Eye of the public | Seo Changbin

Chapter 26

The next month was a bit strange between Riley and Changbin. They've been hanging out on almost every chance they got and these hang-outs could be considered as nothing but dates. But neither of them mentioned the word date in any kind of version.

Truth be told, both of them wanted nothing more than for these hang-outs to be official dates but both were too scared to mention anything. Everyone around them was in literal pain from seeing those two whining about each other but they knew it wasn't their place to interfere.

Although it was really hard for them, really hard.

"But I love her! I will never be able to get over her! She is the love of my life!"

"Then tell her!" Jisung whined and pressed the pillow on top of his head to shut out Changbin's rambling.

"I'll make her uncomfortable! She put that boundary between us for a reason! I need to respect that!" Changbin whined back and tried to pull away the pillow so Jisung would listen to him properly.

"Changbin, it's been a month since you two slept together, don't you think if it would have made her uncomfortable she would have said something by now?" Jisung tried to stay reasonable but Changbin's whining, that has been going on for over half an hour, was kicking his last brain cell.

"What if it was a 'in the spur of the moment' kind of thing?" Changbin asked and the way he looked so devasted actually made Jisung feel bad.

"Just talk to her, please. You are both hurting and pretending, that everything is fine, isn't going to make your feelings magically disappear" Jisung let Changbin lean his head on his shoulder while the latter was thinking of what to do next.

"Maybe when I ask her to meet up next time, I could mention it being a date?"

It wasn't exactly what Jisung had thought of with 'telling her about your feelings' but it was a start.

"Sure, you can do that. See how she reacts and then you'll have your answer!" Jisung still encouraged his brother and patted him on the back, "Now text her before you start overthinking again!"

With that Jisung left the room, propably to get food, and left Changbin alone to ponder over what to write in his message.

After deleting several attempts he finally hit send and threw away his phone in hopes of not thinking about it again.

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"It's a text from Changbin" Millie announced after checking what caused the 'ding' on her twin's phone.

"Could you hand me my phone please?" Riley asked, comfortably laying on her sister's couch, watching some random trash TV.

"Thanks" She said, unlocking the phone while Millie curiously peeked over her shoulder. "I see you still haven't changes his contact name" Millie teased.

"Oh, I just forgot it I guess"
"Forgot it, sure~"

After hitting her sister, Riley finally opened the chat.

Binnie <3

>hey Riley, I have a day off next Sunday, do you wanna go on a date?
>I kind of already have a place in mind but text me if it's good with you <3

"Did he just ask me out on a date and sent a heart?" Riley asked in complete disbelief.

"He sure did" Millie laughed and made her way back into the kitchen, leaving Riley alone with her fate.

The latter was panicking though it was a good kind of panic. She had been waiting for a message of this kind and had been internally cursing at herself for being too shy and scared to start anything herself.