Words (TaoXChanyeolXreader fanfic)

Chapter 30: I fear her

Chanyeol woke up almost as giddy as he had been going to sleep. He lay on his back and smiled at the ceiling for a long time before getting up. It was two in the afternoon but he took time to make himself coffee and take a long shower before he picked up the phone to see what Tao had sent him.

<Your mother made Victoria cry. I fear her>

Chanyeol smiled at that and sent him a few responses but didn't get an answer. He was still at work, then. Chanyeol sent messages to Vic instead and got responses back. She was at home and wanted to know the details of how the conversation had gone with his parents. He never phoned anyone but he phoned her and the sound of her voice brought back that settled calm from the night before. He had made his choices and he was content with that.

He didn't hang up until he went out to the car to drive back there. She met him at the door and her hair was down. He reached out and brushed it back behind her shoulder without touching her skin. Her expression softened. She pulled him into a hug. He stepped into the apartment, walking her backwards so he could shut the door before he returned it properly. She was tall enough to set her chin on his shoulder and he leaned his cheek against her hair.

"I have every intention of seducing you," she whispered in his ear and he inhaled hard.

"Victoria," he started but she reached up and put her fingers against his lips. She was cuddled into his chest, her head down against his shoulder and her body tight to his. He still had his arms around her and tightened them. That calm was still there. He'd let his doubts go but that idea still sent his heart into overdrive.

"There are three choices here," she said and waited for him to nod before continuing, "The first one is that you say no and I back off and we can find something on Netflix and have some spaghetti and everyone goes home like they always do," her fingers were still on his mouth so he didn't say anything, "The second choice is that you and I go back to the bedroom and you finally show me exactly where your words are. The third is we wait for Tao to get home before we go back to the bedroom."

She dropped her fingers back to his chest and pulled back enough to look at him. Her face was carefully neutral.

"How mad will he be if I take option two?" Chanyeol asked.

"I think a better word would be disappointed but it wouldn't be an option if he wasn't ok with it. He was in a very strange mood after whatever conversation you had last night but he wouldn't have mentioned it if he didn't mean it," she said, "I think he'd be more disappointed if you took option one."

"You two have talked this through," he said.

"We talk everything through. We're wordy people," she said with her hand on his chest and one side of mouth quirked up in a smile.

"Have you ever attempted to seduce a stranger before?" Chanyeol asked.

"You're not a stranger and no, stranger or not, I've never invited anyone else to bed," she said. "Before you, I had never even kissed anyone but him. This isn't a thing we do. This offer doesn't go out to anyone who isn't you and only you but you know that, don't you?"

"Yes," Chanyeol smiled and leaned down so his forehead touched hers. He just held her and drifted in that nearness. Then he kissed her cheek. She giggled and he kissed a slow trail out to just below her ear as she tilted her head back for him. He was out of his depth, lost at sea and she was the only anchor he had left. He stopped with his mouth right against her ear.

He wasn't completely sure of his decision until he said it.

"Wait for Tao," he said.

She was biting her lip when he looked back at her and her nerves eased something in him. He wasn't the only one out of his depth and that made him feel immeasurably better. He laughed and kissed her forehead. She kept smiling as he dropped kisses everywhere but her mouth. Her cheeks and temples, her hair and her neck, her chin and the end of her nose then he settled back with his forehead against hers and one hand curled around her neck to keep her close.

"I need to send him a message," she said.

The message was a selfie that Chanyeol took because his arms were longer. He took a bunch and they sent Tao three. One with her laughing at the last attempt with her face down against Chanyeol's neck. One where they had managed to both look at the phone at the same time and Vic's favourite where she was watching the camera but Chanyeol was staring at her, saying something.

Tao responded back with, <a woman on the bus saw these over my shoulder and told me how cute you are, i think i'm going to tell her the truth>

<dare you> Chanyeol sent back. He was over confident and overwhelmed. In the time between sending the first picture and receiving the answer, Chanyeol had backed Vic into the living room and she had pulled him down with her onto the couch. He sent another picture that even though they were still both fully clothed and hadn't kissed yet, wasn't anything to be sharing with strangers on the bus. Vic had her head tilted back and her mouth half open. Chanyeol 's could taste the skin on her throat when he smiled at the camera.

<holy fuck. you cannot send me things like that when i am in public. holy fuck> Tao sent back. He didn't respond to the next two messages and Chanyeol abandoned the phone face down on the table to turn all his attention back to Vic.

Cuddled close while they were dancing in the kitchen was one thing but flat on her back and smiling was another. He arranged himself so he lay on top of her and their combined weight pushed her back into the sofa cushions. Her hair spread around her and her eyes were more blue than usual in the half light of the room. She kept one arm crooked around his neck and the other traced his cheek bones and his lips and wandered up into his hair.