Two Years

"Aaaaaa!" Xie Eun screamed as she tried to clutch at the pole behind the seat of the bus to regain her balance but it was a useless effort and she had soon fallen in a man's lap. The man's strong arms raised and supported Xie Eun by placing them on her waist.

"Whew!" Xie Eun opened her eyes and glanced into the eyes of her savior as she muttered,"Yu Seok!What are you doing here?"

Yu Seok raised an eyebrow and muttered daily, serving as your seat as of now...Realising that she was sitting in her friend's lap after the fall, she jumped off and stood back. Looking around she saw that all the seats in the bus were occupied and the only vacant seat was next to Seok.So, ordering the mild mannered man boldly, she said,"You!Move over."

You Seok, who had buried himself back in his book, looked up impassively and asked,"Are you asking me?"

Sigh!She uad forgotten that being bossy did not work on Yu Seok so she changed tactics and said,"Yu Seok..please move over so that I can not here!You know I am claustrophobic and can only sot on the aisle seat.Please?"

She even blinked her long eyelashes at him trying to coax him much to the amusement of a little boy in the front seat who snickered loudly at this.

Yu Seok, however was unmoved as he said,"You should have come earlier then.."

"Yu Seok!You know I would have come earlier but I had some work!And I got delayed!And what are you even doing here in the bus."

"I am here to dance on the bus!Of course I am here because I am travelling on this bus!"

"I meant this bus goes to my small village so why are you going there?"

Yu Seok who was trying to read and knew that the girl would not let him until she had her seat. Seeing that the other passengers were getting irritated with their loud noise, Yu Seok simply stood up and moved over to the window seat. He had not even fully moved when Xie Eun jumped and sat down without even a muttered thanks.

Xie Eun grinned as she watched her, Yu Seok bury his nose back into his book.Actually, she had been dreading going back to her village alone. It had been almost two years since her father passed away and she had come back to the city to live with her maternal grandparents and attend university. She tunedher head to look at the handsome and quiet man next to her. Here she had found herself a trustworthy friend.Yu Seok was like yin to her yang.where she was flamboyant and loud, he was calm and quiet. Combined with his beautiful looks and mysterious personality, many girls I'm the university would flock to him but she was the one who had stumbled upon his secret and been anle to become friends with him.

And since she knew his secret, she felt that it was fine even if he found her secret.

Feeling her stare, Yu Seok turned his green gaze on her and looked questioning.

Shaking her head, she simply cluted his bicep and said,"Thank you.."

Ironically, he said,"Instead of thanking me, you should be cursing your dear would be fiance who had promised to go with you. Where is that man?"

Xie Eun paused and wanted to explain that she had refused and asked him not to come but before she could do that the bus started and she almost slipped off her seat and would have fallen if Yu Seok's hand had not clutched her arm to keep her steady.

She looked up and realized that he had even done that instinctively knowing her propensity to fall..and was still continuing to read his book.Amused at how he always saved her Xie Eun once again continued to a rare at him.He really was drool worthy handsome. His chiseled jaws and straight nose made him look like an ancient hero who had walked straight out of a historical novel. Letting her imagination run wild, Xie Eun imagined that he would be a court officer I'm the ancient days..then shook her head, no no that would be too simple for him..he would have to be a court scholar..The most learned and wise man in the country...During the day he would be worshipped all the maids and even concubines for his looks and demeanor but in the night he would be passionate with his lover...a soldier in the king's army..Shaking her head, Xie Eun thought to herself, it was her fantasy and here at least she could have made him had a female lover..but just because he was gay..she had made him gay in her imagination also!

Disappointed at her own imagination,Xie Eun decided to close her eyes and sort her thoughts during this journey.With Yu Seok by her side, she did not need to worry about anything and could let her mind wander.Placing her head on his shoulders, she closed her eyes and thought of how to face things that she had been hiding from over these two years. Her stressed mind slowly relaxed and her last thought was of the green eyes that had glittered at her from behind the mask and even in sleep she could only marvel that she knew two people with green eyes and yet their gazes were so different...Of only she had opened her eyes at this moment, she would have seen the green eyes of the man next to her and seen for herself that they were not so different....