From Five to Six | Michaeng

Chapter 16: Checking all the boxes

Sweat.

Chaeyoung missed that feeling. Don't ask her how, but she had skipped a few training sessions. She missed the rough feeling. The pressure, the almost angry state. Hitting the bag harder than the last punch was refreshing and made her happy.

Skipping on her feet, she threw the last punches, smiling she ended with a happy growl-like scream and took out her gloves. She looked for her bottle and took a big gulp of water. She left the bottle on the ground and used her fingers to throw her hair back, given the sweat, it easily stayed back offering a clear face.

"Wanna go, now?" Chaeyoung asked and approached the couch.

"Mhh, not just yet, next time maybe," Mina said smiling. She tapped next to her on the couch. "Rest a bit."

Chaeyoung, eagerly to be close to her girl, immediately smiled at the request and threw herself on the couch, legs spread and head back. She could feel the tiredness now. She was not going to admit it but maybe, just maybe, she had put in extra effort just because Mina was there.

Mina accommodated her position on the couch so she was facing exhausted Chaeyoung. "Your hair looks sexy pushed back like that."

"Sexy?" Chaeyoung asked mindlessly.

"Mh hm," Mina nodded. She took the opportunity to move a hand and reach for Chaeyoung's hair, playing with it lovingly. The younger girl had her eyes closed.

"Well, I am sexy."

Mina snorted a laugh and stopped her movements. "Silly."

Chaeyoung didn't answer anything. She was enjoying this moment. Plus, she was sexy, she knew that, or at least talking from the definition of sexy, she could be that, physically sexy. She thought for a second, that maybe she should have trained in her usual clothes and not the loose T-shirt she has shown Mina. Just maybe.

She felt quite relaxed there. A nice silence had formed and she loved those. She couldn't see but she could feel Mina staring at her. The senior then resumed her caresses, not in her hair, but her ear. Holding it with her thumb and index finger, Chaeyoung found it annoyingly pleasant. So she frowned for a second, but let her.

"Is it not good?" Mina asked softly still playing with Chaeyoung's ear.

Chaeyoung did not feel like talking, she felt her voice could break the atmosphere. Instead, she offered her head closer, tilting it to the side. Mina understood.

Chaeyoung felt so relaxed, it barely annoyed her when Mina's fingers started caressing her neck. Even if for a second she wished the contact there was as strong as the one on her ear, she let her. And after a few seconds, she was loving it. Mina's fingers went from her ear to her neck, now indeed with more pressure, like a massage. For a second, she remembered how much she enjoys when Mina pulls from her tie and opens her blouse, the anticipation is what makes her nervous and then tingly.

Now, it was relaxing more than anything. She was tired and this felt great. Until it stopped. The door leading to the first floor opened, Mina removed her hand so fast that Chaeyoung frowned at the action. Was there a problem?

Trotting steps stopped mid-stairs followed by a "Chaeyoung, mom says that—" Dahyun caught a glimpse of them and turned back up the stairs. "Sorry." The door closed immediately after. Chaeyoung sighed loudly.

"Is she still being weird?"

"Yeah, weird, a stranger, unreasonable," Chaeyoung answered. "I hate it."

"Have you tried talking to her?"

"The girls say I shouldn't, they said I should wait for her to come to me."