4 times your best friend has wanted to punch you. Your lips. With his.
ice hockey player! Haechan x reader
best friends to lovers! AU, fluff, crack, angst, slow burn
warnings: swearing, hyuck whacks someone in the face with a hockey stick, mentions...
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You met Donghyuck at the age of 15, when you were forced to study at the local library with your childhood friend Jaemin. You two didn't want to be there, and neither did Donghyuck. You all sat in the same area, with different books, but all doing the same thing, dozing off.
Jaemin went to sleep almost immediately, but you and Donghyuck stayed awake, looking around for something to happen.
It was when you two met in the non-fiction section when you grew curious of him. He held a blue book in his hands, looking as desperate as ever as he gripped the book hard.
It was a book on ice hockey. You thought of all the possibilities of what he must be thinking, your mind filling with thoughts as your eyes trail to his oversized hockey uniform hanging loosely by his shoulders.
You didn't realize the fact that he caught you observing him, only when he sighed and shut the book with such force.
"What?"
"H-huh?"
"What do you want? Why are you staring at me?"
The words in your throat stutter out as you gape at the 15 year old in front of you in shock. "Oh- I, u-uh..."
Donghyuck gives you a weird look, placing the book back on the shelf, before turning to walk away.
"W-why do you look so sad?"
The boy turns back around in surprise, blinking blankly at you. He really didn't expect you to say anything. Donghyuck stays silent, waiting for a further explanation.
"I-I mean when you read the book. It's ice hockey, a-and you're wearing an ice hockey jersey. But you looked genuinely sad reading it, why?"
And then he tells you about his sprained ankle, how he wouldn't be able to try out for his middle school's ice hockey team, how he gave up on his dream and apparently, home much he hates ice hockey.
He truly thought he had no chance with his dream.
That was until you helped him.
You helped him through his hard times, helped him through his sprained ankle, encouraged him to not give up on his dream, to ask for a second chance for the ice hockey team, through every point of his life after that. You were his best friend.
And now here he is, in his dream university, with his best friend, on the best ice hockey team in Seoul, but unfortunately, not the best love life.
"Dude, I really need a girlfriend."
Jeno and Mark both groan at the complaint Donghyuck sighs out the umpteenth time that day, he's been starting at it from the beginning of the week.
But how could he possibly not complain? With most of his teammates and friends slowly getting love lives and significant others, he's so sick of being alone.
