"i traveled around europe for a year in search of peace, but it took one night in vienna with you to find it."
彡 heeseung, a high school graduate taking his gap year, manages to convince ella, a translator in her first year of college, to disembark...
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"and then we broke up."
heeseung's jaw drops at ella's words, slapping his hands on the table as the glasses and dishes clink in protest. the two had managed to find a fast food restaurant that serves tasty dishes in affordable prices & were now half an hour into their dinner, talking about their ex lovers. they'd covered ella's first ever boyfriend and were now onto her second one, the story of which had just come to an end with heeseung's priceless reactions pulling strings of laughter out of the woman.
"so let me get this straight." he coos, grabbing a fried potato & shaking it between the two. "he left you... just because you like taylor swift?! taylor! fucking! swift?! how petty does one have to be to leave their partner over something so insignificant?"
"thank god he did, honestly." she says & grabs a fried potato herself, hastily munching on it before she speaks up. "a month later, he was in prison." she smiles at the way he gasps. "for drug dealing." she deadpans, laughing at heeseung's look of utter shock.
"y' got yourself a really bad boy." he muses and claps, as if congratulating her for her feat. "i'll give you that."
"seventeen year old ella was, indeed, a different breed." she grabs the third piece of her club sandwich and pulls the stick in the middle out, catching a drop of mayonnaise that was trailing down her finger before it could reach her sleeve. she licks it off her finger with a pop before saying: "but on god, he was themost handsome guy i have dated so far."
"it's always the bad boys!" heeseung exclaims & crosses his arms over his chest, pressing his forearms against the table's edge while watching her take a big bite from her food.
"always the bad boys." she echoes and nods her head, wiping some sauce off the corner of her mouth. she takes a quick sip from her sprite & sets down her glass with a soft thud. "well, after him, i was way too traumatized to give dating a second chance."
"valid."
"but i did anyway."
"excuse me?"
"yeah!" she laughs. heeseung shakes his head in disbelief, gripping onto his soft locks & pulling on them. he drags his hands down his face and looks at her through the gaps between his long fingers.
"let me guess. he was a murderer?"
"worse."
his brows raise to the point that they vanish underneath his bangs. "eh?"
she leans forward & he does the same, curious as to what is she going to say that requires such secrecy. her mouth hovers above his ear, her breath hot against it as she speaks.
"a nerd."
he frowns, not quite grasping onto the meaning behind her disgusted face & the head-to-toe shiver.
