Chapter Nine: Accident Prone

Ga Eul chewed on her pasta slowly, frequently eyeing Yi Jeong. Will he take another bite of her food and seal her lips with another kiss? Ga Eul could only hint. Yi Jeong looked up abruptly, disrupting Ga Eul's gaze.

"Have you tried the wine?" Yi Jeong asked, his mind flashed back to the last time she was tainted with alcohol.

"Um, not yet, but I don't know if I should…" Ga Eul glanced at the Bordeaux glass half filled with the burgundy colored liquid that almost resembled grape juice.

"Come on Ga Eul, one sip won't hurt," Woo Bin encouraged when he had a tingling of what Yi Jeong was trying to do. "That glass won't even get you tipsy. Wine doesn't have that much alcohol content."

Ga Eul's eyes traveled to everyone at the table. They had put a hiatus on their meal and waited patiently for her to take her glass. She bit her lip. Wine and grape juice can be considered in the same family, right? Just don't take too many. Ga Eul thought as she drank a small gulp. She frowned and winced in distaste. The wine was too sour for her liking.

"I think one sip is enough to last me a long time," Ga Eul said, attempting to set the glass down when it tipped over and the wine exploded all of Ga Eul's legs. "Oh no!"

Luckily, Yi Jeong had strategically draped the napkin over her legs before, but some wine managed to either seep through or run its way down onto her jeans. Yi Jeong took his napkin and tried to soak up the liquid on her clothes, and would occasionally stroke her inner thighs suggestively.

"I'll have to go home and change." Yi Jeong smirked at Ga Eul's comment. He had been rummaging his mind for a good excuse to tell Woo Bin so he drive Ga Eul alone, but he didn't want Ga Eul to get the wrong idea. Now they will be forced to be in the same vehicle.

"Take my car, I'll have Jung shiljang ship another car over." Woo Bin threw his keys at Yi Jeong.

"Ga Eul-yang, are you done or do you want to eat more?" Yi Jeong asked, using his sexiest voice to enunciate the "Ga Eul-yang" part.

"Uh…" Ga Eul paused to look at Yi Jeong, his seductive smirk becoming wider. "I'm finished, are you?"

"Kaja." Yi Jeong dragged Ga Eul away in the manner that was so familiar to the both of them – his warm hands held onto hers, not too forceful but it was definitely a tight grip.

"This is the second time I came back home today. Shouldn't I just stay?"

"NO!" Yi Jeong shouted from outside Ga Eul's closed closet, where she was changing.

She didn't have a walk in closet or anything. It was a dip in the wall with two doors where she hung her clothes, but she was small enough to fit inside.

"Why not?"

"We already told Woo Bin that we would go. Besides, he probably needs some F4 force to scare down the thugs." Yi Jeong shook his head as he gave her those lame excuses. Woo Bin's gang could probably rouse more fear than a potter and a girl.

"What should I wear? I'll just put on some sweats since it's cold outside."

"NO!" Yi Jeong protested again. He cleared his throat to buy more time for a good reason. "It's an auction, and there will be tons of women in nice dresses. You don't want to give away the fact that we're not affiliated with the gang right? They may hurt us."

"All right. How does this look?"

Ga Eul stepped out with a pearl colored haltered dress that was about knee length. The V wasn't cut too low; it didn't show her cleavage like Yi Jeong had hoped, but it still brought the attention to her more emphasized breasts. The dress was skin tight in the mid region, hugging her waist and hips, but showed no panty-line. Yi Jeong wondered if she wore a thong again. The dress was cut higher in the front than in the back, and the bottom was wavier like the ends of sundresses. It was such a shame that Ga Eul was also wearing the pink coat she sported so often; Yi Jeong had wanted to see her silky and smooth back.

"That… will do."

Yi Jeong's phone vibrated in his pocket, giving him a pleasant jolt, but also cutting off him undressing Ga Eul with his mind.

"Yi Jeong-ah, remember to take the country road. The members from other gangs are checking at every highway and diverting people back home. They are very cautious about this," Woo Bin instructed over the phone.

"The country road? But I hate that road! It's windy and smells like manure!"

"I'll let you display the pot in your museum. You should thank me for letting you in the loop about the pot and giving you time to spend with Ga Eul!"

Yi Jeong loosened his tie. "Fine. I'll be there in 7-8 hours, no thanks to you."

The drive was quiet at first. Yi Jeong was focused on getting onto the country roads and Ga Eul thought about whether she should bring up the questions about his ex-girlfriends. She also had many doubts and problems about their relationship, but she wasn't going to bring them up in fear that she may scare him away. After all, playboys don't hang onto girls for long, especially not clingy girls.

"Are you tired?" Yi Jeong broke the silence first. They had been driving for quite a while and the only sound penetrating the silence was the radio.

"Um, a little but not too much. When will we get there?"

"It's a little past 11, so we should get there around 5AM? If you're tired you should sleep for now. These streets can keep anyone awake," Yi Jeong referred to the constant turning and dips and bumps in the roads.

Ga Eul had to admit the constant shifting from left to right in her seat was making her bladder uncomfortable. She had gulped down a few cups of water at dinner to wash down the garlic taste of the pasta.

"Just great… I don't think the gods are smiling upon me today," Yi Jeong muttered, motioning to the rain drops upon the windshield. He swiftly tapped on the switch to turn on the wipers.

"Um… sunbae…" Yi Jeong loved it when she called him that. "I have a favor to ask… it's kind of embarrassing…"

Please let it be a sexy favor. We can do it in the backseat and still make the auction before it starts. Yi Jeong prayed, hoping that the gods would be nice to him since he had been getting the short end of the stick lately.

"I have to use the restroom…"

"I'd love to…" Yi Jeong said simultaneously, but he instantly realized Ga Eul wasn't saying what he wanted her to say. "What? In this place? I don't think you can find a restroom for miles. Besides, it's raining!"

"It's either I go out there, or in the car. I don't think Woo Bin sunbae would appreciate it. It just started raining and one minute in the rain won't hurt. Come on, it's the country side. It'll be good for the crops."

Yi Jeong pulled over on the side of the road. "You want me to come with you?"

"No thanks!" Ga Eul used the same tone and expression as she did when Yi Jeong had asked if she wanted him to rub lotion on her back at New Caledonia.

Ga Eul opened the car door, anticipating the chilly rain drops stinging her body, but it wasn't too bad. The rain was merely a drizzle at this point. She galloped further away from the car, making sure that Yi Jeong couldn't see even if he pressed his eyes to the rearview mirror. However, the raindrops became more rapid and intense the farther she walked.

This crop looks decent, I suppose it's here or I become a drowned rat. She stepped over the muddy curb in her heels and descended into the field, but the next step she took sent her tumbling. The bottom of her heels didn't provide enough surface area to plant firmly on the ground, and she slipped, falling on her back and rolling down the hill fast.