a screen apart ~ chanlix {texting fanfic}

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(Chan's POV)

(A week later)

It's been four weeks since I stopped replying to Felix as frequently and surprisingly, he's still at it. At this point it's just annoying, the guy should learn when to stop. It's been a whole month and I haven't replied to any of it since last week yet he still texts me!
I know I can block him, but a part of me.. doesn't want to? I don't know it's confusing me which has added to my list of responsibilities sadly.
Jisung noticed I've been acting a bit more off, but every time he asks I just blow it off with an "I'm fine, it's nothing".

Now we're in the dance room, the time has come that we need to perfect the choreographies and now we have a teacher to help us.
We're waiting for him to come, he didn't tell us his name but said he's bringing someone.
After some minutes of warming up and talking we hear a knock.

"Come in!" Changbin yells to the door, it opens and reveals two guys around their twenties.
They both bow and greet us, "Hello! I'm Hwang Hyunjin, your dance teacher for the coming weeks."
Hyunjin slightly nudges the other guy, he looks very shy and maybe a bit awkward.
"Hi I'm Jeongin! I'm uhm here to watch whilst I wait for my friend to pick me up."
"Nice to meet you two! I'm Jisung," he points to me, "that's Chan and thats Changbin." He points to Changbin by slightly hitting him on the head, receiving a push from Changbin.

We do some more warming up exercises and then get started on practicing the dances for our album.
About an hour later another knock is heard on the door. Hyunjin stops the music and goes to open the door, behind it stands a guy with short blonde hair in a sweater that's probably way too big for him.

"Hyunjinnie hii!!" The blondie says and he hugs Hyunjin.
"Hey Boks, are you ready to be cheered up?"
The nickname has something familiar to it, but I can't place where I heard that before..
"Yes! Though.. I may have messed something up Hyun."
Hyunjin takes the guy by a sweater paw and lets him sit next to where Jeongin is sitting.
"What's up Lixie?"
At the nickname all of 3Racha looks at each other, could this be my number neighbour?
Thinking about it, Felix did say his friend Jeongin dared him to text me..
It could very much likely that I'm currently in the same room as the guy that keeps texting me.
"Well.. I wanted to take Innie to the movies,"
"Waahh really? You don't have to Lix!!"
"Shh let me continue. So I got tickets for a movie I know you'd like and I uhm didn't check the time.. or the date.."
He looked at the other two with an apologetic smile.

"So when is the movie?" Jeongin asked the blonde.
"..Tomorrow.."
"That's not too bad, is it? You'll just go have your cheer up day tomorrow or! you could still spend the day with Innie and just have a sleepover."
"How good that may sound hyung, I'm busy tomorrow.." Jeongin said and avoided eye contact with the blonde.
"Oh.."
"Don't worry Bokkie, I'm sure there's someone available to go to the movie with you tomorrow!"
The guy then looked up at Hyunjin with puppy eyes, silently asking him if he's available.
"Sorry sweets I have dance classes to teach all day.."
"Awe.." The sad look on his face made Jeongin and Hyunjin look at each other worriedly.

Then Jisung spoke up, "Uhm sorry for eavesdropping but we're free tomorrow!"
He looked at me and Changbin before he spoke again, "I know you probably have no idea who we are but it could be fun!"
For a second the guy's face lit up before it became even sadder than before.
"That's.. that's nice of you guys but I only have two tickets and the movie is sold out."
"I can go!! I'm sure those two are too grumpy for you anyways."
For that he received two open hands against the back of his head, "I'm not grumpy you squirrel!"
"You sure act like it!"
I scoffed at him and we walked over to the other three guys who were sitting a bit further from us.
"Actually guys, Sung and I need to work on some things tomorrow for the album so Chan can go!"
I mentally cursed Changbin for saying our names, I looked at Felix who stared at me, his face changing from confusion to realization and then shock.
He hurriedly got up, "Uhm s-sorry I have to uh go I forgot to.. uhm bye!"
And with that he was out the door.

"Great going Changbin." I heard Jisung say.
"What the hell was that?" Hyunjin looked at us whilst Jeongin seemed to still be processing things.
"Well uhm.. We might know him?"
It went silent.
That was until Jeongin screeched.
"IT'S YOU! YOU'RE THE NUMBER NEIGHBOUR, YOU'RE THE ASSHOLE WHO KEEPS IGNORING MY BABY!!"
And that's when it hit Hyunjin too.
"Wait wait, you're the Chan guy Yongbok keeps crying about?"
Crying? Me not replying made him cry?

"I uhm yes? I didn't mean to make him cry though!!"
Hyunjin scoffed and got up, helping Jeongin up too.
"Tell that to Minho once he finds out you're the guy who made his baby brother cry."
They walked to the door, Hyunjin stopped and told us that if I didn't fix this he would stop being our dance teacher. Something we really need right now, the tour starts next week and we have need to improve some more.
Getting another teacher is impossible too as there were only two available on this short notice, one being Hyunjin and the other Minho.
At first Minho was off the table because of his connection to Felix but that apparently didn't stop the universe from leading Felix to us.. And now Minho is even more off the table as the guy will probably murder us the moment his eyes find us, or well me.

We were now alone in the dance room, we looked at each other and I can tell Changbin feels guilty. If he didn't say our names all this wouldn't have gone down.
Yet Jisung was the one who apologized, "I'm sorry.. I shouldn't have suggested coming to the movies with him."
"It's alright Sungie, we didn't know he'd react like this." I tried comforting the now almost in tears boy.
"..Or that his friends are so so protective over him.." Changbin added.
That made Jisung chuckle a bit.

"Come on, let's go eat something so I can brainstorm on how to fix this mess."
With that we left the building and it was soon time to text Felix.