"Hey, I'm over 18. It's perfectly legal." (he is not)
“Legal, maybe, but how about appropriate? I think you’ll need at least half a decade more to even come close to that,” Jihyo said breezily, rolling her eyes at the boy’s attempts.
She leaned against the wall, downing her glass of bourbon, and shrugged.
“Besides, I’m not anywhere close to drunk enough to make a mistake like you,” she grinned, no harm or heat in her insult at all.
The boy gave her a pleasant smile, all teeth and twinkling eyes, a smile like knife cut, a smile like devouring. He leaned a little closer, close to kiss her. She didn’t flinch, just stared him down, looking straight to center, like a challenge, like a test.
He didn’t look away at all.
“Now, that can be arranged,” he said with a deliberate emphasis on the words, before pushing himself away from the wall and sauntering to the counter.
“What? You sure you old enough to buy drinks?” she shouted after him, earning herself a casual flick of the wrist, or was that him flipping her the bird?
She laughed loudly, and as if it had carried over the room and the crowd, he looked back at her, finding her gaze with laser-guided precision.
Her smile morphed into a grin, and when later that night he put his hand where her bare skin and the edge of her skirt met — almost as if he was trying it out, like an experiment — she let him.