𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐠 - 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ✓

17 ᴊᴜꜱᴛ ᴄᴏɴꜰᴇꜱꜱ

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Yeosang slowly released himself from the embrace and looked happily at Lia. "Thank you," he breathed out with relief. The thank you was more for the fact that she had forgiven him, than the fact that she had been there for him and cheered him up, but Lia nodded appreciatively anyway and brushed a strand of her hair out of her face.

"Hey!" a voice was then heard behind the two of them. Yeosang didn't even need to turn around to know who it was. A wide, excited smile came to his lips and his heart rate increased.

Jongho came over to the two of them. He looked first at Lia and then at Yeosang. "You're back." he remarked as his eyes met Yeosang's. His voice sounded more distant than usual. "Yes, I wanted to pick up my things, I didn't have time to answer my phone yet," Yeosang said quickly, not knowing why he was justifying himself. Maybe because Jongho was kind of acting weird.

"And what are you doing here?" he asked with a smile, hoping it would lighten the mood a little. Jongho pointed at Lia, "I just wanted to pick her up." Lia grinned at her brother, then handed him her bag. "I'm your brother not your butler," he complained but took the bag anyway.

Yeosang smiled a little uncertainly. He didn't know why, but he was a little disappointed. Perhaps he had simply had false hopes, but after they had almost kissed last time and had texted each other a lot over the past few days, he had thought their reunion would be just as exciting. But something was bothering Jongho, he could see that immediately.

"See you in a few days and don't forget to text me," Lia said in Yeosang's direction and gave him a warm smile. She walked ahead, her long hair disappearing over the path leading away from the university.

"Did you two make up?" Jongho asked as he looked after Lia, obviously avoiding Yeosang's gaze. "Looks like it," Yeosang said, smiling because he thought it was a good thing. But Jongho just nodded. "That's good. I'll see you later." He didn't sound annoyed, but there was still something strange.

Yeosang looked after him in confusion and sighed. How he would love to just hold him and ask him to talk. But he finally had to get his things and Jongho didn't seem to be in the mood to talk.

While Yeosang continued on his way to the university, he pulled out his phone and texted Mingi and Wooyoung that he was back. He could really use advice from the two right now.

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"We're so sorry," Mingi explained as the three of them sat in the park near the university in the late afternoon. "It's okay," Yeosang said, as he didn't want Wooyoung and Mingi to feel bad. He was already sad enough about his dog, but something else was bothering him more at the moment.

"I have something to tell you," Yeosang said after a long pause. He couldn't help but tell Wooyoung and Mingi about everything or he would collapse.

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"And now I don't know what to do because he was so weird and I don't know if I did anything wrong," Yeosang finished his story. It was quiet and both Wooyoung and Mingi looked perplexed and that rarely happened.

"Yeosang.", Wooyoung finally said and Yeosang turned to him. "You should just talk to Jongho. Communication is always the solution. Just ask him what's going on and tell him how you feel about him."

Slight panic flashed in Yeosasng's eyes. Mingi nodded in agreement with Wooyoung. "After everything you've told us, I'm sure that Jongho returns your feelings. Otherwise he wouldn't have invited you over or visited you. Otherwise you two wouldn't have almost kissed and he wouldn't have kept texting you when you were away." Yeosang took a deep breath. "I don't know."