(STILL) Family

*Part nineteen*

third person pov
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for the next two weeks, kyungmi has to prepare for her first acting role. this requires meetings, script readings, makeup tests, styling, and so on. child acting seems to come with a lot of paper work for the parents...

but for now, kyungmi still has school, where she's become even more popular amongst her peers. but the girl knows that they're only talking to her because of her acting role, so she stayed with her closest friends and just stayed polite with everyone else.

aside from kyungmi preparing for her role, wooyoung is trying to figure out what the fuck to do. first, ryujin... kind of, confesses. then myeong asks him out. and he doesn't know what to do.

"you seem stressed"

wooyoung lifts his head off his desk, looking over to his door to see chaeryeong standing there. he sighs and sits up "i am"

"girl problems?" she teased

"yeah, you know being bi i figured i'd land more dudes here" wooyoung joked

"that would only make things more complicated" the girl walked in and closed the door, she doesn't want to tell him what choice to make. but she wants to help him, even if it means ryujin ends up even more hurt. "talk to me"

"ryujin sort of confesses and then while i'm trying to figure out how to talk to her myeong asks me out. and if i'm being completely honest, i don't know my feelings for either of them" he gave himself a pathetic laugh, he feels pathetic so it's fitting.

"then why'd you kiss ryujin that one day?"

"she told you about that?"

"of course she did, and if you two ever do date i'll be the first to know that too. so spill" chaeryeong sat on the boys desk and took the small bag of chips that he had placed there a while ago.

"i don't know why i kissed her, i feel bad for doing it"

"because you don't like her?"

"because a first kiss should be special." wooyoung said and looked the girl in her eyes.

chaeryeong let's a smile grow, more like a smirk "so you like her"

"i don't know" he responded. he's only getting more frustrated with himself.

"how do you not know?"

"when me and chenle were a thing, it was like we were little crushes who started dating out of nowhere and that clearly didn't work. with ryujin... i've known her my whole life. and i don't want to ruin the bond we have. i look at yeji and yunho, and they're so happy. and i look at lia and mingi, and they're happy too"

"they're also the gayest people we know but i see your point." chaeryeong chuckled "when you see yun and yeji, do you see you and ryu in them?"

wooyoung sat there and though for a second. "sometimes, i look at them. and then i'll see ryu, and the idea of us being like them comes to mind" he nodded slowly

"okay. and what about myeong?"

"what about her?"