Welcome Home - Seonghwa

Heartbeat

It had been so long since you heard the familiar sound of the keys in the door to your apartment, and you didn't expect your heart to start racing the way it did when you hear the ever so familiar sound of him struggling to remember which key is for your apartment. You drop the spoon you were using to taste the sauce you just made, although it didn't taste right. It never tasted right without Seonghwas help.
you see him open the door and your heart backflips. He looks at you and smiles as you run into his arms.

"I missed you, y/n." He says simply. You unbury your head from the crook of his neck to say "I missed you more" You stand like that, in each others arms, for so long, just listening to his breathing, counting each and every heartbeat, breathing in the scent of his cologne and bodywash, just thinking about how much you missed his smile, his voice, his presence.

And his body.

But you brush that thought aside, that was for later.

You gasp and break the hug as you remember the sauce you left cooking on the stove.

"Whats wrong?" he asks you with gentle concern in his eyes.

"Ah, it was supposed to be a surprise. I was trying to make the steak sauce recipe you always make as a welcome home dinner, but I couldn't find the recipe and my memory is way worse than I thought"

Seonghwa laughs and kisses your forehead. "Im sure its just as good as when i make it" he says. He pauses and gently cups your face "none of the pictures you sent or the facetime calls could ever compare to how beautiful you are in real life"

You blush and laugh, taken aback by his sudden show of affection. He wasn't a sappy romantic much, but when he was, he spoke poetry. You lean to kiss him but you remember the sauce on the stove and freeze. You grab his hand off your face and pull him to the kitchen. "Oh shit, I keep forgetting i have it on the heat, its gonna end up burning if you dont fix it soon" you drag him into the mess you've made of them kitchen, and you hear him gasp lightly.

"Oh uhh, yeah so, uhm, okay, so, I know it LOOKS bad, but I swear its all just a surface mess I'll clean it up super quick" you try and joke with him. Seonghwa was just staring at the kitchen. He blinks a few times, walks to the stove, and picks up the spoon to try the sauce without saying anything. "Wait wait stop, dont try it" You warn him. "I dont know if its any good at all, I didn't get the recipe right and I hadn't tried it yet." Seonghwa doesn't say anything, he just tries the sauce and nods, and still without saying a thing, pulls you into another hug.

"Its perfect, baby" he says gently to you. "Did you doubt how well I taught you?" You laugh and say "No, I had an amazing teacher, but sadly his star student has the worst memory problems in the history of time." He shakes his head. "It tastes even better than when I make it, I wish you wrote the recipe so we could make it like this all the time" He looks at you with sarcasm dripping from his expression. "Unless you can remember what you put in it?" You roll your eyes at him. "Very funny Park Seonghwa. Turning my own joke against me" He smirks at you before looking back around the kitchen. "Yikes. Now lets just get all of this out of the way, shall we?" and he picks up as many bowls and measuring cups and spoons he can carry, and dumps them in the sink. you grab some more plates and toss them in as well. You laugh, thankful that he wasnt upset and thankful that the sauce tasted as good as you hoped it would.

Seonghwa looks at you in distress and says "Wait, do you have the steak cooking yet?" You laugh lightly and say "Yes chef, I put them in the oven in a few minutes before you got here. Hey, I'm not completely helpless" He looks into the oven and smiles at you, and jokingly says "I never said you were, I was just double checking, I swear"

You walk over to the sink and start rinsing the dishes with water. You reach for the cloth when you feel a warm presence hug you from behind. He wraps his arms around your waist and you stand in silence as you wash the first few dishes, before he reaches his hands forward and takes the cloth from your hand, and puts it in the sink. You turn around to face him, but he kisses you gently on the lips before you can insist that the dishes need to be done.

"I can never explain how much I missed your smile the last few months, y/n."
"Quite the romantic today, arent we hwa?" You ask in return.
"Hey, I've had a lot of plane trips to watch romantic movies, I cant help it"

You lay your head on his chest and the two of you start swaying gently side to side, dancing to the rhythms of your breathing, drinking in every second of being to close to each other. He pulls you tighter to his body and you feel the butterflies in your stomach take flight again. His hands slowly drift down your back, and you feel your butterflies drift lower in your abdomen along with them.

The oven starts beeping as the timer goes off.  You both sigh. "𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟", you remind yourself, as the two of you hesitantly pull away from each other to get your plates for dinner.

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Hiiii !
This is my first time writing anything, sorry if it got a little long, I'm kinda seriously in love with Seonghwa 😽✌️
I have a chapter 2 coming up! I cant wait to post it :D