The Push and the Pull
Ever Enough
She woke up at two and braced herself. Her flawless face glistened with beads of sweat as she was gasping for breath. There it went again, the weird dream she had been dreaming for two nights of her stay in Jeju. She could not really call it a nightmare, but it was more like, weirdmare.
From her hotel room, the sky was still very dark. Stars shone above like they usually would in an autumn night sky like nothing was wrong. She scoffed.
Everything should be alright. She tried making up her mind as she clicked the lights at the nightstands on.
Consequently, a name popped out of her mind. It had been two days and they never got themselves in contact. She was not expecting too much from him, though, as if she did not know him already, but she felt like talking to him, she guessed?
She stared at the screen blankly and opted to a call. She did not know if that was okay calling at such hours. She wished they were closer enough to know about each other’s particular habit. What she meant was, at least she would not be so sinful if he happened to be asleep already.
Her heart skipped a beat when she heard a mumble across the line. Hesitantly, she spoke.
“You- sleep?”
Well, excused her for being so awkward, though. It was damn two in the morning and she had just called her not-so-kindhearted fiancé for nothing definite as the reason, but simply an immature volition.
He groaned. “Nope. A set amount of papers to read,” She heard a yawn, “Why are you calling? Why, why are you awake at two in the morning?”
“Asked by someone who's also awake at two in the morning.” She snorted.
It would be better if he was up to a fine greeting since they had not talked for two days already. However, since it was him, she would toss the thought away. If by listening to his voice was enough, she would not be greedy to ask for more.
“Something's wrong. I can’t sleep.” She simply said. He laughed.
“You can’t sleep when something is wrong? What a huge burden being you.” She smiled hearing that. Even if it was an insulting comment, she partially felt fine.
“In fact no. I still don’t know what it is, but when I can’t fall asleep, it must be something is defintely off. Something must be wrong somewhere. I don’t know, that’s my charm.” She let out an audible sigh innocently.
Jongin didn’t reply (not that she minded, though).
“Jongin,” She called out a name she had not pronounced in a while, “Did I interrupt your work?”
The honest answer was Yes, but he was having a second thought about saying No. He was halfway to answer her question when she cut him middle way.
“Ah, come on, not a yes. No human should be awake at this hours but we are. Don't you think talking to that human who's in the same situation with you will be nice?” She grumbled because she could not accept a rejection. She was positive that she could not fall back to sleep and staying awake doing nothing did not really catch her liking.
He chuckled, “I’ll just say no, then. Since you insist.”
Insist?
“I see you were planning to dump my call. Good thing I'm always one step ahead.” She alleged, electing a soft chuckle from him before he went silent again, completely affected by his own thought.
If Huisoo believed the 'A set amount of papers to read' thing, then there was a lot of thing she did not know about him. In fact, something was bothering him; something he never thought of feeling, something that kept him up tonight. He did not really appreciate her calling him in the middle of his reading, but he would still give her what she wanted, anyway. But first, she should return the favour.
“Huisoo-ya.”
He was sure that she, giving a call at this hour when his mind was at a loud corridor, could not be an ac
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