CH: 24 DATING

We reached our house I hoped off from the cycle but I was still unable to walk due to the excess pain in my abdomen. I tried to move inside at a slow pace when he went to park the cycle. It was getting more and more troublesome in placing every step, "you fool, you got indulged in the fight and now you are nagging because of the trouble you created yourself, you deserve this." I spoke as I hit my head but as soon as I did it I regretted it too because my head was also injured it was luck that it didn't hit on the injury but it still hurt.

I was still trying to make my legs work when I felt hands on the back of my knee and one on the back of my shoulder and within a second my feet were not on the ground anymore they were in the air, I looked at who the person was. And it was no one other than Jacob. I was about to say something but couldn't because he spoke first, " If you had a problem walking why you didn't tell me?" and looked at my face which was red, like a tomato. I was blushing and was avoiding eye contact when he again spoke," Hey! Are you still angry with me mason? "I shook my head saying a "NO" in a low but audible voice.

He was still not buying my words. he spoke again, "Then why are you ignoring me like this? You are not replying my any question properly." It was true that I wasn't replying to his questions properly but the reason was not that I was angry with him it was just that I was angry with myself plus I was blushing so much that I wasn't able to speak anything. And that time I looked at his face and said, "It's not like that hyung. I... I... I just don't know... what to say... because I'm... I'm really embarrassed... embarrassed about my action."

"You don't have to be Mason, because you didn't start it, right? You just defended yourself." He spoke and comforted me and pulled closer in his embrace, while still holding me in his hands.

"But I provoked them" I said because I wasn't feeling any better.

"Don't worry about it now. Let's just go inside and have dinner. It's already late and you haven't eaten anything for a while... right?" he said as he started moving forward towards the house I calmed myself a bit. When we reached near the door, he put me down to unlock the door. When he unlocked it, I tried to move inside. He again lifted me and said, "Don't walk Mason, you are already hurt, it will hurt more if you try to put pressure on them." He walked towards our room and gently lied me on the bed and said, "you wait here let me bring some water to clean you." And after finishing those words he went away to do so, I was so flattered by his every action that I was feeling more and more close and attached to him every minute I stay with him.

I wasn't sure about what I was feeling was the same which I was thinking because it was my first time being attracted to someone, someone who was new, irritating and frustrating to me the first day we met. But slowly he was turning into a loving, sweet, and caring person for me whom I don't want to leave. I wanted him to stay by my side no matter what but I didn't want to expose my feelings to my thoughts because I wasn't sure he wanted the same from me too and if he didn't maybe he would end our friendship too. So I wasn't ready to take any action.

"What are you thinking about Mason?" I heard his voice and shook my head to remove the thought from my head which weren't ready to leave my head. He sat near me and said, "Are you still worried about what happened. Just remove it from your brain as if it didn't happen." I shook my head and said, "Hyung! I wanted to tell you one thing."

"What is it?" he spoke as he dipped the towel in the water to make it wet. I knew that what I was going to tell about is something which is not necessary to tell him but I wanted him to know that, after all that was the only reason for what happened to me. I took a deep breath and spoke it out.

"I wanted to tell you about... that I'm dating someone." I spoke and I saw a sudden fall of expression from his face. His face went blank or I can say totally expressionless. I didn't know why but his eyes widen too after hearing my words, maybe because he never expected that as I'm not an open person, I continued "it isn't a real dating hyung. I am just pretending to date my friend because a boy is continuously nagging her and she thought if I will help her by being a fake boyfriend, he would leave her... but... the guy... the guy whom I indulged in the fight was that boy only, he warned me to stay away from her but I didn't listen to him and he did this." I paused and looked at Jacob who was still blank and was still dipping the towel even though it was all wet by then.

I held his hand and again spoke in a low voice, "sorry hyung it was entirely my fault to do that. I shouldn't have done that." He looked at me and said, "It isn't your fault Mason. You just helped your friend to protect her", and smiled towards me; which was a forced smile. And his words were not comforting anymore they were emotionless. I knew the smile was a forced one because his face and eyes were telling so. I knew he wasn't happy but I couldn't do anything to remove that fake smile into a real one.

He then finished dipping the cloth into the water and squeezed out the excess water from the towel and wiped my hands, he was doing it very gently but the thing that was hurting me that time was that Jacob was unhappy because of me. I scolded myself in my brain a lot because I didn't want this to happen. I didn't know the reason for his unhappiness but I still believe it was because of me because I did too many things that would result in his sadness. He then asked me to remove my shirt so that he could wipe my body too and I did as he said. He started wiping my chest and then my back.

I was sitting there but I didn't want to I wanted to be alone so that I could reflect on what I did I wanted to be alone so that I could think how to make Jacob happy again how to apologize to him. I heard Jacob's voice, "I'll plate the dinner now .you want to eat it on the table or on the bed?"

I nodded my head and said, "I will eat the dinner at the dining table." After getting my reply that he went outside the room and I was sitting all alone in the room feeling a deep pain in my heart even though Jacob told me not to feel guilty about what happened but it wasn't possible for me to not do so.

SORRY FOR THE SHORT CHAPTER...

I AM PREPARING FOR SOME SORT OF EXAM NOW SO I WILL UPDATE A SHORT CHAPTER THIS TIME. I WILL UPLOAD A BIG CHAPTER NEXT TIME.

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