“Sunbaenim…”
“I can’t hide it. I like you.”
“Young Bae oppa,” I laugh automatically. “I like you too…”
“No,” Tae shakes his head and gives me a very serious look.
“Joaheyo*,” he says.
“J-joaheyo…?” I echo his words.
“Joaheyo. Joaehyo. Joaheyo.”
“Jo–…” I do know what it means.
I look around myself, confused. It’s already getting dark outside… Then I laugh it off akwardly. This is so weird. I don’t know how to react.
“Hmh, that’s, um, nice.”
“Agh,” he huffs and almost takes the soju bottle down with his hand.
“It’s… Forget it. Yeah. I’ll just leave first,” he stands up to leave. I stare at him and I can feel my forehead wrinkling.
“Young Bae…” I say silently as he puts his jacket on and glances at me. He stares at me, waiting. He gulps. I can feel that he’s ashamed.
“Why? Why joaheyo? Wae…"

Then I realise something. All the puzzle pieces come together.
"How long have you…?”
He has always taken so good care of me. Different events and memories come to my mind. Tae looks at me for a moment, closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. Then he gives me the last look before turning around and leaving me at the table alone. I see his dark shadow walking further away in the moonlight as the wet concrete sparkles. Head gets hidden under the collars and a snapback comes out of his pocket. Soon the shadow vanishes behind the laundry building.

The car is waiting me on the parking lot right where he parked it before. I see his black silhouette leaning against the steering wheel, exhausted. Everything looks even much worse when it’s raining non-stop. It was only an hour ago, the beautiful weather.
The door opens without a sound. I sit on the car seat and put my seat belt on as silently as I can, then close the door. The rain is hitting on the engine bonnet and windows but then it slowly starts to rain less and less.
Young Bae lifts his head up and with slow moves he starts the engine, doesn’t even check if I’m there.
I’t akwardly silent. Neither of us admits it and puts the radio on. No, instead we are hanging on. Tae yawns and tries to make it look as unnoticable as possible. I’m scared that he will fall asleep while driving.
“You waited for me,” I say something in a silent tone. He doesn’t respon right away but I can imagine what he would say. “Of course I did. YG would kill me if he knew I left you alone and left back to Seoul myself.”
“You know… It’s good to talk about your feelings,” I mutter. Tae gets enough of me and I can see him squeezing the steering wheel with white fingers.
“Forget what I said, okay?” he tries his hardest not to bite his lips.
“Maybe it’s only a good thing that I know. I mean, it’s propably better than if I wouldn’t know,” I speak unclearly. “But I guess you know how I feel,” I add.
“Mm,” Young Bae hums. “You still love him.”
“I never stopped loving him in the first place,” I say silently and look down on my knees.
“I’m sorry for telling you that.”
“No, no!” I look at him and give a laugh to make the atmosphere less chilly. “I should have seen that. It was just a bit unexpected.”
And after my words, a thirty minute long silence follows. We both have things to say but we are both wise to keep our mouths just shut. It’s takes some time to get back to Seoul, still.
“Tomorrow’s the YG family concert,” Tae begins this time. He hasn’t looked at me for even once.
“Yes.”
“Are you performing?”
“Oh, no,” I answer his question. “I’m just helping the staff.”
“Ah, okay."

We are getting closer to Seoul. Familiar buildings and shops can be recognised already.
"I won’t tell anyone,” I say comfortingly as Tae curves to the parking lot of the dormitory.
“Hopefully you can keep the secret better than me…”
“But it wasn’t your fault,” I note.
“Oh!” I remember something as I’ve been going through the memories. “Was the fight between you and Ji Yong oppa about this??”
“And I’m really sorry for –,” he looks really done with the subject.
"You had to do that,“ I smile at him and finally he encourages himself to look back at me. But soon after he looks away again, closes his eyes and gulps. I can see pain in his expression.
"You don’t know how much it hurst to see you smiling like that when I know it’s just a lie,” he says silently. I don’t have a words to say to him. I just let him do the talking.
“And now we’ll never do anything fun together again because you’re afraid that I will fall in love with you… It may be that if we spent more time together, I would never be able to stop thinking about you. I would never let you go,” he turns the key and the engine quiets down.
“But I’m not afraid of that,” I say with warm tone and a smile on my face.
“I know that you understand who I truly love. And now that I know… I don’t have to be scared of you. You know that whatever I do with you, I don’t do it because I like you that way. You just have to remember that,” I look into his dark eyes and that look he gives me, it’s like a question mark. ‘How do you do it? How are you so good?'
“And I will always know,” I look ouside. “If I need someone, I have you."



*joaheyo = I like you

Notes

NEW CHAPTER MARATHON BEGINS! I will update all the last chapters of this part of the BIGBANG fanfiction story. Thank you for all the views, all the readers! I love you! I will begin writing the 5th part soon so that I get to start updating it here. And I promise to make it even better and more enjoyable to read with lots of things going on! I have so many plans for that part and you know, it's about the group Minea will be in and the debuting time... So, stay tuned! I will be back soon!
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Teaser for chapter 27