Love Contract | haobin

Thirteen

"Y-Your what? And your what?" Matthew can't believe what Hanbin just told him. "You got married? And you have a kid now?"

"Yeah, it happened recently." Hanbin nods. "We're still in the process of adopting him, but yeah..." Hanbin can't help but feel bad after telling him. Should he have just told him the truth and told him this was fake? He'd be lying if he said he didn't have feelings for Matthew anymore and in the contract, it was agreed he and Zhang Hao could date other people, so why is he even lying to him right now?

Matthew just stays quiet for a few seconds. He knows he has no right to get mad or upset over this, but he can't believe Hanbin moved on so fast. He'd understand if he had a boyfriend, but he's now married and is even adopting a kid soon? "That's great. I'm happy for you." He forces a smile.

"Should we go inside? They must be waiting for me."

"Yeah, I'll be right there. I forgot I wanted to buy another snack." Matthew lies.

"Okay." Hanbin nods before walking away from him.

Matthew feels his eyes watering, but immediately tries to calm himself down by taking deep breaths. He can't just leave now that he's here. Seeing Hanbin with his new family will hurt him, but if they're going to start being friends again, that's something he can't avoid.

Hanbin looks around, trying to find Zhang Hao and Yujin. He had almost forgotten Ricky and his boyfriend were also here, but he sees them sitting near them. The worker is a little further behind. Hanbin walks over to Zhang Hao and Yujin and sits down next to Yujin, while Zhang Hao is sitting next to Yujin on the other side.

"Has the movie started yet?" He whispers. "Sorry, it took me a while."

"It's okay. It hasn't started yet." Zhang Hao tells him. "You came just in time, though. It looks like it's starting soon."

"Great." Hanbin smiles. "Here are the snacks. You two can eat whatever you want. I'm not the biggest fan of candy."

"Wow, really?! How can you not like candy?!" Yujin asks, offended. "But more for me!" His eyes sparkle when he sees all of the candy in front of him.

"Just the popcorn was fine." Zhang Hao tells Hanbin. "You didn't have to buy us anything. The snacks here cost way more than what they're worth anywhere else."

"Yeah, but it's not like I do this very often anyway. It's our first time doing anything as a family. I mean, we went house hunting yesterday, but you get what I mean."

Zhang Hao feels his heart beating faster as he's not able to look away from Hanbin. Did he just say... family?

"Here, I got you two some drinks as well. I'm still not too sure what you like, so I got Yujin some fruit punch and I got you a coke." He tells Zhang Hao and hands them their drinks.

"Thanks... but you didn't get anything for yourself?" Zhang Hao asks him when he sees there are only two cups.

"Well, they ran out of coke and I didn't really like any of the other drinks. They said I had to wait a little until they brought more, but I didn't want to miss the movie, so..."

"So why don't you just share Hao's drink?" Yujin asks them. "Mommy and daddy used to share their food all the time."

"Yeah, you're right. We can just share." Hanbin nods. He just said that so Yujin wouldn't get suspicious since Zhang Hao doesn't want him to know their relationship is fake.

After a few minutes, Hanbin notices Zhang Hao's looking at someone behind him, so he turns around and sees Matthew. "Oh, hey. Sit down." Hanbin tells him and Matthew just nods before sitting down next to him.