CFMFL 06

Chapter 6

Taking his words, “Stay the night,” as nothing more than “I’ll give you a room, so get some sleep and go to Seoul tomorrow” was difficult when his gaze, tone, and voice were all shaking Jisoo to her core.

Especially since the person saying it was absurdly handsome, and she had been receiving his help and kindness since the afternoon. He had called her mother “Mother-in-law,” and it was already quite late at night.

The circumstances were so obvious that she couldn’t simply dismiss it as a misunderstanding. Unable to answer, Jisoo only bit down on her lips. She didn’t even want to ask the stupid question, “You really mean just sleeping, right?”

His car stopped in the garage, and Jaegyeom turned completely toward Jisoo.

“You’re going to dump that piece of crap, right?”

Jisoo easily understood that the “piece of crap” he was talking about wasn’t the faded compact car parked at his repair shop. Jaegyeom continued as though he hadn’t even asked the question expecting an answer.

“Things were already over when that bastard left you here and took a taxi. I could be your new boyfriend. And I already met your mother.”

“It’s not that simple.”

“What’s so difficult about it?”

“We barely know anything about each other…”

Jaegyeom took out his wallet and placed his ID card in Jisoo’s hand, telling her to keep it.

Yoon Jaegyeom. A Korean citizen born in the same year as her. The photo showed him from several years ago, with hair that was slightly shorter than it was now.

“I graduated from Gyechon High School, I run a repair shop in town, and I’m Yoon Jaegyeom. You’ve already seen my house, and I explained my family situation earlier.”

“……”

“You’re Lim Jisoo, a Gyechon High School graduate. You work for a company in Seoul, and you’re the pride of Gyechon.”

“Please… stop calling me ‘the pride.’”

“Then what should I call you? Jisoo.”

The way he looked directly into her eyes and quietly said her name made Jisoo feel as though her heart had suddenly tightened.

She wanted to ask why he was saying her name like that, but even she couldn’t explain what exactly “like that” meant. An instinctive sense of danger told her that she shouldn’t delve into his feelings.

Of course, just as Jaegyeom said, Kim Youngbaek was indeed a relationship that had ended today in Jisoo’s heart.

But the end of things with Kim Youngbaek didn’t mean that she was now starting something with Yoon Jaegyeom.

She had never started any relationship in her life in such an unexpected way.

Whether it was courage or recklessness, she gathered enough of it to take the hand he offered and follow him.

Who would have thought that, at the end of the most ridiculous day of her life, the most dramatic night of her life would be waiting for her?

Standing beneath the rushing water, Jisoo cleared her mind completely.

She decided not to think about anything.

After taking quite a long shower, Jisoo made her way to his bedroom on her own.

She was wearing only a shower robe that belonged to Jaegyeom and was much too large for her. Her hair was still damp, and her cheeks were flushed. Facing Jaegyeom, she gathered her courage and spoke.

“Yoon Jaegyeom. It’s my first time. I… I don’t really know how to do this.”

Jisoo wasn’t confident she could handle whatever Jaegyeom might say or how he might react. So, immediately after getting the words out, she lunged toward his lips almost like she was headbutting him.

Their first kiss was so forceful that it made a loud thump rather than a soft smack.

“Was that an attack?”

“It wasn’t!”

With Jisoo keeping her eyes squeezed shut, Jaegyeom wrapped his arms around her.

He laid her down on the bed and gently stroked the corners of her eyes with his fingertips. Jisoo slowly lifted her eyelids.

Their gazes met, warm and tangled with a fitting amount of tension.

“You’re this brave even though it’s your first time?”

“Um… Could you not say anything?”

“Sure. I’ll shut up and do what I’m supposed to do.”

Jaegyeom stared at Jisoo lying on his bed for a long while, unable to believe she was really there.

His first love, whom he had kept buried in his heart for so long, had suddenly fallen into his arms like a Christmas present on a day completely unsuitable for anything as peaceful as Christmas.

Even the stubborn curve of her lips, which refused to give him a positive answer whenever he tried to define their future relationship, was adorable.

It seemed that Lim Jisoo wanted to dismiss everything that had happened today as nothing more than a simple incident.

After saying he would do what he had to do, Jaegyeom merely looked down at her from above.

Jisoo swallowed nervously and asked again.

“Um… Aren’t you going to?”

“There’s no way I’m not.”

As if his calm gaze from moments earlier had been a lie, Jaegyeom’s touch began exploring Jisoo’s soft skin.

The knot of her robe loosened easily.

When she found herself exposed beneath Jaegyeom’s undisguised gaze, Jisoo chose something other than covering herself out of embarrassment.

Her slender fingers slipped into his hair.

Then she gently pressed her lips against his.

As though he had been waiting for that moment, Jaegyeom kissed her passionately.

The kiss made Jisoo feel as though every cell and every sensation in her body had suddenly floated into the air.

Jaegyeom’s unrestrained movements quickly relaxed the tension that had stiffened Jisoo, and then, afraid she might fall into that dizzying sensation, she held him tightly.

His firm bare body pressed against hers without hesitation, while his large hands heightened the sensations she was experiencing.

“Ah…”

His touch reached places she had never allowed anyone to touch before.

His lips also moved slowly from her ear and down her neck, leaving warm traces along the way.

Jisoo’s breathless moans gradually grew louder.

Faced with sensations she had never experienced before, she didn’t even think about asking him to stop.

Every place Jaegyeom touched made her feel good, making her increasingly intoxicated by the sensation.

She didn’t know how completely she had lost herself to his touch when—

“Lim Jisoo.”

“Mmm…”

“Give me permission.”

His low voice sounded almost as though he were giving her one last chance to stop him before he completely lost control.

Jisoo, so overwhelmed by pleasure that she hadn’t even realized she was crying, struggled to open her eyes and looked up at Jaegyeom.

She didn’t dislike the sight of the man who desired her.

Didn’t he realize that she had already given him permission?

“Jaegyeom. Hurry.”

Her words went beyond permission and became an urging.

Jaegyeom finally acted as though he had made up his mind and drew her close.

A devastating wave of sensation swept over Jisoo, making her tremble.

Until dawn, Jaegyeom kept her awake through the long night, leaving her breathless and overwhelmed.

After the long night had passed, just before they fell asleep holding each other, Jaegyeom whispered sweetly into Jisoo’s ear.

“Jisoo. I thought of something to call you besides ‘the pride.’”

She felt as though she shouldn’t hear it.

But considering the entire day had already gone completely off the rails, she wondered what difference hearing one more thing could make.

With her voice hoarse, she deliberately asked lightly,

“What is it?”

“First love.”

The sudden appearance of that unexpected word left Jisoo flustered.

She buried her face in Jaegyeom’s arms and pretended to be asleep.

As though he knew exactly what she was thinking, Jaegyeom pulled her a little closer, closed his eyes, and followed her lead.

“The sound of your brain working overtime while you’re wondering when and how to escape is incredibly loud, Lim Jisoo.”

“……”

“Wow. You’re not even making excuses that I’m wrong. You’re pretty shameless.”

Just as Jaegyeom said, Jisoo had planned to get up at dawn and run away.

But she had failed spectacularly.

The night had been an endless succession of moments that were unbearably good, ridiculously overwhelming, willingly accepted, and yet so intense that they made her shudder.

Amid the repeated unfamiliar sensations, Lim Jisoo, who normally woke up easily in the morning even without an alarm, slept deeply until quite late as though she had never existed in the morning at all.

When Jisoo woke alone in the bed, she saw the clothes bag Jaegyeom had brought in from the car and let out a small, incredulous laugh.

She was grateful that he had thought to bring it in, knowing it contained clothes she could change into.

But there was also a Post-it note attached to it.

[Don’t even think about running away. Come out and eat.]