shut up and sulked at a corner.“I think we are better experts that he is” Kyung Min stepped in. They gave all sorts of ways for Jong Kook to ask her out, Tae Hyun couldn’t stand to be alone and joined in. They left the dinner with an action plan that would work for Jong Kook.The next Monday, Jong Kook had practise all his line before Cheom Im got on the bus, he smiled at her as she sat down beside him. “Jong Kook shi, you need to help me.” From their conversation, she knew he often worked out, it was not hard to tell anyway. “I needed you to help me worked out, my best friend wedding coming up, and she had pre order a bridemaid’s dress for me that was a size too small, I need to get into that dress.” Jong Kook swallowed his scripts and concentrated to help her up with her problem.“Let me think how to help you, we discussed after work” he suggested as their stop came up.“Let’s a good idea, let me give you my phone number.” Jong Kook handed over his phone and she punched in her number on it. He was awed at how easy he had gotten her number. Well that was a good first step.He had managed to come up with a plan to help her cut one size but he knew it would be quite a brutal one since she need it in 3 months’ time. He dropped her a message to tell her he was ready to discuss this evening , they really didn’t have much time. They met over dinner at a shop near her home, it was her favourite shop. He gave her a brief on his plan, he warned her of the difficulty. She was determined to slim down for her best friend.For the three months, they would met up each day for work out, during weekdays, after work, during weekends, almost the whole day. They would engage in different activities. Sometime, they would take a break from the work out and do things she liked. Their hobbies wasn't  the same but it complement. After two and the half month, she reached her target, they just needed to maintain it. After she attended the wedding, she asked him out for dinner, she wanted to wear that dress for him to see. Jong Kook agreed and picked a restaurant that fitted the occasion. He even picked her up from her house, he was determined to make her his.The moment she opened the door, she took his breathe away, she looked so pretty and he cant help to wonder how many guys tried to hit on her on her friend’s wedding but he didn’t asked. She looked at the man in suit, he was looking more handsome than normal. She felt her heartbeat drum rolled and will it to be quiet, she was afraid he could hear it. They had a good dinner at the restaurant. Jong Kook suggested they took a walk to help digestion he said.He reached out for her hand and held it in his big ones. She blushed but she liked the feeling of her hand in his. She stole a glance at him and he was looking everywhere but at her. She saw his ears were red. She knew he was blushing too.They strolled down the street until they reached a little park. Jong Kook had mustered enough courage and he turned to look at Cheom Im. “Cheom Im, we had been friends for half a year at least right?”“Yes,” she answered, wondering where he was heading.“I …. “ he inhaled before rattling the rest of words out. “have liked you for a very long time. I have never meet a girl like you before, you are friendly and gracious I wanted to ask you out but you asked for my help instead and I was very happy I could spend more time with you you are a wonderful girl you are a pretty girl you are the girl of my dreams and the girl for me the last 3 months had been the most wonderful months in my life and I want to spend even more time with you actually I didn’t only like you but I love you too. Do you want to my girlfriend?”He looked at her anxiously. She looked at him blank, still trying to process what he had said.He felt his heart in his mouth, he wondered was she trying to find excuses to reject him. His heart was turning cold. Before he can say anything, she moved closer to him and whispered “Yes. I wanted to be your girlfriend” into his ears before giving him a peek on his cheeks. His eyes flared with happiness, he gave her a tight hug, whispering “I love you” into her ears.He sent her home, they were a picture of happiness, she snuggled closed to him and he snuggled closed to her. He stood in front of her door, and he gave her their first kiss, it was a sweet and short, yet it meant promises of more to come,