7 | The Jealousy Game

                                    

                                          
Rosie gasped as Chanyeol slammed her against the wall of the elevator, pressing his body against hers and pushing her hair out of the way so he had access to her neck. Rosie reached her hands up to his broad shoulders underneath his jacket. Chanyeol ripped her sweater out from her skirt and wrapped his large hands around her small waist. Rosie took control and twisted her fingers through his hair, brushing her lips up his neck and to his ear. Chanyeol moved his hands down her hips to the hem of her skirt. 

                          
Rosie brushed her lips against his ear and whispered seductively, "If you think you can have me after that little stunt you pulled, you're horribly mistaken." Now leaning across him, she pressed a button on the panel, restarting the elevator's descent with a jolt. She moved out from under him and re-tucked her sweater in the reflection of the panel. The elevator reached the ground floor and Rosie walked out, flipping her hair over her shoulder like nothing had happened.

                          
Chanyeol stood momentarily in complete shock, confused and angered, in the elevator but snapped back into reality once the doors began to close. He reached his arm out to reopen them and rushed after Rosie. 

                          
"What the hell was that about?" he whispered to her harshly. 

                          
"I'm still mad at you," she said simply, still looking forward.
                          
Jennie watched with passive amusement as the young blonde and the tall brunette bickered through the grand hall.

                          
"Why?"
                          
"I was mad at you before I entered that elevator. What makes you think I wouldn't be after getting off it?"
                          
"You didn't seem too angry when my hands were up your sweater."
                          
Rosie pursed her lips. She couldn't help but feel a little turned on even when she was furious with Chanyeol. Keep your head straight, Park. She stopped walking and stood in front of him. "You're temperamental, possessive, insecure," she said, counting off with her fingers. "And jealousy really isn't a good look on you."
                          
Chanyeol stood, once again in shock, and watched with his mouth agape as she high-fived Jennie before walking out of the building. "That's my girl," Jennie had said proudly with a smirk.

                          
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The two hardly spoke a word to each other for the rest of the week. Rosie thought he might pull her aside eventually and apologize, but it seemed he was too stubborn. Well, two can play that game, she thought. This week, she was assigned to work with Junmyeon, Sehun and Jaehyun and was relieved that Chanyeol didn't pull her away to work with him again. 

                          
In truth, Chanyeol wanted to work with Rosie again, but he remembered how it didn't go down so well the last time he meddled in her job. So he just watched with annoyance from his office for the rest of the week as Rosie and Jaehyun worked together at their desks, walked together to meetings and just did basically everything together. Get used to it, he would say to himself. Jealousy won't solve anything.

                          
By Friday morning, Rosie was already beginning to miss him. She missed the way he was always there for her even when she was too stubborn to ask her for help. She missed the way his entire body shook when he was laughing. She even missed bickering and competing with him.
                          
Chanyeol had missed her since she left him standing in the grand hall last week. He had been practicing what he would say to her all week, but he never worked up the courage to go talk to her. He wasn't sure how she would react. What if she rejects me again? he thought gloomily.
                          
Rosie walked into the elevator that morning but suddenly found she was not alone. "Hello," she said shyly. After a moment, she realized she had seen the slim, raven-haired woman before. From the Christmas party. Chanyeol's sister.