this december ~ enhypen niki / nishimura riki

26

"what took you so long we're halfway done making dinner, dingbat" sunghoon says when you finally went back inside

"sorry it was some kid from school then yeji. oh by the way mom, she brought leftovers from their dinner for us" you said putting the container on the counter in front of them

"oh that's sweet, tell her i said thank you !" she replied picking the container up to put in the fridge

"now come help us finish, my adoptive son is really outdoing you right now..."

"wipe that stupid look off your stupid face hoon" you squinted at him

"what look ?" he asked with the same face

sigh

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dinner was fun, you genuinely felt a bit better whether it was because of the people you were with or the fact you finally talked to someone about what's been going on or a combination, you were just happy to be happy. granted, riki was still in the back of your head the whole time, but that wasn't likely to change anytime soon.

sunghoon stayed a bit longer to finish your movies. you had started to forget about something that happened earlier until he reminded you of it. 

"hey who was at the door before yeji ?"

"oh, just someone from school i don't think you know him," you started before remembering the way he had just recently started bringing niki's name up

"actually maybe you do... do you or your friends know a guy named kim seojun ? in our grade ?"

"hm no i don't think so. names not ringing a bell, what was he here for ?" he replied after taking a good few seconds to think

"nothing much he was just in the neighborhood i guess and he wanted to see what was up" you lied, not ready to explain everything to sunghoon because you didn't want to put him in the middle of it all

"huh, weird" he shrugged

and hour or so later, he went home and you went to go shower before bed. after getting dressed you opened your messages remembering what yeji said earlier about discussing tonight.

your finger hovered over the screen as you hesitated a bit to press the contact. you sent a text you weren't sure you should send and then went to call yeji.

niki had spent his christmas much like all the others and yet, this time he couldn't help but feel something was missing. later that night, he was laying in bed when someone knocked on the door.

"come in"

konon opened the door and made her way to the desk chair which she brought next his bed as he sat up.

"what happened with y/n ?" she asked, concerned

"nothing why ?" she knew he was lying

"riki you've been either locked in your room or silent for days and when she was here you were clearly trying to stay away" she started

"and don't even try to say it's nothing, you might not have been dating but anyone with eyes can tell you like her"

"... it's weird. i'm starting to wonder if i'm doing the right thing or if i let my emotions take too much control" he began

he told his sister what had happened and how he responded and how it was the guy that came over a few days ago and what happened then. he told her everything and she listened.

"i don't want to say you're doing the wrong thing but you should've given her a chance to talk about what happened. y/n doesn't seem like she'd ditch you on purpose and something about that guy seems off don't you think ?" she asked