MINE /hwabyul (under construction)

seventeen

*note: my phone glitched and uploaded chapter sixteen before "fifteen  f l a s h b a c k"
so please read that before you continue this chapter :)

"can i come in?" hyejin asks, not wanting to sound rude.

byulyi flushes to a deep red, coughing from embarrassment. she panics, nodding at the younger. "oh! yeah s-sure."

moving out of the way, she invites the businesswoman.

"thank you." hyejin softly smiles, walking in the woman's home. she immediately felt at home. it wasn't intimidating, just perfect. almost like hers.

closing the door behind them, byulyi walks towards the younger. "it's a little messy right now."

"more neat than mines." the black haired remarks. scanning the living room.

her eyes stops onto the older. a laugh wants to stifle out of her but she looks away, hand over a mouth.

"is anything wrong hyejin?" the ceo asks, innocently tilting her head.

hyejin shakes her head, looking back at the purple black haired woman in front of her. "you look quite cute."

byulyi looks down at what she's wearing. becoming more flustered, she starts to think of an excuse for what she's wearing. "oh! um, well there wasn't any clean clothes and so i remember my mom buying me a set of these and i just found them and thought-"

hyejin seals the older one by pressing her lips onto hers. pushing her against the wall of the living room, she breaks the kiss. forehead resting onto the ceo's.

both breathes against each other, overwhelmed with the kiss.

"you're rambling again." the younger one giggles. "pink matches you, don't worry."

byulyi looks away from hyejin's gaze. "t-thanks."

"could we talk?"

the ceo hesitates, wondering if this is good news or bad. nonetheless, she leads the black haired to the couch to sit. "i'll make you some tea."

***

sipping the tea that the older made, hyejin immediately feels relaxed. she breathes, letting out an "i'm sorry."

"hyejin-ah, why are you sorry?" byulyi softly meet hyejin's gaze. "don't be silly."

huffing in guilt, she looks away from the dark haired woman. "i'm sorry for not answering the phone, i guess i did it out of hand."

the older opens her mouth to say something but gets cut off. "before you say anything, please listen."

"i'm sorry for saying those things earlier when you came to my apartment. especially, when i brought up you going back to yongsun, i didn't mean it. not after what she put you through. but as miserable as she made you, she also made you really happy. and i guess i just don't know if i'll ever live up to that."

byulyi scoots closer to hyejin, her hand lightly cups the side of the younger's face. bringing it up to look at her and she notices that around her bottom lids, it was swollen and red from crying.

"what are you talking about? i don't care about that at all. you're not yongsun and i never wanted you to be like her. i like how we are right now. i like what we have right now because it's nothing like what i had with her."

the black haired girl sniffs through her nose. "i'm sorry for making you cry."

she whispers against byulyi and her chest feels with heat at the sound of byulyi's small laugh that came out of her lips.

"it's okay, i guess i made you cry too, huh?"