Snippets of Us (Itaewon Class)

Tears and dogs

NOTES: I wasn't in the mood to write two more sort of long chapters, so instead, I will give you 7 drabbles and turn this into a 15-chapter collection. Since they are all mostly written already I'll try not to take more than a week to update. This one is a little ahead in the future, they are married and all, hope you like it.

Yi Seo's been... sensitive.

They are watching a movie and it's a drama one. The ending is sad but predictable and Saeroyi had his mind too full with a work dilemma to actually pay complete attention to it.

But Yi Seo had, and surprisingly when he looks at her her eyes are glistening with tears.

She never cries for this kind of stuff, so Saeroyi immediately worries it might be for something else as he rearranges his position to take a better look at her face.

"Yi Seo-ah. Are you crying?" He touches her cheeks.

Instead of answering, she simply hides her body into his embrace. Saeroyi can hear her sniffing with her head clung to his chest and he doesn't know what to say. He holds her close and pats her hair as he thinks on how to approach this.

"Are you like this... because of the movie?"

He doesn't know what to expect, but the answer she gives certainly would've never crossed his mind coming from her.

"The dog died."

Her voice breaks at the end, and as much as Saeroyi hates seeing her cry, he has to chuckle at this.

He gently pushes her face back a little so he can look at her, still uncertain if she's just trying to hide the real reason from him. But her expression is like the one of a little girl who just found out Santa doesn't exist.

"Yeobo," he calls smoothly in an attempt to calm her, "you don't like dogs."

The flow of tears that was starting to diminish comes back in full force.

"But the family liked him."

Great, now she seems even sadder, which is starting to get both confusing and worrisome for Saeroyi. But she doesn't seem like she's going to elaborate any further than that, so he just hugs her tight again.

Slowly she begins to calm down. The crying stops and the only reminiscence of it is her low sniffing. He uses his hand to clear her reddened face of the trace of tears and tries to sound natural when he takes another guess, "Is it your special time of the month?"

He's seen her being sensitive during her period days before, but never like this.

She chuckles.

"That's awkward of you to say, but no. It's not only until-" She frowns, deep in thought, but ends up shaking her head. "Actually, I don't know, maybe. It's been a little off track lately. But don't worry, I'm fine."

"You're really fine?"

"I'm really fine," she reassures with a smile. A genuine one, the one he loves. "I'm sorry for being such a crybaby. I don't even like dogs."

Saeroyi smiles, finally relaxing.

Later would he realize he never asked her if she liked babies.