Bubble Tea

Day 1

When you crossed the door of your new apartment, you looked around and thought about all the stuff you had to put in place all alone. The loft was really big, too big for someone who was going to live alone and who wasn’t going to get a lot of visits.

You walked around, ordering your stuff in the proper places, your kpop albums next to the TV, your PS4 in the other side of the TV. The kitchen tools went all to the counters of the island… The worst part was now coming, order all your clothes and make up. You didn’t know how you wanted your clothes to be: by colour, by usage frequency, random order… 

As soon as you finished, you went to the 2 door fridge to get something fresh to drink. You opened the door to see all the shelves empty except for a water bottle, the one you had left the day you had come to visit the place before renting it.

“Guess I need to go to do some shopping before relaxing.” you stated to yourself while walking to grab your shoes and your bag.

After closing your door, your eyes went to a white paper glued to the door in front of yours. “ If you hear some noise this night, it’s because we’re going to do a boy meeting. Do not disturb!! (Except if you’re sexy) ;)”

“Great, some idiots are living here.” You thought to yourself before getting into the lift.

The message on the door was right, there were a bunch of assholes making a lot of noise. By a lot of noise, it meant not being able to even hear your own thoughts. You needed to stop it for your own health, but you didn’t want to call the cops the first day.

“Why do you knock? It says only the sexy people can disturb.“ A tall boy said to you after opening the door. A second boy came out to see what was going on.

“Chanyeol, go inside. Baek wants to get his ass bitten.” This boy was cutter than the other and his voice was really soft. “Ignore him, he is a bit drunk. What do you need? I guess you’re the new neighbour.”

“Yeah, but I didn’t come to present myself. Can you stop being that loud? See, I don’t want to call the cops, but I’ll do it if you don’t let me sleep.” 

“ You got some attitude, I like women with attitude.” He said smirking, you wanted to punch his face, but again, you thought that his face was too cute to get hit. 

“ Then… Are you going to be quiet?” You asked him.

“Sure noona.“ Noona? He had called you noona out of nowhere when he even knew if you were older than him. You weren’t going to question him if he was too drunk to use his brain, mostly because you had your doubts about if he had some nerve cells. “By the way, call me Nini.” He winked and closed the door, leaving you speechless.

Day 2

“Noona!! Noona!! Open please!!” You put your feet in the slippers and walked to the door. 

“What do you want, Nini?” He chuckled a bit, after all he thought that you would ignore his petition.

“Do you have any painkillers? My head hurts a lot, noona.“ He pouted at you, making it impossible for you to say no to him. You let him go to your kitchen and made him sit in one of your high chair while you got him a glass of water with the painkiller.

“If you hadn’t been drinking last night, your head would be perfect.” You said to him winning a pair of bright eyes looking at you.

“Noona, you’re not funny! You could have stayed if you had asked.”

“Your tall friend made it clear, only sexy people” The last two words were matched by your fingers doing commas in the air.

“There is no one more sexy than my noona. I have to go.” He didn’t give you time to reply. As he had come, he had left.

Day 7

The first week in the house was literally better than all the months you had been in your lasts three apartments. All the neighbours and workers were nice to you. After the second day, you had seen Nini all the days more than a couple of times per day, sometimes you wondered if he was following you around or it was just coincidence.

“Hey, where are you going at this time?” A voice said behind me, it was him.

“My fridge in empty and I need to grab something to have lunch.” You tried to walk away, but a hand on your wrist didn’t let you go away.

“My sister made me lunch this morning and she did a lot. Eat with me.”

“Thank you Nini, but I prefer going to buy something and cook for myself.” You were really dumb thinking that he would let you go that easy.

“ Noona, I don’t want to eat alone.” He used his best pout and puppy eyes, he looked down like if he was going to cry.

“Fine…but don’t look at me like that.“

Now you were sitting in the timber chair in front of him, with a bowl of ramyeon. You couldn’t help, but looking at him eating was like going to a free therapy. He was really adorable with his chubby cheeks full of food.

“Stop looking at me and eat or I’ll finish first and then I’ll need to look at you eating.” You blushed, he had realized you had been looking at him like an idiot. Your eyes went immediately to the bowl and your right hand to the chopsticks. You ate all, leaving you with a full stomach.

“How have been these 7 days here?” Jongin asked casually placing his elbows on the table and his face in his hands.

“It has been an interesting experience. Yesterday, Mr Lee’s cat came to my apartment and knocked on the door and I had to bring it back to him. Then the first day at evening, I had to leave my house to call out some boys.”

“I wonder who they were…” You rolled your eyes, making him laugh. You tried to flick his forehead, but he moved faster and avoided it. You looked at your watch and saw the time, you had to go to work. The time passed by faster than you expected. “I have to go or I will get late to work, Nini. Thank you for inviting me and tell your sister she made a great dish.” You said while standing up.

“We should eat together more from now on. I really enjoy your company noona.” He said while ruffling his hair, his cheeks getting a light pink colour.

Day 15

Finally, you had a free day. A boring free day, you thought and you didn’t dislike it. You didn’t have in mind going out since you had bought all you needed to eat a week two days ago. 

You were now sitting in the living room, watching some Netflix serie on your smart TV. Fully focused on the love scene was going on until it started to rain really hard and you were able to see the sky getting a dark violet colour because of the thunderbolts.

Suddenly, your apartment was in the darkness, the light had gone. Your relaxing day was ruined and without nothing better to do, you started to think about your love life.

Your mind was full of questions about why you were still single, maybe you were too focused on work and never had any time to go out and met new people, maybe you were too demanding with boys… Also, you dreamt about how you could be spending this free day with your boyfriend, wearing his hoodie while he is hugging you under a big blanket.

Finally, after all the romantic scenarios you could think about, your neighbour crossed your mind. Jongin… Sweet, hot and annoying were the first words that came to your thoughts. He was also clingy every time he saw you, calling you noona and hugging you even if you really needed to go. The boy definitely had a crush on you, it was too obvious for you to not notice it, but you didn’t know what to do. Maybe it was too soon to say anything to him or try to make any moves, you only had known each other for fifteen day. What if he was like that with all the noonas he is friends with?

Day 21

It was 10 o’clock, the time you were about to go shopping some clothes. You opened the door and saw a high figure walking from side to side. “What was wrong now?” you thought to yourself.

“Hello Nini, good morning.” You smiled, looking at him, who stopped walking once he was in front of you.

“Hello… This is not a good morning.” He started. “My sister kicked me out and I’m nervous as fuck.”

“Why did she do that? Or what did you do to be kicked out?” You laughed while imagining some funny mess that Jongin could have actually done.

“She came to my house 30 minutes ago and she told me that she might be pregnant again. I started to ask her questions and got really nervous, so she kicked me out and now she’s doing those pregnancy tests.” He explained to you and held your hand and moved it to his chest. “My heart is going to get out my chest. I want to be an uncle again.“ He pouted on the last sentence.

“Nini, breathe and talk slowly. If you relax, we can go into your house and wait on the couch for your sister.” He nodded and followed your instructions to be calmer. 

Once he was better and without letting your hand go, he introduced the passcode and guided you to the living room where you two sat.

“Jongin, who told you to…” A female was walking in our direction with one of the tests on her hand. “ I’m Jungah, your annoying neighbour’s sister. I already know you because my brother talks a lot about you. I’m glad you like my ramyeon and nice to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you too.” You were about to say something more, but the male next to you talked before.

“I don’t talk that much about her. Now tell me!! I demand to be uncle again.”

“Guess I don’t have another option than being pregnant.“ Jungah rolled her eyes as she handled his brother the test, in which two pink lines were visible. Jongin stood up and hugged his sister.

When they broke apart, some tears were making their path to Kai’s cheeks. After talking to his sister, she had to leave to buy some things to tell her husband the new.

Jongin and you stayed several minutes without talking or even moving.

“Noona, I want to have kids.” He said out of nowhere.

“Then find a girl to date, marry her and get her pregnant.” You said simply, not able to think a less obvious answer. “You only need to like a girl who likes you back.”

“Noona…but I already like you.” He confessed, making you blush.

“But you like me because I’m your noona and I’m very patient with you.” He looked to his hands that were resting on his legs.

“That’s not true noona. I like you because you’re very sweet with me. Date me, please. I will make you  love me as much as I love you.”

Day 22

“What are we doing here?” You asked to the younger, who was next to you.

“We’re at an arcade, so we are going to do what people do here. Don’t you like it noona?”

“I like it, it’s just that I didn’t think that we were going to come to a place like this for our first date.” 

Jongin didn’t say anything back, instead he held your hand and walked until the dance machines. He stopped in front of them and signaled them. You accepted to play if he let you choose the song. Everything was going perfectly until the rhythm speeded up and you weren’t able to move your legs that fast unlike Jongin, who was nailing it. When the song was over, you waited for a few seconds until the score was on the screen.

He got 96 points while you got 59, a big difference until he talked. “I did ballet when I was younger.”

“You cheated, you had more advantage.” You hit his arm with your fist. “I’m not playing more with you.” You pouted at him. You were a  really bad loser, you liked to win even though if the other competitor had let you win. “You could have at least do it a bit worse.”

Suddenly, a phone rang. It was his, he slid his finger through the small screen and moved the phone to his right ear.

He was talking to his sister, who seemed to be asking him for a favour. He was very hesitant to accept it until you whispered him to help his sister.

“Noona, I need to go home in 30 minutes to look after my nieces. I don’t want to finish our date yet…” He was disrupted by you when you pinched his arm. Your eyes were set on the claw machine, to be more precise, in the Pikachu plushie.

“Ninii~“ You used your aegyo voice to get his full attention. “Can you get me that before we leave, please?” He hummed and went to stand up in front of the machine, you made your way to stand next to him.

The first try was a failure, he didn’t get close to Pikachu; the second try was a bit better, he grabbed it, but the claw let it fall when it was already up; on the third try, he got a dog plushie instead the Pikachu and your hopes were leaving.

“ We should go.” You said to him while holding the dog, instead of walking away with you, he inserted another coin in the machine. This time without you looking at it, he got the Pikachu.

“Here you go noona.” He held in front of  you the yellow plushie, you tried to grab it, but he pulled it away making you pout. “Not that fast, I want a kiss first.” 

After his words, you told him to hold the dog for a moment. With both of his hands busy, you grabbed his face with both your hands and stood on your tiptoes to then peck his lips with yours. You left him speechless, he had got what he desired that easy and now he didn’t know how to react.

“We should leave, we have to take care of your nieces.” He noodded and followed you to the car.

“You said we, that means that noona is going to help me?”

“Yes Nini, noona is going to help you.” A big smile showed on his face, he was happy so you were too.

Day 31

Saying that Jongin was a good kisser was not enough, his lips were the most addictive you had tried. He knew exactly what to do at every moment, making you only to be able to follow him.

Make outs were always something you two had done since the second date, eight days ago, when he took you out for dinner as a way to say thank you for helping him with his nieces. Things always got too hot, but any of you didn’t take the first step to make it lead to something else.

This night was a bit different. You both were watching a film until Jongin decided he was not getting all the attention he wanted. As the big attention seeker he is, he placed his hands on your waist and applied some pressure as he usually did when he wanted you to sit on his lap. 

When you were comfortable, his lips attached to your neck. He licked a small zone first to them bite it, making you moan. It was the first time he was being like that. While he was repeating the process on the other side of your neck, you felt the need of stopping him.

“Where is this going Nini? I mean between us.” You said a bit nervous, hoping that he would answer something sweet.

“If you mean you and me, I already told you once that I wanted to make you love me like I love you. I have liked you since the beginning and now I already fall harder for you, all the dates and moments between you and me are in my heart. We have known each other for 31 days and even thought if I want to date you officially, I want to wait until you love me, noona.” His eyes never left yours even when he said the last phrase. ”I will wait as many days as you need.”

“I only need 31 days… I love you too, my Nini.” You kissed him before he could reply. 

Some kissed after, the thing got headed to his bedroom where he took his time before undressing you both. He was on top of you when he got your bra off and automatically latched his mouth to one of your nipples, licking and sucking it and then repeat the process in the other nipple.

When he was done with your breast, he got ride of your panties throwing them to somewhere on the floor. He ran one of his fingers across your entrance and he could sense how wet you were.

“Noona, do you think you’re wet enough? I can‘t wait anymore.“ You nooded at him and the next thing you saw, it was his cock being free in front of you.

His skillfull hand ripped the condom’s envelope and with both hands, he placed the condom on his length. He aligned the tip with your entrance and thrust himself inside you without any warning which caused you a light pain.

“I feel so good right now. You take my whole dick very well.“ His hand running up and down your side. “You’re so tigh, noona. When was the last time someone fucked you?”

“Five… Six months ago.” A smirk was formed in your partner’s face.

“Don’t worry, from now on I’ll fuck you anytime. I’m the only one who will enjoy your perfect body and the one who will be able to feel how tigh you’re. You’re mine and I’m yours.” 

The night was already settled in Seoul as I entered the first empty bar I saw. I sat in front the barman leaving my bag on my left.

“Can I have a cosmopolitan?” I made my petition and he nodded before leaving his position to find the ingredients for my order.

I found myself staring at him, his arm muscles flexing and relaxing as he prepared the drink. Mixing all properly before setting a glass in front of me and serving it.

My right hand went fast to grab the drink and took a sip. The vodka and the cranberry juice were my favourite combination, but with a few drinks I get drunk.

My friends always joke about the fact that when there is a party, the first one getting drunk is always me like if it was my fault that my alcohol tolerance is really low. That was also the fact since I didn’t like to go out for drinks alone, I didn’t want to get wasted and having no one to help me.

“Are you alone?” A deep voice appeared next to me and for the sound of the chair, he took the seat next to mine. I didn’t even bore to look at who he was, like if I cared.

“Yeah…” I hummed as a reply. Was he that stupid to not realize or was he just being polite? Anyways, I didn’t want to have a conversation with anyone, being alone was my plan when I started this trip and that’s how I want it to be. No men, no women, only me and my thoughts. Unfortunately, the man wasn’t going to leave me alone.

“So… What are you doing here alone?” He asked me before talking to the barman. He ordered a drink and told him to get me another cosmopolitan.

“It’s a long story, unless you have a lot of time to listen to my rant you won’t know why I’m here.” For first time, I turned to see his face. I have to admit that he was too handsome to be there talking to me.

“If it’s for you, I have all the time you need… even if it’s forever.” It sounded too cheesy, but at that moment I didn’t care. My heart needed some softness for the first time in a few days.

“Meting her was never in my plans, but I guess this happens because destiny says so. Destiny is capricious. It doesn’t have another explanation, I was in the wrong social media in the wrong hour.

“ Here we go then… Have you ever fallen in love with someone easily and have the need to run to their arms?” He seemed to understand what  I was talking to him.

We started to talk about something both we liked, to be more specific, kpop music. We had a few artists we listened in common. Then we started to get to know each other better. She was this kind of girls that deserve the moon, but they aren’t leaving as happy as they deserve.

I tried my best to help her avoid her reality, but I suck at it, probably because sometimes my head goes to another universe where things are as I would want them to be.

We talked a lot for a few days, few days lead to a few weeks and few weeks ended being a few months. She liked to call me those cute pet names and telling me how much she loved me.

I saved some money to go on a trip alone to meet her in the United States, it was hard to convince my parents to let me go. They think I went there to practice my English, I was too scared to tell them that I was going to meet a girl I liked, probably that was a big mistake. They wouldn’t let me do the stupid trip just for a random girl because they would say that I would lose my interest in her easily, but I didn’t tell them, I didn’t want them to know I like girls and boys.

When I took the plane, I was too nervous, I felt that for once I was doing what my heart wanted even thought, probably I was just nervous because I don’t like planes. 10 hours by plane from Europe to United States, an irrelevant amount of time compared to how much time I planned to spend with her.

I arrived her town 50 minutes after my plane landed and I went straight to the hotel I booked for a few days since I wanted to get an apartment for  a month. I got a 4G card for my phone and I texted her, I asked her where she was. She took about 30 minutes to reply and told me she was on her favourite café, I automatically knew where she was since she had shown me that place in pictures.

I put the place in the GPS and walked there, she was there with another girl. I though she was her friend so I got into the place to meet her. When I was closer to their table, they kissed. You know, it wasn’t a friend kiss, it was more than that. A slow romantic kiss and that stuff, I want to get it out of my head.

I passed by their table and ordered a iced coffee, then I went back to the hotel.The next thing that I remember is me booking a plane to come to South Korea and now… I’m here talking to you.”

His mouth was open, probably he was too surprised I did such a travel like that to then, come to his country or maybe he didn’t know what to say. After a few seconds, he blinked and stretched his hand out to me.

“I’m Chanyeol, nice to meet you.” His words took me by surprise. I was able to tell a complete stranger my biggest mess.

“I’m Becca.” As I accepted his hand, I realized who he was. I was too exhausted to even react as fans would do if they were next to their favourite idol. I checked the clock in my wrist to realize it was already 3 am and I hadn’t got any hotel room for sleeping.

“Shouldn’t you go to your hotel to take a nap? You won’t have a lot of energy tomorrow to walk around the city.” He stood up waiting for me to do the same movement.

“I didn’t book a room anywhere since I left the United States as fast as I could.” A brief silence appeared, I was thinking what I could do. “I think I will walk around until 7 am and then I will go to a hotel, I haven’t seen one around these streets and my phone is dead.” I held my phone and pressed the button to turn it on. As expected, it was out of battery.

I grabbed my bags and followed him out of the bar, my vision a bit dizzy for the cosmopolitans I had had while telling him my story. 

“I have a spare bedroom in my house, you can stay at my place.” I arched my eyebrow, waiting for him to tell me it was a joke. He looked at me seriously, It wasn’t a joke. He was going to let me sleep in his house event though we had just met by coincidence a few minutes ago.

~28 days later, in the airport~

“It’s time to go home” I whispered sadly, Chanyeol heard me because he immediately gave me a back hug. Saying bye to him was harder than I though.

“Take this” He handed me an envelope. I tried to open it, but he stopped me. “It’s better if you open it on the plane or you will lose your flight.”

I did the check in with the luggage and walked to the embarkation hallway. I waved at Chanyeol one last time before disappearing. 

My heart broke into a million pieces.

“Dear Becca;

We met because destiny wanted it, now is time for you to go back to your country. Thank you for these days next to me, you showed me that fall in love was easy and it’s hard to forget it. I made the choice to not forgive you for this, we will meet again and that time we meet, it will be forever. I’ll make sure we never stop talking. 

I love you,

Chanyeol”

I turned on my phone to send him a message. My hands trembling, I had my doubts if I should do it or not, but my heart told me to do it.