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"so, care to explain why you set me up with heeseung?" irang confronts sunghoon as he munched on some chips they prepared early on after settling to the plan of watching movies until 3 am since tomorrow is a saturday.
sunghoon, who was laying flat to his stomach against the mattress of irang's bed, only shrugged as he continued to eat, shoving yet another piece in his mouth.
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"mister, are you on your right mind?"
sunghoon furrows his eyebrows at all the name calling, and raised his head to look at irang.
"are you seriously complaining to me right now that i freaking set you up with your freaking crush?!" he bursts. well, a little too out of place for that kind of speech.
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"why are you shouting at me? jeez, what's bothering you?" irang rolls her eyes and jumps at sunghoon's body, squeezing the boy in the process.
but her frown soon turned into a coy smile as she remembers what went down earlier.
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"i like you a lot irang, and i'm serious about it. so please, let me court you." that sole sentence that came out so smoothly out of heeseung's lips, it played inside irang's mind like a damaged recorder.
she fiddled with her hands as she laid on top of sunghoon's back.
"aand it's not that i'm complaining... hihi." she giggles after feeling too giddy over all the butterflies she felt upon reminiscing the moment she couldn't enjoy earlier after worrying too much about sunghoon.
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tch. giggling and all that.
surely, sunghoon's mood is far from irang's. sour and bitter, for some reasons that he cannot even explain to himself. why does he feel so defeated over something that he wasn't even competing over?
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irang turns around, and now her stomach was against sunghoon's back as she reached for the chips held by sunghoon's hand.
"i like byunseo." sunghoon mutters out of the blue, and that made irang stop, and slowly withdraw her hand as sunghoon's words repeat in her mind.
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pang.
what... was that? why is there something in irang that was hurt? why would she be hurt over her bestfriend finally liking someone?
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meanwhile, sunghoon's eyes remained blank as he wondered to himself why he even said that. well, it wasn't partly a lie. he does like byunseo...
but why did he act out of impulse? perhaps, did he want to rile irang up just like how she unknowingly annoyed him at the fact that she likes someone else.
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sunghoon never liked talking to anyone but his family and his friends— and of course with the special mention of irang. so, the moment irang found out that he took interest in a girl, she knew it was the best for him to pursue her.
it was so hard for irang to say it, but why would should it be hard? there's no reason for it to be. "hmm, about her..."
irang rolled off of sunghoon's body, suddenly feeling u comfortable and irked at the feeling of sunghoon's skin against her.
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"i think she wants to date you." she tried to say it enthusiastically, but it seemed like it turned more of a soured statement.
"huh?" sunghoon tilts his head to the side as he looked at irang with confusion, now more baffled than ever.
this was not the reaction he was expecting. why is she not mad or upset like him?
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"i think you should ask her out." irang faked a smile, before turning her head away, as if ready getting ready to sleep.
sunghoon looks at her back, which is now facing him, blank and confused at how fast all was happening.
"b-but i don't want to." his voice cracks as he secretly hopes that irang would refuse to the idea of him dating byunseo, and encourage him to stop liking her.
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"but i thought you like her?" irang asks, quite with a nasal voice as she feels tears brim to her eyes.
why would she cry?
maybe she's just too attached to sunghoon, and maybe she was just scared to lose him once she sets his eyes on another girl. yeah... maybe it is just that.
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"i never dated anyone, i don't have the experience to be a proper man for her. i'm sure she'll end up hating me instead." sunghoon reasons.
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truth be told, irang was relieved to hear that he does not plan on asking the older girl out.
but at the same time, she didn't want this opportunity of her friend's pursuit of love to pass just because of his doubts over himself.
and so she did what she had to do, not what she wanted to.
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she still encouraged sunghoon to date byunseo.
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