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..........yeah something inside me changed,
i was so much younger yesterday,
i didn't know that i was starving
till i tasted you
don't need no butterflies
when you gave me the whole damn zoo

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── starving by hailee steinfeld playing on the radio when chaerin is on her way back to home after work.

its weird but i'm thinking of him when i heard this song. she could feel her heart thumped faster when she think of him. homegirl is falling in love.

she turn the wheels to jeon's household as mrs jeon asked them to have dinner there. is wonwoo there yet? how's his day today? anything good happened? did he think of her today? there's so much she want to know, strangely.

when she's arrived, chaerin noticed that wonwoo's car is not there yet. she parked the car and grab her phone in her handbag, to check if there's text from him. but there's none. "probably the traffic," she shrugged. she lift up her head and saw mama jeon is waving her hand at her, excitedly.

"oh my god, my sweet chaerin! come in," chaerin read her mouth from the car and chuckled. she quickly get out of the car to received a warm hug from the older lady.

"oh my god i missed you waayy too much!" she said. "let's get inside,"

as someone who didn't get much love from a mom, chaerin is so moved by the way mama jeon treated her. its so nice to feel welcomed and loved.

"i'm sorry for being too excited every time see you, but you reminds me so much of your mom. " mama jeon said as they sat on the couch. "your eyes, your expressions.. everything. ah how much i miss her,"

chaerin smiles as her mother in law look at her. even though she can't relate to what she said, still, it feels good. "you guys must've been so close,"

"yeah, really reaally close," mrs jeon feels both happy and sad while remembering the old times but she quickly snapped ; don't want to make chaerin to feel burdened. "anyway when is wonwoo coming?"

"i don't know, but he might be on his way now."

"he didn't call?"

chaerin shakes her head. knowing her son too well, mama jeon sighed. "well if that so, let's just eat first. usually when he didn't tell anything, he won't come home. he probably in the ER again."

really? chaerin asked, but only to herself.

"what does he like the most in that busy place i don't even know. he don't know how lucky he is to have a nice pretty girl as his wife," mama jeon starts to nag and called the maid. "mrs hwang! did mr jeon called you yet?"

"he didn't, yet. but mrs aya did call earlier, she said she'll make sure both mr chairman and mr jungkook to come home for dinner,"

"oh thank god! i don't know what will i do without aya. its just so sad and hard to have a simple, normal dinner with all these busy men." mama jeon rubs her temple. "just go and rest first, aya and the others will take a little while to be here."

"okay, mom."

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the dinner ends, and wonwoo still in hospital. chaerin got a day off tomorrow so she decided to stay in her in law's house for the night.

there might be possibilities that wonwoo not come home, and she feels comfortable to be here than alone at home.

chaerin
hey
just want to tell you
that i'm at mom's house
tonight.

are you still busy?

still no answer after twenty minutes. "wow, he is that busy." chaerin lie down on the bed and scroll the instagram timeline.

seeing how her ex schoolmates and coworkers go for dates and shit, she can't help but to be jealous and a little bit salty. "how nice.."

but then she remembered what wonwoo said this morning before they go to work.

"i can't promise that i'll be there for dinner but i'll try to. i got few interns to train today. there's kinda lot of seniors who participated a seminar outside seoul, so i'm in charge today."

yeah, he never promise so i can't blame him. he's a doctor, remember? a hero who wears a long, white coat to save people. i should be proud of him.

she said to comfort herself. can't lie but she still miss him though. "save feelings for later, chaerin. you have a disgustingly long day at work so you need to rest now."

like that, chaerin turn down the lights and sleep under the starry ceiling that wonwoo installed before they were married.

when chaerin fell into a deep sleep, she didn't realize that she received few texts from wonwoo.

wonwoo
hi
okay! i'm on my way
there

sorry i was in the operation
room today
for eight hours

and i fell asleep
soo see you at home

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wonwoo is not someone who will come back home at 12 though. usually if he finds out that he been sleeping till night in his office, he won't even bother to go home. he'll just continue to sleep until the next day.

well, that's before he found the reason to go home. now, he have one.

seeing the lights are off, he gets inside slowly without making any sound ; and up to his room.

"oh my god," he accidentally slipped out quite loud of his mouth when he saw chaerin sleeping on his bed. not to be extra or anything, but he still shocked whenever he saw a pretty girl lying down on his bed ; sleeping so peacefully. its like a romance he dreamt of once when he was a high school kid came true.

he put down his bag on the desk, slowly and don't know how, his eyes naturally landed on her hips, and down to legs when he turn around. as chaerin is an active sleeper, the blanket is thrown away to her feet and her pajama shirts is lifted up, showing that squishy stomach. and the shorts she's wearing is not helping the thumping in his heart.

"this is bad," he said and get the blanket to cover her up. but what he got a free kick for disturbing her sleep. luckily he's fast to dodge it.

"relax, i just don't want you to catch cold!" he said and throw the blanket randomly on her body. forget about her exposed skin or her waist that drives him crazy, he might die if he ever touch her while sleeping again.

"look at you, sleeping with your mouth opened." wonwoo laughed. "luckily you're cute,"

he shakes his head and went to the bathroom to wash up. right when he's out of the shower, chaerin is already up ; half awake half sleepy waiting for him.

"are you awake?"

"uh i need to pee....." she gets up and slowly walk to the bathroom.

".... yeah sure... not that i just got home, sexily wearing only a piece of towel in front of you or anything?" wonwoo stand there, confused. but he went to wear his clothes in the walk in closet quickly before she finished her business in the bathroom.

"have you eaten?" suddenly, chaerin come in to the closet. she's still half awake. her eyes are barely opened.

"yes i have, before i come home." wonwoo said. "go to sleep first, i will go later."

she didn't say anything but suddenly walk steps forward to hug him. "let's go together..." she said, still in her dream perhaps.

"uhm chaerin?" wonwoo look around, while she's cutely sleeping while hugging him ; standing in front of the mirror.

"... haven't seen wonwoo for a whole day long.. i miss him.." she murmured with her eyes closed. wonwoo swears, no one ever make his heart beat crazily like this.

only his parents ever did that ; because he was suspended for the first time in school. its some boy's stupid fight but that's not the case here.

well his first girls before and aya did made his heart beats out of his pace but its not so crazy like this. this one is insane. its like a whole damn zoo inside his belly, wilding and waiting to burst.

"really..? well uhm.. i miss you too.." he carefully put his hands around her waist, replying to the hug.

it feels warm. and sooo nerve wrecking. wonwoo gulped. it feels good to have a girl in your arms. now i get it, jeon jungkook. you win this time. wonwoo ─ 0, jungkook ─ 1. but i only like my girl so no score. 0─0.

"chaerin, let's go to sleep okay?" wonwoo asked and she didn't answer it. a heavy sleeper, indeed. wonwoo bend a little to carry her ; bridal style, slowly walk to their bed.

for a normal guy like him, he can't lie that she's waking up all the buttons that somehow dead these years. her skin touching his, her parted apart lips, her hair ; her soft snores ; every single thing, everything is making him losing his mind.

he put her down, gently and stare to that face deeply.

just this one. just this one. he promise himself and give her a soft peck on her lips. he pull back and bite his lips.

"oh i can't do this anymore," he quickly get out the bed and walk out of the room to calm down himself and before he lose himself.

leaving chaerin 'sleeping' with a freaking whole red face. to be honest, she was suddenly awake when wonwoo carried her to the bed, but is too embarrassed to open her eyes.

he. is. too. cute. ?!!!!?

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