Nepenthe: Kim Hyojong/E'Dawn

Swing

The sky above reminded Jihye of tunnels at night, the stars were the lights but they moved by so fast they looked like wisps in the air. The sound of wind and the gentle creaking of chain by her ears was all that she was focused on. Her fingers clutched onto the rusting chain, rubbing over the grooves of time within them. Grass and his cologne graced the air around her, the scent coming and going.

"Are you tired yet?" Hyojong complained, lazily pushing on her back each time the swing would bring her to him.

"Five more minutes." Jihye requested, although judging from the lack of sputters in her pushes, he had no intention of stopping anytime soon. Everything around her was stagnant. It had to have been around midnight by now and the only thing around them were street lamps and empty activities on the playground. Normally, she would've been quite creeped out from the lack of activity in such a melancholy place, but tonight it felt quite nice.

Hyojong pushed her a few more times until he suddenly grabbed the chain to her swing, bringing her to a halt. There was a pause, and Jihye felt him crouch down behind her, sliding his hands down the chain until they stopped around her shoulders. Hyojong rested his chin on her shoulder, gripping the chains a few links above where she had been holding them.

"What's your fantasy?"

Jihye couldn't help but shudder from his sudden question, his breath tickled her neck and gave a moment of warmth in the chilly air. "My fantasy?.."

"Mm.."

Her eyes focused on the cluster of trees that was ahead, the depths of them were pitch black and made her bones clatter. What was her fantasy? Did she have one? For a moment, Jihye closed her eyes and thought of something.

"I want to break the kaleidoscope and feel real beauty," Jihye took a breath, feeling her cheeks sting. "I want to see what's real."

Hyojong was silent; he closed his eyes and rested his forehead against the side of her face. He breathed and dropped his hands so the moved over hers, giving them a gentle squeeze. "You sound like a stoic, Jihye."

Jihye got goosebumps when his lips brushed against her skin as he stood back up, making her bite the inside of her cheek. She decided to remain quiet as he started to push her once again.

That five minutes turned into another hour.

Hello! I'm going to go ahead and post all of this if you don't mind because its really short. Also because its highkey already on my tumblr and archiveofourown. I wanted to put it here because I had a lot of cut off scenes and it racked up to about 6.5k words. So some scenes will be really short, or long. I hope you like it and please give me feedback because I worked really hard on this.