Tiffany did not manage to concentrate on the movie played on the screen since her gaze was totally fixed to her kid-looking boss in beside her. She still struck with the admiration of the sight she got when her boss made a lot of different expression during the movie. Taeyeon sometimes put up a serious expression, then changed to amazement, and also let out her old lady-like laugh when funny scenes appeared on the screen. She tried couples of times to moved her focus to the movie played at the moment but always failed every time she heard any sighs, chuckles, or laughs from the girl beside her. She repeatedly shook her head. She had lost count how many times she shook her head today. Taeyeon kept occupying her mind even when the mentioned girl was actually beside her at the moment. She kept questioned herself whether what Jessica said was right. Maybe she really had changed her preference into girl. She shifted her gaze and stared at the TV blankly, did not even pay any attention about the scene. Her thoughts were still somewhere in the clouds, she felt the need to find the answer of her own confusion. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, trying to imagine kissing a girl. She grimaced at her own imagination and shook her head again. She could not imagine it. It was weird. She turned her head to look at her blonde boss again and imagined the same thing. What would it feel to kiss her boss? To her own surprise, her heart rapidly beat and she felt her cheek got warm. She shook her head again in frustration. Why did she always like this when it came to Kim Taeyeon?

Taeyeon felt she was being watched and when she turned her head to Tiffany, she saw her crush shaking her head furiously.

"Fany?" Taeyeon changed her focus from the movie to the girl beside her. The latter startled as if she was caught doing something.

"Y-yes?"

"Why are you shaking your head?" Taeyeon asked innocently.

"Because you act like a kid. Tsk tsk tsk." Tiffany made up a reason and acted shaking her head again. Taeyeon only grinned and moved her focus back to the TV again. Tiffany sighed and turned her head to TV as well, hoping she could concentrate for the rest of the movie.

"So who's your favorite character, Fany?" Taeyeon asked after the movie ended.

"Of course Joy! She's the main character in the movie." Tiffany answered as she got up from the bed to unload the DVD from DVD player.

"Hmmm... Joy... Fits you well." Taeyeon commented, giving thoughtful look.

"And why is that?" Tiffany asked while placing the disc back in its case.

"Because you literally makes people around you feel the joy." Taeyeon answered with a grin.

"Cheesy. I think that gummies gave you so much joy more than me. You didn't even share it with me." Tiffany replied, walking her way back to the bed and sat beside the grinning Taeyeon.

"Don't blame me. Gummies are so cute, sweet, adorable, and tempting." Taeyeon said.

"Are you describing gummies or describing your crush?" Tiffany giggled at Taeyeon answer.

"Of course gummies, Fany! I can do better in describing my crush!" Taeyeon pouted.

Tiffany looked at the pout and the thought of kissing a girl rushed back to her head, and for the umpteenth time today she repeatedly shook her head.

"Fany? You keep shaking your head ever since I came. What's wrong?" Taeyeon noticed.

"Nothing. Just a slight headache." Tiffany made up a reason.

"Ah! You should take medicine, then. But you have to eat first. Ah, wait, what time is it now?" Taeyeon seemed panic but it didn't lessen her cuteness.

"It's past six, Tae." Tiffany looked at the clock on the nightstand to divert her gaze from her boss.

"I'm gonna cook for our dinner! Can I use the kitchen?" Taeyeon asked as she jumped off the bed. Tiffany nodded and led their way to the kitchen. Taeyeon followed behind and suddenly grabbed Tiffany's hand in hers. Tiffany surprised with the contact and turned her head only to see her dork boss grinned widely.

"Why? It's a date, right? You said it's a movie date." Taeyeon asked as she saw Tiffany was surprised.

"Ah, right. Come on." Tiffany smiled and positioned her fingers interlocking with Taeyeon, resulting blushes on both her and Taeyeon's face. As soon as they hit the kitchen, Tiffany let go of Taeyeon's hand to open the fridge and took the plastic bag Taeyeon put earlier.

"What are we going to make, Taetae?" Tiffany asked, putting the plastic bag on the kitchen counter. Taeyeon walked to the counter and helped Tiffany taking out the groceries she bought.

"We? No. It's my duty to cook. You just sit, watch, and enjoy." Taeyeon answered, gesturing Tiffany to sit on the dining table.

"No." Tiffany didn't move an inch.

"Why?" Taeyeon turned her head to Tiffany.

"There would be no fun if you're the only one who cook. In addition, I can't cook at all so it will be a lot challenging for you to cook. That's the fun!" Tiffany excitedly explained.

"Ah, seems like you no longer have headache. OK, then! Let's cook." Taeyeon continued preparing the ingredients.

"So, you forbid me to cook because of the headache?" Tiffany was surprised of Taeyeon's consideration.

"Yes, you need to drink your medicines, so I thought I need to cook something simple and fast so you can have your medicine soon. But, since now you've cured from the headache, I don't think we need to rush. Let's have some fun, just like what you said before."

"So what are we going to make, Taetae?" Tiffany asked again, emphasizing the word 'we'. Taeyeon chuckled and stared at the ingredients on the counter trying to decide what dish should they make.

"Hmmm, what about spinach soup and seasoned fried chicken? Can you please wash the spinach and cut the bottom stems? Once you finish, you can help me to make the seasoning for the soup. I'll guide you later." Taeyeon gave detail instruction as she walked to the sink, cleaning the chicken.

"My dorky Taetae becomes Miss Kim Taeyeon in the kitchen." Tiffany chuckled realizing the way Taeyeon instructed her just then was like the way her boss lead the meeting.

"Could you please make it fast and report to me once you finish, Tiffany?" Taeyeon acted along, resulting a laugh from Tiffany.

Tiffany amazed at how much Taeyeon knew about cooking. She never imagined such a workaholic career woman would be able to cook that well. She now felt bad for always saying that she was a career woman every time her Dad or her boyfriend teased her about her cooking ability. Tiffany was in the middle of cutting the garlic to some thin slices when suddenly a pair of hands held hers. She also felt warmth on her back. She turned her head around, finding the hands' owner grinned at her with blushing cheek.

"I'm gonna show you how to cut it. You will end up losing all your fingers if you hold the knife and the garlic that way, Fany." Taeyeon explained as she corrected Tiffany's hand to hold the knife properly. Tiffany tried to focus on what Taeyeon taught her instead of her beating heart that could not be slowed down because of their contact. Once Tiffany's hands were already on the right position, Taeyeon immediately pulled herself from Tiffany and continued making other seasonings.

****

"Yeay! Done! Finally!" Tiffany squealed and finished it with a sigh.

"Hey, what's with the sigh?" Taeyeon asked as she put all the meals they cooked on the dining table. At the end, Taeyeon did the most task since Tiffany would spilled the water, dropped the knife, almost cut her own hand, and other clumsy things. Taeyeon was relieved that they managed to finish cooking before the kitchen was burnt by Tiffany's clumsiness.

"I thought it would be fun. It's no fun at all. No flours to be threw, no cute colors, no pink color! No cute shapes. We just cut those herbs, wash the chicken and vegetables, cutting this cutting that. Boring." Tiffany sulked in the chair.

"We're cooking meals, Fany. Not baking." Taeyeon chuckled at her crush's reaction. She put rice on Tiffany's plate and her plate, also put the soup in smaller bowl she had prepared. One for Tiffany, and one for her. And finally she took a seat beside Tiffany.

"Which one do you prefer, Fany? Breast of thigh?" Taeyeon asked out of a sudden.

"Uh? Wh-what do you mean? Why should I choose?" Tiffany blushed and stuttered at the question. Why did her boss suddenly asked her about breast and thigh? Why did her boss suddenly ask her this kind of question in the middle of her confusion?

"Huh? Why can't I ask?" Taeyeon furrowed her eyebrows in confusion.

"Ehm... I-Is that needed to be asked?" Tiffany blushed even harder.

"Why not? I prefer breast if you don't mind?" Taeyeon said resulting a surprised look from Tiffany.

"Why are you telling me that you like breasts???" Tiffany asked half yelling. She really had no idea why did Taeyeon suddenly confessed that she liked breast. Her mind wandered even further, was that mean that Taeyeon prefer girls to guys?

"Why are you yelling at me? If you want to take the breast just take it. I will just take the thigh. It's just fried chicken, Fany." Taeyeon answered with a totally confused look on her face. Tiffany's face got even redder knowing that Taeyeon referred to chicken breast and chicken thigh.

"Y-yeah. Breast for me then." Tiffany answered while taking the chicken breast from the plate.

"Why are you... Ah! I know what you thought!! My fany is a pervert! Hahahahaha." Taeyeon finally understood why the latter gave such a reaction before.

"Shut up, Tae." Tiffany mumbled, fixing her gaze to her own plate.

"Fany..." Taeyeon called.

"Hmmm..." Tiffany hummed started to eat her meal.

"Tiffany..." Taeyeon called again.

"Hmmmmmm..." Tiffany hummed while chewing, not leaving her gaze from her plate.

"Tiffany Hwang..." Taeyeon called for the third time.

"What is it Kim Taeyeon?" Tiffany asked back and shifted her gaze to Taeyeon.

"Pervert!" Taeyeon grinned widely showing her cute dimple.

"Taetae!!!!" Tiffany blushed and raised her spoon as if she was about to hit Taeyeon, while the latter let out her old lady-like laugh.

"Hahahaha, okay, okay. Let's eat now. Hahahaha. My Fany is so funny." Taeyeon said as she also grabbed the chicken. The latter just kept pouting seeing her boss reaction.

"Fany..." Taeyeon called out, as she saw no changes on Tiffany's face.

"What?"

"Don't pout." Taeyeon also put a pout on her cute face.

"You made me."

"What is it called the food ingredient, made from the pressed curds of milk..." Taeyeon haven't finished her sentence when Tiffany cut her off.

"Don't make me say cheese!"

"But you said it now." Taeyeon grinned.

"Dork!"

"Your dork."

"No."

"Ah why???" Taeyeon put her best puppy face.

"Mine is Taetae." Tiffany smiled, making Taeyeon smiled along in relief.

"Now eat, Fany." She said as she took a spoonful of rice and delivered it to Tiffany.

"Say aaah." Taeyeon held her spoon in front of Tiffany, waiting the latter to open her mouth. Tiffany did as she asked, smiling as she chewed the rice.

"How does it taste?" Taeyeon asked.

"I never expect a career woman like you able to cook this well, honestly. I expect that you be at the same level as me, or even worse, if it comes to cooking. But I think I was wrong." Tiffany chuckled.

"You are underestimating The Kim Taeyeon, huh?" Taeyeon shook her head in disagreement, which only made her crush pinched her cheeks softly.

"Ah I forgot something!" Tiffany suddenly squealed.

"What is it?"

"I am supposed to take the picture of our meals and update it to instagram before we eat!" Tiffany huffed.

"Seriously?"

"Yes, Tae. People won't know that I am able to cook if I do not post it."

"Gen-Y* and their social media addiction." Taeyeon sighed.

"You said it as if you're not part of Gen-Y, huh? So what are you? Baby boomer**?"

"If I am, then you are now dating a very old grandma, then." Taeyeon smirked.

"My smartass Boss." Tiffany sighed in defeat.

It was eight o'clock when they finally finished their meals and cleared up everything. Tiffany dragged Taeyeon back to her bedroom and let the cute blonde use her bathroom to wash her face and brush her teeth while Tiffany rummaged through the movie box to find what movie she wanted to watch. Her choice was finally fell to "Before Midnight", the last trilogy of Before Sunrise.

"What movie is that?" Taeyeon asked as she walked out of the bathroom.

"The last trilogy of my favorite movie, Before sunrise."

"Let me guess, romantic drama?" said Taeyeon who now seemed a lot more comfortable in Tiffany's room.

"Yes, it is."

"Why don't we just watch comedy or something else? I haven't even watched the first two movies." Taeyeon sulked as she plopped herself on the bed.

"I let you watched your Disney movie and now you won't let me watch my choice? How unfair."

"But..."

"No but, Tae!"

"Okay, don't blame me if I fall asleep."

"What's with the stubbornness?" Tiffany sighed

"I told you I am the most stubborn person I've known in my life."

"Whatever, but you still need to accompany me along the movie." Tiffany replied nonchalantly as she put the disc in the tray and sat beside Taeyeon.

"And Miss Demanding Hwang is on the mode." Taeyeon sighed as Tiffany pressed the play button.

It was only half of the movie when Tiffany heard a soft snore came from beside her. She looked at her side to find Taeyeon was already slept. Tiffany looked at the cute sight beside her and immersed in her adoration of her own boss. She looked so innocent and cute. Tiffany hardly held herself not to caress her boss' face.

"Taetae..." Tiffany called out softly, shaking Taeyeon's body in attempt to woke the girl up. Taeyeon opened her eyes a bit and groaned.

"What?" Taeyeon mumbled.

"Change your position, your neck will hurt if you sleep like this." Tiffany explained. Taeyeon blinked her eyes couples of time but did not move an inch.

"But the movie hasn't finished yet." Said Taeyeon.

"It's okay, I can watch it some other time. Just sleep."

"But it's our movie date." Taeyeon still half mumbled and slowly closed her eyes again. Tiffany chuckled at her boss' answer.

"It's okay, Tae. Just get a more comfortable position now." Tiffany said as she helped Taeyeon slid to a more comfortable position. The latter stayed silent and slid her body to comfortably lie on Tiffany's bed. After helping Taeyeon to get into more comfortable position, Tiffany turned off the TV and the DVD player. She then went to the bathroom, cleaning her face and brushed her teeth. She looked at her own reflection in the mirror and shook her head, "Bring yourself together Tiffany Hwang. You stupidly mistaken about what Taeyeon meant by breast earlier. It's chicken breast for Pete's sake. Why did I think about woman's breasts? And what's with this thought about kissing Taeyeon? Why do I always feel like I want to kiss her every time I see her lips? I am getting creepy! It's all Jessica's fault!"

"Fany? Whom are you talking to?" Taeyeon's voice from outside the bathroom startled her.

"No... Noone, Tae..." She immediately gargled and cleaned up.

"I thought I really heard you talked with someone." Taeyeon asked again as soon as the bathroom's door opened, revealing Tiffany.

"I thought you were sleeping already." Tiffany answered coolly, secretly wishing that Taeyeon could not hear what she said earlier in the bathroom.

"I was. But I want to peepee suddenly." Taeyeon answered. Tiffany noticed the word her boss used, 'peepee' and assumed that her boss needed to use the bathroom. She walked out of the room and pleased Taeyeon to use it. She laid her body on her bed and tried to find comfortable position. She heard flushing sound followed by an opened door signing Taeyeon had finished her business in the bathroom. Not long after, Taeyeon joined her on the bed. Tiffany leaned on her right side to face her petite boss.

"Want to continue your sleep, Tae?"

"Uhmmm. Not sleepy anymore. Let's have girls' talk or any conversation." Taeyeon's answer surprising Tiffany. Tiffany usually had to fished Taeyeon out to start telling her about anything. But, just now, her boss just asked to have a talk.

"Whoa, I can't believe you initiate that." Tiffany said.

"What? The talk? I feel comfortable with you. So, why not?" Taeyeon grinned. "Fany, so, this movie date is counted as a date or not?" Taeyeon innocently asked as she positioned herself to sit on the bed with her back laid on the headboard. Tiffany caught off guard. She contemplated for a while but she chose to follow what her heart asked her to say.

"Yes. Why, Taetae?" She answered as she followed Taeyeon to sit and rested her back on the headboard.

"If so, can you lay your head on my shoulder again just like what you did on our second date?" Taeyeon asked with a blush on her cheek. Tiffany said nothing but shifted her position, closing the gap between them and laid her head on Taeyeon's shoulder. She then reached for Taeyeon's hand and intertwined it with hers.

"Like this?" Tiffany ensured while she tried controlling her heartbeat. Silently wished that the cute blonde beside her would not be able to hear it. Taeyeon hummed in answer.

"Why?" Tiffany asked.

"Because it's our date and I like it." Taeyeon said. She was not really sure about this either. She could not forget the fact that Tiffany already had a boyfriend. But, Taeyeon chose to ignore the fact at the moment. She would not waste any opportunity given in every date they had.

Tiffany said nothing but she raised their intertwined hand and lead Taeyeon's hand to wrap her waist then she let go off their hands.

"I like it this way." She said once she made Taeyeon's left hand wrapped around her waist. Taeyeon again just hummed in answer and comfortable silence filled the room. Tiffany felt really comfortable with Taeyeon's arms around her. She then recalled her conversation with Jessica earlier today and all the confusions she had about her feelings towards Taeyeon rushed back filling up her mind.

"Taetae, may I ask you a question?" Tiffany broke the silence.

"Sure." Taeyeon replied.

"What will be your reaction if your best friend is gay?" Tiffany asked. Taeyeon was shocked with the question. She started to worry whether Tiffany knew about her sexual preference already? Was this best friend she talked about was actually her? She finally decided to give diplomatic answer.

"Let her or him be. That's their rights."

"You know it's not that simple and I don't expect that kind of answer from you, Tae." Tiffany sighed.

"Well, if I put myself in your shoes, the thing I guarantee won't happen is detesting her or him. We cannot choose to whom we fall in love with, right? If the love happens to be the one with the same sex, what can we do about that? I am not really religious, Fany. But I believe God has His own reason for creating us with brain and heart. Brain to help us think logically, and heart to lead us when logic fails to reason. And for love itself, we need no reason for love, right? It just comes naturally and, heart plays it role to lead us." Taeyeon's long opinion only answered with a hum from Tiffany.

"Why?" Taeyeon now felt curious for the sudden question.

"Nothing." Tiffany replied shortly.

"No matter how random your topic could be, but your question just now is not from just some random thoughts." Taeyeon successfully analyzed it. Tiffany smiled at Taeyeon's reasoning.

"I know this girl. As long as I know her, she is as straight as a ruler. But one day, she met another girl who makes her world upside down. She has a boyfriend whom she thought she fell in love with but ever since she met the girl, she started to doubt her feeling towards the boy. The girl keeps occupying her mind and she starts to question her own preference. Every time she is with the girl, she always wants more contact, more skin ship. They spend most of the day together, yet she never feels enough, she wants more and more. She keeps telling herself that they are just close friends but as much as she tells that, she knows she wants more than just being a friend." Tiffany explained.

"Tell her to follow her heart." Taeyeon answered.

"I told her. But she was afraid. She and the girl are already close. They are best friends and she doesn't want to ruin their friendship. She also doesn't want to hurt her boyfriend. What should she do, Tae?" Tiffany asked as she raised her head from Taeyeon's shoulder and looked at Taeyeon's side profile.

"What can I say? I am pretty much the same with her. The one that I Iove is really close to me, and in addition, already has someone. I do not even have any courage to tell my crush about my feeling. How can I suggest her to be brave while I am a coward myself?" Taeyeon sighed.

"Do you really love him, Tae?" Tiffany felt her heart cracked a bit when she heard Taeyeon talked about her feeling towards her crush.

"I do, Fany. I know how your friend feels. Keep wanting more while you can be just friends and knowing that someone else own the heart. It's not easy." Taeyeon replied weakly.

"She said the same thing. It's not easy for her as well to keep being just friends while she wants more. But the difference is she still confuse. She doesn't even know whether the feeling is true. She was sure she was straight before she met her." Fany said with the same weak voice.

"I think you should introduce me to her then. Maybe we can share our story so to figure out what should we do about this kind of feeling. You're so lucky that you already have a boyfriend so you don't need to have this kind of confusing thought." Taeyeon chuckled, trying to lighten up the mood.

"Do you really want me to introduce you to her?" Tiffany ignored Taeyeon's remark about her boyfriend.

"Sure, why not? Two coward girls supporting each other would be funny, I guess." She grinned.

"I don't need to introduce you to her anyway." Tiffany replied.

"Why?" Taeyeon asked as she turned her head to face Tiffany.

"I am her."

"What?" Taeyeon's eyes widen.

"I am her, Taetae." Tiffany stared right into Taeyeon's eyes.

"Which 'her'? The straight as ruler one, or the best friend one?" Taeyeon could not hide her shock.

"The straight as ruler one." Tiffany sighed. "Who happens to question her own preference since she met Kim Taeyeon." She continued.

"What??? Me???" Taeyeon barely breathed knowing the fact.

"You won't detest me for that, will you? I don't want to lose this friendship, Taetae. I'm not gay, yet. I'm confused. I'm sorry for this sudden confession but... But I just can't keep it to myself anymore. I'm sorry." Tiffany's head hung low. She did not have the courage to look at her boss right now. Her boss might be just freak out, regarded her as a creep, and she might be losing one of her closest person right now.

The silence once again filled the room. Tiffany still had her gaze to her hands on her lap. She did not want to see Taeyeon's reaction. The deafening quietness started to frighten her. She thought it was the end. Taeyeon would no longer be her friend anymore. Her boss lived in Indonesia ever since she was born, so it would be normal for Taeyeon to hate her right now because in this country lesbian is disgusting, lesbian is a disgrace, lesbian is not normal. She felt the heat of tears rushed to her eyes. It was already on the edge of falling down to wet her cheeks when she felt a hand on her left cheek and forced her to look up, meeting her eyes with Taeyeon's.

"Are you going to hate me now, Tae?" Tiffany's voice cracked.

"No. I love you." Taeyeon answered calmly with a sincere smile on her face.

"You? What?" It was Tiffany's turn to shock.

"I love you." Taeyeon said it once again. Tiffany looked at Taeyeon in disbelief. She hardly understood the situation at the moment. She finally told Taeyeon about her feeling, ready to be hated by the later yet she heard Taeyeon said she loved her.

"Fany..." Taeyeon called out since she did not get any response from the latter. She unwrapped her arms around Tiffany's waist and put it on Tiffany's right cheek.

"Listen... I know you already have a boyfriend and I really understand that you must be really shocked right now. But I think it's just fair that you finally brave to tell me about your feeling, then I should also have as much courage to tell you about mine. Yes, you're the one I fall in love with. I do not expect you to receive my feeling. I do not ask you to love me back. I just want you to know that I love you." Taeyeon said as she caressed Tiffany's cheek.

"Taetae..."

"Hmm?"

"I am still confused..."

"I know. No need to think too much, Fany. It's enough for me to let you know about my feeling. At least I don't have to hide anything from you now. Now, you know that I am a lesbian, and I am in love with you. There, no more secret between us. We are officially best fiend now because I have no secret anymore." Taeyeon gave Tiffany reassuring smile.

"No." Tiffany frowned at Taeyeon's answer.

"Why?" Taeyeon asked as she let go off Tiffany's cheeks.

"It's not fair to me. I'm still confused." Tiffany sighed.

"What can I do to make it fair then?" Taeyeon now held both Tiffany's hands in hers.

"Help me to find out?"

"How?"

"Will you help me to find out?" Tiffany asked again.

"Yes, I will Fany. But I d-..." Taeyeon's sentence cut off as Tiffany's lips silenced her.

The kiss was simple just a pair of lips pressed together and lingered on top each other for couple of seconds. But it was enough for Tiffany to felt the butterflies in her stomach came alive. It flied aimlessly in her, as if finally released after being in a cage for years. Tiffany pulled away only to find a blushing Taeyeon in front of her. She smiled at the sight and leaned in one more time to kiss the latter softly. Taeyeon finally responded to her kiss and kissed her back, softly as if she was the most precious thing in her life. Tiffany broke the kiss again and saw Taeyeon who still had her eyes closed.

"I love you too, Taetae. And I'm no longer confused."