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1:57am february 25th, 2022 seoul, south korea.
he wants to be bolder.
this is what heeseung decides as he rereads the text that he's been staring at for what feels like hours.
'are you free today?'
it's a harmless question but he just feels unexplainably nervous.
it's 1 am and he knows she must be sleeping by now but he sends it anyway on the off chance that maybe she's awake.
he is right because she replies a little less than ten minutes later.
'no :('
'planning to work on my project tomorrow'
he's bummed. it almost feels like rejection in a way but he knows she's just unavoidably busy.
he starts to type but quickly erases whatever it was he was planning to say when he sees three dots appear. she's typing and he starts to get hopeful.
'do you wanna tag along instead?'
he has this urge to scream out loud but he figures it would probably shock jake, who's making ramyeon in the kitchen. so he just plays it cools and replies as casually as possible.
'sure'
"maybe i can use this?" hana wonders out loud as she checks how the pictures she's just taken turn out on her camera.
the sweet melody of the song love maybe by melomance fills her ears from the earbuds she has on and she can't help singing along while she waits.
"anyone can see that this is love" she sings softly and places her camera down carefully.
the small café that they agreed to meet at is almost empty, save for herself and about three other people. even the barista looks a bit bored so she guesses it's usually not that busy by this time. that makes her feel a lot less anxious about heeseung getting recognized and captured.
she's ordered bubble tea and mochi already and now she's just taking down notes on things that might be useful to her when her music is suddenly cut off.
"what are you listening to?" a familiar voice whispers in her ear.
she almost jumps out of her skin because, one: she had showed up earlier on purpose and didn't think he'd get there that fast, and two: she's startled by their unforeseen proximity.
