Snippets of De_Hana #5

Jan 04, 2010 03:27

You know... imminent sense of doom can be somewhat reversed by a simple e-mail... but still... zombie week ahead =_=

Therefore, another snippet >=D Just in case I'll be lost in the exams or something...

What can I say... recycle, recycle, recycle... Everything new, is the long forgotten old. Etc, etc, etc...

(De_Hana, a.k.a. Dreams sometime own.)

CHRONOLOGY
1. Nuna Appeal
2. Dilemma
3. Take Me
4. This one :)
5. Shit Happens. Miracles Too. (a.k.a. We're having Taec tonight~!)

(due to extensive Korean, translation is provided in the box below the text)

5. 그냥, 가보자 갈때 까지

내가 왜 그랬을까?

뭐라카노?

내가 미쳤나봐.

야, 와이라노…

She opened her eyes. Or at least one eye. The left one had too much of eye booger to actually open properly. It stuck.

There was a face above her. A rather swollen-type of a face with a distinct line across the right cheek, the kind of a line you get when you sleep on a seamy pillow or a wrinkly sheet. The face had no expression, but the dark eyes were staring right at her.
The eyes looked rather puffy.

“Huh?” she croaked very eloquently.

“You were saying?” he asked raising his eyebrows until they disappeared behind his messy fringe.

Weird. That fringe is usually shiny and dark and almost covers those eyes and… wait a second… her left eye shot open. Skin? She blinked. Oh wow. Skin. Lots of skin. Slightly tanned skin. Well, at least it looked tanned next to her pale complexion. She blinked. Oh… right…

Woo was on top of her. With his hands on her shoulders as if he had been trying to wake her or shake her, or just snap her back to reality. She looked around as far as her field of vision allowed without turning her head to the left and to the right. It was bright already, but judging from the way the rays of sun were falling onto the walls and floor from the windows, it was still an early morning.

There was a white tee lying on the floor, wrong side out. And then a white dress shirt draped all over the night stand. Some of the buttons where definitely missing. Lina slowly tuned out the surroundings and zoomed in onto Woo again. He was still staring at her as if to say “Well?” What was that thing he said previously…? Something about saying something and… oh…

“Was I… sleep-talking?” she rubbed her face, feeling rather numb.

“You were,” he confirmed with a nod and rolled off her, tumbling to her right and somehow quite quickly and nimbly nesting his head in the bend between her neck and shoulder. His hair tickled her ear. She curled her toes and stretched, sending her stomach into a spasm, which forced her to sit up quick.

Lina was about to get up when she remembered she wasn’t alone. Taking a quick glance back over her shoulder, she saw Woo still sprawled over her pillow with an unreadable expression on his face, only half-covered by her blanket. Coming up to the decision that looking any further would definitely be not a good idea, especially with a need pressing her, she tugged her blanket under her arms, tightening it around her chest and then turned the loose ends behind her bare back. All throughout this, Woo was just watching her without even saying a word, slightly amused at this weird behaviour. He didn’t even bat an eyelid, when she tightened the cocoon of the blanket even tighter around her and then rolled left and tumbled down the bed, unable to stop in time, leaving him butt naked on the bed sheets.

“Oof~!” there was gasp and a thud. Now he had to ask.

“야… 뭐 하냐?” having crawled to the other side of the bed, he looked down with the same illegible expression on his face. Lina was rubbing a newly acquired bump on her forehead, her hair dishevelled at all directions.

"화장실 좀..." she glanced him in the eye, feeling slightly guilty.

"그냥 가," Woo shrugged which emphasized his collarbone. "왜 이런걸..."

"앗~!" she hid her head underneath the last loose piece of the blanket. "창피해~"

"뭔 창피~" his voice suddenly became alive, vibrating with dialectal tones. "난 이미 다 봤다니까... 무슨 창피 진짜..."

"응악~ 말해봐~!" she exclaimed while still lying face to the floor.

"말해봐?" Woo scowled slightly, thinking he might've misheard things.

"말하지마~!!" she corrected herself. "난 좀 언어 문제가 있어, 알았지?"

"아침 부터?"

"야 ㅠ.ㅠ"

"ㅋㅋㅋ... 니가 왜 이렇게 귀엽니?"

"... " she popped out of the blanket all dishevelled like hell and stared him in the eye. "넌... 지금 나한테 반말로...?"

"왜..." he put his chin on his forearms. "마음에 안 들어?"

"... ..." swallowing hard the saliva which didn't exist in the first place, Lina sat up with a great effort, then stood up with the same great effort. "난 그냥 화장실로..." she hopped away towards the white door at the other end of the room, resembling a catepillar which cannot get out of the cocoon.

Once the door closed with a slight bang, Woo rolled back onto the pillows chuckling silently to himself. For some reason, the stuff she had just done… that was a very daehan thing to do. He realized though he shouldn’t have been so amused, because he was sort of in trouble now. Not in a nuna’s-gonna-whoop-your-ass-for-being-disrespectful kind of trouble, more like in a general you-messed-up-the-whole-family-hierarchy kind of trouble. He had to clear up some things, and then talk perhaps with some people. Not everyone, of course, but Taec most probably would be a good choice to talk to, him having known her for so long and all.

Woo realized that in a way he had become what was known in the families for probably decades as a big-nuna boy. It usually was a relationship of mutual benefit - as the marriages between big hyungs and big nunas commonly were arranged as much as a normal business deal, seldom did they had any romantic feelings towards each other and it wasn’t long until the hyungs would be too lost in their work to actually spend some quality time with the nunas and nunas being young women of flesh and blood… that was when young boys of the families would spring up. Boys mostly with nothing but good physical record and just eager to please and earn their way up by being kind and accommodating to a woman in need. It was a common practice.

However, Woo put his hands behind his head staring at an ivory-white ceiling, no matter how much he thought of it, even though it might’ve looked like another power-benefit-gain relationship whachamacallit, he couldn’t shake this feeling, that it was also a lot different. For one, this nuna was doing all the job big hyung was supposed to do (that was one of the minor reasons why Woo was still kind of suspicious of this Hoon-hyung). Second, one couldn't say she draped herself all over him - Woo was slightly ashamed to admit that he indeed did offer his services himself fare and square. Third, it wasn’t like he was the best specimen of meat and only meat either. That is, he was confident of his looks, but if one would analyze this situation from a rational point of view, the best choice for this kind of entertainment should be Chan, keeping in mind his looks and the contents of his drawers. That was not to say that Woo considered Chan dumb or anything, the kid was just too pure to plot anything bad.

Which brings us to point number 4, as Woo thought himself to be a lot more competent in the brain department than your average nuna-boy - he was about to graduate and become a lawyer. Not just some your average puny lawyer, but a legal advisor and a representative one of the most powerful clans of the nation. At a mere age of 21. All hail Woo brain. Also, he thought his personality wasn’t all that charming and very accommodating to ever be considered a nuna-boy type. Ever. And also, the way she behaved was kind of… Woo frowned, stretching his arms across the pillows - that was not something he would’ve expected from a married woman… Like, wrapping yourself into a cocoon and sneaking into a bathroom like a caterpillar? Come on! Plus he…

His fingers brushed across something rough on the pillow and he turned his head left to see a dark brown blotch on a white fabric. It looked almost like someone ripped open a pomegranate and sprinkled its juice all over… except that the color was richer and darker and it looked like dry blood. Woo sat up blinking once. He was hard to shake out of his balance, but he couldn’t quite figure out… Blood? On a pillow?

“으악~!” came a yell from the direction of the bathroom and he flailed, his memory kicking in suddenly.

“Oh shit,” grabbing his pants almost right from underneath the bed and jumping into them as quick as possible, he hopped over to the bathroom and barged in without even knocking.

Lina was standing in front of the mirror with her pale yellow bathrobe on and her left shoulder exposed. He could see the issue already. She turned at him as he was still frozen in the doorway, one hand on the knob, the other gripping the doorframe, panting heavily, his ribcage going up and down, up and down. Lina stared, her mouth hanging agape, her left hand on her bathrobe. And then she pointed at him.

“You bit me!!” accusation came.

His memory served him right. He hadn’t been dreaming. Woo left the doorstep and rushed to her side, standing behind her and about to touch the wound on her nape, on the curve between her neck and shoulder, but she slapped his hand away.

“만지지마,” she walked up to the mirror, to take a closer look, “아파…” she pouted. “아이C…”

It looked like a vampire bite. No shit. Not much of the lower teeth, but the upper grid had left pretty decent marks… all six of them, and she was sure she was about to get a permanent crescent-shaped scar. Lina looked at Woo’s face in the mirror. For a stranger it would’ve seemed like he was dazed or completely unimpressed, but she saw that now he was wearing an expression of the utmost remorse.

“미안해,” he uttered silently, standing so close she could feel his breath on her bare shoulder. “난 그냥 소리치고 싶지 않았어…”

“엥?” that didn’t quite meet the requirements of a decent explanation.

“I was aiming for the pillow,” he pursed his lips.

“Well… you have clearly missed,” she sent him a look in the mirror and was about to pull the sleeve of the robe back up, when there suddenly were his arms wrapping her around the middle and he placed his chin on her uninjured shoulder. He felt strong and she gulped, because his way of apologizing was weird indeed. And that hair, despite its softness, was very tickly.

Lina wasn’t quite sure if she was supposed to or even allowed to do it, but her hands soon found his, and her fingers began playing with his funny thumb joints. She smiled, even though he didn’t look like it, he really was the tactile touchy-feely-cuddly type. How unexpected of him.

“좋아해…”

Ok… that was definitely unexpected. But as these were words and nothing followed, there were no snakes wriggling, and not guts imploding, just thousands of small needles piercing one’s temples.

“우야…무슨 뜻이야 지금…” her thumb was rubbing his fingers. “너도 알잖나 그걸…”

“알아,” his grip around her became a tad tighter and he lowered his voice a bit, but he was so close she thought she could feel the sound quavering through the air as he spoke. “그냥, 가보자 갈때 까지.”

She pursed her lips glancing at his reflection in the mirror where he looked serious and intimidating and even slightly freaky, like an insomniac zombie with a slightly swollen morning face and his black hair draping all over his eyes. The things he was saying were very alluring things. Especially as she knew she could always wash her hands off this and just scram. The problem was she didn’t want to hurt anybody, especially Woo. He seemed too nice of a kid. But the way he looked at her was just…

“Fine,” she said with a sigh of defeat and she could feel even his legs touching her now. “Just cut your hair, ok?”

Woo was already in his happy place when this request came so he didn’t have time to pull his normal reaction and he just did what all ordinary people do - he blinked.

“Eh?” he found her eyes in the mirror. “I thought you liked my hair.”

She held his glance for a few long seconds before giving his hands a light squeeze.

“니 머리 보다 널 좋아해.”

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내가 왜 그랬을까?Naega wae keuraesseulkka?Why did I do this?뭐라카노?Meorakano? (Kyungsang dialect)What are you saying?내가 미쳤나봐.Naega michyeonnabwa.I must be crazy.야, 와이라노…Yah, wairano... (Kyungsang dialect)Hey, what's up with you?야… 뭐 하냐?Yah... meo hanya?Hey, what are you doing?화장실 좀...Hwajangshil jom...Toilet...그냥 가. 왜 이런걸...Keunyang ka. Wae ireongeol...Just go. Why do this...앗~! 창피해~At~! Changpihae~Ah! What a shame~뭔 창피~ 난 이미 다 봤다니까... 무슨 창피 진짜...Meon changpi~ Nan imi da bwattanikka... Museun changpi jinjja...What shame~ I already saw everything... What shame really...응악~ 말해봐~!Euak~! Malhaebwa~!Argh! Say it!말해봐?Maraebwa?Say it?말하지마~!! 난 좀 언어 문제가 있어, 알았지?Marajima~! Nan jom eoneo munjega isseo, aratji?Don't say! I sorta have a language problem now, ok?아침 부터?Achim buteo?From an early morning?야 ㅠ.ㅠYah T.THey T.Tㅋㅋㅋ... 니가 왜 이렇게 귀엽니?Kkk... Niga wae ireohke kwiyeomni?*chuckle* Why are you so cute?넌... 지금 나한테 반말로...?Neon... jigeum nahante banmallo...?You... using plain forms on me now?왜... 마음에 안 들어?Wae... ma-eume an deureo?What... don't like it?난 그냥 화장실로...Nan keunywang hwajangshillo...I'll just go to the loo...으악~!Euak~!Argh!만지지마, 아파…아이C…Manjijima, apa... aishi...Don't touch, it hurts... Aish...미안해, 난 그냥 소리치고 싶지 않았어…Mianhae, nan keunyang sorichigo shipji anasseo...Sorry, I just didn't want to scream...엥?Eng?Eh?좋아해…Johahae....I like you우야…무슨 뜻이야 지금… 너도 알잖나 그걸…Uya... museun tteushiya jigeum... neodo aljana keugeol...Woo-yah, what are you talking about, you too know that...알아, 그냥, 가보자 갈때 까지Ara, keunyang, kaboja kal ttae kkaji.I do, just, let's try and go as far as we can.니 머리 보다 널 좋아해.Ni meori boda neol johahae.I like you better than your hair.

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