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37. Hwang Minhyun | Your Oppa

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Summary: Minhyun had never been jealous before, until and older man came into your lives and changed his friendship with you entirely.

Characters: Hwang Minhyun x reader, ft. Yang Yoseob

Genre: angst / fluff / friends to lovers

Warnings: major jealousy and miscommunication

Word count: 3507

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He thought he knew all there was to you.

You had met in high school in your last year after you transferred from studying abroad. And he had watched you for the weeks after your arrival, noticing how difficult it was for you to make a friend. Despite being anxious, he reached out to you first and from that first encounter, you soon became someone Minhyun could count on for anything, even calculus help. As you moved easily into your first year of university together, your friendship continued despite studying different degrees.

It was important for you both to make time for each other. You would vent to him the struggles of your science degree and he would run his English Literature papers passed you. Outside of studying you would eat, play, laugh and even sleep together, platonically of course.

Minhyun was comfortable with you.

Or at least he had been, until the arrival of someone new.

You had both dated since being friends, and it had never bothered him to see you doting on another man. But it was different from the way you looked at the blonde haired guy who seemed to appear out of nowhere.

He had been talking to you about an upcoming music festival when you let out a sudden squeal, speeding around him and towards the campus exit, running as fast as your legs would carry you.

And then you leapt into the arms of a man, hugging him tightly.

Minhyun could tell he was several years older than you both, which made him concerned. You had always hung out with people around your own age, and he had never heard you mention of someone out of university before.

The way the guy kissed your cheek and then spun you around didn't help. Minhyun wasn't even aware of how staggered his breathing was until another student collided against him with a laugh. Looking up at his friend's arrival, he then honed his focus back onto you and your interaction. Seongwoo gasped noisily. "Who the heck is that?!"

"Don't know." His voice sounded lower than it ought to be, but he dismissed it as you jumped back down to your feet and waved goodbye to the mysterious person who got into a car and drove off. You watched until the car was out of sight and then came bounding back up to Minhyun and Seongwoo, grinning dreamily.

It left a sour taste in his mouth.

Seongwoo leaned down to you, his index finger waggling in your face. "And Miss, who did that happen to be?"

"Oh him?" you asked, pointing in the direction you had just been. Your face was flushed from your excitement, and Minhyun eyed your expression a little coldly. Mostly because he hadn't seen you like this before.

"Yeah, the handsome guy with the fancy car!"

You blushed and giggled before responding. "My Oppa."

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The word oppa became the bane of Minhyun's existence after that day. As time travelled, you seemed to fall more in love with the guy that you referred to as oppa every time. Minhyun hated it. He disliked the way it rolled off your tongue with happiness every time. He detested how you would whine it into the phone whenever he rang whilst you were out with Minhyun. And he couldn't fathom it whenever you turned down time that you would normally be busy with him, for this elusive man.