Tall Coffee Boi 《Soobin × OC》

Chapter 44

Soobin's POV
It's Saturday which means we have to film today.

We had already picked up Kai and are making our way to the park. It's only 12:45 so Jihyun should be meeting us there any minute now.

Today we're really only filming a few small dance videos, and maybe a challenge video too.

While the rest of the boys walk ahead and joke around, I stay behind them a little while the events of Thursday replay in my head.

I didn't plan the whole festival thing. I thought we would just take a walk after eating and I could walk Jihyun back to her dorm after.

Things kind of worked out perfectly though. The festival felt like a date? Which it wasn't. But I kind of felt like it. Or at least it did to me.

I keep walking and remember how Jihyun's smaller hand fit into mine. My hand basically covered hers perfectly. I don't know how I was able to, but I somehow was able to just grab her hand while we were at the festival so easily. I guess it was just in the name of keeping her safe next to me while we walked through the crowd.

But we kept doing so when we were walking back to her dorm. I didn't realize I was still holding her hand until she started moving it. But I was surprised when she said she was ok with staying that way. Honestly, I've wanted to stay that way since that day.

Ever since the incident with her ex, I've felt like I needed to protect her so nothing like that would happen again. So walking out at night along the park seemed a little risky to me, that's why I was looking around so much. I didn't think she would notice, but I guess I was being a little obvious.

Before the boys and I could step into the park, one more painfully embarrassing memory crossed my mind.

Why did I stutter so much while correcting the booth guy?

He didn't know we aren't together, but why did it feel so weird when he asked? I should have easily said we weren't, but nope. After we left the booth, the thought of us being together and being mistaken for being together seemed so nice. Or at least it seemed like wishful thinking to me.

If I want that to be a reality, then I'm gonna have to try harder. But what does that even mean? I'll have to figure it out along the way.

Getting to our spot in the park, we start setting up our camera and putting our things on the beaches.

After a while, we started sitting on the benches waiting for Jihyun to arrive. She's normally on time for everything. It's already 1:05, so she should have been here by now.

Yeonjun texted her to ask if she was ok, but we didn't get a response back.

Our last options were either to wait it out and see if she would show, or to go to her dorm. The first option was probably the best for now, if she didn't show after about 20 to 30 minutes, we all decided we should go to her dorm to check.

We waited around for a while, each minute brought more worry with it. Kai was especially worried, or at least he showed the most worry out of all of us. He was pacing back and forth, occasionally saying the craziest 'what if' questions.

I was trying to keep myself together. I'm pretty sure the boys know I like Jihyun, they just haven't said anything yet. Even if they do know, I'm trying not to show my worry as much as Kai is.

Eventually, 30 minutes passed and Jihyun still didn't show up.

Kai had assumed she was dead. Taehyun and Beomgyu thought she was busy with something. And Yeonjun and I thought there really was something wrong. She promised to come, and Jihyun doesn't seem like the kind of person to easily break a promise.

After waiting that long, we decided we needed to go check on her. 

A/N:
I love these next chapters, I think you will too.

It was fun to write in a different pov for once, and you can see him Soobin's head about previous events.

I will say the next chapters are under different POV also, so expect that in the next days.

Love you guys! 💛💙💛💙