I'd rather be your perpendicular than your parallel
in which Jungwon finally wakes from a coma to be greeted by the most bubbly girl he's ever met.
grumpy ml / sunshine fl :)
short story
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"Thank you for letting me stay here." Aera smiles at the man she finds in the kitchen. "Is the room okay? I haven't really gone in it too much." Jungwon asks, to which Aera smiles and nods. "Why not? It's a pretty big and nice room." She smiles while sitting on the kitchen stools, watching as Jungwon got out a pot.
"It's my parents room."
That was enough for Aera to understand.
The girl just slowly nods and watches as the man rolls up the sleeves of his white button up, revealing the veins on his arm, and the jewellery that was just covered by the sleeves.
Aera finds herself staring at the way it all looked together and only snapped out of her daze after jungwon's question.
"Wanna eat some ramen?" (Ramyeon meokgo gallae?)
Aera looks up at the man, wide eyes and face turning red. "W-what.." she stutters, blinking quickly as she sits up straight, trying to act calm.
"I'm making ramen, do you want some?"
The girl slowly blinks at the man before nodding her head. "Uh yeah sure." She clears her throat, looking away and at anywhere but him. The boy turns around with a smile, knowing that wording as if he had different intentions and acting like nothing happened was a cheeky thing to do but enjoyed her reaction anyways.
'Wait why'd I-'
Jungwon goes back to boiling the water as Aera looks around the house with her eyes, not feeling comfortable enough to just walk around and inspect everything.
"Big house." She awkwardly comments, to where the boy just nods. "Yeah I'm trying to find a new place to move into." He comments, to where Aera suddenly gasps. "My cousin has an apartment not far from here and is trying to rent it out. It's a pretty small one bedroom apartment but it's very nice. Do you want me to ask him to send details on it?"
Jungwon stops to think for a moment before turning to the girl and nodding. "That would be nice. Thanks."
The girl smiles awkwardly and goes straight to texting her cousin.
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"Do you want to drink?"
The girl has just come back from showering and doing her skincare, looking at the boy also in his comfortable clothes while opening a bottle of soju.
"Sure."
She shouldn't of agreed.
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat are we talking abouttttt AHAHAH."
"What."
They were two different types of drunk.
You might be thinking the person slurring and laughing was Aera.
It was Jungwon.
"What are you on about?" Aera squints her eyes to look at Jungwon, both their faces red from alcohol. "I don't know." Jungwon giggles, pouring another drink for himself but when seeing nothing come out, he drops his head onto the table.
