The Foreign Fanboy || Hwang Hyunjin

Chapter 29

Time skip: ?? days

[Nikki's POV]

Tomorrow, Stray Kids is going to Chicago to continue their tour through America. They have to be early at the airport so we're saying our goodbyes now.

We're at Ian's house with the twelve of us. Millie and Paddy tagged along for both emotional support and to say their goodbyes as well.

Jisung walks up to me and hugs me tightly. Everyone is hugging each other and putting a smile on, trying not to dim the atmosphere.

"Can we also get a hug of Nikki, Han?" Felix complains, arms crossed. Jisung finally let's go and I smile at him. "We'll see each other again, don't worry. I'll make sure Ian and I will visit Korea some time." He smiles back at me and steps back.

Felix walks up to me and gives me a hug. "I'm trying so hard not to cry right now," the sunshine confesses. I chuckle and hold him tighter. "It will be okay. I'm just a call away, I don't care about the time difference."

I've hugged them all and some tears have been dropped, mostly by Felix. We've all grown really close to one another in these two weeks. To say I'm sad that they're leaving would be an understatement.

"I think we need to go, it's getting late and we have to wake up early tomorrow," the leader announces. We all agree and walk towards the hall, until Hyunjin stops me.

"C- Can we talk for a moment?" I nod and we walk to the kitchen. I look behind me and see everyone smiling at us with a sad undertone.

I walk into the kitchen with the taller boy. He seems nervous for some reason.

"I just wanted to talk to you in private. You know how the guys are." I smile, knowing how extra everyone can be. Us included, though.

"What did you want to talk about?" I ask the boy pacing back and forth before me.

"I'm just, scared of what's going to happen now. I mean, I don't want to lose you and the others and I'm scared it will happen. Of course, we can still communicate easily through text and calls and everything, but it wouldn't be the same, you know? I don't know if this is going to sound weird, but I can't lose you, I've felt so happy and alive these two weeks and I haven't been thinking about work a lot. I don't know, I just really loved hanging out with you and Ian and I'm scared we aren't able to do that easily anymore after today. I'm sorry, I'm ranting bullshit right now."

I slowly walk up to the boy while he's talking. I grab his hands with mine and look into his eyes. They became a little puffy and red, killing me inside. I'm sure my eyes look the same.

"Hyunjin, you're not ranting. And if you were, I don't care. I know how you're feeling, because believe me, I do feel the same. And do the others. We don't know each other for long but you all have captured a piece of my heart, and I'm telling you, that's pretty rare for me. I just hope we can all continue talking to each other like we do now, only with lots of miles between us."

He laughs at that and we both laugh a little, lighting up the mood a bit. The latter looks at me and takes a breath, looking me straight into the eyes.

"I'm going to miss you so bad." I hug him once more and he hugs me back. He's holding me tightly, afraid I'll leave the second he lets go of me.

We break off the hug after some time and look at each other. I give him a smile, which he returns. I hesitate, but give him a kiss on the cheek. He looks down, but I can still see his cheeks burning up a little.

He looks cute when he's shy, I'm going to miss that.

"We should probably go back to the others," I suggest. He agrees and we walk back to the others, who are waiting for us.

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I'm laying on my brother's couch with my three fellow friends, in silence. "I'm going to miss them," Ian confesses. I turn my head to look at him, smiling weakly to tell him I agree. I look back at the vase with flowers on the coffee table before me, just staring at it.

"Ugh, I hate being depressed. But from one depressing thing to another, have you heard anything new about the Della drama?" Paddy exclaims, sitting up to look at me.

I shake my head 'no', not looking away from the vase. "Hyemin said to be patient, so I am. And those rumors would probably go away eventually. So if her plan doesn't succeed, which I doubt, it won't last for long."

Paddy seems to be satisfied with my answer and lays back on the couch.

"Should we skip sleeping for once and just walk around the beach?" Millie suggests. I smile and sit up, looking at her. "I thought you'd never ask."

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Kind of a short chapter and a big time skip, but I had no ideas anymore and I felt it all lasted a long time, so thereby this time skip.

I do hope you guys still enjoy reading this, although there aren't a lot of 'romantic stuff' happening.

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