The day passed on just like that and Seulgi’s Sunday was spent with her teaching Joohyun about basic things, such as cooking common Korean food instead of foreign Egyptian food which Seulgi couldn’t comprehend of. She also taught Joohyun how to wash laundry, iron clothes, and clean the house in general. So far, Joohyun loved ironing and washing the most. Joohyun reasoned out that she was excited to mix the softener with detergent. Seulgi only looked at her weirdly but didn’t say anything as a response.

During the afternoon, Seulgi took Joohyun out since she was too lazy to cook and she felt tired for teaching Joohyun the basic things, meaning she had to do it first so Joohyun could follow what she did. She told Joohyun to have a shower and again lent her some clothes for Joohyun to wear. Seulgi thought maybe she too should buy some clothes with her size since Seulgi’s size was a bit loose on her. Seulgi was a kind-hearted person to begin with and since Joohyun looked harmless so far, Seulgi didn’t have the heart to kick her out of the apartment.

“What do you want to eat, Joohyun?” Seulgi asked as she was helping the latter to fasten her seatbelt. No, Seulgi still couldn’t believe that Joohyun was a daughter of Amenhotep III or anything but she put that fact aside for now. It felt like she wouldn’t get the real answer soon enough anyway so she let it go temporarily.

“I am not familiar with this century’s food. Can I ask something traditional and a bit spicy?” Seulgi pursed her lips at the question, thinking.

“Ramyeon and rice cake fit your description best. Come on then, I know the best place in town that serves it.” Seulgi grinned and Joohyun gulped. It was hard to resist Seulgi’s lips as hours went by. For Joohyun, Seulgi’s lips shape was… incredible. The upper lip was thin while the lower one was fuller. Seulgi often chewed on her bottom lip unknowingly and she didn’t know how it affected Joohyun badly.

“Can I taste your lips?” Joohyun asked out of nowhere and Seulgi swore she would lose her control on the wheel drive should she had started driving.

“WHAT THE- Yah! Stop asking weird questions! And the answer is no! My lips are not food!” Seulgi scolded Joohyun. She sighed and ignited the engine before pressing the gas pedal carefully.

“Why are you so obsessed with me anyway, Joohyun? What did I do to you? Are you sent here by someone who wants to avenge me? Wait.. Did my clumsiness hurt someone that bad and it makes them want to have revenge on me? Dammit.” Seulgi was more like talking to herself but of course, Joohyun could hear it clean and clear. However, her thoughts still remained on Seulgi and her perfect lips.

“You have tasted mine. Why can’t I taste yours? It’s very injustice of you to say no to my pleading.” Joohyun complained softly. She had always had people to obey her without exceptions. No one said no to Henuttaneb, the daughter of Amenhotep III and here she was; the person whom she claimed to love dearly, Seulgi, just said no to her simplest request.

“Listen… I still couldn’t believe you are the same mummy I accidentally kissed, okay! But if you truly are her then I am sorry to do that to you. I didn’t mean it. Who would want to kiss someone who has died for centuries anyway? Not me for sure.” Seulgi responded logically.

“I might be dead and you kissed me while I am being immobilized and very dead. But I am alive now and my lips are more kissable and the form is perfect in my opinion. What makes you think kissing my lips when I am being alive is not better than my kissing it when I am being dead?” Joohyun asked and Seulgi had do divide her focus to the road ahead of her with the woman who keeps yapping beside her, demanding her to kiss her.

“I don’t really think I understand your question and demand, Joohyun. But if it is what I think you assumed, then I don’t need to prove anything. Being either dead or alive, I am still not tempted to kiss your lips. So, thank you for the offer but no thank you.” Seulgi said.

“I am not tempting you to kiss my lips. I ask you if I can taste yours, Seulgi. Oh, my dear lover. I will be the one to kiss you, not the other way around.” Joohyun was undeniably good with her words. She used to be a shy person who could only say few words in a day but thanks to her sister’s curse that her tongue was beyond professional now; creating word after word endlessly, turning the real meaning into suggestive words according to her intentions.

“What makes it different!? You kissing or I kissing you is the same thing, Joohyun. In the end, our lips are still attached to each other regardless of who makes the first move.” Seulgi frustratingly answered. She honked the car in front of her for being too pissed. She was the scientist here with a supposedly intelligent brain and now she was having an endless debate with an archaic woman from centuries ago if what Joohyun said of herself was true.

“It has different recognition. You can say to the public that I kissed you because I really would do if you allow me. But the other way around means, I can admit to others that you kissed me which means you’re the one who wants to kiss me and not the opposite.” Joohyun calmly argued and Seulgi felt like smoke had appeared above her head.

The traffic lamp showed a red color and it was quite crowded right now. Seulgi pushed down the handbrake and turned her head. She had enough with Joohyun and her weird puns. She took a deep breath and making up her mind.

“Do you want to taste my lips that bad? Then I shall give you just that so you would shut up for the rest of the journey.” Seulgi declared before leaning in and press her lips onto Joohyun’s awaiting pair of lips. She opened a bit and closed it right on Joohyun’s lips, kissing it lightly just enough for the other woman to feel a good taste of Seulgi’s lips. When the light turned yellow, Seulgi removed her lips from Joohyun’s and left her breathless and petrified.

“Good. Now shut up until we have arrived.” Seulgi smiled contently, knowing she would have a peaceful ride with the silent version of Joohyun.

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Seulgi took Joohyun to Yongsun’s restaurant where the restaurant served Korean foods, ranging from traditional ones to modern ones. Yongsun was Moonbyul’s lover while Moonbyul was one of Seulgi’s best friends who went to the same college as hers years ago. However, Moonbyul decided to be a botanist instead of pursuing the same career as Seulgi.

Joohyun was still unfazed by anything but the remnants of feelings when Seulgi’s lips touched hers. It was truly loving, the kind of love which made Joohyun’s heartbeat louder that it thumped hard against her ribcage; the version of love that screams sacrifices of which Joohyun was willing to sacrifice her everything just to be loved by the latter; it felt like the impossible sunflower that bloomed during the cold winter in the southern country. Joohyun loved Seulgi that she could see nothing but Seulgi; she couldn’t sense anything but Seulgi; she couldn’t think of anyone but Seulgi. She revolved around Joohyun’s existence in this mortal world and she would do anything, everything, just to make Seulgi love her in return.

It was obviously a curse Nebetah gave to her; to love anyone who resurrected her from the temporary death but for Joohyun, she didn’t mind. It’s not like she could make a choice of the person her heart could long for. When she was still alive centuries ago, Joohyun had never known how it felt to fall in love with someone. Many people loved her, adoring her, and even worshiping her but her heart was frozen cold; she never even spared seconds to glance to them who praised her like a God’s descendant for Joohyun was too beautiful to be true. Joohyun loved no one but her family and herself. Her other love was spent on the books she loved to read and that’s that.

‘So this is how it feels to be in love? When I don’t care about anything or anyone but her? And how I wish one day I can hear her saying those three words back to me. Can I one day marry her oh dear God? Seulgi Oh my dear lover… My heart is yours and if I have to die again just so I can spend my limited days with you, I would. I only have 60 days. Can you keep me for eternity or will I be dead again?’ Joohyun said inside her mind, totally unfocused with anything but the woman who’s sitting in front of her.

“Joohyun! Yaah I have been talking to you for the past minutes and here you are, lost in your own thoughts.” Seulgi protested while puckering her lips in annoyance.

“I am sorry, my lover. I didn’t mean to. What did you say again?” Joohyun smiled shyly and Seulgi had to admit, maybe she indeed lied when she said she preferred Cleopatra although having an intimate session with the woman whom she just met less than 24 hours.

“I said, you haven’t told me what you’re gonna do after this. I cannot keep you forever as a freeloader, Joohyun. You are not even my friend and there’s no way I am gonna be your lover either. You have to pay at least for your own food and other necessities if you want to stay in my apartment and I have an idea of how you can earn money temporarily. Yongsun Unnie said she needed extra help to serve the customers here. What do you say? The payment is not much but I’d be enough to buy basic things you may need for a month.” Seulgi used her chopstick to grab the fried dumpling before pushing it toward .

“You want me to be a servant here.” Joohyun shortly assumed.

“Well, it’s called a waitress, not a servant. But more or less, the jobdesc. is similar. You just need to take orders from the customers, report it to the chef in the kitchen, and serve the food once it’s been made. Yongsun would teach you how to do it and she said you can start working by tomorrow if you wanted to.” Seulgi smiled at Yongsun who stood behind the cashier desk, nodding at Seulgi’s direction.

“Do I have another option?” Joohyun turned her head and watched the woman who’s Seulgi smiling at.

“Is it her? Yongsun Unnie? Do you love her?” Seulgi was now waving her hand at Yongsun when Seulgi heard the sudden question.

“What?! No.. That’d be weird.. Yongsun Unnie is Moonbyul’s lover so no, I don’t love her. Besides, haven’t I told you that I don’t like women that way? I might be alone and have been single for a year and still counting but it doesn’t mean my preference has been changed, Joohyun.” Seulgi sighed. She sipped her drink quietly, trying to bid some time while contemplating; was she that desperate that she would change her preference? Or did people pity her just because she didn’t have a lover for the past year? Seulgi sighed again internally.

“But you just kissed me in the car earlier, Seulgi. Oh, my dear lover. How could you cruelly say that my existence does not matter to you when you have claimed my lips an hour ago? Did the kiss mean nothing to you, my lover?” Joohyun said not too lowly that it attracted other customers’ intention, including the owner herself. People’s eyes were on them now and Seulgi just choked on her drink, no thanks’ to Joohyun's blatant statements.

“Yah! Why would you say that out loud?!” Seulgi hissed under her breath and she was about to say more when Yongsun was heading toward her while telling her customers to mind their own business and to stop staring rudely at Seulgi and Joohyun.

“Now, did I just hear you have kissed her and still didn’t want to admit her existence matters to you? If so, then you’re not Kang Seulgi whom I have known for years. Because Kang Seulgi might be a clumsy woman but she has never been a coward.” Yongsun sat on the vacant seat beside Joohyun who was also still glaring at Seulgi, waiting for her question to be immediately answered.

“Dammit!” Seulgi cursed stressfully. She inhaled deeply prior to replying.

“You don’t know anything about her, Unnie.” Seulgi desperately said.

“I have time to sit here and let you tell me more about this beautiful woman here.” Yongsun turned her head and smiled at Joohyun.

“Who are you, dear? May I know your name and who you are to this dumb bear called Seulgi here?” Yongsun nicely asked Joohyun. Seulgi was already opening , wanting to answer Yongsun before Joohyun had time to answer but of course it was too late.

“My name is Henuttaneb and I am a daughter of Amenhotep III with his Great Royal Wife, Queen Tiye. For me, Seulgi is oh my dear love, and thank you for telling me her family name. Now I know that her full name is Kang Seulgi. Oh, my dear lover.” Joohyun smiled brightly at Yongsun while Seulgi was clasping her face devastatingly.

“What the hell is she saying, Seul? You have a lot to explain!” Yongsun’s eyes were boring into Seulgi and the latter could only sigh. Her Sunday too wouldn’t be a pleasant holiday she had imagined of. Damn, Bae Joohyun or Henuttaneb or whoever her real name was. Seulgi could only take a deep breath and started explaining to her friend. Whether she could believe it or not in the end, Seulgi could surrender her fate to dear God.

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“So you just told me that she is a dead mummy whom you’ve accidentally kissed and now she’s being alive thanks to your accidental kiss? I didn’t assume it wrongly, did I? And you don’t really expect me to believe in whatever you just told me, do you?” Yongsun scratched her not so itchy neck. She really needed a drink and so she just told her waiter to bring her the rice wine.

“It’s up to you, Unnie but that’s what really happened. You can ask her yourself and the answer is probably similar if not longer.” Seulgi shrugged.

“What she said is true, Unnie.” Joohyun followed Seulgi by calling Yongsun unnie as well.

“I should be the one to call you granny if what Seulgi said to me is true, Joohyun.” Yongsun chuckled. Yes, Seulgi had told Yongsun literally everything, including her current nickname.

“You can call me Joohyun because that’s the name my lover has made for me.” Joohyun smiled and Yongsun couldn’t help but smile along. The woman is pretty and polite as well. What’s there not to like about Joohyun anyway, Yongsun thought.

“Fine, Joohyun it is then. But how could you declare your love easily to Seulgi? How do you know if you really are in love with her?” Yongsun asked Joohyun.

“She is the one who brought me back to life, Unnie. How can I not love her when she has given me the very essence of life, a living soul? I can see no one but her. I cannot think of anything but her. My heart beats like crazy whenever I look at her. My stomach churns funnily when she accidentally touches my arm. My every nape hair stood up when she is near. I never feel anything like this before so I don’t really know what it is if not love.” Joohyun’s answer made Yongsun’s jaw literally dropped to the floor. Yongsun blinked once, twice, before clapping her hands and chuckled.

“She is right, Seulgi. Every description she just mentioned screamed symptoms when you are in love. I personally think she has fallen even harder than I was, the first time I realized I was in love with Byulyi.” Yongsun told Seulgi.

“Didn’t I just tell you that I met Joohyun for the first time yesterday? How could someone declare undying love for me when we just met less than 24 hours before? It’s simply unbelievable, Yongsun-ah. You are not forced to believe in anything she said, you know.” Seulgi shrugged.

“That’s what love can do to you; turning sanity into insanity and flipping your world upside down.” Yongsun chuckled before continuing her statement.

“I met Byulyi from a friend who is the same friend as mine. We kissed the first time because I chose to dare when we played games and I was punished to spend 7 minutes in heaven with Byulyi. Those 7 minutes made us who we are now. It was merely 7 minutes but right now, every single day I spend with Byulyi feels like heaven. That’s what love can do to you, Seulgi-ah. Love is very powerful in turning someone’s life upside down and I hope you can feel that too.” Yongsun turned soft when she spoke about love, moreover to Seulgi who was a dear friend for her.

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