[M] Just Strangers 1/2 (1/1)

“Now tell me how long you would have her after you have possessed her.”“Forever and a day.” I didn’t need anybody.I couldn’t remember when it was when I started to fear all the smiles and promises that people had been showering me with. Did it begin in middle school when my best friend planted someone else’s wallet inside me bag? Or was it during high school when a boy who I had a crush on decided to touch me at the back of the class? I pushed him away of course, but rumors spread like wild fire. Behind the agreements and friendly replies, I began to shrink away from the crowd.Eventually, I thought it was better for me to be left alone.Standing outside the building, I stared at the raindrops blankly and plucked in my earpiece. Hanging my head low, I greeted my colleagues curtly with a smile when they jostled off in pairs under the rain. The sight of them with a companion made me so envious at times that I started trying again. I attempted attending the drinking sessions on Friday nights, drank a few cups of vodka and sat the end of the table. No one tried to talk to me but neither did I start a conversation with anyone. The silence kept me away from everyone else.Without even turning their heads back to acknowledge my presence, I was left alone under the shade once again with a feverish forehead that I tried so hard to ignore. There was no one else to blame for my plight except myself. Protection was just an excuse—mistrust and manipulation of people’s genuine feelings towards me was the reason.Covering the jacket over my head, I took my first step into the rain and increased my pace down the pathway. I knew that my fever had probably become worse when the walk back home became too unbearable. If only I could just sit down on the floor in the rain and wait till some stranger decided to pick me up. The bright headlights and the honking of a car not too far behind me broke the silence. The presence of someone on the streets at this time of the day just before Chunseok took me by surprise. I came to a halt and watched as the window of the car was drawn down.“What are you doing in the rain by yourself? Are you crazy?” I could recognize the person by his voice almost immediately. With such an obnoxious tone, it took me barely a second before I knew that it was Taemin. There was nothing really wrong about Taemin besides that though; many adored him, but not everyone. I didn’t. Was the difference between us the reason behind my hatred and detestable feelings towards him?He was everything I wasn’t or maybe what I once was. The resemblance between my past and his present were so similar that it began to hurt.Clueless, I bowed my head and walked off again, this time with the jacket slung around my arm. He seemed a little bothered by my actions because he started yelling at me and eventually decided to leave the car with an umbrella. Placing the shelter above the both of us, the aftermath of walking in the rain had finally kicked it. I was shivering in the cold when Taemin inspected me and reached out his fingers for my chin. Lifting it up despite my reluctance, his plump lips parted as he gasped,“Your lips are turning purple. Are you crazy? Why are you walking in the rain by yourself? “I chose not to reply him, somehow wishing that he could leave me alone. However, Taemin grabbed hold of my arm and forced me into his car. For the first time, I thought the silence was a little too awkward. He looked at me as if there was something he wanted to say, but chose to keep quiet and torment me. “You’re Lee MinYeon aren’t you? That girl who just got through the auditions.”I nodded my head but felt so relieved. Finally, he started talking.“Don’t you have anyone to call to fetch you home?”“They went home.” He grumbled and drove off without saying a word. I could easily predict what he was considering at that point of time. He might be mocking at how pathetic and lonely I was, maybe even showing some signs of sympathy for my plight. Eventually, the silence that I once thought was uncomfortable became more deserving that I had expected but my mind was in chaos. I was definitely going to dirty the leather seat in his car with my drenched clothes and his attitude towards me seemed a little too subtle. I took timid glimpses of him throughout the 10 minutes ride home and looked away flustered when he gazed at me in return.My fever wasn’t gone but the feelings of exhaustion were long forgotten; for once in a long time, I had so much curiosity for a man like him. Questions were burning and I was caught up in a train of thoughts until the moment he tapped me on the shoulder. I battered my eyelids and glanced around the car park, only to realize that Taemin had already sent me home—without asking for my address.“How did you know my address?”“Well, out of coincidence, we were staying in the same building.” So he knew me all along? I mouthed a thank you and groggily searched for the keys in my bag. I swore it wasn’t karma that brought me such ill luck; I stared at the emptiness for the longest time before slinging it on my shoulder and got off the car.“Thank you so much, Taemin. I’m so sorry for dirtying your seat.” The smile that lit up Taemin’s face was so charismatic.“So that was the reason behind the glances you stole for the past ten minutes? That’s disappointing.” My smiled faded off slightly when I bit my lips and tried to make a leave for somewhere else, pay a visit to the twenty four-seven convenience store nearby sounded like a pretty pleasant idea. But Taemin kept following me. Without thinking twice, I pressed the button to the ground floor and he started bombarding questions that I refused to answer.“Aren’t you going home?” My head was so groggy and dizzy at the moment. But I shook it weakly and asked him in return.“It’s Chunseok tomorrow. Don’t you want to return home to meet your family? Why are you entertaining me?”“Are you spending it alone?” No, I wasn’t going to give a reply.“I have plenty of time till tomorrow evening. The company gave me two days off anyway.” I made my way out of the lift without saying a word, glaring at him with slight disdain when he tried to grab hold of my arm. Despite my silent protest however, Taemin circled his fingers around my wrist and shuddered at the point our skin came in contact. The warmth of his touch made me realized how cold I truly felt.“Are you trying to make you way to the convenience store in this state?” He touched me; Taemin slung an arm around my shoulder to give me support and whispered into my ear, “You are burning, man! You will come to my apartment today since it’s empty.”“No it’s okay, I will just….” I pushed him away and cornered myself against the wall of the lift. Pushing the button to the eighth floor, Taemin held me back before I could make my out and glared at me with irritation.“What’s wrong with you, really?” I avoided him like plague and if I could, I would scream for him to leave me alone. But I followed blindly as he walked of the lift and continued the one-sided conversation. “Why are you avoiding everyone? Is there something wrong with you, or is it the entire fucking world you’re pissed about? Can you imagine what is going to happen if I wasn’t around with you and—”His lips were moving but I couldn’t hear a single word he was talking about. There wasn’t any ringing in my ears, just complete silence as if I was deaf. “I don’t need anybody. Who do you think you are; I don’t need you either.”I couldn’t remember whatever that had happened in the darkness after that. I woke up in an unfamiliar but pleasant scent that I could possibly bask in for the rest of the day. In spite of the comfort, I knew I had to make a leave before Taemin enters the room and stop me again. But who was I kidding? My shaking legs could barely carry me across the tiled floor without giving way. I collapsed on the floor, wincing at the pain and cold that shot up my body immediately. Taemin came budging into the room and yelled at the sorry state he found me in, knowing exactly what I was planning to do.Hugging me close to his chest as he led me to the bed, the thought of reciprocating his actions crossed my mind; instead, I pushed him away with my hands and scrambled back on my feet. Apologizing for a couple of times, Taemin yelled across the room and leaned against the door before I could retreat away from his sight.“Where do you think you’re going?” Away from you. I grabbed on to the sleeves of his shirt and tried to pull him away from the exit. He didn’t plan to move. “Why are you so afraid of everyone? Don’t you trust us, can’t you trust me?”Can’t you trust me? Words that meant to sound sweet and genuine became so painfully doubtful. Those were the words that my crush whispered into my ear when he violated me. That was the statement my best friend challenged me to haughtily despite the accusations of stealing. Taemin looked at me in pure shock when the tears were at the brink of rolling down my cheeks.“How can I trust when people fail to keep their promises?”“Then why aren’t you giving others a chance to prove you wrong?” I scoffed,“Then what do you want to do? Tell me how important I am and what next?” Taemin remained silent and dragged me towards the bed. Placing the tip of the thermometer against my lips, I parted them reluctantly and held on to it below my tongue. 39.5 degrees. I guessed I wouldn’t be leaving anytime soon.“You’re important to the people who care about you, Minyeon.”“Am I important to you?” The person who said that was me, but it wasn’t Minyeon. It felt as if my alter-ego was giving him a reply instead. I stared at him in shock and turned away from him the next moment in pure embarrassment. But Taemin’s voice was as fluid as his movements; he cupped my cheeks and smiled.“What am I going to do next? Is that what you asked?” Before I could nod my head or give him any form of reply, verbal or not, Taemin kissed me. It wasn’t a shy puppy-love kind of kiss or something too passionate. He was caressing my lips with his own but I wasn’t able to return the way he might have wanted. I was too caught up with controlling my own body, making sure that I wasn’t trembling too much under the sheets. “Are you feeling cold?”“I’m fine.”“Stop saying that, Minyeon.”“I’m fine.” I repeated myself and watched as he tugged himself under the blanket beside me. There wasn’t enough space for the both of us to keep a favorable distance. My chest was pressing against his, heart fluctuating at the sensation of his warm breath against the crook of my neck. It was undeniably comforting to be laying this close to him, especially when I was no longer feeling as sick as before. “You’ll get sick, Taemin. I’ll be okay myself.”“Can you tell me what’s wrong?” He snaked an arm around and patted me gently on my back. This time I let my guard down, confessing to him about my past and the amount of discomfort I was experiencing at the moment. My teeth were chattering as I buried my head into his chest and curled up into a fetus like shape beside him. It was then when Taemin started panicking. He fidgeted a lot on the bed beside me and reached out for his phone, probably to call the ambulance.“Don’t.” I murmured and felt relieved when Taemin placed it back on the side table before turning around to face me. I didn’t know what had gotten into me, but I found the courage to pull him even closer to me. “Stay with me, Taemin.”Because everything felt like it was going to be alright with him around.….. ….. ……It started with fluttering kisses from the lips that found its way down to her collarbone. Their clothes dropped on the floor like useless pieces of fabric as they rubbed their skin together. Taemin’s touch seemed to work better than the medication that Minyeon had taken—she was still shivering, but the pain and dizziness were taken away.“Should I stop?” Was it out of respect? For it was obvious that ‘stop’ had not crossed their minds the moment they started. Taemin latched his lips on her right areola, suckling and pleasuring her just to make sure that she wouldn’t be in too much pain later on. His fingers crept down to the cavern in the middle of her legs, slightly moist by the amount of teasing he did to her breasts.“Taemin….” She finally moaned when he slipped a finger in, closing her thighs at the shocking amount of pain at the point of intrusion. Taemin knew Minyeon was a virgin then but he couldn’t stop; he was ready to give her his first as well and take responsibility for taking away something so important from her. Maybe he didn’t have enough conscience today.When her walls stopped clamping his finger as much as before, Taemin slipped another finger in and observed her expression in the darkness just to make sure she was doing fine. Are you ready? He asked along with a kiss on her forehead. She nodded her head to reply and blushed at the sudden sensation of Taemin spreading her thighs apart. Looping them around his hips, Taemin slipped himself into her by an inch each time and watched worriedly at the way she bit her bottom lip till it bled.“Tell me what’s hurting you so much, Minyeon.” He pulled his sex out and buried it into her again, causing her to wince in pain. She opened her mouth, desperate to give a reply but everything was stuck at the back of her throat. Moving slowly and gently for a couple of minutes, she held him tightly in her embrace.“Everything.” She jerked her hips up against his and rolled it around sensually, “but it started to get better because of you, even if we knew one another just for a day.”It was a signal for him to start picking up his pace. He moved his hips faster, pulling back further away and pushing in closer than ever against her pelvis. She moaned and ignored the incarnadine liquid rolling down her thighs, leaving stains of evidence on his bed sheets.“There….There Taemin.”“I’m so sorry if I were to hurt you.”“You’re making me feel so good, Taemin.” Minyeon stammered and trembled at the point she reached her summit. Arching her back at the amount of euphoria and pleasure overcoming her entire body, they met their release almost at the same time, moaning with sheer joy when Taemin poured his seeds against her abdomen.They slept the moment Taemin rolled over on to the empty spot of the bed, without saying those sweet nothings that they expected each other to. Knowing and feeling the presence of one another was probably more than enough.… …. ….I woke up in a totally different room to my disappointment. Taemin’s absence made me feel like he was just a passing dream, sweet, erotic and painful. As if nothing had happened last night, I was no longer running a fever or drenched in cold sweat. The absence of the discomfort left me in wonderment but I was assured by the embarrassing love marks left on my skin.With a slight heart ache, I called the company and asked for Taemin. She told me that he had left for Japan with his parents. He left. He lied. “Now tell me how long you would have her after you have possessed her.”“Forever and a day.”“Say a ‘day’ without the ‘ever’.” A/N: I’m going to turn it into two-shots because the story turned out to be longer than expected. Then maybe a sequel? I don’t know. It depends on how much you guys like it ^^