Love Countdown ㅡ Seungmin × Stray Kids ✓

Chapter XIII ㅡ Cinema With The Real Deal Boyfriend.

''And it's all thanks to Minho hyung...''

Jisung whispered, slowly pulling away from the hug. Seungmin had a confused frown on his face. Minho hyung? What did the latter mean by that? Seungmin nodded, dumbfounded, letting Jisung drag him into whatever store.

Trying on clothes, skimming through different shades, and gradience of it, putting on weird accessories, like fun glasses, hats, whatnot. A long time passed by.

It was already past six pm, Jisung and Seungmin were now billing their items, until Seungmin excused himself from the line to pick up his ringing phone.

Seungmin, however, frowned upon looking at the caller ID.

Unknown.

"Seungmin? What happened?" A worried Jisung called out to him. Seungmin shook his head at him, smiling slightly. "Ah, nothing. I just got a call from an unknown number. "

Jisung raised his eyebrow. "Give it to me. " He demanded.

Seungmin's eyebrows furrowed. He chuckled and shook his head again, but this time, Jisung snatched his phone away from his hold, making the latter's eyes go big.

"Hello!? Who is it!? Why are you bothering my boyfriend!?"

He yelled, Seungmin cursed and tried to retrieve his phone back, but Jisung shushed him, talking to the person on the other side.

"Yah!! Why are you silent now!? Speak up, idiot! And stop bothering my boyfriend!!"

"......"

Jisung frowned and looked at the phone again to see if he had accidentally hung up, but no. The person on the other side just wouldn't speak up.

"Hey! If you won't say anything, I'll just hang upㅡ"

"Jisung. Where is Seungmin?"

The person finally spoke up. Jisung's eyes widen, and the phone almost slips away from his hands. He turned towards Seungmin in shock, shoving the phone in his hands.

Seungmin looked at him in confusion and hesitantly spoke up. "Hello?"

"Seungmin, why. Is. Your. Phone. With. Jisung?"

Seungmin's eyes grew big. He turned to Jisung frightened and gave his attention back on the phone, chuckling awkwardly before saying,

"Oh, Minho hyung? Ah... I was justㅡ uhm, actually I haven't saved your number yet, soㅡ"

"You haven't what?"

Seungmin closed his eyes, mentally cursing himself for blurting out the truth. He then regained his composure and cleared his throat.

"H-Hyungㅡ I'm sorry! It's just that, uhhh, you know well we weren't exactly on good conditions before, so I never thought of saving an unimportant numberㅡ I mean! Your number, haha, that's why all this misery has been causedㅡ"

"Seungmin. "

Minho cut him off sternly, and Seungmin could honestly feel the latter fuming in rage even on call. He swallowed hard nervously, preparing himself for whatever consequences.

"I called you to say that me and the guys are meeting near the cinemas. We still have a few hours before the party so we've decided to watch a film before heading to Jackson's house. You and Jisung go to the fourth floor, the guys and I will be arriving in a few minutes."

He explained, unexpectedly not raising his voice at Seungmin, but as they say, calm before the storm, Seungmin knew he had a big thunderstorm coming his way.