Chapter 35: Winter Snow

×Elise's POV×

Walking out into the kitchen, finally back in their New York apartment, I see Seung Hyun shirtless pouring milk into a bowl of cereal. "Good morning,"I smile. His back muscles flex with each move. He turns only his head and gives me a closed-mouth grin, "Morning."

I move over towards him and wrap my arms around his warm skin, my cheek pressing against his back. "Do you want some?"

I wiggle my head no in response. "No thanks."

He turns around on his heels and places the sugar-filled bowl on the table quietly. "How about go visit the park today?"

I smile brightly and walk over to the empty chair next to him, "Sounds like a plan." He spoons the frosted fakes in his mouth a chews with child-like wide eyes.

I laugh before resting my chin on a admiring elbow my eyes following his every move. He stares at me as he makes silly faces and curves the spoon on a trail towards my mouth. "Open," he sings and I do as instructed. He grins and swerves the spoon back towards him,"I thought you didn't want some."

I roll my eyes and glance back over my shoulder at Seungri who watched from afar. "Hyung," he stutters shyly as he walks over to us, his body half nude. Seung Hyun glances up away from his bowl then to Seungri. "Oh ah, Ri, annyeosayo."

I look down at the glass table and laugh, "Why are you both so shy, you act like you've never seen each other shirtless."

Seungri stares at me and chuckles after a short moment of silence. "Hah. Funny."

He walks past us half asleep and makes himself a bowl. After a short while Daesung wakes up with Jiyong clinging to his arm laughing wildly. Daesung glances down at the smaller boy with a bright smile, "Yah! Get off!"

Ji glances up and spots the rest of us huddled together by the kitchen table, spoons dripping with milk and half drunken glasses of orange juice. "Daesung-ah,stop playing around." He covers up his laughter with a sudden blanket of seriousness. Straightening up and steps towards us without a sound I chuckle and hand him my glass of juice, which he easily grabs and drinks from without hesitation. Daesung scoffs in unbelief and follows behind him with his lips sealed tight. He stops behind my seat and clings on to the cold metal pole,"Good morning noona."

I lean my head and smile up at him, a blonde curtain covers his eyes leaving his smile to shine down on me,"morning."

Finally YoungBae comes out after them, a huge, suspicious grin curling at his lips as he walks in and lightly falls into a chair. "Good morning," He coos as if he had fallen in love over night.

Seungri grins at the older member and waves his spoon at him. "You don't have a girlfriend do you? I don't need you having a soccer team of tiny YoungBae's."

He chuckles and nudges the maknae gently, "No, idiot."

"Then what is it?" Seung Hyun asks as he ruffles his dark hair and stands up to place his empty bowl in the sink.

YoungBae opens his mouth in shock, glances at the rest of us and leans back in his seat. "Have you forgotten, Elise and Hyung are engaged."

A smirk sneaks up to my mouth. I can see where you're going with this YoungBae.

"We're going to be uncles!" He practically squeals with excitement. Jiyong glances at Daesung and smiles. "Uncles huh?"

Immediately Daesung jumps up from his seat and happily yells out,"We're going to be uncles!"

We all laugh and watch the other member dance around the room, his hair whipping behind him as he twirls around the kitchen, into the living room, and falls on the couch.

After a few seconds he stands up and walks back with only the sight of his smirk being shown on his face. "I can't believe we're go-," he stops mid sentence and his eyes go wide.

I raise an eyebrow and stare up at him,"What is it?" Has he seen a ghost? I turn around in my chair but only see Seung Hyun leaning against the counter top. "Noona." He gasps in shock.

I look down at my lap and around the room, "What happened?"

He smirks and points to my neck. I look down but can't see anything. YoungBae leans forward in his seat and pushes my hair out of the way. His brown eyes soon widen too.

Seungri looks at me but chuckles as if what he had seen was no big deal. What was it?

"Is there a bug on me?" I squeak utterly horrified.

Seungri shakes his head and continues to eat,"It's just a, wait how do you say that in English?"

YoungBae scans his mind for the answer and says the answer while smiling, "Hickey."

My face burns a bright red forcing me to clutch the collar of my shirt, and pull it up around my neck. Damn it.

"Wow Seung Hyun a bit friskay~," Jiyong teases as Daesung stares mesmerised.

Suddenly SeungHyun comes up from behind me and pulls me out of my chair by my wrist. "We have something to do."

I trip over his heels and stumble into our room.

"Lets go to the park."

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"Don't you have things to do?" I take his hand and he looks at me, a grin snaking up to his lips. "By things do you mean you?" He makes a silly face and continues to walk. I look at the ground covered in a new coat of fresh snow. "You've been acting too flirty are you okay?"

"Who says I'm acting?"

I look up at his brown eyes and trail my attention to his neck. A small purple bruise lightly kissed his collar causing a giggle to bubble out of me. "Oops."

He smiles and lifts his shirt to look at the bruise himself. "Oh this? It's nothing compared to yours."

I roll my eyes. If only Daesung hadn't seen it. I quickly cover my neck with my white scarf and blow my bangs out of my face.

As we walked in comfortable silence with nothing but the sound of snow crunching under our boots, a group of girls walk past us. Each of them eye me with looks of disgust. "What the hell is she doing with him?"

"I'm way prettier than her."

I look at the floor, then to my red gloves that only covered my palm and not the tips of my fingers. "Don't listen to them." I hear Seung Hyun say, his accent brightening up the situation by a little. He reaches into his white coat pocket and pulls out ear buds. He takes his phone and plugs them in before gently placing the buds in my ears. He smiles at me, his eyes showing nothing but happiness. "I love you." He mouths and places both hands on his head in the shape of a heart. I giggle as the sound of familiar rap music fills my ears. "Saranghae." I actually say to him although I couldn't hear myself speak.

Suddenly he turns around and glares at one of the girls. Her brown hair falling down to get waist, her face symmetrical and innocent. She's right,she is much prettier than I am. Then again that's what all girls say to themselves.

Seung Hyun faces the girls and tells them something, his eyebrows pulled together and eyes filled with fire. He's clearly had enough. Although I can't hear what he is saying, the girls' facial expressions clearly shows that they are shocked. "Oppa...," I begin to say as I bring my hand up to the ear buds to remove them. He stops my hand, pushing it back down to my pocket. I look up at his face, his eyes burning with wrath at the girls. Even if he just stood there, his face showed nothing but anger.

As quickly as he began scolding the girls, he stops turns around and grabs my hand. "What was that?" I pull out the ear buds and face him as we begin to walk in a different direction. "I didn't like the way they spoke about you."

I look at his jaw and notice that it's clenched tightly, so tight that his jawline is more defined than usual and I am sure that he would pop a vessel. "Relax, I have to get used to it anyway."

He stops walking and faces me. "I don't want you to get used to it, Elise."

One side of my mouth turns up as if to say "sorry you had to do that just for me."

He sighs and squeezes my hand. "Yah, let's go."

I shove the ear buds in my pocket along with his phone which he left to me. He sighs as we walk down a new path, a small yet familiar path in which I clearly remember.

I grin as he stops walking at the exact same moment I do. I stare at the cherry blossms that fall from the trees and to the floor at our feet. "Jagi?"

"Ne?" I smile up at him and bite my bottom lip. "Can I kiss you?"

I nod my head yes before leaning in to lay a kiss on his lips. But that didn't really turn out as expected. He turns the small peck into a passionate kiss on the lips, his hand lightly holding the side of my face. I pull away and rest my head on his chest."What was that for?" He chuckles and twirls some of my hair around his finger.

"Oh nothi-" As soon as I begin speaking it begins to pour out of no where. I squeak out a scream pull away from Seung Hyun as the cold drops of freezing water seeped through my jacket and onto my skin.

"What the hell!"

He laughs and hugs me tight,"Stop yelling, we can play in the rain."

I glare up at him shocked,"Are you crazy!"

He pouts his lower lip and whispers like a sad puppy, "Please?"

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I sigh in relief as I enter our room, happy to be out of the freezing rain. I look down at my clothes, soaked in the water pouring from outside. I groan at the uncomfortable feeling of cloth sticking to my skin before beginning to search for some clothes to change in to. After a few minutes of my unsuccessful scavenger, I grab a pair of his sweatpants and a red flannel before dragging my dripping wet body to take a hot relaxing shower.

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I slip into his clothes and walk back to his bedroom just as the door opens revealing Seung Hyun in nothing but a pair of jeans."Elise, hey I was- wow." He steps into the bedroom, his eyes widening at the sight if me. "Yeah?" I ask raising my eyebrows suspiciously.

"You look...wow," He says greeting me with a kiss.

"I'm wearing your sweatpants Seung Hyun. What's so wow about that?"I giggle as he wounds his arms around my waist and kisses me again softly.

"I was going to say that it's my friend's bachelor party and I'm going out, is that okay?" He asks innocently giving me his sweetest face.

"Yeah, of course." I smile.

"But uh,I'm going to need that shirt."

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