Tiffany turns to me without looking surprised.

"What?" She slaps my hand off her wrist and crosses her arms.

"Don't leave. I-I want you here, with me. St-stay you're not a person I know. You're more than that. Ju-just please be patient with me." I hung my head low and play with my fingers.

"What am I to you then?" She steps closer to me, anticipating for an answer.

"A friend. My friend. Someone who stuck with me only for a few days but is already very special to me." I look up to her with more confidence.

I notice her eyes were starting to tear up and panic started to rise within me.

"Tears of joy Tae." She smiles and wipes away the tears that didn't fall.

I nod and smile at her. The American girl grabs my hand drags me back to the restaurant.

I stayed quiet the whole time, it's my first time in years that I broke parts of my exterior. It's my first time in years to show some emotion. It's my first time in years to break my ego.

"Tae.. it's baby steps. So it's fine. I just got pretty emotional. I'm sorry." She grabs my hand and I nod.

"Please don't expect me to crack anytime soon. It's just unusual to me. I'm sure you will know everything but when it's the right time. Also, if you want to actually unveil me, please stick by me." I look up to her eyes and she has this fire burning in her brown orbs.

"No. I won't do that. I won't be the one always trying to do the work to unveil you. If you want to help yourself you need to help me. You can't expect me to stay by your side the whole entire time. We have to work together to bring the real Taeyeon back." She stared at me, eyes filled with hope.

"What happens if I want to stay like this? What happens if I don't want to change?" I looked to her with curiosity and she seemed pretty shocked.

"What? Why?"

"I don't want people to be hurt." I sighed.

"How would opening up to me hurt others?" The American chuckled in disbelief.

"Like I said, if you want to find out, answers will soon reveal, if you are willing to handle me." I go closer to her and she clumped up her eyebrows.

"Whatever." She rolls her eyes and I smile at the sight.

"Now let's order." I say and I called over the waiter.

After ordering, she was talking about some random event that happened at school. I wasn't listening, instead I was thinking of what just happened.

Did I really show emotions? Why do I want her here? With me? Why didn't I allow her to leave me? I wanted to be alone in the first place. Why did I bring her back? Will I actually open up to her?

"Tae? Taeyeon? Taeeeee?" I saw a waving hand in front of my face causing me to come back to reality.

"Oh! Yeah?" I asked and noticed food sitting in front of me.

"Eat!" She emphasized and took a large spoon into her mouth.

"Mmm!! It's so good!" She exclaimed and it caused me to smile.

I ate with her but I didn't notice the grins Boa unnie shot to us.

"What would we do once we are done?" Tiffany looked to me with expectations.

"We would probably go to a mall and go shopping. Or do you want to go sight seeing?" I asked her and placed my plate on top of hers.

"Shopping!" The eye-smile girl starts to clap her hands like a child. I could only chuckle at the sight.

"Ok then shopping it is. I will go pay." I stood up and left her to go pay.

After paying at the cashier I went back and saw her taking selcas.

"Tae come here!" She used her hand to gesture me to go towards her and join in the selca.

"No. I don't take selcas. Sorry." I sat down opposite from her.

"Nooo. C'mon we have to make memories here!" She went to my side of the table and opened her phone.

"I really don't." I tried to block my face from the camera's view.

"HMPH!" Tiffany suddenly crossed her arms and pouted.

"Now you're going to sulk?" I scratched my head and stared unbelievably.

She didn't answer, but her answer is jutting out her lips even more.

"Ok ok ok. Fine." I gave in and she immediately turned her pout into a gorgeous eye-smile.

When we left the restaurant we went to a nearby mall. Well the most familiar mall I know.

"WOW! IT'S PINK!" Tiffany clung onto my arm and pointed to the pink shirt that is displayed.

"Let's go in there Tae!" She dragged me into the store and immediately she searched for anything that's pink.

She kept holding my arm as she looked through the clothes.

"Does this look good?" She took out a striped long sleeved shirt.

"Try it on." I simply said and she nodded.

She let go of my arm and went to the change rooms. Soon she came out and the shirt, shows alllll her curves. Like damn!

"That looks good." I tried not to break into a smile.

"Are you sure?" She turned and twisted her body, trying to get a better view of her body.

"Yeah, you should get it." I looked to my phone and she went back into the change room.

She came out in her regular clothes and went straight for the cashier.

We paid and got out of the store.

"Where do you want to go now?" I asked her and she didn't know.

Suddenly my eye caught a jewelry store.

"I will check something. Wait here." I ran to the store and looked back go see Tiffany sitting on a bench.

"Hello Ma'am! How may I help you?" The worker bowed.

"I'm looking for a necklace." I replied as I look through the glass set up.

"Ok, do you have anything in mind?" The lady pulled out multiple necklaces and displayed them in front of me.

"Oh I like this one!" I pointed to a specific heart shaped necklace.

"Ok, would you like to add any charms inside of it?" Suddenly, she pulled out charms and my eyes landed on two of them.

"These two please." I pointed to the charms.

"Ok, it would be ready at approximately 4. You can pay once you get the necklace ok?" The worker put all the displays back into their original positions and greeted me out the door.

We bowed to each other and I left.

"Tiffany let's keep going." I said to the girl.

"Ok. I want to get shoes." She smiled at me and I nodded.

The both of us walked into the shoe store with the branded items.

"Ok do you have any shoe in mind?" I asked her and she nodded.

"Stan smiths." Tiffany walked to the women's section and looked through all the shoes.

"Found them!" She grabbed the shoe and went to the worker.

About time I switch my shoes too? The stan smiths look pretty good to. Should I get them?

"Tae! Get Stan Smiths! We could match!" Tiffany tugged on my arm.

"Ok." I replied allowing her to break out into a huge smile.

I got matching Stan Smith's with her. The only difference is that hers has the black logo while mine is plain white.

We walked out of the store with me holding the bags of shoes.

Right now it's 3:45 and I have to get the necklace at 4. So I need to somehow distract her. But how?

"Tiffany. Look! Those pink shirts are adorable! Don't you think we should get couple shirts?" I pointed to a store with displayed pink shirts. In an instant her eyes sparkled and she ran into the store.

"Hah. Good job Taeyeon." I chuckled to myself and followed her.

Ok now it's 3:53 and I need to go down somehow. But with a distracted Tiffany like this, I can probably just leave her.

"Tiffany, I will wait outside. My size is small." I said and she hummed in response.

Score.

I ran downstairs and searched for the jewelry shop. After about a few minutes of searching, I finally found it.

"Miss! Your necklace is ready!" The worker replied from the cashier once I stepped into the store.

"Thank you!" I ran to the cashier and took out my card.

"Miss. Here you go. This is $3235." She handed me the card machine and I easily tap my card on the screen.

"Thank you for shopping here!" She bowed and handed me the bag with the necklace.

"Thank you, Tzuyu-sshi!" I waved to her and walked out of the store.

I checked my phone for the time but instead I see missed calls and text messages, all from Tiffany.

"Shit. It's 4:45."