Only Chaeryeong

Part 63: The Start of the Battle for the Crown

Chaeryeong's perspective:
I yawned and stretched as I woke up, only to find Lillian caressing my hair. She always knew when something was wrong, so she knew what had happened at work last night. My beautiful wife was wearing a pink sun-dress with a square neck-cut. One of her shoulders was was poking out, showing her bra strap and her hair that always runs down her right side of her body.

"Good morning, babe." Lillian whispered quietly as she kissed my forehead. "Are you feeling better?"

"A little bit." I groaned. I had gotten hurt yesterday during choreography practice due to me not stretching beforehand, and landing on my face when I fell. I had a bloody nose and a massive headache. "My head's still throbbing."

Lillian pursed her lips the way she does when she's thinking hard about something.

"Would you like me to bring Hanna to work today and let you rest, or would you like me to take care of you today?" Lillian asked after a minute in a sweet voice, rubbing my cheek. "If you need me to help out, I can. I don' mind."

"No no, it's alright. It would be nice if you could bring Hanna to work with you today." I answered. "Is it okay if my family comes over to help me though? It would be nice company."

"Oh yeah, if course! I don' mind!" Lillian replied back before kissing me on my lips. "Do you need anything before I head off to work?"

I thought about it for a second before shaking my head. I couldn't think of anything I had needed, as I already had bottles of water next to me, and my family was coming over to take care of me in a little bit.

"No thank you, honey." I brought up. "I'll call you if something happens, okay, babe?"

Lillian nodded, called Hanna, and had gotten ready for work. I had called Chaemin to ask her if she could come over, and told her what had happened yesterday, and came over a little bit later.

"Hey, Chaeryeong unnie!" Chaemin shouted as she walked into my house. "I'm here, you anything?"

I had rubbed my head, as the yelling had caused my head to hurt more, and took a drink from my water.

"Well, I'd definitely say no yelling please." I groaned.

"You know what I mean, unnie." Chaemin sighed, and sat next to me.

"Not really." I replied.

"Have you eaten yet?"

"No..."

"Why not?"

"I'm not really that hungry." I answered. Chaemin put her hands at her side and pursed her lips.

"Unnie, it's 1PM, and you still haven't eaten, how are you not hungry?!" Chaemin asked with a concerned look.

"I just woke up a few hours ago..."

"Still." Chaemin began as she got up. "I'm making you something. What do you have here?"

"Um... it's... kinda complicated." I replied. I heard the fridge open, and began to laugh silently, knowing that Chaemin was confused.

"Wait, what the hell?!" Chaemin yelled. "There's like, nothing here! How do you two manage to live like this? Are you on a shortage or something?"

"No... we normally have this amount of food. Lillian mostly cooks these days, she somehow manages to make amazing food with what we have. I'm confused myself." I explained. "We honestly don't spend as much money as people think, and we spend five times more than what we used to before we had Hanna."

"Dang, girl! I do not understand you two!" Chaemin replied, and we both laughed.

Lillian's perspective: