"Yunoh, what the hell! No foods allowed. Can't you read that, you moron?" Eunae hissed with the softest voice she could ever have.
They were doing a trigonometry assignment in the library when she found out Yunoh sneaked in some chips in his bag. It was not long enough when he began eating them one by one, while snapping his head left and right, looking ever so foolishly as if trying not to be caught.
"Oh, come on, there's no freaking way they would see me."
"Of course, they won't see you," Eunae muttered sarcastically with a smile, rolling her eyes, and clasping her hands together on top of the table. "They would only hear you because you eat like a goddamn pig! At least, close your mouth!"
"Whatever you say, sunshine!" He yelled playfully, quickly earning them a loud sneer of 'be quiet!' from the librarian that made them snort.
"Gosh, Yunoh, what are you even doing," Eunae slapped his arms lightly, whilst shaking her head.
He could be the most reliable person she could ever think of, but at the same time, he could also take the crown for being the silliest she had ever met.
"I'm wating," Yunoh shrugged before giving her a familiar mischievous look.
"Wha-"
Before Eunae could even finish her sentence, she was immediately cut off when Yunoh tugged her wrist and slung their bags around his shoulders. She could barely figure out where they were heading with his broad back blocking her view as soon as he brought her out of the library.
"Let's play some basketball," was his playful suggestion that quickly had the color draining from her face.
"Oh god, no."
"Oh god, yes," he imitated her playfully, enough to earn him a yank.
But as if she even had a choice, Eunae eventually found herself inside the school's gym, picking up the couple of balls Yunoh was throwing inside the basketball ring.
Her frustrated face unchanging as she threw back another ball at him, hitting him in the knee.
"You said, we're going to play basketball!" Eunae crossed her arms over her chest and huffed. Her eyes rolling at the back of her head before they pierced through his body.
"Aren't we playing?" Yunoh laughed, caressing his knee as if it did really hurt before shooting once again.
Eunae huffed, throwing the ball back at him as hard as she could, "You're playing, I'm not! I'm just here picking these goddamn balls for you!"
"Easy, sunshine," Yunoh chuckled, seemingly finding her frustration funny.
She, however, was not having any of it.
"You took away my trigonometry time, had the librarian sneered at us, and now, you're making get all those bouncing balls like a ball boy."
"Hey!" An audible squeal left her lips when a pair of bulky arms wrapped around her waist. A sweaty body, out of nowhere, flushed against hers and catching her off guard.
"Alright, here, let me teach you how to shoot," was Yunoh's proposition that sounded like wedding bells in her ears.
With her ticker beating way too rapidly than how it usually did and how her head turned incredulously hazy, Eunae felt as though she was going to faint.
The familiar way on how his arms securely held her, and how his minty scent wafted her nose made her stop wanting to play basketball, and rather stay in his arms for the rest of the day. She did not need to play any longer, and she would not even complain if she would get to be held by him this way.
Eunae had always felt funny weird whenever she was with Yunoh.
It was that kind of good, weird feeling. The sense of being ultimately happy of just merely seeing him-of just simply being with him and doing nothing, even with the absence of sound and having silence fill the in between. It was that comforting and fortifying.
She knew what it meant, and she knew what it was.
"Hey sunshine, you good?"
Shaking her head internally, Eunae nudged him in the stomach and spun on her heel. It was not even a second in when she threw the ball above his head abruptly.
"Always," she smirked, watching how it went in the ring smoothly, making his eyes roll. "Shall I help you shoot?"
"Depends."
"On?"
Yunoh shrugged, swiftly getting a hand on the free ball before eliminating the distance between them and taking her breath away, like always. "What kind of shooting will you teach me, sunshine?"
"Shut up!" Eunae yelled abashedly, running after him with deep rosy cheeks and a throbbing forehead that previously met his plump soft lips.
The funny weird feeling just kept on blazing and blossoming right within her uncontrollably and it just would not go away.
It just would not.
Or maybe she just could not.
But no matter what it was between the two, there was one thing Eunae was sure of.
That there was nothing probably more painful than falling in love with a best friend.
"Hey sunshine, you good?""Yup," Eunae lied, trying to mask the lonely tone dripping from her voice.It was her birthday, probably one of the happiest days she had always looked forward to. But with the unprecedented change of how her world had turned upside down, the most awaited day that was usually filled with glitters and rainbows and a hundred more memories of laughter was nothing, but a dull normal day.It seemed unimportant enough not to be even remembered. If anything, she honestly wanted to forget it and all the previous birthdays she had before this.Everything was running business as usual just like how the recent years had been. She was at home right after school, while her mother was busy building their company from square one to provide her a better future.Eunae was more than happy that her mother had already recovered and began living than merely existing. It took
M U T T E R S E E L E N A L L E I N(German) (adj.) To be utterly and extremely alone and lonely that no one could even find you or reach for you, physically and mentally.Over the years, a lot has changed, most especially between Eunae and Yunoh.They were more mature now and have been building their own paths to reach their dreams. Yunoh had been taking over their company, the same way Eunae did for theirs.Who would have thought that after a few years, they would be where they were now? Handling huge companies that provided means of living not only for their families, but also for hundreds if not thousands of people working for them. Maybe above all, was making use of the same surname not only on legal documents, but rather in a daily basis of merely being addressed.Eunae h
[TW]: implication of rape[Flashback]"Is there anything wrong?" Eunae asked, quite warily. The atmosphere during the car ride home was unfamiliarly cold and distant. It was both terribly and questioningly odd that even though he was just right beside her, she felt as if he was a mile away out of her reach.Yunoh furiously went inside their new home and banged the door shut, "You don't know?""I don't know why you're so angry. Tell me what's happening," Eunae almost begged, letting the hem of her wedding dress lick the floor as she chased after him."Fuck off!" He yelled, pushing her forcefully that she fell to the ground. "I trusted you, I fucking trusted you! Goddamn it!""What are you even saying? I don't understand!""Cut the bullshit!" Yunoh roared, forcefully pulling her up by the arm. He pushed her agains
"Place it down, you're going to tire yourself.""I can handle this, it's not too much work."Yunoh took the dirty plates from Daeun and shook his head, "I don't want to risk it."Baffled with the unusual view before her, Eunae weaved her brows together as she quietly scrolled down her contacts. Yunoh had always been protective towards Daeun, but it was too bizarre to see him become way overprotective overnight."Babe, it's fine, I'll do the dishes."Shrugging, Eunae continued to scroll down her contacts before sending a text message. She had to move the family dinner since Daeun did not seem to have any plans on leaving any time soon.It would be too much work to push through with the simple gathering when Yunoh would most likely cancel it if he were too preoccupied with his mistress. She would just be wasting her time on nothing.Swiftly
L I E F D E S V E R D R I E T(Dutch) (n.) the sadness, depression, or pain one feels about a love unanswered or love that is gone.As the sun left the horizon and the moon and the stars stole its rightful place, Eunae found herself still crouched in the corner of the dark hotel room without any food in her stomach nor any blink of sleep.Her mind continued to race with the miserable events that took place in her life, her heart falling into irreparable pieces remembering the news she received earlier on that stabbed her like a knife, and her throat closing in with the lump of breath caught up within.She basked in pain as she berated herself with multitudinous questions about the choices she had made, actions she had done, opportunities she did not take, feelings she had suppressed,
C W T C H(Welsh) (n.) a warm, affectionate hug, cuddle or snuggle that gives a feeling of a safe place or home.Eunae was strolling by the beach and basking in the morning sun when she met a little girl playing in the sand.After spending days of crying her eyes out in the hotel room, she finally decided to go out and relieve everything she had been feeling. The space had been nothing but suffocating, and she knew she had to go out to breathe. Locking herself in a four-walled confined space almost drove her crazy. She knew she needed to escape."Hi, sweetheart, may I know what you're doing?"Crouching beside the little girl, Eunae wondered as to what must have taken her interest. There was nothing, but millions of particles of sand shaped into di
[Flashback]"Tell me who forced you to marry Eunae because the last time I checked, it was you who you wanted to marry her out of your own will." His mother taunted, and it only made him angrier."Out of my own will?" Yunoh scoffed. "Do you honestly think I could just watch the business to crumble down without doing anything? I might have chosen to marry her, but it wasn't out of my own will. It was out of helplessness and desperation!""Then you could've told us," his father started with a strained voice. "You could've told us the truth instead of lying that you've been meaning to marry her because you love her. Damn it, Yunoh! She was like our own daughter too, and you had the audacity to do this?" his father yelled indignantly.And almost instantly, Yunoh flinched seeing him shake in anger. Never had he heard him talk in such a manner and never did he see him this exasperated. Steam was practicall
"A-ah, I think I-I have to go-""Don't leave, Nana, Riri sad," the little girl cut her off, placing her little fingers above his hand, seemingly sealing it for her not to leave.Conflicted, Eunae subtly nibbled her lower lip and internally contemplated. She surely wanted to run away and never see them again, but at the same time, she did not want to leave the little girl who stayed by her side, while pain engulfed her whole.She did not want to be an ass by leaving them abruptly after benefiting from their kind acts. She was not the kind of person Yunoh had always thought of-she was not, and she did not want to be the manipulative bitch he had tagged her as.Slumping back on the sand, Eunae finally made her choice. She sat comfortably beside the two strangers, who were having triumphant smiles painting their lips."Yehey! Nana stay!"Eunae failed to stifle th