day 5 "unacceptable, try again"
“Unacceptable, try again.”
Bora grins at the little huff Handong lets out in response, clearly flustered by Bora’s line. Probably not the line she expected after their long-anticipated first kiss. Don’t get her wrong - inside, Bora is giddy like a little kid who finally got the ice cream they’d been begging for.
Because that might as well have been what she was doing. She and Handong had been dancing around each other for months now. Handong either too oblivious or shy to get the many, many hints Bora left for her to follow. And Bora too proud to just bite the bullet and spell it out for the younger woman. She’d done a lot of good work, trying to clue Handong in on her feelings in various ways, the least the other woman could do was make a move!
Now that today, Handong finally took the hint and confessed in the most adorable way - all shy smiles and downcast eyes as she stumbled over the words in her haste to get them out before her confidence left her - well, Bora wants to savor it. She worked hard to get this moment. To get to stand here, looking up as she waits for the woman she’s been falling for to take the initiative and start their new path together.
So yes, inside, Bora is happier than Minji with a macaron, overjoyed merely that this is finally happening. Outside? Well, she can’t miss an opportunity when it presents itself. She thrives on Handong’s absolutely adorable shyness. This woman will match her strangest antics any day, but time for some ~feelings~ talk with Bora? Mm, Bora could just eat her up with how cute and shy she gets.
Bora leans up, sliding her hands along Handong’s arms as she does so, until their noses almost touch. She relishes the slight shiver she feels run through Handong’s body.
“Come on, I’ll give you another chance.” Bora whispers, their lips just barely brushing. She drops her heels back down so there’s a little bit of distance between their faces again. “Show me what you’ve really got.”
Handong pouts at the distance, before biting her lip nervously.
Oh, Bora is going to love teasing the shit out of her every chance she-
Something shifts in Handong’s gaze, her stare back on Bora’s lips. It definitely derails the train of thought that had been moving in her brain, but before Bora can even think about getting another one going - much less register what exactly that shift in Handong’s expression was - the younger woman’s lips are on hers again and oh-
Oh.
This is not what Bora was expecting from the shy younger woman that was confessing to her only moments before. This… this… seductress in her place kisses her with a fire she’s not at all prepared for. Their lips dance together and it’s all Bora can do just to keep up, much less take back the upper hand she’d so effortlessly held up until now.
A rogue thought crosses Bora’s mind that yes, apparently she had severely underestimated this woman. But it too is lost quickly - completely blown away, in fact - by the impact of her back against the wall.
Honestly, she can’t even be mad about losing the control she was so certain she had.
Not when losing feels like this.
When they finally break away for air, Bora gasps, overwhelmed. While Handong merely smirks, a proud glint in her eye.
“Better?” Handong asks, tilting her head a little as if that could even begin to restore her innocent image in Bora’s perception. The shorter woman feels some of her bravado start to return as she wants nothing more than to wipe that smug little smirk right off her face, as she has so many times before with others that tried to take the reins.
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, as she’s beginning to realize), her brain fails to fully catch up in time. In her defense, she’s still reeling from the attack. How was she supposed to know what the shy younger woman had been hiding this whole time?
A very flustered “huh?” ends up being all she can muster.
Handong laughs, a bright and joyful sound that almost sounds out of place in the context of what just happened… and especially what happens next.
Easily taking advantage of Bora’s subdued state, Handong pins her hands above her head, holding them against the wall with one hand on her wrists. The light kisses Handong trails up the shorter woman’s neck feel… foreboding in their gentleness, now that Bora has tasted what the other woman is capable of.
Bora feels she’s proven right when Handong reaches her destination and whispers in her ear.
“Don’t worry, honey… your face says it all.”
Bora’s breath hitches, her whole body tensing in anticipation.
Handong pulls back to admire the older woman’s expression one more time before closing right back in, like ocean waves pulling in and out - their relentless nature offering only a brief reprieve before crashing down again and again. Powerful, relentless, and yet, comforting.
Bora’s last coherent thought is a simple one. Just what have I gotten myself into?
And then lips reconnect and Bora lets herself fall into the churning sea that is Handong, as warmth engulfs her and she drifts away.