Everyone was passed out in their hotel rooms after the concert they had and if she had to be honest, so was Hyeju who was already wrapped up in her blanket and seconds away from sinking into the hotel mattress and succumbing to sleep.
Her vision was getting blurry as she closed her eyes, and her breathing evened out as a sign of rest. She already washed off all the makeup the stylists put on before the concert, brushed her teeth, showered off all the sweat and put on her sleeping clothes.
Just as she thought that was enough moving around for today, someone knocked on her door. Hyeju checked the time, it was almost 1 am in the morning. Who in their right mind would knock on someone's doot at such a time? It couldn't be one of the hotel staff, she's sure.
Whoever they were, Hyeju was sure they were going to regret disturbing her because she would not be nice to deal with right now with her grumpy mood. Arson somehow made it to the plate for a quick second but she knew it'd only cause huge problems for her company and group.
'I swear if it's Hyunjin I'll fistfight her right in these hotel halls-' Hyeju grumbles in her head right before she opens the door, forgetting to unlock the safety door lock hotels usually have and pulling on it again and again until she realized her mistake.
Cheeks flushed red in embarrassment, she closed her eyes for a few seconds and looked back up. "Hey, are you good there?"
That voice, she'd recognize it anywhere. Hyeju's immediate expression softened and closed the door to unlock the safety lock and let the slightly shorter intruder in. "You could've texted me if you wanted to sleep over," she slicked her hair back.
"But that's the thing, I didn't want to sleep over," the girl with shoulder-length auburn hair took off her trenchcoat, "See?"
Come to think of it, summer nights in the country they're at should be warm so she wouldn't need the trenchcoat. "You're going out?" Hyeju asks, almost in disbelief. It's late, like really late. She's positive that going out this late without supervision would get them in trouble.
The older girl was wearing a white lace top and a pair of cargo light blue jeans, "I wanted to go on a walk with you. We rarely get to go out, just the two of us."
People usually say their heart skipped a beat or they have butterflies in their stomach when someone they love says things like this but Hyeju feels a whole zoo in her stomach going on a rampage, breaking out of their cages and overthrowing the security system.
Not sure if that made any sense but it didn't matter. What matters is that Gowon wants to go out and Hyeju is in pyjamas, "Why so suddenly?" She asked to see if there was any other way that she would want to sleep in with her instead.
"Everyone is asleep, even the other crews are asleep. When else are we going to ever get this chance again?" Gowon took Hyeju's hand and looked at her face, "Do you not want to?"
There was no way she was going to say no to that, even if she had been sleepy before, all her exhaustion faded away with the soft touch of Gowon's hand on hers, "Give me a moment, I have to change." There was no point arguing when she knew it'd make her happy to simply comply.
While Gowon sat on her bed, she took off her pyjamas and went through her suitcase to find her grey T-shirt and a pair of dark baggy pants. She felt a stare on her back, "What?" She turned around and Gowon gave a sinister smile. Hyeju did not like that look.
"You're leaving yourself opened like this," Gowon got down and poked her bare sides, earning a grunt from the younger girl as she dropped the shirt she was holding and fell onto the bed on her back. The older girl saw this as an opportunity to attack her sides even more.
