friends to lovers (shuhua x soojin)

how it all started

*shuhua's perspective*

its finally time! me and my members are going to debut this week on may 2nd! this is definitely a dream come true and never in my life have i seen myself in this situation. honestly i already love all of my members, they're truly amazing and im excited to spend the next few years with them. our dorm rooms have been settled for a few weeks already, my roommate is soojin. yuqi and soyeon share a room and so do minnie and miyeon. to be honest, me and soojin had a great connection right from the start and i believe this will end in a great friendship. i hope she feels the same tho.

"unnie, there you are!" i run towards soojin, who just returned from practice alone.
"why did you go alone?" i said while hugging her tightly. when i pulled away, soojin couldn't hide a little smirk that had build on her face.
"i felt like i had to rehearse a few things on my own before our debut." she answered.
"did you eat yet, shu?" shu. i love this nickname and she figured it out all by herself. a few days ago i asked her how she came up with it:

"it sounds cute, just like you are. you know, sometimes i would just like to grab your face and kiss it." i remember how red she got when she said it. " just kidding of course...about the kissing part."

"no i didn't eat yet, but im quite hungry because i went for a run earlier."
"lets cook you something, what do you say?"
"yeesss!!" soojin is the best cook i've ever met and i have a few friends in taiwan, who were already mind blowing, nevertheless soojin is on another level of good. i melt every time she cooks for me and sometimes she even cooks for the whole group and we spent the evening watching k-dramas. just recently she prepared sea weed soup, my all time favorite already, but she doesn't know that yet. afterwards we watched "my love from the star" a recommendation by yuqi. she told us how she tried to learn korean by watching dramas back in china and i was truly impressed by this story! i still struggle with learning korean and often mispronounce words, but yuqi has been a great help for me. we all cuddled up on two small couches and an armchair. soyeon and yuqi on one, minnie sat in the armchair while miyeon made herself comfortable on the floor in between her legs and soojin and myself shared a couch aswell. yuqi was truly enjoying watching it as well as the other three. i kinda had a hard time enjoying it, since i didn't understand that much. the others even suggested to put korean subtitles, but i got really tired of reading them after a while and had to pull myself together not to fall asleep. soojin on the other hand could understand everything due to being a native speaker. however i think she found it boring and struggled not to fall asleep too.

*soojin's perspective*

about half an hour in i noticed that shuhua dozed off every once in a while. we we're already all cuddled up, since the couch we were sitting on was not that big so i raised my arm slightly so she could link arms with me and she did and put her head down on my shoulder. i looked down to her and smiled, which she noticed immediately and gave me her typical shuhua grin back. she's a baby and i love it. i felt how my cheeks slightly turned red by the look she was giving me, i didn't know why but i dont think she noticed it anyway.

*shuhua's perspective*

WHY IS SHE BLUSHING? i turned my head away so i dont actually start to become as red as a tomato. i get flustered really easily sometimes and i hate it, but soojin seems to love it and always provokes it on purpose by flirting with me. she's definitely not serious about it and just wants me to get shy. anyway i put my head down on her shoulder and kinda started to fall asleep, it wasn't a very deep sleep so i still noticed when soojins hand wandered to mine and locked hers in mine. i smiled and doze off completely shortly after that.