ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴏɴʟɪɴᴇ? || k.th + c.sb ✓

20

Three days before Christmas eve~

"Pwease?" Kai looked at me with wide puppy eyes, holding on to my arm hopefully.

It was 21st December and the weather was awfully cold. Harsh bone-chilling winds blew outdoors and light snowflakes were falling to the ground, barely visible. Yet early that morning came Kai and his elder sister Lea, unexpected but at this point, we basically lived at each other's house. Anyways, Lea helped mom with the office work while I and Kai sat at the porch with warm hot chocolates in our hands.

A ring came from Kai's phone and after a while, he was in a hushed conversation with someone I didn't get to know of. I wasn't even trying to eavesdrop, he needed his own privacy. But then he turned to me nervously which caught me by surprise. "Taehyunnie...I need a favour from you."

I looked in my cup with thick brown sugary goodness to the brunette with thumbs that fiddled with his jumper sleeves. "Go ahead, I am listening."

"Ah...well- I just wanted to ask if you maybe...bring me some- some chocolate french fries? From McDonald's?"

Disgust. Pure disgust. "Who likes chocolate on their french fries?!"

"Me, duh. Now, will you do it or no?"

"Are you kidding me, Hyuka? It's minus ten degrees out here, and you want me to go all the way to McDonald's to bring what? Fucking chocolate on french fries?!"

And thus we come back to the present. "Pwease, I love you, pwease?"

"The nearest restaurant is across the railway station and that's too far away. I ain't risking catching a cold, maybe ask your boyfriend."

"B-but Beomgyu's busy~"

"I don't know you, kid." Kai started whining and hitting me with his fists, annoying me out of my mind. In the end, I admitted defeat, sighing and keeping down my now empty cup not so politely. The younger boy was grinning like a five-year-old. Oh, how I regret befriending this almost-adult baby. "Fine! But then you will have to take the responsibilities if I get sick."

"You're gonna love me for sending you out there."

"For such a ghastly thing for fast food? Never. Why are you acting like a craving pregnant lady anyway? Are you perhaps-"

"SHUT UP KANG TAEHYUN I'M TWENTY!" I stifled a chuckle as I saw him hiding his face with embarrassment. 

After several minutes I was walking down the cold and almost empty streets of Busan, wearing a heavy jacket and a black mask, legs hugged by a pair of dark skinny jeans. The cold felt like it was drilling through my skin, unbearable. At that moment I hated this certain guy named Hueningkai. I was almost near the station, trudging across the crosswalk to reach the main centre that had shops and other things alike.

Just then I felt my phone vibrate in my back pocket, which I quickly reached for.

...binnie is calling...

ACCEPT          REJECT

"Hi, Bin!" I was suddenly warmer, all my old resentment fading away. [Hey baby.]

Soobin was breathing loudly that it could be heard through the phone. That got me concerned. "Binnie, you alright?"

[Oh yes! It's just t-the cold.] I left a sigh of relief. Now it was obvious, the way his teeth chattered due to the cold while trying to talk. "Why are you outside then? Do you want frostbite?" I giggled.

[If I won't come out of the comfort zone, then how will I do something different?]

"True. So what is our young achiever doing differently in that cold? I am sure it's colder in Ansan."

[Oh but Busan is pretty controlled over there, isn't it?] Soobin suggested comprising.

"I don't know. I have only ever been to Ansan once, too small of a stay to do a comparison." 

[Woah, really? But I just went to Busan.]

"Huh? When?" Soobin literally made no sense by now. It was like he was just babbling, sputtering random things here and there.

[Like a minute ago?]

"Darling you don't make any sense."

[Then look around.]

"Umm...if you insis-"

I stopped midway, closely dropping my phone. My mouth fell open, my mind blown away.

Soobin stood a few meters away.

Are you online?

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A/n: French fries with chocolates are the best