The Story of Us | Chaerlia

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The two already got back to Lia's house after buying a few pastries and a drink for each of them at the cafe. Lia was just about to change her clothes as she noticed Chaeryeong to her bed and immediately lying down as she lets out a sigh. Being worried and curious, Lia quickly changed her clothes and went towards the younger.

"Something bothering you baby?" Lia asked softly as she caressed the younger's hair

"I just feel a little tired. I suddenly remembered that finals are coming up" Chaeryeong said as she sat up from the bed and then looked at Lia. Lia could see that she was nervous and so distressed, she didn't want her girlfriend to be so worried about her finals.

"Hmm... I know you could ace your finals. But if you want to talk about it I'm here to listen baby" Lia said and Chaeryeong's lips suddenly trembled, she felt so overwhelmed from Lia right now. She just couldn't believed that Lia was acting so much caring now, unlike before.

Well of course Lia would take care of her and all but Lia was more understanding now especially that Lia would mostly just worry about work. She remembered when she had a quick talk with Yeji and Yuna the other day, they suddenly met up when Chaeryeong went out for lunch with her friends after class.

Flashback....

"Hey Chaery" Chaeryeong heard and turned around only to see Yeji with Yuna

"Oh Unnie, Yuna" Chaeryeong said with a smile as the couple went towards her. She told her classmates that she might not be able to join them for lunch today.

"Want to go for lunch unnie? Yeji said she'll pay for it" Yuna said and giggled

"Hey, I never agreed to that" Yeji protested

"Please?" Yuna asked cutely to Yeji

"Why can't we just pay fo-"

"Please Yeddeong?" Yuna asked, now while pouting and showing her puppy eyes to the older

"Ugh Fine, good thing I always give in to you. Come on Chaery, lunch is on me" Yeji said and Chaeryeong nodded, following the two to a restaurant.

They finally settled and then told their orders to the waiter, Chaeryeong kept quiet actually since she didn't know what to talk about to the two.

"So how's school unnie?" Yuna asked with a smile

"Hmm.. it was quite nice but it's still exhausting as I felt it was before" Chaeryeong said and chuckled

"Lia picks you up?" Yeji asked

"Mhm, most of the time she does and she always drives me to school before she goes to work" Chaeryeong said and the two nodded

"She's so different now" Yeji said and chuckled, it made Chaeryeong confused a bit

"Who? Lia?" Chaeryeong asked and Yeji nodded

"You always say that" Yuna said and gigled at her girlfriend

"But really, I mean it. Lia's different now than before. Not be rude and all, but you don't mind talking about you and Lia's past right?" Yeji asked the younger

"I don't mind unnie" Chaeryeong said and Yeji nodded

"Well recently, I asked Lia if we could like hangout, with Ryujin, Winter and the others. I was expecting her to say no because she had work but what surprised was she said she didn't want to miss on picking you up at school after work and then spending time with you. I realized she was being more caring than before. I mean, you two do take care of each other a lot especially that you two study all the time and all but after the break up and everything that happened, I guess it suddenly hit Lia."  Yeji said

"What do you mean?" Yuna was starting to be confused too

"Since Lia is just only focusing on work right now, she has a lot of free time considering she's the CEO. It just meant that she had more time to be with Chaeryeong and she probably decided to make all of the things right. She wouldn't want to waste a single second without Chaeryeong here, Lia even told me that Chaeryeong is one of her priorities now and she should spend most of her time with her." Yeji added

Everything that Yeji said made Chaeryeong's heart melt. She just felt so happy that Lia changed just for her.

End of Flashback....

"Oh baby.." Lia cooed and brought the younger in her arms, causing Chaeryeong to cry harder. Lia caressed the younger's back so gently to help her calm down.

"You've been stressing on your studies baby?" Lia asked and she felt Chaeryeong nod a little. The younger then suddenly straddled Lia's lap and wrapped her arms around the older, not wanting to let go. Lia sighed softly, she felt so bad that her girlfriend had to go through this. She never wanted to see Chaeryeong in any kind of pain.

"Baby, you know I'm always here for you right?" Lia said and she felt Chaeryeong nod

"You can always ask help from me when you need it and I would not hesitate on doing so. I don't want you to get sick just because of studying too much. It makes me so worried for you" Lia said and kissed the younger's temple. She then felt the younger calming down a bit and she moved back a little just to look if she was fine.

Chaeryeong lifted her head up a bit and looked at Lia with red teary eyes, it made Lia's heart hurt to see her girlfriend like this.

"Do you want anything hmm?" Lia asked, she thought that giving something Chaeryeong wants will make her feel better.

"Thank you" Chaeryeong said weakly and softly as she looks at Lia.

"No need to thank me my angel, I'll always be here for you" Lia said and pecked the younger's lips. Chaeryeong wrapped her arms around the older once again and hid her face on the crook of Lia's neck.

After a while, the two decided to have dinner since it was getting pretty late already. Then, they both got back to bed since Chaeryeong needed some rest, considering she needs to study tomorrow for her finals.

"Goodnight my baby" Lia said and kissed the younger

"Goodnight too Lia" Chaeryeong said with a soft smile

"I love you"

"I love you too"

Lia smiled as soon as her girlfriend fell into slumber in her arms. She thought of bringing the younger out as soon as her finals were over...