"Em?" I called as I walked into her apartment. I was finally home. I had Changbin take my suitcase upstairs and I went immediately to her place. I took my shoes off and I heard some pretty intense coughing coming from her loft so I headed up the stairs. "Stay away from me" She begged sounding awful.

I stood on the last stair and stared at her. She looked terrible sitting in the middle of her bed wrapped in blankets. Her hair was pulled up in a high bun and she had an old pair of sweats on. "I have the flu." She croaked coughing again.

"Aw, baby." I said taking my jacket off and walking over to her.

"Nooo, I don't want to get you sick. You just got all better." She said sadly as I saw her shiver. "Damn fever" she mumbled pulling an extra blanket up around her shoulders.

"I don't care." I said putting an arm around her shoulders and pulling her towards me. She put her head down in my lap and snuggled up to me coughing.

"I felt crappy the day after I got home, and I figured it was just from traveling, but it wouldn't go away. I went to the doctor yesterday and I have the stupid flu." She said as she sneezed. "At least it's not covid."

"That's good news. I'm here to make you feel better. Do you need anything? Did you eat?"

"Ha, food. I remember food. It's supposed to taste like something right? My nose is so stuffy I can't taste anything." She said sadly.

"I can make you food." I said playing with her hair.

"I'm not hungry" She mumbled blowing her nose loudly. "I'm glad you're here though."

"When was the last time you ate, Ember?" I said trying to find out if she'd even eaten at all today.

"I don't remember. Last night? Yesterday afternoon?" She said starting to fall asleep in my lap.

"Ok, you need to eat. I'm going to make you some ramen" I said as she refused to move from my lap.

"No. You stay. This is the first time I've been comfortable in three days." She said closing her eyes.

"I can come back. You really should eat something." I said worried about her. I knew she didn't like to eat when she was sick. She thinks there's no point in eating if you're sick and can't tase it.

"NO" she said firmly putting a hand on my knee. "You stay" She quickly fell asleep in my lap and I played with her hair and watched her sleep. After half an hour I pulled my phone out of my pocket careful not to wake her up and texted our member group chat asking if someone could bring her food. Chan laughed and of course asked me to do it myself, but I had to explain that I was being held hostage and wasn't allowed to get up. After a very long pause from all of them Felix offered to get her some soup and told me he'd be here in about twenty minutes.

I shoved my phone back in my pocket and leaned further back against her pillows and headboard. She was sound asleep making some kind of weird snotty breathing sound. Her mouth was wide open and she kept reaching for more blankets in her sleep. She had her duvet and three other blankets over top of her and the room was already feeling warm.

My phone buzzed about twenty minutes later and Felix said he was leaving it at the door. Carefully moving her out of my lap, I put a pillow under her head and I grabbed the food and went back inside to her kitchen and saw he'd gotten her kalguksu. She was going to be sad she couldn't taste it, it was one of her favorite Korean foods.

"I told you not to move." She croaked from behind me with her arms crossed.

"I got you food...well, Felix got you food...since I wasn't allowed to move and you need to eat." I said handing her a hot bowl of soup and walking with her to the couch.

"I don't want to eat" she said looking sadly down at the bowl, she started to cry. Ember hated being sick, and it was guaranteed that she'd cry about being sick at least once. Not because she was dramatic, but because it frustrated her that she couldn't just fix herself and move on with her life.

"Don't cry" I said taking the bowl from her and setting it on the coffee table.

"I don't need this right now!" She said still crying. "I'm being punished for coming to seee youuu" The crying started the coughing again which just caused more snot to run out of her nose. Poor thing.

"Hey, there's a bright side" I said as she leaned against my shoulder, "At least I still love you when you have snot dripping out of your nose." I joked.

"Stoooop" She sobbed as I picked up the bowl of soup and handed it back to her.

"You need to eat. Just eat this. Drink this. Something. You need to eat." I encouraged.

"Jisung. Noo" She whined.

"I don't care if you can taste it or not. If you don't eat this, I'm going to put a tube in you and pour it down your throat." I joked.

"Ugh" She complained and took the bowl and spoon and started trying to eat. Making a disappointed face every single time she put it in her mouth trying not to keep crying.

"My little drama queen" I said trying to get her to smile, but she just glared at me. "Oh stop. Just eat. It'll make you feel better, ok?" I said trying to be soothing. She nodded and sat back, taking slow bites of her soup and finally finishing it.
When she was done I took the bowl from her and put it back on the coffee table. She leaned over towards me and put her head back in my lap. She had three blankets wrapped around her because of her fever. I gently ran my hand up and down her arm and she fell asleep pretty quickly. When I started getting tired too, I picked her up and carried her upstairs and laid her down on her side of the bed. I laid down on my side and brought her in close to me and I fell asleep too.

***

The next morning I woke up to Ember coughing. She made some sort of stuffy nosed kind of moan as she threw herself back onto the bed. I pulled her in close and she pushed her head into my chest and put an arm around my waist.

"Please heal me. I don't like being sick" She sounded even worse then last night. I laid my head down on top of hers and snuggled down under the covers with her. Hoping that somehow just holding her would make it go away. I know it wasn't anything serious, and she wasn't dying, but I still hated to see her uncomfortable like this. I couldn't imagine how she felt when I was in the hospital screaming in pain.

"I know, sweetie. If I could heal you I would" I mumbled. She laid her head down on my chest and refused to move, but that was ok with me. "You should take some Tylenol for your fever." I said calmly.

"I'm not moving and neither are you." She said muffled by my shirt and the large amount of blankets she'd wrapped herself in.

"You need to take care of yourself." I said trying to get up, "You need water, food, and Tylenol." I listed looking down at her. All I could really see of her was the bun on the top of her head. Everything else was swallowed up by the blankets. I managed to stand and started to walk away. She sat up in bed and looked at me pouting, looking like she was going to cry again.

"I'll be right back. Give me two minutes and I'll be right back. Please don't cry. I promise I'll be right back." I said slowly walked away backwards from the bed. I heard her sniff loudly as I walked downstairs. I found some ramyeon in her cabinets, Tylenol in the bathroom, and water in the fridge and walked back upstairs to her sitting there crying, looking like the most pathetic sick person on the planet. What was she gonna do if we ever had kids. I tried really hard not to laugh at the thought of her being like this while trying to push out a baby.

"Ok, hear me out. Eat the ramyeon, take the medicine, and drink some water. Then you can go back to bed and we can cuddle ok?" I said calmly like I was trying to approach a hungry tiger.

She nodded her head and sat up straighter taking the medicine and drinking some of the water before I handed her the bowl of ramen. She made even more sad faces the entire time she ate, but at least she ate the whole thing. She set the bowl down on her nightstand and looked at me expectantly. I set my phone down that I'd been scrolling through and held my arms out to her. She immediately fell over towards me and almost instantly fell back asleep.

***

Two days later and her fever had broken and she was able to sort of taste food again, so getting her to eat wasn't a struggle. She still had a pretty bad cough, but it sounded like it was loosening up and starting to go away. Now that she was feeling better, we had a week to really ejoy together before work started again for me.

"Why is he with her!" She yelled at the TV. Her favorite K-drama just came out with a new season and she was binging it. I sat next to her and watched her sit there in my sweats, with a fitted crop top, and a blanket in her lap. Her hair was down and slightly messy. She was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.

Of course she was beautiful when she dressed up and put on makeup, but to me, these were my favorite moments. When her hair was all messed up, and she had on clothes that she only wore around the house. She rarely wore makeup, but she never needed it either. She had these naturally long eyelashes, and of course her eyes. I could never forget those feline shaped honey colored eyes.

She noticed I was staring at her and put her face in her hands while I laughed at her. "Oh stop, you're just so pretty I can't help staring at you." I joked sticking my lips out and trying to kiss her as she pushed me away. She swatted at my face and pulled the blanket up over her face.

"You're such a weirdo. Stop." She laughed. It was the first time in a couple days I'd heard her laugh. It must mean she was feeling better.

"But I looooovvveeee yoooou!" I said smiling at her. She put her whole palm on my face and pushed me away while laughing. She leaned against me and we watched three more episodes of her show. I was actually starting to get into it, even though I didn't really have an idea of what was going on. She'd explain things to me as we went on and she'd tell me who the characters were and what she thought of them. Her face would light up when she liked a character and her whole face would turn to disgust when it was a character she didn't like.

***

When Ember was finally feeling one hundred percent, I only had a couple days before I started my schedules again. Let me tell you, we had sex several times a week. Even now that we've been together for almost seven or eight months, we still couldn't keep our hands off each other. It'd been almost three weeks since we'd done anything and I was missing her.

She was standing in the kitchen making herself some lunch at the dorm. She had leggings and a crop top on, and we were alone. We're never alone at the dorm. I walked up behind her and put my hands on her hips, kissing her neck and pulled her closer to me.

"Sir. I am making food, not to mention they could come home any time." She said not turning around to look at me.

"Food can wait." I whispered in her ear, moving my hands up a little higher. "Food tastes better afterwards anyway." I was licking and biting lightly across her neck and shoulder. She turned around and looked at me as she leaned backwards toward the counter.

"Oh yeah?" She said raising her eyebrows. I grabbed her thighs and sat her down on top of the counter, making just enough room between her legs for me to stand. I kissed her putting a hand into her hair and she put her arms around my neck. She dropped her head back as I kissed her neck again. She wrapped her legs around my waist. Not being able to wait any longer, I picked her up and carried her towards my room throwing her on to the bed and crawling on top of her. Both of us laughing at our clumsy movements.

I leaned up and kissed her as my hands roamed under her shirt, I pulled my shirt up over my head and threw it to the side before continuing on kissing her neck. Her shirt soon just got in the way and she helped me take it off, revealing her bare breasts underneath. I kissed down her chest, kissing both breasts and lightly sucking on her nipples. Then continuing downward until I got to the top of her leggings and pulled them off slowly kissing down her entire body until they were thrown on the floor too.

She sat up slightly pulling my pajama pants down over my hips along with my boxers. I was so hard it almost hurt.

I crawled back up her body and lined myself up with her, already feeling how excited she was. I rubbed my tip against her and a small moan escaped from both of us. I started slow at first, wanting to take my time. She would buck her hips towards me asking for me to go faster, but I was ignoring it.

I pinned a hand over her head to hold her still as I slowly picked up my pace. "Unh" She moaned in my ear, "Jisung" She whispered loudly in the empty dorm. When she said my name like that, in moments like these, it made me pick up my speed. Giving her what she wants. She put her free arm on my waist, making me go deeper as she held me close. She was getting more wet by the second and she felt so good. "Oh god, Em" I mumbled into her chest as I thrusted my hips into her more quickly, feeling that I was almost there.

"I'm so close" She said as I was almost ready to let myself go.

A few seconds later she moaned loudly and curled her toes as she came onto me, and it was just enough to send me over the edge with her. I kept moving inside of her until she rode out her high before I laid next to her, both of us out of breath.

"Now I'm really hungry." She pouted as she looked over at me. Her bare body looking incredible and made me want to do it all over again.

"Then you better eat, I'm not done with you." I said kissing her. She laughed as she slid into one of my shirts and ran to the kitchen and came back a few minutes later with ramen.

I laughed as she started to eagerly eat her ramen. Meanwhile I was planting kisses all up and down her bare legs while she tried to down it as fast as she could. Slowly I parted her legs and kissed up higher on her thighs, touching her folds with my fingers and watching her set aside the food and gasp at the sudden touch. I slowly slid two fingers inside of her, my thumb rubbing the nub at the center. She slid down slightly and put a hand over her face, trying to silence her moans. I pulled the hand away and while pumping my fingers in and out of her, kissed her slowly sliding my tongue into her mouth. I could feel her start to tighten around my fingers, but pulled them out before she came. I moved my face back down between her legs and licked one time down her stripe. Slowly pushing my tongue inside of her. She put a hand in my hair as I started moving my tongue around her bundle of nerves causing her legs to start trembling.

I could feel her getting even more wet when I pushed two fingers back inside of her as my tongue stayed focused on the center.

"I want you." She gasped as I reached another hand up and fondled each breast, rubbing her nipples between my fingers.

"Me? I'm kinda busy." I mumbled going back to what I was doing.

"No, I want you" She breathed. I pulled away and pushed one of her legs up by my waist and pushed inside of her giving her no time to adjust to me like I usually did. I pumped in and out of her right away feeling myself get lightheaded from how good it felt. "Fuck" I moaned into her neck as she moaned louder and louder. It made me go harder then I ususally do, but I kept up my pace because I was so close. She moaned that she was almost there and not to much later we both reached our highs and I collapsed on top of her, before quickly rolling to the side.

"Fuck, Jisung" She said looking over at me as I pulled my blankets up over top of us.

"I don't know what got into you, but I like it." She said putting her arms over her head and smiling like a happy cat in the sun.

"C'mere" I said pulling her in towards me and kissing her forehead. "I didn't go too hard, did I?" I whispered to her.

"Nope." She said still smiling like a happy cat. I wrapped my arms around her and she snuggled into my chest before we both fell asleep for a few hours.

***

"I met a girl" Chan said with a happy smile on his face when I came outside for fresh air later that night.

"YOU DID?!" I asked suddenly far too excited.

"Hmm, I did" He smiled wider looking out over the part of the city that we could see.

"What's her name? Is she pretty? Not that it matters if she's pretty or not, I mean that is up to you. Is she nice? Where'd you meet her? Did I ask you what her name way? When do--"

"Jisung." He said letting out a laugh.

"Sorry. I'm just excited for you." I said quieting down and sitting back into my chair.

"I apprecite that." He said laughing again. "Her name is Ivy. She's from New York. She's beautiful, and I met her because I literally spilled food all over her shirt."

"You're so clumsy." I said laughing at him.

"Yeah, well. At least she's still talking to me." He said playing with the sleeves on his hoodie. "I kind of really really like her." He said his cheeks slightly blushing.

"Oooooh Chan's in looooooooove!" I said teasing him. It'd been almost a year since Chan was in a relationship, or even dating for that matter. I was happy for him.

"So crowded out here" Ember said coming onto the patio and sitting in my lap.

"Chan's in love" I said joking. Her eyes went wide and looked at him. Chan was like an older brother to her.

"Stoooop, we've only been on a couple dates." He said waving us away.

"CHANNIE!" Ember squealed hopping off my lap and giving Chan a hug.

"Ok. Stop!" He said laughing holding up both palms in surrender. "It could go nowhere. Don't get your hopes up."

"Well, you already spilled your lunch all over her and she's still dating you. I think it might go somewhere." I laughed.

"You spilled food on her? How romantic!" Ember said doing a happy dance. I looked at her like she was crazy.

"Is this you telling me you want me to spill my food all over you? I'm confused." I said looking at her.

"NO!" She said looking at me confused, "I just mean it's such a good way to meet a person."

"Ook, I'm going inside." Chan said uncomfortably.

"Tell us all about her!" Ember asked grabbing his arm. It was clear she wanted him to tell her everything, but I knew he wouldn't while I was sitting there. His eyes flicked back to me and I excused myself.

Inside Felix and Hyunjin were playing Mario party while Minho and Changbin watched. I sat down on the couch just as Felix beat Hyunjin and won.

"WOOOO!" He yelled doing the weird little dance he always does when he's happy. He looked like a noodle.

"Round 2, whose gonna beat me?" He asked excitedly. "C'mon!"

"I'll do it" Minho said standing up and taking the controller from Hyunjin who rolled his eyes and sat down in Minho's spot.

"Make it a three player and I'll play too" I said grabbing another controller.

Changbin stood up and grabbed the last controller, "Make it two vs two. We need all the player we can get to beat him."

We spent the rest of the night switching teams and seeing who could be who. Eventually, Hyunjin and Minho beat Felix and I and some of us went to bed. When we were done it was already ten pm and Ember and Chan were still outside talking. I don't know why I felt jealous. Maybe because she and I spent more time screwing around then we did talking lately. I wanted to talk with her like that. A long talk that meanders from one topic to the next.

Not wanting to interrupt their conversation I went to my room and went to bed alone. I laid there for a good forty minutes waiting for her, but she never came in.