My Hitman System

After finishing the breakfast Diana was currently washing the dishes. She was scrubbing the plates a little harder than usual because of things going on in her mind.

'Should I bring it up again?'

'I think I shouldn't…he might get annoyed if I do that,'

'But I really want to know the answer…he shouldn't get angry by just this right?"

'Yes, I should directly ask him. He'll understand'

After going back and forth in her mind Diana finally gathered up enough courage to ask Jin again.

"I still don't understand it. Why did you reveal our relationship on that show?"

Jin had already answered her a few minutes back while they were having their breakfast. However, she wanted to know more. She was unsatisfied with Jin's previous answer.

Hearing her words, Jin frowned. He was sitting beside the dining table just a couple of meters away from Diana.

"You're at this again?" Jin asked while staring at Diana figure who was busy washing the dishes.

"Yes since your previous answer 'just because I wanted to' is not the response I'm satisfied with," Diana stated. Her back was facing Jin at the moment.

"So you would have preferred that I kept our relationship a secret from the public?" Jin asked.

"Like I've said before. You're at the most important stage of your career. Before you've built a solid foundation you shouldn't have done something as reckless as that…" Diana said with subtle hesitancy laced in her manner of speaking.

Jin noticed that.

"It would have given rise to rumours about my relationship with Anna. You wouldn't mind that?" Jin asked confrontationally.

"I…I just feel that the rumours would have created more buzz around you. You would have thus benefited by gaining more fans as a result…" Diana tried to reason it out again. She opened the tap water. The sound of the water splashing comforted her a little.

"Diana," Jin called her name instead of replying.

"What?' Diana replied while acting to be fully immersed in doing the dishes.

Jin didn't reply and waited. After a few uncomfortable seconds, Diana was finally forced to turn the tap off and turn around to face him.

"Sit," Jin gestured towards the chair ahead of him when their eyes met.

"I'm doing the dishes…" Diana countered.

"It's not a conversation I can have without facing you, so sit. Dishes can wait," Jin replied assertively.

'Did I say something wrong?' Diana thought in her mind. She wiped her hands off on the towel and proceeded towards the chair. She started regretting starting this conversation.

Diana sat in front of Jin while trying her best to avoid direct eye contact with Jin. Her fingers were fidgeting as she was waiting for Jin to speak.

Jin finally opened his mouth.

"Let me ask you again Diana, Would you have liked it if the rumours about something going on between me and Anna spread all over the internet? About fans talking explicit things about us on the internet? About things soon going out of proportion thanks to all the hype the paparazzi would make of it?"

"I…No, I wouldn't…," Under Jin's intense gaze, Diana finally relented and shared what she truly felt inside. She didn't like it even a little, she hated it in fact. However, she feared that Jin would get angered by her response and would leave her as a result.

"You should have just said that instead of thinking whether your words would hurt my feelings or not. If there were rumours about you with another man, I would also be hurt and angry. Even after knowing this, how could I not openly state that I am in a relationship in front of them?

"I would have even stated your name if I didn't worry about making things difficult for you with the paparazzi," Jin added after a brief pause.

"I was scared that you wouldn't like my words," Diana replied in a low voice.

"Even if I didn't like your words so what? We would have started an argument, we might even have shouted at each other but so what? Isn't that normal to have conflicting views since we are two individuals?" Jin stated. This was something Dylan had drilled into his mind previously. To make a relationship work healthy dialogue between the partners was a must.

Seeing Diana who just listened to his words like a child who was being admonished Jin sighed.

He moved one of his hands over the table and placed it above Diana's.

"Just remember this, no matter how upset I get with you in the future, my feelings for you will never change. Understand?" Jin asked while looking straight into her eyes.

"Y-yes," Diana nodded. Jin's words comforted her a lot.

"Therefore don't hold back even if it's something unpleasant. We can't fix things if we don't talk about them right? So don't think whether your words would hurt me or not. If there is something that bothers you speak it out. Even if I disagree with the thing, I'll still listen to you and together we'll come to a satisfactory answer to it. Right?" Jin asked with a smile

"Right.." Diana too smiled and nodded. There were traces of tears welling up in her eyes. Jin's words had hit a sweet spot in her heart.

"Huh? I didn't even say anything to make you cry…" Jin said seeing the teardrop that had just run down her face.

"You were too sweet for my heart to take," Diana pouted cutely as she wiped the tears off her face.

"There are times I wonder whether you're a kid or an adult," Jin responded to her antics.

Diana just pulled her tongue out as a response.

"This was exactly what I was talking about," Jin just shook his head and stood up.

"Get ready, I'll do the rest of the dishes," Jin made his way towards the kitchen sink.

"Alrighty," Diana agreed gladly and went to change. Since it was Sunday they were going to visit her father.

Last Sunday Jin was way too tired from all the events and shows he had attended and didn't accompany Diana. So it was only Diana who had visited the nursing home. The Sunday before that it was only Jin who had visited since Diana was exhausted.

'Dad would be happy to see us both," Diana thought while dressing up. She remembered how sad he was that Jin had not come along with her last week.

By the time Diana was ready, it was ten in the morning. They soon left for the nursing home in Jin's car.

Jin didn't forget to buy popsicles for Diana's father en route. Diana chided him at this. "Why did you buy these? Dad would get sick if he eats them?"

"Let Dad enjoy what he likes. It's only once a week anyway," Jin reasoned as he switched on the car and started driving.

"...Alright," Diana relented. A small part of it was because of Jin's reasoning but a greater part was because of Jin calling her father 'dad'. Whenever he did that she felt elated.

'I wonder when we will get married,' Diana thought as she looked outside the window at the passing scenery. She shook those thoughts away soon after.

A/N: See ya later