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Seoyeon woke up to the blaring noise of her alarm and groaned. Being told yesterday by her manager that she’d have to be ready by 6AM, she knew there’d be a long day of work ahead of her. But even with the warning, getting up at 4 is just a pain in the ass.
She rubbed her eyes and got down from her bed slowly, feeling groggier than ever, and picked up her stuff to go to the bathroom as if she was in slow motion.
She realized how eerily quiet it was and looked at the bottom bunk. Chaeyoung wasn’t there. Huh. Seoyeon shakes her head to refocus, knowing her manager will spam call her like crazy if she doesn’t get ready fast.
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Seoyeon’s lost in thought, rubbing her face with a towel as she gets out of the bathroom and blindly reaches for her hairbrush on the vanity. Instead of the hairbrush or the wood of the vanity, her fingers meet what feels like skin and she yelps in surprise. She yanks the towel away from her face and stares in the direction of the foreign object. Chaeyoung’s looking at her with just as much shock.
“Why’d you yell like that?”
“I didn’t know you were there, sorry.” Seoyeon looks down, slightly embarrassed, and hastily picks up her hairbrush.
“I was literally talking to you.”
Oh
“Oh, sorry, I guess I was lost in thought.” Now Seoyeon’s really embarrassed and avoids eye contact with Chaeyoung through the mirror as she brushes her hair with far more intensity than usual.
“Lost in thought? What were you thinking about?” Chaeyoung says as she’s on the floor, rummaging in her nightstand for something.
“I don’t really know, actually.” Seoyeon says truthfully. She really doesn’t know what her brain was so focused on. Maybe waking up so early for the first time in weeks made her a little disoriented.
“Eh, you’re probably still sleepy.”
“Maybe. So anyways, why are you up so early? I didn’t know you had a schedule.”
Chaeyoung gets up from where she was kneeling on the ground and pats herself off. “I don’t have one, I couldn’t really sleep last night and your alarm woke me up so I decided to come with you.” She smiles at Seoyeon brings her vape to her mouth.
Seoyeon turns to Chaeyoung, a bit shocked, “You wanted to come with me? It’s gonna be boring, though.” Seoyeon’s cheeks turn ever so slightly pink at Chaeyoung’s words and she turns back around to finish brushing her hair.
“It won’t be boring. I’ll be doing what I normally do, just in a different setting.” Chaeyoung exhales and goes to their shared closet to pick out clothes.
“And what is it that you normally do?”
“Watch you.” She turns to Seoyeon as she says it and winks at her.
Seoyeon’s caught off guard and whips her head at the taller girl, mouth agape in surprise. She quickly realizes what face she’s making and shutters it into a calmer looking one, trying to hide her shock. “You’re so..” Seoyeon trails off as she fights a smile.
“I’m so what, honey?” Chaeyoung walks over and looks at Seoyeon with a smile.
Seoyeon makes eye contact and feels her face getting hot. “Nothing” she mutters and looks down, now feeling embarrassed once again.
Chaeyoung giggles and pinches her cheek, “You’re so fun to mess with, Syeon-ah.” She goes back to the closet and hums to herself while she picks out an outfit.
Seoyeon huffs and sits down on the bed to put her shoes on, suddenly feeling like taking an extremely cold shower. Her face feels like it’s a bajillion degrees and it probably looks that way too. She ties her shoe laces with vigor and goes on her phone while she waits for Chaeyoung to finish.
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In the car on the way to the schedule, Seoyeon and Chaeyoung sit side by side in the second row. Not having to fight seven other people over seats has its perks, like being headache-free, which is almost a novelty for them, given how loud everyone is all the time.
Seoyeon’s scrolling through twitter while Chaeyoung plays another mobile game she downloaded. Hopefully she won’t spend more money on those, it’s honestly concerning how many times she’s bought a ‘No Ads’ in-app purchase for those scam games.
Seoyeon silently watches her frantically drag her thumb across the screen so she can… give the person she’s controlling longer hair? Seoyeon huffs a laugh and gets a frustrated look from Chaeyoung, which only makes her laugh more. She doesn’t really understand the point of games like those, as she’s the type of person who plays a game to get invested in the story, but Chaeyoung seems to love it so she doesn’t voice her complaints.
Chaeyoung swipes up her game in rage and sighs in defeat. Seoyeon giggles and rests her head on her shoulder. Chaeyoung goes on instagram, liking the members’ posts.
“Like mine, Chaeng-ah. I told you to last time I posted and you never did.” Seoyeon jokingly says and looks up at Chaeyoung with sparkly eyes and a pout. She brings a finger up and pokes the taller girls cheek. She doesn’t really care, but it’s fun to tease Chaeyoung like this.
Chaeyoung looks down at her with a fake frown, “I’m sorry, honey. I’ll make it up to you by liking all your posts,” she says and kisses the top of Seoyeon’s head. She goes to her instagram and actually likes all the recent posts she missed. Seoyeon’s phone turns on and off for a while as the notifications come in and they breathe a laugh at it. Chaeyoung rests her head on Seoyeon’s and they take a nap until the car reaches their destination.
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Seoyeon’s woken up by her manager and she wipes her eyes as her face scrunches because of how bright her surroundings are. Chaeyoung’s woken up as well and she lifts her head with a disgruntled moan. “My neck hurts like a bitch, ow.” She rubs at it and pats Seoyeon on the head after noticing Seoyeon still had an uncomfortable look on her face. “Wake up, we’re here already. You don’t wanna be late, right? Come on.” She says lovingly and starts to exit from the car. Seoyeon begrudgingly follows suit and walks into the building.
She gets seated in a chair for the stylists to do her hair and makeup. Chaeyoung asks for a chair and sits down next to her.
“I don’t even know what your schedule is, now that I think about it. I just kinda tagged along.” Chaeyoung says with a giggle.
“I’m modeling for a magazine, forgot which one, though.” The makeup artist comes and starts prepping her face.
“Ooo, a photoshoot? Hopefully it has a cool vibe to it to match you, honey.” Chaeyoung smiles and watches as the mua paints the other’s lips.
Seoyeon smiles bashfully and looks down, “You really are a flirt, Chaeng-ah.”
The stylists finish with her hair and makeup and she’s promptly changed into her outfit. Everything about it is dark. Her makeup is filled with blacks and blues and purples, and her outfit is no different. She feels like a rockstar when she looks in the mirror and she feels confident. Chaeyoung wolf whistles as she leans back on the chair to get a better look at the older girl. Seoyeon smiles at Chaeyoung and twirls for her. Chaeyoung seems mesmerized by Seoyeon and stares at her with an unrecognizable look in her eyes. Seoyeon promptly gets called to go to the set and gets whisked away for her photoshoot. Chaeyoung watches the entire time, and even puts her phone on Do Not Disturb, ignoring the messages from some of the members asking where she was.
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Seoyeon finishes changing out of the clothes and into her own and sits down on the chair she was at prior to the shoot, waiting for her manager to call. She sees Chaeyoung staring intently at her phone and peeks at it, thinking she’s probably playing a game. Instead, she sees messages, and accidentally reads a few. She looks away quickly but thinks about what she read as she scrolls through twitter. She saw her own name, which is understandable, since Chaeyoung’s here with her, but she also saw stuff about ‘telling her’ and ‘you should tell her.’ Seoyeon’s spacing out, wondering what that could mean when she gets a phone call and almost has a heart attack at the noise. She answers and it’s her manager telling her to get in the car. She gets up and starts picking up her stuff. “Chaeyoung-ah, let’s go.”
“Mm, ok.” Chaeyoung gets up as well and grabs her bag.
They make their way to the car and get in, sitting where they were before. Seoyeon’s exhausted and immediately knocks out, half laying her body against the window. She hears Chaeyoung chuckle towards her direction before she falls asleep and ends up having a dream. The dream was weird, to say the least. At first, it was just a field of lilacs, but then someone called her name and she turned around to find Chaeyoung waving at her enthusiastically, wearing a pretty dress and a huge smile on her face. Seoyeon runs towards her and they hug, Chaeyoung picking her up off her feet and spinning her around. Seoyeon giggles and hugs her tighter, never wanting to let go. And then she woke up because her manager pressed the brakes hard and she flung forward, her head diving towards the seat in front of her. She feels Chaeyoung’s hand on the top her head where it would’ve made contact with the chair and opens her eyes. She sees Chaeyoung hunched over next to her, looking startled. “Jesus, you almost hit your head hard on the chair,” She says and lifts Seoyeon’s head up from where it rested against her hand. “You ok?”
“Yeah, I’m fine,” Seoyeon says with a rough voice, “just a little shocked cause of how violently I was woken up.”
“You can thank my quick reflexes and my amazingness for saving you from a lot of pain.” Chaeyoung says with fake-snobbiness and squints her eyes at Seoyeon.
Seoyeon laughs, “Thank you, Miss Chaeyoung. Oh, how will I ever repay you.” She bows at the taller girl and fake cries.
“You will forever be indebted to me and will have to work for me for the rest of your life! Muahahaha!” She says in a villainous tone and makes evil hands before breaking character and laughing loudly. She doubles over and clutches her stomach because of how much she’s laughing. They’re both laughing so crazily the manager has to tell them to be quiet.
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Seoyeon exits the shower and enters her room while towel drying her hair and sees Chaeyoung on her bed playing another one of her games. “Chaeng-ah, you do know those are just made to take your money, right?” Seoyeon says as she brushes her hair.
“Shush, let me enjoy it.”
She giggles and walks over to her, “Scoot over,” Seoyeon nudges Chaeyoung until she moves to the side and settles next to her. “So earlier, you were playing one that you needed to make the girls hair longer, and now you’re playing..?”
“I’m playing one where you have to make the girl popular by walking through these arch things.”
“Ah, of course. Peak gaming.” Seoyeon watches and eventually drifts off into sleep, too tired from today to care.
———
Seoyeon woke up feeling warmth surrounding her. Confused, she rubbed her eyes and blinked before she realized. Chaeyoung had her trapped between her arms with her leg thrown over Seoyeon’s. She gasps but then holds her breath in case it’ll wake Chaeyoung. She tries to lift the other’s arm away but is met with a muffled complaint and a tightened hold on her. Seoyeon sighs and decides to give up, and goes on her phone.
A few minutes go by and Seoyeon hears a groan from her side. She turns and sees Chaeyoung wiping at her eyes with a scrunched up face. Cute. “Hey, Chaeng-ah,” Seoyeon says as she pats the other’s head.
Chaeyoung sighs into her hand and opens her eyes. “Hi,” she says with a sleepy smile, “what time is it?”
“It’s currently..,”Seoyeon lifts her phone to check and sees it’s already the afternoon, “Damn, it’s already 1.”
“Why’d we sleep in so much, jeez.” Chaeyoung gets up and rummages for her stuff before stopping. “We don’t have a schedule right?”
Seoyeon giggles at Chaeyoung’s forgetfulness, “No, we don’t.”
Chaeyoung walks over and flops on the bed again. “Thank god,” she says into the mattress.
Seoyeon laughs and stretches before getting up. “I’m gonna go make food, d’ya want?”
Chaeyoung shoots up at the mention of food. “You’d cook for me?? Ah, you’re so sweet, honey.” She traps Seoyeon in a sickeningly sweet hug and peppers kisses all over her face.
“Ah!! Stop it! I wont cook for you if you do that again.” Seoyeon laughs and pushes at Chaeyoung’s head. She’s pushing her away, but she’d be lying if she said she didn’t enjoy being kissed by the taller girl.
Chaeyoung backs up slightly, “Ok ok fine. But you know you like my kisses.” She says while pinching Seoyeon’s cheeks.
“You can be so annoying sometimes, y’know.” Seoyeon says as she swats Chaeyoung’s hands away and turns around, praying the taller girl couldn’t feel her face burning up.
They walk out to the living room and see Jiheon and Hayoung sitting on the couch. “I was wondering where you guys were. Neither of you answered my messages.” Hayoung says while analyzing them.
They walk to the kitchen and Chaeyoung sits on a stool while Seoyeon starts making them breakfast. She’s so focused on perfecting the sandwich for Chaeyoung she doesn’t notice the taller girl staring at her the entire time with a smile on her face. She looks up for a second and makes eye contact with her. They look away and giggle as a blush blooms on both their faces.
Hayoung hears their soft laughs and looks behind her. She sighs and turns to Jiheon, “It’s so painfully obvious it hurts.”
“Huh?” Jiheon says as she turns to Hayoung, too invested in the show they were watching to had heard her.
“Nothing, don’t worry.” Hayoung smiles at the younger and turns back around to look at Seoyeon and Chaeyoung. They’re sitting next to each other at the table and talking animatedly, both looking flushed and really, really happy. “God, they’re so oblivious.” Hayoung mutters to herself before turning around and continuing to watch the show with Jiheon.
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The members all finished eating, and it was Seoyeon’s turn to wash the dishes. Even if it’s kind of a lot, most of the time she finds it therapeutic. For some reason, today she just can’t get into a good mindset. There’s so many things flying around in her head, it’s giving her a headache.
“Hey.”
Seoyeon turns her head towards the direction of the voice and sees Chaeyoung leaning against the counter on the other side of the kitchen. The taller girl walks across and meets Seoyeon at the sink. “Need some help?”
“Yeah, actually. Thanks” Seoyeon says gratefully and moves to the side. Chaeyoung takes her place right next to the shorter girl and looks at her with a smile. Seoyeon looks up at her and smiles back, not wanting to look away.
After one too many minutes of just staring into each others eyes, they finally start doing the dishes. Seoyeon cracks jokes and Chaeyoung laughs like she’s the funniest person alive. They bump hands a few times, and every time made Seoyeon feel butterflies in her stomach.
Chaeyoung wipes the last plate and hands it to Seoyeon, who turns around and places it in the cupboard above her. She closes it and turns around to see Chaeyoung staring at her.
“What?” Seoyeon laughs nervously and avoids eye contact, in fear of exploding right then and there.
Chaeyoung steps forward and Seoyeon looks up. She sees the same unrecognizable look in her eyes she had at the photoshoot. “Syeon-ah.. I really wanna tell you something.”
“You can tell me anything, Chaeyoung. I promise.” Even though she’s a little fearful at what that look could mean, Seoyeon thinks the best plan of action is to listen. She reaches out for Chaeyoung’s hand and brings it close to her chest.
“Seoyeon, I-“ Chaeyoung cuts herself off and steps closer, practically cornering the shorter girl.
Seoyeon inhales and glances at Chaeyoung’s lips for a second. She returns her gaze to her eyes and holds eye contact, want and love bubbling in her.
Chaeyoung leans closer until she’s mere millimeters away from Seoyeon’s face. The taller girl stares at her lips.
“Please..” Seoyeon whispers and that’s enough for the taller girl to crash their lips together. Their kiss is filled with want, and it very quickly turns into making out. They kiss and kiss until they have to separate for air. Chaeyoung leans her forehead against Seoyeon’s and laughs breathily.
“Took you long enough” Seoyeon may be out of breath but that doesn’t stop her from teasing the taller girl.
“Shush”
“Make me”
Chaeyoung giggles and kisses her over and over again, definitely to shut the shorter girl up and definitely not because she’s very gay for Lee Seoyeon.