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Hehehe~ the horniness only going away after reader got all four of her boys?
Simon watching the betas to make sure theyâre taking good care of their sweet omega?
Price making reader use him without putting in the effort himself?
Goddamn. Almost makes me forget about the crushed cameras hidden under readers sink. Almost.
Anyway this is very good and truly one of the few fics Iâm sticking around for on updates. I tend to only read completed fics for my own sanity, but I find that Iâm very excited each week this comes about!!! Great job, and I hope you enjoy writing it as much as we enjoy reading! We certainly appreciate it very much and I hope you relax and take some time for yourself!
Hehe yeah, so much happened in the last chapter đ€ and more is coming. It may or may not be on purpose đ
But thank you, really. You're not the first to say I've compelled someone to break their need to only read completed fics. It's definitely still worth it đ and who knows, sometimes a comment is all it takes to get an author to continue. I know that's happened to me a few times.
I am enjoying writing it, even if it can be a pain in my ass sometimes đ (affectionately of course). It's become way more than it was supposed to be but people are still reading it so đ€·ââïž I shall provide.
#have to feed my readers#make sure y'all eat good#can't have y'all going hungry#mama gotta feed her babies#every time i post i always feel like#*banging pots and pans*#'come get y'all food!!'#lmao im annoying forgive me#answered#smferalcore
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YO! Being a drawing, whatâs there to be afraid of!
#can you tell which iteration currently has a chokehold on me#1996 is such a fresh remix on the original im loving it#ngl that first arc almost lost me cuz of how annoying hong hai er was but it started growing on me near the end so I stuck it out#I will say tho that the love interest arc just pissed me off#thank god the love was onesided and she died at the end#I actually did like yan yan as a character but girl GET UP. HAVE SOME DIGNITY!! I DONT CARE WHO HE IS YOU SHOULD NEVER BE DOIN ALL THAT#FOR A MAN#I love this show but it does NOT pass the Bechdel test lmao#I gotta calm down I ranted enough about this arc to my friend - so hard in fact that I got a white hair from it#it physically aged me im never forgiving those goddamn spider demons#journey to the west 1996#journey to the west#journey to the west fanart#jttw sun wukong#sun wukong#jttw#jttw fanart#digital art#my art#im on the mpreg arc now which im so pleasantly surprised that they decided to shoot cuz every other iteration is too much of a pussy to#canât wait for the group birth#if they donât show hole on my screen and let me see the baby come out like im King Louis XIV of France this entire thing will be a flop#no exceptions#im also pissed about the tiger general becoming more girly and changing her whole character for a crush girl get UP
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2024 reads / storygraph
The Sword of Kaigen
standalone fantasy set in a rural mountain village at the edge of an empire that still holds traditional values, with families of powerful water/ice magic warriors
follows a powerful young heir who begins to question his beliefs about the empire when a new boy comes to his village from the city
and his mother, a housewife who has tried to forget her youth as a warrior and vigilante in the city since she moved back home to a loveless marriage
when thereâs a violent attack on their village that theyâre unprepared for, everything changes, and she has to embrace her old skills to protect her family and people
#The Sword of Kaigen#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#Iâve been meaning to read this for years and I finally got around to it! a really unique fantasy novel#I had always assumed this was ur average pre-industrial high fantasy and then was immediately hit with video games/tv in the first chapter#lmao. But overall (aside from the broader worldbuilding/politics) it is closer to the average âhistoricalâ fantasy narrative -#so I can see why I got that impression#Some really compelling characters and interesting narrative structure that went in some unexpected directions.#It really focuses in on one village and how devastating a single battle in a war can be to their people - and how much work the recovery is#I feel like most sff is more concerned with a single person and/or the whole war so this felt unique. did also mean that the pacing was odd#- it's a slow start; then thereâs a battle that must be hundreds of pages. The last section of the book feels a little too drawn out#and brings up random hanging plot elements that donât really go anywhere. But I think overall this works for the story.#also one thing I didnât love - cool complex interesting female character MC sure but also thereâs weird moments like:#the first scene we see her is all the housewives comparing their attractiveness; she keeps referring to herself as an old woman (when sheâs#and oh so meek and useless etc. And some of this feels like itâs part of the broader portrayal of the misogynist society#but some of it felt clunky or unintentional?#And then especially the end - when she and her shitty husband finally confront each other as equals and he apologises#she basically immediately forgives him and is like oh I was equally at fault because I am a meek woman who didnât try either#like him realising he was wrong (and her realising he had a reason for being the way he was) doesnât negate the fact that he treated her li#she acts like it was her fault for not trying too - when we have numerous examples of him berating her if she spoke up about anything?#like im glad heâs learning. but also that doesnât mean she needs to suddenly forgive and love him wtf#that's the only real thing that annoyed me though.#also btw that 5yo seems kinda fucked up. are you guys gonna do anything about that
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monachan haul has arrived âšsafelyâš
#ft. the gigo collab merch that i had proxied s o b s#âhow many albums did you buy m y g o s hâ j-just these 3âŠ#thanks delivery guys for not notifying me when haul pt 2 was delivered lmao now my motherâs mad at me for not showing her what i got :(#âjust show her manâ d u d e sheâll lecture me about wasting my moneyâ wait nvm iâll show her my lls gk dvd that came in maybe thatâll help#im gatekeeping monachan from my fam idc if weâre related yâall c a n â t have her#b u t on another note the mona album standee looks really cute beside the new sena natsukomi standee#mona looks taller than sena in it but they just. look really cute next to each other aaaaa#though. yk. speaking of the gigo merch and stuff⊠man. i think i went to that arcade last year lmao#i didnt go up to the floor with the food and stuff since i was only there to play crane games and i was too lazy to climb the stairs#but seeing posts about the collab reminds me of the 1000 yen i spent trying to get ena pjsk nui in the mzen crane machine#i had. like. 4000 yen at the time and around 1/4 of it went to that machine⊠never forgive never forget#âwhy didnt you withdraw more money thenâ w e l l the debit card was with my bro and i broke off from the family to explore by myself s oâ#and that was how i spent my birthday last year. on the 4th or 5th (cant rem) floor of gigo trying in vain to get enananui#that doesnt have anything to do with monachan but i needed to cry about it somewhere ig lmfao#m a n. what am i even doing with my life lmao#o k thatâs enough of being annoying for one night see yâall for daily nagisa in a few hours byeeeeeeee
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yesterday my history lecturer gave me a good grade and a really lovely comment about my assignment, and now ive just uploaded the worst essay ive ever written for her to read đ i feel so bad that she has to read this shit and i know im just gonna plummet in her estimation đ
#throwing UP i hate myself#i do this everytime. this is the worst though#i was so out of my depth w this essay question and i literally didnt know which side i was gonna argue until like. four hours ago#and just ueah...............gonna be lucky if i get a 60 tbh#GOD#my heart is still THUMPING from submitting it at 16:58. and i didnt get to properly reread it or edit it#like thats how bad it is lmao#also skipped two lectures to write it đ im soo annoying like i only have myself to blame. GOD.#spent a good amount of time trying to get used to my uni's history department's#style of referencing bc it is. Unique#god i am so sorry dr [redacted]. please forgive me fr#okay i just checked and grammarly found 0 plagerism thank god BUT 108 WRITING ISSUES???? IM GONNA DIE#hopefully its like. mainly wanting to change words to the us spelling. gonna cry#or just trying to sell me its shitty service. anyway. time to do other stuff and not think about it until i have to get my grade#and have to look my lecturer in the eyes again.
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hi ari!!!
'we can dip if youâre ready' is so good!!! i'm a little busy currently with work, so i read it quickly so far, but i'm planning on doing an in-depth read of it tomorrow!
and gosh, the angst... just...
my heart broke at the end...
because satoru was trying to just softly reject reader...
ahh...
i have to say, the dialogue is just so... natural? realistic? soft yet unbelievably sad because of the undercurrent of heartbreak running through it...
(wouldn't it be funny if reader ended up with suguru?? especially after the whole 'wolf' comment. then satoru and his sister would be like O.O damn... but it works!)
hi lovely little anon !!!!!!!!
IâM HUGGING YOUUUUUUU SO TIGHT đ«đ«đ«đ«đ«đ«đ«đ«đ« tysm for reading!!!! and for sending me this!!!!!! sorry abt the heartache though.. :â3 i feel like soft angst or bittersweet fluff are probably good words for this ficâŠ. satoru is just trying his best not to lead you on, but he also doesnât want to be too harsh abt it yk?? i really do think he handled it very maturely!!
AND . THE DIALOGUE . anon i would give you my heart and soul T_T i was happy with how it turned out but also rlly nervous that it wouldnât feel natural!! so thatâs so reassuring to hearâŠ.. writing dialogue for gojo is always sm fun.
but đđđđ suguru huhâŠâŠâŠ i was kinda entertaining that idea too LMAO. i think gojo and riko would shut it down immediately but itâs fun to think abtâŠ. iâm honestly not sure how suguru would handle this kind of scenario!! a part of me feels like he would be even more adamant on rejecting you⊠bc of his steady moralsâŠ. but then again. i also see suguru as being more emotionally driven/less logical than satoru, so maybe heâd go for it if you both loved each other? hmmm..
honestly though . i feel like if reader ended up with someone other than gojoâŠ. itâd probably be riko đ i was kindaaaa trying to hint at that a bit but itâs more of a potential what-if scenario. i think itâd be a lot of fun to write two âendingsâ for this fic⊠one where reader and satoru meet a decade after the first fic and finally hit it off, and one where reader accepts satoruâs rejection and falls for riko. itâs just a thought but!! i think itâd be rlly sweet :3
#gojo would be theeee best brother-in-law#heâs annoying but also such a sweetie. 100% cries at the reader/riko wedding and everyone teases him LMAO#but yeah!!! since a big theme of the fic is just. the fun in an uncertain future i think writing multiple endings would be fitting :3#maybe⊠i could also add a third endingâŠâŠ the secret suguru route đđ#gojo would literally never forgive him though LMAO#imagine being so mature and handling the situation so well just to find out your bestie went âfuck itâ and ignored his own morals đ#thatâd be the stsg argument of the century i fear#ANYWAYYY im rambling⊠but tysm for this anon!!! im so so glad you enjoyed the fic!!!! đ„ș i hope work treats you kindly!!!!#you also helped me come up w some pt 2 ideas hehe. so thank you for that too!!#ask tag â©
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man, people are weird (derogatory)
#just got an anon about me interacting with minors. pretty sure i dont#or i accidentally liked some kid's post that got popular#well forgive me for not checking anyone's bio before liking or commenting on anything lmao#should have seen this coming. you get loud about supporting trans girls beyond the superficial 'tgirls are valid uwu post' and then weirdos#start hounding and scrutinizing everything you do more than you already do on the regular#oh well. i doubt i'll get anything worse than a few assholes since im not the actual target of harrassment#still. this is lame and annoying!!!!#textposts
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đ call of cthulhu đ
this week on call of cthulhu: saturnine chalice (@jennystahl), follow our three boarders; blaire bretz (@elvves), lon laurier (@lavampira), & waverly bennet, in providence, rhode island as they face an unforgettable grocery run. will they survive the endeavors of the weyland estate? will they uncover the source of the horrors stalking them? will they finally find some gas? stay tuned to find out! next week call of the cthulhu presents you the premiere of the king.
#call of cthulhu#the coc crew if you will asdasd#pls forgive me no one's faceclaim is in this đđ#finding old hollywood that isn't grainy af is hard#mutual's ocs#mygifs*#at first i wanted to fake rod serling introducing it like twilight zone lmao#but i couldn't figure out how to not make it incredibly corny & thought dialogue cards would be cute#anyways i think im going to practice editing these more especially bc i feel like im being annoying adasd
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biting my tongue to not share my opinions on the character body types in bg3 đ
#bc theyll just get annoyed at me bc yeah yeah i havent played it yet ik !!#but it doesnt take a rocket scientist to look at tumblr gifs lmao#I just think that most of them need less muscle + more body fat. and also that they shouldve made astarion visibly emaciated đ€·#if u want to give them a range of stats eg varying strength then maybe u should incorporate that into designing their builds#bc im nowhere near as muscular as any of the men and yet my str stat would be higher than theirs. are they hollow or what????#and even if they WERE that strong they wouldnt have abs like that and theyd have some fucking belly. come on#theres no way theyre dedicating that much time to developing aesthetic muscle get a grip. theyre fighting for real out there#havent seen enough abt the womens body types to have an opinion but i imagine theyre equally disappointing#ik they just do this shit bc they want to make them 'attractive' for players to romance like its solely just catering to that#but newsflash. some of us find Realistic Body Types attractive too. some of us find body fat hotter than dehydrated sculpted muscle#wish there was more facial diversity too but thats a whole other debate lmao.#and ik its not like any of this is exclusive to a single videogame like basically all of them do it. but aint gonna stop me complaining#anyway whatever. i got shit to do today#.diaries#karlach original design i will never forgive them for what they did to u
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#erin rambles#please forgive me#i am going to be Annoying and also Annoyed for a moment#so i had been seeing someone almost every weekend for like two months#and then after our sixth??? date i think????????#they just stopped responding to texts#so i was essentially ghosted#this happened almost three weeks ago and since then i decided to try to find Another Person#things seemed to be going well!!#a few people seemed to like me#but then two either unmatched or had someone else they were more interested in#and i dont blame them its their lives whatever#but since then i havent gotten a single message back?????#so its been like three days of radio silence from anyone i was talking to with zero responses from new matches#at first i thought it was just me????#im probably a little annoying im doing my best to own it lmao#but i try to ask questions that pertain to their interests?????? bc i love it when people infodump at me#but theres just been zero response#and its from like maybe eight people at this point#so im trying to reconcile with the fact that the person i wanted to have a Relationship Discussion with ghosted me#whilst also dealing with getting zero responses from new people i might be interested jn#so either im going to have to be cool with being fucking annoying#or its something wrong with the app#idk#im feeling Vulnerable and Bad after valentines day
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my side acc on twitter being suspended would almost be funny since there really isn't anything that important in it since it's so new but it also makes me feel like a criminal and i dont want the JP artist who I sent a comment to to think I did anything bad, so ghsdfklfdfsgfkdslf unsuspend it right now!!!!!!!!
#i almost never talk on here but at least my main is safe#so i can still look thru my fave tags#the most functional site ever tho ffs#this is the funniest way to end the night but also annoying.....#never allowed to be excited about anything anymore huh đ#honestly i get the message tbh. never beating the allegations#i'll tone it down but i wont forgive these sites at all xD#i didnt even tweet that much today!!! wdf!!!#this is def gonna imprint itself in my psyche tho. im never being active again smh#bring me back to da or something or wcrpg i cant take it anymore (joking tone)#i WILL get annoyed as more time passes but im just gonna forget abt it now lmao
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#sometimes i get really sad about my life you know? like. really sad about it lmao. for various reasons.#like it would be really cool to be normal. very often i just wish i was normal lmao.#but then i remember meeting this guy while i was homeless&he had everything that i late 20s/early 30s college grad would want#stable&well paying job in the field he actually went to college for#rented part of a banging a duplex that had a yard allowed dogs&was a five minute walk from downtown bar crawl area#had both one of my fave motorcycles-- an r6--&one of my all time dream cars-- a 6speed cts-v.#i presume a dating life from the tampons that were in his bathroom.#&yet. he was miserable from what i could tell lmao. &it was weird bc it was like he didnt realize that#until he met us lmao. i would be more annoyed by that. i was v annoyed by it at the time lmao. the amount of weird jealousy i dealt w while#fucking homeless+sick is disgusting&ill never forgive fucking anyone for it&a part of me will always be dead+rotted bc of it lmao.#but for him it was different in the way of. i could kind of understand it lmao.#he had come from a rough background from what i understand&was a success story.#&yet he clearly felt trapped in his own life. clearly felt like he was surrounded by things he should be more grateful for while none of it#filled the hole in him ppl like him are PROMISED success will fill. being apart of the status quo but on the good end will alleviate.#he had been in one accident&never rode his bike again. when i asked why he lied&told me the bike was unrideable bc he didnt know me lmao#&when i asked if there had been any damage past the obvious dent in the gas tank he got red+quiet+changed the topic.#he worked at some big bank&didnt bother trying to brag bc the one thing he DID know about me is that i am v anti bank+leftist lmao.#he considered himself a leftist too until he talked to me&realized he was actually v centrist in basically every view he had#&that centrism came from a desire to keep his privileges as a cis white straight man-- something that made him openly embarassed.#he used to deal thru college&when i met him he couldnt keep up w one round of dabs w me something that also obviously embarassed him.#he had surrounded himself w ppl just like him&was jarred upon meeting anyone outside of that bubble who wasnt a far right asshole.#&he didnt like what he saw about himself. &that was really obvious.#when we left his place after the brief week we were staying there he was literally in tears about how much he wanted to come.#to help&see where we ended up or whatever idk lmao. i guess im still actively annoyed by it lmao.#but i still get it on some level. when you reach the top&realize youre not fucking happy where do you go from there?#will a house do it? will moving to a different location for your same bullshit job do it? will meeting a girl exactly like you do it?#&when i want to be normal so bad it physically hurts i remember him&i think maybe things arent so bad lmao.#like it could be worse i guess lmao.
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Hits Different (...'cause it's you) (2)
«« I trace the evidence, make it make some sense Why the wound is still bleedin' »»
PAIRING: kim mingyu x reader
SYNOPSIS: Kim Mingyu was the first friend your brother had brought home for dinner. Fast forward a couple years, his toothy smile and pierced ears would wedge their way into a permanent place in your heart. Nail to a coffin, never to escape.
or;
in which you get rejected by the only boy you've ever loved; a rejection you can't quite shake off.
GENRES: based off of 'Hits Different' by Taylor Swift, brother's best friend!au, brother!seokmin, fluff, angst, smut (in part 2) [MINORS DNI], friends(?) to lovers, university!au.
PLAYLIST: right here!
WORD COUNT (full fic): 40k (im actually embarrassed)
Part 1: 20.2k | Part 2: 20k
masterlist
WARNINGS : slowburn, angst, fluff, mingyus a bit of an airhead and an ass, reader has a hard time managing her feelings, lots of frustrated tears, one sided pining, user toruro x minghao make an appearance, swearing, there's another woman (gasp,,,,,but shes cool so), Nayeon is a darling, Seungcheol is kinda annoying here but we love him, smut, making out, breast play, fingering (f. receiving), p in v sex (protected + unprotected), oral (f. receiving) uhhhh i think that's it lmk tho
[A/N]: Part 2 !! shit goes down in this one so be prepared ig lmao. thank you for the love on part 1, i hope you enjoy the finale too hehe
For the third time this week, you wish you could squeeze your brotherâs brains with your own two hands and watch it explode like a grape without legal repercussions. Or parental ones.Â
You slam your phone down on the counter after you end your conversation with him, frustrated as you watch the empty shelf where you left your dinner for today in the fridge last night, and the other green box that was actually your brothers. Refusing to eat the dry PB&J he usually packs for himself, you slam the fridge door shut, trudging out the door to leave for work, thoroughly annoyed at the prospect of needing to eat out.Â
Itâs gone forgotten for most of the day, that is until the clock hits eight and you feel your stomach grumble, immediately putting you in a sour mood as you remember you couldnât enjoy your pasta because your brother was enjoying your pasta. You only had another hour left, supposing you could wait till you get home to make dinner yourself, not feeling the burger joint across the street in the slightest. Eating a moonpie to satiate yourself for the time being, you go back to stocking the shelves for the new LP shipment, making a vague mental note to ask Mingyu if Jia liked the gift he picked out a couple weeks ago.Â
Your opportunity arises almost automatically as you walk over to greet whoever came in, abandoning the opened box of bubble wrapped LPs as you hear the bell chime softly at the front of the store. Â
Mingyu was here (again), hands occupied with a bag, looking relieved to find you emerging from the shelves.Â
âOh, youâre here. I was afraid you left already,â he says, smiling slightly.Â
âWouldâve been closed if I did.â You nudge your head towards the clearly unlocked door, donning the neon open sign.Â
He looks a little dumb, turning to look at the door. âOh. Right.â
You canât help but smile a little. âCaught me at a good time though, I was just about to start wrapping up here.âÂ
He suddenly looks like heâs reminded of what heâs come here for, placing the bag on the desk next to him. âSeok told me to drop this off for you, he said itâs food.âÂ
Snorting, you take a look at the inside to find takeout from your favourite pasta place, which also happens to be your most expensive favourite pasta place. Seokmin felt bad enough to spend extra dollars on your dinner tonight, you guessed you could forgive him.Â
You sigh as you speak. âAnd you strike as his errand boy yet again, sorry heâs been making you do all this.âÂ
âDid he piss you off?â Mingyu asks.
âHm? Heâs been pissing me off all week, this is him trying to get on my good side before I spit in his coffee.âÂ
He laughs at that, a toothy smile that has your stomach lurching. The flashback was brief but vivid all the same, his grin triggering a long forgotten memory. You could almost see the black studs in his ears again, his bangs falling in chunks on his forehead, his face turning into the boyish sixteen year old recollection on your kitchen counter, drinking cans of Monster and helping you lie to your mom.Â
âExplains why he was ready to drop that much on a bowl of pasta.âÂ
âHey, itâs good.âÂ
âI donât doubt it.â He grins, âIâm gonna leave your pasta in your loving embrace, I have to feed my car now. Been putting it off till payday.â
âOh, right. Thanks for dropping this off though, appreciate it.â You offer him a tight lipped smile. One that he returns, canines almost glinting in the light (but thatâs just you).Â
âNo worries, Iâll see ya around.â You donât remember what you were meant to ask him until heâs long jingled the glass door shut, walking to his parked car. You supposed it could wait, Jia wouldâve liked anything he got her. You could ask him later, not wanting to have him turn around to answer the obvious question.Â
The opportunity does not arise as easily as it did this time, a couple weeks passing in relative uneventful indifference, slow days at the store and nights in seven days a week. You were starting to wish youâd taken summer classes while you were stuck here anyway, the mundane days pushing you to believe youâd rather be busy than inexplicably bored. Itâs not until your brother has a near mental breakdown from only having a sister as his main recreational contact that thereâs a change.Â
Mingyu sits on your couches in the dark, useless blanket thrown over his torso as both of his sock clad feet hang out in the air. To be fair, nobodyâs looking at anybody as the eyes remain on yet another unnecessary explosion on the screen. You vaguely wonder how the ship hasnât sunk yet.Â
âWhat the fuck do you mean heâs been alive this whole time?â Seokmin utters, voice thick with the entire stick of butter he stuck into his bowl of popcorn.Â
âWho funded this?â Mingyu mumbles from the other end, a deep frown etched on his face.Â
âThe people who funded the other three monstrosities.â You roll your eyes, inching your way into a sitting position, the ache making its way into the crick of your neck.Â
âThereâs more?!â The prospect had Mingyu hurtling into a sitting position, but not without his own set of winces as he feels the bones cracking and muscles aching. His hair is a mess, his hoodie nearly backwards, and you canât help but laugh at the mildly confused and bewildered expression he has on.Â
âYeah, you wanna watch those too?â you ask through giggles.
Glancing at the final pub scene thatâs playing on the TV, he's quick to mumble, âFuck, no.âÂ
âI havenât watched a real shitty movie in a while.â Seokmin groans as itâs his turn to stretch. âThis was fun. Hollywoodâs back.âÂ
Both you and Mingyu pointedly ignore his statement, your own mind debating whether you wanted to watch another movie. Itâs not until you look up to see Mingyu doing something on his phone that you remember what you wanted to ask him.Â
âHey, Mingyu, did â Seokmin!â Your brotherâs decided to begin his aerial stretches, touching his toes and cracking his back. You shift your head wildly to get a gap through his restless movements, eventually giving up finding Mingyu. He could hear you. âDid you â ugh â did you get to give Jia her present?âÂ
You arenât sure what it is, but the way the question has Seok landing on his heels mid tip toe stretch and how Mingyuâs eyebrows shoot up, you donât doubt youâve touched on something sensitive. Thereâs a part of you that wonders if itâs too late to take it back when both boys make eye contact with each other, but your brother beats you to it.Â
âI, uhâŠforgot to tell her,â he lowtones.Â
You look to your brother and then to Mingyu.Â
âWe broke up.â
Oh.
âOh.â
âYeah.â Mingyu smiles a little awkwardly, and Seok makes a strangled sound that may have been a laugh of his own. Or a cough, you arenât too sure. âButâŠshe did like the present, when I gave it to her anyway.â
âOh, thatâsâŠthatâs good,â you manage, not knowing what to say. âSorry that happened thoughâŠsucks.âÂ
âShe ended itââ that has your own brows shooting up in disbelief. Kim Mingyu got dumped? ââover the phone, she decided she wanted to stay home for a while to figure out what she wanted to do. Uni wasnât cutting it for her hereâŠâÂ
âI mean, good for her, I guess. Hope youâre doing okay, though.â
He blows air out of his cheeks, scratching his neck. âI mean, weâre fine. Ended it on good terms.âÂ
Seokminâs still standing awkwardly staring at the still running ending credits for something to do. âShould we get food?âÂ
âI donât know, are you hungry?â Mingyu asks.
âHow is the heartburn not getting to you yet? You basically emptied the countryâs dairy reserves in a single popcorn serving,â you grumble.Â
âDonât underestimate my ingestional abilities,â he retorts.
Mingyu stares for a moment. âArenât you lactose intoletrant or something?â
Seokmin turns to him, mouth open as he points his finger, âYou know, I might be.âÂ
âNo you arenât, if you were lactose intolerant then Iâd be lactose intolerant,â you shoot.Â
âExplain the empty can of air freshener in the bathroom after queso and chips?âÂ
âHave you considered during queso and chips that queso is a dip and not an optional beverage?âÂ
Mingyuâs cutting between you two before you can go on with your bickering, afraid heâd have to physically peel you off of each other if it goes on, âLetâs just go to a drive thru, you can get your lactose orâŠnon lactose options however you like.âÂ
Thatâs how youâre shoved into the backseat of Mingyuâs car, Seokmin fiddling with the GPS to find the nearest McDonalds.Â
âHow do you not know where the nearest McDonaldâs is, you live here,â Mingyu hisses as he takes his fourth right turn in a row.
âWe always just order in, who sits in a car and goes to McDonalds.â
âUs apparently,â you lowtone to Mingyu from the back, picking at a crusty flower that you found in between the seats. They ignore you.Â
âOkay, I think itâs this one. Dude, get a new GPS, this one responds after fifty years, of course itâs gonna take this long.âÂ
Their own bickering is starting to zone out into a buzz in your ears as you stare at a patch of leather behind Mingyuâs seat. You vaguely considered that youâre falling asleep.Â
The streetlight has other plans, however, when you sense something glinting in the sudden light underneath the seat. Your interest is piqued, moving forward to see what it was. Mingyu senses you shifting and asks you what youâre doing.Â
You donât answer him as you shuffle around to catch sight of it again. And then you see it, a tiny necklace on the slightly dirty mat, a circle charm with a single âJâ in the center. You arenât sure why you froze at the sight, the gold glinting prettily even in the dark. Leaving it there, you emerge from under the seat, trying to seem nonchalant.Â
âNothing. Thought I saw something.â
Mingyuâs common occurrence in the bookstore is starting to concern you, never catching him as the type to read something other than the occasional bad riddles on the back of a cereal box. You stand corrected however, as you find yourself trying to find a hardcover for him on the computer system, mumbling incoherently.
âNever knew you read.âÂ
âWell, now you do. This oneâs really good though, you should read it too.â He notes, motioning towards the paperback version he brought with him for the book heâs finding.Â
You snort at his suggestion. âHave you realised this is one of the most popular books in its genre right now? Hard to find someone who hasnât read it.â
He frowns at the revelation, âOh. None of my friends read it.â
Seokmin hasnât opened a book for recreational purposes since he was twelve. As for his other friendsâŠthey didnât exactly seem like the smart type either. You get up to move to the shelf the computerâs indicated, trying to walk off your annoyance at a particular memory before it begins to show. Mingyu follows you in your pursuit to find his book, skimming the shelves himself as he strolled behind you.Â
âOh, right, howâs that exhibition thing going? Forgot to ask about it,â you ask as you spot the box of the hardcovers at the top of the shelf. You grab the ladder that rests near the wall as he answers.
âItâs going pretty good, nearly done. I just need to send the final pieces over â whatâre you doing?âÂ
You grunt as you begin to climb up the metal ladder, trying to get to the box. âGetting your book, genius.â
âWaitââ He moves to grab the ladder at the base as he watches you step higher. âGet down! Iâll go up instead.âÂ
âYou get cold feet at the bottom of an escalator, be serious, Mingyu,â you grunt as you pull the box towards yourself, the ladder shaking with the force it takes, and it has Mingyu gripping the metal tighter. You pull the familiar cover out before closing the box back up. âThere.â
âWhy would you keep supposed bestsellers there, isnât this like, in demand?â He grumbles as he continues to hold the ladder as you climb back down.Â
âRan out. Need to restock them at the front, but Iâll do that tomorrow.â You huff as you jump the last step, earning a loud yelp from Mingyu.Â
âChill out,â you chuckle as he puts the ladder away. âOkay, do you want me to look at anything else for you?â
âWhat would you recommend for my next imaginary adventure?â he asks as he picks out a random book from the shelf, trying to find the blurb.Â
âNot that one.â You scrunch your nose at the sight.
âThis one I know is popular. Whatâs wrong with it?â He chuckles as he puts it back.
âDonât believe everything you see on the internet,â you call out as you walk back to the front.
âAnd believe you instead?âÂ
Oh, you wish.
Picking up your current read from the front of the store, you wait for him to reach the end of the opening where you stand to hand it to him.Â
âYou can decide that for yourself. Havenât finished it yet, but it looks super promising. Try it out if you want.âÂ
He barely looks over the glistening title before handing it back to you, and you nearly assume he didnât want it.Â
âRing both of them up,â he says, and then with a pause he continues, âAnd anything else you think is good too, I donât really care.âÂ
Deciding youâd test the waters with this first recommendation, you only cash him in for two. He doesnât question it as you do your job behind the desk, making casual conversation as he waits for you to find the right barcode.Â
âHow far are you with that one?âÂ
âThe one I gave you? Just touched chapter 20, I think.âÂ
He only hums in response as he pays, grabbing the bag that you push towards him.Â
âLet me know how you like it,â you comment before he begins to turn to leave.Â
ââCourse.â He grins, and you can't help but grin right back. He leaves you in the store with a slight heat coming up to your cheeks, and a wad of gum in your mouth to keep your stomach in check.Â
By the time the next day rolls around, itâs been nearly 24 hours before you hear from him again, his contact seemingly only ever gracing you within the walls of the bookstore â except he isnât physically here. Mingyu texts you, and you nearly fall out of your chair at the sight of his name on your phone.Â
Itâs near embarrassing how quickly you pick up your phone, passcode going wrong once, twice, thriceâŠyou decide itâs the top five worst times your phoneâs refused face ID. Youâre slamming your fingers onto the screen harder than you should, watching the warp in the pixels at the pressure. By the time it does open its secrets for you, the annoyance has settled. Not at him though.Â
[Mingyu]: hey [Mingyu]: i got to chap 20 [You]: what [You]: how [Mingyu]: started reading when i got home [Mingyu]: and then i got to 20 [Mingyu]: i think i pulled an all nighter [You]: you think? [You]: was it that good [Mingyu]: couldnt put it down [Mingyu]: i wanna talk about it but my eyes are closing [You]: you know where to find me when you wake up
The typing ellipses donât pop up after that, and you assume for the better that heâs succumbed to his afternoon drowsiness. If he was serious about that all nighter (which you donât doubt, no way he couldâve plowed through twenty chapters and gotten any sleep), you assume heâll be knocked out for at least the rest of the afternoon.Â
Smiling to yourself at the thought of him wanting to text you about your matching achievements (and actively pushing your mind away from the blessed image of a napping Mingyu), you find yourself scrolling up the conversation, trying to remember the last time Mingyu had texted. That was easy to find out as the short scroll past the sparing details from your photography adventures landed you straight into late last year, a sparse conversation regarding your brotherâs whereabouts when he wouldnât answer his phone.Â
You remembered the conversation. As mundane and ordinary as it was, it was difficult to forget the way your hands were shaking as you typed your one word replies, how your breathing was coming out uneven at a mere text back. You could argue there was less of that this time round, proud of yourself for learning to control your emotions better.Â
Thereâs a train of thought that leads you to every recent interaction youâve had with him. The conversations where you could look him in the eye, your relative indifference when he would show up unannounced, the disappearance of the wad of emotions in your stomach at the mere mention of his name.Â
The latter may be slightly untrue, but you can't help but note how the ounces of fear within the concoction is gone. You were never quite sure what it was that you were so afraid of, perhaps the fateful night at Seungcheolâs party had answered that question for you, but still.Â
âSeokâs not the type to beat me up if I dated his sister. And besidesâŠâ He sighs, halting his words.
âBesides what?â Somebody chimes in.
âIâm not interested in going after someone whoâs chased my tail for the past fifteen years.â
Despite telling yourself it was the alcohol talking, maybe even a couple puffs of whatever â the mild disappointment remains. Thinking about the weeks following that, the moping and the hurt, you almost donât blame Mika for acting the way that she did.Â
Your brother had always been oblivious to all the frolicking in your heart that would ignite as Mingyu would enter the room, and for over a decade at that. And yet, it was during those weeks that he had noticed you acting like you had been dumped, asking you what on earth was wrong with you.Â
âDid somebody say something to you?â he asks.
âHuh?â you frown, annoyed at the way he's planted himself directly in front of the cabinet that held your beloved moonpies.Â
âYouâre acting like youâve been rejected by the love of your life. Nayeonâs not telling me anything and youâre being avoidant, what is up with you?â He huffs, hands on his hips.Â
Oh, if only he knew how right he was. But you werenât upset because the love of your life rejected you (anymore, at least), you were upset because he was a public asshole.Â
It takes more coaxing from him to get you to start talking. Itâs easier when he brings out the big guns: âDâyou want me to tell mom?â
You tell him a little, not naming any names, much to his dismay. âSome guy was an ass, something about me being too easy or whatever.âÂ
âYouâre upset because some drunk dude decided to run his mouth?â He scrunches his nose at the thought. âIgnore him, heâs stupid.â
âThanks for the help, Iâm cured,â you deadpan, pushing him aside to get to the gold inside the cabinets.Â
âI could get Mingyu to help me beat him up, I just need a name.â
Oh. You briefly wonder how he'd feel if he had to beat up his best friend.
More than his attempts to sound like a cool older brother, the image of Mingyu beating himself up brings you more amusement than anything else. You crack a smile at the thought.Â
That was months ago, yet you canât seem to forget the hurt. Trying to shake off where your thoughts were taking you, you get up to take a walk around the store for something to do, fixing microscopic displacements on the shelves and wondering if you should restock something, only to realize youâd already done that when you came in, not wanting to whip out the ladder again to restock the ones you'd just landed from. Â
Landing inevitably back behind the counter, you instinctively reach for the book wedged beside the computer. Your outstretched hand stops midway, thinking about how Mingyuâs reached as far as you in the story quite literally overnight. Retracting your hand, you decide youâd wait.Â
The bell chimes signaling a customer, and you find yourself grateful for the distraction.
Itâs nearing 8:30 when you decide you should close early. It was slower than usual today, the few walk-ins leaving without purchases too hefty, rendering you bored in your seat for most of the day. Youâre locking the drawers of the main desk when Mingyu walks in with the familiar tune of the bell chiming, soft smile as he greets you quietly.Â
âHow was your nap?â you ask, trying not to giggle at his still dazed expression.Â
âPretty good, didnât wanna wake up though.â His voice remains relatively coarse, and you donât miss the light indent on his left cheek. Itâs endearing, enough to have you wishing you could cup his face in a loving squish.Â
But you donât.Â
âYou donât say,â you comment. Pointing at your own cheek as you continue, âYou sure you donât wanna take the night off too?âÂ
âFuck,â he whispers as he looks down to fumble for his phone to see for himself in his front camera. The puffiness hasnât gone away entirely, evident when heâs frowning and looking downwards, and the urge to squeeze comes hurtling back.Â
âDid you drive like this?âÂ
âUh, no, I walked.â
âWalked?â You try to comprehend if that was even more dangerous. He only nods. âWhy?â
âWanted to see you.â
It takes effort to not clutch your chest at the way your heart leaps. Kim Mingyu, you bastard.Â
âHad to talk about the book.â
Your voice comes out a little more breathless than youâd like, but you hope his drowsiness skips over it. âYou couldâve texted.â
He pauses as he mulls it over. âI mean, yeahâŠI donât know. I just put my shoes on and came here.â
You decide youâd spare him the brain power and continue your remaining closing duties, talking to him as you move around the store.Â
âWe can take my car to my place, better than getting distracted here.â
He only nods in response. âDo you want any help?âÂ
âNope, just need to turn off the lights and lock the doors. Let me grab my bag.âÂ
By the time youâre home, an XL pizza and drinks in your arms to satiate Mingyuâs post nap ravenous tendencies, you drop down on the couch with a huff. Seokmin hears the ruckus and appears from his room, not wasting time to break on the pizza with Mingyu as you leave to freshen up. By the time you settle with your own slice it seems as though Mingyu has roused himself significantly more than before.Â
âOkay,â you huff as you land on the soft cushioning, âWhat did you think about the book?â
âHard to believe this is her first book, itâs really good.âÂ
âHer world building is amazing, some of the best Iâve read.â
Your back and forth discussion grows increasingly passionate, forgetting the fact that your brother was also right there excluded from the conversation. His head shifts back and forth as the both of you converse, utterly lost. It wouldâve been funny, except neither if you were actually looking at him.Â
He manages to get a word in as one of you pauses for breath. âSince when do you read?âÂ
Mingyu gapes at the question, seemingly trying to find an answer. âRecently.â
âWhy?âÂ
âWhat do you mean why? I just wanted to start reading,â he scoffs in a manner that could be described as exaggerated. If heâs trying to throw Seokmin off his scent, heâs succeeded, as he watches Seokmin get up and announce that he has work to do. That leaves the both of you alone.Â
The conversation takes you into the late hours of the night, Mingyuâs prior nap releasing him from the chains of reasonable sleeping hours as he remains wide awake despite the 3 AM time on the dial. You manage to keep up with him, even when he follows you to the kitchen to brew a coffee.Â
âDo you usually work this hard just to make coffee?â he asks as he watches you discard the used espresso puck.Â
âWe have a bottle of the instant stuff here somewhere for when Iâm lazy,â you explain as you pour the fresh shots into the prepped ice and milk. âDoesnât taste the same though.âÂ
âCoffee is coffee,â he says as he stirs the drink you push towards him.Â
âQuite the contrary. Besides, the instant stuff fucks with my stomach, Iâd rather not.â You take a sip of your coffee, glancing at the sink. âWill say, hate everything I have to wash afterwards.â
âIâll do âem later, gotta pay you back for all the manual labour that went into this thing,â he refers to the latte heâs sipping on currently.Â
âThe appreciation is enough. We can make Seok do them in the morning for being a loser and going to bed early,â you snort. Mingyu laughs at that, the image of Seokmin doing dishes while the both of you sleep in.Â
âYou sure you donât wanna call it a night?â he asks you as you place yourself on the kitchen counter.Â
âIâm having fun, Mingyu, seriously. Iâm off tomorrow too, I donât have to wake up,â you reassure for the nth time.Â
He doesnât reply, only stares up at you from his leaned position. Heâs chewing on his lip, and you find yourself unconsciously chewing at your own, the already raw skin stinging at the abrasion. Mingyuâs hands come up to your face slowly, like he knew it was hurting as he pulls your bottom lip to release it with his thumb.Â
âYouâre gonna bleed,â he whispers. His hand that grasps your chin doesnât move, rough thumb continuing to graze at your lip lightly.Â
âYou never stopped picking at your lips, did you?â he wonders out loud, eyes trained on your mouth.Â
Your own hand comes to lightly grip at his forearm. He remembers your habit, picking at the skin of your lips since near middle school, getting yelled at when you had to excuse yourself from the dinner table when they would bleed.Â
âOld habits die hard.â Your voice is thick despite the gulp you had to take before opening your mouth.Â
It was true, probably too much as you continue to look at his near perfect face. The oldest habit, the hardest to die.Â
Mingyu drops his hand, landing it in your lap, your own hand still gripping his forearm. You arenât sure whatâs going through you as you trail your hand up further, to his wrists, to the dip of his palm, landing on his fingers. You grip his hand, tight this time.Â
âIâm gonna jump,â you whisper, and you feel his grip tighten around yours as he braces to support you off the counter.Â
You face him in silence, contemplating, âItâs hot in here, letâs go back out.â
He watches as you pick your cup off the counter and leave, not waiting for him to follow you. He finds himself trying to take deeper breaths, stalling, but not for long as he joins you back on the couch.
It probably came as a shock to both of you the first time Mingyu announced his leave much earlier in the night, when you stopped him, asking him to stay. It was silent for a few sparing moments as you both absorbed what had come out of your mouth, trying to make sense of it. You found yourself needing to coax him a little more to convince him he wasnât overstaying his visit, that you were having fun. He sits back down, warning you that this was going to be a long night.Â
You donât think you could ever forget the absolute somersault your stomach performed, the after effects leaving you still as a plank.Â
It was a long night indeed. And yet, when you found your eyes closing after a fight, much later on the couch with a large blanket shared between the both of you, Mingyu watches you doze off while leaning on the couch facing him, wishing the night was longer.Â
If you were awake, you probably wouldâve found yourself agreeing.
Thereâs a lot Mingyu has to learn about himself. Heâs reminded of the fact nearly everyday. Especially right now as Seokmin runs his mouth sitting with him at a secluded booth in some bar.Â
They had company, a couple guys joining them for dinner before leaving not too long after. That left him and a slightly tipsy Seokmin alone, whoâs currently munching on a platter of crackers in front of him. He was bright enough, the energy from the others keeping him going as they played their drinking games and ate their obnoxious amounts of food. It was alot more somber with only the both of them left, his mood deflating as their friends slowly dwindled in number. That wasnât about to stop him from ordering another beer though.Â
âSummerâs so boring,â he grumbles in dejection, flicking a stray crumb off the table.Â
âYou chose to stay here,â Mingyu replies.Â
Seokmin doesnât answer him, but continues to look like a kicked puppy, a slight pout forming on his face.Â
Mingyu fights the urge to scoff, âYou canât possibly be this upset about summer being depressing.âÂ
âItâs not about that.âÂ
Mingyu takes a swig of his own drink before sighing loudly, âWhatâs this about then?â
Seokmin says your name, and Mingyu is suddenly very interested. âShe just seems to be doing a lot better since she started working at the bookstore.â
âBetter?â
 âShe told me about this guy a couple months ago.â
Mingyuâs trying really hard to not look visibly deflated, not that Seokmin would notice considering his state, but he attempts to sound nonchalant regardless. âDo we know him?â
âI â no, thatâs not,â he huffs in exasperation, âShe said she overheard him, basically calling her easy.â
âEasy?â
âI donât know, something about her chasing his tail or whatever, she wonât tell me who it is. She hadnât been doing too great recently and Iâm pretty sure it was because of him.âÂ
It is dawning on Mingyu, embarrassingly slowly, that the guy Seokmin is talking about â may be him.Â
His voice is hoarse, a little frantic. âAnd sheâs doing better, you said?â
âOh yeah, the bookstoreâs been amazing for her. Not sure how though, âcause she just sits there doing nothing for hours.â
He canât bring himself to meet Seokminâs eyes, remnants of his memories flurrying around in his brain in an attempt to figure out what other bullshit he had spewed that day. He was sure you werenât there, you couldnât be.
âMaybe doing nothing was what she needed.â Mingyuâs reply is whatever came to him off the top of his head, mind still racing.Â
âHm, I guess. I was trying to get her to tell me, we couldâve chopped his dick off together,â Seokmin grumbles.
Mingyu winces slightly, eyes tight shut as he pinches the bridge of his nose. Thereâs a protective hand that subconsciously reaches his crotch area. âYeah, yeah totally.âÂ
âFucker got let off easy, he should be happy sheâs doing good.â Seokmin continues to ramble, voice getting increasingly louder.Â
âYeahâŠâ
âSheâs not easy. My sister isnât easy at all! Running after his tail, my ass! She doesnât need some motherfucker with bad hair to be running his mouth, drunk as a bitch.â He stabs a single chopstick into the spare piece of meat on his plate, and the force has Mingyu flinching slightly.Â
âHow do you know he has bad hair?â Mingyu continues to stare at the impaled piece of beef that Seokmin brings to his mouth.Â
âI donât need to know a motherfucker to know he uses shitty hair gel.âÂ
Mingyu may try to run his hair gel past Seokmin at some point. But right now, heâs only trying to make it out of the bar with his sex organs intact.
âHey, weâre past this, remember? Sheâs doing great right now and thatâs all that matters.â Mingyu sounds overly flustered, but he canât bring himself to care as he attempts to reign in an angry Seokmin. They were garnering looks, and the last thing he wanted was to get kicked out before they had paid.Â
Seokmin is still huffing and puffing, but significantly less so as he finds reason in Mingyuâs words. âIâm gonna find out who he is.â
âYou hate living in peace.â
âMy sisterâs hasnât had any peace because of this dickwad, IâmââÂ
âOKAY! Okay, got it. Weâll figure that out when youâre sober.â Mingyu rises from his own seat as he finds Seokmin lifting his own butt off his chair in a near war cry.Â
He manages to fend him off, waving for the bill before he has to pull him back from aimlessly marching to whoeverâs house he had in mind. He calms down as they wait for the check, finishing the remaining scraps on the table in silence.Â
Seokmin seems nearly back to his regular self after a few minutes, forehead creases smoothing over during his cool down time. He speaks, except this time itâs in a more socially acceptable manner.
âHey, Iâve been noticing, you and her have been getting pretty close lately. I donât know, itâs just, I woke up and saw both on the couch and ââÂ
âHereâs your bill!â The waiter cuts him mid sentence, placing the check on the table.Â
Mingyu knew what Seokmin was getting to, and he was thanking every star in the galaxy for bringing the waiter into their lives at that exact moment. Heâs quick to fuss over the glossy piece of paper, humming and making comments at their purchases to fill in any silent opportunities to let Seokmin continue. Mingyuâs slips his card in the wallet.
âItâs on me,â he announces as he flashes a quick smile to the waiter. âYou can cut a ten for yourself.âÂ
âWait, what â letâs split, whatâs wrong with you?â Seokmin jolts up as registers whatâs happening a little too late.Â
âItâs fine, you can pay for the next one.â He says as he shifts around the table to look for his phone. âYou should probably go to bed too, itâs getting pretty late. Sleep off the beer and whatnot.âÂ
Seokmin is left speechless as Mingyu gets up, grabbing his stuff.Â
âWait, your cardââ Seokmin starts.Â
âIs here,â Mingyu spews a quick âthanksâ to the waiter, waving his card in front of Seokmin so heâd finally stand the fuck up.
âDo I need to drag you out of that chair, letâs go!â he says, grabbing Seok by the arm to lift him off his seat. It was nearly funny how he couldnât get him to stay within the vicinity mere minutes ago and now is begging for him to get up.Â
By the time Mingyuâs jamming Seokâs key into your apartment, heâs tired of his endless rambling. He can only appreciate his drunk brain for not bringing up the last question he tried asking him. Heâs opening the door, urging Seokmin to walk inside, slapping him awake from his nap against the wall.
Mingyu deems it best to physically put him in bed for the furnituresâ sake, pushing him in front to lead him to his room. Mingyuâs spent by the time heâs done and Seokmin is snoring, his back cracking from the hunched position heâs kept from tucking him in and taking his shoes and jacket off.Â
He tiptoes out (despite knowing itâd take a marching band to wake him up at that point), closing the door as quietly as possible.Â
âWhatâre you doing here?âÂ
Mingyu nearly jumps out of his skin, landing a mile as he hears your voice in the dark hallway, hand coming up to his heart. âJeezâ announce yourself, would you?âÂ
âIn my own house?â you raise an eyebrow.Â
âJustââ he waves you off as he comes round, standing straight. âI was putting Seok to bed.â
You inhale sharply. âDid you drink?â
âMe? No, but heâs knocked out right now, heâs probably gonna need a pill in the morning,â he replies.Â
âHm, Iâll see to it in the morning, or whenever it is that he wakes up.âÂ
âYeah.â Mingyu is standing awkwardly in front of you in the dark hall, not having anything else to say. âIâll get going now.â
âOh, right, yeah. Get some sleep,â you say as you let him move past you.Â
âYou too, donât know why youâre awake,â he chuckles quietly.Â
âCouldnât sleep, Iâll go to bed now though.â
The awkwardness is painful, Mingyu can feel it in his chest. But what heâs feeling more is the way you look in your night shirt now that youâre in the light of the living room, legs shown farther up than youâd usually let them go. He wonders if you're wearing shorts underneath, but slaps himself out of it when he realises heâs been silent for too long.Â
âUh yeah, Iâll go now. Goodnight.â
âGoodnight, Mingyu.â
Mingyu replays the last five minutes in his head the entire car ride home, when heâs changing out of his clothes, when heâs brushing his teeth, when he crawls under the warm covers to finally call it a night. Mingyu thinks about what he said all those months ago at a dumb party, how heâs hurt you more than he thought he had. Thereâs an ache that plunges into him, the thought of you going through that because of him while he stayed blissfully unaware.Â
He doesnât know what heâs gonna do to make it up to you, but right now, heâs happy. Happier than heâs been in a while, falling asleep to the thought of you.Â
âGoodnight, Mingyu.â
You, on the other hand, are far from happy as you find yourself in yet another car related predicament.Â
Having to run to work in the middle of July is never a preferred option, yet you find yourself needing to do it anyway when you walk out to your engine refusing to start.Â
You really needed a new car.Â
Abandoning the hunk of what was turning out to be just expensive scrap metal, you rile other options out in your head.Â
Seokmin was long gone with his car. The bus was gonna take too long. No way in hell were you about to overpay a taxi to take you somewhere that was essentially just a 15 minute walk (read as run).Â
So you find yourself slinging your bag as a crossbody, thanking the heavens that you at least didnât need to change your shoes. You pray for your white sneakers as you run across town, blurting apologies to passerbys that would gape at your hurried form. As apologetic as you were, it didnât compare to how sorry you felt for yourself, the heat pricking your skin in an agitated rise anytime youâd slow down.Â
The AC is near heavenly as you gasp walking into the bookstore, red faced and hair sticking to your forehead.Â
âSorry,â you gulp frantically. âSorry, Iâm late.â
âOh god,â you hear your boss comment as she sees you walk in. âAre you alright?â
âYeah, I just need a minute. Car broke down.â
She ushers you in front of the AC, waiting for you to collect yourself before taking her leave.Â
âI think Iâm okay now, sorry about that.â Your chuckle comes out a little choked. So much for being convincing.Â
âYou really should get a new car. I have a friend whoâs daughter is selling hers, do you want me to ask them for you?â Sheâs patting your shoulder as she talks to you, and you recognize her courage to look past the sweat thatâs accumulated there. Â
âThatâd be great actually, thank you.âÂ
Your second blow of the day comes right after youâve finally gotten rid of the buckets of sweat on your body, seating yourself behind your desk to do some digging of your own.
You immediately wish you hadnât as soon as you open the first second hand market site, the price tags landing you somewhere between never happening and impossible. Groaning, you place your head in your hands as you try to think of what to do. You pray your boss would come back with a quote that isnât as outrageous as everything else youâve cursed your eyes upon, seeing as that seemed the only viable option for you.Â
Closing the windows off your computer, you decide this was a headache for another time. You reach for your bag to rummage through it, only to find yourself in your third predicament of the day.Â
You had forgotten your book.Â
It shouldnât have been a worry, considering you were in a bookstore and had access to about 56 more of the same edition that you could borrow for the day. Except it was a worry, because your copy had been religiously tabbed and annotated as you would read, not a single thought left to be forgotten in your head as they would spring up. You can almost see the pink cover sitting on your desk and you nearly begin to cry.Â
You wonder if you could break your âone book at a timeâ streak for the sake of it, picking up another one off the shelf to start. The thought nearly makes you gag, the anxiety of losing interest in your current one leading you to sit aimlessly at your desk for the rest of the day.Â
Whatâs even more anxiety inducing to you, however, was the promise youâd made with Mingyu the week prior, to be finished with the book by the end of today so you could finally decide whether the end was worth it or not. The thought has you nearly picking up a copy off the shelf anyway, annotations be damned. Force of habit, however, forbids you as you are shunned by yourself to play solitaire for the rest of the day.Â
Things seem to look up for you though, as you find yourself reading a text from Mingyu nearly halfway through your day.Â
You hadnât spoken to Mingyu at all for the entire week, caving when you found an excuse to finally talk to him to ask where heâd left off on the book. It was even longer before that, reaching the near three week mark where you were virtually zero contact. Â
Youâd be lying if you said it didnât bother you, his sudden absence raising a mild panic within you as your mind raced with the possibilities.Â
Was he uncomfortable with you?Â
Was he avoiding you?Â
Were you less low key than you thought? Was he catching on to how you still werenât over him?Â
The wilder thoughts seemed to be laid to rest when you couldnât take it anymore, texting under the guise of your mutual book topic. Your brain still couldnât handle it, picking up minuscule details in his texting behavior. Perhaps his replies were choppy, perhaps they were shorter than usual, but it was enough to give your mind the rest it needed regardless of whatever the facts were.Â
Needless to say, you were more than happy to receive a text from him first after weeks, immediately replying.Â
[Mingyu]: hey [Mingyu]: are you at work today? [You]: yeah [You]: i get off at 10 tho [Mingyu]: can i see you today?Â
You try to contain the growing flurry of excitement as you type. It was easier to stay casual over text, you find yourself appreciating.Â
[You]: course [You]: are you coming to the store? [Mingyu]: iâll meet you at your place when you get off [You]: okay!!! [You]: see you thenÂ
Thereâs a ghost of a smile on your face as you switch to playing computer chess in celebration. Your day was going horribly, but perhaps it was to balance out the happiness you were feeling at the thought of seeing Mingyu in person after nearly a month.Â
Were you being dramatic? Possibly. But you figured youâd been left waiting long enough. You let yourself have a spring in your step for the rest of the day, closing up nearly an hour early as you practically skipped back home, enjoying the significantly better nightly weather. Maybe you were abusing your employee privileges, but you couldnât take the anticipation anymore.Â
Humming to yourself, you're hopping into the shower as soon as you get home, wanting to freshen up as quickly as possible before he gets here. It was near heavenâs plan the way the day is unfolding for you. Perhaps the universe knew you needed the time to unwind today, bringing Mingyu to you despite the near four week gap.Â
Grabbing your pens and your book, you settle on the kitchen counter to do something youâd been looking forward to all day, nearly giddy that Mingyu would be joining you to wind down with you soon enough. Youâre invested by the time the doorbell rings, a simultaneous text from Mingyu, confirming that he was at the door.Â
Opening the front door is probably the easiest thing youâve done all day, grin at the ready as you greet him.Â
âHey,â you breathe out at the sight of him.Â
âHi,â he replies, slipping inside as you give him space to take off his shoes.Â
Leading him into the kitchen, you comment lightheartedly, âNice to see youâre still alive.âÂ
He chuckles slightly at that, âYeahâŠsorry about that. Iâve been pretty caught up withâŠstuff.â
âThe exhibition? Werenât you nearly done with that?â you question as you pass him a glass of water.Â
He takes a sip before setting it down again, both hands holding the cup on the counter. âIt wasnât that, Iâve been done for a while. Just waiting.âÂ
âItâs next week, isnât it?âÂ
He hums in response, taking another minuscule sip of water. Â
âWhat was it that was keeping you this occupied for so long then?â you continue with a slight snort, trying not to over analyze his slightlyâŠoff putting behavior.Â
âUh,â he starts, âIs Seokmin home?âÂ
âSeokmin?â you frown, confused. Was he here to see your brother? âHeâs out. I thought you knew.â
âYeah, I know. Just confirming.âÂ
âOh.â You sit down on your own chair at the counter, trying to make sense of his mood.Â
âMingyu, are you okayââ
âI need to talk to you.âÂ
âO-okay.âÂ
Itâs silent. Painfully so.Â
âI donât know how else to bring this up so Iâm just gonna cut to the chase.âÂ
Thereâs no reply from your end as you simply stare at him in anticipation, wondering what on earth had him looking this serious as he faces you in his seat.Â
âI know Iâve done a lot to hurt you. Never enough to match what youâve felt, but I know youâve been through the muck because of me, and it makes me feel horrible that I was the cause of something like that.âÂ
âMingyuââ
âI want to apologize, before I say anything else. Iâm sorry. Iâm so fucking sorry. And I know an apology isnât gonna take away what I did to you, but I just need you to know that Iâm really, really sorry.â
His breathing is heavy as he talks, while yours is near nonexistent as you need to remind yourself to breathe manually.Â
âIâve done a lot of growing up in the past year. And I hate myself for making you a subject of that transition when you were the last person that deserved it. Iâm happy to say that wonât happen again, because Iâve learned my lesson. For good.â
He pauses.Â
âIâm not asking you to forgive me, because⊠because I donât know if Iâll ever deserve it for what Iâm about to say. I may be acting selfish right now but, I think you deserve to know after everything.â
âI love you. I love you so, so much it hurts. IâŠIâm sorry, I love you. I donât know how else to say it but, I love you. And I might be hurting you even more with this but I swear Iâm not lying. I love you.â
Thereâs tears now, heavy ones that drip down his face as he refuses to look back up at you, eyes screwed shut in a desperate attempt to halt the pure emotion thatâs trailing down.Â
You have your own wet cheeks, glossy, shaking eyes that donât tear away from his hunched form. Youâre listening. Youâre listening to everything and itâs too much.Â
âMingyu,â you whisper. You give up on trying to talk as you let out a breath that sounds almost like a sob.Â
Itâs silent for a few more moments as you absorb everything thatâs happening, mind running a hundred miles an hour yet, still as a rock. Itâs too much.Â
âMingyu, I canât believe youâre saying this to me.â Your voice is quivering, but you manage the words. âAfter everything. Youâre standing in this very kitchen and saying this to me.â
The deja vu was overwhelming, and youâre projected back to last year when the both of you stood on these very tiles, as you poured your heart out to the man in front of you, only to be told you were an idiot to think he could ever love you like that. The words may not have been said, but the message was clear: you were not made for Kim Mingyu.Â
And yet, you find yourself in front of an apologetic man, expressing his remorse. And oozing love for you, of all people. Why now? You want to scream. Where was this when you were ready to take him so willingly in your arms.Â
Youâre lying if you say you still donât want to plant yourself in his hold to sob out your own wretched âI love youââs. You wanted to go to him. To take what youâve wanted for so, so long.Â
But you canât. You canât do it.Â
âI know,â he whispers. âIâm not asking you to do something about any of this. Iâm not asking anything of you at all. I just need you to know.â
You bite back a remark, trying so hard to calm yourself down.Â
âI think you should go.â Your voice breaks. âPlease.â
Mingyu is gone. But his scent lingers. His cup remains on the counter, the same one he put his lips to. As he prepared to speak, and speak, and speak.Â
You canât stand to stay in the kitchen anymore.Â
You were fourteen the first time Mingyu broke your heart.Â
It was an accident, perhaps, considering you were willing to do absolutely anything to be around Mingyu when your brother would have him over. What you didnât know this time, was that the both of them had company.Â
Tiptoeing down the hall was easy the second you heard your brother's voice coming from the kitchen, announcing that he was getting drinks for them. The plan was simple; walk in under the guise of being annoyed at Seokmin for something and then relish when Mingyu would defend you from his inevitable rage â except this time youâd have a few extra minutes alone with him before your brother trudged back. Â
Putting on the best annoyed face you could, you stalk past Seokminâs room, immediately wishing you hadnât. Mingyu was in your brother's room as expected, sitting on the floor, surrounded by papers with numbers and letters too complex. But he wasnât alone. There was a girl that sat between his legs, turned over in his arms as they whisper to each other. They werenât studying at all; the giggles and smiles were a dead giveaway.Â
You halt in your tracks at the edge of the doorway in mild disbelief, brain computing the situation in front of you. They hadnât noticed you yet, it was apparent with the way she leans into him to place her lips on his in a peck.Â
Thereâs a yell of your name behind you as Seokmin sees you loitering around his room. You jump in surprise, not expecting him back so quickly. Your brother, too, isnât alone, a girl of his own accompanying him with her arms full of cans, peeking over his shoulder to catch sight of your distressed form.Â
âWhatâre you doing?â
Running was the worst thing you could do, and yet you found yourself doing just that in your cornered state. Catapulting face first into your pillows, the sobs coming before you could muffle them. It was humiliating, even more so when you feel your motherâs hand coming up to your shoulder in a stretch of comfort.Â
âI yelled at him, he wonât do it again!â she attempted to reason with you, trying endlessly to get you to emerge from your cavern of comforters.Â
âItâs not that!â you groan.
âWhat is it then? Darling, I wonât know if you wonât tell me.âÂ
Your mother gave up a little bit after that, and your brother had apologized for yelling at you; apologized for all the wrong reasons. You brushed him over.
There were worse things circling your mind in that moment, like the image of Mingyu in a liplock with another girl, the image of him holding her with all his limbs.Â
You couldnât imagine anything worse than that.
âWhat the fuck, is wrong with the both of you?â Your brother swoops in like a pesky seagull and snatches the book right out of your hands, eyes blown in exasperation.Â
âWhat the fuck is wrong with you?! Give it back!â you yell, reaching for the book that heâs placed over his head. Climbing the couch does little when he simply moves away from you.Â
âNot until you tell me whatâs going on between you and Mingyu.âÂ
âNothing is â ugh,â you drop back onto the couch in frustration. You take a deep breath. âNothing is going on. Now can I have my fucking book back?âÂ
âNo, you're avoiding each other.â
âHeâs your friend, why would I hang out with him?âÂ
âStop dodging the question!â he spits.Â
âStop dodging.â You exclaim as you jump for the book another time.Â
âWhy donât you want to go to the exhibition?â He throws the book to the corner of the room. It takes every fiber in your body to stop yourself from plucking every strand of hair off his head.Â
âSeokmin!â you scream.Â
âYour bookâs fine. Is this about the guy you told me about?â He asks, hands grabbing you by the upper arms, forcing you to look at him.Â
âNo, itâs not,â you grit.Â
âWhy donât you want to go to the exhibition?â he repeats, making direct eye contact.Â
âBecause,â you start, exhaling deeply, âIâm tired.â
âItâs an exhibition for fucks sake, an exhibition with your face plastered all over it. You go in for five minutes and youâre out. Put something on and letâs go!âÂ
âI donât want to go.â
âIâm not taking no for an answer. Youâve been doing nothing but go to work and stay home, you need air.â
âI need you out of my air,â you swat his hands away, thoroughly disgruntled.Â
âIâm giving you twenty minutes.âÂ
He was serious, you realize as he begins to pound on your door with two minutes left to spare. You decided you werenât about to be embarrassing and show up in your sweatpants, encasing the final shreds of dignity you had left. You couldnât imagine being asked âwho?â when the face on the walls doesnât match with the one you brought to the place, not doubting the number of fancy scouters thatâd be gracing the crowd tonight.
 Opting for a plain black dress and a coverup felt enough for you, your usual makeup and matching accessories helping you feel better about the bags under your eyes your concealer couldnât quite erase.Â
Seokmin says nothing for probable fear of having you landing back on the couch, choosing to ask you a simple, âReady?â instead.
The drive is short and silent, the remnants of you and your brother's prior argument still hanging in the air. You werenât about to apologize to each other, but you would let the hours cool you off before youâre back to your normal selves. For now, youâre glad to step out of the stuffy car, the anticipation having you needing to breathe in an elevated sense.Â
The place is more crowded than you thought it would be, men and women in fancier than necessary clothes loitering the entrance carpeting. You suddenly feel underdressed.Â
Catching Mingyuâs name is easy, the display at the front doing the most to highlight the star of the night, catching sight of him is proving a little more difficult. Not that youâre trying, but Seokminâs embarrassing neck stretches are having you restraining yourself from pulling him down by the collar.Â
Walking into the display is a strange experience, for you at least. The pictures are larger than youâd thought they would be, spanning the giant walls of the gallery. Your face is huge.Â
Thereâs a few other oneâs that scatter between the portraits, beautiful all the same. You find yourself wandering as you note the plaques next to the pieces, descriptions and words from the artist; Mingyuâs words. Itâs easy to begin looking at the pictures through his eyes, the meticulous scanning youâre doing proving easier for you to zone out despite the crowd.Â
Youâve gone through nearly every picture, approaching the last one, the one that looked a little more important than the rest as you take in its size. The steps you take towards the plaque are halted as you hear someone calling for you. You recognize his voice, how could you not?
Mingyu is weaving through the crowd to get to you, eyes locked as he tries to make way for himself. Your mouth is open by the time heâs here, mind frantic as you try to figure out what you should say.Â
Congratulations.
Youâve worked hard on this.Â
This looks great.
Howâve you been?
âYouâre here,â he says, simple as that.Â
âIâm here,â you breathe out, a nervous smile on your face as you look down at your shoes.Â
âSeok told me you were here too.âÂ
Your head snaps up, âYou were looking for me?âÂ
âI mean, itâs a bit difficult with the crowdââ
âOh,â you cut him off before you could forget. âCongratulations, by the way. The turnout looks great.â
âUh, yeah. Itâs great.â His eyes skim around the large hall.
You hate how his craning is drawing your eyes to everything else. So to say the plain black button up and slacks heâs sporting, the thin chain he wears around the unbuttoned collar. You hate how heâs put in no effort, and you hate how it makes him look even better somehow.Â
âAre you enjoying yourself?â he asks after he rounds back to you.Â
Your reply is drowned in your throat as somebody calls for him across the hall, pointing at a mic in their hands.Â
âI have to go address everyone, youâll be here, right?â he asks, but he once again has no chance to listen to your answer when somebody physically drags him by the elbow and yanks him away from you. You lose sight of him in the crowd of people, his face disappearing.
It gives you enough opportunity to slowly turn around to go back to your plaque reading, exhaling loudly as you walk up to the final, biggest piece on the wall. Itâs labeled as the focal point of the collection. Itâs a picture of you, and for some reason, you canât remember taking it, or posing for it at all.Â
You recognize the mountain top, more so the grueling trek up the place for your last shoot with him. Itâs a side profile, your arms folding over the railing, face tucked into your padded arms. A single ray of light illuminates your eyes, the background soft.Â
The picture was an accident. A moment that may have gone forgotten, yet one that appeared right when it was meant to. A mistake made on purpose, one that manages to carry the weight of years. A slow accession of golden rays, dawn illuminating the subject in hues indescribable, except those that describe a feeling. A feeling in turn, indescribable.
Soft. Legible. New.
You take a step back.Â
And another
Then another.Â
You look at the picture, the picture of you. Taken the one time you werenât actively posing for the camera, the one time he wasnât meant to take a picture of you. It landed here, at the seemingly deserved position of a final piece. The piece that was meant to emulate all that the artist wanted to come out of his work.Â
You crane your neck up higher, the name of the collection in bold block letters right above the picture that supposedly says it all.Â
THE BEGINNING
Thereâs a ball forming in your throat, one that's cementing itself where it stays.Â
Thereâs noise happening in your peripherals, somebody speaking into a mic on stage. Youâre not paying attention until you hear his name.Â
âIâm pleased to present to you the man of the hour, mister Kim MingyuâŠâÂ
You watch with glossy eyes as he takes the stand, clearing his throat before he begins to speak.Â
You needed to leave.Â
Finding Seokmin is easy, and you thank every plane of heaven that it is, considering youâd rather be caught dead than be seen red nosed and teary eyed.Â
âLetâs go home.â
âHuh? Right now? He just started talking.â Seokmin argues, tearing his eyes away from the stage to gape at you, only to note the expression on your face. âHey, whatâs wrong?âÂ
âSeokmin, you said five minutes.â You grip his sleeve tight. âPlease, either give me the keys, or Iâll get a cab.âÂ
He pauses for a moment, and you immediately hate yourself for making him choose between staying for his best friend or leaving for his sister. He slowly comes down to grip your hand, pulling you away.Â
âLet me drop you off home.âÂ
Youâve calmed down a significant amount during the car ride home, managing to convince (fight) Seokmin into going back to the exhibition hall before Mingyu noticed that he was gone. You wouldnât forgive yourself if you made him miss something as important as this just because you couldnât control your emotions.
He hugs you at the door, tight, and you hug back just as strong, holding back the river of tears that suddenly threaten to let loose. He presses his lips to your temple, muttering a little âI love youâ before he leaves. He knew nothing, yet was ready to comfort you like he did.
You let yourself sob after that, as wracking and strong as theyâd come. Itâs freeing, to fall to your knees and simply cry like a child. You arenât sure what it is that youâre crying about, yet you know all the same. The thought of both those things make your head begin to spin, causing another fresh wave of tears to come rushing down.Â
Remnants of the day Mingyu spoke his truth to you in your own kitchen come tumbling back; the shock, the anger, the hurt, and despite everything, the love.
You loved Mingyu, you werenât going to sit here and deny it when you were a mess of jewels on the floor with only his face at the forefront of your mind. Youâre a liar if you say you donât love him. Youâre a liar if you say youâll ever stop.Â
Years and years of pining and wishing and praying, to hope that one day, Mingyu would open his eyes with the realization that he loves you the same.Â
The day came. Your prayers were granted, your wishes came true; you no longer had to sit on the sidelines as an ignored constant. And yet, you found yourself wanting to be anywhere but in his presence as the prayer unfolded.Â
Were you too weak to handle reciprocation? Have you gotten comfortable pining by yourself? Or was it something completely else. Were you still hurt by his words? Were you aghast at his audacity to have the courage to speak his heart to you, when you went years without doing so?Â
Were you protecting yourself? Or were you actively throwing the golden chance youâd received right out the window?Â
Youâre tired, itâs evident with the effort it takes you to simply reach your bedroom, heels thrown somewhere in the doorway as you made the trek barefooted. Hoping your muscles would release the pent up tension at the learnt feeling of the mattress, you find yourself closing your eyes awaiting the relief.Â
Still clad in your dress and makeup, you attempt to find the solace of sleep, knowing youâd feel nothing if there was nothing to perceive. The universe doesnât seem to want to give you that luxury, your eyes wide awake despite closed lids. The thoughts arenât showing signs of slowing down either, every part of your mind alive as you remain still as a rock on your bed.Â
You arenât sure how long youâve been in bed, but as you hear the distinct jingle of keys in a lock, you know Seokmin is home. The door of your room is opened very quietly, and closed just as quick when he sees your form in bed seemingly asleep.Â
You open your eyes for the first time in hours, the darkness remaining as you slowly sit up against the cushions. Your movements are sluggish as you stare into the abyss, brain quiet for once as you swing your bare legs over the mattress, slowly trudging down the hall to your brother's bedroom.Â
Knocking slowly, you hear a slight shuffle before the door is opened, the light from inside the room illuminating the dark hall and forcing you to squint.Â
âDid I wake you?â Seokmin asks, sporting formal trousers with his dinosaur pajama shirt.
âUh, no, I was awake.â
âWhy havenât you changed yet?âÂ
You ignore him, cutting straight to the chase, âCan I borrow your car?âÂ
Thereâs silence for nearly three seconds before Seokmin speaks, âWhat on earth do you need my car for this late at night?âÂ
âNayeonâsâÂ
âBullshit.â
You let out a loud, loud sigh, âWill you believe it for now?âÂ
Your brother looks at you with an expression you canât really pinpoint, eyes like heâs scanning into your soul. âThe keys are at the door.â
You walk back to your room to grab your phone and your cover up, not bothering to change as you grab Seokminâs keys and leave. It probably wasnât a good idea to leave the house so late at night, but your brain seems to have activated tunnel vision as you nearly stalk towards the car. Youâre pulling up to where you need to be within minutes, the empty roads leading you on near autopilot.Â
By the time youâre standing in front of the door, your desire to settle this once and for all turns pungent in your head. You needed to end this one way or another, you were tired of running in circles.Â
Ringing the doorbell is easy, itâs just the realization that settles during those few moments of waiting that grab you by the throat. You were really doing this.Â
Mingyu opens the door quicker than youâd anticipated, after briefly wondering if heâd already gone to sleep after the long day heâs probably had. His brows furrow as he registers you at his door, your name tumbling out of his lips in mild confusion. Heâs still in the clothes you saw him last, and you doubt itâs been long since he got home too.Â
âPromise me you mean it,â you say.Â
âWhat?â
âPromise me you mean it.â
âMean what?â The crease between his brows deepens as he tries to make sense of what youâre saying.Â
âWhatever you said. Promise me you mean it. Promise me. On all the years we spent together, on every truth you've ever said to me. Promise on me that you mean it.â
The silence is deafening, yet you wait. You wait for him to respond. You wait for him to understand what youâre saying.Â
Mingyu gulps before opening his door wider, expression neutralizing slightly as he invites you inside. âWhy're you standing on the door? Come inside.â
âIâm not taking another step in your direction, Kim Mingyu, not until you answer me,â you snap.Â
Letting his hand leave the grip on the door, he brings them both up to rub at his face, taking a simultaneous breath, deep and shaky. When he emerges his eyes are showing a hint of red as he licks his lips.Â
Your grip on your own fingers tighten as Mingyu talks.Â
âI want to rip my heart out for what it wants from you. I want to rip it out for what it did to yours. Believe me when I say Iâve forgotten how it felt to be this sincere. I love you. I don't deserve to say it, but I love you.â
Thereâs a beat that passes, one that you barely feel as you throw your bag on the floor of his entryway, grabbing him by the collar with both hands as you yank his face down to hover right in front of yours, nose touching, lips not quite.Â
âIf youâre lying to me,â you whisper, shaky voiced, âIâm gonna chop your balls off.â
Mingyu answers for you as he finally, finally closes the cursed gap between you, lips capturing yours in a long awaited kiss. You let him pull you inside as you move your lips against each other, the distinct click of the door signaling you were finally inside.Â
His hands grip your hips and waist in a manner thatâs near painful, yet you canât find yourself complaining even as he pushes you against the now closed door, hard. His mouth leaves yours for what is barely a second, before your desperate hands move his face back in to continue what youâve been wanting to do for years.Â
His mouth is warm, the vaguest hint of champagne on his tongue. You wonder how many toasts heâs clinked and downed, how many times he thought of you as he celebrated.Â
âI love you,â you mumble against his lips.Â
Mingyuâs hands are pushing your body against his own, so flush and tight you can barely breathe. Like heâd rather die than bring space between the two of you in that moment.Â
âI love you, too,â he mumbled back between kisses. âI love you so much.â
Both of your hands are beginning to roam, less innocent than the fingers tangled in his hair and digging into his shoulders, less innocent than the grips on your hips and neck. It isnât until his hands are groping your ass that you begin to subconsciously tug at his shirt, wanting the wretched thing out of the way to finally feel him in full.Â
Thereâs a warm hand that grips yours as he stops you, lips pulling away slightly as he rests his forehead against yours. Thereâs a wild moment of sobriety as you wonder if youâve read the situation wrong, if you pushed too far.Â
âYouâre asking me for something Iâm ready to give you.â He sounds breathless. âBut I need to know if you really want it.â
He looks absolutely gorgeous with his swollen lips, your lipstick staining his own mouth, his messy hair from all the desperate fingers running through them. It takes one look into his bedroom eyes to have your yeses tumbling out your mouth.Â
âI want it. I want it if youâll give it to me. Mingyu, please.â
He leans in to give you a soft peck before pulling away slowly. âYou can stop me whenever, just say the word.â
Heâs facing you as he speaks, hands pulling you further into the house in slow and steady steps. âIâm not gonna do anything you donât want me to, I promise.â
By the time you reach the four walls of his bedroom, youâre itching to have his hands on you again, something he senses as he presses his hot mouth to your awaiting lips. His touches become decreasingly respectful as his hands run up your sides, thumbs brushing against the sides of your clothed breasts as he moves his mouth further down.Â
Kisses line your jaw, reaching the joint as he nips at your earlobe teasingly. Pushing the coverup off of your shoulders is easy, fingers tracing the exposed skin as his mouth moves down to your neck, nipping and sucking teasingly. Your breathing is embarrassingly heavy.Â
âYouâre gorgeous,â you hear him breathe out.Â
His fingers fit under the zipper of your dress not too long after, pulling it down to reveal your back tantalizingly slow. His hands smooth over your waist once he reaches the bottom, bringing them up to your upper body as you feel his palms grab your breasts in a soft squeeze. The moan you let out is small, but enough to encourage him to bring his hands to the straps of your dress, pulling them down your shoulders one after the other.Â
âDo you realize how good you looked in this today,â he says. âWas so happy you came, so, so happy to see you after so long.â
Mingyu kisses you again in a slow, passionate manner, hands pushing down the tight fabric of the bodice to let it fall off your body to a pile on the floor. It leaves you bare save for your bra and panties.Â
Mingyu lets out a groan at the sight in the dimly lit room, the sound checking in as one of the hottest things youâve ever heard, the vibrations leading straight to your core like they belonged there. The focus goes back to his hands that continue to roam your body, mouth traveling further south to leave hot, open mouthed kisses on your cleavage.Â
Your own fingers come up to fiddle with the buttons of his dress shirt, managing to pull a couple loose as you whine, âMingyu.â
âPatience, my love.â He moves you backwards slowly as his mouth leaves your chest, pushing you into the plush of his mattress as you feel the back of your knees bump into the edge. âLet me take my time with you.â
He brings a knee up to the bed as he keeps his gaze on you, beginning to unbutton the rest of his shirt as you prop yourself up on your elbows. For once, youâre allowed to stare at the sculpt of his chest and abdomen, letting your gaze take you to the dipped V before the cut off. The mere sight of his fingers working against his belt have you needing to close your thighs for the sake of your now throbbing core.Â
Only clad in his dark boxers, you let him climb over you in a way you can only describe as a prowl, inserting himself between your legs as he pushes your head up to the headboard. The hand that splays out on your thigh is having the muscle twitch, the anticipation for what he might do next gripping you.Â
âLet me get this off of you,â he says with his hands toying with the elastic of your bra, prompting you to arch your back so he could reach under to unclasp it in a way you can only call professional.Â
Thereâs barely any time for you to feel a semblance of embarrassment when he flings the padding away, mouth coming in direct contact with your breast in a harsh suck. The feeling has you moaning his name into the dark room, only encouraging his wet tongue to circle around the bud before going back to suckling. He doesnât forget your other breast as he brings his hand up to squeeze the mound and play with your nipples the same.Â
The sensations are overwhelming already, your hands gripping his hair in desperation as you throw your head back at his ministrations. The ache in your underwear is becoming increasingly difficult to resist, the foreign feeling of his mound against your inner thigh only coursing more want into your awaiting heat.Â
Your chest is a mess of redness and saliva but the time Mingyuâs had his fill, pulling away to admire the work heâs left.Â
âFuck, Mingyu, please,â his name is the only thing that comes out in your pleas, hoping heâd give you wanted before you lost your mind for good.Â
âI love this lighting on you,â he says simply, moving to sit on his knees as he takes his eyes up and down your practically naked frame.Â
Both hands come in to push your thighs further apart, giving him better access to the gold that sits right in between. âYouâre beautiful.âÂ
You feel the pad of his thumb come in contact with your clit in the lightest pressure, slowly brushing over the muscle as he continues. âThe most gorgeous thing Iâve ever seen.âÂ
He presses his thumb in further, pushing down to meet your hole, the source of the large wet patch on the fabric of panties. The whimpers the new feeling is having you let out are near embarrassing. Hooking his fingers around your panties, he asks, âCan I take these off?âÂ
âYes!â you gasp out immediately, hip rising to let them slide the pesky fabric off and away.Â
He wastes no time in bringing his fingers to your folds, gathering your arousal in his fingers as he spreads them across your throbbing clit. Heâs rubbing the area in circular motions, the feeling having you wracking out sounds you never thought you could make. The sheets are bunched up in your grip as you throw your head back at the feeling that encases you, eyes screwed shut.Â
âOh, Mingyu,âÂ
That only encourages him as his other hand joins the party, a lone finger circling your entrance in preparation to plunge into you, slowly, all the way to the hilt of his finger. Zoning in on the feeling, the pump of his fingers into your core, the constant ministrations of his other thumb on your clit. Your hands leave his wrinkled sheets as they come in to grip his wrists and forearm, needing to feel his skin to anchor yourself into the present. Not being able to bring yourself to open your eyes, he takes it upon himself to insert another finger, encouraging your lids to fly open at the stretch and the loud moan that comes with it.Â
âGod, youâre so fucking wet, Iâm barely pushing.â It may have embarrassed you a little if you werenât so withdrawn from pleasure, the prospect only having you whimper his name even more.Â
It isnât when he curls his fingers inside you that you feel the need to stifle the sounds that come out of your throat, hand to mouth as the volume has you needing to shut yourself up. He brings his hand off your clit to grab you by the wrist, freeing your mouth of restraint.Â
âDonât,â his voice gravelly as he gets off his knees to hover over you, his other hand continuing to pump his fingers in and out of you in perfect motions. âI wanna hear your voice. I wanna hear all the pretty sounds youâre making.â
He leans in to place a chaste kiss on your mouth, fingers quickening their pace as your sounds grow louder, âMingyu, I think IâmâŠI think Iâm close.âÂ
âItâs okay, let go whenever, darling, itâs okay.â His other hand goes back to its rightful position on your clit, thumb circling the bud in quick motions as he encourages you to climax.Â
And you do. The blissful release comes crashing into you hard, the feeling leaving nothing but white hot space in the expanse of your brain, letting the feeling take over as you melt into the sheets. âF-fuckâŠâ
He doesnât stop either hand till you physically have to push his fingers off of you, the overstimulation coming in hot.Â
You donât come around for a little bit, but feel every searing kiss he leaves on your skin in the aftermath. Pressed into your chest, your collarbones, you neck and your jaw. He makes his way up to your face slowly, pressing his lips onto your closed lids as you wait for your breathing to even out. His face is the first thing you see when you open your eyes, leaning forward to press your own lips against his.Â
âHow was that?â he asks slowly, and you donât miss the hint of a smirk on his face. You canât help but break into a smile of your own.Â
âGreat.â
âGreat?â
âAmazing.â You lean in to kiss him again, palms coming in contact with the expanse of his back as you move your mouths together. Itâs not long before your fingers reach the waistband of his boxers, hands coming up front to feel him through the fabric, palming him in the process.Â
You feel him shudder in your hold, lips pulling away as he stares into your eyes.Â
âWhat?â you ask in a whisper when he makes no other moves.Â
âIâm trying to think if I have condoms or not,â he whispers back, and you canât help but let out a laugh at his delivery. He begins to giggle with you, backing up as he reaches over to rummage through his nightstand.Â
âFuck yeah,â you hear him say as he comes round with the shiny pack. Heâs giggling as he undoes the wrapper, the lighthearted nature of it all bringing a laugh to your own lips.Â
Pulling his underwear down and off, you watch as he preps himself with the rubber, your own hand coming up in a trance to stroke his gorgeous length lightly, his palms ghosting over your hand at the feeling. Once he decides he canât take it anymore heâs grabbing both your wrists to pin them beside your head in one swift motion, earning a gasp from you at the abruptness.Â
âIâm gonna put the tip in first, let you adjust before I go in further,â he explains as he uses his knee to push your thighs apart to grant him more access. âIâm gonna listen to you throughout, okay? Just say so if you want me to stop, Iâll hear you.âÂ
When you donât reply he continues, âI need to know you heard me, baby.âÂ
âI heard you,â you answer, and he finally lets go of one of your hands to guide his length to your entrance, gathering your remaining arousal. Heâs sliding his tip across your folds, grinding onto your clit within his length and it has you nearly careening off the edge.Â
âMingyu, in, please!â you beg, and you hear him chuckle before heâs finally pressing the tip into your prepped hole.Â
You almost breathe a sigh of relief as you feel him begin to push into your hot core, keeping his promise of only getting to the tip, before bringing himself out and going back in. Heâs slow as he stretches you out, his hands coming up to the sides of your head as he tucks his face into the crook of your neck. Lifting one of your legs, you wrap them around his waist as you grant him further access into you, one of his hands coming up to keep your raised leg steady.Â
He halts when he finally bottoms out, pausing for breath. âYou okay?â
âYeah, just,â you manage, arms wrapped around his shoulders tight. âGive me a second.âÂ
When you give him the green light and he begins to move out slowly, only to thrust back in, you find yourself settling into the sheets more consciously, ready to take what he was about to finally give you. Youâre both a mess of whimpers and sounds, the feeling overtaking any shreds of restraint you had left. His hands are groping you everywhere, his fingers finding your breasts again as he begins to toy with your nipples, all while thrusting into you at a steady yet equally maddening pace.
He feels amazing, beyond just his dick. The feeling of his body pressed against yours is heavenly, the tears beginning to slowly prick at your eyes as you let yourself melt into his hold, a metaphorical layer away from morphing into his skin entirely. The sounds heâs making are pure melodies, the groans, grunts and heavy moans floating around in your otherwise empty head like theyâd never ever leave. They do more when they encourage the building feeling in your abdomen, your moans growing increasingly erratic.Â
If the bed is creaking from his incessant thrusting, you donât hear it. The only thing ringing in your head being the near closure youâre about to receive from him. âGyu, IâmâŠâ
âShit, me too.â he grunts, and you believe him as his movements begin to grow sloppier, his hips slamming into yours with more force than before.Â
And then itâs bliss, the feeling dropping in on your body as you feel yourself begin to spasm in his hold, the loudest moan ripping from your throat at the sensation. Youâre contracting around him so, so good, and itâs enough to have him moaning into your own ear as he feels his climax come over him as well.Â
Heâs shooting his load into the rubber, and for a wild moment you wish heâd rip it off and finish inside you instead, your blabbering brain wanting to take all of him in. The fever passes in a few heavy minutes, Mingyuâs body is dropped on top of you, his length remaining inside your warmth as you both relished in the post sex haze.Â
Heâs first to pick his sweltering body off of yours, the cool air hitting your skin as he pulls out of you slowly. Youâre still trying to come to earth, even when you hear the water beginning to run in the attached bathroom, even when he walks out in a fresh pair of boxers, walking over to your form on the bed.Â
His fingers run through your hair as he places soft kisses on your temple, coaxing you to open your eyes. âCome on babe. Letâs get you cleaned up.â
When you make no moves to get up despite opening your eyes, heâs physically pulling you up to grace your head on his chest in an effort to take a step back into the world. His fingers continue to thread through your hair, massaging your head lightly as you breathe in his scent. You do end up getting up and letting him lead you to the bathroom, but only after he threatens to carry you there over his shoulder. The bath is already drawn when you dip your feet into the warm water, planting yourself inside as you lean against the walls of the tub.
âGyu, why is it warm?â you whine, wanting a cooler temperature to hit your sticky body.Â
He chuckles as he sits by the tub, hands coming in to wet your hair for you, âIâm scared your bodyâs gonna go into shock if I chucked you into a cold bath. Youâll feel better in a minute, love.âÂ
You donât argue as he does most of the work for you, shampooing, scrubbing and conditioning. He lets you sit in the tub for a little bit as he leaves to get you a towel and a shirt, coming back to continue coaxing you to leave the tub this time. You grab his outstretched hand, pulling him down to sit next to you again.Â
âSit with me for a little bit, right here,â you say as you lean over the edge of the tub.Â
âI can sit with you in bed once youâre dried up,â he tries to reason. âUnder the covers. Where itâs more comfortable than hard acrylic, remember?âÂ
Pouting a little, you let him wrap you in a towel as you admit defeat, too tired to argue much more than that. He continues to shrug one of shirts over your shoulders, going as far as drying your hair before finally letting you crawl back under the covers. He joins you soon after, wrapping his limbs around you in a tight embrace, breathing in the mix of his own shampoo and your scent.Â
âAre you okay? Did I do too much?â he asks quietly.
âMhm,â you hum into his chest. âIâm okay.â
Thereâs a deep vibration in his chest as he finds your lack of response amusing, looking at your face that looks about three seconds away from slipping into dreamland. Nearly, he realizes, as your eyes are suddenly pushed wide open, a gasp leaving your throat.Â
âWhat? What?â Mingyu asks as you sit up all of a sudden scrambling to find your phone.Â
âMy phone, where is it?â you ask as you ruffle through the covers.Â
âDid you bring it with you?âÂ
You suddenly remember your bag that you threw in his entryway a couple hours ago, your phone nestled inside. Swinging your legs over the edge of the bed, you attempt to stand up to retrieve it, only to find out the universe wasnât about to let you do that. You donât miss Mingyuâs chortle as he watches you nearly fall over after wobbling around like a fawn, your arms trembling as you pull yourself up back on the bed.Â
âWhat the fuck?â you breathe out.Â
âGet back on, Iâll get your bag for you.â Heâs still smiling when returns, throwing your purse on the bed.Â
You immediately unlock your phone to find Nayeonâs contact, choosing to leave her a text considering the late hour.
âWhat is it?â Mingyu asks again as he watches you type, arms coming up from behind to engulf you in his hold again.Â
âI told Seokmin I was at Nayeonâs. He didnât believe me but Iâm telling her to cover for me anyway.âÂ
âOh.â
The thought comes to you later than it should have, realizing youâd have to involve Seokmin inâŠwhatever this was, sooner or later.Â
âDonât,â you hear Mingyu say behind you.
âWhat?â
âDonât. I know what youâre thinking about. We can deal with Seokmin when we need to, donât think about it right now, thatâs my job.âÂ
âI-â
âHe needs to deal with me being serious about you,â he continues, giggling, âEven if I have to make you run away with me.â
âLetâs hope it doesnât come to that.âÂ
He brings your wrist up to his mouth, placing a kiss there, âIt wonât. I promise.âÂ
The sitting up thing doesnât last for too long, both of you wanting nothing more than to lay down for the lack of energy. Limbs are a tangled mess as you both lay in silence, tired but not wanting to go to sleep just yet. It stays that way for a while, head on his chest as you take in the aftermath of everything thatâs happened.Â
You just had sex with Kim Mingyu. He loves you back. And you know he means it. This isnât a hyperrealistic childhood fantasy, this is real life. Youâre touching him, heâs holding you, you can hear his heart beat, you can feel his skin under the palm of your hand.Â
Youâre distracted from your thoughts as you sense Mingyu reaching over the edge of the bed to his nightstand as he looks for something, bringing his hand over to show you a very familiar pink cover in his hands.Â
âOh,â you let out as you recognize the title, snorting as you remember where the verdict for that ended, âWe were supposed to talk about the ending.â
âWe could do that right now.â
âUh, about that,â you say. âI never actually got to finish it.â
âYou were supposed to be done like two weeks ago,â he frowns.
âI didnât get to finish it the dayâŠthe day you came over. Couldnât bring it in myself to touch it after that.â you say as you note the little tabs sticking out the sides, wanting to address them.Â
âYou can use this one to finish it then, itâs yours.âÂ
You glance up at him as he talks, opening the book to skim through the pages. And then you see it, tiny scribbles on margins, sticky notes at chapter ends with his thoughts, colorful tabs sticking out of every highlighted line, everything complete with a color coded key in the front.
âI saw you do it with your other books, found out itâs not actually a crime to write in books andâŠI guess it became fun.â he explains as he watches you flick through the pages. âI was gonna give this to you at some point. Sounded like a thoughtful idea in my head.â
You donât answer him, simply facing him in silence before continuing, âI wouldâve been sucking your dick right now if I wasnât so tired.â
He throws his head back in a loud laugh, the high pitched noise sounding across the room as he nearly curls up from the hilarity. You donât think it was that funny, but maybe itâs because you were telling the truth. Youâre pretty sure youâve joked about wanting to do that to someone whoâd do something like this for you, perhaps you could find the transcripts hidden in some text messages with Nayeon later to show Mingyu.
 His laughter is contagious regardless, giggles of your own coming out as you watch him practically lose it.Â
âI think you need to go to sleep,â you comment through bouts of laughter.Â
He sighs a vocal sigh as he calms down slowly, agreeing with your suggestion that the near morning delirium was getting to both of your heads. You rest your newly acquired, yet equally prized possession to the side, finally turning in for the night as he reaches to turn his night lamp off.Â
Mingyu moves to press his forehead into yours, not before placing a tiny peck into your lips as he mumbles against them in the dark, âI love you.â
âI love you,â you hum back as you press your lips together one last time, finally letting his breathing lull you into sleep.Â
The mattress is foreign, so is the pillow, and so are the scents that linger in the room. Itâs colder than youâd usually have it and the blankets feel different on your skin. And despite the most foreign thing in the room, the one that has his arms and legs wrapped around you, the one that whispered his love for you into your skin before drifting off, you find yourself falling into a sleep thatâs more blissful than any youâve had in a very, very long time.Â
The sun is doing nothing to help itself against the tide of annoyance tht rises in your sleepy state. Youâd get up and yank the curtains but canât bring yourself to have the motivation to leave the soft mattress, simply bunching the blanket up to your face to block out the remnants of sun rays that invade the room. Youâve nearly lulled yourself back to sleep when you start registering noises coming from outside the bedroom walls, muffled yet familiar.Â
Your brother is talking about something you canât make out, Seokminâs voice is undeniable despite passing through the folded layers of comforters around your head. You donât doubt the presence of the sweat thatâs probably already accumulated on your scalp.Â
 Thereâs nothing that alarms you in the moment despite Seokminâs yapping â that is until you hear a second voice.
You recognize it immediately as the sound of Mingyuâs talking, the words equally as muffled yet the intonation clear all the same.Â
Kicking the sheets off of your overheating body, you squint as you open your eyes in a desperate attempt to reign yourself back to earth, recollections of the past twenty four hours hurtling back to you like a constant line of K.Oâs.Â
The gallery, the picture, the drive up to Mingyuâs place,the sex, the falling asleep in his arms. You sit up in Mingyuâs bed, clad in nothing but his own T-shirt as you realize your brother is downstairs talking to Mingyu, and you have no idea if he knows you're here.Â
You realize very quickly that youâre trapped, being left with no other option than to remain in Mingyuâs bedroom until he comes back up to give you the clear, despite wanting to walk out to take the tiniest peek. Youâre not sure whatâs worse, getting caught or sitting in the growing pool of anxiety before Mingyu gets back.Â
Itâs a long, long twenty minutes, in which youâve done just about everything to get to hear their conversation a bit better; or to distract yourself from the fact that itâs happening at all. Pressing your ear to the door before going back to make the bed. Freshening up in the bathroom before going back to jamming your eye into the keyhole (you arenât sure why considering door faces a plain wall). You even hijacked a spare cup Mingyu had lying around the room to stick into the wall, hoping all those Mr. Bean cartoons hadnât been lying to you.Â
They were simply talking in a tone too low for your ears to catch (despite the Mr. Bean hack), and you resorted to scrolling on your phone to pass the remaining time. Itâs catastrophic to say the least, when youâre met with a string of frantic messages from Nayeon as well as a couple missed calls from your brother.Â
[Nayeon]: fuck [Nayeon]: i didnt see this [Nayeon]: he called this morning asking about you [Nayeon]: i accidentally told him you werent here [Nayeon]: im so sorry where are you [You]: its okay its my fault for texting so late [You]: i was at mingyus place [You]: ill tell you more later [Nayeon]: WHAT???
By the time Mingyu walks in, heâs mildly surprised to see you awake, pausing at the door as he takes in your huddled form. You sit up immediately, noting his still messy hair and the backwards sweatshirt heâs thrown on over his boxers. The question tumbles out of your lips before you can help it, âWas that Seokmin?â
âGood morning to you too,â he grumbles sarcastically, coming up on the bed to join you in your huddle fest. Youâre a little embarrassed at the way youâve greeted him first thing when he sees you, but his expression when he continues replaces it with something akin to fear. âAnd yeah, it was him.â
You want to ask him a follow up question, but you arenât sure what to say, simply staring at him, hoping heâd get the hint and continue by himself. He does.Â
âThe idiot has a spare key so he justâŠâ He trails off, rubbing his hands on his face, âhe just walked in straight to the room. Got the shock of his life, I suppose, âcause it woke me up while you kept snoring.âÂ
âHe walked into the room?!â you nearly screech, hand clamped over mouth, horrified. âWhat did he say to you?â
Mingyu has the audacity to laugh, simply tugging you back down on the bed to hold you. You briefly wonder how heâs so casual about this. âThereâs not really an expected reaction from someone when they find you half naked in bed with their sister.âÂ
The haphazardly shoved sweatshirt and no pants look was starting to make sense. âI heard you talking downstairs, what were you talking about?âÂ
âNothing you have to worry your pretty little head about,â his lips graze the shell of your ear as he snuggles further into you. âHe wants you home by seven though.âÂ
You throw your head back in a whine, âGod, what am I gonna do?âÂ
âYouâll be fine, he didnât smack me, he canât possibly be that mad at you.âÂ
âWhat was he then, ecstatic?â you retort.Â
âI mean,â his energy shifts a little. âI think heâs just a little hurt that he wasnât told.âÂ
âSo youâve done your damage control and now I need to pray he doesnât disown me.âÂ
âGod, youâre being so negative,â he comments and you canât help but round up on him.
âAnd youâre acting like you donât care!â
Heâs planting a fat kiss on your cheek at your outburst, coming in to coddle you even more. âIâm kidding, I just want you to relax, donât be upset.âÂ
âHas he given you his verdict yet?â you ask quietly.
He sighs at the question and you canât imagine his answer being any good. âNot yet, pretty up in the air about it.âÂ
When he sees you deflate even more in his arms, he continues, âIâm sure heâs gonna come around, he loves you too much to not. Itâs just a matter of time while he gets to make sense of the situation, donât worry about it.âÂ
âI hope so,â you reply.
âWe might have wash his socks for the next five years once he does, but itâs okay.âÂ
You canât help but snort at the prospect, âHis feet are stinkier than the regular humanâs, are you sure about that?â
He grins, âIâd do it for you.â
You push his face away, rolling your eyes at his attempt to be sappy. âYouâre gonna keep me for five years?âÂ
His smile drops as you feel the atmosphere shift in the slightest, his presence moving impossibly closer to you. âIâm gonna keep you forever.â
Hearing it is enough to have you lurching forward, closing the final gap between you so you can give in to the urge to kiss him. Heâs enthusiastic to give back, pulling your body to face him entirely as you mumble between kisses, âI love you.â
âI love you more.â
The rest of the day (once your anxietyâs calmed down, at least) is spent loitering around each other as you migrate around the house in random excess. He makes you breakfast, and you need to physically restrain him to stop feeding you every bite of pancake and bacon. You let him make your favourite for lunch though, after you finally admitted how much you truly liked his Chow Mein, going as far as to run to the store to grab the stuff he was missing. He returns with a bag of groceries, not missing an abnormal amount of moonpie value packs that he stashes in his cabinets because âyouâre gonna be around all the timeâ.Â
6:30 rolls around quicker than either of you would have liked, needing to wiggle out of Mingyuâs hold on his couch to change out of your half naked state. He continues to delay you another ten minutes as he refuses to open his car door to let you walk into the apartment building, leaning over the console to continue mumbling whines between your own consoling kisses.Â
By the time youâre making the walk of shame up to your door, the pit of anxiety that began to brew this morning returns from its dormancy, no Mingyu here to help ease your nerves, Gripping your key tight in your hands, you brace yourself to jam and twist to finally end this matter once and for all (at least you hope you can).Â
Seokmin is waiting on the couch for arrival like a parent waiting to catch their child in the act. He briefly glances over at you as you whisper a tame âHiâ, slipping off your shoes. He doesnât reply as he merely grabs the remote to pause his show, casting a heightened awkward atmosphere at the silence thatâs now engulfing the room. You tread carefully over to the couch, where Seokmin sits with his arms crossed.Â
It takes one look at his face for you to suddenly want to get on your knees and beg for forgiveness. He didnât look angry, and perhaps you wouldâve preferred his aggression if it didnât mean having to look at a hurt Seokmin. You sit in silence for a couple dramatic minutes, hoping he would start talking so you wouldnât have to. Yet, when you realize you might have to say something anyway for fear of crushing under the pressure, you find yourself opening your mouth.Â
âAre you upset?â Of course, heâs upset, you idiot.
âI justââ he starts, before sighing. âI just wish one of you wouldâve told me what was going on.âÂ
âI know, Iâm sorry,â you reply. âI didnât want either of you to have an excuse to be upset with each other, so I justâŠâ
âI get that it was a recent thing but I think I deserved as much to know what was happening when I wasnât around.â
You wince as speaks, realizing he hasnât caught on to the fact that this isnât recent at all â for you at least. âUm, about thatâŠâ
âWhat? Thereâs more?â he scoffs.Â
âI, uhâŠIâve liked him since like fifth gradeââ Heâs immediately jaw dropped, eyes bulged, taking a sharp breath. âBut! In my defense, it was really obviousâitâs honestly your fault for not noticing.â
âMyâMy fault?!â he sputters. âThatâs like, forever, and you told me nothing? Mingyu told me this was recent, why did he lie?âÂ
âHe didnât, nothing happened till last night, I swear.â You cringe at what youâre entailing. âIt was just me that liked him for that long, he figured it out pretty early on butâŠâ
âHeâs finally reciprocating now?â he suggests, almost sarcastically.Â
âYeah,â you breathe out lightly.Â
âThis is insane,â he blows out a breath of air, massaging his temples.Â
âIâm not being stupid about him,â you mutter lowly, âThis isnât some puppy dog crush, especially not after so long.âÂ
Heâs silent.Â
âIâm telling you this because I donât want you to think Iâm jumping into this blind, especially for what it means for you too.âÂ
No response.Â
âIâm sorry that you had to find out like this, itâs really not how I wanted it to go.â And when youâre met with even more silence, you find yourself continuing. âPlease, talk to me. Cuss me out if you want, Iâd honestly rather you yell at me.â
Seokmin sighs for the near hundredth time, finally looking like he might say something. âI want you to listen to me very carefully.â Â
The hairs on the back of your neck stand up, mind immediately going to the worst. Was he going to ask you to break up with him?
âIâm gonna choose to trust the both of you on this,â he starts, and you nearly melt into the cushions, âItâs your life, you can date whoever you want. AndâŠI guess Mingyu is better than someone else. Probably uses bad hair gel though.âÂ
Youâre catapulting yourself off the couch at the sound of that, throwing yourself onto an unassuming Seokmin. âThank you, thank you, thank you!âÂ
âOW! Okay! Geez, get off,â he grumbles as he finally stops wrestling you to let go of him, hugging you back as you squeeze his shoulders tight.Â
âI promise I wonât keep anything like this from you again.âÂ
âYou better not,â he huffs as you let go of him, âDonât think this means youâre forgiven. You still have a lot to tell me.âÂ
âI promise I wonât leave out a thing.â
The following weeks are near bliss, following your very loud confrontation with Nayeon when she gets back from her summer vacation, her screams at every plot turn having you praying for her neighbors. You doubt she believed you despite everything, not until she physically sees Mingyu come in one day, making a beeline to peck you on the lips before greeting anyone else. Her dropped jaw was very telling.Â
Even now, as Mingyu sports the title of the lame alumnus that still hangs around campus as he grips your hand, walking through the grass, the double takes youâre receiving seem to be traveling quite fast. You wouldnât necessarily blame them considering the trickier than usual dynamic you sport due to your brother (and you guess due to his reputation as well).Â
But you also knew theyâd be quick to die out as the newer batches of students come flying in â Mingyu will soon become a very well kept secret, in one way if not the other.Â
His neighbors, however, must be wishing he had the same sentiment as well, considering the absolutely foul noises that are coming from his apartment.Â
Youâre learning very quickly that Mingyuâs innocent touchiness can turn into something of the opposite at any given time, exhibit A being now as you try your damn hardest to muffle the sounds coming out of your mouth as Mingyu works his own mouth on your cunt. The knees over his shoulders are shivering from the expense, fingers pumping into your hole as he rubbed a particular spot with his tongue that had you gripping onto his hair tight.Â
As much as Mingyu loves to hear you, you find his other hand being brought up to place two fingers in your mouth for you as the perfect pacifier, sounds limiting extensively.Â
By the time youâre coming undone, sprawled on his couch like you just ran a marathon, youâre quick to realize that he has no intention of letting you have a breather. It takes one shove for him to pull his pulsing length out of his pants, tip pushing into your still sopping hole as he invited all of him inside you.Â
Youâll never forget the first time Mingyu fucked you raw, right after you told him he had the green light after taking your birth control pills. It was magic, youâve never seen him this vocal as he finished inside you nearly four times in a single night. His moans remain loud even still, as he brings your thighs to press over your chest, basically folding you in half. The mere sound of your wetness as he pumps in and out of you is enough to have you nearly careening over the edge, especially when you feel a desperate hand reach out to rub fast circles on your clit.Â
You throw your head back as you cum for the second time, pulsing around him in a grip Mingyu canât believe has the ability to become tighter. Itâs enough for him though, as he leans his forehead against your chest as he releases himself inside you.Â
He doesnât think heâll ever get tired of it, watching you filled to the brim with his cum, even as it drips onto the blankets youâve laid down below. He has half a mind to stuff the liquid back inside you, but fears youâre tired enough, the overstimulation too much for you.Â
By the time youâve cleaned up and resumed the movie you shouldâve been done with hours ago, cuddled impossibly close to him, you find yourself remembering something quite out of the blue.
âHey, not that I really care anymore,â you start, âBut who were the guys you were talking to that day? From the party.â
âStopped hanging out with them ages ago,â Mingyu scoffs, face souring at the mention of them. âI mean, it was me who said all that bullshit, but they werenât exactly good influences either. Learned that pretty quick.â
âOh,â you reply simply, letting your head fall back onto his chest.
He doesnât seem to be having any of it, grabbing your chin to have you face him. âIâm still really sorry about that. I donât care if you chase my tail for another fifty years, itâll always be adorable.â
âForgave you a long time ago, but I think I have a condition now.âÂ
He quirks a brow at your words. âWhat does her Highness ask of me?â
âThat you chase my tail for another fifteen to make up for all the running Iâve done.âÂ
Heâs laughing at that, agreeing to your condition as places loving smooches all over your face. âConsider it done.â
Itâs later on in the night, both of you huddled in ratty hoodies and mismatched slippers, plastic bag crinkling along Mingyuâs arm as you giggle about something he said. Youâre enjoying your fudgsicle in the peace and serenity of the 1 AM hour, making your trek home after raiding the corner store down the block. Mingyu suddenly halts in his tracks as he sees a particularly pretty set of flowers, illuminated by the fluorescent street lights.Â
âBabe, babe, stand here let me take a picture of you.â
âWhat?â you frown, holding up your stick of iced chocolate. âIâm not done yet.â
You watch as he grabs the melting popsicle from your hand downing the entire thing in one go as you watch him, hand still outstretched and jaw dropped. âMingyu, you bitch!â
He only smiles as he mulls the chocolate in his mouth, words basically gibberish, ââereâs more in the baâ, now go stan'!âÂ
You huff as you trudge to where he was asking you to pose, throwing a couple peace signs to satiate the home video urges in him so you could rip open your second fudgsicle.Â
âWait! You got a little chocolate on your mouth.â he announces, and you stick your tongue out to lick past the remnants of the sweetness. âNoâ wait.â
He walks over to you as your still trying to find the spot you missed, unassuming as he swings into your face to kiss the remaining off. âOh, nevermind, it was nothing.âÂ
You push him off as heat crawls up your face, feigning annoyance at his antics. You decide to forgive him when rips open another fudgsicle for you, offering it with both hands, promising to not steal a single lick. You believe him, snatching the stick from him as you continue your trek home.Â
Itâs not until heâs attempting to send you the pictures he just took to your phone so you could post them (which, with the way you looked, fat chance) that he notices something in your albums.Â
âOh, are these grad photos?â he asks as he clicks the album open.
âMhm,â you hum not paying too much attention as you walked and ate.Â
âWhyâs there only one picture here?â he asks as he pulls up to find nothing more left to load.Â
Itâs only then that you bring your full attention to your phone in his hand as you realize what picture heâs talking about, âOh god, donât look at that one.â
He does the obvious thing and opens it anyway, a louder than necessary âawâ coming out his mouth. âWhy do you look like Iâm about to eat you?âÂ
âIt felt like it!â you whine, remembering the moment clear as day. âThey kept pestering me to take a picture with you too, I was tryna book it out of there at first chance.âÂ
He giggles as he zooms into the photo, âIâm sending this to myself.â
You groan loudly at the thought, âGod, just delete it, leave it alone.â
He tucks the phone into himself further, not letting you grab it. âNo, youâre not deleting it. Why do you have it tucked into a separate folder if you hate it so much.â
Heâs got you there, you realize quickly, and he reigns in his victory as he watches you grimace at the phone slightly, adding on, âit has a lot of feelings attached to it, I get it. But look, we can attach new feelings to it, now youâll think about right now the next time you see it.â
âThink about you hijacking my fudgsicles? I think I prefer heartbreak,â you say, bringing your half eaten pop closer to your body in case he tries anything.Â
Youâre deemed correct when he replies, motioning towards your concealed treat, âCareful, I can still pounce when youâre not looking.âÂ
Shoving your hands into the swinging bag hanging on Mingyuâs arm, you bring out a thing of sausage and shove it towards him, âYou leave me and my fudgsicle alone, go be lousy and suck on this or whatever.â
âYouâd know alot about that, wouldnât you?â he notes casually, grabbing the sausage anyway as he unwraps it to take a bite.Â
It takes you a second to realize what heâs talking about while he stares at you with a mischievous expression, coming to shove him when the innuendo finally registers in your head. You do the opposite this time, pointing the melting chocolate toward him instead, threatening to smear it all over his white hoodie.Â
He laughs at the sight, disarming you by simply moving your wrist away, coming to kiss you on the mouth hard regardless of your annoyed expression.Â
âLove yaââ he giggles.Â
âHm.â
âWhat, hm? Say it back.â
You pretend to wonder, âI donât think so.â
âSay it!â he groans, âSay it, say it!âÂ
You manage to wriggle out of his hold, booking it before he realises whatâs happening.Â
âHey!âÂ
Your both probably waking up the entire neighborhood with how loud youâre yelling and laughing, and even when he manages to tackle you down on somebodyâs lawn, coaxing the words out of you with borderline violence, you still manage to smile, thanking your lucky stars that you got what you wanted after all.Â
âWhatâre you thinking about?â he asks with an undertone.Â
âThanking my stars they led me to you,â you reply.Â
âMore like the other way around. Needed the fattest fucking star to realize what was in front of me all along,â he jests himself.Â
It sparks a laugh out of you. âI love you.â
âAnd I love you.â
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marketing ploy - ln4 ch7
Lando recovers. McLaren and Red Bull own up. Olivia and Lando decide the future, and give Oscar a heart attack while doing so. We get our happy ending.
piastri!oc x lando norris, bestfriends brother/fake dating
warnings/notes: hospital visits, mentioned injuries, loopiness from medication, pregnancy/sex jokes, media being bitches, lando going 'guys i gotta keep her' and doing the absolute MOST lmao, this is also TECHNICALLY the last chapter but im gonna write more for olivia and lando most def (also olivia will feature as oscars sister in other fics bc i love her)
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I haven't run in years.
I can feel the burn of the air in my lungs as I force them open, adrenaline making every rib shake as I suck in a breath and force it back out. My shoes slam into the floor of the paddocks, sending jolts up my legs as I whisk my bag over my shoulder and 'just go' as Christian had said. My mind is swimming with a thousand thoughts. What if he was seriously injured? He was able to walk, but he collapsed, was it his legs? Or his ribs? What if it's his back? Or his arms? How long will he be out? Is this a whole-season issue or just a few weeks?
Fuck, I cannot be thinking about this right now.
I sweep the room quickly to make sure I have everything, patting my pockets to check for my phone--which is nestled in the back left pocket of my jeans, before whirling around and out of the room.
Once I'm out of the paddocks and towards the exits, where it opens a bit more, the wind whisks into my skin and bites me as I use one hand to dig through the side pocket to find Lando's car keys. I can't steady my hands, even when I'm trying to control their shake, they just get worse. Whether it's fear or anxiety, I find it plain annoying as I struggle to get the small keychain out of my bag. Lando had driven me here from the hotel and shoved the keys in my bag since he didn't walk in with his bag and didn't want to lose the car keys.
Luckily, he had, because talking to anyone in this state would be a bust. I could feel my attitude snipping at my heart as people shouted my name at me. I couldn't stop. I had to find Lando. I knew what hospital he'd be taken to, I had to get there in one piece.
And it was going to be hard with the fucking media right here.
A few reporters try to follow me, but I'm able to slip through the crowds like water. Once I make it to the parking lot, a woman steps in front of me with her camera held high and I shout.
"Can you fucking move?!" And shove her to the side as I zip out of the lot. Fuck the standards, fucking being polite, I'll ask for forgiveness later. And apologize, probably.
Throwing my bag haphazardly into the car, I follow suit and slam the door. There's time here for me to scream, cry, and rage in semi-private, but I bite back the bubble in my throat, throwing my seatbelt on and turning on the car's engine. I wait no time to slam the car forward into first gear, pulling out of the lot with shaking hands. My hands slip with sweat as I try when I remember his McLaren's manual. Cursing, I force myself to revert back to the car I drove in high school as my hands dance across the car in perfected practice.
Thank god I still have that going for me.
The highway is empty, where I thought there'd be lines of traffic there are only a few sparse cars. I slam the car as hard as it can go, watching the ticking of the speedometer, 50... 60... 70... 80...
I look behind me, merging into the fast lane and gunning it even harder. The car sings, and I feel an odd rush of momentary euphoria.
I hit around 165kpm at some point. The car doesn't even shake, it seemingly glides along with my movements, I hear sirens, I don't know if they're for me but I'm not staying to find out. I press harder, merging to the off-ramp and taking it, barely registering what's around me as I slam on my brakes and slip into the traffic near the hospital.
It feels good to drive like that. Maybe I should get back into racing at some point.
Once the McLaren is parked in a back corner of the hospital lot, I grab my bag, rip myself out of the car, and slam it shut, and triple-check it's locked. I turn and book it into the hospital, trying to breathe steady enough to keep myself from losing my shit. It feels like I can't run fast enough, slipping into the hospital and around people who dodge my clearly rushed pace. I pause in front of a desk, panicked and out of breath when someone comes to my side.
"Hi, honey, who are you lookin' for?" A kind nurse says, her hand finding my arm to apply soothing pressure as she notices the fear in my movements. I thought I was hiding it better than I was, I guess. I take a slow breath and let the shake in my hands come in, no longer holding everything back.
"Lando Norris, he just came in with Formula One?" I ask and the woman nods. She asks to see my ID and I fish out my license and Red Bull card to verify my employment.
"Olivia!" A voice shouts as my items are handed back when I'm cleared, and Jon comes up to my side, pointing at my head.
"You still have your headset on." He says softly and I look him up and down, pointing at him.
"So do you," I say. We pause and fall into soft laughter as I pull the headset down to my neck. Jon takes me by the elbow further into the hospital, out of the view of some of the reporters who try to snap photos of us as they're shoved out by the security. I hadn't even seen them when I made my way inside. Through the winding halls, and down to a smaller section of the hospital, Jon brings me to the door to what I assume is Lando's room.
"He's fine." Jon starts with, which eases me immediately, "He's a bit banged up, they think he might have broken or bruised one of his ribs. He's really out of it, the painkillers made him super loopy. Just a forewarning, he's also been dipping in and out of consciousness so don't be alarmed. It's just the painkillers."
"Is his family here yet?" I ask, looking at the door, and Jon shakes his head no once I look back at him.
"They're driving at normal speeds, so no. I don't wanna know how you got here so fast." He steps forward and knocks. A nurse pops open the door and welcomes us inside, Jon stays back while I make my way to the bedside. Lando's wearing a tee shirt and some loose sports shorts, he looks exhausted. I can see bruising on his legs as I nurse tosses the blanket over him as if trying to hide it from me.
"Here!" She pulls up a chair happily and I thank her as I sit down on it, taking my bag off and setting it on the floor, dropping my headphones in. I sigh, taking Lando's hand and feeling his pulse as if the machine that literally tells me that is lying. It feels good to feel his heart thrum under my skin and I kiss his wrist where the pulsepoint is.
"My girlfrien's not g'nna like you doin' that." Lando tries to take his hand from me, Jon snorting in the doorway. I let go of him and laughed softly, leaning up to brush his hair back from his face, the longer curls sticking to his forehead. He's still got the lines from his helmet and balaclava, and I trace one with my finger as he gives me the nastiest stink eye I've ever seen him muster.
"Hi, Lando." I croon, and he whines, slowly rolling his head to the side.
"I have a girlfriend." He states, poking my hand to push it away from him and I send him an odd look. Jon walks over and I can see he's recording, which makes a small amused smile poke at my lips.
"Lando," I laugh softly and Lando whacks my hands away softly, fighting through the weariness of his pain medication to wave his arms.
"I have a girlfriend." He pouts, laying his hands still at his side. I just laugh again, and Lando shouts in his dreary state, "It's not funny! I do!"
"Shush, shh, Lando." I stand and push my chair back a bit as I stifle my laugh into the back of my hand.
Jon calls from where he stands, attempting to help me not laugh by giving me something new to focus on, "Who's your girlfriend, Lando?"
"Olivia. Oscar's sister, which he was actually not happy about at first but I convinced him I was cool--" Lando keeps rambling on until I lift my hand and cup his cheek, running my thumb under his eye as I speak softly.
"Lando, baby, I am your girlfriend." I put a hand on my chest, "I am Olivia."
Lando blinks, eyes settling on me before he gasps and leans up to grab my face and pull me down for a litter of soft pecks to my cheeks and face. I catch myself on the bed and laugh, catching his lips as he happily grins up at me. It's all doe eyes, lovesick smiles on his lips as he keeps his hands tight on my face.
"Hi, baby." He whispers, bringing me in for another kiss and I detach one of his hands so it can rest by his side. I slowly situate him against the blankets with the help of Jon, and sit a bit closer to the head of the bed so Lando can be close enough to me. He keeps one of his hands in mine and I slowly run my thumb along his knuckles.
"Well, Mr. Norris!" A piercing voice calls, a young woman stepping into the room with a bit of an excited flourish, "You are all set! Jon's gonna look over your scans, specifically for those bruised ribs. We're thinking it'll be about three or four weeks of healing, and he's gonna make that like--workout plan and stuff with your personal doctor."
"Ah, thank you, Doctor." Lando smiles, watching as the doctor hands Jon some papers to look over. She smiles at me, a hint of recognition in her eyes.
"Olivia, right?" She asks and I nod, shaking her outstretched hand.
"I'm glad you made it here, Lando was waiting for you a bit impatiently." She kept her happy smile, rocking from foot to foot, "Kept asking us where you were, or when you'd get here. You've got a good man on your hands here, sweetheart."
"I know." My heart is bursting, "He's shown me that over and over."
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11 JULY, ENGLAND. âŽ
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OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON SITUATIONS BETWEEN LANDO NORRIS AND OLIVIA PIASTRI THIS SEASON.
WRITTEN BY STEVE ATKINS (M), ON BEHALF OF ZAK BROWN (M), ANDREA STELLA (M), ALICE MCLOUGHLIN (ORBR), ASTRID MARINA (UNAFF.), ADA LUANNE (UNAFF.), CHRISTIAN HORNER (OBRB), AND HIMSELF.
On the 22nd of February this year, Lando Norris (MCLAREN F1 TEAM, DRIVER) and Olivia Piastri (ORACLE RED BULL, HEAD OF ANALYSIS) were pulled into the office of Christian Horner (ORACLE RED BULL, TEAM PRINCIPAL) in Bahrain. A deal was struck between both parties and their corresponding teams to create a fake dating scenario, capitalizing on the tensions between Oracle Red Bull Racing and the McLaren F1 Team to push ticket and merchandising sales. This fake relationship was planned to eventually leak in PR and Social Media Strategy, however, due to Norris' crash in Silverstone, the entire program has been canceled. The program was also discovered by F1 Stewards upon investigation after Olivia's reaction to the accident cemented rumors in the media of the two dating. Both the McLaren F1 Team and Oracle Red Bull are under investigation, and fines are yet to be announced.
Norris and Piastri chose not to be a part of this statement and can be expected to make their own statements in the coming weeks.
On July 9th of this year, Lando Norris was involved in an accident in the pitlane of Silverstone. Engineers have determined this was caused by an overheating of brake lines that didn't allow Norris to stop his vehicle along with worn tires. No fines have been placed at this moment.
Olivia Piastri will return to work with Red Bull remotely immediately and will be in-person by Zandvoort. Lando Norris will return to racing with McLaren by Zandvoort and will be replaced by reserve driver Bianca Bustamente for the time being. Neither Norris nor Piastri will be fined for involvement with the media stunt, or with the accident as of this moment.
20 JULY, LONDON âŽ
Thereâs a sort of haze around me as I blink sleep from my eyes. A warm pressure on my left makes me look to the side. Landoâs face is squished against my chest, soft snores leaving his slightly parted lips and rolling across my bare skin that pokes out from under my tank top. I take a moment to take it all in, how weâd gotten here, how we were, and I canât help but roll to pull him closer to me and curl him inside my arms as I pepper a few kisses to his hairline.
How did I ever not like him? He's a fucking saint.
Lando, a heavy sleeper until I started sleeping in the same bed, noticed immediately and grabbed my waist with groggy whines about how tired he was. I coax him back to sleep, kissing his hairline and gently massaging his back until the snores return and I smile at Landoâs sleeping face.
âAwake yet?â Oscar calls from the door, and I wave. He laughs under his breath, waving me over, and it takes a bit of grace to detach myself from Lando. Once I do, I grab one of the spare throw blankets off the floor from where Lando had kicked it and slip over to where Oscar is standing by the door as I wrap it around me to keep out the morning chill.
âHeâs exhausted. I think all the stress of the season is catching up on him.â I rub sleep from my face, and Oscar nods, handing me a piece of toast like a peace offering. I take it and tilt my head at him.
âTheyâre fining McLaren and Red Bull a lot for this stunt. It just came out.â Oscar hums, âsaid itâs a breach of contract and a risk for documents to be shared amongst the teamsâŠâ
My heart jumps to my throat, and I look at Landoâs sleeping form as he rolls into where my fading body heat is still in the blankets, âthey want us to split?â
âWell. Landoâs contract ends with McLaren this year.â Oscar paused to take a sip of his coffee before leaning in to whisper, âand you didnât hear it from me, but Christian has been looking at grabbing him for a few years now.â
âIs Checo moving?â I ask because I know Max wouldnât leave Red Bull unless we forced him out by dragging him by his ankles.
âI dunno.â Oscar grins, stepping back and whacking my shoulder, âbut you can date within your garage, so.â
With that, he walks away and I turn back to Lando as he starts to stir. I lean on the doorframe and watch as he blearily blinks his eyes open, hands searching for me in the covers until he lifts his head to see me off in the doorway.
âCâmere.â he croaks, and I smile, pushing off the doorframe and walking over to sit on the edge of the bed as he wraps his arms around my waist and rests his head on my thighs.
I canât imagine him in navy. But it might look good on him.
25TH JULY, LONDON âŽ
âis Max positive?â Lando pokes his head into the kitchen doorway, looking at the island where Iâm staring at my laptop. I look up and shrug, sending an email back to Christian about the fines and the media being on his ass for the whole stunt.
âKylie said itâll be here in five minutes,â I reply, refreshing my email as if that will make the minutes suddenly not matter and for the email to pop up. Apparently, Max had gotten sick right before the next race. While I was home with Lando to make sure he wasnât being strenuous and to keep media off my back until everything died down, they had to do a COVID test on Max and isolate him just in case.
âIt would suck if he's out for his home race this year." Lando wanders into the kitchen and pulls up a stool next to me as he sets his phone down on the counter. Heâs been living in Oscar and my apartment for the past few days, just until next week when he goes back to McLaren's training center for a bit to do a lot of physical therapy before getting in the car next weekend for Zandvoort.
Oscar calls my phone, and I stand up, telling Lando to keep checking my email as I make my way over to the other side of the kitchen to grab my phone.
âYes, bitch?â I say into the phone and Oscar laughs at my sharp tone.
âJust checking in on Lando for Zak,â Oscar says and I look behind me and my boyfriendâlike, actual boyfriend now, and smile.
âHeâs been fine, ribs are still a little sore. I had him doing cardio earlier and he was faring pretty well so IâI think Jon said he can go back to training a bit earlier. Heâs still coming back in Zandvoort though.â I hum, âhowâs Bia faring?â
âSheâs having the time of her life. I gotta start bringing her around more. You guys really would be an unstoppable duo.â Oscar laughs, âBut good, Jon is off today so Iâll let Zak know to reach out to him and ask.â
âOllie!â Lando whines and I turn.
âYess?â I draw out as I walk to his side.
âIt's negative.â
âOh, thank fucking god.â I breathe, âThat makes everything a lot easier for me.â
Oscar is quiet on the line for a few moments before asking in a small voice, âWhatâs negative?â
âMaxâs COVID test. Heâs just got the flu.â I say without thinking much of my brother's hesitance before he lets out a soft laugh.
âI thought you took a pregnancy test or something, I was about to start judging the type of cardio youâve been doing,â Oscar says and I shout,
âDude!â
âI feel like thatâs a reasonable thing to be worried about!â
âOh my god, weâve only been actually dating dating for like two weeks!â I groan and Lando sends me a confused look, so I pop Oscar onto speakerphone.
âIt only takes likeâfive minutes to make a kid!â
âHello?!â Lando shouts and I sink to the floor in a fit of laughter, trying to bite back the volume of my laughter before Lando shouts, "Do you think I fucked your sister?!"
"No! Stop! Stop talking Lando!" Oscar shouts over the phone and now I'm hysterical on the floor in tears as Lando tries to backtrack and Oscar keeps shouting for him to just-- "Shut the fuck up, Lando!"
"Both are you are going to kill me, I'm losing it." I wheeze from where I'm now lying on the floor, Lando laughing alongside me as Oscar groans.
"First the house, now this?" He says and Lando makes some noise in the back of his throat as I manage to calm myself down enough to stand.
"What about a house?" I wipe under my eyes, leaning my head on Lando's shoulder as his arm wraps around my shoulder and he kisses my head, his fingers poking at my side and making me squirm as I push him away with a laugh.
"Nothing, love." Lando sighs, "Remember when they gave me those painkillers that made me super loopy the first night, and Oscar was watching over me?"
I nod, remembering how halfway through my grocery trip he had to call me because Lando was so loopy he thought that I was gone forever. And he had literally cried tears of joy when I answered Oscar's phone call.
"Well, I kinda... oh my god this is so embarrassing." Lando sighs and Oscar tells him he now has to tell the story and Lando hides his face in my hair as he recounts, "I was looking at apartments in London for us."
"Stop, oh my god." I whine, turning to Lando so I can kiss his cheeks and his forehead, pulling him down when he tries to move back so I can't, "That's so cute."
"No, it's embarrassing." He grumbles and I laugh, pulling him closer and kissing along his jaw and then the apples of his cheeks and the tip of his nose.
"I wouldn't mind that," I murmur to him and his eyes widen to the size of dinner plates, his hands find my waist and he presses a kiss to my lips.
"Ew, I don't like that I can hear him kiss you over the phone." Oscar groans, "I'm hanging up now, don't do anything too strenuous."
"Fuck you, Oscar!" I laugh as the call hangs up, Lando keeping his arms firmly around my waist. We sit in silence for a few moments before his hand ghosts up the side of my neck to take my jaw in his palm, thumb hooking on my chin to pull me down to look at him.
"Would you seriously not mind?" He asks softly and I grin, leaning over to pop a quick kiss on his lips.
"Getting to have you with me every day?" I bring our foreheads together, his curls against my own as his hands find my waist to hold, my hands resting on his shoulders as I grin and flutter my eyes closed, "That's paradise."
"I'll literally buy one right now, don't even test me." He groans, pulling me closer and I laugh.
"Let's get Zandvoort out of the way first, yeah?"
JULY 28TH, TWITTER âŽ
AUGUST 27TH, THE NETHERLANDS âŽ
Luckily for me, I made it into the paddocks long before any media people. Max welcomes me with a slap on the back as I welcome him to his home race, and then I'm greeted by the Ferrari drivers once again as Checo laughs at my bewildered expression.
"I'm gonna tell the Tifosi on you both." I huff, but let both Charles and Carlos wrap me in tight hugs of congratulations as we laugh. Once the two are carted off to go do their actual jobs, I get settled in my chair and glance down at my desk before laughing.
A vase of freshly cut flowers and a little cup of coffee sits there, waiting for me, and I turn to look at Max who just grins.
"He's determined." Is all Max says before slipping away as he's called over to get dressed. I laugh and send Lando a quick thank you message, before taking a sip of the perfectly made coffee and settling down to finally get back into gear.
"Welcome back," A voice chimes and I glance up to see Christian in the doorway. I offer him a small smile and a nod.
"Good to be here." Is all I say in reply.
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Lando and Max seriously just want to kill each other in these cars. Max takes the win at his home race by some insignificantly small number, they had to literally watch multiple playbacks to see who crossed first, which means Lando is still in good running for World Champion. Luckily, somehow a mix of car issues and the pure energy from Oscar, Charles, Checo, and Carlos managed to keep Max in P2 for most races, leveling out the chances for Lando to recover his lost points.
As soon as most drivers have returned to their paddocks, I'm mid-packing up when I'm ushered off by Logan, who finished P6. He quite literally hoists me off my feet and carries me into the crowd for the podium. A few other drivers lag back, and I look over to Oscar, who'd finished P4 behind Charles.
"Where's Lando?!" Logan shouts over my head at Oscar, who points, and then leans over to me.
"Here's that kiss they promised you'd have to do," He shouts in my ear and I laugh as the two lift me so I can be partially over the barrier holding back the audience from the racers. I wave Lando down and he laughs, slipping away from a reporter as he finishes an interview. Biting off his glove as he walks over, he drops it into his helmet and then grabs my jaw with that now gloveless hand, pulling me into his lips for a quick peck. I don't let him leave though, grabbing his jaw and pulling him back in for a few more deeper kisses.
Oscar cheers and Logan laughs before Lando secures one arm around me to pull me over the barrier. Logan and Oscar immediately hop over after me.
There's warmth in my chest as Lando keeps his hand on my lower back, pulling me through the crowd of drivers and up to where Max and Charles stand. A giddy excitement thrums across my skin.
I could do this forever.
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ALL YOURS (m.) | levi
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⏠slight enemies to friends to lovers except levi has always been in love but heâs in denial, fem!reader, ive decided that this takes place in a time in aot when nobody was dead and titans were the only problem lol, sassy reader, jealous levi, inexperienced levi, sub!levi, typos
⏠summary: ever since you were promoted to captain, all levi ackerman has ever done was shit on the way you run things. turns out he was only acting like that because he couldnât handle his feelings for you.
⏠genre: fluff / smut
⏠warnings: swearing, begging, levi on his knees for you, oral, vaginal sex, desperate levi lmao
⏠a/n: i havent watched aot in so long so forgive me if i get some things wrong đ also im such a slut for sub characters im so sorry
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To Levi, you were the most infuriating, idiotic, and impatient person to ever join the military. Every little thing you ever did he hated with his entire being: from the way you spoke to your squad, to the way you disciplined and trained them, even to the way you made your tea he hated. But, of course, he wasnât being a hater for no reason.
You were a good fighter. Talented, agile, naturally gifted and athletic. You were capable of ridding a large area of titans within minutes, something not many scouts had a skill for. And although Levi had always silently admired that about you, that was the only thing that kept him from trying to get you kicked out. The two of you were opposite in personality: like opposite ends of earth, sun and moon, fire and water, the two of you had nothing in common and were never able to agree on anything.
âEverybody likes the new captain more than Levi,â he had overheard one of the other scouts whisper in the dining hall after you got promoted.
âWell, yeah. Sheâs so much nicer and a way better captain than Levi. Sheâs pretty, too.â
Pretty? Please, were those scouts blind? There was nothing pretty about you. Except for the fact that he seemed to be at a loss of words whenever his eyes looked into yours and the fact that whenever you pulled your hair out of your ponytail he got a whiff of your shampoo and took in a breath just to get a sniff of your shampoo and the fact that when you walked into a room you stole the attention of everybody there and the fact that you were so confident in your ability to run a squad and the fact that he did you find you pretty but he would never admit it and would rather feed himself to the titans than say so. But other than that, you spoke too much and too loud, you were taller than him, and you were annoying.
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âWeâve got a couple new scouts coming in,â Erwin spoke as he pulled out a sheet of paper from his desk, looking at the list of the new names of soldiers. He had called you and Levi into his office to discuss âimportantâ things.
âI know youâve just been promoted,â he looked up from the paper and into your eyes. âBut these new recruits need some training and no one else is available to train them. Since youâre still a new captain yourself, I think it would be a good idea for Levi to help you and maybe teach you some things.â
Did he think you were incapable of training some new kids just because your promotion was recent? What kind of stupid logic was that? You were perfectly capable of training the new recruits all on your own and did not need that grumpy old short guy to help you.
âSir, do not worry. I donât require the assistance of captain Levi to train these new recruits. I think I know how to do that already,â you kept your hands behind your back and in clenched fists; your ego had taken a blow due to the fact that Erwin believed you needed help to do your job. Besides, you had a squad of your own and trained them yourself, so what made Erwin think you needed help?
âI think you do,â he replied flatly. âYouâre a great captain and youâre good at training, but I think youâre too soft on your soldiers. Your soldiers need more discipline themselvesâŠâ he continued to list more stupid reasons as to why you needed Leviâs help, but you spaced out. Sneaking a peek at Levi standing beside you, you eyed his resting bitch face, absolutely no trace of human emotion on his face. Why was he being so quiet? Was he already informed of this before you? If so, why did he find out before you? Was he okay with doing it and that was why he wasnât saying anything?
âTheyâll be here this afternoon,â Levi turned to look at you, his voice stern and cold. âTheir training will begin as soon as they arrive and if youâre late, youâll be cleaning all the horses for tonight.â
âIâm never late,â you corrected.
âAt yesterdayâs meeting you showed up six minutes late. You are always late.â he told you bluntly.
âWell then, itâs settled. Try not to kill each other in the process of training the new recruits. We need to set an example and show them that the two of you are capable captains.â Erwin said proudly.
âOnly one of us is a capable captain,â Levi says, rolling his eyes and turning to leave the room. Your eyes twitch in annoyance and your footsteps follow Leviâs out the office door. What the hell was he thinking? It would be such a waste of time to have both of you train the new recruits, so why would it be the two of you? And why did he say youâre always late? Youâre never late! And if you werenât a capable captain, why were you promoted? All Levi has ever done is shit on you and take any chance he can get to throw shade at you.Â
âIâll have you know Iâm a very capable captain. In fact, probably more capable than you. Thatâs why everyone likes me more than you,â you start lecturing him, catching up to his footsteps quickly as you follow him.
âPeople only like you more because you are nicer. Niceness does not kill titans; skills and weapons do.â he refuses to look at you, choosing to stare straight ahead.
âI know that.â
âDo you? Because since you became captain and began training more recruits, we have had a higher number of deaths since your dumb promotion.â he finally looked at you, eyes filled with such hatred it was like he could murder you if he stared long enough.
âThatâs not true!â
âOf course you think that,â he rolled his eyes, his flat and monotone voice gone; he was beginning to get pissed. âYou would know our deaths have been higher than usual if you bothered to put in effort and actually read the mission reports.â
âI do read them,â
âNo, you do not. Because if you did, you would realize that the way you discipline and train our soldiers is doing them more harm than good. And you would change your ways of training. But instead, you hang around drinking with the others and making jokes and pulling pranks instead of doing your job properly.â Levi lectured, his voice laced with annoyance and hatred.Â
You always knew Levi thought you did a bad job as a captain, but you never thought he would actually say it to your face. He never said much to you, but when he did, it was just insults and lectures about everything you did wrong as a person.
âAt least I leave time for fun! Youâre all work and no play and this is why nobody likes you, Levi. Why do you think everyone calls you an old grumpy man?â
âOur soldiers are out here dying and you want to have fun? Are you that stupid, or do you just not have a brain? We donât have time for your dumb little games, you idiot. Do you not care about the lives of our soldiers at all? Are you that much of a stupid brat that you are unable to comprehend that?â
You stare blankly at Levi. He was right. You didnât realize it until now, but everything he said was right. While you never intended to poorly train anybody or get anybody killed, you realize that the way you did things probably caused the death of a lot of people because of you. Your heart sank and you were at a loss of words. You would never describe Levi as a nice person, but you didnât think he was going to blow up in your face and insult everything you did. When all you do is stare at him in response, his eyes leave yours and he looks away awkwardly. After blowing up on you and practically yelling at you in the hallway, you grew silent and he was starting to feel awkward.
âSee you tonight.â is all he says before he walks off, leaving you alone in the hallway.
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You were late. And not even by a few minutes, but by two hours. Two whole hours. After yelling at you in the hallways, you had gone to your room to take a nap and sleep off how you were feeling. Unfortunately, you overslept and nobody bothered to come and get you to wake you up.
Levi was going to kill you.
After sprinting your way to the training area like your life depended on it (because it did), you found Levi standing in front of the new recruits, his chin held high and proud as he spoke to them. When you walked up awkwardly to his side, he turned and rolled his eyes at you.
âAh, the incapable captain I told you all about,â he begins, his eyebrows furrowing in annoyance because of your presence.
âAt least I donât need a step stool to grab some cups in the kitchen cabinets,â you automatically responded, straightening out your uniform. Your comment earned a couple laughs from the new recruits.
âDonât forget youâre washing the horses tonight, captain.â his sharp eyes looked up at yours, a mischievous glimmer glowing in them. Ha! He thought you were actually going to listen to him and clean the horses?Â
âYou are not my captain anymore, Levi. We are now equals, so I no longer take orders from you.â you grinned sarcastically. Now that you were standing in front of him again, you began to feel re-pissed from earlier.
âIâve been a captain longer than you.â
âThat doesnât mean anything.â
âYou might be a captain now, but remember you used to be in my squad.â
âThankfully, Iâm no longer part of it.â
Levi turns to you and eyes the pillow mark on your cheek, a smirk coming to play on his lips. When he noticed you werenât on time, he had thought that maybe you were still mad at him earlier and decided you werenât going to show up. While that might have pissed him off, he wouldnât be surprised if that was what you were going to do.
âWhat the fuck are you looking at?â you retorted after noticing that he was looking at you for more than half a second. His stupid face was a waste of good looks.
âShe is a perfect example of what you donât want to do,â he turned back to the recruits. âToo lazy to show up on time and too lazy to fix themselves up before leaving the room.â
Your eyes twitch in annoyance and you lean down slightly to whisper to Levi. âWhen I wash the horses tonight, Iâll be sure to miss yours. I know how pissed you off you get when something or someone isnât clean.â
He knew you werenât joking. He knew that you knew exactly how to push his buttons. And if thereâs one thing he knew about you, it was that you were petty and what you said wasnât a threat, but a promise. But when you leaned down to whisper into his ear, your strands of hair that softly brushed against his cheek had him hesitating to say anything. He got a whiff of your shampoo and looked away. It smelled like peaches. Your whisper felt like a gentle tickle in his ear, your voice so low and sultry it annoyed him.
You were annoying.
âYou donât want to be on her squad. Trust me everyone, sheâd probably get you killed.â Levi tells the recruits, his feet planted firmly where he was standing. He wasnât moving away from you.
âCaptain Levi here would probably overwork you all to death before that happens.â you send a sweet smile to the soldiers standing across from you and Levi.
âRight, well thereâs a reason Iâm humanityâs strongest soldier and not you.â the not-so-subtle brag had you rolling your eyes.
âThereâs also a reason everyone calls you a grumpy old man behind your back,â you smile at everyone and Levi takes a deep breath in annoyance.
âNobody calls me that.â
âEverybody calls you that.â
âThatâs not true.â
âOf course you wouldnât know. I just said that everyone says it behind your back. Were you not listening?â
âEvery time you speak I choose not to listen.â
âChoose not to? Or canât because your hearing is so bad now that youâre old?â
His mouth twitches. He is annoyed. âI might be older than you, but Iâm still stronger than you.
âOh, are you getting irritated, captain? Iâm sorry, I didnât know you were so sensitive to words. Must be a thing that happens when you get oldâŠâ
Before Levi is about to insult you back, the two of you hear a faint voice in the background. âCaptain!â both of you turn around. It was Jean.
âWhy are you interrupting us?â Levi glares, crossing his arms. âWhat do you want?â
âHange told me to come get you guys. Weâve got food in the dining hall to celebrate the new scouts.â
âWeâve barely begun training. They can eat when theyâre finââ
âDinner is serrrrved!â you exclaim, throwing your hands up in the air in victory. âLetâs go eat, newbies! Youâll need all the energy you can get if you are gonna kill some titans!â as you holler and hype up the scouts, you walk off and direct them all to follow you, leaving Levi in the dust.
As he watches you walk off, Leviâs eyes canât help but drift to the person walking beside you. Jean.Â
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Itâs like his eyes had a mind of their own. Almost like it was against his will, Leviâs eyes followed you around the dining hall. You were the life of the party: charismatic, friendly, and humorous. There was music and food and laughing and you were dancing for the scouts, a bright smile plastered on your pretty face. Normally he wouldnât think much of it or even care to look, but a certain someone wouldnât stop looking at you and touching you and being friendly with you.
Jean.
He knew the two of you were friendly, but he never thought it was anything more than that. But tonight, as he was watching you dance, Levi noticed that he wasnât the only one watching you. Jeanâs eyes followed you like you were the only person in the entire room. Jean admired you from his seat, hollering in excitement and hyping you up to the music.Â
Not that Levi cared. Of course not. Why would he? He totally wasnât just sitting on some chair in the corner of the dining hall too cranky or upset to talk to anybody because he didnât like the way Jean was looking at you. Where was Mikasa? Didn't the kid have a crush on her?Â
Levi scoffs to himself, taking a sip of his tea as he continues watching you. He sees you saunter over to Jean, grabbing his cup and taking a sip of it before smiling at him. Leviâs eyes canât help but roll back. Why did you look so happy and smiley next to Jean? Why did it look like you were flirting with him? And why was Levi getting annoyed?
Why did he care anyway? He just found you annoying. Your presence, your personality, your entire being annoyed him. He stood up abruptly, setting his tea down and walking out to get some fresh air.Â
âEnjoying the party?â It was you.
âDid you follow me out here?â He leaned on the wooden fence railing and looked up at the night sky.
âYou stomped out like a cranky old man, so I thought Iâd check up on you.â you teased, coming up and resting your arms on the railing as well.
âI was doing just fine until you came out here. Donât you have your boyfriend to go back to?â he couldnât help but bring up Jean. He was nosy and wanted to so badly know if there was anything going on between the two of you.
âWhich one?â you tried to joke, but you forgot he didnât have a sense of humor because he just stared at you.Â
âAre you curious if I have a boyfriend or not?â you ask after a beat.Â
âI donât care.â
âBullshit. You must be curious at least a little bit. Otherwise, you wouldnât have asked.â you tease, leaning towards him and tilting your head and waiting for an answer.
Fuck, why did you have to look at him like that? Head slightly tilted, hair tousled from dancing around, a bright glimmer of hope beaming in your eyes, something he lost a long time ago. His eyes met yours, and he found himself staring at you. Observing, admiring, memorizing your features. He blamed the glistening stars and the shining light of the moonlight that made you look so beautiful. He had found other people beautiful before, but your beauty couldnât even be compared to others. There was something about you that always hooked his attention, always had his eyes searching for you, and always had his heart beating faster. Although he found you annoying and couldnât stand being near you, when you werenât around he found himself searching for you. Thinking of you. Longing for you.
âAre you staring at me, captain?â you teased sarcastically, a smug smile on your pretty lips.
âYouâre just so ugly itâs unbelievable someone as ugly as you even exists.â what the fuck just came out of his mouth? It was an automatic response, something he would say out of annoyance but not actually mean. Levi felt himself panic a little, his heartbeat speeding up in fear of how you would respond.
âOh yeah?â you smiled once more and his eyes wandered down to your lips. He wondered what they would feel like against his own. âIf Iâm so ugly, why do you keep looking at me? Why donât you look away?âÂ
You leaned in closer to him once more, your lips close to his if you even slightly moved forward you would be kissing. There was a moment of silence that sat between the two of you. You felt his breath on your lips, your gaze moving down to them. His heart began to race; why did it look like you were about to kiss him? Why were your eyes on his lips? And why were his eyes beginning to drift to yours?
âLevi,â your voice a whisper. His head tilted slightly to the side, like he was getting ready to lean and kiss you. The background noise of music and the scouts cheering inside faded away because all he could focus on was your lips.Â
âYes?â He sounded so sweet, so soft. It wasnât like him at all; he had never been this nice to you. Usually when you tried to get his attention he always answered with nothing but a cold attitude.Â
âWhat do you want?â
âIf youâre going to say something stupid like you usually do, go bother someone else. Unlike you, I actually have work to do.â
âDonât fucking talk to me right now. Iâm not interested in whatever bullshit you have to say, you brat.â
âDo youââ you began.
âCAPTAIN!â the door behind you slammed open, a slightly drunk Jean stumbling out and holding his beer up. âWeâre playing a drinking game, come join us!â
âIâm not interested. Fuck off.â Levi angrily replied.Â
âOh. I wasnât talking to you,â Jean awkwardly said, eyes drifting from Levi to you.
âA drinking game? Sounds fun!â you excitedly smiled, straightening back up and pulling away from Levi. As you began to follow Jean back inside, you felt a firm grip on your arm.Â
âSheâs not interested either,â Levi spoke for you, his hand tugging you back to where you were standing next to him. âWeâre discussing mission stuff.â he doesnât know why he said that. A lie like that just rolled off his tongue so easily and so automatically. If he was being honest with himself, he didnât want you to go back inside, but stay out there with him.
Jean seemed to notice the hostile vibe from Levi, nodded, then walked back inside. Leviâs hand stayed wrapped around your arm, his grip strong and firm.
âWhat are you doing?â you asked.
âIf you go back in there and start drinking, youâre just gonna get drunk and Iâm going to have to take you back to your room again.â he complained, but really it was just an excuse to get you to stay out there with him.
âThat was one time!âÂ
âYou fucking threw up on me! Twice!â
âWell, where was I supposed to vomit? My bed?!â
âJust donât throw up at all!â
âHow could you say that to a drunk person?!â
âMaybe donât get drunk and I wonât say that!â
âUgh, whatever. This is why nobody likes you, Levi.â you roll your eyes, shaking your hand from his grip. You get drunk one time and he decides to bring it up at every chance he gets.
âYou think I care about what other people think?â
âI think you care what I think of you.â
âYouâre thinking wrong. Maybe if you actually had a brain you wouldnât say that. I donât know what Erwin was thinking when he promoted someone as stupid and incompetent as you.â
âWhatever, short bitch.â you snorted.
âWhat did you say to me?â
âOh sorry,â you sarcastically apologize, dramatically leaning down. âLemme lean down to your level so you can hear me. I forgot youâre old, too.â
He scoffs, flicking your forehead aggressively with his middle finger. âOW! What the hell was that for?â
âFor being such a brat.â
âWhat? Me wanting to go and have some fun is being a brat?â
âYeah. If Jean hadnât suggested something so stupid, you wouldnât want to do something so stupid.â
âWhat does this have anything to do with Jean?â you questioned. Why was he suddenly bringing Jean up? âWait,â you pointed an accusing finger at him. âAre you jealous?â
âWhat? Are you stupid? What kind of dumb question is that?â he scoffs again, leaning back on the railing and rolling his eyes. He tried to hide it, but the faint pink on his cheeks was obvious.
You gasped dramatically, covering your mouth. âYou are, arenât you?!âÂ
âNo!â
âWould you look at that,â you tilted your head in amusement. âCaptain Levi is jealous.â
âNot only are you stupid, but youâre crazy too.â
âInsult me all you want; I know youâre jealous.â you couldnât help but grin to yourself. Excitement fluttered in your chest and you peeked at Levi, trying to see if he had any sort of reaction.
Although you looked at him and waited for some sort of reaction, Levi was still able to keep himself together. It felt as if his heart was about to explode and his hands were clammy from being nervous and he wanted to avoid all and any eye contact with you because if he even looked at you for one second his facade would break.Â
You wouldnât stop staring. Your soft, inviting, and beautiful eyes would not leave his face and the more you stared the harder it became to keep a straight face. He needed to change the subject.
âAbout the other day after leaving Erwinâs office,â he started. âIâm sorry for what I said. I should have been a little nicer about it.âÂ
Levi apologized? To you? If there was one thing you thought you would never hear from the old grumpy guy, it was an apology.
âEven though what I said is true, I could have worded it better so that you wouldnât cry.âÂ
âI didn't cry!â
âI know you did. I walked by your room after that and heard you.â
âYou listened in on me crying? Youâre such a freak,â you poked fun at him. âI didnât even know you were capable of apologizing. Or even feeling bad.â
âI know youâre a sensitive person.â
âI am not a sensitive person.â
âYes you are.â
âNo, I am noââ
âWould you just shut up and accept my apology?â he burst out, ruthless eyes glaring at you.Â
Levi was an impatient man. âYou donât apologize to someone and demand for them to forgive you,â you lectured. âThatâs not how it works, captain. Of course you wouldnât know; this is probably the first time youâve ever said sorry.â
He knew he shouldnât have apologized because all you were going to do was critique it and annoy him again. âWhatever,â he rolled his eyes, pushing himself off the fence. You knew he was about to leave. âDonât get too drunk. Iâm not going to take you back to your room if you do.â
âIâll have Jean take me to my room then. Or maybe his.â you brought him up again, just to test the waters and make sure he was actually jealous and you werenât just crazy. You didnât actually intend on getting drunk or having Jean escort you back to your room, you just wanted a reaction.
âDo whatever you want.â he brushed you off, waving a hand in dismissal as he began walking away.
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Maybe it was the alcohol or the midnight sky or the glistening stars, but since that night you and Levi were able to have a somewhat decent conversation without wanting to throw the other across the room. And since that night, his insults havenât been as harsh as usual and he didnât jump at every chance to point out everything that was wrong with you. Surprisingly, he actually began to speak to you as if you were a human and had human emotions. It felt weird at first, and you thought that maybe he was only acting that way because you were forced to train the new scouts together, but even after their training finished, he was slightly nicer to you. If he kept it up, you might even consider him your friend.Â
He might have begun being nicer to you, but that wasnât the case for Jean. Jean was getting scolded more often and more harshly than usual, over the smallest things that didnât even matter. It was so obvious that even the other scouts started noticing.
âJeanâs getting scolded again,â you overheard Armin inform his friends in the dining hall. Your eyes shifted to Levi and Jean a couple feet away. Jean was looking away in shame and Levi was staring up at him, mouth going off and blabbering about how his tea was lukewarm.
âOver what?â Eren asked.
âCaptain Levi asked Jean to heat up his tea, but apparently it wasnât hot enough.â
âHA! He probably deserved it!â Eren cracked up, grabbing his stomach in the process to soothe his laughter.
âBut havenât you noticed too,â Armin lowered his voice in an attempt to be more secretive. You heard your name and all of a sudden their conversation was interesting and now you were listening on purpose. âHeâs been so nice to her latelyâŠâÂ
You began to crane your neck towards the young scouts, nosy and desperate to hear what they were saying about you. Nonchalantly taking a sip of your drink, you felt a firm hand grip your shoulder. âCaptain,â you looked up.Â
It was Levi. You never thought much of it before, but now that Levi was referring to you as captain had your heart doing leaps in your chest. It was small and insignificant, but something about him putting respect on your name and calling you with your title made you feel appreciated.
âCome with me. Mission meeting.â
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You had forgotten that Erwin asked the two of you to team up and join squads together on an upcoming mission. Since Levi had toned down his attitude towards you, Erwin took it as a sign and assumed the two of you were growing closer. Unfortunately, the mission didnât run as smoothly as you had hoped.
You sustained an injury, it was light and minor, but it still worried everyone. You had crashed into a tree, a couple tree branches scraping you and drawing blood. You had hastily ripped off a part of your shirt, clumsily wrapping it around the injury on your arm in an attempt to stop the bleeding. Now that you were back in the walls safely, you were trying to wrap your arm up again with bandages with one hand. You struggled, failing to wrap it around your bleeding arm, cursing under your breath and debating whether or not you should go out and ask for someoneâs help. Luckily, someone walked into the room to help you.Â
That someone was Levi.
He walked in silently, his light footsteps were the only sound in the room as he walked up to you. âNeed help?â
âNo, I donât. Iâm perfectly capable of doing it on my own.â
âDoesnât look like it. Youâre still bleeding.â
âIâm not blind, I can see that.â you remarked, once again struggling to wrap the bandage around your arm. You hissed in frustration and pain. Why wouldnât the stupid bandage just wrap around you?
âYouâre such an idiot,â he commented, stepping in front of where you were sitting. He stood between your legs, your legs touching his. He didnât make a move to pull away, his slender fingers brushing against yours as he took the bandage from your hands and gently wrapping it around your wound. His hands were soft. Contrasting his personality and attitude, his hands handled you with a gentle touch.
âI told you to be careful before we left for the mission,â he said, securing the bandage around your arm. Your eyes drifted to his slender hands, veins slightly protruding as he applied pressure to the bandage. âAnd you didnât listen.â
âYou think I wanted to get hurt on purpose?â you retorted, rolling your eyes and wincing at the pain of your injury.
âDoes it hurt?â
âDuh.â
âWeakling,â he finished wrapping you up, his eyes staring down into yours. âYou need to be more careful next time.â his voice was almost a whisper, filled with a slight touch of concern.
âI know that already.â your eyes stayed on his. His sharp eyes focused on your face, his pupils darting around the details on your face. Was there something on your face? You felt a rush of insecurity and an embarrassing blush grew on your cheeks. âIs there something on my face? Why do you keep looking at me, huh? Got a crush on me or something?âÂ
You watched Levi inhale deeply, his breath lightly brushing against your cheek and you suddenly realized just how close he was standing in front of you. Even though he already finished wrapping you up, he was still standing close to you, his legs brushing against yours. You watched his Adam's apple bob up and down as he swallowed nervously, his eyes going from watching your face to looking away.
âDonât be ridiculous,â he warned.
âOh?â you suddenly smiled with confidence. You loved watching him when you irritated him; he got annoyed so easily it was amusing. And when he got irritated, the warning look he shot at you with his eyes sharpened and hard, made you want to push his buttons even more.Â
âIs it really so ridiculous? Because you canât seem to take your eyes off me, just like the other night. Am I really so ugly youâre unable to look away?â you remark, thinking about how he called you ugly the other night in a panic when you caught him staring at you.
âYeah,â he agreed. âIâve never seen anyone as unattractive as you are.â his eyes dropping down to your lips and lingering on them.Â
You donât know why, but in the moment you wondered how he would react if you kissed him. The looks he kept giving you made you weak in the knees and you couldnât help but want to give into your desires.Â
âThen why are you staring at my lips, captain?â you challenged, a teasing smile creeping up.
âBecause you talk too much,â his eyes darted to yours for just a beat before dropping back down to your lips. âYou talk too muchâŠâ he repeated, but this time it was a whisper, his lips hovering over yours. âAnd youâre too loudâŠâ he whispered, his voice laced with a strange sweetness you had never heard before.
âI talk too much and Iâm too loud? Oh yeah, then what else do you hate about me?âÂ
âYouâre too cocky,â he answers you, his arms coming down to rest on the chair you were sitting down on either side of you. You got a whiff of his scent and inhaled the smell of bar soap. âAnd when youâre hanging around the other scouts, you dance so horribly it hurts to look at.â his head tilts to the side almost as if he was ready to kiss you. All you had to do was move forward the tiniest bit and youâd get to taste his lips.
âYou watch me when I dance?â you grin, tilting your head the other way and leaning in just a bit. When you leaned in, you noticed he didnât make a move to lean away from you. You have never been this close to Levi, so now that you were, you felt a rush of excitement and wanted more of it.Â
âYeah, youâre so bad at it, itâs entertaining.â you saw a small grin appear on his face, something you almost never saw.
âOh yeah?â
âYeah,â he quickly says before leaning down and lightly brushing his nose against yours, if he moved any closer his lips would be on yours. He exhales against your skin, his breathing uneven as he attempts to hold himself back.Â
When he doesnât make a move, you grow impatient and lean in to kiss him yourself. To your surprise, he doesnât pull away, but instead surrenders to his desires and closes his eyes. He is still for a moment, and you wonder if it is because he regrets kissing you back or if it is because heâs nervous. You lean in to him a bit, trying to signal to him to start actually kissing you back. The faint taste of black tea covers your lips before a sudden realization, and your eyes shoot open.
âWas that your first kiss?â you ask, pulling away and smirking down at him, the new memory of levi moving his lips against your clumsily in an attempt to kiss you made you smile.Â
His eyes widened in fear and embarrassment. âW-What? No!â
âOh my, captain. I didnât know you had this side to you. Wanna kiss again? I'll show you how to do it.â you wink, enjoying the slight blush that crept up on his cheeks as his eyes looked everywhere but yours.
âIâve kissed people before!â
âYour mother doesnât count.â
âI wasnât talking about her!â
You grab his chin, tilting it downwards as you look up at him. âThatâs cute. Youâre cute. Kiss me again,â you lean in excitedly. After finding out how inexperienced he was, it made you want to kiss him even more. When youâre about to lean in and kiss him again, Levi panics and hastily puts his hands on his shoulder to stop you.
âIâwhat are you doing?!âÂ
âWhat? You donât wanna kiss me anymore?â
âYou⊠you brat. You made fun of me,â there is a slight pout on his lips.
Oh. He was hurt you had made fun of him. Well, you didnât know he was that sensitive to it. âSorry,â you tell him. You stand up, stepping away from him because now youâve just made it awkward and feel the urge to leave. When you wait for his response and itâs silent, you decide to leave.Â
Levi canât believe what he just did. He let you kiss him?! What the hell was he thinking? Was he actually out of his mind? Of all the people there, why did it have to be you? All you ever did was annoy him with your stupid face and stupid and arrogant attitude.
But as he continues standing there after you had just walked out, he canât help but want to go after you and apologize. He canât help but want to tell you that he was just nervous and excited and that he didnât know what to do and that he actually did want to kiss you.Â
Your lips were warm and soft and even though it was a moment, your kiss made him feel safe. Your kiss had him melting, wanting more. More of the kiss and more of you.Â
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It was freezing. Levi should have gone back to his room and tried to light a fire again and cover himself with his blankets and gone to sleep but his mind was too busy with thoughts.
Thoughts of you.
His eyes fluttered closed for a moment as he leaned on the fence outside his roomâs porch, breathing in the crisp midnight breeze. In his head, vivid images of your lips on his invaded his mind. A pink blush crept on his cheeks as he recalled the exhilarating feeling of your lips on his. He hastily shook his head; he didnât want to give into that feeling. He was falling for you and he was falling hard. He had to get his head straight.Â
Taking a deep breath in an attempt to push away thoughts of you, he walked back into his room and tried to light a fire again. His stupid clumsy hands couldnât light the stupid fire and was getting annoyed. His mind jumped to an outrageous idea: what if he just visited your room so he could just use the fireplace there instead of wasting his time trying to use his? Was he just using that as an excuse to go visit your room? Of course not. It would be such a waste of matches if he lit his own fire. And, of course, he wouldnât want to waste his matchesâŠÂ
Levi felt ridiculous. What the hell was he doing, standing in front of your door in the middle of the night and knocking? Was he that desperate to see you he had to come find you in the middle of the night? And what was that dumb excuse of using your fireplace for heat to come see you?
âLevi?â you raised an eyebrow in confusion when you opened the door. âWhatâre you doing here?â
His eyes immediately looked you up and down, admiring your figure as you stood there in your nightgown, waiting for him to answer you.
âCaptain,â he spoke, at a loss of what to say. âUm, well itâs a little coldâŠâ
âYeah.â
âA-And I was trying to make a fire, but I couldnât.â
âOkay.â
âSo I thought maybeâmaybe you had a fire going in your room.â he sounded awkward and rigid. God, why was he struggling to get words out that made sense? He was already mortified enough he came knocking at your door in the middle of the night, but he was even more mortified when he noticed the way you look. Your nightgown was thin, almost see through, and he could see the curve of your breasts through it, your nipples peeking out from the thin material.
âWell, as you can see,â you opened the door slightly wider and showed him your fireplace. âI do have a fire going.â
âThatâs what I thought,â he paused, trying to decide how he wanted to ask if he could come in. No matter how much he thought about it in the mere second he hesitated, there was no good way to ask. No matter how he would word it, heâd sound desperate and obvious that he just wanted to come in and see you.Â
âYou already said that.â
He decided to just rip off the bandaid; he already looked pathetic showing up at your room, there was no point in pretending anymore. âDo you mind if I come in? For the⊠for the fire? Itâs a little cold.â he sheepishly asked, nervously rubbing the back of his neck. Jeez, he felt like such a loser.
Until now, he didnât see you show any sort of reaction or emotion to him knocking on your door, until now.
You tilted your head in amusement, a smirk growing on your face. âOh? Are you sure thatâs the only reason you want to come in, captain?â you teased, leaning down slightly to meet his eyes.Â
Leviâs eyes couldnât help but wander down to your cleavage, the cut of your dress was low and exposed you. âWhat other reason would I have?â
âOh, I donât know,â you feigned innocence. But if someone saw us, they could assume youâre here for something else besides just wanting to warm upâŠâ you told him mischievously, your eyes checking the hallway for anyone. His eyes bulged and his breath caught in his throat, unable to come up with a response.Â
âIâm joking,â you break the silence, crossing your arms and smiling at his response. When Levi wasnât lecturing you or yelling at you, he was cute. âCome in.â he walked in silently, choosing to sit on a chair as you sat on your bed.Â
âSo what brings you to my room at this hour?â
He didnât want to outright say it was because he wanted to see you, but he wanted to see you. âIâm sorry,â he began. âAbout earlier. I panicked, so thatâs why I pushed you away.â
âNo worries, thereâs no need to apologize. I wasnât mad.â
That was it? Levi was overthinking and worried that he had upset you, but you brushed it off like it was no big deal.
âOh. Okay.â
âWas that all you needed?â
âUm,â heâs trying to think of something else to sayâsomething else to say, so that he wonât have to leave (really so that you wonât kick him out and he has an excuse to stay), but his mind has been blurry since he stepped foot into your room. He is nervous: hands clammy and shaky, breathing uneven and louder than usual, and eyes struggling to meet yours.Â
âYou look like you want to kiss me.â
âWhat?! No, I donât!â
âOh yeah? Then why do you keep looking at my lips?â you questioned.
He didnât realize his eyes kept running back to your lips. He stands up abruptly, heading for the door in embarrassment. Levi reaches for the door, stepping forward to walk out. When heâs halfway out the door, he panics, quickly backing into your room, but he bumps into you.
âWhatâre youââ you had originally stood up to watch him leave and close the door when he backs into your space. You get a whiff of his hair, it smells subtle and clean.Â
âShit,â he slams the door and turns around. âI saw someone in the hallway.â
âAnd?â you look down into his eyes, panic rising in them.
âWhat would people think if they saw me walking out of your room in the middle of the night?â he nervously says, fidgeting with his hands in front of him, his back pressed against your bedroom door as he looks into your eyes.
âWell,â you start. âWhy are you really here anyways? Is it actually because youâre cold? Or is it something more?â your tone sounds suggestive.
âYouâve misunderstood.â he speaks, his voice barely a whisper and his eyes lingering on your lips.Â
âDid I?â you reply, your eyes dropping down to his lips. He licks them unconsciously, almost leaning in.
âYes, I donât like you that way.â a total lie.Â
âYou donât like me?â you smile and lean closer to him. He stands there firmly, his nose brushing against yours as he finally looks up into your eyes.
âNot at all.â he doesnât even bother to try and hide the fact heâs lying.Â
âThen why do you keep staring at my lips? You look like you wanna kiss me.â you told him again.
âNo,â he inhales sharply, his breathing uneven as he moves his mouth dangerously closer to yours.Â
âSo what? You hate me?â
âYes,â he leans in, pressing his lips against yours. His lips are still against yours for a moment before he pulls away, cheeks red and eyes droopy. âI hate you.â
Maybe it was because your room was warm and cozy and inviting, or maybe because it was late at night and he was just desperate and lonely, but kissing you had Levi feeling shaky and nervous but excited. Your lips were warm and soft against his and he found himself wanting to press his body against yours in an attempt to be closer to you.Â
He had tried so hard to suppress his desires to be with you, to be near you, to want you. But the walls he forcefully put up were crumbling so easily with a simple kiss from you.Â
He leans in again, this time more aggressive and desperate. You smile into the kissâhe had no idea what he was doing. But the fact that he was so desperate and wanted more so badly he was willing to make a move himself had you feeling warm and fuzzy on the inside. You pull away, his lips searching for yours as you do.
âGentle now, captain.â you whisper. It felt as if he was in a rush when there was no need for that.
Your hand gently came up to his cheek, softly touching his skin. He leans into your touch, his eyes fluttering closed. It was like he was under a spell: he was so quiet and so desperate, it wasnât like the usual Levi.
âStill hate me?â you joke.
His eyes open. This time, theyâre no longer empty. His eyes are soft, focused on yours, hopeful of what is to come next.
âYes.â
âI like you, too.â you lean in, kissing him slowly and gently. Your hands snake through his hair, tilting his head slightly to gain better access to his lips. His arms wrap around your neck, pulling you closer to him as he presses his body up against yours. His back is pressed up against the door, and you can feel his rapid heartbeat through his shirt causing you to smile into the kiss. He quickly becomes breathless, pulling away from you, his lips hovering over yours.Â
As quickly as he pulls away, he pushes himself into you again, longing for more. You kiss him back, your tongue lightly licking at his mouth, asking for permission. He hesitantly opens his mouth into the kiss. Kissing him makes you feel as if youâre drunk. Itâs so addicting and so satisfying it makes you want more. You lick inside his mouth, your fingers tightly gripping the roots of his hair. You pull away, your fingers grabbing his hair and tugging on it and forcing him to look into your eyes. He breathes heavily, his eyelids barely open and lips glistening wet.
âKiss me more,â he breathes.Â
âWhy should I?â you tease.
âI wantâno, need more of you.â
âIf you want me that bad, beg for it.â
You wanted Levi to beg for it?! As if he wasnât already embarrassed enough, you were going to make him beg for more? Did he look that desperate you thought you could make him beg for it and heâd pull through and actually do it? There was no way he was going to do that. Absolutely not. Heâd ratherâ
âPlease,â he automatically said. Even though his head was telling him not to, his heart wouldnât listen. His hands run down your back and wrap around your waist. You can feel the warmth of his hands through your nightgown, his hands rubbing at your hips soothingly.
âHmm?â you pretend you have no idea what heâs talking about. He leans into your side, his breath tickling your ear as he breathes in the scent of your hair. The hands on your hips pull you towards him, his hips pressing against yours, the pressure causing him to twitch in his pants.
âCome on,â he whispers as he tries to control his breathing. He felt unsteady, his breath uneven as he held himself back. âDonât make me beg.â
Heâs embarrassed. âGuess you donât like me enough to beg,â you shrug, letting him go and crossing the room to sit on your bed.
Levi stays at your door for a moment, debating whether or not he wants to give into your desires. When his hand comes up to lock your bedroom door knob, you smirk. He makes his way over to where youâre sitting, politely kneeling down in front of you. He looks up at you through his strands of hair, his usual sharp eyes looking round and soft like a puppy.
âPlease,â he says again. âTell me what to do.â his hands come up to grab your shins, his fingers sneaking underneath your dress and caressing your skin gently. His slender hands make their way up to your knees and he tentatively lifts your nightgown to leave a loving kiss on your knee.Â
He looks back up to see you staring down at him, a playful smirk painted on your face. You canât help but smile at the fact that Levi was on his knees in front of you, so willing and eager to do whatever you wanted. He looked so submissiveâhis back slightly arched, shaky hands holding onto you, and voice whiny. You felt a throb in your core, taking a deep breath in an attempt to control yourself so you wouldnât pounce on him right then and there.
âCome up here,â you whisper softly and he follows you immediately and crawls up the bed, his legs straddling your lap as he nervously sits on top of you.Â
Your hands come up to squeeze his thighs, his muscles tensing as soon as you do. He wraps his hands around your neck, pulling you closer to him as your eyes move to his neck. You imagine he would look good with hickies. So you lean in, leaving a small kiss on his neck. After a few small kisses, you canât help but nibble on his skin, biting the sensitive area and sucking on his soft skin. He reacts quickly, pulling you closer to himself and pushing your head into his neck. It is faint and quiet, but a small moan escapes his lips and his hand comes up to immediately cover his mouth.
You wanted to hear more. As your tongue traces his skin and as you start leaving marks on his neck, his head tilts back in pleasure, whimpers beginning to leave his pretty lips. He bites down on his bottom lip, gulping as he tries his hardest to stay quiet. But the more he whimpers, the harder you suck on his skin, and he canât help but start rocking his hips involuntarily.
âHnghh,â he whines, his hips rocking against your thighs, desperate for some friction. Your hands move from his thighs up to his ass, grabbing it and squeezing shamelessly as his hips rock faster.Â
You pull away from him, cupping his ass one more as he whimpers in pleasure. Levi looks down at you, eyes dropping down to your lips as he leans in and licks at your mouth. This time the kiss is sloppy, rushed, and impatient. The more time that passes between the both of you, the more desperate you become. You bite down on his bottom lip, aggressively pulling him into you as you kiss him harder.Â
âHaaa,â he pulls away breathlessly, his rocking hips slowing down. âIâve run out of patience.â
âI noticed.â
âI want it so badly. I want you so badly. P-please,â he huffs.
âHave a little more patience, Levi.â you stroke his cheek tenderly. âWeâve got the whole night.â
He blushes, his hands coming up to reach for the first button on his shirt. âItâs a little hot in here,â his hands tremble, failing to undo his button.Â
You smirk, watching him nervously try to undress. âTrying to give me a show?â
âStop-stop teasing me,â he pouts, grabbing your hand and bringing it to his chest. âUndress me.â he demands.
âWhatever you say, captain.â your skillful fingers work at his shirt buttons, easily undoing them and pulling his shirt off for him. Heâs slender but muscular, and when your eyes admire his figure, you spot his hardened erection through his pants. He doesnât bother to cover it up out of embarrassment, instead, choosing to grab your hand and guide it to where he really wants it.Â
You start gently rubbing him through the cloth, his hips slowly, rocking against the friction of your hands. You were surprised he seemed so open about what he wantedâyou had thought he was going to be shyer. You stroked his hard dick through the thin material of his pants, his head leaning into the crook of your neck. He breathes in and out slowly, trying to keep his composure but it slowly begins to fade the more aroused he grows because of you.
He whimpers, his hips slowing down to a stop. âIâm ready for more,â he whispers against your ear and climbs off of you, grabbing you on top of him as he lies on the mattress.Â
âHmm,â you begin, your fingers slowly undoing his pants. âHow many people have you been with, Levi?â you asked innocently, your hands tugging at his pants. He lifts his hips up, allowing you to slip off his pants and underwear. His hardened cock lies against his flat stomach, glistening with his pre-cum. Â
âNot many,â he answers. âI donât have a lot of experience.â he continues shyly and looks away in embarrassment.Â
âCute,â you grab him, your hand stroking him from his shaft to his tip. You lean over him, sticking out your tongue and letting saliva drip onto his tip, making sure to maintain eye contact with him. His eyes widen, surprised at what youâre doing but pleasured. Your saliva coats him, allowing you to more easily stroke him, your thumb circling over his tip. His hips automatically thrust upwards into your hand, his own hands gripping the bed sheets. You feel him twitch in your hands, smirking to yourself as you bring your mouth down to him once more.Â
Leviâs mind is hazy and his judgment is clouded. Itâs like heâs under a spell from you, he desires so much from you and is so willing to do absolutely anything for you to fulfill those desires. His head tilts downwards to watch you, your eyes hungry and determined. He canât help but whimper even though you havenât gone down on him completely, he is just desperate for anything at this point. He watches you smack his cock on the tip of your tongue playfully, your hand expertly stroking his shaft. He moans, making sure to cover his mouth so that nobody else hears but you.Â
His eyes are still trained on yours though, watery as tears begin to fill his eyes. He feels your mouth take in all of his length, sucking him in as your hands massage his thighs. He feels you forcefully spread his legs wider, and his cheeks heat up. If it werenât for the low lighting in the room, he would collapse from embarrassment. It was something about him splayed out on your bed, legs spread open by your hands that had him feeling a little too exposed and humiliated. Strangely, he liked it. He enjoyed being underneath you, allowing you to do whatever you desired with his body.
There was something about Levi in tears, whining and whimpering for more underneath you that had you shaking in excitement. His whimpers were like music to your ears and all you wanted in the moment was to hear more of it. He wasnât afraid to hold back how good he was feeling and it made you want to please him even more. You took him in your mouth once more, your tongue swirling over his sensitive tip. His hips canât help but thrust again, and you hold him down, pushing down on his thighs with your hands. You come back up, your mouth leaving a string of saliva as you pull away from him. He already looks out of breath, his forehead slightly glistening with sweat as he struggles to catch his breath.
âYou look like you need some relief,â you tease, crawling up to straddle him. You begin lifting your dress to take it off, and his eyes immediately drift to your breasts. He watches you undress in silence, choosing to quietly admire you from a distance.Â
He chuckles quietly, his hands grabbing at your thighs. He rubs up and down at your skin, his eyes focused on yours. âYou look like you want to sit on my face,â he replies.
âI think youâre the one who wants me to,â you smirk, moving to hover over his face. You catch a glimpse of excitement and arousal in his eyes.
âI do,â he confesses. âI want to taste you so bad,â he continues, biting down on his bottom lip. âPleaseâplease let me.â
âWell, since you seem so desperate.â you smile, grabbing the headboard in front of you as he grabs you, forcefully sitting you on top of his face.Â
His tongue immediately comes up to lick you, and he moans. His hands snake back to grab your ass, pushing you further onto his mouth as he struggles to find your clit. You chuckle, angling your hips and thrusting in his face so that your clit gets the stimulation you need. You begin to ride his face, your hips aggressively thrusting as he moans into you. You wonder if heâs struggling to breathe, so you pull away a bit, but he pulls you back into him, his hands squeezing your ass cheeks as he laps at your pussy, whimpering in pleasure. You pull away, his face shining with your wetness and cheeks rosy.Â
âNot bad,â you tell him, grabbing his chin with your hands. âNow itâs time to open up, captain.â your fingers ghost over his lips and he automatically opens them, taking in your two fingers. His tongue is warm and wet and swirls around your fingers as his eyes close in pleasure. He moans against your fingers as you shove them deeper into his mouth, making sure to coat them in his saliva. When you pull them out, you bring your fingers to your wetness, rubbing at your entrance.
âFuck,â he whispers, his hand coming up to stroke his dick as he watches you tease yourself. He moans again, watching as you rub your clit, your fingers teasing yourself once more as you insert a finger into yourself. You moan, thrusting into your own fingers and Levi strokes himself faster, captivated by you.Â
âPlease,â he starts, tapping your thigh with his hand politely. Cute. âFuck me, please. I need you so bad. Please, please fuck me.â he desperately asks, his eyes tearing up once again.Â
âOh? How badly do you want it?â you hover over him, rubbing your clit on his dick, your hips slowly grinding against him.Â
âAhh,â he moans and grabs your hips and presses you onto his cock. âPlease⊠please ride me. I want you to fuck me so badly, please.â a tear slides down his cheek, more tears swelling in his beautiful eyes.
You feel yourself throb as you hover over him, patience thin. You push yourself into him, taking in his cock and throwing your head back in pleasure. You tighten around him and feel him throb inside of you. You bite down on your lip to contain your moans, making sure to keep quiet. Levi, however, was the total opposite. He was so aroused and so desperate and so turned out it was like he had completely forgotten that the walls were thin and it was late at night and people were trying to sleep. He was moaning loudly, tears escaping his eyes as he cried out to you in pleasure. He was thrusting upwards into you, frantic for some friction. His hands were gripping his bedsheets once again as he fucked himself into you, whimpers escaping his pretty lips.Â
âFuck,â you mumbled as you bounced on top of him, taking in his dick. âPeople are going to hear you if you donât quiet down.â you warned, leaning down to get closer to his face.Â
âHnngh, Iâm sorry,â he whispers, tilting his chin up for a kiss. You give in, sloppily kissing him as he opens his mouth to let you in, moaning into your mouth as his hips begin thrusting faster. You pull away from him, breathless as your hand sneaks down to rub your clit. He pulls you into him, holding you close as his hand strokes your hair lovingly. You feel him breathe against your ear, whimpering in pleasure as you continue to ride him. You feel yourself growing closer, so you begin to ride him faster as his moans grow louder in volume.
âH-Harder,â he breathes. âPlease fuck me harder.â he pleads and you oblige, your hips speeding up along with his thrusts. Heâs more vocal now, whining your name and moaning as if there isnât somebody sleeping right next door.Â
âHaaa,â he sighs, face flushed and hips struggling to keep up. He throws his head back against the pillows, panting in pleasure and hands coming up to grab your thighs, fucking himself harder into you. You feel the familiar knot in your stomach, your pussy squeezing down on him as you rub yourself, hips stuttering as a wave of pleasure takes over and you cum, toes curling and holding onto his hands that grab at yours. When he feels you cum on him, he whimpers and bucks into you, unable to hold himself back any longer. You pull yourself off of him and he moans, his cum spurting out and landing on his stomach. His face is flushed and heâs out of breath; he looked beautiful.
His eyes bore into yours, and it is silent in the room except for the sound of both of you catching your breath. As you come down from your high, you climb off of him, your legs trembling. Levi immediately sits up, grabbing your shoulder gently to sit you back down.Â
âIâll help clean up,â he assures you, leaving a kiss on your cheek.
After the two of you clean up in silence, he wonders if you are going to let him stay there, or kick him out. Now that the two of you have given in to your desires to have sex, what now? Should he confess his feelings to you now that heâs realized them, or wait for you to say something? What if you just thought tonight was nothing more than a no strings attached sex? His heart sank at the idea. He didnât want that at all. He wanted to be with you. He wanted to be yours. Watching you finish changing your bed sheets, he awkwardly crosses the room to stand next to you.
âUm,â he starts, and you stop what youâre doing to look at him. âDo you need help? Withâwith your sheets..?â
âNo, as you can see, Iâm done.â you gesture to your made bed.
âO-Oh,â he pauses, nervous and unsure of what to say.Â
You look at him, watching him rub the back of his neck out of anxiety and awkwardness. âLevi,â you start.
âCaptain,â he automatically responds.Â
âDo you like me?â
His eyes widen and he appears to be taken back. âUh, IâYes. I⊠I thought it was obvious.â
âYou never actually said it. I was the only one to confess.â you point out.
âOh.â here it was. Here was the moment he had to pour out his feelings and confess his love for you. The only thing was, he was so horrible with words.Â
âUm,â he starts. How many times has he said that already? Jeez, he felt so stupid and nervous and embarrassed. âAt firstâI thought I hated you. I thought you were a horrible captain and bad at your job and annoying and a terrible dancer and I also thought you talked way too much and sometimes it would give me a headache and youâre also really cocky, butââ he stopped himself. Why was he insulting you? He was supposed to confess his feelings and all he did was start insulting you? What the hell was wrong with him?Â
âS-Sorry. Iâm sorry. What Iâm trying to say isâI⊠I like you. A lot. And⊠and, if youâI would like to be yours. All yours.â he pouted, disappointed in his confession of love.Â
You smile, pulling him into a sweet kiss. âWell, you couldâve just said so, captain.â
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âDid you hear?â you overheard Armin whisper quite loudly to his friends as you sit a couple tables away from them in the dining hall with Levi. He was drinking tea as you munched on a sandwich.Â
âHe confessed his feelings to her! Captain Levi?! Can you believe that? I always thought he hated her!â he said excitedly, hitting Erenâs arm.
âPlease, sheâs out of his league.â Jean pointed out sourly, a hint of jealousy in his voice.
You thought you were the only one listening in on them, but when you look over to Levi, heâs smirking in victory after hearing what Jean said.
âHow do you know that?â Mikasa asks Armin.
âHange said she saw Levi walking into her room a couple nights ago around midnight,â he begins. âAnd she said they were loud! Especially captain Levi!â
You eye Levi, and as soon as he hears what Armin says, he spits out his tea, coughing as his eyes widen in embarrassment. You laugh, rubbing his back to soothe him.Â
âI warned you that someone would hear.â you tease.
âThat shithead Hangeââ he coughs again, his face turning red. âShut up, you brat.â
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a/n: thank you sm for reading! i didnât mean for it to be this long lmao
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bruh i need to vent about a rude comment i got on my recent chap and also about clora, cuz its something thats been on my mind for a while now. it has spoilers to my most recent chap tho so im putting it below
so in my most recent chap clora gets hit by the killing curse but thanks to seb sacrificing himself for her, it doesnât work/she survives. and I got a rly rude comment about how thatâs super cringe and that clora is a "shoe horning of every possible manifestation of Mary-Sueism I have ever seen." theyre dropping my fic after almost 500k words bc apparently THATâS where they draw the line and that "just somehow pulling it out the bag and surviving a killing curse from the power of love. In simpler terms, itâs absolutely cringe worthy" and "forgive me if I rolled an eye at the yet again invincible nature of Clora Clemons-the-one-eighth-Veela-extraordinaire"
BUT LIKE LMAO TELL ME U DIDNâT READ/WATCH HARRY POTTER WITHOUT TELLING ME. thatâs literally what happens to harry??but its only cringe when it happens to our "mary-sue" clora? like yeah sure love magic might be a bit cringe but IM LITERALLY JUST PULLING FROM THE SOURCE MATERIAL. of all the things to take issue with in my fic and interpretations, theyre taking issue with something thatâs canon BAHAHA.
and since im on the topic of clora being mary sue can I just say I hate the misogyny/internalized misogyny that i've seen some people (NOT A LOT, THANKFULLY) treat her with. like i get it, im not pale and blonde and as conventionally pretty as clora is, but even if I was, is that a reason to hate me?? and does being beautiful and well-liked = mary sue? bc as far as I know, mary sue is a chara who is just naturally amazing at everything and doesnt need to try hard and theyre just inexplicably great for no reason (like mc in the base game BAHHAA) if anything the mary sue in MY fic is seb LMAO (but hes a boy so its ok). like clora has worked hard and studied magic all her life due to being a squib and wanting to make up for not being able to DO it. she isnt good at flying, seb is still better at her than duelling, shes really short sighted when it comes to doing/thinking whats best for others and can be a huge idiot.... and like. the only guys that have even shown interest in clora on a real scale have been seb and leander (and then lawley for blackmail purposes, and also bc he hates seb) so its not like literally everyone is falling over themselves for her?? like her interactions with the main cast of boys (ominis, garreth, amit) theyre all indifferent to her LMAO but still, the fact that shes pretty and guys here and there might look at her and go o shes cute! doesnt make her a mary sue SORRy thats just called being attractive idk its just annoying that ppl automatically see a nice kind beautiful female character without any VISIBLE flaws and go SHES TOO PERFECT!! MARY SUE!! WAH IM JEALOUS! and like I get it bc when I was younger I probs would have been annoyed by clora as well due to my own insecurities and internalized misogyny but hey, how about u just realize thatâs ur own problem and your own jealousy, and not a real one HAHAH anyway ive since evolved bc I used to be a ânot like other girlsâ type girl back in highschool. trying to be super tomboy-y bc I thought being feminine was cringe and too basic but now ive embraced it and love girly things and dresses and charas like clora who are still strong and showcase their strengths and weaknesses in subtler ways, and I want to smooch her and make out with her. get behind me clora ill protect youđ€șđ€șđ€ș
#choccytalky#finally using that tag#tho its more like CHOCCYRANTY holy this is so long BHAHAHA#also one more thing idk why ppl think its ok to give unsolicited criticism to fanfic writers. like these are stories we're writing for US#and for free like u dont have to rudely declare how unhappy you are with it and that youre stopping. like what do u want me to do#do u want a refund?? BYE!! JUST GO!! like. i also wouldnt want unsolicited criticism or critiques on my visual/drawn art#and ppl understand that. so whys it so hard to understand ppl ALSO dont want it on their writing? both take effort#and giving actual valid criticism is a skill (which is why it was literally a CLASS when i was in uni)#i need a drink#and by that i mean COKE ZERO BABYYYYYYY#AND MORE DRAGONS DOGMA 2
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