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"Idiot, get away from me." Youra says as she shoves at my shoulders, half her face covered with my blankets. "My bed now, remember?"
A smile dances on my lips when she glares at me, large doe eyes still pissed off that I'd lied. I tilt my head, hand tugging at a lock of her hair.
"Are you trying to entice me?"
"You've finally gone crazy." She replies with a sharp look that makes her look like an angry kitten. Making an indecipherable noise, she slaps away my hand and does that kitten look even harder.
"I'm telling you, you better find a new place to sleep."
"I'm not leaving." I say, flattening my back against the bed and closing my eyes. Her small squeak of protest is everything when I push her up against the wall.
"It's almost ten at night." I continue, a helpless smile tugging at my lips. "You better make your choice, or else you're sleeping with me tonight."
I know her, even though I've only met her just a few weeks ago. She's too stubborn to move herself, would rather stay than leave, and show her surrender.
There's one thing I know for sure.
She's sleeping with me tonight.
"Go to the edge." She hisses, conforming my predictions as she pushes at me from the corner. Her hands feel so small against my back that I can't help myself when I turn and squeeze her body to mine.
She feels small, too.
"It's like I'm hugging a baby." I mutter as I kiss her cheek, soft and unblemished. But when I say that, her body freezes underneath my grip.
"What did you just say?" She yells, but her voice is all muffled up against my chest so it sounds like someone talking behind a wall. "A baby?! You serious?"
"It's not my fault you feel so small."
"Small?!" She exclaims, voice muffled again as she finally wriggles out from my hold. "I'll tell you who's the smallest in this vampire hou—"
I shut her up with a kiss, redness flushing my cheeks with heat.
It's pure bliss, tasting her without feeling her skin grow colder. But the emotion soon shifts to shock when she bites down on my bottom lip, hard enough that it might've drawn blood.
I'd expected her to push me away, kick me, or maybe even clock me right in the side of my face. She was perfectly capable of doing all that, and she was choosing to kiss me back.
What?
"Why are you all frozen up, huh?" She suddenly says, now clocking me on my forehead as she breaks away. "Never been kissed back before?"
"You—"
"I thought you hated me."
"It's a love and hate relationship." She clarifies, shrugging nonchalantly. But her eyes are watchful as they search my face, and I realize she's worried.
I can't believe she's worried.
"Why are you looking at me like th—"
Before she can finish, I crash my lips onto hers, fingers finding the side of her head. When I kiss harder, she suddenly squirms violently.
"Can't— breathe, you— idiot!" She gasps, sifting up on the bed. "You think I have lungs like— you?"
"So you don't hate me?" I ask, and the corners of her eyes soften from the kitten. The excitement in my own voice makes me wince, but I stare at her intently, watching every shift in her features.
"I don't hate you. You're just— annoying sometimes." Youra specifies, and I laugh when she pulls at the tip of my nose. "If you pull something like that again, I swear I'm really going to keep this room for myself."
"Does that mean you love me?"
When I smile devilishly, she raises an eyebrow. Now I'm sitting up as well, so close to her that I could easily touch foreheads with her if I lean forward just a couple inches.
"Don't flatter yourself." She shoots back, pulling herself into the wall. "We're not there yet. I refuse to act like what my sister does with Taehyung with you."
"Same here, hunter."
Then I wrap my arms around her, tugging the covers up to almost her nose. She has her eyes closed, so I force mine shut as well.
"Idiot." She suddenly says, and I smile softly when I feel her arms tighten back around my back.
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A/n: End of Jimin/Youra's POV! There will be something like two? Three? Chapters next until Seolah and Taehyung's ending (ending of book)!
