Suho and the sea

Nine

I feel myself blushing after the kiss, and somehow I felt like the males all knew. Junmyeon looked pleased with himself; that's for sure. As I sit across from him, we decided to head back downstairs to join the others for wine and dessert. Chanyeol had taken a seat next to me on the couch. He smiles as he leaned in and whispered: "I'm going to steal you away tonight, be prepared." And I snapped out of my Junmyeon troubled mind and looked at him, confused: "What are y'all whispering about?" Sehun asks and looks at us, and I looked confused at Sehun and then back at Chanyeol before Sehun sits down next to me and starts eyeing Chanyeol on the other side of me.

"Nothing." He smiles brightly, and I'm still confused as my eyes lock with Junmyeon's. He looks less pleased. When dessert is served, Kyungsoo spends the time asking me random questions, and when Jongin suddenly broke his silence after a few sips on his wine, they were all staring at him and then turned to look at me because of his question. "How long are you staying?" They looked at me like they wanted to know, but every time I tried to open my mouth, Jongdae or Kyungsoo interrupted me; 'How about this weather.' 'Yah, did y'all see that?' 'What's 6870 times 989?' In the end, I found myself laughing as they all were sighing, "Shut up, Jongdae." Sehun said, making me smile: "Why are all of you trying to get rid of her?" Jongdae asked, and they all moved around in their seat; "We aren't." Junmyeon admitted quickly: "Maybe we want her to stay longer?" Chanyeol added. "I want to know when I get my room back," Jongin said, annoyed, and I laugh softly, making all the boys look at me.

"I was hoping it would only be for a night," I confess as they all seem to go quietly. I sit there picking through my dessert when Jongdae suddenly murmured: "Please stay longer; it's nice to have some new blood in the group." He said with a wide smile, and Sehun stood up, raising his glass: "For Lily to staying longer." And even Jongin stood up and clinked his glass with everyone else as I laugh at them.

"Yeah, Y'all trying to keep me? you know that's sort of kidnapping." I state, as they look at me in unison: "No, you walked inside this house all on your own." Sehun said, making it hard to cover my smile, I'm not going to deny that they have this easy way of making me feel very welcomed and that I appreciate: "True, but this isn't a prison is it?" I joke as Jongin sits down and sips on his wine: "Are you sure?" I narrow my eyes at him as Sehun nudges him in the side, making him rub his ribs. "Why exactly are you not staying with your friends?" Sehun asked me, and I slightly move around on my seat. I had turned off my phone before at the table because it kept buzzing. "Because her ex-boyfriend brought his girlfriend up to her summer house," Jongin spoke up. There was a dead silence around the living room table; you could hear someone drop their fork as I looked at Jongin, confused: "That's not really correct." I say and look at him; "Yeah, I'd say so, That blond chick? She talked about how she had to stay in the same house as her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend." Jongin said, waving his hand around. "No, the only ex's beside me, and Lee is Kevin and Min-ah, and I'm sure.." Jongin cuts me off: "That girl on the terrace that hung up her phone when you walked out? She who came today?" I sighed; "I don't think Kevin and Lauren aren't dati.." The realization hit me hard: "Lauren and Lee?" I question, "I'm sorry." He mutters.

"What?" They all say at the same time probably shocked that Jongin apologized, and I feel a big lump in my chest as it reminds me what else he could have heard. "What else did you hear?" I ask, looking down, feeling my eyes water up. "Not much, like I didn't hear everything; I came out like a few minutes before you did, and then she just left, and you started to fight with your ex, which I presume it was at least." Jongin continued, and I looked at him. "Lauren? so he's was fucking his assistant."

I get up and excuse myself before they get a chance to stop me, "Lily" They call after me, as I feel the tears roll down my cheeks. "Now you have done it." I hear Kyungsoo call, as I wipe my tears away, I don't want to cry more over him, yet I'm more crying for how stupid I was.

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I have curled up on the big bed of the room; I'm borrowing from Kyungsoo, I lay there in my solitude as the rapid knocks hit my door. I've been alone for about an hour, but something tells me I won't be left alone for longer than so. But I don't answer on the first set of knocks nor the second ones. I sigh as I lay and just watch the night sky creep in as the sun mashes together with the horizon. It's a beautiful night for sure, under normal circumstances, a romantic night.

Someone comes into the bedroom, I can't tell who it is, I at this point can't escape the demons in my mind of picturing Lauren and Lee together: "Lily get up, we are going out." I can now tell it's Chanyeol as he gets on the bed and pulls me into a sitting position. He's searching my face for a reaction; he can tell I'm clearly not up for his 'adventure.' But he smiles, he probably saw my facial expression, which I hope had annoyance written all over it. He in return picked me up out of bed and made sure I stood on the floor as I looked at him, slightly terrified how easy it had been for him to do so: "Don't be ashamed and don't feel stupid, you are far too amazing to feel either." He said low. This was comforting, and he now smiled a warm smile I hadn't seen before, but my heart liked it.

"Yah, you guys are way to charming, pulling at my heart like this." I say as he chuckles: "Good, then it's working." He held me in his arms as I stood there: "We're going out." He smiled, as placed his finger on my lips. "But please be quiet." He whispered as he took my hand. I honestly was supposed to cancel any plans with Chanyeol, but it clearly he dosen't understand the word no, and I think he got that I needed a distraction. 

We sneak through the house, and it seems most of the boys had already turned in. And It always exciting to sneak out, no matter who you are with. And I do need the distraction; I wonder if anyone else knows, he's taking me out. And with anyone, I think of Junmyeon. As Chanyeol slowly opens the big glass door and we sneak out onto the back porch. He sprints, as he grabs my hand, making me almost trip.

We run out on the beach. The night sky is devouring the ocean, and lights from houses reflect on blackness in front of us. We walk away from our homes for a bit as I turn to see the summer house I'm renting seem well lit. I wonder if they are looking for me? I start to feel bad now.

We walk hand in hand for a while towards the town along the shore, but he stops and looks at me; "Lily," I look up at him and smile softly: "Want to head back?" He says gently, I'm not sure what he's planning, but I don't mind walking around like this, it's soothing. He makes me hook my arm with his, and I instinctively lean my head against his arm. Chanyeol has sort of a mushroom cut, usually, it's not a look I stan, but it fits him, he actually looks cool, probably because of the silver hair. But he's tall too; he's the right mix of it all.

As we walk back along the shore close together, we talk about everything and noting his passions and mine, thoughts, and ideas. It was refreshing and exciting, to say the least. Considering we had walked in the silence first and now chatting away like no care in the world, I appreciated that I could do both with him. When he stops and turns to face me, "I know Suho might win this." And I look at him confused, does he know something I don't?: "Why you say that?" I ask as he nods slightly: "Because, out of all of us, I'd say y'all are most likely to hit it off and compare to you and me, we'll probably end up being great friends." Chanyeol said, and that made me smile; I like the idea that if it doesn't go his way, he'd still want to be friends. "But, that doesn't mean I won't give it a try." He smiled wide, and I was again confused until, the very tall male leans in and kisses me, his lips are plump and soft, and I feel my heart warm up to him more. He pulls away as he smiles and sneaks his arm around my waist to pull me closer as his lips come back to mine.

My arm reaches up and wraps around his neck, and I'd be a fool I didn't get caught up in this moment. Kissing is sweet and innocent in the most beautiful ways. He had no hidden agenda but to just kiss me, and his hands don't wander, he just hugs me to him as his lips caress mine ever so softly.

"Lily?" I tare my lips from Chanyeol's as we both look where the voice comes from, and Lee is standing there with his arm around Lauren.