(a/n: Just a little heads up. Complicated Reality is under construction, haha, so if you ever get confused into something here's the explanation: I've decided to merge some pairs of chapters into one, and put more into the next chapters. So yeah. If anyone tries to read this chap during the CR reconstruction, please skip the chap following this one, because I've merged the previous two chapters together. And it would also mean that CR wouldn't be completely readable for the next few months because of this, but it still won't change the plot, I promise you. Please bear with me.)

Set Up

Yi Jung left the others outside to iron out the plan they had in mind and went inside the room to find Ga Eul still lying down on her bed. He had time to wonder if Jan Di actually let her talk to her lying like that or Jan Di just fixed everything up. Whichever, though, he was glad that Ga Eul was comfortable.

"Did they leave, sunbae?" she asked him while he sat down beside her on the same chair he had been for the last two days.

The question was innocent enough but Yi Jung somehow wondered if she was sad that her best friend already left on such a short notice. "They haven't yet," he said, then added hastily, "Do you want me to call them back?" while standing up.

"No!" Ga Eul said before she can stop herself. She felt a blush rising to her cheeks while Yi Jung looked at her, confused.

"No?" he asked.

Ga Eul just slid lower under her blanket and repeated, "No," quietly, with a small smile playing in her lips and the blush dominating her cheeks.

Yi Jung slowly sat back down, still a bit confused. "Okay. Why?" he asked.

Ga Eul didn't answer. Instead, she swiftly pulled the blanket over her head, leaving her feet uncovered.

"HEY!" Yi Jung cried laughingly. "You could have just told me that you don't want to answer. I won't push you, you know. You didn't have to do that."

Ga Eul pushed down the blanket a little bit, so that only her eyes and the rest above them are what Yi Jung can see. "You won't?"

"I won't," he repeated.

Ga Eul glared at him above the blankets, stared at his eyes, then her gaze traveled low then up then low then up again. "You will!" she cried suddenly. "LIAR!" and then scooted back under the blankets.

"Since when did I become so readable?" Yi Jung laughed, throwing up his hands in defeat. Then he gasped all of a sudden that Ga Eul stuck her head out of the blanket. "You notice too much of me!" Yi Jung cried in mock realization. "You're a stalker!"

Ga Eul threw a pillow at him, but didn't say anything.

Yi Jung caught it and paused. "What? No witty comeback?" Then he gasped again. "YOU ARE A STALKER!"

"Give me back my pillow," Ga Eul ordered, her face tinting red. "I am running out of things to throw at you."

Yi Jung chuckled and threw her the pillow which she immediately threw back at him and hit him in the chest. Yi Jung gave her back the pillow again with a smile, feeling elated that Ga Eul wordlessly admitted to him that she is a stalker.

"I'm not a stalker," she said, as if reading his thoughts, but she said it so quietly he barely believed her so he just nodded.

Yi Jung thought for a moment and asked, "What were we talking about again?" innocently.

Ga Eul pouted at him and said, "About how I didn't want you to call in the others so we would have some time together," without thinking. Both Yi Jung and Ga Eul's eye grew wide but Yi Jung laughed out loud after and Ga Eul immediately disappeared under the sheets again. He was this close to pulling that blanket away so Ga Eul wouldn't have anything to hide under anymore. "I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING" she said under the blanket.

Yi Jung had to calm himself down before managing to say, "Of course you didn't!" too sweetly. "You didn't say anything about wanting to stay with me locked inside a room with just the two of us in it..."

Ga Eul sat up all too suddenly, her eyes wide with laughter and her face red, and said, "I definitely didn't say tha~," her words slurring at the end of the sentence. She slowly reached for her head as the room swayed ever so slightly. "I don't feel so good, sunbae," she said so softly that Yi Jung immediately sat on bed and caught her before she fell down so she was resting on his chest.

"Ga Eul-yang, look at me, look at me," Yi Jung said, his happy tone gone and replaced by a panicky voice. Yi Jung took her wrist to feel for her pulse which beat softly against his fingertips. He used the other hand to press the red button beside her bed that he hoped wasn't just for decoration. "Hey, how are you feeling?"

Ga Eul's eyes fluttered open. "Warm," she said weakly as she stared at his eyes. "You have lovely eyes, sunbae."

Yi Jung became extremely worried. Ga Eul wouldn't compliment him on any circumstance even at his death bed. What was happening? Although he had to admit he felt good when she did. "Breath, Ga Eul-yang, breath," he told mostly to himself. No, Ga Eul wasn't going to die, he kept repeating in his head. What was he going to do? He just knew he had to keep her awake. He held up two fingers and asked her, "How many do you see?"

Instead of answering, Ga Eul just looked at him and took his fingers away from blocking his lovely face. Her gaze never left his eyes as her fingers traced his face. Her fingers made lines crossing his forehead, his cheek, his nose, his lips... and stopped there. "Hmmm," she said curiously.

"'Hmmm'?" he asked, almost nervous. Where are those doctors? "What 'Hmmm'?"

"I was just wondering what your lips would taste like," she said with a small smile. Then she closed her eyes and slowly leaned towards Yi Jung.

At another circumstance, Yi Jung would have responded immediately and leaned over, too, and who knows what would have happened to them on this hospital bed, but Ga Eul was too off character that he leaned back so she wouldn't reach him.

Ga Eul then opened her eyes, which were suddenly cloudy and confused. "Yi Jung-sunbae?" she asked, still with her sounding-intoxicated voice. "What's the matter?"

Yi Jung managed to tell her something intelligent, in between the lines of "Uh," and "Hahumm".

Ga Eul looked at him with confused sleepy eyes but Yi Jung was saved from saying anything by the opening of doors revealing a group of three people in white clothes. "Great! What took you so long?" he asked, still cradling Ga Eul in his arms.

The doctor, who was standing in the middle, approached him quietly while looking at the clipboard he had in his hand. He didn't answer for a while but was looking for something in his notes. "Ah," he said when he found it. "Do not worry Mr. So, your girlfriend was just took a sleeping pill a while ago to speed up her healing process."

"Sleeping pill?" he asked unbelievingly, not even minding to correct that Ga Eul was not his girlfriend. At least, not yet. "She has already slept for two days! Why would she need to sleep again? And what healing process? She wasn't shot or anything."

Ga Eul placed her hands against her ears. "Shouting. Noisy," she murmured.

"We just want to make sure her brain is completely functioning, since from the PET scans..."

Yi Jung waved his hands impatiently, "Yes, you've told me that before. Please fast forward."

The doctor cleared his throat and continued, "Mr. Song said she must be discharged tonight and said we must do all we can to make it happen."

"So you drugged her?" Yi Jung asked in disbelief.

All of a sudden, Ji Hoo stepped in, being a future-doctor who has interest and a wide range of knowledge in the subject. Yi Jung jumped in surprise. How did Ji Hoo get in here? "Forgive my friend's disrespect, doctor. His hormones must have ruined his sense of everything because of the girl." Yi Jung dropped his head. "What are we looking at again?"

The doctor turned to Ji Hoo explaining Ga Eul's condition which was not really dire, the hospital just wanted that she was in perfect shape since she has connections with the F4. The nurses took Ga Eul from Yi Jung who let go of his girlfriend unwillingly, and they let her lay on the bed.

"I'm kinda hot," Ga Eul said drowsily. "Can I not use the blanket anymore?"

The nurses didn't even blink in surprise at the request and took the blanket off of her revealing her in pink pajamas. Ga Eul rolled to her side and began to breath slowly, fast asleep.

"May I ask why is she acting drunk?" Woo Bin asked the doctor.

Yi Jung was too worried about Ga Eul that he didn't notice his friends enter the room with Ji Hoo a while back.

"Side effects of the sleeping pill include a bit of confusion and mild dizziness," the doctor explained patiently.

Jun Pyo raised his arm, like a child in the classroom and waited for the doctor to acknowledge him. When he did he asked, "Can I get some of those? I might need them..." he looked nervously at Jan Di before continuing, "For my Disomia."

"It's insomnia," Ji Hoo offered. "And please don't," he told the doctor. "He doesn't have insomnia."

Jun Pyo just glared at Ji Hoo before letting the doctor and nurses take their leave.

"Hey, bro," Woo Bin patted Yi Jung at the back. Yi Jung didn't even hear him walk towards him. "It's not so bad. She'd be discharge tonight and we'd be all like WooHoo Party!"

Yi Jung stayed silent for a while and whispered. "Yeah." He was just looking at Ga Eul for some time, he didn't even dare count the minutes he was staring at her, that when he looked up he realized he was already alone.

"Hey," he whispered to Ga Eul, taking her wand which was lying carelessly beside her. "Don't try scaring me like that ever again. You don't know how worried I could get."

Ga Eul shifted, that Yi Jung was afraid he'd hear what he was saying. But then, he'd want her to hear it anyway so he continued. "You're too special to me, Ga Eul-yang, you know that?" He was holding her hands with both of his again, like he did when she was sleeping. "Because I..." he paused. It seemed harder than he thought. To confess his feelings. "I..." he tried again.

What the hell, the girl's already sleeping and you still can't confess to her? his inner self screamed.

"I..."

"You what, sunbae?" Ga Eul asked, rubbing her eyes with her free hand, finally awake.

Yi Jung fumbled for words, letting go of her hand. She continued to rub her eyes like nothing happened. He tried not to sound as deflated as he felt. "I... was wondering i-if you're awake, and you are and I didn't have t-to wake you up anymore!"

"Mmm," was the only thing Ga Eul said. "What happened?" she asked. "It's all fuzzy," she pointed at her head, referring to her memories of what happened earlier.

"The doctor said he gave you a sleeping pill to take a while ago so you fell asleep," Yi Jung explained briefly.

Ga Eul just nodded, as if that explained everything, then stopped. "I remember words, though... Discharge. Song. Girlfriend..."

"Ah!" Yi Jung cried too enthusiastically that he surprised Ga Eul. "It was the doctor saying that you can be discharged tonight and he mentioned Woo Bin who doesn't have a girlfriend... You know. Doctor-y stuff."

Ga Eul looked at him suspiciously as if asking, When did doctors become interested in Song Woo Bin's love life?

"She was a lady doctor," he lied.

"But the voice was deep and..."

He immediately cut her off again, obviously wanting to get off the topic as soon as possible. "That must be the medicine acting up on you," he said thoughtfully, with a finger on his chin. "We should talk to the doctors about the side effects."

Ga Eul nodded vigorously in agreement. Then she looked at the clock. "What time should I be discharged?"

Yi Jung tried to remember what he heard when Ji Hoo and the doctor talked. "8, I think," he answered.

"But it's already seven and I haven't changed yet," she said looking at her pajamas then looked back at Yi Jung without even blushing even when he himself feels hot on the face at the mention of changing. It must have been the medicine working, he thought. She still wasn't completely out of it. He was confirmed by Ga Eul's yawn.

"I'll go call the nurse," he said and walked out the door.

Minutes later, Ga Eul emerged from her hospital room in her signature red coat and pink stilettos, with a headband adorning her hair. She was simple looking but she still managed to knock the wind out of Yi Jung who stared at her with his jaw hanging.

She looked at her self uncomfortably and asked, "What?"

He shook his head and cleared his throat before saying, "Nothing, I just... I..."

Ga Eul was starting to get worried. First in the hospital, then, here, that Yi Jung was at loss for words. He was a smooth-talking Casanova. He was never out of words. She touched his arm lightly and asked, "Are you ok? You look a bit... red," she said innocently.

"Uh... It must be the cold," he said and pretended to shiver. Ga Eul still looked unconvinced so he smoothed down his clothes and took her hand in his and asked, "Ready to go?"

Ga Eul stared at their intertwined hands for a moment, blushing a bit and nodded. Yi Jung tugged her out of the hospital, into his car, where he finally, reluctantly let go of her hand.

...

"You just missed the turn!" Ga Eul said, and watched as the street to her house disappeared behind them. "There's a U-turn up ahead, though. You could take... AH! You missed it again!"

Yi Jung laughed. "What are you talking about? We're going to Jun Pyo's place!"

Ga Eul shrank in her sit. She already missed her parents. "We are? Why?"

"Oh, yeah," Yi Jung scratched his head guiltily. "I forgot to tell, you. I'm sorry. We're travelling to New Caledonia tonight."

"Tonight?"

Yi Jung nodded without looking at her and then stopped at the red light. That's the time he saw the surprised expression in her face. "Don't worry, we've got everything covered. We don't want to really lie with your parents, so we arranged the trip tonight."

"Don't tell me you just arranged this trip so my parents won't get lied to," Ga Eul said jokingly.

Yi Jung didn't answer and instead drove again at the green light.

Ga Eul looked at him in surprise, "You did, didn't you? You arranged this trip so my parents won't get lied to!"

"Uh..." he cleared his throat. "Well, you were plenty angry at me when you found out I lied to them, so..."

Ga Eul just looked at him, speechless, with her mouth hanging open. After some seconds, she said, "Thank you." She couldn't believe he would go his way just so her parents won't get lied to. It was true that she got pissed he lied to her parents, because she rarely does. But to do this? This was way beyond her expectations.

"You're welcome," he said, and briefly glanced at her to smile.

After they arrived at Jun Pyo's house, they were immediately directed to the Gu private plane where the others were already waiting for them. Ga Eul had been in the plane once, for the same reason as she was boarding it again tonight, to go to New Caledonia. Ga Eul just hoped that the trip this time would have a different story this time around.

An hour into the ride, Ga Eul was already nodding off, but was obviously trying hard not to. Every time her head bobs down, she would snap awake immediately and resume blinking until she would feel sleepy again. Yi Jung found it very amusing that he almost didn't want to stop her. After all, she already had a lot of sleep from the past days, and she was still this sleepy. Maybe the sleeping pill still wasn't wearing off.

The other people in the plane were already asleep, except for Yi Jung who was wide awake and Ga Eul who trying not to fall asleep. Yi Jung felt guilty after a while watching Ga Eul and stood up. He opened a sort-of cupboard just above his seat where he knew the pillows and blankets were kept. He took some and helped Ga Eul get comfortable.

By the time he finished helping her, she was already asleep she just managed to whisper a really really soft "Thank you," to him. He wouldn't have heard her if it weren't so quiet. He noticed her red headband lying on the floor, picked it up and placed it back on her hair. He kissed her forehead and whispered, "You're welcome."

Woo Bin shifted in his chair all of a sudden that Yi Jung bumped on the table that was supposed to separate him and Ga Eul, and prevent him from kissing her, he thought bitterly.

The plane landed on New Caledonia by three in the morning. Most people woke up grumpily and took their time standing up, stretching and doing everything lazily before going down the plane. Most people was everyone except Ga Eul who was still sleeping.

"Wake up, Ga Eul-yang," Yi Jung whispered to her, so softly so he wouldn't disturb the others, he didn't even notice his face was so near hers.

She stirred and lifted her head only to find that her lips met Yi Jung's for a brief second. That snapped her awake immediately that she almost jumped. She tried to feign sleepiness and scratched her hair. "Did we arrive already?"she asked in her best sleepy voice.

Yi Jung, on the other hand, tried his best not to lean in again. "Your lips are sweet. What do you place there?" he smirked. She just glared at him. "I think you intentionally did that Ga Eul-yang."

"You're just happy sunbae because for the past 12 months since we met- this was the first time you kissed me."

She's probably right, Yi Jung chuckled inside him.

"Don't tell this to anyone," she said pointing a finger at him.

"I won't!" he laughed.

When they got off the plane, they were picked up by a bunch of bodyguards in a limo. They were dropped off at a hotel that was different from the one they went before, and Ga Eul vaguely noticed that she and Jan Di were not rooming with each other this time.

She was so tired that the moment she walked into her assigned room, she just took off her shoes and immediately dropped on her bed. But the moment she closed her eyes, the memory of her brief kiss with Yi Jung popped into her mind that she pushed herself out of bed so quickly. Then she couldn't help herself. She was smiling, giggling, blushing and slapping herself mentally about it. Then, she heard a knock from the door.

"Just a moment!" she yelled. She half-skipped to the door, expecting someone, but wishing it to be someone else. "Jan Di-ah, it's too early," she said as she opened the door.

"My name is not Jan Di if that's your concern and..." the voice paused hesitantly- "Can I sleep in your room tonight? Just on the couch."

Ga Eul blushed at the sight of the person who stole her first kiss. "Uh..." was the only thing she managed to say.

"Thank you," he said as he made his way to the couch.

"Wait! I didn't say you could sleep here."

"Yeah but you didn't say I could not either." he said and lied down the on the soft couch. "Please," he pleaded when he looked at her, "Woo Bin is making a mess out of the other room. As if his girls couldn't wait until tomorrow," he said almost in disgust that Ga Eul was about to retort that he was like that once, too.

Instead, she just walked to the couch where he already made himself comfortable. She just noticed that he even brought his own pillow and blanket.

"Thanks for kissing me- i could not get over it," he said, obviously delirious from sleepiness.

"It was an accident!" Ga Eul cried as she sat down on the floor just beside the couch so their heads were on the same level as each other.

"Yeah but you liked it, didn't you?" he smirked.

"I hate it when you do that," she pouted.

"Because I'm right," he laughed and closed his eyes. Then in the breath, just in a second before he fell asleep, before he lost the adrenaline that was seeping through him, before he totally lost consciousness and the little bravery he felt that time, he said, "I love you, Ga Eul-yang."

"What did you just say?" she asked in disbelief but he was already asleep. Did he just... Maybe he did. Maybe he was so sleepy he was already dreaming. But no matter what, it was worth hearing. She kissed his forehead. "I love you, too. Good night."