Time heals everything | BANGCHAN X F READER

Late night walk

09:30 pm

You and Chan haven't spoken at all the rest of the day. You figured he was very busy, which he was. You did really like the chat you two had today. You felt like he actually cared, yet you didn't really know if he wanted to be friends, or maybe even more than friends, or was he just being polite and friendly I don't know. Your anxiety got to you, and you were overthinking it. You decided to just listen to some music. You put on 'Smells like teen spirit by Nirvana'. You were laying on the couch. Yet something about hearing that Chan was so productive and busy made you feel bad about the habits that you had lately. You decided instead of just laying down, to maybe go for a walk.

You walked outside. Big white headphones on your head, your black old crusty Dr. Martens on, and went on your way. You didn't really know where to go so you just went anywhere your feet took you. As long as it wasn't too far you were chill. It was pretty late already and not many people were out at this time. You remembered your dad talking about how he wanted to try these cheese flavoured ramen, so you made that your goal. To get those for your dad. You knew there was a convenient store around the corner across from the JYPE building. You started walking, ignoring all people who stared at you. Not that you looked weird, just maybe, a bit lost.

You arrived at the store and went looking for the ramen section. You found it pretty easy, yet you had no idea which ones where the cheese ones. You thought maybe the yellow ones would be cheese but that one had a pepper on it, so you thought those might be spicy, so not the cheese ones. Hmmmm. You started to get anxious a bit, the owner of the store was staring at you, thinking you might steal something since you've been acting weird, standing there so long not getting anything. You decided to act polite and just try to ask the man.

"Do you have cheese ramen?", you asked. He said something back in Korean, he did understand you, just didn't know how to respond in English. He just kept pointing at the isle you were just in. You tried to explain you don't speak or read any Korean and didn't understand what he meant. He wanted to reply again when suddenly you were tapped on the shoulder. "You wanted cheesy ramen right, they're over here, come I'll show you.", a random guy said. "Thank you so much, I don't really speak Korean I'm so lost here haha", you said to the boy. "Oh, don't bother, it's no big deal.", he said as he handed you a few packs of the ramen you were searching for. "Well, I'd better hurry, I got to get back to work, take care!", the guy said as he waved at you. Only to rush to the back of the store to get 8 sodas and 8 chips bags. You thought it was funny, since Chan told you that he was in a group with 7 other guys. And the building was literally across the street. It seemed like too much of a coincidence to you. But you didn't want to bother him any longer, so you stayed quiet.

You were about to pay for your ramen as he stood behind you, next in line. The man behind the counter showed you his screen to show you how much you owed him, and you smiled. He was very nice to you as well. You were about to get the money, then you realized you totally forgot your money at home since you were only going for a short walk. You almost got into panic mode as the guy who helped you before noticed and stepped in again. "Here, I got you, again", he said while winking at you and scanned his card to pay for you. You started to calm down a bit again and thanked him for the 100th time. Then he paid for his own stuff as well and you two walked out of the store together. "I'm so dumb, I truly apologize...", you said looking down. "No, don't worry about it, I liked helping you out, you seem nice.", he said. "I'm Han Jisung by the way...I work over there", he said. You were shook yet saw it coming. "Wait, like, as an idol? Do you know Chan...Bang Chan?", you said already knowing what his answer would be. "Yeah, Chris is our Leader, I am in a group called Stray Kids, I'm kind of surprised you don't know me to be honest, I'm kind of the visual of the group", Han said while laughing a bit. "Yeah, well I actually didn't find out about you guys since yesterday. You see I met Chan yesterday, in your practice room actually.", you said while smiling at the boy. "WAIT HOLD UP, YOU'RE Y/N??? WE TALKED ABOUT YOU TODAY!", Han said very excited. "Hahaha yess that's me, but why did you call him Chris", you asked him while you both slowly started walking to the other side of the street. "Well, you see, Christopher is his birth name, Chan his middle name and Bang his last name. His stage name is Bang Chan, and we usually call him Channie-Hyung. But I thought you'd feel more familiar with an English name like Chris, so I used it.", Han said rambling on and on. You just walked beside him and smiling at how funny he told you everything. You liked the fact that he was so open to you as well. It made you feel more comfortable about the thought of Chan asking you over some time. Since you were still debating, since you thought it might be very intimidating. Before you knew it you were in front of the JYP building and he had to go. "Would you like to come up?", he then asked out of nowhere. "Uhhhm, I don't know, Chan uhm I mean Chris said "some time", not today, you know, maybe it isn't the right time, and he is probably very busy, and-", you were cut off by Han, as he said: "Nah, actually we're all done for the day and were going to mini celebrate our new made record, we finished today. It'll just be us sitting on the floor in our practice room with soda and chips, so nothing special, don't worry.". You were thinking about it but yet you felt bad for barging in like that without notifying Chris before you went in. Han saw that you were a bit doubtful about it. "I could call him you know, and just ask what he thinks about it?", he said. That's a great idea. "Okay...", you said looking down and smiling then looking back up at the boy who knew you liked Chris as much as he liked you and dialled his number while smiling widely.

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Phone call

Chris: Yea?

Han: "Hey bro, so I have a question..."

Chan: "Why are u talking in English?"

Han: "Well that has got something to do with the question I'm about to ask you, you see..."

Chan: "....yeah, so what's the question?"

Han: "Well I went to go get the snacks across the street like Hyunjin asked me to..."

Chan: "And thennnnnnn?"

Han: "I kind of bumped into your girlfriend, I mean uhm, you know, Y/n, the girl you talked about, the one who was in our practice room, the one who had a panic attack, the one who we talked abou-"

Chan: "Jisung, I get it, slow down. How tf did you know it was her. You've never seen her before."

Han: "Doesn't matter, point is, she is standing next to me right now and I thought it would be fun if she celebrated our song with us, but since she thought you would want to decide whether or not it would be a good time now since she said you said to her it would be cool 'some time' and she didn't want to barge in, so I thought I'd call you and just ask you right away, so you can also ask the other guys, since we had to, remember.

Chan: "Jisung you ramble wayyyyy too much, breath....of course she is welcome, I'll ask the others wait one second.....they said it's okay. Now come up before Y/n gets annoyed by the amount of words that come out of your mouth right now.

Han: "Sure thing man, we're on our way!"

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