𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 /GXG/

🔸️Anger issues

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AKARI TOKIZAKI
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[August 17]

The intercom rings. I run to answer it, but let it ring one more time. I don't want to seem desperate.

The third time, I opened the door.

''Akari!'' Chae won's hands fly to my back. Mine rests lightly on top of theirs. ''I missed you.''

''Really?'' I let a sigh of satisfaction and dissatisfaction slowly leave my lungs and feel the heat of her body ㅡ that contact that I like so much and miss lately.

Today I haven't seen her for eight days.

Despite the explanation that with the Baeks, they insisted that Chae won stay ㅡ since she got hurt in the garden that was being renovated ㅡ, she should have let me be a part of it.

  I could have woken up every morning to take care of her. I thought I was something for her.

''Who drop you here ?'', I ask.

''Dahyennie's sister.''

''Does Dahyennie have a sister?''

''Yes.'' Chae won replies with her head down and sat down on the couch. ''Nayuonnie insisted on bringing me.''

I fluff the pillow and place it on her back. She looks hurt when she puts her foot down.

''How old is her sister?''

''I think 25.''

''How's your leg?''

''The scab on the wound is drying a, d it hurts a little when I go to articulate it. It breaks the skin and bleeds.''

I sit on the rug and place my hand lightly on her leg. ''And the stitches...?''

''The stitches were removed yesterday a, d they are very ugly. I think I'lI get used to this scar.''

My mother walks from the hallway to the exit with a basket. ''Hi Chae won.'' She barely looked at us. She is in a hurry.

''Are you guys going out?'', she asks.

''My parents only.''

''Why did noyou notell me?''

''I didn't tell you because I was angry. For ignoring you, for wanting to feel what I feel. Because I thought you'd like to spend the rest of your vacation with the Baeks,'' I say calmly.

She shuts up.

I turn the TV almost to silence, and
I sit down next to her, slide my arm around her shoulder, and stroke her hair. ''You enjoyed staying there, didn't you?''

''I did not like.''

I shift my attention to the hallway and the girl's face and lean in, giving her a kiss on the lips.

''Tell me another lie,'' I whisper

''I swear I wish I had come.'' She smiles.

When she starts to explain again, I place my hand on the side of her face and slide my tongue inside, tasting all the sweetness in her mouth. And then she shuts up once and for all. My right hand falls to her waist, and she threads her fingers into my hair.

Eye contact and a smile.

''Is it normal to have so many feelings for you like this?'' I say.

"Which?"

When I hear footsteps in the hallway, we turn away, I straighten my posture, turning up the volume on the TV again.

My mother runs in and heads towards her room. She is carrying some things to the car. Then, she leaves the apartment once again, carrying another cardboard box.