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28. Ong Seongwu | Blinded

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Pairing: Ong Seongwoo x female reader

Genre: fake dating / angst / romance

Warnings: heartache, lots of it / mature content

Word count: 4168

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You blinked a couple of times, wondering if you had heard Seongwoo correctly.

He was waiting for your response, and sighed when you didn't answer. "Y/N?"

"Did, did I hear you correctly?"

With a simple nod, Seongwoo grinned at you. "Would you date me, please?"

"But, this would be really stupid. No one would believe we'd be dating," you retorted, blinking back the emotions from receiving his offer not once now, but twice. You were soon shaking your head incredulously. "Mad, you've gone mad."

"I have," he agreed earnestly, leaning over the bench towards you. It made you slightly apprehensive to be in close proximity after such a request. He then sighed. "But it's the only way I can get Hanjoo back. I just need to get her sufficiently jealous, and then she'll come running back, knowing we belong together. Please Y/N, there's no other girl I can ask this of. Besides, you said you wanted to get the attention of Daniel, and there's no easier way than showing that you're capable of being more than a friend, than dating someone in front of him."

"Ong," you started, shaking your head at your childhood friend. "We've known each other for years. If we were to have hooked up, it would have happened by now."

"Many friends turn into lovers." He grinned. "You helped ease my broken heart and I was enamoured that the most beautiful woman was under my nose all this time. It's plausible, as long as we play all the right cards, Y/N."

You sighed, he had you there. As much as it made sense, you were hesitant. Fake relationships always had the possibility of turning messy, or worse, falling in love. You stared at the man across from you and cringed. You had never thought he was your kind of attractive once in life. He was just the dorky kid who could fold his ears down that lived next door.

And now he was asking you to be his girlfriend, a fake one of course.

Seongwoo leaned in closer, battering his lashes at you dramatically. "Please help me?"

"Fine."

Seongwoo cheered before scooting closer to you and you visibly flinched at his body pressing into yours. It wasn't like he hadn't ever been this close before, you were good friends after all. But given the situation, it had your eyes nearly bouncing out of your head as his arm came to rest over your shoulders. "Are you mad?! People can see you!"

"Y/N, I want people to see this," he said matter of factly, shooting you an expectant look. "We're dating, remember?"

You weren't certain this was the best idea, but there was little room to turn back now.

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Over the next month your relationship was well established within your circles at university. The funniest thing was that no one seemed bothered by it, of course Hanjoo being the exception. Everyone else believed you had actually fallen in love after all this time of being neighbours.

And they should with how much effort you had both put in creating the same stories, choosing what kind of skinship to exhibit and how fast the relationship was progressing. At first you had been hesitant to listen to Seongwoo about the physical aspects needed to make this look real. You hadn't ever thought of being with him, and now he was expecting you to kiss him? It was all too much and he had spent an entire week convincing you, even suggesting you schedule in a practice night, where you both did just that. Now you were a pro at reaching for his lips, feeling the softness of them in every kiss.