Seventeen Imagines

Mingyu: best friend's girlfriend

Mingyu and Dokyeom are currently in their second year of college. His best friend has been dating the same girl since junior year of high school and she even attends the same university as Mingyu and Dokyeom. His best friend's girlfriend just so happens to be you. You share multiple classes with Mingyu but he never talks to you. He actually chooses to avoid you when possible.

Dokyeom never hangs out with Mingyu while he's with his girlfriend and for the first couple years of dating each other Dokyeom always chose you over his friends. You were head over heels for Dokyeom. You shined like a beam of light every time you were next to him. And he would brag about you all the time to everyone around him.

Until this past year. Dokyeom has been hanging out with Mingyu and the other guys more often than usual. He's been ignoring your phone calls and texts when he hangs out with his friends, goes to clubs and drinks more often, and even flirts with girls he doesn't know; pretending like he doesn't even have a girlfriend. Mingyu noticed a change in your demeanor during classes too. He occasionally glances at you from across the lecture hall to see you with a depressed look on your face. But as soon as someone would walk up to you you'd put on a smile and pretend that everything's okay.

Lately even your friends have noticed how poorly Dokyeom was treating you and they weren't shy about verbalizing it for everyone around them to hear it, including Mingyu. He tried to ignore the gossip in his classes but it's hard to not hear what your friends are saying when it involves Mingyu's best friend. Mingyu's becoming confused as to why he's interested in what the girls are saying since it's really none of his business, even if it's about Dokyeom.

It's been months now and the way Dokyeom's been acting has finally gotten on Mingyu's nerves. Not only is he acting strange when he's hanging out with Mingyu and their mutual friends, but Mingyu has a decent understanding of what kind of person you are. And knowing what his best friend is doing behind your back is pushing a moral boundary of Mingyu's. He has standards, and those also apply to the people he wants to surround himself by.

(When Mingyu, Dokyeom and you entered college Mingyu decided to join the astronomy club. It just so happened that you also had a fascination with astronomy and joined the club too; which in turn meant Dokyeom joined since at the time you two were practically inseparable.)

One late afternoon, after an astronomy club meeting was over, everyone left the room to go home for the evening. Mingyu, Dokyeom and yourself were heading down the hall when Dokyeom abruptly stopped walking and asked Mingyu to walk you to the gate of the university for him. He made up an excuse, saying he had to go back to the room because he forgot something. As Mingyu was walking with you down the empty hall you couldn't help but fidget your fingers and feel anxious. For a while now you had a bad feeling that continued to grow inside you, not to mention your friends were feeding you rumors that your boyfriend was cheating on you.

Without saying a word you quickly turned back and sprinted down the hall toward the astronomy room. Mingyu, feeling a sense of impending doom as he watched his best friend's girlfriend run away, chose to run after you. When he finally caught up to you he noticed you were standing eerily still in front of the door to the room, your eyes glossed over as you stared through the glass window in the metal door. Mingyu stepped directly behind you, curious as to what you were looking at. His eyes widened with shock.

Dokyeom was in the club room viciously making out with another woman. Mingyu glanced down at you and saw you reaching for the door handle with a thin, shaky hand. Your bottom lip was quivering with your mouth slowly opening as if you was about to say something. Without hesitation Mingyu grabbed your hand with his right and used his other hand to cover your mouth. He pulled you off to the side to keep the two of you from being seen. And just as Mingyu covered your mouth you let out a quick sob before being muffled by his hand.