August Nights || Kim Mingyu

25.Hwa

Lunch with the boys was amazing! Cina, Joshua, Mingyu, and myself had the best time. It felt natural, there was no tension.

We spoke about the auction and speeches, Joshua offered to write Cina's. I looked at Mingyu who just laughed and said he was waiting to hear how I inspired him.

Asshole.

"That was... fun" Cina concluded sitting on my couch, "What do you think of Joshua?" She asked

"Honestly? I like him, he's an angel. Cina- I mean this in the nicest way possible... Joshua is soft, you tend to be wild and-" I paused looking for the word.

"Flakey?" She offered "I know, but seeing what you have with Mingyu... I don't know babe, I want that too" She opened a bottle of soju.

"It's not your fault, you get bored..." I opened a beer, "but... if you're serious about it... I think Joshua would be an amazing match for you- I mean- not as good as me but a close second" I tried to lighten the mood.

Cina was a good person, but she didn't believe in relationships, not since she saw her father hitting her mother when she was 10, her mother promised it wouldn't happen again, but it did. Over and over.

The fighting became almost unbearable for Cina and she practically lived at my house. Eventually, her parents separated. Her father moved overseas with his side piece and her mother... She found out she had cancer and died 2 years ago.

My family was more than happy to have Cina around, she loved being around them too. They practically adopted her, my brothers and sisters all love her to pieces.

She promised me that she would never let herself get treated the way her mother was. So she never allows anyone to get too close, maybe Joshua would be good for her...

There was a knock on the door.

"Coming" I shouted. "Mingyu! What're you doing here?" I tried to block the entrance but he came in.

"Well, I plan to spend more nights here and figured I would need a change of clothes, so I brought this" he dangled a bag in front of me.

"Now's really not the best time for this-" he kissed me.

"I'm just here to- oh- hey Cina" he smiled sheepishly. "See! My place isn't the only bad luck one!" I turned to me.

"This doesn't count! There was nothing romantic happening!" I protested.

Cina smiled "Gyu, join us?"

Joi- join us!? It's a trap! Why is she being nice to him?

"He just came to leave a bag-" I grabbed the bag from him "he's leaving now".

"I'd love to join" he sat on the floor, "so what's the tea?" Cina looked at him for a second before she burst out laughing.

"The tea? Well... sir. The tea is that I might like Joshua, but HwaHwa over there doesn't think I'm the dating type" She wiggled a finger in my direction.

"That's not what I said! Gyu, hung or folded?" I put the bag on the bed.

"You can just leave it in the bag, don't worry about it"

I glared at him.

"Folded please" he looked down.

I opened the bag and threw out the contents, three t-shirts, 2 jeans a pair of sweats and- underwear.

Why did that make me blush?

"So Cina, you like Shua?" I listened to them talk while I closed his T-shirts neatly.