Safe Heaven

Chapter 5

Oh Sehun wakes up to an empty space next to him. He jolts awake in panic, afraid that Krystal might have bolted his home. "K-Krystal?" He calls out, stuttering for the first time in his life.

Pulling a shirt over his body, he steps out of his room and was greeted by a beautiful melody coming from a piano. The music room. He thought, and immediately runs up to the second floor of the apartment to look for the red haired girl. The sounds of the piano's keys started to become clearer. He comes to a stop by the door of the music room when he sees her there, sitting by the piano's chair, her fingers pressing the keys and creating this melodious sound.

Krystal, not sensing another presence inside the room started to sing a song that her mind would never forgets even when it wanted to.

It was the song that her sister and her had made up after hours and hours waiting after their ballet class was over. Their father had eventually forgotten to pick them home, so the pair of siblings decided to make the best out of their wasted time.

Krystal abruptly stops playing, leaving the room to linger with the unfinished melody. Krystal and her sister never did managed to finish that song. By the time Krystal had attended the next ballet lesson, her elder sister was no longer with her.

"Why did you stop?" Sehun's voice echoed throughout the room, surprising Krystal a bit as she jumps off the seat to stand up.

Letting her hair hide her face, she quietly replies, "That's where the song ends." It was quiet for a moment, that is until Sehun speaks out.

"You sound lovely."

"T-Thanks." She utters and scrambles out of the room, brushing past Sehun.

"Nuh uh. Come here." Sehun shakes his head in disappointment, sneaking his arms around her waist. She glares at him, taking him by surprise. He scoffs, "Wah, you dare to glare at me now?" Lowly, his voice said. Feeling flustered, Krystal shakes her head in denial. "A-ani. My facial expression, it's always like this. Please don't misunderstand."

Sehun laughs. "I was just messing around with you. Don't have to be so stiff."

Krystal scratches her un-itched hair and says, "Sehun-ssi, you're very different when when you're around me and when you're around your friends."

Resting his forehead onto hers, he stares into her beautiful brown eyes. "Hmm? Different? As in how? And it's not Sehun-ssi for you Krystal, you should call me babe."

Feeling flustered once more, her cheeks turn red as she tries to look away from his eyes. "Like ... Like this, Sehun-ah. Your aura is playful when you're with me but when you're around your friends ... If looks can kill I think I would have been dead."

Placing a finger underneath her chin, he lifts her head to meet with his eyes. "Like this?" Sehun mummers, his lips against hers. "S-Sehun." She bit her lips and looks away once more, igniting the fire in Sehun. "Don't do that, you only make me want you more." His husky voice said, hands tightening around her torso.

"Yah, Oh Sehun-"

He lovingly stared into her eyes before silencing her with a kiss, his eyes shutting the second afterwards. He could feel her resisting but after endless of pokes she finally opens her mouth to let his tongue glide in her mouth. Krystal lets her fingers to tangle themselves into his luscious blonde hair, an arm around his neck for support. She breaks off the kiss due to her oxygen supply was cut short and looked elsewhere but at the man starring deeply down at her.

"Sehun-" She started, but got shut off again when Sehun bends down to seal her lips with another long, passionate kiss. Krystal moans onto his lips. He smiles, loving the feeling of knowing that she was moaning because of what he did.

After God knows how long, he finally pulls away and shoves his face into her neck, earning a shiver from Krystal. She on the other hand, kept on playing with his hair without ever feeling tired. Honestly to say, Krystal would never get tired of his kisses. She loved the way how his lips tasted on her, it felt absolutely wonderful. Still breathing heavily, Sehun adjusted his composure and lifts his head from her neck, giving her a small smile. "I like kissing you. You make me happy."

Krystal blushes, madly this time and let go of her hand from his hair. "You like my hair so much, huh?" Nodding like a puppy, Krystal answers him, "I love the shade of blonde you have. It compliments your face."

Grinning from ear to ear, he suggested, "Then would you like your hair dyed the same color as mine? Then we would look like a couple."

"W-What? I mean, don't you have work today? It's Monday."

Clucking his tongue, he says, "I work from home and yes go shower and get ready, you're getting a new hair today."

Still stoned by his sudden conclusion, she stayed rooted to the ground, unsure if she should dye her hair. She loved this red hair of hers, although it was colored without her own will but it reflected her personality. She was known as Krystal because of this hair. But a new color won't be a harm right? She needed to forget about her old slut life anyway.

"Unless if you want me to get in the shower with you?" He jokes, but she takes it as a serious command and so Krystal scurries away from the music room and into his bedroom, locking the door behind her.

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She tightens the long coat around her body. It was cold that morning, and the fact that winter was just around the corner didn't helped much. Sehun had already helped her to keep a hand of hers warm and Krystal eyes their interlocked fingers with a smile.

The bell to the saloon chimes happily, the owner greeting Sehun with formality before telling Krystal to settle down in one of the chairs by the mirrors.

The hairdresser, whom happened to be a chatty, metrosexual guy, gave her a warm smile and combs his hand through her hair. "Red, a very fierce color I see." Spraying something onto her hair he says, "But it's a little last season don't you think?"

Krystal chuckles to this and answers, "Oh, so very."

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Krystal couldn't believe herself. She refused to believe the person that she was starring at in the mirror was her. She looks so different than she had a few hours ago, her hair ... It made her look like an entirely new person. "I'll take into consideration that you like your new hair." Sehun chuckles from behind. "I love it. Best decision that I have made this year." She remarks.

"Other than living with me?" He asks, putting on a sad pout. Scrunching her nose at him, she replies, "I think you know that answer yourself." He twirls a strand of her golden hair and grins, "I guess I do. Shall we?" He holds out a hand.

Linking her arms with his, she bows towards the hairdresser as a sign of gratitude while Sehun waved goodbye to his hyung. Walking out of the saloon, he says, "Wanna go out for lunch?"

But Krystal never answered. Something, or rather some place, has caught her eyes.

It was a bookstore.

"Sehun can we pleaaaaaaaase go there?" She begs, putting on her best puppy face. He pinches her cheek and says, "How do you think I can resist that face of yours?" She pumps her fist into the air and mutters an "Assa!" Before dragging Sehun across the road, towards the store.

Once inside, they were greeted with a building filled with books, ranging from old to new ones, a paradise for book lovers like Krystal. She ushers Sehun to sit aside while she dive into the fictional world of books.

Sehun watches her from the sideline lovingly, loving the way her brows would meet when the synopsis was too mysterious, loving the way her nose would scrunch in distaste when it was a cheesy love story, loving the way her eyes lights up brighter than the Christmas trees when she's found the perfect book.

Oh Sehun knew that she was the one. She was the one that he would want to spend the rest of his life with.

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A/N: Hello everybody!!! My first ever author's note HEHEUEH. So, uh, this chapter is probably my favorite, and it means a lot to me ... so I hope you guys enjoy reading this!