chapter 61

                                1Zaini smiled and said, "You will have to keep some patience!""Of course, I can do that. If I can wait for you to call me, then I can do anything for you", said Kim Jae."Wait for my call? When?" asked Zaini."I liked talking to you and your ideas on the airplane. I could not make my heart feel at peace after meeting you. I waited for your call, a thing that I never did for anyone! You were in my every thought. Then finally someone called me to help you. I came running but you were unconscious. I desperately waited for your call again. You called and finally, we met again. Your friend insisted on meeting Kim Jae so we have to plan all that too. I could not tell you that I was Kim Jae only because Nazma was also involved and I was too scared to tell you. Then that incident of spiking of your drinks happened. You were high when you saw my face on the bridge and someone clicked our picture. I proposed to you that day for the very first time", said Kim Jae."What??? Do you mean that article and that picture were true? I mean it was I in the picture!" said Zaini thinking she was unaware of what was happening around her."I had to hide that bridge incident to save my identity in front of you. You would have recognized that it was you. Then you would have figured out that Kim Min Ho and Kim Jae are one person.I cleared the article and the picture from all the social media handles. I wanted to stay in your life as Kim Min Ho till Kim Jae could make his place in your life", said Kim Jae. "I must say you played well and made a fool out of me! I hope that spike of drink was not planned too!!!" said Zaini having mixed thoughts. Kim Jae looked at Zaini with fear-filled eyes."I know I lied to you. I played two characters to stay close to you but I am not that cheap. I still regret why I removed my mask and let others know that it was me. If I had been a little bit careful then all that would not have happened. I thank God that we could come back on time otherwise..." Kim Jae stopped saying in the middle and started looking down.Zaini looked at his face and could tell that he was feeling guilty. "I was just trying to stay in your life somehow. I did not know that it would be so difficult to make up for a lie", said Kim Jae."I know it will be difficult for you to trust me. I didn't have any wrong intentions but everything kept on happening one by one. You were suffering in the hospital so I planned to come here for my research. You were already in a relationship but that didn't stop me from staying back and letting you suffer. I proposed to you because it was hard for me to keep my feelings up to me. By chance the same day, your boyfriend got married to another woman. Trust me I had never wished for that. I was terrified to see you in trauma. I had never been in any serious relationship before but watching you crying like that made me want to kill your boyfriend who hurt you to that extent. I realized it, that day only that I am deeply in love with you. You asked me to go away so I stayed away from you. I sat outside the bar to help you go home safely as I knew you all would be drinking. You came out of the bar out of the blue and thought I was Kim Min Ho and you hurt your ankle while running after me", said Kim Jae. Zaini was listening to him carefully and looking at him from time to time. Her heart was melting slowly hearing out him. "How things kept on happening between us and how God removed Prague from my life at the same time when he was entering my life!! Maybe God wanted me to come here and meet him. He is the person whom I admire the most. Any celebrity would have hidden his identity if he/she was on a secret trip. He did the same thing. The only thing that was unusual here was, he fell for me! A celebrity fell for a common girl! Although many times it happens, it would be my story too that I never imagined", thought Zaini."There is no pressure on you. If you don't trust me, you don't need to come with me. I wanted to tell you the truth before taking you to my home", said Kim Jae. "Please give me some time to digest everything that you have told me. I am not over Prague yet. My relationship with him was already getting sour but I never thought of ending it. Kim Min Ho doesn't want to be my friend. He seeks a girlfriend in me but I need a friend right now. Can you hold back your feelings till the time I move on?" asked Zaini.Kim Jae sighed in relief. "I can. I want to be everything for you. A friend, a lover, a guardian... Anything you want me to. By the way, do you have a soft corner for Kim Min Ho?" said Kim Jae."Are you jealous of him?""A little bit!" said Kim Jae and grinned."Is that why Kim Jae made Kim Min Ho behave rudely with me?""How can you love my character more than me?""But I think I like Kim Min Ho more", said Zaini pretending to be looking serious while saying this. "So you can like my characters but not me. The Real Kim Jae!!" asked Kim Jae."Your characters are more fun!!" said Zaini coming close to him to tease him."You will come to know me with time. I will prove to you that I am better than my characters", said Kim Jae and started the engine. After 1 year,Zaini was dressed up in a baby pink, off-shoulder, shimmering gown. She got out of the car with Kim Jae. The public went crazy after looking at them. It was a success party of Kim Jae's drama. Everyone was wondering who the beautiful foreign lady was walking arm in arm with Kim Jae. But they didn't wonder for long, because soon enough, Kim Jae credited his fiancee, Zaini, for the success of his drama, along with announcing that they were getting married in the coming months.Needless to say, Zaini's smile was right out of a beautiful K-drama.