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I don't know if anyone has ever written a story like this or not yet, but I got the idea from looking at how perfect IkSong height difference is in this photo:
The 99z gang are gathered in Songhwa’s office for lunch that afternoon. It is an unspoken decision that Songhwa’s office has become their designated headquarter. Even when Songhwa was in Sokcho, they still came to her office to sleep and eat lunch there, although it does feel a bit empty then.
“I have surgery. I’ll go first.” Junwan throws his utensils and quickly heads for the door after he finishes his lunch.
“Good luck.” Songhwa waves at Junwan as he goes out the door.
Jeongwon is starting to pick up the leftover food to put it in Songhwa’s fridge, but Seokhyeong stops him on his way.
“Ya, we have a meeting in 5 minutes. Did you forget?”
“Ah right.” Jeongwon quickly puts the stuff in her fridge. “Can we go in a bit? I need to clean the tables first.” Seems like everyone is busy today after lunch.
“Ya, ya, ya. What are you doing? Just go.” Ikjun, who is sitting next to Songhwa’s desk, puts his phone that he’s playing with on the desk and quickly rush towards them. He starts pushing the other two boys out. “I can clean this up. Go.”
Seokhyeong easily agrees, “Songhwa annyeong.” He looks at Songhwa over his shoulder. He can see Songhwa waves at him while laughing at Jeongwon who is still resisting to go out. Jeongwon and his OCD self just wants to clean up the room first before he goes to the meeting.
“Just let me wipe the table…” Jeongwon answers whining and trying to go back in.
“It takes 5 minutes to get to the meeting room. Besides, you think I can’t clean this up? Go. Go.” Ikjun drags Jeongwon with all his might to make sure he goes out.
Jeongwon knows very well just how huge this hospital is and that it does take more than 5 minutes for him to get to the meeting room from Songhwa’s office. He turns towards the door with a pout on his face. Songhwa who sees that pout, laughs at him, cannot believe just how childish Jeongwon is. Sometimes these 4 friends of her don’t look like doctors nor do they look like they’re 40. They all acted like children. Even Uju is probably more mature than them, she thinks to herself.
Ikjun is the last one left and busily cleaning the room by himself because he has promised Jeongwon.
“Do you want me to help?” Songhwa asks Ikjun with a smile.
“No, no. We took up your space and time while you’re supposed to be reading that chart before you go meet your patients soon. Just focus on it.” Ikjun returns her smile and returns back to cleaning the table.
“Don’t you also have a surgery to perform soon?” Songhwa replies.
“Eo, but I still few more minutes. Don’t worry.”
For some reasons, Songhwa can’t stop smiling when she sees Ikjun. When Songhwa comes into the room earlier, she’s thrilled to see Ikjun sitting on her desk, but soon, everyone else joined them for lunch before she could spend some time alone with her boyfriend. The two has been dating for a while behind their friends back. Not that they want to keep it a secret all the time, but they just haven’t found the right timing to tell them yet. She loves the other 3 boys, but sometimes she just wants to be alone with Ikjun. It doesn’t have to be in a romantic restaurant or a deep show of affection, she just needs Ikjun to be with her. His presence is more than enough to make her happy.
“I’m glad Jeongwon finally agrees to go out.” Ikjun interrupts Songhwa’s thought. “I just want to be alone with you.”
Songhwa can feel her heart flutters. She has known Ikjun for a long time, had been heart broken by him, yet he still gives her butterflies with his words.
“Me too.”
They fall into a somewhat comfortable silence after that. Songhwa focuses on her charts and Ikjun washes the dirty dishes. He steals glances at his girlfriend every now and then who he thinks is very cute and sexy when she’s so focused with her work. It’s one of her charms actually. Her passion and care towards her patients is something that makes him even more in love with her. Ikjun checks the time and realizes it’s almost time to go to surgery.
“I need to head out soon. How about you?” Ikjun asks Songhwa and she checks her watch too.
“Eo, me too.” She turns off her computer and stands up. Ikjun heads over towards her desk to get his phone. When Ikjun grabs his phone, he realizes he’s now standing face to face with Songhwa. Ikjun doesn’t miss his chance, he quickly kisses her forehead and smiles. “Let’s go?” He walks towards the door before Songhwa can hit him after what he did.
Songhwa and Ikjun, or mostly Songhwa, had made it clear that they need to stay professional at the hospital. Meaning, no PDA. Ikjun complies to her request although he still take his chance sometimes. Songhwa never really complains anyway, she’ll probably just hit him playfully or shakes her head.
“Ya, Lee Ikjun!” Songhwa pretends to be mad, but the smile on her face tells him otherwise.
Ikjun turns around to see Songhwa walking towards the door as well and answers with a huge grin “arasseo, arasseo. I won’t do it again.”
Songhwa grabs his shirt and pulls him towards her. She kisses him on the lips, not for long, but he could feel that she’s hungry for it. Songhwa pulls away first, “good luck for the surgery.” She’s has that shy smile on her face. That sudden kiss from Songhwa leaves him wanting more.
“mwoya? Chae Songhwa.” He smiling from ear to ear, a bit surprised at her gesture. This is not like her usually, but he loves it. “Can we show affection now in the hospital? Come here.” He grabs her wrist and walks closer to the corner of the room, right behind the door. This is the only spot where people can’t see them from the window.
He leans Songhwa against the wall then puts one hand on her cheek and the other on her back. Seeing Songhwa’s smile is a cue for him to keep going what he’s about to do. He leans in to give her a long and passionate kiss. Songhwa returns the kiss with the same amount of passion, both hands on his sides to pull him closer to her as if it’s not enough. Ikjun can feel Songhwa’s smile in between the kisses, probably out of disbelief with herself or is it because she can still taste the tteokbeokki that he just ate?
A loud ring on Ikjun’s phone breaks their kiss. Feeling a bit shy, Songhwa releases her hands from Ikjun’s side and starts chuckling. She can’t even look at Ikjun. Meanwhile Ikjun keeps one of his hands on Songhwa’s waist and the other takes out his phone to answer the phone call. He keeps his eyes on Songhwa.
“I’m on my way there.” He finished answering quickly and gives Songhwa another short but deep kiss before they go out.
“Let’s go?”
Songhwa nods in agreement, her cheeks are red from all the action she just got. Though she knows she doesn’t need physical affection to know that Ikjun loves her, she still enjoys it when he shows it. The kiss makes her feel happy and somehow, recharged. Maybe we should do this more often, she thinks.