Our Love (J.JK x M.MN)

Loving is Easy

J U N G K O O K

Mina's been feeling better now that it's been a few days since the accident. She still has to stay home for a bit, so she's been keeping herself busy.

The house has never looked better and she tried cooking some new things for lunch a few times. Junsu seems ecstatic that Mina's home all day. She sends me cute pictures and videos of him while I'm at work.

The other day, we were testing out a new mobile photo editor and Kyungsoo told us we could use any photos we wanted, since we were just learning how to use it. I chose one of the first photos in my camera roll. It was a photo of Mina and I that we took a few nights ago. It was one of my favorite photos of us together because I wasn't looking at the camera. I was looking at her.

I was messing around with the app's filters and adjusting things until I was happy with the image. By the time I was finished with it, it looked like a movie poster. I saved it and sent it to Mina.

JK: look what I made

JK: [sent a photo]

MN: wow you made that?

MN: that looks professional

MN: definitely saving that

JK: I loved this picture even before I edited it

JK: you look so cute

MN: ok but look at your little smile

MN: you're adorable

I like that my job doesn't require me to be "acting", if you know what I mean. I don't have to deal with customers or anything, I can literally just sit by myself all day and there's nothing wrong with it. At least this way I can talk to Mina during work.

Some people have told me we're too attached to each other, but I don't think so. It's not like I'll die if I'm not with her. It's a healthy amount of attachment in my opinion.

Anyways, since I'm working at HYBE now, they have a lot of employee benefits. We're allowed to use most of the facilities in the building during our breaks. I started using the gym as soon as I found out we could. I used to always just work out at home with little to no equipment, so this was pretty exciting for me.

After about two weeks or so, Mina was almost completely recovered and I was waiting for her to notice anything different about my appearance. Personally, I started noticing my biceps and my chest getting stronger. I was working out a lot more and I saw the progress. She finally noticed when some of my oversized shirts weren't so oversized on me anymore.

"Did that shirt shrink?" She asks, "It looks different on you."

I shrug, "I don't think so. This material's not supposed to shrink in the wash."

She takes a step towards me, looking closer.

"Have you been working out that much?"

I laugh and nod. I told her that we were allowed to use the gym at work, but I didn't tell her that I was working out almost everyday.

"Is it too much? Should I stop?" I ask.

"No, no! You do what you want. It's your body." She says, "Just don't hurt yourself please."

"I'll be careful." I assure her.

Mina's the kind of person who will worry about you, but won't tell you. But I've been with her long enough to know when she's worrying.

She goes back to work in a few days so we'll have to go back to our usual hand-offs with Junsu.

We're having a staff open house at HYBE soon, so all of the staff can bring their friends or families to tour the facility.

I haven't told Mina about it yet, but I really want to bring her and Junsu to the open house. I can finally show her all of the things I've been telling her about. I feel excited like how a little kid is when they get to show their parents their school. The whole editing team said they would come too, so I get to introduce Mina and Junsu to them. I'm planning on just waking up for work one morning and asking her, "Do you wanna go to work with me?" And hopefully it works out like I thought it would.

When I came home one day, I found that Mina had gotten the photo I edited printed and put it in a small frame. She displayed it in the living room. It's one of the first things I see when I walk into the house now.

If we had started our relationship off "normally", like starting from the first date to possibly labeling our relationship and so on, I would want to be dating for at least two years before even considering marriage or proposing to her, but since we started the way we did, things are a lot different. People find it weird that we have a 1 year old kid together, but we've only been dating for a few months. We don't like to mention that he's "not our kid", biologically, so most people think that Mina had him with someone else. And then they get confused when she tells them I'm her first boyfriend. I don't know, it's just really complicated.

I kind of feel like we're stuck in this one phase. Like, I want to take the next step with her, but I think we're both scared that we're going too fast. There's no right or wrong way to date, but it's not as easy as it seems. I think I should just wait it out a bit longer. Let's just enjoy what we have while we can. There's no need to rush.

These things run through my mind at night when she falls asleep before I do. I can subtly see her face in the dark, unless she's right up against me. I wonder if we're gonna be like this forever. Will our love still be like this later on?

All I can do is hope.

Hope and create the love I want, right here, right now.