Sweet Rejection | seongjoong

One

"Kim Hongjoong... come on... help me." Yeosang frowns as he keeps trying to convince his best friend.

"You know blind dates aren't my thing." Hongjoong tells him. "Why don't you go instead? This was supposed to be your blind date after all."

"Well, he's the guy my parents are trying to set me up with. They want me to marry him since we're both from the same social class." Yeosang rolls his eyes. "But I'm busy that day and it's starting to be no fun just going on blind dates and rejecting them. All the guys my parents have tried setting me up with were so full of themselves. Their attitude just made them look terrible."

"I don't know." Hongjoong thinks for a while. He does want to help his best friend, but can't he just cancel the date? "Why don't you just cancel the date then? Be honest and tell your parents you don't want to get married yet."

"No I can't do that." Yeosang shakes his head.

"Why not?"

"I had an argument with my dad... I was sneaking in and out of the house and went out for drinks with friends. He caught me and scolded me telling me I have to grow up and stop being so immature. He thinks if I get married I'll be more mature." He rolls his eyes. "Which is stupid because some married people are the most childish, but whatever. All this seriously happened just because I wanted some drinks."

"Well that's stupid. Aren't you old enough to leave the house?"

"Yes Hongjoong, but you know how strict my father is." He sighs. "Please... will you do it or not? I'll seriously do anything." He pouts. "You just have to go there and get rejected and it's over. You won't have to see him again and my parents won't say anything since he'll be the one to reject 'me'."

"Yeosang..."

"I'll give you the money for your brothers medicine!"

"Huh? But-" Hongjoong starts.

"I tried doing that before but you didn't let me since you didn't want me to help you for free. Well, if you go on the blind date, I'll give you the money as the reward for the favor."

"But still... the medicine's too expensive. It still wouldn't feel right to accept the money."

"Hongjoong stop being like this." Yeosang sighs. "Your brother needs it so just accept. You didn't let me give it to you before, but now you're doing me a favor so shouldn't you accept it?"

"W-wait, what? I never said I was doing it!" Hongjoong tells him and Yeosang just raises his eyebrow. Since Hongjoong knows just how much he needs the money, he looks down and sighs before looking back at Yeosang. "Okay, fine. I'll do it."

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Hi loves! I'm back with a new story! I hope you liked the first chapter <3 Not sure how often I'll update it, but I'll try to update it 2-3 times a week! Thanks for reading <3