EARLIER THAT NIGHT

Yoni and Myo walked hand in hand, their laughter echoing through the staircase as they entered the bedroom, still buzzing with the excitement of the movie they had just enjoyed together.

Yoni closed the door behind them, and Myo couldn’t contain help but gush about what they had just seen. “Wow, what a movie!” she exclaimed, a dreamy smile playing on her lips. “I can’t believe it took me this long to watch ‘The Devil Wears Prada.’ It’s absolutely brilliant!”

Yoni chuckled at Myo’s infectious energy. “I know, right? Meryl Streep was fantastic! Now that’s what I call a villain. That type of boss that doesn’t raise her voice, but is savage and cruel! Man, I could never work under a boss like that; I’d lose my damn mind!”

Myo giggled. “Yep! Give or take, you’d be out of there within three days!”

“No lies there, love. I mean, the woman was demanding poor Andy book her a flight during a major storm! That part where she called it a drizzle and that strike of lightning followed, though? That was so damn hilarious!”

The two laughed.

“And Emily, such a freaking riot she was! I dunno what was funnier for me, the ‘hideous skirt convention’ or the ‘carbs’ comment.”

Myo laughed. “It was the carbs for me. That was so funny!”

“Hehehe! You know what else was funny, though? Watching you swoon every time Andy was looking chic,” he added, smirking at his girlfriend.

“But can you blame me, Yoni? You know how much I love Anne Hathaway; she’s my favourite American actress ever!” Myo gushed passionately. “She’s just so beautiful! I love her to bits!”

Yoni shrugged as he got onto the bed. “Well, I can’t disagree with that. Anne Hathaway is gorgeous. You know who’s more gorgeous than her, though?”

Myo tilted her head, a mischievous smile on her lips. “Who could that be?”

Yoni winked at her. “The sexy lil cutie standing in front of me right now, that’s who. Miss Myo Yoon-Ah.”

Myo blushed. “Awww! You’re such a sweet talker, Yoni.”

“Anything for you, my love.”

As she prepared to get into bed as well, she looked at Yoni with a cute little glint in her eye.

“Yoni, can we please cuddl-“

Before she even finished her request, Yoni, with a grin on his face, pulled her into a loving embrace, eliciting an excited squeal from her. “Come here, you fine little doll. You know I was already going to do that.”

Giggling uncontrollably, Myo was giddy with delight as her man rained a flurry of kisses on her cheek while she happily spooned against him. “You’re such a romantic man, you know.”

“Mm-hmm,” he snickered. “When it comes to you, I’m the biggest lover the world will ever see.”

She smiled, then contentedly rubbed herself against him. “I feel so happy with you, Yoni.”

Rubbing his hand up and down her thigh, Yoni tenderly responded, “Me too, Myo. Me too. It’s moments like these that make everything perfect. Having the cutest, hottest babe in the world next to me? Yep, it’s all I could ever wish for.”

Myo looked back at him. “Mm-hmm. You make everything better, Yoni.”

Yoni gently responded, “And you make everything brighter, Myo. I’m grateful for every moment with you.”

Locked in their spooning position, they continued their sweet talk, punctuating them with kisses every now and then until they both dozed off to sleep.

Yoni had been so eager to spend time with his sweet girlfriend that evening that he made a big mistake, however.

There was one window he always kept shut in the study room opposite the bedroom, which he had opened to get the room ventilated after Myo had done some dusting and cleaning there.

He had totally forgotten to close it afterward.

And not long after they dozed off, two unruly young men dressed in black – the short, long-haired Swiss Cheese and the tall, short-haired Kaboom – who were passing by that side of town, eager to cause some trouble, saw the opened window, and immediately accepted the invitation to plunder.

***

The bedroom door burst open.

“DON’T FUCKING MOVE!”

The aggressive voices of Swiss Cheese and Kaboom had Yoni and Myo flying out of their bed in shock. The sight of two masked men holding semi-automatic pistols at them had them on their knees. Yoni simply had his hands up, a look of disbelief on his face, while Myo screamed in fright.

“Shut up! You hear me, shut up! Shut up right now!” Kaboom barked at her.

Myo covered her mouth, trembling with trepidation as the two robbers in front of her kept their guns cocked on them.

The two then kicked Yoni down and slammed his face to the floor. “Don’t you move a goddamn muscle!” Swiss Cheese snarled at him as he winced from the stinging impact. He then felt a boot step heavily on him.

“Okay, I’m holding him down. Check out the drawers and wardrobes! There should be some good stuff there!”

“Word up! I’m on it!”

With Yoni held firmly in place by a towering Kaboom, while Myo sat on the floor, shaking violently in fear while a gun remained pointed in her direction, this night had taken a turn for the absolute worst. Nothing more horrifying than having armed men come to ransack your house.

The worst of all was yet to come, though, for that was not all they had in mind.

Suddenly, Kaboom began to eye Myo with the creepiest glimmer of lasciviousness in his eyes. Staring her from head to toe, he licked his lips, taken in by the half-naked sight of her.

“Yo, Swiss!” he called to his fellow robber. “This one… she looks so fucking tasty. Don’t you think?”

Swiss Cheese, busily stuffing the bag with as much of Yoni’s valuables as possible, took a moment to stare at Myo. His stare lingered for a few seconds before he nodded, a lustful smirk on his face. “Oh, hell yeah, she does. Sexy lil Korean bitch with them sexy lil panties on her.”

“Uh-huh. Look at those legs. Shiiiiiit, I bet she’ll taste good. Wanna try it out when you’re done?”

“Fuck yeah, bruh! Damn, I knew I hadn’t been watching all that Asian porn in vain…”

Myo’s face had grown pale with terror. She shook her head, tears beginning to stream down her face. Having her privacy with her lover disturbed was terrifying enough; breaching that deeper stage of privacy was an even worse proposition to consider. “Please, please, don’t do this…”

“Oh, don’t worry, Miss Korea, we won’t be too rough,” Kaboom responded, the most insidious of looks on his face.

“Uh-huh. Just a heated round from each of us. Nothing that sweet veejay can’t handle. I know you Asian bitches can take quite a pounding,” Swiss Cheese added.

Myo trembled, fright engulfing every cell in her body. This was bad, this was really, really bad. The disgusting way they spoke about her race and her body. The impending danger of being violated…

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”

The murmur from Yoni, who was still face down and was just as disgusted by their speech, instantly irritated the robbers.

“Shut up, dickhead! We’ll do whatever the fuck we want! And you’re just going to have to listen while we do!” Kaboom roared.

“That Asian pussy ain’t yours no more, fucktard! We’re all partaking of it!” Swiss Cheese declared from a distance.

Hyperventilating, Yoni began to shake. “Seriously, you’re making a mistake. Take my stuff if you want, but don’t touch my woman-“

“Shut up, fool! Shut up!” Kaboom yelled, applying pressure to Yoni’s back as crudely as he could. “Shut the fuck up!”

“One more word out of you, and I’m gonna come over and take the panties off that bitch right now!” Swiss Cheese warned, looking super pissed at Yoni’s refusal to behave.

This alone had Myo’s consternation levels hitting high levels.

Yoni, however, was not ready to let it go. And he knew exactly what he was going to do.

“You don’t know what you’re doing-“

“For fuck’s sake, you lil fuckwit…”

“That’s it! I’m coming over!”

Swiss Cheese dropped the bag and began to move over to Myo, who let out a wail of horror. A thoroughly peeved Kaboom bent down to Yoni’s level, ready to smack him on the temple with the butt of the gun.

Terror. Defiance. Fury. Lust.

What a mad myriad of emotions in the room at that moment.

Kaboom grabbed Yoni by the back of his neck, ready to smack him into obeisance. “Listen here, you piece of shit…”

No sooner had he completed that phrase than an elbow quickly crashed straight into his nose and threw him off guard.

As Kaboom fell, Yoni sprang to his feet in record time, just as Swiss Cheese was nearing Myo. The robber, literally inches away from grabbing Myo by her feet, turned, having heard the sudden commotion behind him.

A roundhouse kick from Yoni caught him straight in the face before he could even raise his gun to do any damage. As he fell to the floor, instantly knocked out, Yoni turned back to a dazed Kaboom on the floor and let a foot fly straight into the nose of the criminal.

He joined his fellow crook in the land of the unconscious after that hit.

Myo, who had been screaming at what had transpired, was now silent and breathing quickly, tears already running down her face.

“Honey, are you alright?” Yoni asked, rushing to her.

She placed a hand on her chest and nodded, unable to speak.

“It’s okay, alright. They’re not gonna hurt you. Get into the bathroom, quickly! Let me see if I can get these bastards out of the room before they wake up.”

She nodded and quickly obeyed, locking the door behind her while Yoni lifted Kaboom and carried him out of the room.

***

Yoni walked back into the room a couple of minutes later, adrenaline still coursing through his veins. Thankfully, the two robbers were still unconscious when he dragged them downstairs to the basement. He had duly chained them to the wall and kept them there for later on.

They were going to pay for what they had just attempted. The nerve of them to try and rob him and rape his sweet girlfriend on top! They had no idea who they had just tried to mess with, but they sure would find out soon!

But after entering the study and realizing the window had been open this whole time, he felt awful.

This was his fault. He had totally forgotten to close it as he said he would, and now his sweetheart had suffered unnecessary trauma from some fools not fit to even touch the ground she walked upon.

He needed to render an apology to his beloved lady. His carelessness had caused this.

He opened the door, and there sat Myo on the bed, still visibly shaken by the ordeal, but a lot calmer.

“You okay, Myo?”

She nodded.

Without hesitation, he went down on his knees in front of her, his expression filled with remorse. “Myo, I’m so sorry. This is all my fault. I should have been more careful. I just realized I forgot to lock the window in the study. It’s my fault they were able to get in here in the first place. Myo, I’m so sorry. I put you in danger, and I’ll never forgive myself for that.”

Myo looked at him with tear-filled eyes, sad at the sight of him blaming himself. “Yoni, don’t say that. You did everything you could to protect us. You’re my hero.”

Yoni shook his head, unable to shake off the guilt. “But I promised to keep you safe, and I failed. Woefully. I nearly let those assholes harm you. I…”

Myo reached out and gently shushed him before forcing him to meet her gaze. “Yoni, listen to me,” she whispered, “I’m okay, and it’s because of you. You fought off those robbers and saved us. That’s all that matters to me.”

She leaned in and kissed him, wrapping her arms around him.

Separating after a few moments, she reiterated, “I’m not mad at you. At all. I forgave you the moment you kept your word to protect us. We’re safe because of you, and I love you more than ever for that.”

Yoni sighed, still feeling a huge weight of guilt on his shoulders. “Hmm. If you say so, my love. It’s just… I felt so terrible when I saw it open. I… I’m supposed to do what’s right, yet I didn’t, and coz of that, you almost got violated, and…”

Myo shushed him once again. “Sshhh. It’s okay, honey, it’s okay. What matters is that it didn’t happen, and it’s all because of you. Now, if you really wanna do what’s right, then do this.”

She then took his hands and slowly placed each of them at her hips, right on the fabric of her undies. Then she smiled suggestively at him.

He got the message immediately.

***

Twenty minutes, and a sweet little lovefest later, the two lay in bed, satisfied to the brim.

Yoni, now at rest in his soul and spirit, stroked Myo’s hair delicately. “Thank you, Myo,” he whispered. “That was so good.”

Looking back at him, she shook her head. “No, honey, thank you. Thank you for blowing my mind like you always do; that was pure bliss. And thank you for making sure this wouldn’t be the worst night of my life.”

He smiled in relief, nodding and rubbing her side. “You’re welcome, baby. There was no way I was letting those bastards have you the way I do. Hell no. This sweet body is mine and mine alone.”

“Uh-huh. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

“I know, baby. Which reminds me… time for Phase One.”

With that, he kissed Myo on the cheek before jumping up from the bed and putting on some clothes. Myo sat up and watched him. “You’re carrying out your lil punishment thing on them?”

Straightening out his shirt, he simply smiled and nodded his head. He then headed to the door, then stopped to stare at his girlfriend.

“I think you already know the deal, baby. I’m a different kind of psycho. I definitely will never have the time for going around and killing people on a whim and all that. Hell no. That’s stupid as fuck. Live your life while I live mine. After all, we’ve all got the right to live life and do what makes us happy. What makes me happy in general? Being nice to people, getting my money legally, and making love to the sexiest cutie the planet’s ever seen after watching movies and K-dramas with her. It’s that simple, really. Nobody’s toes get stepped on.

“But, the moment you step on my property without my consent and try to forcibly strip me of all I’ve worked for, dear God, you’ve unlocked the sick bastard in me. And when on top of that, you have the effrontery and the audacity to try and violate the woman my heart beats for… oh, dearie me, you’ve really stepped on a landmine. You wanna force yourself on the woman I make love to? Right in front of me as well? You’re not getting away with it. Not as long as my name is Yoni Ramirez.

“So, let me go down and deal with them Yoni’s way. I’ll be back soon, and we’re gonna make some more sweet, sweet love and cuddle for a bit before I move on to Phase 2. You okay with that?”

Myo nodded enthusiastically, buoyed by the promise of more lovemaking and cuddling.

He winked at her, an evil smile on his face.

“Drink some water, my love. I’ll be back.”

He left the room.

THE END

Well, that was mind-blowing. So Swiss Cheese and Kaboom were the actual bad guys all along? Wow. Explains why Yoni was so psychotic. Well, there’s a lot to think about…

Thanks for reading, and as always, continue to enjoy yourself around the State!