I'M (NOT) MARRIED || YUCHAE

TWENTY-THREE

chp. 23

"Someone's calling," Chaeryeong sighed, attempting to reach for her phone even with Yuna's strong arms around her.

Yuna groaned and stuffed her face in the writer's waist, not letting her go. "Pick it up later."

Chaeryeong giggled, feeling torn between wanting to answer the call and wanting to stay in Yuna's warm embrace. She gently patted Yuna's head and tried to wriggle out of her hold.

"It might be important," Chaeryeong protested playfully, trying to reach for her phone again. "Let me just see who it is."

Yuna sighed dramatically, loosening her grip on Chaeryeong. "Fine, fine. But hurry back, okay?"

Chaeryeong nodded with a mischievous smile, sliding out of Yuna's arms and grabbing her phone from the nearby table. She glanced at the caller ID and her eyebrows slowly scrunched up.

She picked up the phone.

"Heesung?"

The simple call was able to jolt Yuna out of bed. She sat with the blankets pool at her lap, anticipation and curiosity in her gaze as she watched Chaeryeong.

"Oh, yeah, sure. We'll be there," Chaeryeong nodded a few times, listening intently to the boy on the other line. "Okay. Yeah, for sure. Bye!"

"What happened?" Yuna asked straight away after the other tucked away her phone.

Chaeryeong turned to face her fiancée, a mix of wonder and confusion on her face. "He invited us out next weekend."

Yuna raised a skeptical brow, pointing at the both of them. "Us?"

Chaeryeong nodded, making her way back into the bed, into Yuna's arms.

"What are we doing next weekend then?" The model questioned, her arms looped around Chaeryeong's waist as they both leaned back into the headboard.

"He booked an arcade and a restaurant, I'm pretty sure Yeji and Jisu would be there too."

"Jisu?"

"Oh yeah!" Chaeryeong snapped her fingers. "I think Yeji likes Jisu."

"She does?" Yuna asked, her mouth agape, a baffled expression sitting on her face.

"From what I've known," Chaeryeong sighed. "I haven't talked to Yeji recently."

"Talk to her then."

"She's at work," the writer whined, hitting the blankets on her lap. Yuna laughed.

"What does Yeji do for a living?" Yuna's tone suddenly turned serious, shifting the atmosphere from relaxed to tense. Chaeryeong felt like Minho was suddenly in the room.

"She inherited her parents' real estate company, so she's fairly busy nowadays," said Chaeryeong, a small frown upon her face.

Yuna's face relaxed, "Oh, that's cool. Is she back already?"

"Yep, she packed up yesterday and took a flight home."

"I see," the model nodded, looking off into the distance before clicking her tongue. "Want to go on a date?"

Chaeryeong, who was clearly taken aback from her straightforward offer, she couldn't help but agree. "Y-Yeah, sure."

Yuna chuckled fondly at her reaction before getting out of bed, walking to the covered windows that looked over the forest. "It's getting late, let's go for dinner?" She glanced at the writer over her shoulder.

Nodding and getting herself out of bed, Chaeryeong began to stretch out the pops in her back, feeling relieved. The two of them separated themselves to change, putting on fresh clothes for their dinner date.