“Momo-shi.”

“Oh, Jeongyeon-shi!” The shorter girl turned around upon hearing the familiar gentle voice coming from behind her. “You’re here.”

Momo smiled gently and Jeongyeon automatically opened up both of her arms, encouraging the girl to take a step forward before engulfing the tiny woman into a tight embrace.

“Am I late?”

Momo shook her head softly, tickling the older one’s chin in the process.

They never hugged like this before, so it taken Momo by surprise when the taller woman initiated the skin-ship, at which that the younger one has a total of no complains at all.

It is not like they are total strangers, they have met... like 3 times already. But they are comfortable enough with sending texts to each other every day. The handsome girl’s schedule has been quite hectic since last week, so it oddly disappoints Momo greatly when she discovers that she won’t be seeing her fiancée for days until the Paris trip.

Still, if this is just any random person... Momo wouldn’t accept the hug at the first place.

Momo is a naturally very touchy person; she lost count on how many times she has d Mina on a daily basis, but it was just that.

A friendly skin-ship.

Plus, the younger girl is basically like a sister to her; not hugging and having any contact in every way with the red headed would definitely cause Momo’s day to feel somewhat empty and incomplete.

No matter how dramatic that sounds is, it is in fact the truth. She has been with the girl since they were little.

Just 2 girls that happened to click with one another.

Those 2 girls also happened to be the Young Lady Hirai and Young Lady Myoui; to think about it now, no wonder their friendship was highly approved by both families.

They didn’t know that; all they knew were how cool the other person really was. And who would have guessed, 14 years later… still together and sharing the same hobby of bullying the poor and kind Chaeyoung smol. The feelings are mutual.

But this; hugging her fiancée is a completely different thing. Her heart beats so fast now; not that it is a surprise. Momo really wonders if the older girl can actually feel the organ thumped strongly against the barrier of her skin and chest.

Momo blushed once she realized that they have been hugging for quite some time now; and even though the hotel’s hallway is seemingly vacant… but feeling the warm body of the handsome girl made in contact with her body is really, really dangerous.

Momo feels like she wanted to faint. Of course the hug was absolutely not unwelcomed but with a weak heart like Momo towards her own future wife does not really help the small girl in her current situation.

Little did she knows, the taller one was also struggling with her inner self.

But not because she was having the same problem as the younger girl; it’s a completely different one to be exact.

Jeongyeon, on the other hand, cannot seem to bear herself from pulling her body away from the shorter girl. She has missed her fiancée badly, and she didn’t realize this of course until a few minutes ago when her arms, out of her control, just opened up on their own.

Hugging the girl on the 4th meeting would be a bit weird, now is it? But god forbid her, she just couldn’t help it.

And as creepy as it looks like from other people’s perspectives, she also couldn’t help herself but to fully inhale the familiar soft perfume the girl is wearing and her heart just stopped.

Not literally, because that would mean that she is dead.

But more like, her heart beats numbly and she strangely can no longer hear her own heart strong beats in her eardrums.

This is a bad sign.

She is very happy indeed to see the girl but getting much closer to the other person might eventually kill her with a heart attack. Though Jeongyeon does not really feeling quite reluctant with the idea of dying in the arms of an angel… she slowly pulled herself away anyway from the taut encirclement.

Her arms, then again, apparently refused to repel themselves from the girl’s warm and tiny waist as she ducked her head, wanting to gaze deeply at the stunning eyes of the girl now standing extremely closed to her front.

Momo blushed openly but was bold enough to make a firm eye contact with her fiancée nevertheless.

“Where is your friend? She’s not coming?” Momo reminded the handsome girl, suddenly remembers how she got a text yesterday from the older one informing that she is bringing a close friend along with her.

But Jeongyeon came alone just now, making Momo wondered whether or not the friend may not be coming at all.

She is rather excited to meet one of Jeongyeon’s friends after all, wanting to get closer to her families and friends.

“Oh, she has to do something first. She’ll be here short after.” Jeongyeon confirmed, finally releasing the girl from the loving prison but yet Momo is still not moving away from Jeongyeon’s personal space and the taller one couldn’t help but to give out a tiny tender smile in return.

“She is excited to meet one and only CEO Son.”

“A fan? That’s adorable!” Momo cheekily smiled.

“Well, yeah...” Jeongyeon half-heartedly agreed, knowing that Nayeon is probably more interested in meeting her fiancée rather than the young CEO herself, but oh well… a white lie could never really hurt anybody.

“Momo-ah! Can you help me- oh, hello.” A loud voice suddenly boomed out from behind Momo and the sudden greeting causes Jeongyeon to advert her attention away from the smaller girl to the other woman standing a few feet away from the two of them.

Jeongyeon bowed her head and softly greeted back. “Hello, Young Lady Myoui.”

Oh no.

Jeongyeon started to feel nervous now.

How could she forget?

Myoui Mina.

The ultimate best friend of Hirai Momo; they were basically attached to the hips in high school. And the shorter girl, no doubt, knows and probably have seen Choi Jeongyeon before.

‘What if she recognizes me?’ Jeongyeon’s mind is running miles again, thinking and coming up with any good excuses and reasons on how to prevent the girl from recognizing her real previous identity.

“Oh, you know who I am?”

What?

Wait… what?

Jeongyeon straightened her posture and snapped her eyes back to the smiling red headed girl as she slightly bowed to Jeongyeon as well in return.

Momo was silent the whole time, also quite confused on how in the world the girl knows about Mina’ family name; she has never really mention her, not that frequently as Momo’s memory served.

Jeongyeon fought herself to gulp loudly, discerning that it would be the very first sign of she being nervous or lying at the first place, and Jeongyeon cannot risk that especially in front of Momo.

Jeongyeon smiled instead, masking whatever fear she had behind her strong disguise.

“Yes, my grandmother, Madame Yoo, has done quite a lot of monthly check up at your hospital.”

“Ah, one of our VIP clients.” Mina clapped excitedly, happy to solve the questions in hands and Momo sighed in relief. At least Mina takes a liking to her girl.

‘To her girl? What? Really Momo?’

Jeongyeon nodded in confirmation. “And I have met CEO Myoui. Your name might have come up before. He is a proud father, I shall say.”

Momo beamed at the older girl, amused with her ability to compliment the girl subtly in a much professional and hopefully, not in a flirty manner.

“How embarrassing.” Mina laughed awkwardly. “Shall we see Chaeyoung now?” The girl instantly directed the topic towards the bright CEO, not wanting to receive any humiliating stories about her parents or herself, in that matter.

“Yes, shall we?” Momo smiled at Jeongyeon.

“That would be wonderful.”

Mina silently smirked seeing the interaction between the two women in front of her.

‘She is a better actress than I thought’.

Later~

“You must really like her, huh?” Chaeyoung smiled widely once she realized that the taller girl in front of her cannot steer her eyes away from a particular girl a few steps away from where they are standing.

“Sorry?” Jeongyeon straightaway revolved to face her, away from the scene playing between Momo and Mina, and blushed lightly upon seeing the knowing look the young CEO is giving.

“You…” Chaeyoung started, her right hand busied itself, moving frantically across the sketchbook placed comfortably on top of the high table next to her right as she draws whatever designs that may have come up to her mind every once in a while; and looking at the girl’s slim body inspires her to draw more of them.

“You… really like Momo.” She finished distractedly, as a small portion of her tongue tucked out in an absolute concentration.

Jeongyeon opted to remain silent instead, not wanting to disturb or to break the girl’s obvious motivations. But after a while, not hearing any response from the younger girl, Chaeyoung once again repeated her question and this time, Jeongyeon immediately responded.

“Yes. She is my future wife.” She politely smiled.

Though the feelings she has for the younger one is real, that part is as pure as assumed by the older one; but Chaeyoung couldn’t help but to notice how fake the smile really is, right away recognizing the familiar forced smile spreading across the girl’s beautiful face.

“Miss Yoo, you can drop the act. There is no need to be that polite with me.” Chaeyoung smirked upon seeing the ‘caught-of-guard’ expression of the handsome woman.

“I am no Madame yet, I’m still young yes? We all know your marriage is an arranged one.” She bluntly stated.

It took Jeongyeon by a tad surprise hearing the girl’s honest opinion. In some other time, Jeongyeon might have given out a witty response in return but seeing the playful smirk on the woman’s face makes Jeongyeon think over for a split second; whether to play along or to remain polished as often as she has done in the past whenever she meets new people.

“People don’t take me too seriously because they often thought I’m a bit bright and unnecessarily dense up there,” She grilled her finger next to her head and winked at Jeongyeon. “But I’m not stupid. People like us don’t get married out of love Miss Yoo. It’s all about power and money nowadays. Am I right?”