All I Needed x Michaeng

Part Two

She pushes him back when he tries to reach for her again, palm flat and firm against his chest as she shakes her head. "I come back to you because I'm hard to please and too lazy to teach someone else how to make me come." He narrows his eyes at her and she smiles kindly. "I'm here today because I told my mother that I'd go home for Thanksgiving and I don't think I'll be able to cope without relieving some stress first."

"You can make all the excuses you want," he quips and she reaches for her coat in favor of responding to him.

She's wrapping her scarf around her neck when she reluctantly looks at him.

"Last time," she tells him. "I can't keep doing this."

BamBam gives her a smile and pulls her down by her scarf to kiss her quickly. She turns her head so that he only gets her cheek. "I'll see you next week."

She doesn't respond but there's a part of her that thinks maybe.

It depends how messed up her trip home is. She told BamBam that she agreed to go home, but that's not the truth. She'd been arranging to go home with Sana and her brother for the holidays, but her mother had emailed her early last week with little more than a flight reservation. Mina had called her cursing and her mother had pretty much threatened to cut her off if she didn't come home. She was already dreading it.

She takes a slow drive back to campus via the grocery store and picks up a ton of crappy food before heading to the Chinese take-out place. She orders her normal order and then orders what she knows Chaeyoung likes too. She doesn't realize she's done it until they hand her the huge bag of food. It catches her completely off-guard and she's in a daze the entire way back to her room. She's glad that Chaeyoung's there, laying upside down on her bed, watching a movie on her laptop with her earphones in. She's wearing her glasses and Mina alerts Chaeyoung to her presence by pushing them further up her nose.

Her eyes go cross-eyed cutely and she reaches to take her earphones out. She glances up at Mina and there's a smile that half tugs at her lips before it disappears.

"What's up?"

Mina shakes the bag of take-out at her. "Dinner."

"Chinese?" Chaeyoung asks. "I thought Friday nights were party nights. I was about to go down to the dining hall."

Mina ignores her and takes the containers out of the bag. She sets them on Chaeyoung's desk instead of her own because it was too cluttered and messy with crap before she left. Except, when she glances at it now, it's not. Everything's tidy and placed into piles. Her books are organized into the order that she'll need them. Her laptop sits in the middle on charge instead of shoved on the floor under her bed. Her school backpack hangs off the back of her desk chair. It's then that Mina also notices that her bed has been made and her trashcan has been emptied. Her side of the room is tidier than she could ever make it herself.

Chaeyoung looks away sheepishly when Mina glances over at her.

She chooses not to mention it and answers Chaeyoung's question instead.

"Um, the guys whose frat house we go to have some dinner thing with their professors tonight so there's no party," Mina tells her. "Plus, Nayeon is sick with a cold and Sana has a project due, so... They bailed."

Chaeyoung's face changes and she sits up stiffly, looking away from Mina.

"Sorry you got left with my company, then," she whispers.

Mina feels her stomach drop before she shakes her head. "I'd already told them I was staying in tonight." Chaeyoung glances up at her timidly but Mina just busies herself with the food. "I got you that chicken thing you like."