It's You Chapter 24

DongHae adjusted his position, leaning against the arm of the swing so that I was practically on top of him. I felt a teeny bit uncomfortable, so I pulled away from him and leaned against him, listening to his heartbeat. He wrapped his arms around me and we stayed like that in silence for a while.
"Tell me about your life this past year," he said, looking down at me.
So I did.
We sat like that for about half an hour, me just talking about school, settling into life as a student in Japan, speaking in Japanese, that sort of stuff. I felt like I was on a high, I couldn't seem to stop talking. It was really fun. When I'd finished, I asked him about his year.
"That might take too long," he replied, smiling down at me. I smiled back up at him and reached up to touch his face. "Maybe if I leave out the insignificant parts and just tell the really important ones..." he said.
"Please," I said, pulling a puppy-eye face, still smiling at him.
"You're so adorable when you do that, you know?" he replied, running a hand through my hair. "Oh alright, I'll tell some parts."
He told me about the new album, about promoting it, about the new subgroups, and that he was in Super Junior M, about learning Chinese and meeting Henry and Zhou Mi, and then about Super Show. Not terribly detailed, but he was honest about it. He didn't really like the idea of the subgroups because he felt like they were splitting Super Junior up, but after a while he got used to it.
When he finished he looked at me. "And now we're here. You have no idea how much I missed you, JaeHwa."
"Mmmm," I answered, looking away. I felt really guilty because I'd kind of gotten over him. He pulled up my face so I was facing him.
"It's ok if you didn't, you know, I totally understand that," he said gently.
"Well, to be honest, I kinda got over you," I said softly. I looked him in the eye. "But I don't think I entirely let go. I mean, I did stay away from all Super Junior-related things, and I -"
He laid a finger on my lips. "You don't have to explain," he said, smiling. "If you were completely over me, you wouldn't be here right now."
I smiled. "Smarty pants."
He suddenly stood up. "Let's go somewhere. I wanna go somewhere with you."
"What?!"
He looked at his watch. "It's only past 9! Come on, JaeHwa," he pleaded, pulling me to my feet.
"Where do you want to go?" I asked. "People would recognise you!"
"I wanna go to the beach," he said, pouting.
"But... the closest beach is about an hour away," I protested feebly. Honestly, the idea of sneaking out to the beach in the middle of the night was a nice one. The feeling of being a rebel for once had instant appeal.
"That's alright, we can spend an hour there and be back by midnight," said DongHae excitedly. His mood was infectious. I started smiling. "See, you like it!" he exclaimed, pulling me back to the glass doors. I let him.
As we passed the numerous deck chairs, something caught my eye.
"DongHae, wait," I said softly. He turned to me and I put a finger to my mouth. I crept back to a suspicious looking chair that was turned around so it's back was to us. There was something moving on it...

"Aaaaah!" I yelled in shock as I looked over the top of the chair. I jumped backwards, covering my eyes.
"What the hell, you two!" yelled DongHae, pulling me to my feet.
EunHyuk and HyunJae looked innocently back at us. They had jumped apart when I yelled, but etched permanently in my mind was the image of them making out on the very same chair. Furiously. And right now, he was still on top of her.
"It's not like you haven't made out with JaeHwa, DongHae," said EunHyuk a matter-of-factly. I felt my face turn a bit hot. DongHae glared at EunHyuk.
"Shut up Hyukkie," he said. "Anyway, even if we have, we didn't do it in public!"
"Just, you know, made out in front of the whole city," replied EunHyuk with an evil grin, waving his arm in the direction we had just come from. I turned even hotter.
"Not like the city could see us," said DongHae with a faint blush on his cheeks.
I beckoned to HyunJae and we moved off to the side while the both of them had a little argument.
"Hyunnie, what are you doing?!" I whispered. A sudden thought struck me. "Were you spying on us?" I demanded.
She gave me a slight grin. "We had to see what you guys were going to do," she said happily. "I'm so happy you're back together!"
"I think you're just feeling the after effects of kissing EunHyuk," I said, with a -.- expression.
"Well, sorry, but it just happened, okay?" said HyunJae with a slight blush.
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah." She could see I was looking a bit skeptical, but wouldn't you? I mean, she was never really with EunHyuk before this... I was just afraid that he was using her. "Okay, I'll tell you. After you left I went to get EunHyuk and we followed you down to the pool."
"Weren't you in the shower?"
"No, I was just randomly splashing water around. Do you want to hear this or what?"
"Okay, okay, I'll shut up."
"Yeah, anyway, we followed you and we saw DongHae at the edge, and we sorta stayed behind those glass doors. Looks like a bit of drama happened huh? You looked really pissed. Were you yelling at him?"
"I didn't mean to," I mumbled.
"Meh, not like I haven't yelled at Hyukkie before. When he dragged you behind that building, the both of us ran forward and hid in the bushes on the other side. You obviously didn't notice us. Yeah, we saw him pinning you to the wall," she raised her eyebrows at me, smiling. "Then Hyukkie said we should just leave you alone. So we scampered back, but when we were nearly back at the glass doors, he tripped and fell on me."
"Ouch," I said. I knew how that felt.
"Yeah, it was pretty painful." Her voice dropped to a whisper. "Then he said 'Myabe I should do a DongHae, huh?' and uhh he pinned me to the floor."
"Spare me the details," I said, feeling uncomfortable. "How did you end up on the chair?"
"I dunno, he started kissing me on the ground and then we kinda umm..."
"..upgraded to the chair?"
She burst out laughing. "Yeah, it was way more comfortable, not that I really cared though."
"JaeHwa, let's go!" said DongHae. I made my way back to him.
"Where are you guys going?" asked EunHyuk, narrowing his eyes at us, smiling playfully.
"Somewhere," said DongHae, with an equally playful smile. "See you guys later," he said, and then pulled me through the glass doors.
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"We've got the whole bus to ourselves," remarked DongHae, his arm around me. I snuggled closer.
"There is still the bus driver though," I said, as he pulled my face up.
"He's too busy with the road," he whispered, before kissing me softly on the lips.
I wished that I could be alone with him in a bus forever.
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"Here we are, Shonan beach!" I exclaimed, twirling around. I was a still a little breathless from the bus. DongHae came up behind me, wrapping his arms around my neck. He buried his face in my neck.
"Wasn't that bus ride fun?" he murmured, squeezing my arm.
I blushed.
"I can feel your heartbeat," he remarked.
So could I. His heart was almost directly above mine, if not a bit higher. He unwrapped himself and pulled his beanie over his head, then tugged me towards the low barrier between the pavement and the beach. We sat down and listened to the waves.
I took off my shoes and sunk my feet into the sand. Next to me, DongHae was doing the same.
"That feels nice," he said as he played with the sand with his toes. "Want to make a sandcastle?"
"I can barely see the waves, I don't think we'd be able to make one," I said. He jumped off the barrier and picked up a stick that was lying nearby. He started writing something in the sand. "What're you doing?" I asked.
He pulled out his phone and took a picture of his artwork. Then he swept his foot over it so none of it remained. He sent the picture to me on my phone. I took my phone out of my pocket and looked at it.

동해 ♥ 재화

DongHae Loves JaeHwa.

I looked down at him and discovered his face was inches from mine. His hands were on either side of mine, gripping on to the barrier. He gave me a small smile.

"Wo Ai Ni," he whispered.
"What does that mean?" I asked softly.
"SarangHae," he replied. "In Chinese."
"Aishiteru," I said, smiling at him. His eyes sparkled.
"Japanese?" he asked, coming closer.
I nodded and closed my eyes as he pulled my head down softly and his lips touched mine. I wrapped my arms around his neck, and jumped off the wall, while he caught me in an awkward position. We stayed in that pose for a few seconds before we both fell onto the sand.
I laughed and he did too. We both stared up at the stars. His hand touched mine and we looked at each other, grinning. I intertwined my fingers with his, feeling like my heart was about to burst.
We lay there in silence. After a long while, he rolled onto his side, switching hands and propping himself up. He looked at me with a quizzical look on his face.
"What are you looking at?" I said, raising an eyebrow.
"You're beautiful," he answered, playing with my fingers.
"You're just love-bitten, Lee DongHae," I replied, blushing a little.
He rolled over, resting himself on his elbows. He looked at me and smiled. "You look even prettier when you blush," he said, and his smile grew wider.
I covered my face with my hands. "This is so embarassing," I said, my voice muffled.
He pulled my hands away gently and wove his fingers through my hair. "If you're embarassed with me, I wonder how you feel when you blush in front of other people," he teased. I hit him lightly on the shoulder. He stuck out his lower lip.
"Now you have to give me a kiss for hurting me," he said, a mischevious look on his face.
"I didn't hurt you!" I exclaimed.
"No... but I'm always the one kissing you. Your turn, for a change."
"You only started kissing me today."
"You forgot last year?"
"Okay, fine." I reached up and touched his face, wound my hands through his hair, felt his pulse racing when I ran my hand over his neck. "You seem nervous," I whispered.
"My first kiss from you," he whispered back. "Of course I'm nervous."
"Idiot," I said, then pushed myself up and kissed him. I was about to pull away when he pulled me into him, his arms around me.
"You're not bad for a first-timer," he said, kissing me on the neck.
"I don't understand you sometimes, Lee DongHae," I said, laughing. I felt his fingers brush against the bare skin of my back. My top must have ridden up, but I didn't care because I trusted him.
I trusted him with my life.

Pause.

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