Bittersweet ≈ Seonghwa [NEW!]

Ships

I woke up the sound of my phone vibrating.

As I peeled my eyes open, I noticed my arms were wrapped around a broad fella. His chest that heaved in front of my face made me freeze.

A soft breeze on the crown of my head, had a rhythmic touch as if someone was breathing down on my hair.

I could make out a figure of a hand holding me by my upper back. His fingers were tangled in my hair. As I fidget a little bit, the hand pulled me in closer.

It was warm and cozy. I felt myself relax for the first time in a long time, snuggling into the arms of...

I looked up.

Park Seonghwa.

I felt safe.

But the sound of my phone vibrating really had me struggling to get out of his embrace.

"Uhm-Hwa? Seonghwa?" I whispered.

"Mhm..." he responded.

"Could you let me go for a minute? I'll be back," I slipped out of the coziness and stumbled towards my phone.

It's my boss from the cinema.

"Hello?"

"Are you sick honey? Please tell me you're okay?"

I sighed in relief. I thought she was going to scream at me for not being there.

"I'm fine. I passed out that's all."

I can hear her sigh in relief too, "Okay...today is not busy cuz there's really no new exciting films. So please rest, take another night off ok? You have school tomorrow."

"Yes ma'am, thank you."

"You're welcome dear."

Whew, looks like I literally got the whole day off.

I turned back to Seonghwa who was wide awake now. He opened his arm out to me as if inviting me to lay back down with him.

Without words, I crawled back in and we got back into our cozy hug.

This time, none of us could go back to sleep.

"Hey," I voiced out softly.

"Mhm?"

"Don't mind me asking but, what are we?" I asked, resting my head softly onto his arm.

"What do you want us to be?" He replied me back. I feel his chin rest on the crown of my head.

I thought for a bit but I couldn't say anything. I didn't know what I wanted us to be. At least, I don't know how he feels about me.

Seonghwa pulled away, bringing his hand to my cheek. He pulled my face up to look at him. His messy bed hair covering his eyes partially.

With my heart pounding in my chest, I closed my eyes as he leaned in.

Finally, our lips touched. I could finally feel his soft lips against mine. I think we both felt it...that spark, the heat the kiss emitted, the closeness of our faces. My hand reached up to his neck, trying to pull myself up. I felt his other arm below me slither beneath my waist, helping me.

It was simple but long kiss.

I felt him smile at the end of it and I did too, which broke the moment.

"Can I call you mine?"

You wouldn't believe how my heart just bursted into tiny uwus at his question. I giggled.

"Of course."

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We both got dressed and went downstairs for our first meal of the day at 6pm.

Seonghwa held my hand as we walked to the kitchen.

The other members were playing videos games on the tv but Jongho caught us.

"Guys what did I miss?" he called out.

They paused their game and turned their heads to the kitchen counter where both Seonghwa and I froze with our plates of pasta.

"What?" Hongjoong asks nudging Jongho's shoulder.

"THEY WERE HOLDING HANDS!" Jongho pointed and ran towards us, pulling us toward the coffee table.

"Are you two dating?" Jongho says again. His voice filled with excitement as if he's about the crack the world biggest mystery case. "You guys were supposed to be up eating 4 hours ago! Mingi woke you up!"

Mingi nodded, "I did! Did you guys, by any chance, do something after I left?"

I exchanged looks with Seonghwa and we both shook our heads, waving our hands out in front of us, shouting "No! No! Nothing happened!"

Hongjoong squinted his eyes and dropped the game console in Yeosang's lap.

"Seonghwa, can I speak to you in private please? My room."

With that, he strode upstairs and disappeared as he turned a corner.

Seonghwa followed after him after asking me to protect his pasta.

I wonder what's going on?

+Seonghwa's POV

I walked into Hongjoong's room, only to find a pillow being thrown right to my head.

I ducked, shouting, "Hey! What's wrong with you?"

Hongjoong had his hands on his hips as he gritted his teeth, "You know it's dangerous to care about someone right? You remember the last time something like this happened..right?!"

I shrugged, "She doesn't know. And she's not going to be part of this."

"She doesn't HAVE to be part of this! If other members of other gangs like TBZ or SVT or worse, NCT, find out she's precious to you, they'll take her away from you! They'll USE her to get to YOU! Boss is going to be furious!"

I watched our captain pace back and forth the room, running his hands through his hair.

"Hong-ah, I'll protect her. I promise."

At the word 'promise', Hongjoong shot a deadly look at me.

"Promise? Boss WILL make her part of this mess we're all in because he doesn't want any damsel in distress to come and ruin this gang. Remember what happened to the last girl who joined us?"

I rolled my eyes as I scoffed, "She forced her way in here because she was obsessed over you. She only found out and died because she thought she could be one of us! It's not like you cared about her-"

That's when I realised.

I f--ked up.

Hongjoong's shoulders drooped in disappointment. Tears of sorrow welled in his eyes, making it glisten like stars.

"Hong-ah, I didn't mean-"

"I thought you all knew. My mistake."

I bit my lip, regretting my choice of words. That girl must've grew on him. We all didn't know and we were so insensitive to his loss.

"Hong wait-" I ran after him who was fast to reach the front door.

All eyes were on me as I descended the stairs.

"Hyung what happened?" Wooyoung asks.

I pursed my lips, "Yeona, could you go back to our room please? This is something important between me and my members. I think you should-"

Yeona nodded, giving me a soft smile, "Don't worry. I understand. I'll go up first."

Once I checked Yeona was in the room, I settled down and told the 6 other members everything.