SpartAce: Eternal Love

Pressure

Jong Kook wakes up with his arm going numb.

Ji Hyo had found her place with her head on his shoulder, and he feels guilty on waking her up.

It is fascinating how she feels so peaceful in her place. She just fit perfectly in his arm, as if it is exactly where she is supposed to be.

She has her arm across his chest, her bare shoulder peeking over the white covers over both of them.

He couldn't help but smile as he feels his heart race. He wishes he could just lay there all day, feeling her warmth against his bare body.

He rolls to his side to wrap her in his arms, planting a kiss against her forehead in the process.

Her smell of mixed beer and gin and floral shampoo is becoming his aesthetic.

He feels her stir, and he playfully rubs a thumb against her shoulder as she looks up at him with sleepy eyes.

He smiled at her. "Good morning there."

"Good morning, Oppa." she answers, burying her face into his chest again.

His smile widens as he feels her press her cheeks against his chest as if she couldn't get enough of his warmth.

Then he sees the time on the clock at the bedside table.

"We're getting late, you know." he informs reluctantly.

Ji Hyo tightens her arm around him, refusing to let go. "Screw the time. Screw work. Screw the world. Can't I just be here? Possibly forever?"

He lets out a breathy laugh at her idealist dream and plants a kiss on her shoulder. "Then stay." he tells her as he rests his head on a pillow again to look at her face. "Stay."

Her smile is brighter then the sun shining through the slits of their unopened curtains.

"I love you."

"You know I love you more." He pushes back a strand of hair that had escaped over her eye then runs the same finger down her chin.

He leans over and plants tiny little kisses on her forehead, on her face, on her lips.

THEN his phone starts ringing.

He ignores it and lifts his upper body over Ji Hyo, his little kisses now on her neck, making her giggle.

"Someone's calling you." she says between a giggle, pushing him gently by the chest.

He plants an elbow to lift his head over hers to look at her in an arm's length. "I thought you said screw our work and screw the world?" he teases.

"It sounds important." she says, the phone ringing nonstop.

With no other choice, he gives her one last kiss on the forehead then sits up, swinging his legs to the side of the bed as he answers the phone.

"Hello?"

"Director Kim, this is bad." It is Woo Hyun, his secretary. The guy's voice dripping with urgency that it fully awakens Jong Kook.

He couldn't have any bad news right now. Not in this beautiful morning.

"Why? What is it now?" he asks, hoping it isn't worse than he imagined.

Anxiety might have been clear in his voice because Ji Hyo lifts her head up to check on him with a concerned look.

But Woo Hyun just let out a very frustrated sigh on the other line. "I think you just have to come here so I could explain it to you."