9

He gives me a smile there and waves "Hello. Can I come in?"

No, you most certainly cannot.

But for some reason I am moving away from the door and he walks in while I stare it.

"Were you about to leave?"

Yes.

But for some reason, the fact that Kim Geon Woo had touched himself even after I've told him not to has me shutting the door and saying "No"

When I turn, I notice the look he has as he looks around which seems to be full of surprise as he says "I never took you for one to live large"

"I'm impressing someone" I say as he looks at me now.

"You are serious?" He asks.

"I am a horrible liar" I say as I begin to move to the kitchen "Wine?"

"No thank you"

I walk to the kitchen, getting a bottle and popping it before pouring it in a glass and heading back "I have this feeling you came here for a reason"

As he stares at me, I take one sip, my mind immediately drifting to Geon Woo.

He tasted like this the first day...

After I...

"Eul Yi Song?"

I look up from my glass "Hmm?"

"Are you sure you should not be somewhere?" He asks "You seem distracted"

"Undistract if you may" I say "Would you keep standing? Your legs must hurt. Please sit"

He sits, a hesitant look in his eyes as I take another sip, resting on the walls and crossing my legs as I say "Why do you look cornered Sunbae?"

"You sound upset" He says "We both know how you tend to handle situations when you are upset"

"Did you come here to bring back old wounds?" I ask.

He smiles there "Definetely not. I actually needed to ask a favor"

I raise an eyebrow as I say "Favor? I already told you that I do not run the company anymore. It is all under Noona"

He nods "I know. Can we stop being so formal with each other for one? You sound so stiff, like a..."

"Board" I complete.

He smiles there "Yes"

A part of me wants to smile, at the memory that we both had together but the taste of wine in my mouth has Kim Geon Woo coming to my mind and cleaning it off "What do you want?"

"Ever since I came back from America, things in Seoul have changed" He says "But I hear that some certain things will change and I want to keep them"

"Keep them?"

"I am a photographer" He replies "I came back for that, one of the reasons anyway, to take photos and keep them. Jan Yi Song says you have an exhibition coming up and asked if I would like to join you, sharing the images I take"

"I'm sorry, I wasn't aware"

"It's okay" He says "I wasn't sure you were so I came to ask you if I could, personally"

I shrug "You can if you want to. It would be a nice surprise anyway"

"That's not all"

"Oh?"

"I don't have a place to stay" He says "Not that I can't, it's just quite hard to find a comfortable condo and staying in a hotel has its perks so I wanted us going around to looking for a house together while we go through certain places that I can take snapshots of"

"Let me get this straight then"

I stand upright as I say "You need three things. You want to exhibit your images in my art gallery, not for any particular reason, you also want me to go house hunting with you and take you to the places that have not been rundown yet? I have it all covered?"

"Eul Yi Song, you don't have to..."

I sigh "It is fine. I do owe you certain things anyway. You can stay over at my place till you get an apartment cause I doubt hunting one down will take only a day"

His eyes widen there "Eul Yi Song...."

"Don't refuse"

"But I'm your senior! It would look uncomfortable and imposing and I don't...."

"You always watched out for me in high school, I'm glad I can do same now" I quickly drink the remnants of the wine in the glass as I set it on the coffee table "Would you like to leave right this minute? I found out I have no much free time on my hand"

He stands slowly "You HAVE changed"

"Is that a bad thing?"

"I'm not sure. I suppose I will find that out during my stay here"

"You definitely will"

*

For some reason, finding a house was next to impossible, and I had to drive him back to the art gallery so we could plan how we would go about the division of the place.

It ends up being about nine on before we're able to get back after getting some of his things from the hotel before I drive back to the house.

As I turn off the car, I say "You should start offloading the things in the car while I..."

"Who's that standing at the entrance of your house?"

I turn, my breath almost hitching in my throat.

He's there, resting on his car with a cigarette in his mouth, his hair gelled back with a pissed look on his face as I hear Baek Ji Daewi say "Is everything okay? You look pale?"

I sigh "Go into the house"

"You just said I should..."

"I'd bring them up" I cut in as I turn back to him.

This time he is staring at me, his green eyes in a sort of skit as Baek Ji Daewi says "If he is making you uncomfortable, I could..."

"You could leave" I say.

He seems to bite his lower lip there as he now goes out of the car, slamming the door before he walks across to the house, making sure to turn to look at Kim Geon Woo who ignores him and keeps smoking before entering the house.

As he does so, I walk out of the car, moving to him "You shouldn't be out..."

He suddenly grabs me by the collar and kisses me.

He has a bigger taste, that I don't like which has me grabbing him closer, trying to see if I can use his tongue to wipe out all traces of it in my mouth before we pull away.

We're both panting as he says "I waited again"

"I apologize..."

"Do you think it's funny you asshole?"

He tugs on the collars of my collar of my coat as he says "You bring up ridiculous rules and gdy cranky when I break them but you can't keep to your fucking word"

"I suppose a collar would look marvelous on you"

He seems taking aback by that "What?"

"With a bell, so I can be aware of when you're coming and know how exactly to treat you" I say "It is such a shame I wasn't aware. I cannot do anything for you"

"You're fucking joking. You are driving me to the brink of insanity and you think..."

"Have you ever been fucked in a car and tied by ropes to the heads of the car seat?"

"...."

"Have you?"

".... No"

"Would you like to experiment?"