With our eyes wide open
And the doors all closen
Surrender to your heart
Remember who we are
~Shelter, machineheart

Nara

It was a long and tedious day I'll say. Meetings after meetings, non-stop conferences, that's what we did all day. Doyoung is bat shit worried about the current happenings in the company, he has been speaking less now which is a very peculiar scenario.

"Doyoung, Mom wants you home."

Well, she doesn't want him home, it's just me trying to send him home because I'm dead sure that he will end up at a bar to reduce his stress, alcohol, we all depend on it. Although he has quite a tolerance but I still won't want him going home drunk.

Doyoung rubbed his face, his frustration was clearly noticeable in the action, "Why?" He asked slightly annoyed.

"She needs help with some stuff something about some son of her friend she told me." I shrugged. "You should go, Min, Jieun and I will take care of things"

"Are you sure, cause Yuta-"

"Don't worry about that, he knows" I cut him off

He muttered an 'okay', got up from his seat and grabbed his coat wearingly and left the room. He looked very tired and surely did need some rest.

I decided to call my mom and tell her about the situation so that she can handle it once he reaches home. After the conversation I sulkily went back to cabin and continued with my work, tired was an understatement for me. I could literally feel my eyes shutting down.

I folded my arms on the table and rested my chin on my arms, my eyes still on the laptop screen going through a document which was to be revised, I almost dozed off when Jieun entered my room unannounced, "Nara, we need your signatures." She barged in which jolted me to wake up straight.

"Sorry what?" I said shaking my head and rubbing my eyes to kind of awaken myself.

"Nara, you're tired, go home." Jieun said authoritatively. "You're stressed hun, it's evident." Her earlier commanding voice changed into a concerned one.

I didn't argue and I, for once, decided to let her win, yes anxiety and stress, both of them decided to greet me today. The day wasn't that great at all. You know sometimes when you feel like deleting a whole portion in our happenings, that would be me right now.

"Sorry Jieun, I'll sign those tomorrow, the first thing in the morning." I say yawning.

Jieun just huffed at me, "Don't worry about it, go home kid."

It was 12 in the midnight and the roads were empty so I didn't have to go through the terrible traffic of the city now that my route back home has changed since Yuta and I moved into our apartment.

I reached home and saw that he didn't come back yet, it's 12:30 already and he does inform in in case he is running late, so I decided to drop in a text myself, just in case.

I reached home, where are you?

In one out two minutes he texted back.

Sorry Princess, I'll be late today, I'm sorry I forgot to text you.

I sighed at his text and replied with a 'It's okay!' I wanted him home today, just to talk to him, confide maybe, to take mind off things a little bit. Did I mention that Yuta is literally one of the best person to give you a pep talk?

I decided to change into something comfortable, loose shorts and a huge T-shirt which definitely wasn't mine. I was just sitting on my couch, staring into space when our bar unit came to my notice. Both Yuta and I liked to collect alcohols which were rare or expensive or quality stuff. We did not drink them that often, it was just kept for display or if incase we have some guests over.

My eyes spotted my favourite honey dew scotch kept on the glass shelf. The yellow colour of the scotch shining under the white lighting in that area, tempting me to come and release my worries through it. Wasn't I the one who sent Doyoung home early so that he doesn't get drunk? The irony.

"A sip won't harm, perhaps it's not like it's my first time." I shrugged and made my way to the bottle. I removed a glass from the drawer and poured myself some.

"Cheers to my fucked up life." I whispered and drank the liquid. The bittersweet taste of it was confining.

One glass turned to a few more and soon I lost count, the content in the bottle reduced to half and as for me? I was sitting on the chair with my head resting on my laid out arm on the table, examining the scotch glass as if it was the crown jewel.

I still I heard a faint sound of the door clicking open, yes, I still had a few senses of mine working.

Yuta

I was quite late today, I had to sit with the clients for an extra hour cause the negotiation and the bargain they put forward wasn't making any sense at all.

The apartment was dark maybe only one white light was on. It was weird cause Nara isn't a big fan of keeping the lights off and the place is awfully quiet as well. I entered the house and saw Nara sitting, basically slogged on the table, with a scotch glass and the half empty scotch bottle.

"Nara?"

Her head perked up as she squinted her eyes at me and broke into a smile, not a normal one, I might say. She was definitely drunk.

"Yuta! You're home!" She sang sluggishly.

I sighed and walked to her, I took the glass and bottle away from her which she retaliated from but she wasn't really in a state to fight back, "Nara, why are you drinking."

"Give me my glass back!" She whined.

"Not gonna happen!" I countered and she scoffed.

"Let me tuck you in Nara, you're wasted." I took her hand and helped her stand up but she couldn't stand straight without falling so I lifted her up and took her to our room, "God Nara, what made you drink so much." I placed her down on the bed gently and sat down beside her.

"Yuta, don't leave me please." She spoke softly clutching her hand on my shirt.

"I'm not leaving you princess, I'll be back in five minutes, just let me change my clothes." I said, calmly trying to remove her from my shirt but she wasn't leaving it.

"Yuta" She called me softly and cupped my face. "You do love me right?" She asked, the stern demeanour was gone and it was replaced with a child like innocence.

"Yes Nara, I do. Now please go to sle-" Before I could even finish my words, she brought me closer and kissed me. I could taste the bitter liquid on her lips as it slowly became intense, she was a great kisser and I would lie if I said that I didn't enjoy it.

Her hands slowly travelled to my shirt and I could feel her unbuttoning it but I had to stop her, I couldn't do that when she wasn't in her senses.

I broke the kiss and held her hand from going further, "We can't Nara, you're not sober." I asserted.

"But Yuta." She looked at me with her persuasive eyes but I can't do that, she isn't aware of her actions, that will be me taking advantage of her.

"No Nara, I would treat you like my princess when we do it but right now, you're drunk. You don't know what you're doing. I don't want our first time to take place like this ." I said, softly pushing her down to the bed and putting the blanket on her.

I sat their holding her hand until I was sure that she was asleep. But I was still bugged about what could be the reason that she decided to get that drunk. So I decided to call Doyoung because somewhere I felt that something might've happened at her office.

The phone rung a couple of times until he finally picked up, "Hello? Doyoung can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Yeah sure, what is it?"

"Did something happen at your office today?"

"Uh why?"

"I came back home and I saw Nara-"

"Nara what? What happened to her?"

"Nothing happened to her, it's just when I came home today, she was drunk, like a lot and she usually doesn't drink unless it's a party or-"

"Or unless she is stressed"

Doyoung then explained everything that happened today. The investors, the stock prices, the sales. So that was what it was all about.

"Doyoung, can Nara take tomorrow off?"

"Why though?"

"Let me take her out for sometime, ever since the wedding, she is only focused on work so just to let her relax a bit."

"Okay then, take care of her."

"I will, don't worry." And with that I hung up the call and went to bed.

Nara

I woke up to the constant noise of clanking of utensils in the kitchen and running tap water, "What the hell?" I got up and rubbed my eyes trying to adjust to the light.

A sharp pain in my head was ripping my head apart and yes I was certainly regretting my choices for drinking last night. I was about to leave the bed when I could hear a bowl fall in the kitchen. "What on earth is happening?"

I turned to my right to see if Yuta was there but he wasn't and that did answer my question, he was the reason behind the clanking and the dropping.

So I basically dragged myself to the kitchen with a hell of an hangover to see Yuta pacing back and forth with a spatula in hand.

"Yuta?" I called out groggily.

He was surprised over me standing there as he turned to look at me with that 'I know I screwed up' face, "I guess I can explain?" He said.

I could only facepalm myself over this, I cannot yell at him because it wasn't exactly his fault that he tried making breakfast but utterly failed at it, I was the one drunk and hungover. "Yuta, why did you try this?" I asked calmly.

"You were asleep Nara and it's only the pancakes that are ruined, the hangover soup turned out pretty fine actually." He said pointing at the soup bowl kept on the kitchen counter.

"Wait, how do you know I was drunk?" Wasn't I in bed already? I mean, could it be? Was it that?

"Yes princess, I carried you to bed last night, you were shit drunk, laying here on the table." He laughed and that was enough to get me all red from top to bottom out of sheer embarrassment.

"I'm sorry." I whispered lowly. Note to self: do not drink, ever again. "I don't remember anything from last night." I sighed.

"Good thing you don't." I heard him mutter under his bed.

"What?"

"Nothing, here drink your soup and have this tablet, alright? Then we will head out somewhere." He said and placed the soup bowl and a pink coloured tablet in front of me.

"Head out? I have to go to work Yuta."

Yuta didn't say anything and grabbed a cereal bowl then looked at me, "No work today princess." He said pouring milk into his cereal.

"As if I'll listen to you." I snickered.

"Princess." He sighed and looked at me with a sly smile.

"You don't have a choice cause I carry important piece of information with me." He smirked and I knew it was something related to last night.

Screwed Nara

Hello readers!
So I had to say that the next update might be a little late cause my prelims are about to start so I'll be busy! But hang in there, don't leave!