Demon's First Kiss || Choi Soobin

23; 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ (Pt.1)

Yeonjun's PoV (when he's still a human)

Today had been an average day for me, the same day as usual. A day from school with a bunch of homeworks I'm about to accomplish. I was waiting at the bus station for the one I always ride home, When it arrived I was more than ready to board and look for a place to sit, however, I stopped when something right in the corner of my eyes caught my attention.

I stopped from where I'm standing at, currently staring at the one I always want to stare at every single day. The one who's like a crystal no matter what angle I'm looking at.   She's y/n, the girl I've been dreaming of ever since then. She's every man's ideal, so it's very clear to understand why until now I'm still a coward to tell my feelings to her because I have a lot of competition to win before I can reach her. She's the type of person who much more likely want to blend in the crowd rather than being shoved under the spotlight. However, she's shining no matter how much she hide. She's like a gemstone I always want to protect and always want to treasure. However... she's not mine.

"Yeonjun!!" my eyes widened and my heart raced as I heard her calling my name as she's now in front of me. I immediately looked away, hoping that she didn't saw how much I drool and stared at her just a few seconds ago.

"Are you going home now?" she asked me as I can felt the stare in her eyes on me which made me gulped and felt that awkward sensation inside me. I always want to stare at her, but it feels awkward whenever she stares at me the same way since I don't know if I'm handsome enough for her to be stared at.

I simply nodded as a response, still looking away from her.

"Can I tag along?" I heard her asked in a soft and feeble way which made me completely defeated as I shifted my eyes down at her, seeing her smiling widely at me, giving me the cutest expression she know I will never resist.

My lips automatically curved into a smile as I didn't noticed that I'm now staring at her again. Not until she hit the back of my head lightly but enough for me to get back into my senses. "Last to sit will be the one to treat ice creams!" She said as she falsely start to run inside the bus in front of us, leaving me with a still shocked face.

Soon enough I realized I was too late to win against the surprised bet she made, but I still run towards the bus pretending to be still competitive over the bet my bestfriend y/n made.

The crystal shines whenever she's with me.

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"Aish! The bus driver really kicked us out" y/n pouted in annoyance as we have left no choice but to walk together home ourselves as we got kicked out from the bus we took earlier.

"That's because you're noisy" I joked which I soon earned a glare from her but it only made me laughed even more. The way she got mad, it's not scary nor something to be afraid of. She's just plain cute and kind-hearted.

While we're walking, I noticed how her walk started to slow its' pace which made me looked down at her and asked, "Are you tired?"

"Nope" she replied with a wide smile on her face, showing that it's all fine and I have nothing to worry about. But I knew she was lying. I knew that she was tired due to school and walking for almost 20 minutes now.

I clenched my fist, wanting to gain all the courage to speak to offer her a piggyback ride all the way to her house for her to rest for a while on my back, but I didn't got the chance to say that when someone yelled mt name, "Yeonjun-hyung!!"

Me and y/n both stopped walking as we turned our back to face the opposite way in which the direction where we heard the voice calling my name. My smile soon grew when I saw my younger brother, Soobin running towards us with a smile on his face while waving his hands.

"Are you on your way home too, Soobin?" I asked my younger brother who's now in his school uniform obviously just got from school.

He was catching his breathe once he finally reached us, as he nodded and answered "yap!"

"Is it okay y/n? If he join us walk you home?" I asked y/n diverting my eyes down to her who's now looking at me as well. Once I saw her smiled and nodded as a response, my smile automatically grew.

I was too focused staring at her that I didn't noticed the way my younger brother's eyes stared at y/n as well. But his stares are way different to the stare a stranger meeting a stranger or a stare I'm always giving to y/n. His stare is a lot weirder. But I didn't think of it that much, I wasn't aware of what's gonna happen once my brother saw the crystal I'm always protecting.

.......

y/n finally went home, me and Soobin are the ones walking together all the way to our house. The atmosphere filled with silence that it can almost cause suffocation. This silence was very unusual for a close brothers like us.

"What's her name?" I heard Soobin asked all of a sudden breaking the almost unbeatable silence we were in between just a few seconds ago.

"y/n..." I, without hesitation answered.

"Is she your girlfriend?" he asked, that made me looked at him with disbelief.

It took a toll on me, whether to answer his question correctly or not. I don't know why but there's a gut feeling inside me that I should say 'yes' even if y/n is not really my girlfriend. I must protect her at all cost, but it's brother so it doesn't matter, right?

"No.. she's my best friend" I answered simply, not regretting that I answered correctly.

"Then can I borrow her?" I stopped walking midway when I heard him asking that question as if he was pertaining to something that wasn't a person, but a thing he's just borrowing to kill his boredom.

"What?"

He also stopped in his path, turning to face me with that stare he once had when he first met y/n earlier. "Can I borrow her? Even for just a day? Like going out, I mean" he answered clearly, while scratching the back of his head shyly.

My hand slowly loosened the tightened grip on the strap of my bag all of a sudden once my brother said that. I think I'm just hallucinating everything and overthinking. Anyways, it's my brother. He's the one I trusted the most more than anyone.

"T-that's not my permission to ask. You go ask her!" I stuttered, looking away out of some jealousy I felt after realizing that my brother was somehow interested to the girl I like as well. I can't blame him, I was like that before. Wanting to ask her name, her number, wanting to be close with her. But I can't afford to ask her a date, that's the only thing I'm different with him.

Soobin smiled at me as he patted my back saying "Okay hyung! Thank you!" and I smiled back, knowing that it's my brother.

I wasn't aware that the one I trusted the most ... will be the one who will cause all the misery and pain I suffered from.

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