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free... (kai x reader)

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**music! pls play it when i indicate
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The sun prepared to sleep as it heaved its last breath. The blood red-orange rays scattered across the beach and illuminated the faces of Kai Smith and Y/N L/N, just before the magnificent ball of fire disappeared and morphed into the night's vigilante.

The two of them sat in complete silence, listening to the crashing of the great waves in front of them, combined with the slowly fainting voices of beach goers. Within minutes, the area they rested in grew vacant, and all that continued was the commotion of the sea. Even the seagulls that unknowingly pestered everywhere ceased their duties of the day, and returned home.

A cool breeze gingerly kissed both Y/N's c/c and Kai's pink colored cheeks, unable to do much else than that. And Y/N actually liked it, for she felt that it was somehow keeping the tie of peace together, despite being on its last string. Her mind was spinning in circles, firing thought after thought. However, her heart felt content, as her hand clutched on tightly to the person right beside her, whom she loved. Although she was experiencing an internal war with herself—self-exploding missiles and bombs and grenades—her stupid heart was fucking content.

So it took every bit of strength her brain could muster to speak those thoughts, which in turn, would allow for her stupid heart to feel exactly what her mind and soul were feeling. And maybe then it wouldn't be so damn delighted.

"Kai," Y/N's tongue clicked on the roof of her mouth before she realized the message her brain sent out to all the neurons corresponding to speech. Once her mouth tasted his name all over again, she knew there was no going back.

He didn't look away from the ocean in front of them, but replied with a slight "hm?"

"What are we doing?"

Kai's eyes were still glued to the view. "Looking at the waves crash to shore."

"No, that's not what I meant."

He still didn't look at her. "Then?"

"Like, what are we doing? Right now? This whole time?"

"Y/N, I don't know what you're trying to say—"

*(play the song now!)*

"What is this?" She brought their intertwined hands up to Kai's plane of vision. She gave them a good firm shake for emphasis, laced with desperation.

Kai's fiery red eyes momentarily flickered to their hands, before he continued to peer at the sea. It was somehow not enough for him to make eye contact with her, but suffice for a decent answer.

"I like holding your hand. I always have. You know you like holding mine too."

Y/N rolled her eyes before she released the connection their hands formed. She sighed, as the opposite palm quickly rubbed her left eye. Irritation brewed and escalated, and the nerves she once felt were beginning to become overshadowed.

"Why are we still doing this? Still holding hands? Still going places together? Still fucking? Still seeing each other? Like what is the reason behind all of this?"

Kai must've sensed the change in Y/N's tone and surrendered his gaze to meet her e/c eyes. His face was painted a serious overcast, with hints of worry here and there. However, this moment lasted for a second at most, for his eyes then took refuge in this hands down below him. Another two seconds rolled by. His mouth grew agape, then closed. Finally, he looked at her again and spoke.

"I-I don't know, Y/N," He shrugged at this, taking his alluring, yet confusion-filled eyes off of her momentarily. "I thought we agreed to stay friends."