Im's publishing's Emerald editing department. That is the section responsible for producing Emerald, the hugely successful monthly girls' comic magazine, and the department where five gorgeous editors assemble.
A few days ago the president of the company awarded them their bonus. A trip to Jeonju to buy her Baguette Burgers. Unfortunately, a typhoon hit, extending their trip by an extra day. As a result, their schedule got delayed for three whole days.
So, unfortunately, that's why it ended up like this.
The office is stinky, the air needs purification as fast as possible. They have been wearing the same clothes for god knows how long. They had not washed their hairs in an unmentionable long time. They have been sleeping only for 1 hour each day for the past week. There is no wonder why they look like corpses with their heads rested on their desks.
I'm gonna die...
Tiffany thought to herself as she slid off her chair and laid on the floor under her desk to rest her back.
"...Jeonju...was amazing." Sunny who had her face buried between her arms spoke in a deathly tone, "It was amazing but I'm a million times worse off than before..."
"OW!" Tiffany sat right up when she felt a foot stepping on her side, "What are you doing?!" She looked up and yelled at whoever stepped on her.
"What? Is that where you were?" Of course, it was Taeyeon.
"That was definitely on purpose! You knew exactly where you were walking!" Tiffany pushed Taeyeon's leg off her. There is no way she didn't see Tiffany on the floor.
Taeyeon clenched her teeth and a visible glare could be seen from behind her glasses, "Or rather what are you dying on the floor when you know we have a fucking meeting to get to, you piece of shit."
"Whaaaa?! Taeyeon is saying bad words again!" Tiffany said with wide eyes. The fact that Taeyeon's horrible personality is only getting worse means she too is at her limit. The insults are not just forwarded to Tiffany. Everyone got even worse things said to them from Taeyeon on the last few days of the cycle. They eventually got to learn not to take personally when they saw Taeyeon insulting the printer for not printing fast enough.
I wanna smack her on her stupid butt as payback...
Tiffany thought to herself as she followed Taeyeon to the meeting room. Watching her butt all the way.
"Oh right, Tiffany, that reminds me, we're grabbing dinner together again tonight."
"Excuse me?"
"I bet you have been eating nothing but rubbish this whole time." Taeyeon looked back at her, "I will bring around last night's leftovers and we can have that."
Tiffany put on a stern face and cleared her throat, "Thank you for the thought, but I'm afraid I will have to refuse."
"Got it. It's a date."
"Now hold on a minute!" Tiffany caught up angrily, "I will be going home on the last train of the night, so it's completely out of the question!"
"Don't be dumb." Taeyeon raised an eyebrow, "I thought you would have learned by now. Eating in the dead of night at 2 AM is second nature to an editor."
"Excuse me?! No. What I'm saying is, tonight I want a good night rest, so could you please do me a favor and don't come over tonight?"
Taeyeon nodded, "I hear you. I want to take it easy and sleep it up too."
Tiffany grimaced, she could never convince Taeyeon not to come over. She has been like this since she made the decision that they have to eat together. She says she will come over and actually does come over despite Tiffany refusing.
"I got it. How about this?" Taeyeon stopped and faced Tiffany with all seriousness, "Since I'm the one feeding your face. How about you be my body pillow for the night?"
Tiffany's eyebrow twitched, "PLEASE LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY'RE TALKING TO YOU!"
I can't believe this girl...
Tiffany sighed and opened the door to the meeting room they will be using for the next couple of hours. However, there still were a few people from the previous meeting.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize there were still people in here." Tiffany apologized.
"No, it's fine. We will be out in a second." One of the girls inside bowed to Tiffany as she gathered her belongings from the meeting table.
"It's okay. We booked the room from 3 o'clock. We will wait outside until then..."
Hm? This girl...
Don't I know her?
Tiffany thought to herself as she followed the movements of a familiar girl with her eyes. The girl then passed by her and stopped when their eyes met. She looked at Tiffany with a similar expression. As if she's trying to tell if she knows her or not.
"Oh, wow!" Tiffany was the first to recall, "Sanghwa?!"
"Tiffany?!
Said girl Sanghwa stared right back at Tiffany in surprise, not expecting to see her here at all.
"Whoa. Hang on. No way. No freaking way!" Tiffany was completely freaking out, "How on earth are you here right now? Aren't you supposed to be overseas somewhere?"
"I could say the same! What are you doing...wait, do you work here?" Said Sanghwa was freaking out just as much as Tiffany.
"Do you two know each other?" The other girl who talked to Tiffany earlier approached.
"Ah, yes! This is a surprise." Sanghwa nodded, "Who would have expected we would happen to meet here!" Sanghwa engulfed Tiffany in a much-appreciated hug that was returned to her just as hard, "But hold up, you quit the family business?" She frowned.
"Um, errrrr. Yeah, about that. You see I..." Tiffany looked away and rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly. She then noticed that her co-workers were already gathering in the room for the meeting. "Sorry, my meeting is just about to start, so..."
"Right! My bad. Well, what should we do? Let's catch up later."
Tiffany reached for her bag and took out her card, "Okay, here's my business card."
"Here's mine too. See you later."
"Bye!" Tiffany was left waving back at Sanghwa who proceeded to leave the room.
Unknown to her, a certain shorty had watched their whole exchange.
"Who was that girl from earlier?" The meeting had just ended and the first thing Taeyeon did afterward was approach Tiffany.
"Hm?" Tiffany looked up from her documents.
"The person you gave your business card to."
"Oh...that was a friend from back when I was in America."
Taeyeon looked down and nodded.
"I heard she was living overseas as a professional photographer so I never thought I would bump into her here of all places." Tiffany smiled as she talked about her friend. It was clear that she's quite fond of her, "To think that she came back home and is putting together a collection of her work at Im's publishing of all places...the world really is a small place isn't it?"
"Hmm..." Taeyeon nodded once more.
Tiffany was smiling. Tiffany never smiles like that unless she's eating or when she sees a cute puppy or cat on the street, but never at the last two days of the cycle. After a meeting of all times. Something's up with this Sanghwa girl.
Okay, back to work.
*sigh*
I wish it was back to bed.
Tiffany went back to the office and took a seat back on her desk. Honestly, there is nothing she wants right now other than her bed, and hopefully, she could get a good night sleep after this to get back on the hours she missed during the last week.
Just a few things to finish up and then I can pack up and finally go home...
With another sigh, Tiffany took out her phone to check if she had received a text she had been waiting for from an author. But then she saw a text from someone she certainly doesn't want to think about right now nor does she has the willpower to.
Oh, great. It's from Donghae...
"Yah. I need you to copy these stats..."
Tiffany immediately slammed her phone face down on her desk the moment she heard Taeyeon's voice behind her. She doesn't have the willpower to deal with Donghae and she certainly doesn't have the willpower to deal with Taeyeon if she found out that Donghae is texting her.
Upon seeing how panicked and fidgety Tiffany is, Taeyeon raised an eyebrow and glanced at Tiffany's phone, wondering if the screen had cracked or not, "What?" She asked.
"What? No! It's nothing at all! You want copies of these, right? On it!" Tiffany smiled at Taeyeon, once again catching her off guard.
Taeyeon took a step back and gave Tiffany the papers she wanted her to copy. Gave her a concerned look and went back to her president chair.
Tiffany let out a relieved sigh and proceeded to do what Taeyeon had asked her to.
Okay, that was close. If she saw that text from Donghae she would definitely make a big deal out of it.
Now I just need a good way to turn Donghae down. It's honestly interesting to talk with him about work related things. Our interests seem to match up a lot. It's just that...well...considering what he said last time. If I don't meet him soon a properly reject him, this is probably going to go out of hand, isn't it?
There is also the problem that, with Donghae, I get the feeling that he wasn't doing it because he seriously was interested in dating me.
When Tiffany finally reached her apartment, her legs gave out and she collapsed in her doorway. She's home now so she thought that it wouldn't be a problem to just close her eyes and fall asleep. Food could wait until tomorrow.
And her god damn phone that was safe from getting a cracked screen by the way just had to ring and interrupted the progress of her falling asleep.
"Hello?" She answered in her drowsy state.
"Ah, Tiffany? It's me Sanghwa."
"Huh? Oh, hey." Tiffany immediately sat up and rubbed the sleep away from her eyes.
"Yeah, hi! So hey...I was wondering if it's all right with you, could I stop over at your place until the trains start up in the morning?"
"Huh?"
"The truth is, while I was in Korea, this time, around, I was going to stay in a hotel or rent an apartment for a month, but it turns out that starting tomorrow I'm going to be out of Seoul on a shoot. I figured I would sort out the apartment when I get back, and I hadn't really thought about where to crash tonight..."
"Oh, right! Well, no. I have no problems with you coming over but, it's just right now my apartment is a little...uh..."
Dirty as fuck.
"Aha? What? Don't tell me you're still living in a pigsty?" Sanghwa laughed out loud on the other side of the phone.
"Wha-...how did you know?!"
"Ahahahaha! Oh man, you never change, do you? I don't mind at all. It's not the kind of thing I worry about."
"Oh, well, that's fine then. Don't say I didn't warn you. I will text you the location."
"Got it."
"Oh man, what a dump! You haven't changed one bit! Gyahaha" Sanghwa burst out laughing when she saw the mess in Tiffany's apartment.
"It's not like I'm doing this on purpose," Tiffany yelled and pushed Sanghwa further in, "It's more like, you know, I put things where I can get them easily for next time, and in the progress of doing that, it somehow ends up like this..."
"It never ever occurs to you to return the things to where you got them from, does it?" Sanghwa chuckled and lifted up a piece of questionable garbage that somehow made it way from the office to Tiffany's living room.
*Ding* *Dong*
"Hm? What could someone want at this hour?" Sanghwa raised an eyebrow and checked the time. Most people should be asleep right about now, "I will get the door, kay?"
"Oh great, thank you..." Tiffany was too busy preparing her couch for Sanghwa to sleep in to realize what was really happening. Who could be visiting at this time indeed?
*Gasp*
"W- Wait, Sanghwa! Hold on a minute!"
"What? I didn't hear you."
By then Sanghwa had already unlocked the door and was face to face with none other than Taeyeon who came over with some food to have a meal with Tiffany, just as promised.
"Hi!" Sanghwa held the door wide open and greeted with a smile, "Can I help you, little girl...?"
Oh, shit.
The face Taeyeon was making indicated that she definitely didn't like being mistaken for a little girl. Just like always.
Tiffany had finally reached the door, 5 seconds too late.
"...I'm her neighbor," Taeyeon said as calmly as possible, "Tiffany, I brought dinner."
"You know her?" Sanghwa looked back at Tiffany with a raised eyebrow.
"Kim Taeyeon. She's..." Tiffany face palmed, not know how she could explain the situation to her friend properly, "She's my boss at work, you might remember seeing her in the meeting room this afternoon."
Sanghwa's eyes widened, "So what? You live next door to each other?"
"Ah, yeah. It just turned out that way..." Tiffany sighed, hoping that Sanghwa doesn't ask any more questions, therefore, finding out about their weird relationship.
"I'm coming in," Taeyeon announced and proceeded to take off her slippers in Tiffany's doorway.
"Hold on, you can't just- "
"Don't tell me you had forgotten your promise to eat our meals together?"
"I think you will find I promised no such thing!"
Taeyeon made her way inside, not paying Tiffany's complaints any attention.
Sanghwa closed the door and watch the two picker interact in wonder.
"What a great idea! I'm starving over here, myself!" Sanghwa hurried and proceeded to get herself comfortable with Taeyeon. She's the cheerful type and loves to interact with people so a person as cold as Taeyeon is no problem for her at all, "Oh, I'm Lim Sanghwa by the way. Would you mind if I also partook in your fine culinary services tonight? And, oh! Thank you for always looking out for Tiff!"
"No problem..." Taeyeon answered calmly, clearly not planning to get anywhere with this girl.
"Wow, seriously? Are you pulling my leg? Tiff, the girl who only ever read novels, is now an editor for a romance comics' magazine...I can't quite wrap my head around it!" Sanghwa said in surprise. After some catching up over some good food and a beer, she had come to be quite impressed with Tiffany's hard work, "Can you even keep up at work?"
"Of course, I can!" Tiffany yelled angrily.
"Say, Taeyeon-ssi, this is really good. It's almost unfair. Not only are you a pretty girl, but you're an incredible cook as well."
"Thank you..." Taeyeon nodded politely.
"And Tiff, I'm not saying you need to get on her level, but how about at least learning to cook for yourself? You might be okay right now, but if you're not careful, it will catch up to you and your body will just give out, I'm telling ya! You have got to make sure you get enough sleep too, okay?"
"If it's a good night's rest you're talking about, I could sleep for an entire day, no problem." Tiffany unconsciously pouted. A habit that comes out only when she's with a good friend.
"The two of you seem to get along very well," Taeyeon commented with a straight face.
"Well, we have known each other since high school!" Sanghwa snickered, "Say, Taeyeon-ssi, you wanna know the reason why this girl went back to America?"
"Sunghwa, no!" Tiffany yelled with a red face.
"Since middle school, she had had a crush on a girl, and she was finally able to go out with her in high school, but when it became clear that the girl wasn't serious about her, it broke her heart. So that's what made her choose to study abroad!"
"Sanghwa, could you please stop?!" Tiffany covered her face out of embarrassment. This is a nightmare come true. A real nightmare where Taeyeon gets to know the details of the heartbreak the misunderstanding between them caused.
Sunghwa, however, did not stop right there, "She was in a really sad state when she got there, too. She never bothered trying to talk and had zero interest in making friends of any sort. She would be in class and then before you realized, she disappears. Kind of like a ghost. She really was a suu~per gloomy individual."
"Sanghwa!"
"Did you spend a long time in America, Sanghwa-ssi?" Taeyeon asked, showing a bit of interest in Sanghwa.
"It's a little different in my case. I ended up there because of my parents' work." Sanghwa waved her hand nonchalantly.
"Taeyeon, not you too! Please don't encourage her!" Tiffany shook her head.
"Why not? It's my first time hearing tales about your melancholy student life, after all." Taeyeon shrugged and took a sip from her beer can.
"Melancholy...now who's fault was that?" Tiffany cursed herself in her head, Sanghwa is a smart girl and she could catch up to them fast is she doesn't watch what she says, "Oh, right! You have dirty clothes you want to wear tomorrow, right Sanghwa? I will put them in the washing machine for you."
"Ah, yes! Thanks!" Sanghwa nodded in gratitude and watched Tiffany get up and leave the room.
Awkward silence.
Taeyeon did not mind silence. However, she does mind that the girl in front of her is now giving her a hateful look as if she killed someone precious to her or something.
"Taeyeon-ssi, would you say you and Tiff are close?" Sunghwa's face suddenly went back to normal. She leaned forward and smiled sweetly as if she didn't just make that face.
"I wonder about the answer to that myself, sometimes," Taeyeon answered.
"Well, you say that, but, even if you are neighbors, it feels like it's a little much to come to your subordinates house, bearing food in the middle of the night, that's all."
"I wouldn't have to if she didn't sleep in this dump of a room, refusing to live off anything except jelly, energy drinks, and convenience store meals. It would impact at the office too, so I can't afford to take my eyes off her." Taeyeon explained calmly. Although the biggest reason is for her to get to see Tiffany more.
"Oh! So, that means she must be pretty indispensable to your team then, yeah? I'm glad to hear it!" Sanghwa smiled. Genuinely happy for her friend's success. After all, the comics Tiffany works on became more well known to geeks and people who are fools for romance since she started working on them.
"...Was she really in such a horrible state while she was over there?" Taeyeon put the beer can down and looked down.
"Hmm...well, yeah, if I think back on it..." Sanghwa nodded and closed her eyes, remembering how Tiffany was like in the past, "It was like she had closed off her heart. I think that's what you would call the kind of feeling she gave off. And when you're like that, it doesn't exactly make it easy to have friends. I just happened to be her room-mate, so eventually, I was able to get her to spill her deal. When it came to light it was all over a broken heart, my first thought was what are you, a little girl? But the more I heard about it, the more I came to realize what an actually scum-bag the girl had been. I mean, just look at Tiff...you can tell she has led a really sheltered life. She's honest to a fault and takes everything way too seriously, so I would say it's pretty obvious that girl was only ever out to use her..."
*Bam*
Taeyeon stopped Sanghwa from talking by slamming her empty can of beer on the table, hard.
Sanghwa stared at the can of beer with surprise visible on her face and then looked back up at Taeyeon with a knowing smile, "Er...sorry, did I step on a nerve or something?"
"...No. Not at all." Taeyeon looked down and seemed like she was affected by what she just heard on some level even though she kept her resting bitch face on as usual.
"Right," Sanghwa nodded, "So, what I was saying was, I love photography, and back then I would often take photos of Tiff. I have to say, compared to how she was back then, it seems like a huge weight has lifted off her. I can see it in her expression, so I guess she must be doing pretty good right now at least."
"...So, that's how it was, then." Taeyeon nodded and stared blankly at the table between the two of them.
Sanghwa took her time inspecting Taeyeon's face before she opened her mouth once more, "Taeyeon-ssi...would you mind if I asked you which high school did you go to?"
"Excuse me?"
"Oh! Yeah, random question, I know. It's just...I did actually attend high school here for a semester or so." Sanghwa chuckled awkwardly and pointed at herself.
"...Seoul high. I attended Seoul high then I transferred to Jeonju in my third year." Taeyeon answered her anyway. Although she has an idea why Sanghwa had asked such question.
"Seoul high...as in, the same high school Tiffany attended?" Sanghwa squinted at Taeyeon. Her suspicions coming to reality when Taeyeon glared at her, "Yeahhh. That's what I thought. Ever since you got here, I thought there was something off between the both of you. But more to the point, seriously? Are you for real? The girl who dumped her is currently no only her boss, but also her next-door neighbor who invites herself over, bringing her dinner in the middle of the night?" Sanghwa gave her a dirty look.
"Everything apart from the meals was just coincidence," Taeyeon said just to clarify the situation.
"Does Tiff know who you are?"
"She has known for a long time now," Taeyeon nonchalantly continued her food.
Sanghwa clenched her teeth, not believing that Taeyeon even dares to keep her face straight after knowing what she had done to Tiffany, "You're a real piece of work, aren't you."
"Huh?" Taeyeon raised an eyebrow.
"I bet you told her whatever she wanted to hear to convince her to get back with you. Am I wrong?" Sanghwa just went ahead and jump to the regular assumptions for situations like this.
"Excuse me?" And Taeyeon just sat there with her poker face, pissing Sanghwa off even more.
"It's almost impressive how you can sit there and act like you have done nothing wrong." Sanghwa slammed the table angrily, "Now you listen up...she was a damn mess! A complete wreck! And even in that state she still worried about you, thinking up ridiculous ideas, wondering if there had been an explanation for what you did. To be honest, I thought she was being a bit of an idiot, but it was like all she could do was cling desperately to what she knew, like a child. Do you have any idea just how badly you hurt her? Tiff is a real gentle girl at heart, after all. I dare say that's what caught your eye in the first place. So if you're gonna come creeping back on into her life, I would appreciate it if you didn't do anything to tear her down all over again."
"I don't see how this has anything to do with you, Sanghwa-ssi..." Taeyeon said as she got up from the ground.
"I'm afraid it does." Sanghwa followed suit and stood up to face Taeyeon, "I'm the one who helped Tiff back on her feet."
Taeyeon stood still and looked at Sanghwa in surprise.
"And I don't think you deserve to have any explanation of just how rough that time was. I mean, you don't seem to be aware of it, but do you realize you're still doing a cruel thing to Tiff?" Sanghwa looked Taeyeon up and down, completely underestimating what's under that little thick skull.
"Sorry about the wait. Your clothes are drying off right now, Sanghwa. Also, I have left a towel for you in the bath, you said you wanted to take one, right?" Tiffany suddenly entered the room, completely unaware of the intense aura between the two.
"Ahhh, Tiff, thanks a lot. I will go ahead and us it then, and I will go ahead and turn in for the night." Sanghwa smiled cheerfully at Tiffany and patted her shoulder as she passed by. "Oh, and by the way..."
Tiffany looked back at Sanghwa to see if she wanted anything more, only to get a bright light flash at her. When she opened her eyes she saw that Sanghwa was holding her camera and had taken a picture of her.
"The first photo to commemorate our reunion!" Sanghwa grinned, "Good night, Tiff. You too, Taeyeonie" Sanghwa finally disappeared from the living room, not forgetting to give Taeyeon one last dirty look when Tiffany wasn't looking.
Tiffany turned back to Taeyeon proceed to help her gather up the dishes and put them away in the sink to wash, "You guys are so friendly. You dropped the honorifics already." Tiffany commented, a little impressed by Sanghwa for daring to call Taeyeon something like that.
"Wrong, you idiot."
"Id- Idiot?!" Tiffany sighed and looked down gloomily. Someday. Someday she will get Taeyeon to stop calling her an idiot and stupid. Someday, that is.
And so, the two of them got into their usual routine every time they ate a meal together. Taeyeon puts away the rest of the food if there is any left and cleans the table while Tiffany washes the dishes.
What happened? Why does she seem a little cranky right now?
No, wait. This is a good thing. If she keeps this up, hopefully, she will just leave.
"Tiffany..." Taeyeon called.
"Yes?" Tiffany looked back and saw that Taeyeon's back is facing her as she put the clean dishes away.
"You're really familiar with Sanghwa-ssi, aren't you?"
"Familiar?" Tiffany raised an eyebrow at the word Taeyeon used, "I would say it's more like we have known each other a long time now, that's all." She shrugged.
"Tell me..." Taeyeon started hesitatingly, "Did you date her too?"
"What? No, we weren't like that at all!" Tiffany grimaced. Now Sanghwa is a great friend but the thought of having to spend the rest of her life with her did not seem pleasant at all. She was too energetic for her own good.
"It's obvious the girl likes you, though."
"Could you stop that, please?! Don't go making up stuff all on your own!" Tiffany shook her head and sighed, "Ah, but if I had to sum it up, it's like...I know I can depend on her. And she really did a lot to help me out during my school years, but that doesn't mean we were- wha- !?" Tiffany's eyes widened as Taeyeon had pulled her away from the sink and turned her around only to crash their lips together. "What has gotten into you?! Are you trying to say I'm only allowed to talk to you about my friends if I'm complaining about them?" Tiffany shoved Taeyeon away from her angrily.
"I can't help it." Taeyeon looked down and face palmed.
"Come again?" Tiffany frowned. If that was certainly the case she doesn't know what to think of Taeyeon anymore.
"I have just heard about how you were a complete wreck during your time overseas."
"Wh- What?! Sanghwa! Is that what she said?!" Tiffany's eyes widened and her cheeks burned out of embarrassment.
"Was she lying?"
"N- No. She wasn't lying," Tiffany sighed and rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly, feeling quite embarrassed for talking about these things with Taeyeon right now, after all this time, "But all that was so long ago, and now...I know where were a lot of things I had misunderstood."
"She also brought up that she was the one who helped get you back on your feet."
"Um...well, ah, yeah. That it..." Tiffany couldn't help it but stutter. That was true. Sanghwa did help her a lot back then. If it wasn't for her, Tiffany wouldn't have gotten better as soon as she did with her help.
"Even if I was the cause of it all, to seeing someone else who was so involved with you in your life...I can't accept it. I regret everything. It fills me with envy." Taeyeon reached out for Tiffany's hand and squeezed it gently, slowly pulling Tiffany closer for a reassuring hug that she didn't hesitate to bury her face on Tiffany's shoulder, "I'm so jealous I can't stand it."
Tiffany's breath hitched as she felt the close contact with Taeyeon. She looked down and saw how Taeyeon was holding on tightly to her as if she's afraid someone will take her if she let go.
"D- Don't be ridiculous! If we're talking about that, I mean, Taeyeon, you had Kangin, didn't you?"
"Yes. But he and I- "
"No, don't worry about it, I get it already! Talking about the past won't change anything that happened, I get it!" Tiffany shook her head and looked up and away from Taeyeon. Seeing Taeyeon vulnerable like that...it does things to her. Things that Tiffany doesn't want to admit she's feeling right now. Although Taeyeon could probably tell because she's so close to her heart she could probably hear how fast and hard it's beating.
"But even so, still, every now and then I do wonder how it would have turned out. If I could have gone back to that time and explained everything properly to you. If I had been able to do that, then maybe these last ten years wouldn't have been lost to us."
"O- Okay...but it's not like thinking about it is going to make anything change, though." Tiffany cleared her throat and pulled Taeyeon away from her.
"Yeah, I know that. It's just, I think I have realized something. I know I keep saying this, but I don't know anything about you during the ten years we were apart. I thought I would be okay with it, but seeing someone that knew how you were back then made it too hard for me to bear."
Tiffany stared at Taeyeon's face, her cheeks a little bit red . She knows exactly how Taeyeon is feeling right now because that's how she feel, too She wants to know more about Taeyeon. More and more that it's unbearable, "M- Mashed potatoes."
"Huh?" Taeyeon frowned.
"In America...they would give us mashed potatoes with every meal. And so, in the end...I came to hate potatoes."
"..."
"..."
"I wasn't talking about that kind of thing at all!" Taeyeon snapped.
"Buh. But, just now you were asking me about the time I was a student, though?" Tiffany said in confusion.
"Aaaaaaah" Taeyeon let out a loud frustrated sigh and face palmed, "No, that's fine. It's as good a place to start as any...what is it with you and food all the time...Ah, fuck it!" Taeyeon shook her head and engulfed Tiffany in yet another hug, this time, though, Tiffany was the one being buried in the bear-sized hug. Well...Taeyeon sized hug for that matter.
Tiffany closed her eyes, and wrapped her arms around Taeyeon as well, and inhaled Taeyeon's sweet scent. She could smell her shampoo and bath gel. She must have taken a shower before she came. Tiffany hoped that she smelled decent enough for Taeyeon. She did take a shower that morning but she moved a lot at work.
Ah, how embarrassing.
"I love you...Fany-ah."
Tiffany's breath hitched whens he heard Taeyeon call her by that nickname again. She only calls her that in their most intimate moments.
"Fany-ah...Fany-ah...Fany-ah..."
"W- Why do you call me that?" Tiffany finally dared to ask.
"It's simple." Taeyeon chuckled, "No one else calls you that. Just me. I'm trying to make sure that I have you all only to myself." Taeyeon finally let go of Tiffany and smiled at her, "My Fany."
I reciprocated the kiss Taeyeon gave me after she said. I kissed her back just as hard and passionate as she kissed me. I followed her lead to her apartment so we won't wake Sanghwa and proceeded to take my clothes off on my own as she took off hers. We kissed again after that.
By that time, it was already starting to get light outside. And my body felt like it was about to crumble from sheer exhaustion. So, to then do this kind of thing.
"Doing it first thing in the morning is not bad, is it? It's kinda hot." Taeyeon said as she sat me down on her bed.
"What are you saying?!" I was so embarrassed I ended up yelling at her.
I told her that it felt good several times. And she smiled at me every single time and drove me to a greater climax.
"Fany-ah..." She said as her small body collapsed over me and I couldn't help it but get endeared by her cute face that is the complete opposite of her personality, "Even though I know there is nothing I can do about it, it still gets to me. To think that there are parts of you that I still don't know about. Your body, your soul, your everything. I want to fill them all with me until you're not satisfied with anyone else."
After that, Taeyeon started pleasuring me once more, and I couldn't do anything else but take and give back.
Taeyeon would probably get mad if I told her this, But since I have always felt like I'm the one being pushed and pulled about by everything she does, knowing that Taeyeon felt jealous, it mad me a little bit...only maybe just a tiny little bit-...happy.
But every now and then, I think about it too.
Taeyeon, if we hadn't made that mistake 10 years ago, I wonder how would things have turned out between us.
"Haaaa...ahhhhhh..." Tiffany moaned. But unlike a few hours ago, this time is not out of pleasure, but out of incredible pain. Her body is seriously about to give out. She had forgotten that they had work in the morning and went along with the mood completely wasting a few hours she could have spent sleeping. And so. Now she's at work. On the last day of the cycle, seriously about to collapse any moment.
"Tiff, are you okay?!" Sunny yelled at Tiffany's face as she laid on her chairs lifelessly, "Actually we can all tell you're not okay, but if you're gonna die, do it after you finish reading your last drafts!" Sunny cried out loud. Shaking Tiffany's body violently. Hoping that she hadn't died without finishing her work.
"You seem to be in a good mood this morning, Taeng," Yuri commented after noticing that Taeyeon's resting bitch face seemed less bitchy than usual.
"Yeah, I'm not bad. She's just too delicate on too many fronts, this Tiffany Hwang girl." Taeyeon said that with a straight face.
You're dead...
When I finish proof-reading, I'm actually going to kill you...
Is what I would say if I had the strength to raise my voice at all right now...
With that said. Tiffany came back to life and proceeded to finish her work.
Oh, that's right! I hadn't replied to Donghae's text yet. Now how do I go around rejecting him?
"What the hell are you guys texting each other for?" Taeyeon suddenly appeared out of nowhere with a murderous expression. She snatched Tiffany's phone from her and completely deleted Donghae's texts and contact info from the phone before returning it to Tiffany.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH. TAEYEON YOU ASSHOLE!"
"Shut it. You're giving me shell-shock."
Aaaah she's dead. I'm going to kill her. KILL HER!
I'm going to entomb her in the darkest depths of the earth!
Days until Emeralds proof-reading cycle finishes: 2 days.