*continuation of the same night* 

There has to be something going on inside of Yerin’s heart if Sinb was making her feel all sorts of things all at the same time. You know one of those weird twisting of knots that you feel at the bottom of your stomach when you’re really nervous? Or something like a loud thunder-like thump inside your chest that went a little too fast for your liking? It all sounds so discomforting just to think about, but Yerin was feeling more than just those two emotions right as we speak𑁋and it was far from discomfort.

Their foreheads were still resting onto each other even when they had calmed their own breathing. Shy smiles and tinted light pink cheeks were present on their faces, time felt like it stopped for Yerin, while for Sinb she still remained with her hypothesis that it just felt slower whenever Yerin was with her. Either way, the both of them had the same thought in mind, which was that they just wanted to cherish this moment that they just had, trying to take in whatever that’s left on their lips. Which was a bit… you know… because really they could just makeout right then and there. 

Though perhaps it meant more than just that, because if Yerin was about to be honest to herself again, that was actually her first kiss in her 23 years of life. She wondered what Sinb would think about that, did the idol think she was a bad kisser? Or was that okay for a first-timer? Many questions began to fill her mind again. 

Sinb has had her moments, even though she’s younger, she’s had various partners of her own, male and female. Her company didn’t allow much dating after her debut, but every now and then she would find herself waking up next to a girl in a foreign hotel room. Kissing isn’t something new to her, but kissing Yerin? And that sinking feeling inside her chest when they were doing so? That was new, exciting and everything she’s never experienced before. 

The both of them smiled sheepishly, Yerin let out a small giggle because only now she had realised that they’ve been sitting like this for approximately 5 minutes. 

“So… are we just gonna sit here…?” Yerin's voice croaked dry, slowly trying to gulp down the lump that was present inside of . In response, Sinb removed her forehead from the blonde and tucked herself into her neck instead, her hands both grabbing each of Yerin’s arms and wrapping it around her own back. Yerin heard the girl in her arms loud and clear, leaning her back slowly against the headboard and resting it while tightening her arms around the idol.

“You always smell so nice, Yerin-ssi…” Sinb breathed into Yerin’s neck softly, inhaling whatever that’s lingering. Yerin has always smelled good even when they first met, she always wondered what perfume the blonde had been wearing but now she’s certain that it’s just a mixture of some fruity perfume and Yerin’s natural body odor. 

“Thank you… but I’m not wearing any perfume right now and plus, don’t you think we smell the same? You did use my body wash and shampoo…” 

“No.” 

“Ah....” Yerin half chuckled, “Got it…”

Yerin always knew that Sinb had an interesting personality. Because in variety shows she was too funny, and in more proper settings the idol was more reserved and had that aura to her that she just couldn’t find the right words to describe with. She wasn’t cold by any means, and she wasn’t scary, but she was just a little intimidating, so to speak. She knew it was all just because of professionalism on Sinb’s end because the last thing she wants is to say anything that could get her in trouble.

But as of right now, she found this Hwang Eunbi to be... very amusing. This sudden clinginess, the cradling and the slow breaths on her neck--all of this right now, Yerin couldn’t help but just obliged and let herself fall for Sinb more. 

She felt Sinb inhale into her neck once more before removing herself from it, now they were both facing each other. Cheeks still faintly pink, lips craving for more. So Sinb did what she does best, and gave the blonde a quick peck on the lips and giggling like a schoolgirl who just did something mischievous afterwards. Yerin smiled in return, and giggled with her. 

The rest of the night went on. They talked to their heart’s content with their fingers intertwined together, changing positions every now and then to get more comfortable, Sinb cuddling up next to Yerin while she’s at it. Sinb took the liberty of getting to get to know Yerin more, because Yerin probably knew a lot about her already since all of her life’s history can be accessed online. 

And as the night went on, they felt themselves slowly falling into slumber with slurred words, facing each other with arms wrapped around each other’s waists. Before either of them fell asleep, though, Yerin brought all the energy she had inside of her and told the idol “Goodnight, Eunbi-ssi”, only for Sinb to respond with snuggling closer towards her that their noses touched. Yerin gave it a smell peck with her lips and fell asleep. 

--

Yerin woke up to an alarm tone that she wasn’t familiar with, stirring herself from her deep slumber as her heavy eyelids fluttered open slowly. Waking up to a different alarm sound than you’re normally used to sort of triggered the flight or fight inside of the blonde, but as soon as she tried to get up she felt a heavy weight on top of her and only then she remembered what had happened the night before. 

The person in question had herself all cuddled up onto Yerin’s entire body, her head in the crook of her neck, arm around her waist and one leg wrapped around the blonde’s bottom half. She was finally regaining all of her senses, because now she could feel that foreign yet familiar soft breathing on her neck. She tried to turn her head as subtly as she could to look at what time it was currently, and to her surprise it’s 7:30 AM. She made an assumption that that’s what Sinb always had her alarm set to on relaxing days with no schedules. 

“Yerin-ah… stop moving and switch that off please…” Sinb pleaded with her voice hoarse as if she had scratched sandpaper down her larynx, barely awake. 

Yerin wasn’t sure what made her freeze all of her movements, was it because the idol’s words didn’t make sense at all? How can someone stop moving and switch off an alarm at the same time… Or was it because, if Yerin had heard Sinb clearly, she had called Yerin… Yerin-ah.

Those three syllables rang through her ears. She wasn’t able to recall what they had talked about yesterday night/morning, did they come to an agreement to drop the formalities? Nothing came to mind… it’s really too early for her cheeks to be this red. 

As soon as Yerin tried to lift Sinb’s arm off of her waist, the idol only retorted and held her grip tighter with a small grump. The alarm was still going off in the background.

“Eunbi-ssi… just a second, okay? I’m still here, don’t worry. Let me just…” 

Yerin’s voice came out in a soft whisper, one of her hands caressing Sinb’s head before reaching out to the phone that wouldn’t stop ringing and finally, the room was quiet again. She yawned as she snuggled herself back into Sinb. 

She felt Sinb’s breathing got slower and heavier, indicating that the idol successfully fell back asleep. Yerin wished she could do the same, but Sinb’s breath on her neck was making it more difficult than it should. 

So she waited for about 5 minutes before detaching herself from Sinb, and thankfully this time the idol didn’t wake up or tighten her grip against her. 

Before heading outside of her room, Yerin took her bed covers and carefully laid them onto the sleeping beauty. A content sigh leaves her lips that also tugged into a smile. 

She moved her feet towards her kitchen, looking around the empty space before her. Her mind bounced through ideas for breakfast, should she go out and buy breakfast at the convenience store near her apartment complex? Or should she just make Sinb some classic western pancakes and scrambled eggs? Then she remembered how Sinb had mentioned somewhere that she prefers to eat Korean dishes in the morning, and with that her mind was set, she started to work right away. 

If it was one thing that Yerin was sort of good at other than photography, it would be cooking traditional korean dishes. For breakfast, she decided it’d be best to settle with the classic budae-jiggae, some bulgogi and a bowl of perfectly steamed rich alongside with some kimchi that she received from her Mother who stayed back in Incheon. This was as simple as she could get because she didn’t want to bombard Sinb with too much food so early in the morning. 

As she was plating a small bowl of kimchi, she heard the door to her room click open and a half awake, drowsy, bed-haired Sinb appeared into her view. Her eyes were a little puffy, lips in a full pout as she rubbed her eyelids in an attempt to wake herself up. The idol almost drooled after getting a whiff of the various dishes set on Yerin’s countertop, her tummy echoed a grumble. 

It took Sinb a minute to fully bring herself to reality, when she finally did, she mentally took a screenshot to remember how good Yerin looks in her mustard yellow silk pyjama wear in the morning daylight. Her smooth legs were a full view for Sinb to see, that almost got her drooling too. 

“Good morning, Eunbi-ssi. How was sleep? I hope my bed was comfortable.” 

The idol yawned and stretched her way towards Yerin, “It was great, you were really comfortable.” 

“Mm…” Yerin wanted to avoid the conversation of them sleeping together for now, not wanting to bring up the fact that the idol spoke to her informally when her alarm had set off at 7:30 AM.

“And good morning to you too, Yerin-ssi…” Sinb finally replied to the earlier greeting, giving Yerin a peck on the cheek while she’s at it. These moments were still intimate enough that Yerin found herself blushing, but a shy smile still appeared on her lips. “Thank you for cooking breakfast, it’s a good thing that you woke up first because I’d probably just order takeout again.” 

It seems like Sinb had no idea about what happened this morning, though, because there was not even a glint of awkwardness in her eyes. Perhaps Sinb only fell asleep right away and forgot what had happened? 

Whatever the case was, Yerin could only attempt to contain herself from the hard thump inside her chest. “It’s a pleasure. Also, how do you like your coffee? Is it still a semi sweet Iced Latte?” 

“Um yeah.” 

Yerin hummed in reply and quickly fixed the table, then fishing out her phone to order two cups of Iced Latte’s from one of her favourite cafe’s. She sat down and patted the seat beside her to invite the idol to join her. 

“I’ll eat well!” Sinb exclaimed like a preschooler excited for recess as she positioned her chopsticks in her fingers, a big smile on her face. The blonde could only return the smile, muttering to herself the same thing before diving into their meal. 

Since it was still early and they haven’t had their morning coffee, they ate in silence with Sinb’s short endearing compliments every now and again about Yerin’s cooking even though it was really simple. 

They got their coffee by the end of their breakfast and Sinb mentions how perfect the timing was. 

“What are your plans for today?” Sinb asks as she sips more of her latte, loving the lingering aftertaste of espresso. 

“Don’t think I had anything planned for today… what about you?”

“Minseok-oppa texted me and said I have a short dance practice at like.. 4:30 PM? I’m free before that, though. I actually wanted to go and see if Sojung was up for a lunch-date, but it seems like I have better plans…”

Yerin only waited for Sinb to continue her sentence, but the idol was busy sipping on her latte. 

“....Which are?”

“Guess!” 

“Um… go home and take a nap?”

“Heol… do you want me to go home that bad? Wrong answer, by the way.”

“Mm… go buy groceries….?”

“Ddaeng [Wrong]” Sinb snickers, “I’ll give you a hint, it involves you.”

Yerin’s eyebrows shot upwards, what on earth could she have anything to do with Sinb’s daily plans…?

“I give up.” 

“Are you sure you want me to say it?”

“Huh? I’m scared… but yes…” 

Sinb laid back into her seat, “I’ll tell you later. Do you want to shower first?”

Yerin only scoffs in defeat. “You can shower first since you’re a guest.” 

With that, Sinb got up and shot Yerin a teasing wink and a smirk that could end the lives of an entire population before making her way to the bathroom, leaving the blonde with wide open.

Hwang Eunbi will truly be the death of her, she thought. 

--

The plan was to cuddle.

After the both of them had showered, with Sinb wearing another pair of Yerin’s clothes (This time Sinb asked for one of Yerin’s favourite hoodies, which turns out to be none other than a black oversized hoodie and a pair of short jeans), Sinb wanted to cuddle.

Yup, the anticipation that was building up inside of the blonde was all for… a cuddle. Not that she was complaining, not at all, but really Sinb could’ve just said she wanted to spend the first few hours of her day like this instead of making Yerin’s mind go miles per minute again. 

Even so, here they were, cuddled up in each other’s arms and this time Sinb was the bigger spoon. Yerin was mindlessly scrolling through her Twitter feed, trying to catch up with the whole KPop scene while she’s at it. Sinb only had her hands wrapped around the blonde’s waist the whole time and peeked her gaze at the phone screen. 

“Are you sure you don’t want to go have lunch with Sojung today, Eunbi-ssi?” 

Yerin only asked because she felt really bad. She glanced at the time and came to the realisation that they’ve been cuddling for 2 hours straight now, the clock striking 12:15 PM. Sinb did mention that Sojung and herself try to meet at least once a week and since they’re both A-List (Korean) celebrities they probably don’t have that much time on their hands to begin with.

“Why? Do you want to come with this time?” 

She felt the idol’s hands crept up her arm, fingers caressing ever so softly. “Ah… no, I was just wondering. It’s not always that you have all this time to yourself, right?” 

“Or I could just ask Sojung to come over here… I doubt that any cafes are open at the moment because we’re supposed to be staying indoors.” 

“If that’s what you prefer, I don’t mind… though… I’ll just keep myself locked up here in my room while you guys hangout…” 

“No way! I want you guys to meet. Maybe I should ask her to bring Yuna too…” 

“Yuna?” 

“Yuju. Choi Yuna, Yuju.” 

Yerin was speechless, “The both of you are friends with Yuju??? THE vocalist of our generation???” 

“Yes, Yerin-ssi. And to be more specific, Sojung has a huge crush on her and vice versa, they’re both just clueless hopeless romantics.”

“THEY’RE BOTH GAY?!” Yerin exclaimed and it startled Sinb enough that she flinched.

“Maybe they should meet you another time.’ Sinb shook her head but the smile on her lips reflected her tone, “I want you all to myself for now. I know for a fact that they won’t leave you alone once they meet you.” 

Yerin felt that familiar heat reaching her cheeks and ears yet again. How could Sinb say such things while being this close to her? This should be illegal, really. But even if it was, Yerin would probably find a way to break the law and do this over and over again with her. 

“Anyway, do you want to call Minseok-oppa now or do you want to meet him later and talk then?” 

“Perhaps it’s better if I saw him face to face… but what do you mean ‘meet him later and talk then’?” Yerin said and shifted her body to turn and meet Sinb’s eyes.

“You’re coming with me to practice.”

“And why would I do that…?” 

“Because we’re dating and I want you there with me𑁋plus, don’t you wanna hear a sneak peak of my next title song…?” A smile crept up Sinb’s lips when she watch Yerin’s reaction, which was the blonde’s flushed cheeks getting redder with her eyes squinted.

“Are you sure that’s allowed?” 

“Of course it is, it’s my song.”

“And isn’t it too early to prepare for your next comeback? You just released a song like… two weeks ago…” 

“Yeah, but it helps with keeping things in check because I can learn the choreo in advance and get to feel the song more before recording it in the studio. Then when it’s time to prepare again, I’ll just recall what I need to do. It’s actually easier that way, though, the concepts are a bit rushed when we do it this way.”

“That’s interesting. I’ve never heard it done that way before.”

Sinb only hummed with that small smile still present on her lips, she found it adorable that Yerin is thinking this hard about everything. 

“Aren’t you hot wearing my hoodie like this?” Yerin asked out of the blue with no correlation with the previous topic.

A teasing smirk appeared on the idol’s lips, “Why, do you want me to take it off?” Sinb then removed her hands from Yerin and grabbed the brim of her hoodie, pulling it upwards.

But before anything could be exposed, Yerin panicked and quickly held down Sinb’s hands as she exclaimed, “No!!” about 10 times… or 20...

“No…” Yerin’s flustered eyes were apparent and it only made Sinb retain her smirk, “No thank you…” 

“Well… it does feel kinda hot now that you mention it…” Sinb began to pull the brim of the hoodie upwards again, 

“Eunbi-ssi!!!!!” Yerin squeaked. Immediately removing herself completely from the idol only to grip down her hands tightly to prevent whatever was about to happen from happening. Their faces not too far apart, so close that they could feel each other’s warm breaths on their own lips.

While Yerin was completely flustered and panicked on the inside, she couldn’t help but relax all of her muscles when she met Sinb’s brown orbs that were staring right into hers. Sinb has always had those cat-like eyes𑁋sharp, dark, and mysterious with a tint of curiosity that nobody else had. There was still that teasing glint tinted all over it, because she’s Hwang Eunbi after all, but even so, her gaze is always so warm whenever Yerin found herself staring right into them. 

Is this what it feels like to fall in love? Yerin was certain that whatever this was, she’s definitely falling, and she’s falling harder than ever. 

“Yerin-ssi…” 

“Mm…”

“Would you mind if I try something?”

“Go ahead…”

To think that Yerin knew what was coming... 

She knew it in her gut what Sinb was about to do, but why did her heart still race so fast? Why was it that time stopped as they stared into each other’s gazes? That sinking feeling that lingered at the bottom of her stomach was indescribable, really, it didn’t make sense for a kiss to feel like this but perhaps now she understood all the hype that came with it. 

So their lips meet yet again. Her left hand softly moved upwards of Sinb’s arm before placing them onto her jaw to pull her closer, creating more depth to the already deep kiss they had just started. 

And it was too addictive. 

Almost too addictive that Sinb’s hands started to roam around Yerin’s back, grasping the areas that Yerin didn’t think would cause burns to her skin but it did and it was wildly addictive. She definitely wanted more and even more so to touch the idol the same way.

But before things got too heated, Yerin swiftly used her free right hand to stop one of Sinb’s from moving any further. And by something, the blonde was thinking more of… innocent kisses and not jumping straight into second base𑁋as tempting as that was.

Thankfully the idol got the message and instead placed one of her hands on Yerin’s hips and the other on her neck. 

Their kiss continued, gaining more momentum that only made things more high-risk than it did before. As dangerous as it was, though, Yerin couldn’t find anything in her to pull away from the heaven sent lips of Hwang Eunbi. So their lips kept going insync until they’re both breathless again, just like yesterday. 

Sinb tried her best to flicker open her heavy eyelids, but as soon as the both of them finally caught onto their breaths, Yerin pulled her in again to give her one last deep kiss before weakly letting her entire body fall onto hers. Now she could feel Yerin’s heavy puffing against her ears, turning them redder than they already were because that’s one of her weak spots.

“You alright?” The idol managed to voice with her dry throat.

“Mm… are you?”

“Think so…” Sinb tried to reason, a small sigh leaving her lips, “Do you think we should do that more often?”

There was a brief pause before Yerin replied, “Mm…”

“Glad we’re on the same page, Yerin-ssi.” 

“...Hungry?”

“Yup!"

A/N: who would've thought i'd give you guys a chapter this fast? hehe, i just want to express my gratitude because of the support i've been receiving! we hit 200 subscribers, i really can't thank everyone enough. and the last chapter reached over 500 views? it's a little confusing because this is a subscriber and member only story, so i'm not sure how that works, but either way, THANK YOU! 

hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and i hope i'm spoiling you guys well. as always, comments are appreciated . take care everyone<3

[also, side note: i'm sorry if this story is progressing a little too slow for anyone's personal liking, i don't really want to rush into things and at the same time i'm trying to figure out how the characters are going to turn out. every character that i've mentioned will be introduced soon!]