𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 | csc

𝙭𝙞𝙭.

"Let's go on the Ferris wheel!" Seungcheol pointed towards the ride with excitement on his face, however, Aerin wasn't budging a bit. The senior idol rolled his eyes before coming up with a plan.

"I'll buy you whatever food you want after the ride." Aerin who was turned away snapped her head towards the male, eyebrow raised and her stomach rumbling. They hadn't really had any food at the café and Aerin only had a cereal bar for breakfast. It was safe to say she was starving, and Seungcheol knew that. He had met her around 11 in the morning and since they hadn't eaten in that amount of time, he could guess she was starving just based on that.  Because of his conflicting thoughts though, he allowed his feelings to be concealed by the Ferris wheel.

Seungcheol didn't like Aerin- no, scratch that. He didn't know what he felt. Initially, he was attracted to her visuals as anyone else would be, but he felt as if these brief interactions were so little time for him to come to a conclusion. Not like he wanted to anyway though. Aerin was here to figure out what the fuck Hyunjae was up to, not because she liked him. And why he decided to include Jeonghan? Well, he didn't even know that himself.

"Fuck you." Aerin walked past him and grabbed a place in the short line. Seungcheol's victorious grin made the girl quickly turn her head away as she continued to pretend as if he was invisible for the entirety of the 10 minutes in line.

Soon after the couple in front of the idols were directed towards their capsule, Aerin led Seungcheol to the front of the line, awaiting their turn. Only a few minutes later, a lady around their age walked up to the two with a scarily large customer service smile on her face.

"Hello! Please follow me!" She walked them to the ride and made sure they were situated, luckily failing to notice their famous identities despite the closeness in range.

"You both are adorable, have a nice ride!" The capsule closed and Aerin immediately whipped her head to the door, a confused expression on her face. Seungcheol on the other hand only looked out the bars that covered the window areas. He immediately pushed his sunglasses on his head despite still being visible to outsiders.

"Seriously, why does everyone keep calling us a couple? What happened to social norms!? Gosh, I'm disappointed in our society." Surprisingly to Aerin, Seungcheol simply looked at her before chuckling lightly.

"And you sir, what's up with you today? I mean you don't seem like the type to be so spontaneous. You're a leader." The male idol leaned back in his seat at the question before returning his gaze back to her.

"Well, I guess you don't known me well enough then."

"Fine," Aerin crossed her legs and rest her elbows on her knees "Let me get to know you then."

"What?"

"Tell me about yourself, Seungcheol." The amused smile on his face was present before it faded and was soon replaced by his expression of thought.

"Well, what do you want to know?" He asked.

"Let's start from the industry. Why'd you join it?" Seungcheol pondered for a moment before going to respond.

"A friend convinced me at first, but I'm still not sure why I really stayed. Over six years, yet for some reason I still stayed in the shitty company. Don't get me wrong, I love being in Seventeen, but sometimes I wonder what I would be doing if this hadn't happened, you know?" He refused to break the comfortable eye contact the two shared as he spoke, almost hypnotizing Aerin. She was getting lost in his eyes though his change of expression brought her back to reality.

"Do you regret it?" She asked.

"No, never. The number of things I was able to do, and achieve, and the people I was able to meet and make happy are all worth it. And of course, meeting you was a plus." Aerin scoffed at his last sentence, running her hand through her hair. At that exact moment, the lights hit the now smiling girl's face, perfectly cradling her features. If Seungcheol could, he would stop time right then and there.

"Oh please, we met each other a month ago and only talked like what 3 times?" She said through a laugh, music to the man's ears.

"5 times actually." Aerin rolled her eyes.

"You've been seriously keeping track, Cherry?" Seungcheol was about to respond but paused when he heard what she said.

"Cherry?"

"Well yeah, it's probably one of your nicknames, right? Don't you like cherries?" She asked, a hint of confusion evident in her voice.

Seungcheol grinned, "I see someone's been reading my K-profile."

"No! I- just well-"

"I love the nickname, Aerin. You should keep using it."

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Guess who said they were going to update and thought they did but never clicked the Publish button 😭. Anyway, I have some time tonight so I'll try to upload another chapter!