Something Beautiful
Chapter - 28

Lisa has given Lisa her two most precious possessions, love and a golden hour. And what the man said every time was just an awkward word of gratitude. Looks like my gift didn't make her feel comfortable, Lisa thought.

The clumsy silence that usually arises if a person realizes he has revealed too much about himself feels encircling the carriage.

In the end, the swaying movement of the train, plus a large portion of warm dishes that Lisa had eaten, made her sleepy. Although the interior of the carriage was luxurious, it was unable to find a comfortable position. He tried to lean his head against the wall of the train, but every time the train jumped, his head stumbled and he woke up. While sitting upright, he crossed his arms around his chest and tried to lean his head against the carriage seat. Then the wheels of the carriage hit a small gutter and Lisa's body from the waist up instantly slipped to the right. Trying to hold the seat, Lisa tried to straighten her body again.

Across her, Mingyu chuckled then patted the seat next to her. "It is with pleasure that I offer my shoulder as a pillow, My Lady."

Lisa accepted the offer in gratitude and sleepily moved to the seat next to Mingyu, but instead of just offering her shoulders, she moved to her seat, Mingyu also raised her hand and wrapped it around Lisa's body so that the woman's head rested comfortably on Mingyu's arms and chest. My Lady, Lisa thought sleepily. How beautiful those words sounded when spoken by Mingyu. Not long after he fell asleep.

The twilight had descended when Lisa woke up and was surprised to realize she was lying almost on top of Mingyu's body. At one time while asleep, Mingyu had changed positions so that the man's back was leaning against the wall of the carriage and his legs were stretched diagonally to the seat on his side. Lisa slept sideways in the man's arms, her legs clinging to each other with Mingyu's feet, her own hands encircling Mingyu's waist.

Horrified at the thought that Mingyu would wake up and see her lying on top of her body in this kind of humiliating position, Lisa carefully lifted her cheek from the sturdy chest of the man. Trying to think of a way to scan his body without making the man wake up, he peeked at the man from behind his eyelashes. Sleep had removed those hard lines on the brownish face as well as softened her hard jawline, Lisa thought affectionately. When seen in this state, the man looked not so scary, almost like a boy and...

He wakes.

Mingyu opened her eyes then lowered her chin looking at Lisa. For a moment his face seemed confused, as if he did not recognize the woman, and he smiled. A slow smile that is tempting. "Is your sleep good?"

Lisa, who was too surprised to be able to move nodded and tried to lift her body. Mingyu tightened her embrace, holding Lisa back from moving. "Don't go" he whispered, then his glaring eyes dropped onto Lisa's soft lips for a few minutes before he slowly raised his gaze to Lisa's widened hazel eyes. "Stay here with me."

She wanted me to kiss her, Lisa thought happily mixed in anxiously. The invitation was clearly visible in Mingyu's dazzling gray eyes. Embarrassedly, Lisa placed her lips on Mingyu's lips and felt the man put a hand on her back, and excited Lisa.

The man kissed her as if nonstop, a long, intoxicating kiss that rattled Lisa's body to the bone marrow and made her want again and again. When she felt Mingyu's hand have entered behind her silk shirt, then Lisa jolted and tried to escape from the vortex of pleasure where she immersed herself willingly. But what made him back down was shock and guilt, not disgust.

Lisa placed her palm on Mingyu's chest, trying to catch her breath, then she lifted her head, shyly trying to look into the gray eyes of the mine.

"I've taken you by surprise" murmured the raucous Mingyu.

That was true, but Lisa saw an amused flash in Mingyu's eyes and stubbornly tried not to admit it. He accepted the wordless challenge, touched his lips back to Mingyu's lips, and this time Lisa's body knew how to respond to every touch the man made.

When Mingyu finally let go, the man's breath was almost as stingy as Lisa's.The man raised his hand and stroked Lisa's hot cheek with his knuckles. "So fine," he whispered. "so innocent."

Lisa interprets the word innocent to mean naive and instantly breaks away from Mingyu's embrace in anger and hurt. "I'm sure I'm very boring to an experienced man like you."

Jemari Mingyu clasped Lisa's hand and pulled her closer. "It was a compliment" said the man, but his face was only a few inches away from Lisa's face. His tone of voice that is not too strong makes Lisa wonder how the man's attitude if really angry. With a slight shake of Lisa's body, Mingyu explained. "Untainted, pure, without deception or pretence. Youunderstand?"

"It was so good." Lisa replied, reacting to Mingyu's tone of voice instead of her words, then all of it felt laughingly so hard that she laughed out loud. "Are we arguing about how good I am?"

Lisa's extremely sweet smile back then also extinguished the flames of Mingyu's fury and a glimmer of smile flashed in her eyes. "It seems so," he replied quietly, then with a resigned heart, Mingyu finally faced the fact that he could no longer pretend that there was no urgent and bubbling desire within Mingyu. Lisa laid her cheeks on Mingyu's chest and the man stared straight ahead from above the woman's head, inwardly reminding himself to think logically and he will make a mistake if he takes the woman to his bed tonight.

I'm not like that at all.

He wants to give his love to me.

All I want is his body.

He wants to be loved by me.

The only love I know is something in bed.

He's crazy about me.

I don't want to be burdened by a child who's crazy about me.

On the other hand, on the other hand,

She wanted me.

Wanted it.

Decision was already taken, Mingyu looked down, "Lisa?" When the woman raised her face with a questioning expression, Mingyu said in a calm yet firm tone, "Do you know how babies are made?"

The unexpected question made Lisa laugh embarrassedly mixed in shock and at that moment her cheeks met red. "Was.. Should we talk about it?"

The corner of Mingyu's lips lifted, laughing at himself. "Yesterday, I'd say we don't have to talk about it. An hour ago, I might have said that as well. Now, it looks like we should discuss it."

"What made you change your mind?"

Now it was Mingyu's turn to look confused. "The kiss earlier," he answered frankly, after a moment of silence.

"What does that kiss have to do with babies?"

Mingyu leaned his head back, closed his eyes, then let out a jaded sigh mixed in amusement. "Why, I knew you'd say that."

Lisa noticed the awkward expression on Mingyu's face, then she sat up straight and misbehaved her clothes. Roseanne once tried to convince him two years ago that the way to make a human baby is almost the same as how to make a puppy, but Lisa's intelligent brain rejects that information roundly. He knew humans wouldn't behave like that, and only an innocent like Roseanne would believe such nonsense. Roseanne also believes that if we turn our back on the rainbow, we will be hit by bad luck, and the fairies live under the mushrooms in the forest. That's why Roseanne walks backwards when it rains and doesn't want to eat mushrooms.

Lisa steals a glance at her husband and decides to ask him a simple question about what girls should not know, but he thinks he should know. His grandfather often said that ignorance is a disease that can only be treated by asking, so, with a sense of ingi know, he asked, "How to make a baby?"