Side Story 6
Eating chocolates, I lost track of time watching Jae-gyu unpack the souvenirs.
The souvenir presentation and unpacking, which had begun late at night, didn't finish until almost midnight. Bom tried to help Jae-gyu clean up, but she was forcibly pushed into the bedroom.
"Hoo. There's really no place like home..."
Bom went straight to bed, burrowing into the rustling summer duvet and wiggling her toes. Only now did she feel the tension in her muscles, which had been taut all day, slowly release.
I'm so tired. Should I just sleep for now...?
"Hmm. No."
A few minutes later, Bom slowly opened her closed eyes. Her body felt languid, but sleep wouldn't come. Is it because I'm home and my energy's recharged? Earlier, in the car on the way back, I felt like I'd pass out the moment I lay down...
Anyway, wide awake, Bom picked up her phone from the nightstand and opened her photo album.
The photos she'd taken earlier at the shop, wearing a dress, popped up one after another. She tapped a thumbnail and spread her thumb and forefinger to zoom in on Jae-gyu's face.
"Heh."
Seeing Jae-gyu, whose eyes were usually sharp, smiling so widely they turned into crescent moons, made her inexplicably smile along.
Smiling softly again, she carefully examined her own face, pressed cheek-to-cheek with Jae-gyu. Just like him, her eyes were curved into crescent moons, and her lips were stretched wide from side to side. This bright, innocent face felt completely natural.
So this is how I smile now.
Since meeting Jae-gyu, most days had been filled with laughter. Hadn't she laughed more in the year they'd been together than she had in her entire life?
Jae-gyu didn't just make her laugh with funny remarks. He was naturally a warm man, and he read people's hearts with surprising accuracy. His specialty was creating a pleasant atmosphere. He never made offensive jokes.
Such refined tenderness made Bom's heart feel warm and cozy. As if wrapped in clouds.
"...I miss him."
'Hey, I'll handle it alone, so go to bed early.' Even though Jae-gyu had loudly declared that and pushed her into the bedroom, she wanted to go out and see his face again. I think I understand what it means to miss someone even when you're looking at them.
Should I go out? If we walked a few laps around the garden together before coming back in, I think I could sleep soundly. She was about to lift her hips and stand up when she heard a presence.
"Oh, Bom's not asleep."
The bedroom door quietly opened, and Jae-gyu entered. Bom blinked. His appearance in a large white oversized t-shirt and black training shorts briefly overlapped and then vanished, with the image of him in the Egyptian traditional attire she'd seen that morning. Was that impression too strong?
"What did you do with that Egyptian outfit from earlier?"
"Put it in the laundry room, gonna handwash it tomorrow. Can't sleep, Bom?"
"Yeah. I waited until you came."
"Just checked around the house to make sure everything's alright. Perfect! Rest assured."
It was Jae-gyu's habit to check every corner of the large house before going to bed. The realization that he was truly back suddenly hit her, and she felt inexplicably reassured.
"Aren't you tired? Good thing tomorrow's Sunday. Come here."
Bom gestured, calling the idly standing Jae-gyu to the bed.
"Should I turn off the light, Bom?"
"Hmm, maybe just dim the lights?"
"Yep, understood."
Jae-gyu turned the bedroom switch. A faint yellow light enveloped the bedroom, and his large body approached the bed, lying on his side next to Bom.
"Come closer."
Lying close beside her, Jae-gyu shifted Bom around until her head rested on his arm. After getting into a comfortable position, he turned his head towards the phone Bom was holding, as if curious.
"What were you doing, my pretty? Looking at photos?"
"Yeah. The ones we took at the dress shop earlier, they came out really well."
"Oh? Let me see too."
Bom squirmed in the familiar embrace of the man and handed him the phone.
Jae-gyu adjusted the phone's angle so Bom could see too, and scrolled through the photos with his index finger. Thanks to the burst shot, a rich variety of expressions were visible.
"Not a single one to discard."
"I like this one the best. We both look good in it, don't we?"
Jae-gyu gently stroked the Bom in the photo with his thumb, then pressed a soft kiss to the real Bom's round forehead, whom he was holding.
"You're unbelievably beautiful, you know."
"No, anyone would look good in that dress..."
"When the curtain opened and I saw you, Bom, wow, my heart just pounded like crazy, no brakes."
"Alright, time for verification." Jae-gyu grabbed Bom's wrist and placed it firmly against his left chest.
Jae-gyu's heart, beating against her palm, thrummed like a drum.
"See? It's still flopping around like a fish."
Funny. It always beats like that.
Inside his large, thick chest, Bom giggled softly. It wasn't particularly funny, but she loved Jae-gyu's warm embrace so much that laughter kept bubbling out.
"Yeah, it's dangerous when you laugh so cutely."
His serious tone was also amusing. She couldn't control the little bursts of laughter.
"..."
Jae-gyu, who had been quietly watching her, put the phone aside and spoke in a whisper.
"You have no idea how much you make my heart flutter every time you laugh."
"..."
"Tell me if you get tired while we're doing it."
"Doing what..."
His large body moved to cover Bom's, and at the same time, he cupped her cheek with his hand. Jae-gyu slowly brought his lips to Bom's.
"Ah, mm..."
Chok. Chok. As their lips met and parted, Jae-gyu naturally climbed on top of Bom, settling firmly into place. The moment they touched, heat rose in her body.
"Could you open your mouth just a little?"
Jae-gyu tilted his head and inserted his wet tongue. His thick, warm tongue rhythmically wrapped around her smaller one, gently rubbing. Even with just a kiss, her scalp tingled.
Jae-gyu removed the hand that was supporting his upper body and cupped the back of Bom's head. In doing so, he pulled their bodies even closer. As their bellies touched and their groins pressed together, suppressed lust surged. At the same time, a moan escaped through her teeth.
"Ah-hngh..."
"Mmm, huff."
In truth, both of them had been aroused since they'd first met earlier, since they'd walked around wrapped in each other's arms.
"We met earlier, and now we're finally kissing. It was hard for me to hold back."
Jae-gyu's deep voice tickled her ears. She actually knew he'd been erect the whole time in the car. But hearing it directly from his lips was even more stimulating. Conscious of the angry flesh poking between her legs, Bom sucked on Jae-gyu's tongue.
"Eung..."
The kiss grew progressively deeper and rougher. Without either of them initiating, they felt each other's skin. Her soft breasts were roughly caressed, and urgent hands touched his thick chest.
"Ha, uh, hngh..."
"I want to put it in already, what should I do?"
Jae-gyu coiled his thick legs around Bom's slender ones like a snake. His heavily erect penis rubbed against her delicate thighs and pressed firmly against her flat lower abdomen.
"Mmm."
While thrusting his tongue deep, Jae-gyu continued to rub his thick penis against Bom.
"Ugh, huff..."
Each time the golf-ball-sized glans penis was stimulated, her breathing quickened.
"Ha."
Jae-gyu, deeply entwining their tongues with burning impatience, tore off his t-shirt and tossed it off the bed. His back was already drenched in sweat from trying to soothe his engorged dick.
His entire body, tanned dark in Egypt, made his sculpted upper body muscles stand out even more. Bom gazed at his hardened nipples with half-lidded eyes, then gently squeezed them with her fingers.
"Ugh, Bom. Haa, if you do that, I feel like I'll come right away."
Jae-gyu rolled his dark eyes upwards, as if he was going crazy. Soon, a deep groan escaped his lips.
"Haa-euh, huff."
Furrowing his brows tightly, he hastily pulled up Bom's t-shirt. Then, his movements paused for a moment. A round stain bloomed on the fabric of his pants, where his erection was prominently outlined.
"...Haa, you've put on a little weight. So soft, trying to drive someone crazy, Bom."
The areas that used to be so thin that her bones showed now had a little flesh, making them look luscious. Jae-gyu's Adam's apple bobbed as he looked at her with half-lidded eyes.
All the marks from biting and sucking during the month they hadn't been intimate had disappeared, leaving her breasts pristine.
"And your breasts got bigger too."
His rough hand cupped one of her breasts, which felt like glutinous rice cakes, gently caressing it.
"Ha, I'm going crazy..."
"St-stop touching me, hngh..."
Jae-gyu broadly licked his lips with his tongue, then lowered his sweaty upper body. Her soft mounds of breasts were pressed by his firm nose, swaying heavily.
"Stop it now, ah!"
"Mmm, your skin's scent. Just thinking about your smell makes my dick stand right up."
Jae-gyu, who had been smelling her breasts, steadied his breathing and took her red, erect nipple into his mouth.