CAPÍTULO III GENERALIDADES DEL ISR, IETU, INIF 8
4. Cuota del impuesto
3.22 DECLARACIÓN Y PAGO DEL ISR
Chapter 17: Be Brave and Bold
“Hello, I’m Kim TaeYeon!”
Tiffany woke up to a start. She opened her eyes wide at the sudden voice and turned to the side abruptly. She was about to kick the figure there when she saw who it was. She giggled silently when she saw TaeYeon with her mouth open.
Tiffany turned to her side as careful as possible so that she wouldn’t wake TaeYeon up.
After she had successfully turned so that she was facing Taeyeon, she looked at her
porcelain face and smiled to herself when she remembered what TaeYeon had told her last night.
Her hand went up and she began to trace TaeYeon’s face with her finger, gingerly.
Starting from her eyebrow to her nose, TaeYeon frowned and wrinkled her nose a little.
Tiffany then brought her finger to trace her cheek in circle, and then down to her lips. She caressed it and for a moment thought of how it would feel like to kiss a vampire. It would be similar to kissing a human, right? I mean... they look the same.
She watched Taeyeon frown before her hand was swatted away.
Tiffany giggled but stopped when a hand suddenly touched her chest. Her eyes went wide and she immediately kicked Taeyeon off the bed.
“Owh!” Taeyeon sat up and looked at Tiffany, still half awake. “Did you just kick me down the bed?”
“You prevert...” She glared at her.
“What?” TaeYeon frowned.
“Byuntae!” She felt her cheeks heating up.
“W–what are you talking about?” TaeYeon stood up and looked at Tiffany who kept on avoiding her eyes.
“Y–you...” She got off the bed and slowly inched towards the door. “You touched my c–
chest!” And then ran out with a slam of the door.
W–w–what... I–I... TaeYeon’s jaw dropped.
“Prince TaeYeon?”
She blinked her eyes a few times before finally realising one of the maids standing by the door. “Good morning. I knocked your door a few times but you didn’t answer.”
“Ah...” She cleared her throat. “What is it?”
“The King wants to meet you in his room.”
“Of course, I’ll be right there.”
“I’ll take my leave,” the maid bowed before leaving.
What could Appa want?
---“So, what do you think the two did last night? Tiffany didn’t even go back to her room...”
Sooyoung asked Jessica who was still lying on her bed.
“I have no idea. And, why did you even come here so early?” Jessica glared at the tall girl before taking a pillow beside her and throwing it at Sooyoung’s direction.
“Early?” Sooyoung snorted. “Would you care to look at the time, Miss Jung? It’s eleven. Time to get up now.”
“No,” she pulled the blanket up to cover her face but in an instant, it was pulled down by Sooyoung. “Why are you so annoying!”
“If you could wake up by yourself, I will be more than willing to leave the sleeping beauty alone.”
Jessica rolled her eyes but couldn't stop her heart from skipping a beat when she heard Sooyoung inadvertently calling her a beauty.
“Okay, get up now.” She extended both of her hands, wanting Jessica to use them for support. “Come on.”
“No.”
“Up. Now.”
“Go away,” she whined.
“Do not force me to do this.”
“You wouldn’t dare do anything to me.”
Sooyoung couldn’t help but to curse inwardly. “Then, get up now!”
“No!”
“Fine.”
Just when Jessica thought that Sooyoung had given up and she could finally have her peaceful sleep, two hands suddenly grabbed her arms and pulled her up.
“Get off me!” Jessica tried to push the hands away but Sooyoung didn’t even budge a little.
Sooyoung continued to pull and since she was going to pull Jessica off the bed, she extorted more force but it ended up to be too much and she stumbled backwards with Jessica
following her.
Her eyes went wide when she knew that they were going to fall, on her back.
But that wasn’t the concern, because the next thing she knew, a pair of lips had landed upon hers.
---“Appa,” TaeYeon walked into the room once she had greeted her father. She watched as her father stood up to walk to the couch and she followed along.
“How’s your injury?” The King asked.
“It’s recovering fast.”
“That’s good to hear.” He smiled.
“Is anything the matter, Appa?” TaeYeon asked and she saw how her father’s smile slowly faded away before he turned serious.
The King walked to his desk to pick up a file before walking back.
“There are two matters that I want to talk about,” he passed the file to TaeYeon who opened it. “Last night, the officials found thirteen dead human bodies in the town area.
They came to a conclusion that the cause of death was from massive loss of blood. And after examining, they found fang marks on the bodies.”
“Vampires?”
The King nodded.
“Which clan?”
“We are still investigating. But right now, our suspicion is on the Furer Clan. The limbs of the bodies were torn off and... I could only think of one clan that would do this.”
The Furer clan, again...
“Appa, I have something to tell you. It’s about last night.”
“What is it?”
“We interrogated one guy there and I saw a tattoo on his arm. It was from the Furer Clan.”
“Are you sure about this, Taeyeon?”
“Affirmative. I can recognise that tattoo anywhere.”
The King exhaled loudly and massaged his temple. “They are getting out of hand and are crossing the line now. Attacking the Prince? What were they even thinking?”
“Their target isn’t me, Appa. It’s Tiffany...”
“Tiffany?”
“Yes. Lee Donghae found out that she’s human...”
“Wh–... What about Jessica?”
TaeYeon shook her head. “They don’t know anything about her.”
“Okay, make sure you keep them safe and unharmed, then.”
“Of course, Appa. I will.” She waited for a few seconds when her father sat back again before opening her mouth. “What’s the other thing about?”
“Ah, yes. I nearly forgot about that. It’s about you.”
Me? She raised her eyebrow.
“And Tiffany.”
What?
“I heard that she spent the night at your room just last night.” His face turned serious again and TaeYeon felt herself went rigid before she gulped nervously. “Is that true, TaeYeon?”
“Y–yes... But it was nothing, Appa! I was just accompanying her since she was scared and... I swear nothing happened! I–” she stopped talking when her father started to laugh. “What’s so funny?” She asked with a frown.
“You are!” The King laughed while pointing at TaeYeon. He waited for his laughter to die down before speaking, “why are you even in a rush to explain everything to me? I didn’t say that I didn’t believe you.” He smiled.
“W–what?”
“You like Tiffany, don’t you?”
Taeyeon could only stare at her father with wide eyes before she started to choke on her saliva in shock.
The King grinned and shook his head. “Why are you having such a big reaction?”
TaeYeon patted on her chest. “What are you saying, Appa?”
“Don’t have to deny,” he patted on Taeyeon’s back. “You’re my daughter, TaeYeon-ah. I know you too well to know when you’re lying and when you’re not. And of course, I would know very well when you love someone.”
TaeYeon couldn’t stop the gasp from escaping her lips.
“Don’t hesitate, alright? Pursue on if you really like her.”
“B–but...”
“She’s human?”
Taeyeon sighed and nodded.
“If you love her, you don’t have to care about anything, TaeYeon-ah. Just be brave and love her boldly. Don’t be afraid of anything.”
“It’s not that easy...” She looked down.
The King smiled and patted on her back again. “Nothing’s impossible. Especially when you have a King as your father.” He chuckled and TaeYeon joined him soon after.
“I don’t want her to get hurt, Appa. I don’t want her to suffer like... like how Umma did...”
She saw how her father turned mellow and started to feel guilty for bringing up the past.
“I’m sorry, Appa...”
“No, no. It’s okay. I’m okay.” He smiled and Taeyeon knew that it was most probably forced out. But just to make him feel better, Taeyeon then smiled back.
“Although your mother had already left, but at least she left many beautiful memories behind for us. And that’s already enough for us to place in our hearts. Up till today, I still know that I love your mother very deeply.” He looked at the photo frame on the desk. “So, do it, TaeYeon. Love her and don’t let anything stop you.”
“I... I will, Appa. I will.”
I’ll try... I’ll try, no matter what the outcome might be.
---Sooyoung had her eyes opened as she looked at Jessica who slowly opened her eyes before blinking rapidly. Her eyes then darted down to their attached lips before her eyes widened.
She knew that Jessica was going to get off her soon so she decided that it was now or never.
She’s not going to be a coward anymore.
Throwing caution to the wind, Sooyoung went to do what she had least expected herself to do – she placed her hands at the back of Jessica’s head and pushed her down before
attaching their lips again.
Jessica squirmed around and tried to struggle to get out of Sooyoung’s hold. She was more than surprised of what Sooyoung had done, but felt her own restraint vanishing as she gave in to the kiss and stopped struggling.
Sooyoung didn’t know what was going to happen next as she pulled away from the kiss breathlessly. But one thing that she knew was that she wasn’t going to regret what she did.