Heat Wave (1/1)

Looking back, maybe she should’ve seen this coming.It’s been pretty obvious for weeks now, the tension between the two of them. She’s pretty sure the other members have noticed it too. If Seungwan’s constant eyebrow arches and smirks are any indication. It’s like they’re both walking in a tightrope that might teeter as soon as someone gives a little push.Well, this is probably the push that they needed.Who would’ve thought that her day that started out extremely bad would end up like this.She tries to think of when things started to turn around for her.Ah. It starts with her broken doorknob.She’d been in a bad mood as soon as she woke up because her doorknob refused to cooperate with her. She had to text Seungwan, the only other member that can be trusted to be awake in the morning, to please open her door from the outside.Turns out Seungwan is on her way out. A miracle, really, but she said something about meeting a middle school friend that she hadn’t seen in years before leaving with a See you later unnie! A few minutes later, their manager arrives to pick Sooyoung and Yerim up for the Happy Together recording that she forgot about.That leaves her and a sleeping Seulgi alone in the dorm. With her broken doorknob.She’d been careful not to close her door whenever she’s in her room so as to not accidentally lock herself in. So she ends up lounging around the living room couch with her phone, her laptop, and the aircon in full blast. It was summer, after all. And their dormitory unit feels like a microwave if they don’t turn on the aircon. She had entered her room to get her charger when she noticed that her phone battery was dying, when Seulgi enters after her dressed in sweatpants and a muscle shirt, “Unnie, can I borrow your earphones? Yerim took mine and I need it for the gym-”She tunes Seulgi out as soon as she sees the younger girl tugging the door to a close, “Wait! Seulgi, don’t close the-”Click.“-door,” she trails off with a groan.“What.. what’s that sound?” Seulgi turns around and starts to fiddle with her door, “Unnie? Why won’t it open?”“My doorknob’s busted,” she sighs, “Go call Seungwan, maybe she can stop by here with her friend to help us get out.”Seulgi shoots her a panicked look, “I left my phone outside.”They both stare at each other for what seems like forever as the gravity of their situation dawns upon them.“Wait, there must be a way to contact someone. Your phone…” Seulgi trails off.“My phone’s outside. My laptop too. Guess we’ll just have to wait for someone to come home,” she pauses before sighing, rubbing her face with her hands as Seulgi throws her another panicked look.“Unnie, did you forget?” Seulgi asks.“Forget what?” she asks tiredly, sitting by her bed.“The notice that there will be a blackout for three hours starting noon today. It’s why Seungwan left because she can’t stand the heat… we even put our food in the cooler,” Seulgi explains and just as she finishes, there’s a telltale groan from outside, signalling them that the aircon has been turned off.The electricity has been turned off.“Well,” she starts, “make yourself comfortable if we’ll be stuck here for a while.”She plops back down on her bed and watches Seulgi hover around the door, still trying to escape, before giving up and sitting by her bed.They spend the next hour in a strange and slightly uncomfortable silence. She tries to ignore the younger girl by picking up a book that she’s read about seven times before and pretending to browse through the pages.Suddenly, Seulgi stands up and turns to her, “Unnie, do you have a fan?”Then she notices how hot it has gotten. Sweltering heat that makes every pore in her body open up. In her focus to ignore her companion, she managed to not notice that she’s been sweating profusely.So she stands up and takes off the jacket that she’s been wearing, ignoring the choking sound that comes from the younger girl. She continues to strip until she’s down to her camisole and a pair of shorts.“It’s hot,” she comments as soon as she sees Seulgi’s intense gaze. She proceeds to her suitcase where she keeps the clear fans that she’s gotten from one of her fansites, taking one for Seulgi and taking one for herself.She freezes before returning to her bed. Seulgi had taken off her muscle shirt and her sweatpants while she was rummaging her suitcase and is now down to a sports bra and a pair of shorts.She stares, probably longer than what is appropriate, before looking away and clearing her throat. She tosses one of the fans to Seulgi as she sits on her side of the bed while Seulgi sits all the way on the other side.The silence that comes after is even more awkward. They’re both pointedly ignoring each other, but she’s all too aware of Seulgi’s presence anyway. She risks a brief glance (that lasts longer than necessary anyway) towards her side and groans to herself. Why does Seulgi have to have such a great body? Those abs are out of line.She clears her throat again, tearing her gaze away lest she gets caught, before grabbing her book and beginning to scan the pages again.It’s not long before she feels a prickling in her neck and the feeling of being watched washes over her. She waits for a few minutes before turning around, “Do you need something?”Seulgi blinks at her, face flushing red due to being caught staring. Or maybe it’s just the heat.“N-no… Sorry,” Seulgi replies, looking away and fiddling with the fan.She feels her own cheeks warming up so she shakes her head and refocuses on her book. It doesn’t take long before the same prickling returns so she slams her book shut and whirls around.“Knock it off, Seulgi.”Seulgi looks surprised at her tone, cheeks turning even redder, but she’s looking at her with a slightly glazed look, “I wasn’t-”“We both know you are. Stop it,” she replies, standing up to walk to the other side of the room in hopes of putting some distance between them because the heat is starting to mess with her head and she doesn’t want to do something that she might regret later.She doesn’t even reach two steps when a hand latches onto her wrist and whirls her around.“Seulgi,” she starts but Seulgi ignores her with an intense look.The younger girl tugs her harder and she’s too surprised to do anything else. Especially when Seulgi whispers breathlessly, “Hyun-ah.”And then Seulgi is kissing her.It’s nothing like she'd imagined, and she’s imagined this a lot. She always thought that their first kiss (and she is not counting that accidental drunken kiss that she’s feigning memory loss about) will be sweet and gentle. This is anything but.Seulgi treats kissing the same way she does performing on stage. And by that, she means that Seulgi kisses with everything that she’s got.It’s equal parts passionate, desperate, and intense and it’s not long before she’s feeling lightheaded with the lack of air. She leans away for a bit to catch her breath, with Seulgi letting out a protesting whine from under her.Since when was she straddling the younger girl?Seulgi impatiently tugs her down, when she takes one second too long, with an arm around her neck and she happily obliges to another open mouthed kiss. She feels strong arms roaming against her back, and she lets out a breathy moan against Seulgi’s mouth.At this, Seulgi flips them around, seemingly too distracted by the heat to be shy. Seulgi drags her lips across her cheeks and she’s about to protest until it latches onto her ear and sucks.She’s pretty sure she let out an embarrassingly loud moan at that, her ears have always been sensitive, and her body arches against the younger girl. She hears Seulgi chuckle lightly before diving for her lips again, one hand being bold enough to roam under her camisole, and the other tugging her lower lip down to allow her tongue entrance.At this point, all rational thought have gone out of the window and all that’s left is the lingering intensity of molding lips, swiping tongue, and heated skin.It’s hours later, when they’re snuggling against each other and the kisses have slowed down to the occasional peck and soft nibbles, that Seungwan finally arrives in hysterics.“Why didn’t you contact me? You guys could’ve died of heat in there!” Seungwan yells at them dramatically when they’re finally freed from her room.“We both left our phones outside, my laptop too,” she explains with a laugh.“And why are you guys dressed like that? The electricity’s already fixed two hours ago,” Seungwan accuses with narrowed eyes.They both blink at that, looking at each other’s state of undress. A second later, she bolts to her room, face red in embarrassment and guilt. She makes sure to leave a bit of a gap, though, because she doesn’t want to get stuck inside again.“Well,” she hears Seulgi’s voice outside as she pulls on a shirt, “I guess we got distracted.”