Let Me Count The Ways

6: If Today Is The Only Day We Are Allowed To Be Scandalous (PART 1)

"You're too far away."

She looks at him, then at the space between, and moves closer to him to remove the gap. "How does that make me any taller?" she asks, confused.

He looks at the gentle slope that starts from her shoulder and goes up to her neck. He brushes away some of her hair that had fallen over her shoulder. Then he touches the collar of her coat and tells her, "This part right here is higher. If I put my head here, I think it will be more doable."

Then he pats her knee, the one that's flush against his outer thigh. "When I pull you down after you try to get up, make sure that your knee is aligned with mine. Don't move backward so I can stay a little bit behind you. That way I just have to move my head forward and sideways to reach you comfortably."

She nods at him, amazed once more at his ability to figure out mass and space.

They decide to give it a try.

You believe everything I say now.

Then he pulls her down like he said he would and she positions herself like he said she should. So when he bends his body towards hers, his head finally finds the gentle curve between her neck and shoulder. He closes his eyes and the smile he gives the camera echoes the sigh in his mind when their angles, lines and corners finally aligned. They fit together, once more.

But then they had to do the same for their lips, for Lee Gon and Jeong Taeeul's first kiss.

Now, Lee Minho thinks a kiss is all about angles and he tries to move his head this way and that, careful to avoid poking her cheek with his sharp nose. That's how he has always done it, anyway. So they try it once. But because every kiss is different for Kim Goeun, she wants to see how this one would look like before she could think of putting in her two cents.

"Do we have to be sitting like this?"

He says this and moves towards her, lightning quick, and she ends up laughing before he could even kiss her. Their characters were in their 30s and here they both were, about to kiss like impatient teenagers.

"I'm sorry," she says to him, laughing while he shook her shoulder in playful rebuke. "You feel it, right? Something's wrong with this kiss."

Then she shakes a graceful pointer finger at him and adds, "That's why your cheeks popped. You were about to laugh too!"

He laughs ruefully and tips his head to one side. "I really don't like the line that I say before I kiss you. I feel like a whiny teenage boy."

So they ask the director to be given more leeway for their first kiss and PD Baek Sang Hoon, who looks at his watch that says 7:48pm, gives it.

Kim Goeun turns to Lee Minho, eyes sharp and mind racing, and says, "Before you kiss her, Taeeul was baiting you and insinuating that you had no experience in kissing or dating."

Her eyes meet his. Like the moon and the rising tide, his blood stirs and soon, his intensity matches hers. "Right. Lee Gon won't stand for that. He won't whine. He will try to prove you wrong, draw you up a solution on the board if he needs to."

"Yes! You will challenge me."

"How about if he says to you... Should I kiss you to you prove it?"

She tries it out for sound and shakes her head, "She'll say no, on instinct."

"I can't tell you what I'm about to do—"

"But you have to give me an idea that you're about to—"

"Should I have done this instead?" he says and moves to hold her head in place once more for an imaginary kiss. "How's that?"

"Go slow."