She had stayed for a while longer after our food arrived and we just talked like we usually did. It's great that although we told each other that we liked one another, it didn't change anything between us...just our physical contact and some compliments, that's all.

After that, she kissed the crown of my head, said goodnight and left.

God...how much I wanted to ring Jessica and squeal to her and say Taeyeon is mine now...well sort of. Nothing is official. But Taeyeon told me not to, she told me to say nothing happened in the storage room so...nothing happened. Yes she's my friend, but in the end it's just one more thing that could get us found out.

I was rushing into school the next morning, I was late for her class. My car decided to be a dick and refused to start but I kept trying for an hour until it finally did. When I parked outside the school, I ran into Nichkhun as he was usually late all the time.

He kissed me and then held his arm around my shoulders all the way until we got to the door outside her classroom. Then he dropped his arm, opened the door and then rested his hand around my waist. I didn't look up to see Taeyeon, she would probably look hurt or glare at me, neither I wanted to see.

When I sat down, he grabbed my head and kissed me before going to his own seat beside me. I kept my eyes down.

"Reading today. Pages 315 to 480. Go."

I didn't need to look up to see she was pissed, her voice gave it away. I looked in my bag for my textbook but found it wasn't there. Where did I...shit. It's in my locker, I'm going to have to ask to go get it.

"Miss Hwang, read." She said sternly

"Um, I need to get my book out of my locker" I said, glancing up but not keeping eye contact for longer than a second,

"Then get it"

Shit. I power walked out of the classroom, opened my locker which was just outside, grabbed my book and went back. I made the mistake of looking at her when I entered and if looks could kill...

That's how the lesson went. When it was over, she just said 'Class Dismissed' and that was it. I heard people chatting around me saying 'she's moody as fuck'. My fault, sorry guys.

I continued my classes until it was lunch time. I wondered whether to pop onto Taeyeon's classroom to say Hi but she was probably still mad at me so decided against it. I flopped down next to Jessica and she looked at me expectantly, I said nothing. All of a sudden, Taeyeon caught my eye. She was in the teachers lunch line and I saw her glance at me a few times, so did Jess.

"Regardless of whether something happened in that storage room or not...I'm confident she likes you Tiff." Jess said. I smiled unconsciously and looked back up only to see Nichkhun walking towards me a massive smile on his face. He sat down next to me and pulled my face in for another kiss, my eyes were open and I saw Taeyeon glancing over and then glaring. I pulled away and he snuggled up next to me.

Taeyeon was still in the line with a tray of food but she simply stormed out of the cafeteria leaving it there. I waited a few minutes before using the toilet excuse and slipped out, walking straight to her room. I didn't bother to look through the glass window and just opened the door and shut it behind me.
She was sitting at her desk, staring at nothing.

"Tae?"

"Are you trying to hurt me?" She choked.

"Taeyeon no..." I rushed to her side and knelt down beside her chair, gripping her arm more for my reassurance than hers. "I'm sorry, he pulled me into it..."

She chuckled, but it wasn't one to join in on. "Nice."

"I'm sorry" I bowed my head and rested it against her arm. If someone looked into the window now, they wouldn't be able to see anything, just Taeyeon's side profile.
She sighed and placed a hand on my head.

"I'm sorry. I just don't like seeing that after I told you how I feel"

"I get it. I'll break up with him okay?" I hoped that would make her feel better but it only seemed to make it worse.

"Why would you do that? He gives you what you want with there being no danger of jail time or losing his job" she said bitterly.

"Taeyeon, I thought we agreed to make things serious when I left school" I frowned.

"Oh right so in the meantime we just ignore each other and you hurt me by letting him kiss you and get into bed with you?" She was angry.

"Which is where me breaking up with him comes in. What's the problem?"

I looked into her eyes and saw insecurity, hurt, jealousy...it hurt me just to see that. I didn't want her to watch me and Nichkhun which is why I was willing to end it with him. Though it seemed she had something else on her mind.

"People won't get as suspicious if you're in a relationship Tiffany" Taeyeon sighed.

"But I can't go around cheating on him Taeyeon. I'm not that kind of person, I don't like hurting people's feelings"

"Are you sure about that last part? Because after today I'm not so sure." God her mood swings. In the end I figured we were getting nowhere so I got up and left.

...

I was now at home, laying in bed and thinking:

- I really like her and she likes me.
- I want to be with her, but I can't.
- She gets jealous easily but won't take my offer of dumping Khun.

In short, I was confused. I heard my phone buzz and there was a message from her

-Can you open the door? Please-

She was here? I got out of bed and plodded down the stairs to the front door. I unlocked it and opened it to see her waiting there, looking down and playing with her fingers.

I watched her, still a little frustrated about our argument at school, we stayed there in silence for a while until she broke it.

"Can I come in?" She looked up now and I saw her eyes were a little teary. I stepped aside and let her in before locking the door behind us.

She made her way over to the sofa and sat down, I sat in the seat opposite and waited for what she had to say. I waited for a while and I was sad to find our silence was filled with awkwardness and a little hostility from our argument previously.

"I wanted to say I'm sorry and explain myself a little" she said and looked up at me. I nodded and payed attention. "My heart is very fragile Tiffany, whenever I see you kissing him it kills me inside."

I was about to cut in, but decided to let her talk for now.

"I know it's a complicated situation, but I really like you and although we can't be in a real, proper relationship...I want there to be certain...boundaries or rules for us."

I frowned at her suggestion but urged her to continue.

"Please don't look at me and then kiss him, you may find it funny or reassuring to see me jealous but I wont share your laughter Tiffany. I don't find it funny".

She looked at me sternly and then continued.

"I hate the idea of him coming over your house and...being intimate with you, it makes my skin crawl so when we have a tutoring session or are alone, don't gloat about it"

I frowned and tried to remember when I had done that.

"I don't appreciate Jessica touching you either"

"Come on you know there's nothing between me and Jess" I reasoned.

"I don't care, I don't like the fact she gets to touch you the way she does while I can't."

"But that makes no sense, you won't allow her to touch me but you reject my offer of me breaking up with Nichkhun who touches me everyday..."

"Nichkhun's a safety net Tiffany! If someone looks at the way you and I communicate and find it a little odd...they'll remember you have a boyfriend and forget it."

"So why on earth don't you get a boyfriend then? I don't want to use him Taeyeon, he's a good guy and he doesn't deserve that."

She stayed quiet after that. She sighed a number of times and shifted in her seat while I watched on still confused where this conversation was actually going.

"Do you love him?" She whispered, barely audible but I could make it out.

"I think I did at some point...until I met you." I replied. "Now, I can't look at him the same way."

She nodded and I continued.

"But I can't control him kissing me or putting his arm around me if I'm still in a relationship with him Taeyeon. You say you're hurt when you see that but you won't let me break up with him, so...I'm going to take matters into my own hands. I'll do it tomorrow."

"Tiffany..."

"No, you may be my teacher but you can't tell me what to do out of school Taeyeon. Now it's getting late so I think you should leave."

She did as I said. I didn't mean to be harsh but come on...she can't expect me to use and cheat on Nichkhun the whole time. Yes he can have anger issues and although I thought he used me for sex, when we had the argument in Taeyeon's classroom before... I saw in his eyes that he had feelings for me. He's a good guy so he deserves someone better than me. I'd let him go.