it’s funny, most people would tell she’s not the coward type, but god she knows she’s a coward. mostly she’s scared of embarrassment, shame, or anything that has her skin flaring up with heat. she feels weak, she feels out of control, out of her body and mind and that’s something haeri’s always worked on getting a grip on. she was too young to know what hit her when the doctor told her parents that due to her condition she was never going to be easy to deal with.
she was too old by the time she realized what it truly meant and she’d accidentally stabbed herself in the knee with a knife. if one could consider, four years old too old even. it wasn’t. but with time, before she was sent abroad, haeri knows that it’s always been in order for her to work on her focus, work on being in control, work on not being scattered everywhere. it’s the very opposite thing of what she feels like when jaesun is involved. especially when jaesun makes it his goal to make sure she jumps out of her skin, feels itchy everywhere and has her body somewhat not wanting to stop him. then it’s just a war in her rib cage, one she has to put an end to.
right now though, it’s skyrocketing. the speed of it, up the roof and she’s going to think about this later. she’s going to relive it, every seconds while trying to chase it away with her fingers working quickly on killing a boss and she’s going to be ten thousand times more mortified. not in a sense that she’s ashamed, but in the sense that she’s bold, she felt bold, she feels bold right now and she’s not going to pull away–yet.
she wants to push her limits, wants to see how much she can take in. his hands on her back? well, they’re going to be leaving traces she’ll feel for hours on and days on and the feeling of it won’t leave, she just knows it. but it’s not making her want to run just yet. in fact, it makes her reach over with her arms, sliding them across his shoulders and try to see if she can push herself closer. she can’t, not really, there’s already no space left between them, which is for the better. but it was worth the try. she wonders right then, as he admits she might be purposefully trying to drive him mad, if she even knows what she’s doing.
she doesn’t, that’s half the thing that’s good with her when she goes for it. she doesn’t know what she’s doing. most of the times she just does it because it feels right. it feels damn right to glance down at his mouth, then back up at him and press her face so close she’s bumping his nose with hers and then mouthing, “actually, i do, i really like knowing how you feel.” without kissing him.
she wants to, she wants to so bad, but as if she’s just going to give in like that. if she’s playing, she’s not playing to lose, never. not even if losing seems like the best option, the less frustrating one, not even if losing seems like it’s going to solve a lot of problems right now. nope. no. nah. never. she’ll squirm, yeah she can do that, squirm and pout and whine low and add, “okay, just kiss me so i can win this already, will you.”