Chaewon Special (with a dash of chuusoul)
Chaewon stares at the ceiling, comforter covering most of her body and blinks. She turns to her side and stares at the wall instead. She’s been so sad this week because of the tickets she wasn’t able to snatch before they sold out.
She thinks this feels worse than the time she dramatically broke up with her girlfriend over something stupid and then immediately got back together with her the next day because they missed each other too much.
Hyejoo has offered to buy third party tickets that were jacked up in price but she couldn’t let her do that for her. ⅓ would have another concert in the future...one day...maybe...hopefully.
Chaewon looked at the time and she sighs, Hyejoo should be coming back from her shift soon. She wished she’d come sooner so they could get some fast food and cuddle in Hyejoo’s bed afterwards. Then at least she could be sad in the arms of the one that makes her feel better. She sighs again and closes her eyes.
The sad part about it is, when she’s at work she lets Hyejoo play her music because it was too painful to listen to her own playlist. That meant listening to Odd Eye Cirl- ugh she couldn’t even say their name.
She was going to need another week to recover until she could watch anything related to her beloved group. Chaewon tries not to be on her phone too much, unless it was Hyejoo related or an emergency because she’s bitter that most of her online friends were able to get tickets themselves. She didn’t want to see their happiness on her timeline.
Her ears perk up at the sound of the front door being unlocked and keys jingling, Hyejoo was home. Chaewon pulls one of the four pillows hogged up to herself and leaves it out on her girlfriend’s side of the bed. She didn’t really like to share, especially if it meant the cost of her comfort but she could spare one for the love of her life.
Hyejoo grunts as soon as she walks into her room and this makes Chaewon raise an eyebrow. Her grumpy girlfriend seemed more grumpy than usual. So she pulls the blanket up, inviting her in and the taller crawls in. Hyejoo rest her head on Chaewon’s chest, curling the rest of her body in as she wraps her arm across the smaller’s stomach.
“What’s wrong?”
She hears the girl breathe hard, a sign that was made known that the girl was frustrated. “Today at work, this guy came in and was really rude to me.” Chaewon runs her hands through her hair “And I couldn’t even say anything because-”
“Your mom was there, huh?”
Hyejoo nods against her “Yeah, and you know how mom is when we’re not nice to customers, even if they were being stupid.” she mumbles that last part.
Hyejoo’s mom was the worst to work with. She’s a nice lady and loves Chaewon to death but if it has anything to do with the cafe then she’s hard to deal with. The older woman was a firm believer in ‘customer is always right’, they shouldn’t lose a customer because of a petty situation. Chaewon has to work with her girlfriend’s mother once a week and it was the day she dreaded to most.
Chaewon nudges the girl’s head with her chin, to get Hyejoo to look at her “Do you want me to go back and beat him up?”
Hyejoo looks up and purses her lips out, waiting for Chaewon to give her peck. Her girlfriend happily obliges, giving her more kisses than necessary. There was something about small affection that absolutely raised Hyejoo’s mood up.
“No, it’s okay.” The taller chases after her lips, wanting more “Are you hungry?” She says against her lips “Mom sent us some food in containers. I brought them back home.”
At the mention of food, Chaewon suddenly remembers “Oh yeah, my mom stopped by and dropped off some fruit.”
Hyejoo frowns and picks her body up slightly, enough to where she could be the same head distance “Why did you let her come over? We should’ve gone over there so she didn’t have to carry it by herself.” Chaewon’s mom would every once in a while stop by and give them a variety of fruit. The problem was, she would bring a box full and they both knew how fragile looking Chaewon’s mom was.
“I know, I told her that! She just doesn’t listen.” Chaewon pats her side “Get up, I’m starving”
She had been hungry earlier that day but decided to wait it out. The last time Chaewon ate without her, Hyejoo threw a fit because they should always eat together. She learned her lesson.
Hyejoo is the first to sit up, she’s been holding her hunger until she could eat with Chaewon. The older waits for Hyejoo to change out of her work clothes into some casual shorts and a hoodie that was twice her size until the both of them were in the kitchen.
Hyejoo doesn’t bring up the ticket problem after the first time so Chaewon wouldn’t get sad again. Instead she does stuff that she wouldn’t normally do to make her girlfriend happy. Like indulging in Chaewon’s bad habit of eating a whole cheesecake to herself as she brought home her own. Or buying Chaewon a new controller even though she bought her a customized one last month.
“When we get back, I’ll let you play on my account.” She doesn’t ever let her girlfriend play on her account, at least not as first player because for some reason Chaewon couldn’t get down first person shooter games.
Chaewon pulls on the string of Hyejoo’s hoodie and brings her closer. She gives one last peck and mumbles “You don’t have to. I’m just going to lay back down after we get done.”
Hyejoo frowns and tries not to show that she was upset with herself. She didn’t know what she could do to make Chaewon feel better. “Okay….I love you.” She says quietly.
Chaewon cracks a smile, brings Hyejoo’s hand to her lips and kisses her knuckle “I love you, too.”
She supposes it’s time to go back home and pick up some more clothes while Hyejoo was at work. Chaewon brings her bag and sluggishly walks through the door. The first thing she sees is Jiwoo, in a shirt that obviously wasn’t her’s and a size too big, standing in front of their kitchen table. Jiwoo looks surprised to see her here, almost like she got caught doing something she wasn’t supposed to be doing.
“Hey.” Chaewon says and walks closer to her. Jiwoo was putting away an extra plate, like someone was eating lunch with her. Or judging by the way Jiwoo looked disheveled with bed hair and slightly puffy eyes, this was breakfast.
Jiwoo tries too hard to act casual that it was funny to her “Long time, stranger.” she puts the dishes in the sink “You just missed Jinsol. She literally left like five minutes ago.”
The older woman turns her back to Chaewon, the blonde steps closer to see if there were any leftovers on the stove. Her friend’s girlfriend was starting to seem like a fake person to her, they never seem to be available to meet and Jiwoo doesn’t really talk about her love life. Chaewon was about to make small talk until something dark and purple catches her attention. Peeking out just barely was a fresh hickey on Jiwoo’s shoulder, somewhere not noticeable in Jiwoo’s normal outfit tops and her mouth speaks before she can process it “Oh my god, you got laid last night.”
Jiwoo’s shoulder rose all the way to her ears, a blush quickly spreading from her neck up. She throws a rag at Chaewon and whines “We are so not talking about this.”
Chaewon didn’t want to talk about it either and she doesn’t know why she couldn’t keep that thought to herself. Honest to God, she does not want to even think about Jiwoo getting it on with her girlfriend while she was gone. “Fair enough.”
Jiwoo makes an embarrassed face at her before wiping her hands “Speaking of Jinsol.”
“Ew.”
“I’m not talking about that.” Jiwoo was turning pink again, and pulled the collar of her shirt closer to her neck. “Jinsol stopped by to give us a little gift.” Jiwoo walks past her and Chaewon raises an eyebrow.
Us?
Her roommate walks into her room and comes back out not even thirty seconds later. She has a small envelope in her hand and holds it out for Chaewon to grab. This was kind of weird so she stares at it and then looks up to the older. Jiwoo shakes it, a small smile wanting to break out. It was as if she was hiding a secret but couldn’t hold it in and was about to word vomit out of giddiness.
Chaewon ends up taking it out of her hand and seen that it was already open. She pulls out two small papers and her breath hitches, oh my god. “No she didn’t.”
Jiwoo beams and starts shaking her shoulders out of excitement “She surprised me last night and got us tickets…” Chaewon doesn’t hear the rest of her blabbering and she blinks until the tickets in her hands start to disappear. But they’re not and this is real. The seats were better than what Chaewon could originally afford and Jiwoo’s girlfriend got them just like that.
“....she said if she would’ve known we wanted tickets she could’ve arranged us to get better seats and felt bad about these. I was like, oh my god no Chae is going to love these.”
Chaewon has been sad all week and this was the light at the end of the tunnel. “I don’t even know what to say. I can’t believe she got us these tickets.”
“I’ll just tell Jinsol you said thank you.” Jiwoo smiles.
Chaewon brings the tickets close to her heart and her chest feels warm. This was the best thing that has happened to her in like, not to be dramatic, a week. She looks at Jiwoo, who was trying to flatten the back of her hair “It’s no wonder you put out for her yesterday.”
“Alright, give me back the tickets.”
-
She wakes up randomly from an afternoon nap, scrunches up her face as she stretches out on the bed. Chaewon picks her head lazily to see Hyejoo sitting in front of her computer, mouse being clicked rapidly and the keyboard buttons being pressed down on. She has to close one eye and squint the other because the screen was too bright for the dark room.
The shorter gives it a couple of minutes of trying to close her eyes and go back to sleep until she realizes it wasn’t going to happen.
She hears Hyejoo sigh and the noises stop, her girlfriend must’ve died. Chaewon slowly gives up and walks behind her. She puts both her hands on the girl’s shoulders and Hyejoo doesn’t flinch at the touch, instead she puts her right hand on top Chaewon’s left.
If it was anyone out of the two, it was Hyejoo who loved affection the most. Chaewon uses her right hand to rub her thumb on Hyejoo’s face “Hey.” She says softly.
Hyejoo drops her hand and goes back to playing once she respawns “How was your nap?” Chaewon lets her hands slide down and wraps her arms around Hyejoo’s neck.
She puts some of her weight on Hyejoo “I feel dead.”
Hyejoo snorts “I was going to wake you up because I thought you were sleeping too long but I didn’t want you to be mean to me.” Chaewon doesn’t try to be mean, she just wakes up moody and groggily.
Chaewon unloosens her arms and walks beside the chair. Hyejoo hurries up and moves her hands away from the desk once she hides her body. The blonde sits on her girlfriend’s thighs and swings her legs around to face her. Hyejoo had her arms on the outside of Chaewon’s body and continued her game.
Chaewon leans forward, chest to chest and hides her face in the crook of Hyejoo’s neck. The dark haired girl’s legs always fell asleep really fast in this position but she’d tough it out.
“Do you want to play later?” She asked the shorter.
Chaewon hums.
“Are you hungry?”
Chaewon hums.
“What do you want to eat?”
She doesn’t answer right away, only snuggling more into her body. This was a hard question to answer “I don’t know, what do you want to eat?”
Hyejoo doesn’t answer, too focused on the game but Chaewon knows that the girl heard her. It always takes a moment for the question to fully process in Hyejoo’s brain when she’s too concentrated with whatever is going on during her game.
“I don’t know.”
Chaewon hums again, they’d figure it out later.
Except later does come and they still don’t know what they want. Until they do know and stare at Chaewon’s phone, the restaurant they craved was closed. They give each other blank stares and Chaewon takes a deep breath, they did it again.
“I can make you ramen.” Chaewon says as she locks her phone. She grabs Hyejoo’s hand and pulls her over to the kitchen.
They do this at least three times a week.