Destiny

Chapter 16

Mina's eyes flutters open when she hears a soft thud and a string of profanities being uttered in a low voice.

"Nayeon-chan." She rubs her tired eyes as she tries to train them in the darkness. "What are you doing on the floor?"

Nayeon holds her bandaged foot and smiles. "Just chilling." She jokes and then winces in pain.

Mina pulls herself up to a sitting position on her bed and realizes that Nayeon must have rolled over in her sleep. The color from her face drains because the older girl must have hurt her ankle again and it's all her fault.

"I'm so sorry. I'll put the beds back together." She joins Nayeon by her side on the floor and loops an arm around her back and helps her up.

"You can't move the bed alone." Nayeon sighs as she straightens her spine.

Mina deflates because Nayeon is right. Jeongyeon helped her separate the beds, it's too heavy to be moved by one person.

"Don't worry Minayah." Nayeon manages a smile through her pain as she sits on her bed. "I have done enough falling for one night." Her eyes twinkle with laughter.

Mina feels her heart swell with an indescribable emotion.

"How about I sleep with you?" She strokes Nayeon's arms and looks away with a faint blush to her cheeks when she realizes how her words must have sounded. "I mean sleep on your bed with you, that way you won't roll over."

Nayeon seems to have missed the slip of her tongue because she's laying back on her bed, her oversized white spongebob tshirt and shorts making her look warm and huggable. "I'll be fine. Don't worry."

Mina's face falls a little at the rejection.

"But if you promise to tell me a story, you can sleep here." Nayeon flashes her a toothy smile.

Mina grins in amusement and quirks a brow. "A bedtime story?"

Nayeon nods her head with a wide smile and pulls the cover down next to her, patting her side.

Mina picks up Tim from her bed, and slides next to the older girl, pulling the quilt over their body, only up to their waist. She's wearing a deep neck lacy top with camisole shorts and it's thin and flimsy, barely covering her modesty, but her body always feels heated if she pulled the covers up to her neck.

Nayeon turns to her side and taps a finger to her chin. "Yeah, one with bunnies and candies."

Mina bites her lips to hide a smile. She peels her eyes away from the ceiling as she moves to rest on her side facing the older girl and begins tentatively, "Okay. So there was this bunny named Nabong."

Mina watches as Nayeon curve her lips into an adorable pout. "You start with once upon a time Minayah!"

Mina chuckles, her hand gently brushing away a loose strand on the older girl's face. "Once upon a time, a bunny named Nabong lived in a house made of candies."

"A house of candies?" Nayeon's eye shine bright even in the dark night. "Does it have chocolate walls?"

Mina's hand comes to rest on her cheeks and she cups it gently. "If you want."

"I want." She whispers.

Mina nods swallowing thickly when the older girl's gaze lock onto hers. "Whenever she got hungry she'd break a piece of her house and eat it."

Nayeon brings her hand to lay on top of Mina's hand that's resting on her cheek. "She's going to be homeless pretty soon."

Mina draws their hands between them, linking their fingers together. There's a low pounding in her heart and she hopes Nayeon doesn't hear it. "No, because the house can magically fix itself."

"There's magic in this story?" Nayeon gasps, her lips parting slightly.

Mina gulps for breath as her eyes dip from Nayeon's, down to her lips and then back into the intense dark orbs that's staring into hers with an unreadable emotion. "Yeah." She releases a shaky breath as she draws their linked hands, and brings it to rest on either side of her waist.

Nayeon's fingers feel warm and hot to the touch on the bare skin between her top and shorts.

Mina allows her eyes to wander the older girl's face as she strokes her hands back up Nayeon's strong but soft arms. "What kind of story would it be without magic?" She lets her hand find purchase on the older girl's shoulder.

She wonders if she imagines Nayeon's eyes zooming in on her lips.

"Tell me more." Her voice is thick and hoarse as Mina scoots a little closer to her on the bed.

"I can't think anymore." Mina's heart is pounding in her throat as she looks into the smoldering eyes in front of her. She slides in even closer, aware of every single pounding in her neck and her breath catches in her throat when their legs brush and Nayeon's thigh move to sit snuggly between her legs.

"We should sleep then." Nayeon's beautiful face is mere inches away from her, that she is almost whispering those words into her mouth, her breath hot on her lips.

"Okay." Mina peels her eyes away from the intense stare and closes them shut as she nuzzles their cheeks together. There's a low warmth spreading in her stomach, across every inch of heated skin in her body and she doesn't know how to douse it.

She loops her arms under Nayeon's, pulls her closer and connects the length of their body, taking in a sharp intake of breath when they mould into each other, every curve meeting and crushing together.

"Goodnight Nayeon-chan." She half whimpers into the short hair as Nayeon slides a warm hand under her top and lets it linger on the sensitive skin on her back, setting goosebumps wherever her fingers touched her heated skin.

"Goodnight." Nayeon whispers into her ear and Mina bites her lips to hold back a shuddery breath as their legs tangle further into each other.

She doesn't let go off the older girl until the next morning.