Collection of TaeNy Oneshots (TheDonkatsu Collection)

Perfect Strangers - Bonus

Bonus

"What's your favorite dessert?" she asked the woman lying under her.

"Huh?" Taeyeon's eyes flew open. "Dessert?"

"Yes." She kissed the surprised woman's lips then moved to the corner of her mouth then to her cheek, leaving smaller pecks on her jawline and ended up at her ear. She blew the shell and felt her squirm.

"W-why so random?" asked Taeyeon.

"I like cupcakes," she whispered then flicked Taeyeon's earlobe with her tongue, grinning to herself when she heard a suppressed moan.

She couldn't believe how shy Taeyeon was. It was nothing like the confident, mysterious person she met that night outside the club.

She had asked Sooyoung, and even Seohyun whom Taeyeon had introduced as her closest dongsaeng-slash-friend.

"That's how she really is. That's the Taeyeon we had gotten to know before it all happened," answered Sooyoung.

"She's, by nature, a timid and kind yet witty person. A bit dorky at times but definitely not flirty, rough or a player," added Seohyun.

Her heart broke when she heard that, realizing how bad it must have been for Taeyeon to change; and to have to force herself to change again when she thought that the love of her life didn't like her true self and thus had forgotten her.

Since then, she had been trying to somehow make up for what happened even though she knew Taeyeon would never realize it.

She didn't care. She just wanted Taeyeon to feel her love. She wanted to show her how much she loved who she was.

However, unlike their second time together, this third time went much slower.

They did end up in Taeyeon's bed after that meeting outside the café but after that, Taeyeon freaked out a bit and asked Tiffany to take it slow. She said she wanted to keep seeing Tiffany but she didn't want it to just be about sex.

Besides being unexpectedly shy, Taeyeon was also quite busy with her job at the university research center so inevitably, they couldn't spend as much time together as Tiffany wished.

But Tiffany would never stop trying nor would she leave. She would do anything Taeyeon ask of her to make sure they stayed together this time.

"C-cupcakes?" stuttered Taeyeon when Tiffany's hand glided lower.

"Mmhmm. Red velvet cupcakes," she whispered after she had released the flesh she had been nibbling on and changed position, propping herself up with both arms by the sides of Taeyeon's head, trapping the woman under her.

"O-oh. That sounds delicious," said Taeyeon, looking up at the eyes that she always considered mesmerizing since the first time she looked into them that night outside of the café; that night when she uncharacteristically went against her logic and took up the unknown woman's offer to share a cab.

"I'll bake you a batch tomorrow." She then dove down to recapture Taeyeon's lips.

Taeyeon's hands hesitantly moved, landing ever so gently on Tiffany's backside, afraid to fully press her palms on the skin.

She chuckled, broke the kiss and clucked her tongue jokingly when she felt the reluctant touch. "Taetae, I'm disappointed."

"Why?" asked the woman, eyes wide and sincere.

"You should know by now that you can do anything you want with me. That I'm all yours," she said as she resumed kissing her. "And that I'll be anything you want me to be."

"Anything?" mumbled Taeyeon into the kiss.

She released the meek woman's lips. "Anything." She gave her a smile and another gentle peck. "Don't ever change, okay? I love you just the way you are."

Taeyeon's eyes went round with shock, her mouth opening and closing without being able to make a sound. "Y-you love me?" she finally managed to say.

Tears suddenly filled Taeyeon's eyes and she looked confused by her own reaction although it didn't stop her from grabbing Tiffany, kissing her passionately.

Tiffany knew what was going through Taeyeon. It had happened to her as well.

There were triggers, unconscious little things that evoked unknown emotions.

Taeyeon cried when she first heard Tiffany call her 'Taetae' although she didn't know why. She had also timidly asked Tiffany, with burning cheeks, whether the latter had had a lot of experience in the bedroom. Because she had never been with anyone who could elicit such reaction from her, or give her such pleasure from the very first time.

Furthermore, Taeyeon was also very amazed to find herself very knowledgeable in that area despite her lack of dating experience when she saw and heard Tiffany scream, moan, squirm and basically just ecstatically enjoying everything she did to her.

Other, smaller, triggers were less visible although Tiffany could sense them. She had experienced them herself, after all.

The way Taeyeon knew her way around Tiffany's house even though she never recalled being there before.

That time Taeyeon mentioned how she thought going to Europe together, on vacation, would be fun.

How Taeyeon sometimes – and suddenly – froze, frowned or looked confused when they were talking or doing something together.

Tiffany understood everything although she never said anything about it.

At the beginning, she had tried interrogating Sooyoung and Seohyun for as much as she could about Taeyeon. So she could get a better understanding of who Taeyeon was before and what she should do to best accommodate her. But in the end, she decided to forget everything and start over, to get to know each other from scratch. To start an entirely new life with Taeyeon. Create new memories. Happy memories.

"Don't cry, Taetae," she said, breaking the kiss to wipe the wet face.

"I love you too, Miyoung-ah," Taeyeon said as she held Tiffany's hand and kissed it.

She smiled to herself when she heard Taeyeon call her that for the first time. Judging from Taeyeon's action, Tiffany was sure that the teary woman didn't even realize what she had just done.

"This might sound crazy since we've only been together for a few months but I love you very much. I love you more than life itself," continued Taeyeon.

She smiled when she heard that, recognizing the heartfelt words that never seemed to change no matter how many times they had to restart everything. "Thank you." She then moved off Taeyeon and settled herself next to her, head on Taeyeon's shoulder.

Her finger traced Taeyeon's belly, drawing two Ts.

It wasn't done to test Taeyeon. It was just something she unconsciously did because now she felt whole and happy again.

"Where's the 'and'?" Taeyeon suddenly asked.

"Huh?" She looked up and saw her smiling at her with that twinkle in her eyes. Those same twinkling eyes she remembered seeing in the stranger that had asked her to share a cab that night outside the club.

She almost gasped.

That look... do you remember, Taetae? Is it possible for you to remember at least this one thing?

"Taeyeon and Tiffany. T and T. It sounds nicer than just T T or two Ts, right?" said Taeyeon as she laid a gentle kiss on Tiffany's head.

"Yeah." She smiled at her. "It does. It definitely does."

"I think I have an answer to your question now," mumbled Taeyeon into Tiffany's hair.

She looked up. "Did you find it, Taetae?"

Taeyeon smiled. "I did. I found it. I found you."

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