Ember and I had spent almost every single day of the last week together. I slept at her place or she slept at mine, but we always slept together. We still hadn't told anyone. We weren't ashamed or hiding our relationship. We just wanted time to ourselves without the other seven members of my group all over us. If you knew them, you'd understand.

Every night, we'd lay in bed with each other. She'd put her head on my shoulder or I'd lay on her stomach and we'd talk. I thought I knew everything about her, but somehow there were many things I still didn't know. Of course the little things in bed she liked, I was learning those real quick seeing as how I couldn't keep my hands off of her. I knew she hated the color orange, but I didn't know that she hated teal even more. She could only use one particular toothpaste, and if it wasn't there she'd rather not brush her teeth at all. So she had it stockpiled under her sink. So many tubes of it that it looked like she was prepping for the end of the world. She loved my smile the most, and sex never failed to make her absolutely starving.

One night in particular, we'd ordered a pizza while we watched a movie in her bed.

"Pizzaaaa!" She said smiling and putting the box on her lap.

"Hey, share with me." I joked trying to get into the box.

"Nope." She said taking a slice out and shoving it in her mouth.

"Em. I'm hunggggrrryyyy" I complained.

"Fiiiinnneeee." She laughed handing me a piece.

"Thank you." I laughed as she moved the pizza box and I put my head down in her lap, totally not even interested in the movie. I was interested in her. She looked adorable with her hair all messy and her cheeks full of pizza. She had the sheet wrapped around her and that was when she caught me staring at her.

"Seriously, Jisung?" She laughed. "I look horrible right now."

"No you don't" I muttered after finishing my slice of pizza. "You look gorgeous right now"  I said as I propped myself up on the bed and put my other hand to her face. "You're beautiful."

Tears started welling up in her eyes and she looked down at her lap.

"What's wrong?" I asked concerned. "Don't cry."

"Nothing" She sniffed looking back up at me with a tear on her cheek.

I studied her face worried, trying to figure out what I said that upset her. "Then what did I do?"

"No one has ever told me that before." She whispered embarrassed. I pulled her face up to look me in the eye and kissed her.

"Then they're blind, you're gorgeous." I replied making her keep eye contact with me. "You've always been beautiful to me."

"You made me cry, Hannie, damnit." She sniffed as I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her back down with me.

"My pizzza!!" She giggled as I pulled her close to me.

"I wanna show you how beautiful you are to me." I laughed.

I pulled the sheet away from her and kissed her all over starting with her eyes and then her lips, moving down to each breast and then her stomach never failing to say what I loved most. She held her arms over her chest never liking to be completely exposed in front of me, but I pulled each arm away one at a time and kissed both palms and moving down to her hips before coming back up to her face gently laying myself on top of her. I pushed myself inside her and again whispered in her ear how beautiful she was. Pleasure closed her eyes and she arched her back, pushing her hips towards me causing me to go deeper. Eventually, a soft smile spread across her face as she hung her mouth open as she reached her climax shortly followed by me getting there too.

I don't think we even finished the pizza or the movie. We both just wrapped ourselved up in each other and fell asleep.

***
A couple weeks later, we were having another family dinner at the dorms that we hadn't had in a while. We had decided that we were going to tell them all tonight. We just wanted to be able to hang out at the dorms together and not feel like we couldn't enjoy each other's company.

When we walked in the group crowded around Ember as usual, telling her how much they missed her and how happy they were to see her. Dori came over and wrapped herself around Ember's feet meowing to say hello.

"Dori! You remember me!" She joked picking up the cat and cradling it in her arms. I rubbed her back and smiled. "Should we tell them now or wait?" I whispered in her ear. She looked up at me and immediately said "Now".

"Guys." I yelled to get all of their attention. "We have something to tell you."

"We are officially a couple." Ember finished the sentence smiling.

As expected Hyunjin and Seungmin rolled their eyes, while Chan slapped me on the back and Felix said "FINALLY!". Jeongin and Minho both started laughing as they went back to sit on the couch and Changbin punched me in the shoulder and told me he was happy for us. Not what I expected from him, but at least it wasn't some embarrassing comment.

"I figured you two got together, Jisung isn't home much these days." Chan said as he hugged Ember.

"Sorry about that, I stole him" She joked glancing over at me.

"I'm a willing hostage. It's ok." I laughed back at her.

The rest of the night I couldn't take my eyes off of her, she looked so happy and content. All through dinner, under the table, she sat across from me with her foot grazing my thigh. Which of course made it difficult for me to concentrate on anything. So when I wasn't looking at her, I was staring at my food. She was making it difficult to focus on anything. She kept giving me this amused look, knowing what she was doing to me.

"Jisung, we've got more studio time tomorrow by the way. I was meaning to tell you sooner but you weren't here." Chan said shoving more food in his mouth.

Clearing my throat, "Sure, I'll be there" I managed to choke out as her foot went past my thigh and up higher, why did it have to feel so good.

"You look like you swallowed a baseball or something. Like your eyes are bugging out of your head." Changbin said looking confused.

"I'm good." I said pushing her foot away under the table. If she wasn't careful everyone was going to know what she was up to. She laughed to herself as she moved her foot back down a little lower giving me a slight moment of relief but not much.

"I don't know, Hannie. You look a little stressed out." She said leaning forward in her chair and smiling sweetly at me.

"Gee, I wonder why, Em" I said leaning forward and looking at her.

"I don't even wanna know." Jeonin said as he took a bite of his food, shoving half the plate in his mouth at once.

"I'm pretty sure I know what's going on" Hyunjin said as he glanced under the table. Fortunately, Ember moved her foot just in time that Hyunjin didn't see anything. "Hmph, maybe not." He mumbled.

I widened my eyes at her and she just smiled and looked at me. She was going to be in so much trouble later, cause I really hope I don't have to stand up any time soon. That'll be embarrassing.

Lucky for me, we all sat around the table talking about various things before we stood up and started to clean up the dishes for dinner. I waited until it was just the two of us in the room. "What are you doing? Here?! Do you realize they'd never let me live it down if I had to stand up with you doing that?!" I said serious, but laughing at her at the same time.

She giggled and just kissed me on the cheek. "No, no, no, no. You're welcome to do that anytime, EXCEPT when we're here. Ok?" I laughed again.

"Mmmhmm" She said mischievously. "I was having fun." She smiled again.

"Yeah, I know you were. That's obvious" I laughed, "What am I going to do with you?" I said as I pulled her into a hug and wrapped my arms around her. That was until she whispered in my ear "Just wait until later, Hannie." and then she walked away. I stood there dumbfounded wondering what the heck got into my girlfriend as I watched her go back to completely normal when she walked into the kitchen to help.

"So you finally told her." Chan said appearing behind me.

"Yep. I finally did." I said shoving my hands into my pockets.

"You two seem really happy. I'm proud of you." He said smiling at me. "You know what else I was going to ask you, cause I really wanna win this bet."

"Nope. No one wins the bet." I said pretending to lock my mouth shut and throw away the key.

"Aw, come on!" Chan whined as Changbin came back into the room.

"He's not telling is he?" He asked putting an elbow on Chan's shoulder.

"He's being difficult. Doesn't wanna say" Chan said looking at Binnie and crossing his arms. "We're gonna have to pull it out of him." Changbin crossed his arms too and my eyes widened, knowing what was coming. Either they were going to tackle me or tickle me to death. Right now neither one sounded good.

Minho came up and joined then immediately crossing his arms too, "Still not talking? Cause I got a hundred bucks in this right now."

My god, now there's three of them. Dear god, please save me. This is gonna hurt, they don't seem in the tickling mood, they're in the tackling mood. I slowly started to back away from them knowing it was coming any second. Hyunjin added himself to the group instantly knowing what we were talking about. "Just go easy on me...." I begged as they launched themselves at me. I hit the ground, HARD. Before I knew it somehow all seven of them were on top of me and breathing was becoming difficult.

"PLEASE! I'll tell you, just let me live!" I yelled from the bottom of the pile. I could hear Ember laughing too as I felt like my face was turning blue. "I'll get you for this." I joked before my face was swallowed back into the pile. Finally, they all stood up and I just laid there on the floor, catching my breath. "Fine. Fine. I'll tell you." I gasped.

"Then tell us who won?" Minho asked quickly, they all stood there waiting impatiently.

"We got together a month ago. I don't remember who bet what." I said trying to stand and then quickly decided I was better on the floor for now.

"YES!!!!!" I heard Jeongin yell. "I won. I won. I won." he said doing a happy dance.

The rest of them looked around disappointed, as Jeongin continued to make fun of the rest of them for losing. "I WON."

He yelled again as they all got out their wallets and sadly handed money over.

"Damnit. Why did I guess a year? Why?" Seungmin pouted and he waved a hand and walked towards his room.

"Am I allowed to stand up now? No one else is going to tackle me right?" I asked holding my hands up in front of me.

"Whatever" Hyunjin said as he got up and sat back down on the couch pouting.

***
Later that night Ember snuggled herself down into my bed as she put her head on my chest and arms around my waist. I wasn't in a rush to tell the guys, but now that we had I was able to relax in my room and not worry about one of them walking in.

"Didn't you say you--"

"I did, and no, I'm tired now and want cuddles." She cut me off, pulling the blankets up over her shoulder. I laughed as she closed her eyes and almost instantly fell alseep. I put one arm around her and my other hand under my head and smiled. She was the only thing I wanted in life. Just her. Everything else could fall apart and I'd still be happy. I could lose my contract tomorrow, I could forget how to sing or play guitar, I could lose everything. As long as I had her, everything would be ok.

"hannie?" She mumbled half asleep.

"What, baby?" I mumbled back about to fall asleep myself.

"I love you..." She whispered as she fell asleep fully.

"I love you too, Em." I kissed the top of her head and fell asleep.

The next morning I woke up with my face in her neck and both arms wrapped around her waist, my personal favorite way to wake up. She smelled so good. Just as I was really waking up, Changbin barged into my room and yelled that food was ready if we were hungry. Good thing we had clothes on for once, that was a rarity the last few weeks. He pulled open the blackout curtains in my room letting the sun assault my face before leaving. "Get up, lovebirds!!"

"Whyyyy" Ember groaned rolling over and putting her face in my chest to block out the sun.

"God damnit, I was comfortable." I whined.

"Do we actually have to get up? Can't we just close the curtains and go back to sleep?" She begged, "please just close the curtains so I can go back to sleep."

"You know Binnie, he won't give up and if he does, one of the others will be in here waking us up again."

We both rolled out of bed half asleep as we walked into the kitchen with grumpy not really awake looks on our faces.

"Holy crap! Who cooked!?" I asked as the smell of fresh pancakes and waffles found their way to my nose.

"In honor of our new member of the family, we made breakfast!" Changbin said proudly spreading his arms wide.

"Excuse me?" Felix laughed, "Who cooked?"

"We all did." Binnie said looking at Felix with a smirk.

"Uh no. I cooked, you ate half the bacon." Felix corrected him, rolling his eyes. "Everyone get out of my kitchen!" He yelled with a spatula in hand. Shooing us all out. He then came out of the kitchen with Chan carrying plates and plates of pancakes, eggs, bacon, and biscuits.

"Good thing we don't have dance practice today with these carbs." Minho laughed as he dug in. I caught the happy smile on Ember's face as she watched all of them devour every last bite of food in front of them. I caught her eye and she smiled at me, the happiest I'd seen her in a very very long time.

***
A couple weeks later we were in her bed watching a movie. I was laying back against her pillows and she had her head in my lap facing the TV. Something had been bothering her the last two weeks, she didn't seem like herself. She seemed anxious about something. She rolled onto her back and looked up at me.

"Jisung?" She said while looking like she was trying not to cry. I also knew if she didn't call me Hannie, that something was serious. She hardly ever called me that unless, she was mad, sad, or worried.

"What's wrong, baby?" I asked as I put a hand on the top of her head and rubbed her hair gently.

"Why do you love me?" She sniffed. "I'm a mess, Jisung. I'm anxious all the time, I eat pizza like it has it's own food group, I'm not skinny enough, I'm not pretty enough for someone like you. I'm not good enough for you." She sniffed as tears started rolling down her cheeks.

"Where is that coming from? You're no more of a mess then I am. I'm anxious a lot too you know. Not to mention I haven't been to a gym since February and my body is part of my job." I said making her sit up and look at me.

"You're perfect to me. I don't want anyone else but you. I don't care about those things. Your body is amazing. You look amazing. Don't you dare get down on yourself like this. You're perfect." I pushed her hair back from her face and put a palm on either side of her face. "How long have you been feeling like this?" I asked looking her in the eye worried.

She looked away from me with tears still coming down her cheeks, "a while" she mumbled. "I just don't see what you see, I guess." She shrugged her shoulders and leaned her head down onto my shoulder.

"Baby...You're perfect. You don't need to fix anything." I said as I wrapped my arms around her and she pulled her self into my lap and sat there leaning against me. It killed me that she thought so little of herself, but I knew there was a reason this was coming out of nowhere like this.

"Did you have another fight with your mom?" I asked putting my chin on top of her head. She nodded silently and sniffed.

I knew it. Ember and her mom were like oil and water. She had always been a big daddy's girl. Her dad had been her everything when he was alive. Her mom on the other hand had a very hard time being nice to her eldest daughter. I don't think even Ember knew why. Her mother was very harsh. Always telling her to lose weight, or that she's not good enough, or that she isn't smart enough. She graduated at the top of her class. I think she's smart enough, not to mention she had a very athletic body that while she wasn't the size 0 that her mom wanted her to be, she was very in shape. I'd never met her mom, but if i did, I'd have a few things to say. Her dad had been a very sweet mellow man, I did get a chance to meet him a couple times before he died. Ember was exactly like him.

"I hate when your mom does this to you." I whispered into the top of her head. She didn't say anything, just snuggled her head further into my shoulder. "You can't let what she says get to you. She's wrong about all of, Em, all of it."

"What if she's not? What if she's right?" She asked with a hurt in her voice that broke my heart into a million pieces.

"Look at me, Em" I said pulling her face to look up at me. "You are perfect." I said kissing her. "Don't put so much on what she thinks. I know she's your mom, and I know you want to listen to her, but don't listen to her when she's like that." She nodded her head again.

We sat that way for a while longer until she fell asleep still sitting in my lap, until my legs fell asleep. I sat there for a good ten minutes trying to figure out how to lay her down without waking her up. Finally I got her laying on her own side of the bed and went to brush my teeth. I got to keep a toothbrush at her place now, well that and some clothes. Though she was always wearing my shirts and they were never there when I needed them, but at least she looked cute in them. When I was done I went back to her bed and laid down next to her pulling her in close to me, still careful not to wake her up.