Beyond Us [Bangchan] [Finished]

Chapter 41

I was so excited about spending time with Chan on Christmas that I forgot another important date, kinda, my brother's birthday. If it was not because my mom called me to ask me if I could join them at lunchtime or dinner on a video call, I would have forgotten about it.

I ended up joining them for lunch. My mom made tacos, my brother's favorite food, and it brought me lots of memories. Again, spending an important date away from them was hitting me once more. It left me a bitter taste, and the thought of not spending Christmas with them for the first time in my life, made me tear up a little bit. But it had to be that way; it was going to happen sooner or later if I ever dated someone anyway.

It's not like I didn't want to be with Chan, it's just that it was a bit difficult to ignore the feeling of leaving something behind or something like that.

"Are you sure we can go out like this?" I asked Chan while we crossed the street.

"Don't worry, I even asked". I said nothing back and fixed my hat. I never dressed more like a tomboy as I did in Korea.

Going out together like that still made me anxious after what happened months ago; it was a good reason though.

We were going to the movie theater to watch The Marvels. Chan got the latest tickets he could. Again, I was amazed at how late everything worked there.

The idea came out of my mouth spontaneously while we talked about upcoming movies we wanted to watch, he mentioned The Marvels and I said it would be nice if we watched it together, he said it would be fun. I didn't think much about it, and a few days later it was running, and he got home with the tickets.

There were like 6 people in the cinema with us, I could tell that relieved Chan as well. He could play it cool as much as he wanted, but I could tell he was nervous too.

Despite everything, it made me tremendously happy to have a normal date like that with him. It was getting hard to come up with new games to play at my apartment at that rate.

Our movie date went amazing, I didn't like the movie that much to be honest but with just one kiss in the middle of the movie, I was on cloud nine.

"What should we do? I'm a bit hungry". I said as we walked out of the building and looked for the car that was going to take us home.

"Hm... what about some sushi? I think there's it". He suggested walking to the side and checking the plate of a car a few feet from us.

"Oh! Chan-ah, you are having such good ideas lately!" He gave me a judgmental side-eye. I giggled and pushed him lightly.

I didn't like the movie that much but Chan surely did, glad at least one of us like it though. He talked about it the entire ride to my apartment.

We were unpacking the sushi when Chan got a lot of notifications in a row.

"What is it?" I asked while he looked at the screen of his phone.

"Someone saw us tonight". He said calmly.

"What? How do you know?" I stood next to him and he showed me his phone. There was a picture in which you could see him putting on his mask when we were walking across the cinema's hall, and I walking beside him already covered giving my back to the camera. "Is there more?"

"Yeah", he started to swipe the photos, "but it seems they didn't get you. It's all over Twitter though". I grabbed my phone to check myself.

"Some of them think I'm Felix", I said surprised but it came out almost like a complaint.

"Well, isn't it better that way?" He laughed. I looked at him a bit shocked at how giggly he was at that moment.

"I'll get you in trouble; I'm sorry".

"No, it's fine". He said that in Korean. "It can't be better if they mistake you for one of my friends".

"Well..." I stopped to think about it a little. "You're right, I think. I don't know if should feel sad they mistake me for a boy or happy because they mistake me for Felix though". He started to laugh again.

"Did you hear something, though? I didn't hear when they took us these".

"Me neither". I shrugged my shoulders. "Are you sure it's ok?"

"It is, don't worry. I'm talking with my manager right now". He kept typing still with a smile on his face.

I wasn't sure about this being fine. I did think about it a few more times that night, but it really seemed that everything was ok. At least, that's what we thought when we went to sleep before we woke up by an urgent call from Chan's manager the next morning saying that there were other photos of us indeed. Chan and I exchanged a worried look and all the fun ended one more time.

I did get him in trouble after all.