lion heart [bbangsaz] {feat. daerin}

Who's Jake?

Minji

Once they pulled up to Craftie's Warehouse in Hanni's car, Minji offered gas money for the fourth time.

"Absolutely not. Your presence enough is payment." Hanni raked slender fingers through her hair, leering at her passenger in a way probably meant to be joking, but soon turned too real.

Minji laughed all the same. To alleviate the tension that'd rebuilt itself during the ride. "Have you seen you?"

"Once or twice." She grinned, teasing her bottom lip with her teeth. "What matters is that you see me."

"Ugh, is that a line? You're too suave for me."

Hanni slapped Minji's shoulder with the back of her hand. "Am not!"

That slap even did things. God, too bad my current sex situation wouldn't ease this ache. "Are you certain you're 21? You hit like a baby."

"Kinda am still a baby. And, Revealing your kinks already?" Shiny red nails swished over Hanni's mischievous omg-face. "How hard to do you like it, please tell."

Blindsided by the sexual talk, Minji babbled, "I didn't—I don't, uh, like—"

"Tongue-tied?"

"I uh, I am."

"You're so damn cute, Minji-ah."

A heated silence passed between them. Where Hanni and Minji simply grinned stupidly at each other. And it pained Minji to know their chemistry couldn't play out the easy way. Not when she was committed. To a man, no less. She sighed through the abject disappointment, projecting it to work woes. "I have yarn duty today. Hooray."

"It'll pass." She shifted nearer, unbuckling herself. "Think about what we'll eat tomorrow night."

As a fresh baby lesbian, 'eat' carried a salacious connotation and Minji secretly loved it. "Nothing else will be on my mind."

"Mine either."

Minji observed their surroundings—the parking lot—for the first time since they arrived. If she took the insane leap of kissing Hanni, would a coworker see? Would I care if they did? Maybe not as much for acquaintances like Taeyeon, but Chaewon was a different story. "Try not to miss me too much?"

Hanni crossed her arms, defiant. "Get out."

Releasing her seatbelt, Minji groaned. She could've slept through this dream forever. Honestly, she'd relive their initial awkward a million times if it meant landing here, with Hanni eyeing her like this. "I'd risk being late if it wouldn't screw over the person whose shift is before mine. We stick around until our replacements clock in."

"Considerate, beautiful Kim Minji," Hanni purred, raising her hands to wave in a hug. "Is anything wrong with you?"

Minji fell into the 'slim' category, but the slenderness that her arms wrapped around flummoxed her. Comparable to Chaewon, except Hanni's body radiated sensuality, a delicacy never experienced while praying for sleep in Jake's muscular hold. She roved her nose through shiny, redolent hair. Damn, I feel gay right now. "I'm so imperfect, it hurts."

"I doubt it."

If only she knew.

...

Minji didn't get a good minute of self-flagellation in because Chaewon met her at the automatic doors of Craftie's, looking fit to be tied.

"To the backroom!" she exclaimed, sounding very '60s Batman.

So, she followed, throwing an acknowledging smile to Taeyeon, who immediately untied her staff apron.