Our Summer

Chapter 35

Seori wakes up feeling the morning light on her face, warm air slowly gracing her as she struggles to open her eyes. She pushes herself up, a little confused, blinking the sleepiness away as she turns around as if she is searching for something. She ends up staring into nothing, her head spinning and her eyes threatening to close again.

Then she smells it - coffee.

She turns to look at her kitchen, her heart skipping a surprise beat when she finds Taehyung standing there, his back to her. It looks like he is busy stirring something. As if he could sense her watching, he glances over his shoulder, flashing a sleepy smile at her.

"Good Morning"

"Good...Morning?", she yawns, battling her eyelashes in confusion. "What are you making?"

"Don't move, stay right there. I am making you, coffee"

Still in a daze, she relaxes on the couch as she rubs her eyes, trying her best to get her bearings because at the moment, her head it too clouded with sleep. She runs her fingers through her hair, yawning again as she shifts into a comfortable position with one hand hugging the small pillow to her side.

The sound of Taehyung walking towards her makes her look up, and when he comes into her sight, her eyes light up at the two cups in her hands. Instead of saying anything, she just stares at the cups, then her gaze shifts up to his face.

"You are spacing out", he takes a seat on the coffee table in front of her, that sleepy smile still on his face.

"I think I slept like the dead last night and now...I cannot remember why am I on the couch", her hands gesturing to herself. "And definitely cannot remember how you - we - I mean why - I mean..damn it - I mean why you are here in my house"

His face light up as amusement takes over his feature at her sleepy mumblings. He can feel every inch of his getting soft at the sight of her all sleepy and in a daze, the soft light that comes from the sliding door of her patio hitting her face, giving her a tender glow, and her eyes seem to sparkle.

"Do you remember what we talked about last night?"

She blinks sleepily at him and shakes her head. "I need my coffee first"

She leans forward to reach for her coffee but Taehyung beats her to it, lifting the cup and handing it to her carefully while reminding her to take a slow sip since it might be too hot for her. Even when she has gotten a good hold of the coffee cup, he still holds the bottom of it, watching as she nods sleepily and takes a sip of the coffee.

Realizing his gesture, she looks at him through the rim of her cup, silently smiling at him.

"Oh?", her eyes widen, looking at the coffee and then at him. "This tastes so good"

He looks surprised for a fleeting second before his entire face lights up at her response. "It is?"

She nods again, taking another sip. "Very good"

He lets out a soft sigh of relief, smiling widely as he gently helps her take the cup and put it at the side. "I guess I owe Jungkook one"

Seori stares at him with that same sleepy look in her eyes, and he cannot help but melt at the way she looks so soft and small sitting on the chair, hugging herself and looking like she is seconds away from just dozing off again.

"I remember we had a long conversation", she mumbles. "But I cannot really remember about what"

She leans deeper into the couch, frowning a little as she thinks hard to herself, but when it looks like she fails to recall anything, she looks at him.