𝑺𝒐 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 | 𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕙𝕠 𝕏 𝕆ℂ|

•𝕊𝕠 𝕃𝕠𝕟𝕘, 𝕃𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕟•

•𝑺𝒐 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 𝟎. 𝟏•

"Dae? Dae?" Kitty called out into her phone. "Hello?" Reception from Korea to the United States isn't very good.

"Can you hear me?" Dae asked in a slightly distorted tone.

"Yep! FInally." She giggled. "Sumemr in Portland, everybody's git their person."

"I'm still trying to get a hold of mine." Dae joked.

Kitty pouted, still a little upset. "It's not easy when he's time zones and miles away."

"Kitty, are you there? Kitty?" Dae's reception started going out again.

Dae smiled when he saw his lover again. "I can finally see you."

"My reception is so bad here." Dae spoke. "This is so hard. I wish I was there." He added.

Kitty tried lightening up the mood a little. "If I wasn't enjoying this pool floaty, I would be at home in my comfort socks, missing you."

"I hate that we're so far away from each other." Dae said with a frown on his face.

"I hate it, too. Are we ever gonna see each other again?" Kitty asked.

"Kitty?"

"Dae?"

"I said are we ever gonna see each other again?" Kitty repeated louder. "Hello?"

"Yes, we will." Dae said, his voice breaking on Kitty's end. "I'd give anything to be with you now."

Kitty's phone then suddenly began ringing. KISS was plastered as the caller id. Her eyes lightened up.

"I gotta go. I'll call you later. Bye." She then abruptly hing up the phone call.

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Meanwhile, in Korea, one of Dae's friends, Xander, grumbled to him. "If you're done talking with your secret girlfriend, can we please enjoy this boys night before classes start in a few days?"

"Please. It's not just me talking. Minho's over here, still waiting to get a response from his girlfriend. And, Kitty isn't a 'secret girlfriend', she's real. And, weren't you just talking with your girlfriend like... 5 minutes ago?"

"Guys, stop." Q exclaimed, stopping the friends from continuing their pointless argument.

Minho, who was clueless of what was going on, was trying to get ahold of his girlfriend, Hartley.

𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒚♥

Hi, my love. I hope your last night of tour went well!
I miss you so much. I got you a ticket back to Korea.
I booked the ticket for two days from now.

Minho, why would you do that? You should
have asked me first before buying the ticket.
You know my friends have to head back too.

Sweetheart, I thought you told me they were staying
back in the States again.

Yeah, well plans changed. Cancel the ticket,
the only time I'm able to meet with Drake
Bell is two days from now and you knew that.

Hartley, I'm not going to cancle the ticket. If anything
I'll reschedual it for the day after. I'll even buy Priya,
Lia and Devyn a ticket back.

Fine, reschedual it. I have to go.

Okay, sweatheart. I love you.
Seen at 7:37 P.M

Minho sighed and hid his sadness by putting on a fake smile in front of his friends and Hartley's brother. He slipped his phone into his pocket and looked up at his friends. "What did I miss?"

"Nothing. Just Dae trying to talk to his secret girlfriend again." Xander spoke up, pointing to Dae.

"Oh, the penpal. Yeah, when are you going to introduce us to her officially?" Minho sarcastically asked making Dae roll his eyes.

"Minho, you're upset. What now?" Q said, reading through Minho's fake expression. Minho tried to deny his emotions, but his friends knew him too well to know he wasn't okay.

"Fine, it's Hartley." He said.

"Again? Seriously, I have no idea how I'm related to that woman." Xander said, trying to lighten up the mood a little bit.

"Honestly, I don't think she's going to come back. I got her a plane ticket back, but she's making me reschedual it and getting tickets for her other friends. Honestly, I don't think we're going to make it through the fall together."

Xander got up from his place next to Dae and went to sit next to Minho. "If it makes you feel better, Lia hasn't talked to me in the last 3 hours." Minho laughed at Xander's comment.

"I'll talk with Hartley later tonight before we go to bed." Minho smiled back, greatfully at Xander, thanking him in the end.