Chapter 10 – Quietly Touch What’s Inside (2)
‘Ah. No, why are you tightening your hip abductor muscles?’
‘Oh my! What’s this electricity that’s tingling in both thighs? Ooh, no!’ A strong shiver spread throughout my body.
‘Let’s not do this, Kang Joo-hee!’
‘You can’t do this, Kang Joo-hee!’
‘The man in front of you is just a log, a log!’
“Log!”
“Shh!”
Heck, my heart was shouting.
“Sorry.”
“Ho!”
At High Priest Juveus’ stern warning, I exhaled deeply. Gerard quickly pulled his head back.
‘Yes, yes, I drank quite a bit.’
But what could I do? I hate tea so much.
Miraculously, my legs and Gerard’s legs crossed and pressed against each other, creating a good hugging posture.
‘No… Is it a good position for wrestling?’
“Now, both of you wrap your palms around each other’s cheeks.”
Following the High Priest’s instructions, I wrapped around his sculptural cheeks. Gerard also covered my cheeks with his big, firm hands.
I could feel his thick calluses on my face. Plus, how big his hands were, and his fingers, except for the thumb, went past my ears and almost encircled my whole head.
Wow, I had no idea whether Sinclair’s face was unusually small or Gerard’s hand was exceptionally large. Sinclair’s hands were small, but her fingers were long. I supported the back of his ear with my pinky and cupped his cheeks with the rest of my fingers.
I thought his face would be the size of a sports field, but strangely, Sinclair’s fingers also wrapped around the side of his head.
Caressing his face like this, his beautiful features caught my eye more clearly than I had noticed at the wedding. Interestingly, in his emerald green eyes, there was a woman with curly purple hair and skin whiter than snow.
‘Probably that’s me — Sinclair.’
What an improbably beautiful couple!
Gerard’s face came closer to me like a wave on the seashore, then slowly moved away, then moved closer, and then moved away. I lifted both my index fingers slightly and tapped him on the cheek.
“It’s bad if you play around.”
At my stern rebuke, Gerard’s large, long eyes widened as if through a magnifying glass, and he wrapped his arms around my back and waist.
“Haha! What relentless hands!”
I slapped his hand around my back and waist.
“Groom and Bride, cover each other’s faces with both hands, please!!”
“Ah, yes, yees, yeeees.”
I covered my own face.
“Haa…”
Gerard sighed, grabbed both of my hands, and whispered, putting them on his cheeks.
“How much have you been drinking?”
Goodness!
I was so surprised that I fell down.
“Bride!”
At the High Priest’s scolding, I clenched my teeth, raised my knees, grabbed Gerard’s shoulder, and whispered.
“How did you know?”
“Don’t ask. You reek of alcohol.”
Ugh! I quickly covered his cheek with both hands.
“Now, the bride and groom put their foreheads together.”
I quickly banged my forehead into his.
“Pfttt!”
Laughter erupted from the nearby terrace. As with the children, I raised my hand and waved it to mean ‘it’s okay, nothing happened.’
“Bride, stay calm.”
The High priest warned again.
“Yep! Sorry!”
When I apologized quickly, Gerard spoke again.
“Just keep your mouth shut.”
tl/n: please help me this is too funny I can’t-
I was sorry, so I pressed my forehead to his and quickly closed my mouth.
‘I’m afraid I can’t.’ I must glue my mouth tightly so that it never opens. I closed my mouth like a book on the last day of the semester.
“If we have our foreheads together, we now put our noses together.”
I tilted my nose against Gerard’s high nose…
Did I touch it? Uh? Why are our lips touching?
I looked at Gerard in surprise. His eyelids were fluttering.
I quickly lowered my gaze. My lips, which had been curled inward a while ago to avoid speaking, protruded sharply under my nose, faithfully kissing his lips.
Gerard, on the other hand, was trying to curl his lips in as much as possible, avoiding mine.
‘Am I the molester right now?’
When I looked at him, his eyes evinced a terror like I felt when I was experimenting with atomic number 29, element symbol Cu, and copper flame reaction.
‘I meant to do it properly.’
Ah… I thought I was ruining someone else’s first wedding.
‘I’m sorry, Gerard.’
I didn’t want to do this either.
Then, suddenly, I remembered the mistake I had made earlier.
I also hit his chin hard in the bathroom… Was he okay?
A little worried, I gently touched his chin with my thumb.
‘Is it swollen?’
His eyes got bigger.
‘Isn’t it swollen?’
I hoped it didn’t swell.
He frowned and glared at me as if to kill me.
“Now, the two of you put your lips together and quietly touch the inside of them.”
‘Ah… Lips together, what’s inside there?’
Hiiik! A kiss?!
I looked at Gerard quietly. His expression that he would kill me if I didn’t do it right was unmistakable.
If I hadn’t erred earlier, I wouldn’t have been this servile.
Right, you were very considerate, but the idea that I will do this much came up hot from inside my stomach.
‘Do your best on your first wedding day!’
I just put my lips to him. And I tapped his lips with what was inside my lips.*
Huh? But he didn’t open the door.
Weird. I gently patted his lips again.
Nothing happened. I squeezed his cheeks with my hands. Then, his lips were pouted and the buds opened on their own, and then I went over the flower buds to make contact with what was inside his lips. However, proper, neat teeth blocked me.
No, I said I was going to do it right, but why was this husband so ironclad?
“Now both of you lay yourself on each other’s shoulders.”
Gerard quickly lowered his hand from my face and put his head on my shoulder.
Yeah, you have to at least do this well. Like Gerard, I rested my head on his shoulder.
It was pretty comfy. It was like the hard and healthy pillow I had at my grandmother’s house in the countryside.
In addition, Gerard’s shoulders, which appeared twice as big as my shoulders, wrapped around mine like Hakikjin.*
‘Oh, this is how you become one on the first night.’
It was something new to experience. Should I stay like this all night?
As I leaned calmly on his shoulder, stars poured brightly into the clear, uncontaminated night sky.
In the world, meteors were falling one by one every 10 seconds.
‘I must make a wish…’
When I borrowed a wish and tried to recite something from my heart, it suddenly beat irregularly, and I couldn’t make a wish.
‘Wow, meteors are falling like rain?’
Like rain~ Shalalalala.**
I hummed the song on my own. Gerard’s shoulders were warm.
It was chilly, but when my body touched his warm shoulder, I wanted to share a little more warmth.
I quickly stretched out my arms and hugged him around his back with both arms. Wow, his back was wider than Jamsil Baseball Stadium.
“Please refrain from touching me, Madam.”
As I continued fumbling about his back, Gerard whispered very softly. As his warm breath entered my ears, the hairs in my ears bristled.
‘Kyaak! It tickles.’
My whole body trembled.
“I’m sorry, Husband.”
Perhaps I shouldn’t have drunk that strong Kaoliang liquor?
The drunkenness from the lower abdomen spread from the chest to my neck, to my face, and all over my body.
My hands were getting weaker, and I needed a place to put them comfortably.
Floundering, floundering. Where should I put my hands?
My slippery hands on the smooth back muscles wandered in search of rest and found Gerard’s thick buttocks and settled there.
‘Perfect.’
My vision was blurred because I was comfortable in my posture. Yeah, I could’ve fallen asleep. Today was very tiring.
Huh? But it was weird. It wasn’t that my vision was blurred.
I tried to wave with the hand I had put on his posterior.
Wow? Smoke moved along my hand.
‘What’s this?’
It was foggy when I rubbed my eyes and looked closely. A white mist gently enveloped our bodies. No. This fog had been surrounding Schlezen Castle since earlier.
No, there was definitely no fog earlier. The sky was clear enough to count the stars…
“Sinclair, Sinclair!”
The pitiful and mournful voice wrapped around my ankles, just like the first sad and tragic stage in the Phantom of the Opera.
And the fog, colder than ice, enveloped me.
“Sinclair, Sinclair.”
The voice wasn’t like Michael’s, neurotic and harsh. It was sad.
“Sinclair, Sinclair.”
The low and insidious sound resonated through my whole body as if whispering, making me shiver. My eyesight had clouded.
I had no idea where this place was.
Even if I stretched out my hands and stirred them, all I could catch in my hands was water.
‘Did someone curse me?’
This was the devil realized. So, maybe someone who could do magic was hiding in there? I remembered the faces of the many guests who greeted me yesterday.
But why curse Sinclair? She was such a poor kid.
Someone who hated the Owen family? It was possible because, in the original, the Owens said that they could do anything and be anywhere that could make money.
In any case, I had to break free from the curse of this mist.
‘Who is it? Who is calling me?’
I wanted to ask that question to the owner of the voice. I wanted to inquire. But I couldn’t make any sound. It was as if someone had locked the entrance to my vocal cords. It was frustrating. It was scary. I wanted to ask anyone for help.
Please help me out of this unfamiliar and cold fog, save me! I wanted to shout.
However, there was no voice. The tip of my solar plexus has been damaged.
‘Please someone help me!’
But there was no one in the world to help me. Now, no one could run to me even if I shouted.
I was desperately alone.
It was unfair. I fell here without having anything from my world.
I was upset.
‘Is it you? Did you push me into this place?’
Now I wandered in search of the voice calling me. I wanted to argue. I wanted to know their intention.
If I could find them I could escape this place. I walked faster.
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*It is one of the basic techniques used in battle, which encircles and attacks the enemy in the form of a crane spreading its wings.
**Song: Cho Kyu-hyun ‘Like Rain, Like Music.’