Yuri POV

Taeyeon leans forward and kisses my forehead. “I need to go.”

I’m on my back with my head and shoulders partially propped against my headboard.

She’s straddling my lap and looking down at me regretfully.

I hate that we live so far apart now, but it makes the time we do spend together a lot more meaningful.

I take her hands so she’ll shut up, and I pull her to me, hoping to persuade her not to leave just yet.

She laughs and shakes her head. She kisses me, but only briefly, and then she pulls away again.

She slides off my lap, but I don’t let her make it very far before I lunge forward and pin her to the mattress.

I point to her chest.

“You”—I lean in and kiss the tip of her nose—“need to stay one more night.”

“I can’t. I have class.”

I grab her wrists and pin her arms above her head, then press my lips to hers.

I know she won’t stay another night. She’s never missed a day of class in her life, unless she was too sick to move.

I sort of wish she was feeling a little sick right now, so I could make her stay in bed with me.

I slide my hands from her wrists delicately up her arms until I’m cupping her face. Then I give her one final kiss before I reluctantly pull away from her.

“Go. And be careful. Let me know when you make it home.”

She nods and pushes herself off the bed. She reaches across me and grabs her shirt, then pulls it on over her head. I watch her as she walks around the room and gathers the clothes I pulled off her in a hurry.

After 5 years of dating, most couples would have moved in together by now.

However, most peoples’ other halves aren’t Taeyeon.

She’s so fiercely independent it’s almost intimidating.

But it’s understandable, considering how her life has gone.

She’s been caring for her grandfather since I met her.

Before that, she spent the majority of her teenage years helping him care for her grandmother, who died when Taeyeon was 16.

Now that her grandfather is in a nursing home, she finally has a chance to live alone while finishing school, and as much as I want her here with me, I also know how important this internship is for her.

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