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Hyuna and Nia had gotten ice cream and started telling each other about themselves.
“Ok…so you’re saying you’ve been engaged to this guy for almost two years and you feel like you don’t really know him? Girl. Why are you in a relationship with him?”
Nia chewed on her bottom lip. “I’m in love with him, aren’t I?”
“You don’t know what love is, do you?”
Nia sighed. “Not really….”
“Love…is being selfless for the sake of the other person. Love is forgiving someone easily even when they don’t deserve it. Love is just being there for someone when they need it.”
Nia knew she was supposed to think of things Hobi had done for her…but instead she thought of Mr. Kim. And how kind he’d been to her. They barely knew each other, but he had treated her like they had been lifelong friends.
“Am I in love with him…?”
“I don’t know. Would you risk your life to save him?” Hyuna joked, smiling as she took a bite of her ice cream.
Nia just stared down at hers. Would she…?
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Nia returned Taehyung’s shirt to him on Monday. She quite liked it. She wished she could keep it, but she didn’t even know who it belonged to.
After talking to Hyuna she was wondering if she should break off her engagement with Hobi. She didn’t think she was in love with him. Not if the way Hyuna had described love was what love really was. She stumbled through her stack of paperwork that day. She needed to talk to Mr. Kim. She wanted to. But she didn’t know how to. He wasn’t approachable. Just the thought of trying to talk to him scared her. Even though she knew he was not the cold, distant man he was painted out to be, he was still hard to talk to.
Taehyung was watching Nia as she worked. He wanted to do something. In all truth, he wanted to ask her out. But she was taken already, so he would not. He wished he’d known she was alive sooner. Maybe he would’ve had another chance.
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Two days later Taehyung decided to just go for it. He’d invite her over for dinner and invite her parents and fiancé for good measure.
“Ms. Choi?”
Nia spun around. She had been on her way out of the office when Mr. Kim had called her name. “Yes, Mr. Kim?”
“I’d like to invite you, your fiancé, and your parents to dinner on Friday night.”
Nia’s eyes widened. “Oh…um…sure! What time and where?”
“My place. How’s seven?”
“Um. Yeah. Sure! That works.”
Taehyung smiled. “Ok. I’ll text you my address.”
Nia nodded. Then she spun on her heel again and walked out the door. She wondered how Friday would go…she was nervous now.
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“Hobi.”
“Hmm?”
“Are you doing anything on Friday night?”
“Yes, I have dinner with one of my colleagues. Why?”
“Oh…my boss invited us and my parents to dinner.”
“Oh really?” Hobi knit his eyebrows together. “Strange….”
But Nia was already off in her own world.
