The Playboy's Sweetheart || Minchan

five

~not proofread~

THIRD PERSON POV

"Lee Minho" Chan ran towards the ravenet and waved his hand at him. "Good morning" His lips curved into a smile, showing his deep dimples perfectly. "Morning" Minho replied in a groggy voice, he sounded tired. As if he haven't slept the whole night.

"Is everything alright? You seem pretty tired"

"I'm fine" Minho replied curtly and went poker-faced. Chan couldn't understand behavioural change, his eyebrows twisted together and he stared at the boy for a while. Minho looked very unusual, his expressions were dull and blank. "I hope you are" Chan whispered that part under his breath, Minho walked passed him without uttering an another word.

"Channie, what's up?" Felix showed up, as always he had a sunshine-like smile on his face and Chan's mood instantly lit up in his presence. "Let's go to class, we are running out of time" the freckled boy held his best friend's hand and pulled him to the class.

As always Chan and Felix weren't paying any attention to their teacher instead they were talking about the change in Jisung's behaviour. "I think Jisung got a boyfriend" Felix whispered to Chan and giggled. "Our Jisung? Has a boyfriend!?" Chan blurted out loud catching everyone's attention in the class including Jisung.

"Lee Felix and Bang Chan if you don't want me to send you to the detention room please be quiet." The angry looking teacher stated in a quite scary voice.
The two boys remained silent during the whole class, they didn't dare to make any sounds after the warning they got from Mrs. Kang Jiyoung.

Just after she left the class Jisung smacked the two boys on their head with his books. Felix groaned and sent him a death glare while Chan rubbed the specific place where he got hit by his best friend. "You little piece of shit! I'll kill you" Felix threatened in a low-key terrifying voice.

"Why'd you two shout in the middle of the class that I have a boyfriend?" Jisung glared back at Felix whose anger calmed down, he looked at Jisung with a nervous smile while Jisung was about to hit him once again. Felix somehow dodged and sprinted away while the latter chased him behind. Chan laughed while witnessing their drama. He could never get bored while being with these dorky people, he pondered in his mind.

For a moment his eyes laid on Minho who was sitting away from his friends Hyunjin and Changbin. Even Hyunjin looked tensed but not for himself, for Minho. They didn't know what was wrong with their friend either, he came to school in the morning and when they tried to talk to him he just stared ignoring them. It is very odd, Minho never behaved this way.

"Hey, Minho, if something is bothering you─ you could share it with me" Chan got up from his seat and went towards Minho. "No, I don't need your help. Could you please leave me for a while?"

"O-Okay, if you want that then sure but don't hesitate to come to me─ I'll always try to help you out" Chan passed a forced smile to the ravenhead boy.

"Why would you do that?"

"Cause y-you're my friend─?" Chan stated in an unsure and questioning voice. "I'm not" Minho blurted and dashed away from the class. Chan tried to understand what Minho just said and nibbled onto his bottom lip to bite back a tear. Minho doesn't even think of him as his friend how could he set his hopes that high, where he started thinking that Minho would date him?

There is no way that Minho will date him. He just helped him with his maths as a good student but that would not make him like Chan back. Chan sighed and he saw Hyunjin who approached him with a hesitant expression on his face. "I'm sorry for the way Minho reacted but I think... You should not be talking to him for now" The taller male scratched the back of his nape.

"But why? Did I do something wrong?"

"No, Chan! You didn't do anything wrong it's just.. give Minho some time he'll explain" Chan couldn't understand what Hyunjin was even saying. Why would he want him to stay away from Minho? What was the reason of Minho behaving this way?

Two periods were gone, teachers came and left but Minho didn't show up yet. He bunked these two classes and Chan decided to find him at the library. At the break time he went to the library, looking for Minho but he wasn't there. Chan remembered once Minho telling him about being at the dance studio of the school when he wants solace. He hurriedly went there and as expected he was there.

There was a random song playing on the speakers at high volume and Minho was sitting on the middle of the floor. Chan quizzically walked towards the boy and placed a hand over his shoulder just to get his hand get yanked off. The room was pretty dark, the only source of light was the ventilators. Minho didn't turn on the lights.

"What's wrong with you?"

Minho didn't reply and he kept his head low.

"Please tell me.." Chan placed a hand over his shoulder and started making circles over there to calm him a bit.

"Just go away─"

"Not before you tell me what's wrong with you. It doesn't matter if you consider me as your friend or not but I do and as your friend I've the rights to ask you your well-being" Minho gave into the conversation and finally spoke up, "My mother is sick and doctors said she doesn't have much time left.. They said her pancreas is destroyed and she's dying soon. I can't lose her, Chan─" Minho stated, his voice sounded hoarse.

"I don't know the extent to the pain you feel, but I do feel the anguish to some extent. And as much as we wish, these are the laws of nature. Every life born will eventually reach it's end with the flow of time. It's the cycle of life. We can't stop our cycle to our liking. And the only way to ensure that the spirit of your mom is at peace you need to move on. Remember her with smile not tears. And I know this will be hard. But you have to try. Because the day you do you will feel the happiness radiate from the sky towards you. Like your mom was hugging you for moving forward. She will always be with you in spirit and that is what matters." Chan patted the younger's shoulder the pulled him into a hug, his words may not be able to make Minho's pain vanish but it somehow helped him to lessen his pain. He let himself cry over Chan's shoulder and the brunet kept soothing his back.