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Chapter 9

Chanie

How do you get to the meeting today?

I will probably take the bus

I can drive us, my brother lent me his car

What is with Yuna and Nicha?

Their parents will drive them

Alright, thank you then

No problem, I'll pick you up at 6

Okayy

It was now 5 PM and I started to get ready, I really looked forward to it. As soon as I was done, the door bell rang.

"Moom! I'll go now, Chan will drive me."

"Okay, have fun!"

I opened the door and greeted Chan, his face was plastered with a smile.

"You seem so happy today.", we were sitting in the car and had been singing so loud to the music that the other cars probably heard it.

"I don't know, my mood is just good."

"That's nice, lately you always were somehow stressed.", I side eyed him, his gaze was directed straight to the street in front of us.

"Hmm, yea." I'm not sure if I just imagined it, but it looked like his eyes became sadder. "You wanna pick music now?"

He handed me his phone. As soon as I had it in my hand I remembered something. Once we were in a karaoke bar, there was this one song that got us all hyped up, so I played it.

And I guess it just seemed like he was sad, because now he showed me his crack head side which is so more common for him than his behaviour in the past days.

We reached the location and he parked near it. To be honest I forgot how cold it actually was outside, since I instantly shivered when I got out of the car. I missed the summer so bad.

"Are you alright?"

"It's just cold.", I hugged myself to keep me warm.

"Is this okay?", he carefully wrapped his arm around my shoulder and pulled me closer to him.

I squealed in surprise, but I felt way warmer now and I couldn't help it and snuggled up against him.

"You are warm.", I mumbled into his side.

"Yes, that's how living people are.", he quietly laughed and I could feel his chest vibrating.

My heart slightly picked up pace. I wasn't used to this much physical contact at once.

When we reached the others, I distanced myself from him and the cold air hit me. Fortunately we didn't need to wait long and we could go in.

Inside we met Nicha and Yuna. Together we walked to the sitting opportunities and sat down.

And maybe I should have slept more because my eyes were getting heavier and heavier during the movie and maybe I shouldn't have closed my eyes to relax them, because when I woke up my head rested against Chan and in general I basically laid on him.

I jumped in surprise.

"I'm sorry, I fell asleep.", I whispered to him.

"It's okay, really.", he chuckled lightly.

After that I wasn't tired at all and I sat straight like an arrow next to him.

"How did you like the movie?", Yuna asked us when we were outside.

"I guess it was pretty good.", I'm not even sure, I fell asleep during it. But I guess no one noticed and Chan didn't say anything either.

After we said goodbye to them we walked back. In the car the tiredness came back and I almost dozed off again.

"You really are tired."

"Yes, I didn't sleep well.", I rubbed my eyes.

"I hope you do tonight."

He stopped the car and we got off, he escorted me to the door.

"Thank you for driving me."

"Ah not for that."

We looked at each other and it seemed like he wanted to say something and before I could push further, he wished me a good night and left.

He gave me a last smile before he drove away.
I stayed in front of my door until I couldn't see the car anymore.
I wished I would have given him a hug, he looked like he needed one.

At home I directly let myself fall onto my bed and checked my messages.

One new message

I opened it and I was surprised to see that it was Seungwoo.

Seungwoo <33

How was the movie?

It was good, but I actually fell asleep

Really? Then you probably want to sleep now

Nah it's okay

No, you need to sleep, we can text tomorrow, have a good night

Okay you are right I guess, good night

I wanted to text with him a bit longer, but I wasn't even able to think about it more, because I slowly drifted to sleep.