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Woo-jin and Hyeon-ju had retired to bed after they had lost yet another chicken fight with Nari and Geon-woo. The boxer and former boxer were relentless and Hyeon-ju did not stand a chance especially with how tight Geon-woo had held onto Nari’s thighs, and with Woo-jin wanting to give them one last push in the right direction- he relented, and swiftly took Hyeon-ju with him.

Now Nari and Geon-woo were alone, her back against the water as she floated, a gentle calm in the air as her eyes stared at the stars while Geon-woo gently moved in the water to not disturb it so much.

“I haven’t felt this happy in a long time” she confessed, her eyes trained on the sky as her hands gently swished through the water. ” I spent so long worrying about everything, fearing for everyone’s safety  I forgot the simple joys in life. What it feels like to have friends and a family.”

Geon-woo listened as she spoke, gently swaying beneath the water.

” I hope it never ends” she whispered lastly before dropping her legs and mimicking his gentle rocking.

She faced him. “Can I ask you a question?” she asked, her arms moving back and forth which caused light ripples. He nodded, hair damp and Nari didn’t fail to think how handsome he was.

“Why don’t you drink?” she questioned. ” I noticed you refused any offer, and you don’t have to answer if you don’t want to. I was just curious” she said quickly at the end. Geon-woo’s lip quirked at her fluster before glancing at the darkness of the night.

“My father was an alcoholic. He wasn’t a very good man after we went broke and he became quite the abuser” Geon-woo explained, his eyes still lingering on the dark trees ahead.

Nari frowned, her eyes saddening. She didn’t know the extent of his father. Ms Yoon only ever told her that he had been out of their lives for quite some time and Nari did not pry when she saw the emotions of hurt, anger and fear in the older woman’s eyes. Nari couldn’t understand how, that despite his abuse, and their financial situation, their constant struggle- the mother son duo still remained so optimistic, so kind, so loving, so full of life. Never had either of them failed to make her and the others around them feel anything but welcomed and happy. Geon-woo radiated sunshine, his mother incarnated it. The two of them were everything and more than the man who left them. Nari’s heart squeezed and all she could think about was that Ms Yoon and her son both, deserved a hell of a lot better. 

” I promised myself from a young age to never be like him. In every way. And he loved to drink, so I don’t” he said, and he finally met her eyes. So perfect, so emotional. “It also helps that I’m a boxer” he said lightly after.

“I didn’t know” she muttered, her chest panging in sorrow. “I’m sorry” she expressed, and he smiled.

“Like I said, there’s a lot you don’t know about me” he said, tone airy and she felt herself smile. So, he remembers.

“So tell me “She said, swimming closer.

“What?” he asked as she tilted her head.

“Tell me then, I’d like to know what makes you, well, you. I want to know everything” she said lowly and seriously. 

“Everything” he breathed out and Nari nodded.

His body sliced through the water easily and without restraint. She was caught off guard when his hand clasped around hers, tugging her forward with one quick yet graceful yank and suddenly she was in his arms, their chests near touching.

Nari glanced up, wet hair tickling her shoulders with droplets slowly trailing down her face and neck. The look he was giving her was nothing from his usual shy flustered glances. The look he was giving her now was seductive, yearning and so hypnotising. Her knees felt weak as his eyes roamed her face, his hand still holding her wrist before his other sneaked to her waist. This side of Geon-woo came as a pleasant surprise and she didn’t know how to take it.

“I-you, what are you doing?” she whispered, lowly and so quiet she wasn’t even sure he had heard her, but his head just curved to the side and a smirk befitted his handsome face. His thumb wiped the water droplet on her cheek and Nari glanced at him with something resembling shock.

Since when did he become so bold.

His eyes were dark, hidden beneath long eyelashes and hair matting his eyebrows. He looked impossibly celestial. She gulped, her lips parting but no words seemed to pass them as tension unlike anything she had ever felt before made her heart and blood pump incredibly faster. Suddenly she couldn’t hear anything but the roar of her heart and the burning of his fingers on her skin. 

“You wanted to know everything” he said, his voice so soft yet alluring. ” Let’s start here” his eyes gleamed.

Nari’s eyebrows scrunched in confusion, but she didn’t look away from him as he smiled, genuinely and oh so beautifully.

“I really like you Nari” his confession felt like warm cocoa on a winter’s day. Something she had waited to hear for the longest time, a confirmation that he too felt the same way. That her and well, their moments together were not unrequited. He was confessing. 

Nari’s lips parted in astonishment as he chuckled, his galaxy eyes not tearing away from hers as he swallowed her every action as if he was a man starved.

He couldn’t get enough of her. 

” I have liked you for a while now. These past few days of realisation have been excruciating. The unknown if whether you share my sentiments or not had been nothing but torturous. But if you want the truth and you want to know more about me then know this.” He said and Nari found herself clutching onto his arms to steady herself.

” From the moment we met, when you so breathtakingly bumped into me like an angel, you were all I could think about from then. Like a knight in pretty dresses, you saved not only my mother but myself too. And you still find a way to keep me alive. It had always been me and my mother but with you, I felt things I never thought I would ever. Nari, the day at the bookstore when you did not return my messages I feared the worst. So many thoughts were in my head, but they were all of you. ” he told her as his hands flexed around her waist and he pulled her closer till their chests met. 

” My thoughts were consumed by you. They have been for quite some time. You were the first person I searched for in every room and the last thing on my mind when I leave. It has been tearing me apart to not tell you and to know if you felt the same. So, know this if anything about me, is that I really really like you Byun Nari and that you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen”

The confession was not something she had ever thought she would hear. His words seemed to tumble out freely, gracefully as if it really had been tormenting him all this time. He spoke with such vulnerability for a second she was certain she had stopped breathing all together. 

 His eyes were sparkling beneath the stars, and hope shone within along with an emotion she had hoped would reflect just as vigorously in her eyes. Love. 

He was looking at her as if she had made him realise what it meant to be loved in something more than familial. The type of love that burned and was so deeply rooted it consumed you and left you breathless. Nari had felt the same, but his confession had been unlike anything she had ever heard. This was her friend, Ms Yoon’s son but she couldn’t doubt her feelings any longer. It was so painfully obvious that they cared for each other more than friends and everyone but themselves had realised it long ago that they would not, could not, simply remain so.

They cared about each other too much for that to be the case. And Nari was a reckless person and her actions next were anything but. She was so certain of herself in this moment that he was it for her. So, she smiled. She smiled so widely her cheeks began to hurt and tears had gathered in her eyes because no one had ever said something so sweet, so perfect to her in her life. She had once thought she was undeserving of love. Because love had taken everything from her. Her mother’s love for her ended in her demise, her father’s love grew into hatred. She believed nothing good could come for her but then this man. This tall, broad, clumsy, cute and insufferably loyal man entered her life and showed her that she was deserving. That she had people who loved her and whom she could love too.

“That wasn’t supposed to make you cry” he murmured softly as he wiped the tears from her face. Nari cupped her hand over his as it rested on her cheek, their noses barley brushing, and she wanted nothing more than to close the gap and claim him as her own.

But she chuckled breathlessly and teary and so very happy.

”You cannot expect my eyes to be dry after saying something like that” she chuckled watery before holding his hands to her chest. ” Gosh, you drive me insane” she said and his eyebrows furrowed in confusion before she giggled.

” You want to know something about me too. Okay. You are the most handsome and captivating man I have ever met. And you do not realise how much you affect me. You have this way of making my heat flutter even if you aren’t in the room with me. When you look at me, when you smile, it feels as if nothing else in the world matters. It breaks my heart to see you upset and hurt and I want nothing more than to take your pain away.” She confessed, ” You are crazy to think I would not feel the same, I thought I made it obvious that I like you too” she whispered at the end, her eyes glimmering amongst the stars and his breath caught in his throat. ” I really fcking like you Kim Geon-woo ”

The smile that followed her words was nothing if not magical. There was a gleam in his eyes and in seconds she was scooped into his arms and plunged heard first into a world she didn’t know was possible. He seemed to take all her foreboding, her worries and anxieties and replace it with boundless taste of happiness. He managed to take her troubled thoughts and fill it with him, with tendered care, with love.

His hands found her back, at the base of her spine and she felt her body alight. With a soft whisper of which she nodded happily; his lips were pressed firmly against hers.

It was indescribable to explain how it felt when he attached himself to her. Her hands had woven around his broad shoulders, fingers toying with his damp hair to ground herself as he pulled her close against his chest and lifted her barely, so the water swirled below her hips. His arms were locked around her waist while the other remained against her cheek, pressing them impossibly closer.

He kissed her so passionately, so profoundly, that she did not want to break apart when her lungs started constricting for air, but her desperation inevitably won and she parted as they both tried to catch their breaths. It was intoxicating, the way he looked at her through his pretty eyelashes, his lips carved into a breathtaking smile with white teeth gleaming. She counted the mole like constellations on his face before she leaned up to kiss the one on his nose. His smile widened and she couldn’t help but reflect it when he suddenly swooped in and kissed her with more fervour.

A deep sound was swallowed, and she felt their bodies glide through the water surely until her back reached the edge, but his arm prevented the impact. Her head arched back and a breathy gasp barely left her lips when he attached his lips to her neck. His name was barley heard as his kisses trailed further down, from the spot beneath her jaw to the column of her throat, his hands hovering over her waist as her eyes rolled back into her head. If this is how it felt, she should’ve kissed him a long time ago.

Her mouth parted when his nose brushed the curve of her throat, the vibration of her moan shocked right through him and suddenly he felt ungentlemanly.

She was so addicting. Everything about her. From her brown eyes that were shut in bliss, her head angled to the stars in ecstasy and how her body seemed to lean into his, eager and desperate while his body replicated with equal ferocity. Her touch seemed to burn him, yet he couldn’t move away. She was so utterly divine.

“Nari” he cooed her name in the hollow of her ear, and she wanted him to repeat it, again and again. To claim her as his and to whisper her name in her ear until it was the last thing he uttered. She just wanted him. And he wanted her. Madly so. He had always been a man of sharing, always looking out for others, he knew never to be selfish, that was not how he was raised but with Nari. She made him selfish. He did not want to share her. He wanted her entirely for him. How could he not, she was everything.

“Let’s go upstairs, before someone catches us” he whispered, kissing the spot beneath her ear before pulling away slightly to glance at her enchanted visage. Nari let out a groan of dissatisfaction at the loss of contact. She didn’t really care if anyone walked in anymore, but Geon-woo was too shy to think otherwise despite, his actions of which showed her a whole side of him she did not know he could possess.

She nodded with a huff and he chuckled lowly before tugging her forward and she was quick to wrap her legs around his waist as he effortlessly lifted her out of the water. She chuckled as she tightened her hold around him, his hands held her things as he smiled bashfully up at her. Nari couldn’t help herself when she cupped his cheeks and pressed her lips against his. He tasted of sunshine- so warm, so lovely. She could kiss him forever. 

“They will hear” he whispered breathlessly agaisnt her lips but Nari just pulled him in for a quick chaste kiss.

“Then we better be quiet” she mused. Gosh she couldn’t get enough of him. What had become of her.

“They are family, ” he said and his ears were beginning to grow red. It seemed some of his habits never changed, his shyness was still prevelent as ever. She huffed a laugh, nodding and he swiftly carried the two into Nari’s spare bedroom.

“Now say we get these wet clothes off before we become sick” she said with a teasing glint in her eyes and Geon-woo would have felt flustered at her bold attempt had he not been entirely enamoured by her. Nari just smiled at him amused. Whenever she was happy she was in her element and the best parts of her shined through, who was he to deny her.

“After you” he said as he gestured to the bathroom. Nari laughed, grabbing him by the shirt and tugging him backwards all the while he smiled dutifully into the bathroom, where they discarded their wet and sticky clothes, hands barely leaving each other for more than two seconds before their lips found each others again as they climbed into the hot shower. 

OMFG IT HAPPENED!!!!!!

I literally birthed them😤 I love them sm😭

I don’t write smut so that’s the best yall gonna get😔

Anywayyyyyy😏😏😏😏😏

You know what the next couple chapters are about sooooooo brace yourselves 😌

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