Format: Drabbles(ish)
Pairing: Choi Young Do x Cha Eun Sang (YoungSang)
Fandom: The Heirs
Note: Just some random small pieces of sort on my precious Bully Ship, as I like to fondly call them. Might be a little OOC though so apologies in advance. Borderline AU.
Standard disclaimer about not owning the characters applied.

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1.

It wasn’t always easy for her to go around Jeguk High as Choi Young Do’s girlfriend. The stares she got in the hallways from strangers and acquaintances alike would sometimes embarrass her enough to hang her head in shame. Like she had committed a sin of being where she had chosen to be.It bothered her.

‘And you care about them because..?’

He hadn’t even looked up from his bowl of ramyun when she had told him that her walk in the long corridors had started to look longer to her recently.  She didn’t answer his question and ceased talking about herself for the evening.

The next day she noticed a change in the stares. What used to be blunt and direct had become shy and silent now. The reason was a red note on her locker which was gathering quite some attention.

'If I spend one more evening in silence with my Cha Eun Sang because your stares bothered her, you’d have to answer me. Directly.

- Choi Young Do.

She gaped at the note then at the students who hurried away, avoiding her eyes.

“You gotta admit, he’s got style.” Myung Soo nodded his head in appreciation and she couldn’t quite help the laugh in reply.

2.

They quite rarely held hands like most couples did. He mostly had his hands in his pockets though he walked very close to her whenever they were together. When she asked him the reason, he only shrugged and said that he didn’t ever want to make her feel like she was trapped with him even if it meant holding her hand tightly. She came to him by her choice and he wanted her to stay by her choice.

“Besides, holding one’s hand doesn’t guarantee togetherness. In my world, it feels like a forceful obligation. I don’t want to become your obligation but rather your choice by free will. And that I can do quite well by just being by your side and allowing you to sleep in peace anywhere you want.”

She didn’t tell him just how much she loved him in that moment.

And he didn’t tell her that she didn’t have to say anything. He just knew.

3.

Once, they got into an argument over who washed dishes quicker. While she took a crazy pride in her experience as a part-time worker in a restaurant kitchen, he argued that being the heir of an international chain of hotel business basically made doing all kinds of hotel business his territory, dish washing included.

It was a very silly argument a couple could ever have. What was sillier was them having a competition to prove who was right. But what worked was that evening becoming a very fond memory for both of them

(Just to clear the curiosity - no one actually won. Their competition got intercepted by Myung Soo who found the situation shocking enough to give him a fake heart attack.)

4.

Being as rich as he was, it wasn’t hard for him to take her to any place in the country. Initially, they did try going to expensive restaurants to eat the cuisine which had the upper class of the society raving. After three such tries, they were back to convenience stores and instant ramyuns. Occasionally when either felt adventurous, they would order in food from the known and not widely known restaurant outlets and spend the evening talking about everything and nothing.

Those evenings were always the best.

5.

He never stopped her from doing her part-time jobs. Though he would sometimes groan when she’d announce that she was late for work and cut their time together short. She would only roll her eyes at him and not pay attention to his childish tantrums.

This resulted in him turning up at her work place half an hour after her arrival. While he would sit around, waiting for her to finish her work, she’d secretly smirk to herself seeing her plan of spending time together in their own twisted way being successful.

And for someone as smart as him, he never quite suspected her sneaky plans.

6.

When she told him about her preference of watching thriller/horror movies, he planned a movie night together where she would get time to catch up all the new parts of her favorite movie series she had missed due to her increasingly hectic life and he would get to know, first hand, just what went in the mind of hers.

She set up the mood by turning off the lights and snuggling herself in a blanket before starting the movie. And just when the movie was starting to get scary and she was showing all the signs of being a terrified audience, he couldn’t take it anymore and started commenting on the various illogical moments on screen. First, she became annoyed at him for disturbing her mood.

5 minutes later, she was commenting with him. All the fear lay forgotten, they spent the time watching every movie and making fun of it.

Cha Eun Sang never did see the movies in the same scary light again.

7.

Choi Young Do wasn’t conventionally good looking. He wasn’t plain but he wasn’t the quintessential handsome male either. But still, he had a certain charisma which many of the males in his social circle and age group lacked. Maybe it was the way he carried himself or the way he was always dressed like a runway model. Or how he was so perfectly confident with himself that he just knew all eyes would be on him when he would walk in through the doors. Cha Eun Sang couldn’t quite put her finger on what trait of his put him a level above others.

All she knew was, the more you saw him, the more you knew. The more you knew, the more he surprised you. The more he surprised you, the more you got pulled in. And before you knew it, you’d be trapped with no way out.

She had gotten in, way too in, to even think about escaping. With her it was like, being with him made her breathe. And if this was abnormal or unusual or just wrong, she no longer cared.

8.

When he had become intrigued by her, she was just a girl who stood out amidst the crowd because of her stubborn resolve to never bend and her strangely arousing habit of looking right in the face of troubles. For a long time he thought it was because she was so different from all the other girls he had seen in his life that he had fallen for her. He had secretly hoped that she would never change.

But when they got together, she did change. She smiled more often, cracked jokes and didn’t shy away from answering insults which someone or the other hurled her way. Her confidence in herself increased and she hardly cried now. She loosened herself which made her seem more like a high-school going teenager girl rather than someone who fought battles everyday.

And if her former persona had captured all his attention and captivated all his senses, the latter made him fall so hard he wished he’d never get up again. She made him vulnerable and he didn’t care.

Guess that’s what love does to someone.

9.

He was so taller than her that she had to literally look up to see him. And there were times where he would deliberately not make it easy for her by standing on his toes just to tease her. Those times were rare but they were there, when he’d act like a typical boy when no one was around.

She liked those times because the first time he did it, she found her favorite spot to kiss. Right below his lower lip, which he had a habit of biting in every kind of situation. When he’d be towering above her, she would stand as tall as she could and peck him right there on that spot. And the satisfied smile on his face would tell her that he was teasing her just for that little kiss.

In return, he would bend down and kiss the tip of her nose. But more often than not he would bite it a little which would always make her yelp and rub her nose like a child. He found it too adorable for words.

Yeah, these moments were cheesy and so unlike them but they made them happy. What else did matter?

10.

Truthfully speaking, they were far from perfect. Not every day was a field of roses for them. They had their share of arguments and fights and days which would pass by without them speaking to each other. They didn’t fully understand each other and the surprises of discovering something new either delighted them or didn’t go too well.

But, they were going strong. Through laughter and silence, tears and joy, stolen moments and lonely nights; they didn’t stop. Each day was like a new journey for them with the destination yet unknown. By hiccups and tumbling and holding on, they found their common ground. They were no dream or fantasy where the words, 'Happily Ever After’ flashed as soon as they got together. They were a reality with all its harshness and its hope which made it beautiful and worth fighting for. Oh, they had still a long way to go before reaching a perfect end and they were taking their sweet time for it.

After all, they were just 18.

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