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◈ My Platinum-Blonde Childhood Friend Is Too Pretty ◈

Chapter 81: 31. Elli's Cute Drunk Habit -2

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Uncle Mark is a good drinker. My dad is too.

So whenever the holidays stretched out, the two of them often ended up drinking a lot together.

Mom and Auntie Ye-rin, I'd never seen them drink quite that heavily, but I'd also never seen them get badly drunk, so I'd always figured they weren't particularly lightweights either.

Naturally I'd assumed Elli would take after them.

"...hic."

"Are you drunk?"

"I'm not drunksh... hic... wanna die?"

"Right, right. Not drunk at all. Sorry."

"Hmph."

She was completely wasted. Five minutes ago she'd been quiet but seemed more or less okay, and then in an instant she'd ended up like this.

Her face was bright red, her eyes were hazy and unfocused, and her body was swaying back and forth like a wobbly toy.

On top of that, the hiccups wouldn't stop, her words were slurring, and anyone who saw her would have immediately known she was completely hammered.

"Becaush it'sh you... hic... I'm lettin' it go... be more careful from now on..."

"Thanks for letting it slide. You're not drunk, but you're tired, right? Want to call it a night?"

"I'm not tiiired? You... you really wanna die?"

She seemed even more aggressive than before she got drunk.

But her eyes were glazed over, and the way she was sticking out her lip in that state just looked cute to me.

"You're drunk. Definitely drunk. Looks like you took after your mom on the tolerance front, not Mark."

"Guess so~ I was even worse at twenty than this. I'll have to teach her how to pace herself later."

"I mean, Do-yoon's our son, and your son, so there's no way he'd be a lightweight."

"Ha, Do-yoon~ Sorry about this. Make sure you take care of our Elli at every drinking occasion, okay~"

"Still, it's a relief that our daughter-in-law's drunk behavior is so well-mannered. Mark. Shall we have another?"

"Sure. Let's, Do-hyeon."

The parents watched Elli with fond, amused eyes and used it as an excuse to refill their glasses and keep drinking.

As if they were leaving her in my hands from here on out.

Feeling that intention so clearly, I couldn't help a smile slipping out.

"Wha, why are you laughing? Wanna get killed?"

But my drunk girlfriend had apparently decided to regulate even my laughter.

Of course she wasn't genuinely angry. It came out with this sulky, pouty quality that made her seem like she'd reverted to being five years old.

"Am I not allowed to laugh?"

I asked that, still smiling, and she came right back.

"You're not! I said only laugh in front of me!"

"You're right. I should have only laughed in front of you. Sorry."

"Reeally..."

She was getting drunker by the second. She pushed her slurred demands with an even more garbled tongue than before.

At the same time, Elli's body slowly drifted closer. The sweet scent of her mixed with the smell of alcohol hit my nose all at once.

Even in this state, my girlfriend was impossibly pretty, and the slight haziness of intoxication only made something more alluring rise to the surface of her face as she pressed it toward mine.

Close enough that her breath tickled my cheek.

Then all of a sudden.

"...Bisou."

"Hm?"

"Bisou. Do it."

"Mm... you want a Bisou... mm..."

Elli was demanding a Bisou. I was always happy to give Elli a Bisou, but I let my words trail off and glanced around.

"......"

"......"

"......"

"......"

The adults had paused their drinking and were watching us in pointed silence, eyes bright with interest. That gaze stung.

Our parents all knew what Bisou meant for us. There had been a few times Mom or Auntie Ye-rin had accidentally caught us, and I was pretty sure Dad and Uncle had heard about it too.

But whenever we'd been caught we'd pulled apart quickly, and Dad and Uncle had never actually witnessed it directly.

Maybe that was why everyone was openly anticipating getting a live look at me and Elli kissing. That expectation was written all over their faces.

For my part, though.

'Doing it openly in front of the family is a little...'

No matter how much I adored Elli, kissing my girlfriend in front of our parents wasn't something I could just do. Honestly, it was impossible.

Most guys would feel the same way.

"Bishou, do iiit!"

All the while Elli was pestering me to hurry up, her face in a pout but nothing but absolute adorableness coming off her in waves.

So while I was stuck wondering how to handle this.

"Do it..."

Elli's lips had crept to just barely a hair from my cheek.

I looked at her, red-faced, wanting a kiss from me, and then.

"Elli. Come here."

I turned toward her and opened both arms. The idea was to smooth it over with a hug instead of a kiss.

After all, our Bisou had always started from a Kram.

"......"

Elli stared at me with a sulky, put-out expression.

And then.

-squeeze

She threw herself at me.

Her slender, soft body tucked neatly into my arms, and I held her, stroking her silky hair and rubbing her back.

"...heheh..."

-nuzzle, nuzzle

When I pulled her a little tighter, Elli made this odd little happy sound and started rubbing her head against my chest.

Her fingers were fidgeting and tickling me a bit, but I was relieved she'd settled for a hug instead of insisting on the kiss.

"I like Kram..."

"Yeah?"

"I shaid I like it... wanna die?"

"Sorry, sorry."

"Hmph... hehe..."

-pat, pat

My platinum-blonde, sharp-tongued little cat, a little more honest than usual, I patted her back gently with a fond hand to settle her down.

She responded exactly like a cat, making this pleased, purring sort of sound in her happiness.

It was a drunk habit that could have been a nuisance, but the way she clung even closer to me was so cute that I didn't mind at all.

A little embarrassing to say, but if our parents hadn't been there, I think Elli and I could have spent a much more charged sort of time together, and I felt the loss of that.

Anyway. While I was busy taming my little Elli-cat.

"Wonder what she'll say tomorrow when we send this."

"Elli's going to cry~"

"What, this is all a memory too. And honestly, considering the possibilities, this is pretty tame. I was expecting her to pounce on our son."

"I was kind of hoping for that too... what a shame."

At some point Mom had gotten out her phone and started filming. Elli's moment of weakness was being preserved on video.

I'd have to make sure she sent it to me too.

"Do-yoon. Once Elli falls asleep, take her to bed and get some rest yourself."

"Hm? I'm still okay."

"Yeah? Not drunk?"

"I'm a little fuzzy, but it's nothing serious. The thing is, alcohol isn't that great to me honestly... beer is fine a few glasses in while you're talking, but soju isn't really for me."

"That's exactly where you want to be. No good comes from drinking too much."

"Personally, I like that my future son-in-law can hold his own like a man. That's how it should be. Maybe the three of us could drink together sometime."

"I'd be up for it, but I don't think our daughter-in-law is going to give the green light."

"Ahem... if Elli won't allow it, then there's nothing to be done..."

While I chatted with our parents, I noticed Elli's body getting gradually warmer against me.

She looked like she was about to fall asleep like this. If she did, my plan had been to lay her down in bed and then come back to rejoin the others.

Even if alcohol wasn't really to my taste, I still wanted to find out what my actual limit was.

A little while later.

"mm..."

Elli's restless shifting quieted down further, and just when I thought she was right on the edge of sleep.

I whispered to her.

"Want to go lie down somewhere comfortable? I'll take you."

"......"

No answer. I put some strength into my arms. I wanted to carry her like a princess, but I wasn't confident I could do that with a sleeping, one-hundred-and-seventy-centimeter girlfriend who was dead drunk, so I was thinking I'd support her and walk her over.

But.

"Elli. Let's go to bed, sleepytime."

The moment I said it in that playful, talking-to-a-small-child way.

"...Hey, you!"

"Huh?"

Elli, who I thought had fallen asleep, raised her head sharply.

Eyes still glazed, but some actual awareness returning to her gaze.

-grab!

"Elli?"

Both hands clamped around my cheeks as she shouted.

"You never gave me Bisou!"

"...Ah, I might have, actually...?"

"You didn't! Lips!"

"......"

"Lips!!"

With our parents' attention fixed back on us again, I really didn't want it to go all the way to a kiss.

But I couldn't turn down Elli's shouted demand.

"......lips."

"Hmph."

I said it quietly.

When Elli heard it, she gave that signature little sniff of hers and let a smile curl at the corner of her mouth.

"smooch... mwah..."

And then she pressed her lips to mine.

Red lips covering mine, a slightly rough tongue gliding slick and slow across them.

"mmph... hh..."

"mwah... lick... smack..."

Even completely drunk, that strange, teasing way she had of tasting me was exactly the same.

"Good grief... I'm just supposed to sit here and watch my son get devoured by a fox..."

"Oh my, oh my... hehe... Ji-eun~ Make sure you're getting this too? We absolutely have to send it later~"

"ngh... Elli..."

"Mark, let me top you off."

My girlfriend was kissing me with our entire family watching from right there beside us, a situation bouncing between heaven and hell, and I couldn't bring myself to push her away by force. I just sat there with my face in her hands.

I endured my mouth being thoroughly covered in Elli's sticky saliva. Small mercy that it didn't go as far as tongues tangling together.

When Elli had finished kissing, nibbling, tasting my lips, and that kiss came to an end.

With her striking features, she was beautiful in a way that simply was, and she broke into a bright, sunlit smile.

"...I love you, Lee Do-yoon..."

"......"

"I love youuu~"

"...me too."

"Most in the whole world... I love you... hehe..."

"I love you too, Elli."

"mm..."

She confessed her love to me and burrowed back into my arms.

And then.

"mm..."

She fell fast asleep, softly breathing.

What on earth was I supposed to do with the most adorable, most beautiful creature in the world.

I sat there gazing at my sleeping girlfriend with nothing but warmth and love, and then.

"......"

"......"

"......"

"......"

"I'm going to go put Elli to bed!"

I suddenly realized the adults were still watching and scrambled into motion.

Embarrassed but happy, flustered but glad.

My face was warm with some complicated mix of all of it.

"Go on. Just go sleep too. Haa... my own son likes a fox better than his mother... I'll just drink."

"My heart is just going pitter-patter~ What am I supposed to do, they're so cute~"

"We'll take care of cleaning up, so don't worry about it. Go get some rest. Take good care of Elli."

"Do-hyeon... one more, please..."

I left our parents' teasing and sighing behind me and carefully carried Elli into the bedroom.

A big bed and soft blankets, just for the two of us.

"Up we go... Elli. Let me put you down right... oof!"

-flump!

"mmmm..."

The moment I went to set her down in the middle of the bed, she threw a little fit and grabbed at my clothes, clinging.

Maybe she'd half-woken up on the way over.

So I ended up lying down beside her.

I couldn't change her into something more comfortable, and now my own chance to change had fallen through too.

"...mm..."

I wrapped my arms gently around Elli, her platinum hair spread across the pillow as she pressed against me.

It wasn't quite the mood you'd hope for on our first night staying over together, but my girlfriend, drunk and asleep in my arms, was so impossibly lovely and cute that it didn't matter.

Thinking that falling asleep together like this would become ordinary life from now on made my heart lift all over again.

And soon enough.

Slightly drunk, in a soft bed, with a warm girlfriend tucked against me.

"...Good night, Elli. I love you."

Sleep crept in gently, and I closed my eyes, stroking her back.

My girlfriend's drunk habit leaned toward the mildly troublesome kind of silliness, but even that I found completely adorable.

* * *

The next morning.

When I opened my eyes to the morning light, Elli was already awake.

She was right beside me, both hands pressed to her face, trembling.

"Elli... did you sleep well?"

I said it feeling genuinely happy, waking up in the same bed as the person I loved.

But.

-grab!

Before I even finished speaking, one of Elli's hands seized me by the collar.

And then a cry full of self-reproach followed.

"You should have knocked me out!!"

"Ah."

She remembered everything from last night.

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