Don't Leave Me || ATEEZ San Fanfic

Chapter 27 : Like

San's POV

"I think the food's here," Mirae said and quickly went to get the delivery. She came back and kept the bag on the table. "I'm so hungry right now."

"What did you order?"

"Tada!" She passed a cup of ramyeon to me.

"This?"

"Hm. Spicy ramyeon is the best when you're feeling low." She gave me a genuine smile.

I smiled. "You remember it?"

"Of course... Now eat up."

I looked down at my food and back at her. I got lost in thoughts and didn't realise that I kept staring at her.

"Aren't you going to eat?" she said, snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Uh... I am."

"By the way, it's really delicious."

And like that, we chatted and enjoyed our time together. I started to like her more as I came to know more about her.

While talking with her, it felt like we have been knowing each other for years. But in reality, it's just been a couple of months.

She gasped after looking at the wall clock. "It's already 11:44 pm?"

"I too lost the track of time."

"Byeol fell asleep..." I looked at Byeol who was sleeping on his tiny bed at one corner. "We should go to bed too."

I nodded and helped her clean up the place. Then we headed towards our rooms.

***

Mirae's POV

I was about to walk in my room when San stopped me.

"Mirae-ah..."

I turned to face him. "Hm?"

"Don't get me wrong..." He rubbed the back of his neck. "Uh... Will you... sleep with me?"

"What?"

"I mean stay in my room. Don't misunderstand me. It's just I..."

It must be because of the nightmare.

"Okay."

"Huh?... I mean–"

"I know... Nightmare. Right?"

"Ah..." He slightly nodded.

"It's okay."

I walked inside his room and sat at the edge of his bed. I looked around his room as last time I didn't get to do that. His room was clean but had a lot of plushies on one corner.

"You must like plushies a lot," I said. He shyly nodded. "Where is Shiber?"

He went and brought it to me. "Here."

I hugged Shiber tightly. "It's so cute." I giggled.

"You can hold it for today."

"No... It's yours and you can't sleep without holding it." I gave it back to him.

He took it and laid down on the opposite side to me. I too laid down awkwardly and stared at the ceiling.

—Flashback—

"...His career is everything he has anyways," Hyunwoo said.

—End of flashback—

What do I do? I don't know how will I bring Lee Hyunwoo's real face in front of the public...

"Aren't you sleepy?" San said.

"Ah... Not really. " I closed my eyes and tried to shook the thoughts off.

"Thanks..." I instantly opened my eyes and looked at him. His eyes were still closed. "For the spicy ramyeon and... for hugging me back then."

"Ah, don't mention it. I didn't do much..."

"Do you have any plans for tomorrow?"

"Why are you asking that suddenly?"

"Just answer it already."

"I don't... Why?"

He suddenly turned to face me. "Mirae-ah, I just wanna buy some of your time." He gave me his killing smile.

"Huh?"

We kept looking at each other in the eyes for a while. My cheeks started to heat up and couldn't take it anymore so I quickly faced the ceiling.

"What do you mean?" I said, still blushing.

"You need to go to the super-market tomorrow to buy the groceries."

What?!

"Groceries?"

"Hm. I wanted to make something but we're out of the ingredients."

"Ah... Groceries..." I felt a little disappointed when he said that.

"Do the work tomorrow morning itself."

"Yes, I got it."

I faced my back towards him and pulled up the blankets to my head.

I almost got the wrong idea... What did I even expect?...

***

San's POV

The next day when I woke up, I found Mirae in my arms. She was sleeping peacefully, using one of my hands as an arm pillow. She had one of her hands loosely wrapped around my waist too.

I softly chuckled and stared at her face for a while. I removed some strands of her hair which were falling on her face before gently planting a kiss on her forehead.

What do I do?... I think I've started to like her...

To be continued...