not only craving food

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Hana held the plushie tightly. Her overthinking started to make her slightly sick, so she closed her eyes and focused on breathing. The noises around her got blurry and quite irritating.

As she held Espeon close to her with one arm, something even softer than the toy held her other hand. She opened her eyes to see Mun's hand into her's.

"You okay? Do you feel nauseous?" Mun had these worried eyes Hana recognized, the ones he'd give to her every time she's injured after a fight or even training. At this moment, the only thing she could hear was him.

The woman nodded. "I'm just a little hungry," she said. Hana was in fact hungry, because she didn't have time to have dinner, she was too busy catching an evil spirit. It was a fast one, smarter than most level ones.

Mun was actually supposed to be the one to do the job, but he called for help since the spirit drained him by running around. Hana was the first to leave the table and to run to help him, even though she was hungry and was about to eat.

"It's my fault," Mun whispered as he recalled Hana scolding him after they summoned the evil spirit, "you didn't get to eat."

"Neither did you though," Hana said, she wasn't in the mood to let Mun take the blame. For anything at all.

Motak crossed his arms. "Stop being so nice to eachother, I'm used to you two bickering and being at each other's throats all the time. Just go get a corn dog each, they sell some over there." He pointed at a van about 20 meters away from them.
Mun and Hana looked at eachother and nodded.

As they walked up to queue for food, Hana couldn't stop looking at Mun's hand still subconsciously holding her's. "Mun... uh..." She muttered.
The man looked at her, then down. "Oh, my bad." He let go, his cheeks getting red.

Hana then realized she maybe shouldn't have told him.  His grip on her was comforting.

She couldn't stop thinking about how she's been craving his touch for a while. Even more so after that incident a few weeks ago.

-

[About 3 weeks ago.]

Mun and Hana have this habit to have these late night training sessions every few days, when everyone's already asleep. Though the walls happen not to be isolated very well, so they have to be extra quiet so that they don't wake the others up.

"Come at me," Mun teased as Hana and him were circling in the boxing arena.

Hana threw a first punch but it was useless. Mun was already behind her.
This happens every time, though, so Hana had planned to kick fast right where he usually arrives after her first punch. This made him fall backwards.

Distracted by the surprisingly nice hit she landed on him, Hana let her guard down. That was long enough for Mun to pull her down on the floor and wrestle her until he was on top of her.

This happens often too; Hana was unfazed by the awkward position, until she heard noises from the hallway.

Mun clearly heard it too and froze. They both knew that if they got caught, they'd get scolded on how they're supposed to sleep during this hour at night.

Hana pulled Mun closer so that he was less visible, and she covered his mouth with one hand.
Both their heavy breathing sounded so loud now that they had stopped moving.

The noise started to fade away, and after both were sure the person was gone, they sighed and Mun started to get back up.

Hana then realized how close they were.

Mun was literally on top of her for a whole minute.

-

"Two corn dogs, please," Mun asked when it was finally their turn to order. He pulled his wallet out, and that made the woman remember how she made him pay for the tokens at the arcade.

"I'll pay you back," Hana whispered to Mun as he was giving some banknotes to the vendor.
The vendor then smiled. "Let your boyfriend treat you, it's an act of love!"

"Boyfriend? He's not my boyfriend..." Hana mumbled with a red face, but Mun played along. "Come on, it's our 3 year anniversary soon! I'll treat you."
He walked away after thanking the vendor, and Hana followed.

"Why did you play along?" Hana whispered, very embarrassed since people in the queue started congratulating them. "I know you like teasing me about me being your fake girlfriend, but..."

The two sat down on a bench while they waited for the others, who decided to queue for a drink.

"Hana, you being my fake girlfriend annoys me, truly. Because-"
Hana's heart sank. "Well, you started it," she snapped. She angrily bit into her food.

"Not that it annoys me that people think we're a couple, Hana, that's not what this is about," Mun stuttered, not being able to spit it out.
"Then what?" The woman chewed harder to somehow ease her emotions.

"FERRIS WHEEL TIME!" Jeokbong shouted as he joined his peers.
Hana frowned at Jeokbong. She was eager to hear Mun's explanation.

-

"4 people maximum," the staff member sighed at the sight of Motak's hand, holding 5 of his fingers up.
Ms. Chu then made Motak put down 2 of his fingers. "Hana, Mun, you two take the next one. We won't leave someone out."

Before the two could protest, Jeokbong, Ms. Chu and Motak gave their tickets and entered the cabin. Mun sighed awkwardly as the two stepped forward, waiting for their turn.

"What are you gonna call it?" The man asked after a short silence. Hana's head turned and she gave him a confused look. "What?"

"Espeon. I know you like naming inanimate things," Mun pointed at the plushie she was still tightly holding. "Oh," Hana half whispered, "I don't know yet. And how do you know I like naming stuff?..."
Mun giggled. "You thought no one could hear you talking to your plants while you water them?"

The two stepped into the cabin and both sat on a different side of it. I was quite small, though, so they were quite close to each other.

"I hope you're not scared of heights," Hana teased.
"We jump on rooftops every day, how can this make me sc- WOAH THAT'S HIGH."

Hana laughed at the man's wide eyed look. "We're not even halfway up, scaredy cat."

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