Encouragement Under the Spotlight Chapter 4

"Boom boom boom~"

After knocking on the door again and still hearing no response from inside, Ava simply pushed the door open and walked in.

The curtains were closed tightly, and because they were specially selected for blackout, the room was now dim. Ava turned on the floor lamp next to the bed and leaned over to push Caleb's shoulder.

"Get up~" If there is no response, push again: "Caleb, it's time to get up~"

The person on the bed moved his head, moved to the side, turned over and faced her, still sleeping soundly, ignoring her.

Reaching out and pinching the tip of his nose, Ava's mouth corners, which had been bent all the time, unconsciously deepened a little. Looking at his sleeping face, one would always unconsciously become gentler.

She leaned over and got closer to him, with a tone of doting that came from nowhere, and whispered to him: "Get up quickly, the sun is about to burn your butt~"

I came to wake him up, but when I saw he was sleeping, I couldn't help but lower my voice. It would be strange if I could wake him up like this.

The person on the bed curled his lips slightly. Ava reached out and poked his cheek, then asked him with a smile: "Are you awake? If you are awake, it will be quick...ah..."

Ava saw a distorted scene in front of her eyes. After spinning for who knows how many degrees, she was kneeling beside the bed and was held in his arms. He turned over neatly and pressed her under him.

Caleb supported his hands on her sides, chuckled at the dazed her, lowered his head and pecked her lips lightly, then lay down beside her, pressing half of her body down.

"impossible."

He was very close to her, with the tip of his nose touching her outer ear, and all the breath he brought out when he spoke sprayed on her ear.

It feels warm and a little itchy.

I can't tell whether it's my ears that are itching or my heart that is itching.

Ava unconsciously shrank his neck and tried to move to the side, but he was pressed down by the arm around his waist and couldn't move at all.

She couldn't move because he was holding her down, so she had to take a step back and just moved her head to the side. Ava's heart was pounding, but she asked him seriously, "What's impossible?"

Caleb looked at her little action and said nothing, but he also moved his head to follow her and whispered in her ear seriously: "The curtains are drawn, the sun can't burn your butt."

Not only did she tease him to take two showers last night, but she also teased him in the attic this morning. How could he not ask for some compensation?

Although, what he called her flirting was actually just hugging him, then sleeping on his lap, and accidentally rubbing her head against his stomach a few times.

But it was true that he was aroused by her unintentional actions and expressions.

Ava smiled and turned to look at him: "Did you hear what I said before?"

"What?" His voice still had a hoarse sound as if he had just woken up, and was indescribably sexy and seductive.

"It's time to get up." Ava pushed his shoulder away. It was better for her not to get so close to him if she was fine.

He really can lead people to commit crimes.

"No." Caleb refused without thinking and simply hugged her tighter.

Ava let him hold her in his arms and asked him speechlessly: "Then why don't you get up to have breakfast?"

He hugged her and said, "I haven't hugged you enough, hold me for a while longer."

"It's so disgusting, I can't stand it~" Ava smiled and pretended to be disgusted while struggling to push him away, but she didn't really use much strength in her hands.

Caleb nestled in her neck and whispered, "You don't know, I've been wanting to hold you like this for a long time."

To be exact, he didn't know when he started to have this idea, but by the time he realized that he had different feelings for her, this idea had already been deeply rooted in his heart.

Caleb: "This time last year, I went to Beijing and only hugged you like this while pretending to be asleep. I was afraid that you would find out that I was pretending to be asleep. When I hugged you, I didn't dare to open my eyes to look at you. I wished I could stop breathing."

"So you were just pretending to sleep!"

Ava always thought that it was an unexpected accident that was quite nice to think about, but he never imagined that the accident was actually created by him on purpose.

Caleb, you are such a scheming boy.

"Actually, I woke up when you knocked on the door for the second time, but I didn't expect you to come in, so I..." He had already sat up and was about to answer, but suddenly he heard the door open. Subconsciously, he slammed the quilt over him and pretended to sleep. In fact, pretending to sleep was just a momentary reaction.

I didn't think about anything, and I didn't have time to think about anything.

"Why don't you just wake up? Why do you want to hug me?"

Her heart was beating fast and her mind was full of random thoughts. She couldn't even eat a good breakfast that day.

"I just want to hug you, really want to."

When she leaned over and patted his shoulder, it seemed that the smell of her shampoo and shower gel instantly conquered him.

At that moment, the rationality that made him keep his distance disappeared in an instant, and he followed his inner thoughts and hugged her carefully. When he hugged her, he didn't even dare to open his eyes to look at her, and his breathing became much lighter. When he opened his eyes, he only saw her back as she fled in panic.

In his empty arms, it seemed that there was still her scent and warmth, as well as...an unignorable sense of loss.

Ava stared into his eyes, not seeing any joking in them. Her pupils, which contained her reflection, were full of seriousness. She leaned over and kissed Caleb on the chin, chuckling: "Get up, we still have plenty of time."

The future still leaves them with too much time and possibilities. Although there are uncertainties, it also gives them the greatest tolerance. If they want to choose which path to take, they have to work hard.

"I got it. You get up first." Caleb let go of her, rolled to the side twice and lay there, burying his head in the balled-up quilt, motionless.

"What are you doing~" Ava rolled over twice, patted him on the back and tapped his neck with her fingertips: "Still want to sleep? Don't sleep anymore, get up quickly, it's time to eat."

He still buried his head in the quilt and murmured, "I won't sleep anymore. I'll get up soon. You should get up first."

Ava: "Just now you were holding me and not letting me go, and now you're asking me to leave first. What are you thinking, Caleb?"

"I...just..." Caleb stammered and couldn't say anything, but his ears exposed outside became redder and redder.

Ava hugged his waist, rubbed his face against his back and tapped his chin twice, then lowered his voice and threatened: "You'd better give me a reasonable explanation, otherwise you won't have breakfast today, and I won't give you breakfast."

Caleb finally raised his head from under the quilt, looked at her, and suddenly smiled. He leaned close to her ear and whispered, "I hugged you for a while, and I reacted."

"......." Ava was stunned for a few seconds. When he realized what he meant, he stood up and walked out of the bedroom quickly without saying a word.

Seeing her quick steps and her ears turning red in an instant, Caleb lay on the quilt and laughed at her, but his smile seemed a bit helpless. He was a man in his twenties, full of vigor and it would be easy for him to do that when he hugged her and kissed her... He didn't know how long he could endure it any longer.

After playing around for a while, both of them were blushing. One quickly ran to the kitchen, and the other got up obediently and went to the bathroom to wash up.

The boiling rice cake soup in the pot had reached the perfect temperature, but the dumplings that had just been fried seemed a little cold. When Ava was wondering whether to eat it as is or reheat it, a hand reached into the plate in front of her from behind, picked up a dumpling and put it into her mouth.

After eating it, he licked his fingers twice and said to her: "Did you wrap it? It smells so good~"

Forget it, let’s just eat it like this. Anyway, I often eat cold food when I’m busy with my schedule.

Ava picked up the plate and handed it to him: "Eat."

Caleb walked towards the dining table with the plate in his hand, and as he walked, he told her, "Just bring the bowls and side dishes over here. Leave the rice cake soup here for me to serve."

Ava put down the towel he had picked up to cover the pot, turned around and smiled, "Okay."

At the dinner table, Caleb ate with big mouthfuls of food and even Ava unconsciously had a better appetite because of him.

To be honest, I have no appetite when eating alone.

Maybe it's because she has spent too little time alone in the past two years, and now she is starting to feel uncomfortable staying at home alone.

Ava looked up at her, and although he was reluctant, he said it very quickly: "Eat quickly, and then go back to Busan."

Halfway through the meal, the two people who were chatting finally turned the topic to serious matters.

Hearing this, Caleb frowned a little aggrieved: "Are you trying to drive me away?"

"I'm not trying to drive you away. I just can't be so selfish any longer. You finally got this vacation, and I can't just monopolize all your time."

She knew how busy BTS was after the Spring Festival, and there was no way he would have time to return to Busan. The time he could spend with his family might only be during these few days of the Spring Festival.

Besides, she was already satisfied that he could return from Busan to accompany her during this period of time. She couldn't indulge in her selfish desires and continue to occupy him.

Although...she really couldn't bear to let him leave.

"I don't care, you have to coax me anyway~" Caleb put down his chopsticks and lay on the table like a child, saying in an extremely aggrieved tone: "I drove for several hours in the middle of the night and came all the way from Busan to Seoul to accompany you, but you chased me away before I even finished my meal! That's too much~"

Ava burst out laughing, then deliberately put on a stern face and said to him: "Don't act like a spoiled child, I won't fall for it."

Caleb looked up at her, smiled with the corners of his mouth hooked, and thought to himself: "You don't buy it? You obviously buy it."

She could deliberately keep a stern face but could not hide the smile in her eyes. Using this trick to "deal with" her was a strategy that Caleb had already understood when he was boiling her like a frog in warm water.

When facing Ava, the tougher you are, the more excited she will be. To "deal with" her, you must first soften yourself and pretend to be pitiful and innocent so that she cannot say no.

Caleb reached out and held her left hand, and said pitifully: "Can you bear to see me go? Will you miss me when I leave? When we get busy, we won't have time to meet."

Ava was holding the chopsticks in a daze, looked up at his pitiful expression, and immediately looked away, saying: "I don't..."

"Don't you miss me? Really? Really? But what can I do? I will definitely miss you. I will miss you when I eat, when I sleep, and even now when I am holding your hand."

Ava had just said two words when he was interrupted by him, and then a series of disgusting words followed.

"......." After being stunned for a few seconds, she lowered her head and laid down on the dining table, leaving only her two red ear tips exposed. Oh my God, Caleb you...you...you are breaking the rules!