"Minho. I don't feel the same way. I'm sorry." Chan, the man he had had a crush on for three years, rejects him. An unfamiliar pain pangs in Minho's chest. He had been rejected by crushes before but he thought Chan had felt the same. Chan was always flirting with him. Minho had read too far into it again. That's just what friends do.
" Can we still be friends?" Minho asks, unsure. The last time he had done this the person had stopped talking to him completely.
"Yes Minho, we can still be friends. Just give me some time." There it was Minho had ruined their friendship. Chan walks out of Minho's apartment and out of his life. Unrequited feelings somehow feel worse than anytime he had been broken up with. Minho finally breaks after a while of standing still in the middle of his living room. He cried and cried for hours. Pain and regret are the only thing Minho feels for days. He stopped eating, stopped going out, barely slept because he was too anxious that he would miss a text from Chan. He wanted nothing more than for Chan to text him and say he forgives him and ask to hang out like old times. After one month of waiting he gets the text. Asking Minho to meet Chan at the cafe down the road from his apartment. Minho doesn't even stop to look into a mirror or match his socks before rushing out of the door and down to the cafe. Relief and worry are all he feels. Walking into the cafe he sees Chan sitting with a girl. They look close, very very close. Minho can feel himself break again when Chan reaches for the girl's hand. Slowly he approaches the table they were at.
"Minho you made it!" Chan exclaims getting up to hug his friend. A friend that's all Minho will ever be to Chan. Reality came crashing down on Minho again when Chan started to speak next. " I wanted to introduce you to someone. Minho, this is my girlfriend. Nari. Nari, this is my best friend Minho." Minho gives the girl a small smile.
"It's nice to meet you Minho! Chan talks about you all the time." Nari is the first person to speak after an awkward silence. Minho looks at Chan's confusion written on his face.
" It's nice to meet you as well Nari. All good things I hope." Minho feigns joy. A smile creeping on his face that doesn't meet his eyes. Something Minho had become accustomed to doing recently.
Minho had spent an hour at the cafe with the duo before excusing himself to go process his emotions alone at home. While Chan was in the arms of someone else.
Chan would never want him
Chan would never need him
Like Minho needed him now
Minho would never have Chan
Minho would never be seen in the same way by Chan that he saw Chan
Unrequited love hurt like hell but he would pretend like he had no feelings for Chan ever if that meant he got to keep him in his life
