What the heart wants

Chapter 43

Dreams are a strange place, because the only limits that exist in your dreams are your own and you can push those boundaries without caring about repercussions, exploring places in your mind you may not dare step into in real life, satiating your desired hunger.

But there's a thin line between dream and reality that brings the imaginary world crashing down. A line that shouldn't be crossed when you're having an extraordinary dream.

So when Mina grips her sheets and a strangled moan leaves her body, as the expert hand in her dream cups her between her legs and she wakes up with her chest heaving hard and fast, a blush covering her from head to toe, a heat burning down below, she wishes she hadn't stepped the line into reality and another fierce blush coats her entire body.

"Look who's risen from the dead." Sana chuckles as Mina walks into the living room wearing her short night shirt.

The rain hasn't stopped pelting and it doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon. Mina goes to get herself a glass of water from the fridge for her dry throat.

In the kitchen, Jihyo is smacking Nayeon's hands away as she tries to steal the cake dough.

When she turns around to put the whipper in the sink, Nayeon quickly dips her fingers in the cake dough and grins victoriously. Jihyo shakes her head, it is her fault asking the food thief to help with the baking anyway.

"This is so good." Nayeon licks the dough off her fingers slowly, savoring every bit of it.

Their attention is drawn by a soft yelp and Sana's concerned voice in the living room.

"Are you okay?" Nayeon watches with worried eyes as Sana rubs a tender spot on Mina's head. She must have walked into the fridge door in her sleepy state.

A loudly ringing bell distracts all of them.

"Mr.Roi is here." Momo runs to the door and greets the man whose raincoat is drenched from head to toe. She offers him a cup of coffee but he politely refuses as he has another customer to serve. It's not the first time he's been offered a drink here but it's the first time he has to refuse.

Rainy weather meant a lot of pizza orders.

He chuckles as Momo pouts that he is going to be cold. He assures her he's wearing warm clothes under the raincoat, hands her the boxes of pizzas and is on his way out bidding bye to all the girls who chorus a bye back at him.

To everyone else they're celebrities, but for someone like him who's served them for many years, they're the sweetest bunch of kids who remind him of his own daughters.

"I told you no pineapples on my pizza."

Nayeon loves Momo, she really does but there are times she wants to cover her face in a paper sack and strangle her because when she's looking at her with big doe eyes and adorable puppy dog expression, she can't seem to hold on to her frustration.

Momo tilts her head and frowns in confusion. It's not her fault Nayeon and Mina ordered the half of same pizza. She didn't want pizza guys to have a hard time putting pineapples on one half so she has said pineapples on the whole pizza.

She tells Nayeon that.

Nayeon softens and chuckles at the childlike logic behind her behavior.

"Just give her the pineapples you don't want." Momo pushes an unprepared Nayeon next to Mina on the couch.

She quickly withdraws her hands when they land on Mina's bare thighs in order to steady herself and mutters an apology under her breath.

Mina doesn't even spare a glance. She pushes the pizza box to her side as Nayeon settles down to sit next to her.

"Nayeonnie, try this." Chaeyoung who's sitting on the other side of the quieter girl offers a slice of her pizza.

Nayeon makes a face when the goat cheese leaves a pungent taste in her mouth. She scowls at Chaeyoung who is giggling away at the look on her face. She grabs the bottle of coke from the coffee table and drinks from it to make the bitter taste to go away.

Mina bites into a piece of pineapple that Nayeon has picked from her slice and left behind. The juice slides down from her lower lips and her quick tongue peeps out to lick it before it drips down to her chin.

Two seconds later, Jeongyeon who's sitting by Nayeon's feet is wiping her wet hair with a tissue. Nayeon has just sputtered out half the bottle of coke on top of her.

"This is why you should drink from a glass and not from the bottle like a Neanderthal." Chaeyoung snorts as she watches Jeongyeon chase Nayeon around the apartment ready to kill her.