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Finally something out of the ordinary, a calm night out with coworkers. The younger ones let out a small laugh when she finished telling another story about their CEO, none of them understood how he got that position. He was a bald man that couldn't care less about work, spent most of his time out of the building and when he was inside he was either sleeping or chewing loudly on some chips. However, he was always doing something that wasn't related to work.
She suddenly smacked her glass on the table after finishing the last drop inside the glass.
"More!"
He chuckled looking at the way the newbies immediately poured more alcohol inside her cup. She started ranting more about funny stories that happened inside the office: it was small but incredibly noisy and full of interesting people, especially her, or at least that was what he always thought.
"And-"
She stopped to let out a hiccup, he stared at her, she gulped down a bit more of her drink.
"Of course I needed help but"
She turned in his direction and suddenly grabbed his ear harshly, he simply made a face, it happened so often it didn't even hurt anymore.
"Junwon wasn't there to help me!"
Everyone gasped noticing the lack of honorifics and the way she called him by his first name while he was just used to that.
"Cause-"
Another hiccup and she let go of his ear, he gently massaged it a bit. He was exhausted: work was keeping him busy at night and he only recently came back from a trip with the CEO, however he ended up taking part in that dinner just to take care of her, he already knew she was going to drink too much, as always.
"You see"
He listened to whatever she had to say silently. Something in the way he looked at her made everyone believe he was deeply in love with her, especially when they all noticed the sparks in his eyes whenever she was around.
"Junwon's always so busy, with all those trips and"
He chuckled when she started clinging to his arm.
"He's always having dinner with his superiors. He doesn't have time for us... He doesn't have time for me... "
She started pressing her breast on his bicep, she knew her shirt was supposed to be completely buttoned up to look like a composed lady, however she didn't even remember when she unbuttoned part of it. He simply caressed her head, he knew she was drunk, and trying to argue with her slurred words was simply useless.
"I always miss Junwon..."
The young employees were staring at them with eyes wide. That strange duo was always screaming at each other and arguing in the office, just like cats and dogs, then a simple dinner made them look all lovey-dovey. Actually, she was always the one who started arguments, most of the time he just ignored her, it was simply better, he loved easy things. He just took care of her: made sure she ate all of her meals and refilled the drawer of her desk with snacks and tampons, took care of her files when she was on her period cause he knew the pain always made her make mistakes. He always made sure to be there for her.
She drank a bit more while telling stories, constantly slapping his shoulder as she added the sentence "do you remember that Junwon, right? of course you remember it!" and, in fact, he didn't remember at all. There was no space for those useless things inside his brain, he was already too busy at work and remembering as many pieces of information about her to make her happy. He stayed silent most of the time as she kept on being the social butterfly she was. The small group went slowly from 10 people to 6, until it went down to 4, the two of them included.
"What are we supposed to do now?"
The two young employees looked at their superiors scared, the social butterfly ended up falling asleep on the dinner table.
"You guys can go home"
"What about her?"
He looked in a stern way, they soon corrected themselves and called her by her last name with the right honorifics.
"I'm gonna take care of her and take her home"
"So- there's actually something between the two of you?"
She suddenly lifted her head up as the seniors simultaneously said "no! of course no!".
Then he caressed gently her head until she fell asleep again. He decided to pay for all of them, then wrapped a jacket around her body only to pick her on his back. They all got out of the restaurant, waved each other goodbye as he walked to her house.
He suddenly felt her tightening her arms around his shoulders and moving her head in a more comfortable position, she sniffed his perfume for a small second.
"Junwon?"
"Mmh?"
"Thank you"
He simply smiled.