(NON) PRETEND HUSBAND
Should I Hugged You?

Kian was watching the photos in his camera when Ann came out of the bathroom and inching to sit next to him.

The clock has shown at 10 Korean time but Kian still does not want to sleep. A picture of Ann accidentally splashing and swallowing seawater appears on the small screen of her camera, Kian chuckles at the photo.

Ann glanced at what Kian was laughing and snorted in annoyance. If only she had not been fooled by Kian who said if there was a baby seahorse, would not have Ann approach the man to the middle of the beach. Not a seahorse he got, but a shrimp! Exasperated to have been deceived, Ann turned around quickly, but fateful his feet even stumbled on a small rock until he was splashed and Luke immortalized the moment with a very epic!

"Playing on the beach isn't as bad as your mind, is it?" muttered Kian while still not paying attention to photo after photo that he slowly slides.

"Not bad, except for the saltwater part!" cecar Ann disagrees.

Kian chuckles. "Kalo is not salty, meaning sugar water is not sea water!"

Ann smiled in annoyance at Kian's reply.

"Oh yeah, you haven't answered why refuse me to make medsos?!"

"Is it important to have medsos?"

"important, please! Do you want to be considered primitive?"

"Who is considered so?"

"Your friends!" ann won't lose.

Kian smiled wryly. "I don't care. As long as I don't disturb their peace."

"But you're disturbing my peace!"

More silent, he put the camera that had been on his lap to the table. "Why is that?"

"Because I can't shake you! I can't show you off."

"Displayed?"

Ann nodded quickly. "Friends of my age already have their own families. Even often showing off pictures of her husband, her baby children, and those who were photographed it had social media, you know!"

"What does this have to do with me?"

Ann breathed in patience. Sometimes it gets a little slow when it comes to the social world.

"Look, Kian. In social life, showing off your partner, branded goods and travel is a prestige. Especially for people like me, where every eye is always on me. So, people in my neighborhood will always wonder if I don't give you the full news."

Kian noticed Ann's face is very expressive when telling a story. Very different from her flat self even tends to be stiff.

"Is that really your goal?" tanya Kian made sure.

Ann nodded quickly, a wide smile on her thin lips.

"alright. Tomorrow I'll make the social media as you want."

"Really!?"

Kian nodded confidently.

"Aaaaaw, thank you, Kian!" Ann sprang into Kian's embrace spontaneously.

The more who did not expect that Ann would embrace him could only be stunned. His breath was held for a moment. The vanilla fragrance from Ann's hair bursts into her senses. Swallowing nervous saliva was the only way for Kian to neutralize his panic.

"Ups, sorry! No physical touch!" Ann quickly untied her embrace and retreated a few centimeters.

Kian finally exhaled his breath that had been restrained and threw away his face while laughing.

"Betewe Kian, what are your future plans?" ann asked as she stared at the cityscape of Jeju outside her hotel window. "After we get divorced, you'll still consider my Dad your parents, right?!" continued Ann bitter.

He did not say, he could not see clearly what his future would be.

"Kian?"

"Of course, Ann. Don'worry. I'll keep visiting you even if we're apart."

Laughing, he turned to Ann who was still looking at him curiously. "of course. I still want to have a happy family and funny kids. You alone? Are you going back to your ex?"

Ann sighed and exhaled slowly. "Eitherway. It's unthinkable."

"Oh, huh?"

Ann nodded for sure. "The day you found me crying in that elevator was the day I found her going with another woman in front of my eyes" Ann said. There was a wound he felt when he remembered that day.

More silent, the task now only needs to listen and be a good listener.

"I thought I was the center of his world. But it turns out I'm just a splinter that could disappear at any moment." Ann held her breath for a moment.

"I adore Daren so much. He was the only man who could shake my heart at the time. But popularity has changed him. I don't recognize him anymore."

Looking at Ann with pity, she still listened to the woman speak.

"You know, I'd love to marry the man I love. He came to Camellia Hill with him and had many children who resembled one of us. Someday I want to take a break from the hustle and bustle of work and be a whole woman at home. Serving my husband and children. I want my children to have a mother figure they can be proud of. I want to be loved deeply by my husband, I-I .." Ann's tears broke. He could not continue his words stuck in his throat.

Sighs in panic at the sight of those tears. He hates to see women cry! Slowly her hands stretched out and patted Ann's shoulder warmly. He didn't know what to do to calm Ann down.

"Huhuhuhu .... I didn't think all my dreams couldn't come true! Huhuhuhu ..."

"Ssttt .. don't cry, Ann," whispered Kian. Sometimes she stroked Ann's hair gently.

"I'm sad, Kian. I'm disappointed in my destiny!"

"Hus, you can't say that. God has designed your destiny with the best possible story. The more you deny, the harder it will be for you" Kian advised.

Ann wiped her tears quickly, she looked up and looked at Kian closely. "Do you not know how to calm a woman when she is fragile?"

Kian shakes fast. He had never been in contact with any woman before. How can you understand the tips and tricks around the world of women?!

"Hugs, Kian! Women who cry need hugging!!" sumpul Ann is upset.

"But we can't, can we, Ann? No phy-"

"Ck. You're outrageous! This is how you are insensitive!" tukas Ann upset.

"Do you want to be hugged?"

Ann glared furiously. "It's too late, Kian! I'm not in the mood to cry anymore."

Kian breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank God that's it," he sighed.

"Ck. Have you ever faced a woman who is crying in front of you?!"

Thinking for a moment. Risa used to cry at that time. "Either."

"Continue?"

"Yaaa, he also asked in the hug, anyway. Just like you are now."

"Tuh, right. You are basically insensitive!" sumpul Ann was annoyed.

"Is that so?"

"Let's go, just think with your brain that's just filled with that job!"

Kian chuckles to hear Ann's curse on him. She likes to flirt and sees Ann whining furiously because she is so expressive.

"Because I can't say the word 'sorry', so I just want to say, I'll follow all your will, '" Kian promised sincerely.

Ann smiled resentfully and hit Kian's arm spoiled. He stood up from the sofa and went up to the bed. He better get some sleep before the two of them go deeper.

"Good night, Kian! Don't forget to turn the lights off!"

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