EAT WITH ME, HYUNG [ZEROBASEONE GUNWOOK & YUJIN]

ONE SHOT

"Gunwook Hyung."

"Yea, why?"

"Pick me up from school tomorrow."

Gunwook looked at Yujin with a confused face. He's monitoring his dance from his phone and suddenly got a request from Yujin. Usually, the manager will pick him up.

"Yujin-ah, have you been bullied?" Gunwook asked.

"No! Who would want to bully a popular idol like me?" Yujin replies while looking at his own face in the mirror. It makes Gunwook roll his eyes.

"Then why do you want me to pick you up? Is the manager busy tomorrow?"

"Ermm, there is one snack place that I wanted to go to near our school. I've heard from one of my classmates. Let's go eat together." Yujin asked.

Gunwook burst into laughter when hearing that.

"Yah, are you a loner? You can ask your friends to go with you. You're in 10th grade now. You should have a lot of friends now." Gunwook said while shaking his head. But his laugh faded when he saw an expression on Yujin's face. He looks sad.

"Are you really a loner, Yujin-ah?"

"NO!"

Yujin buried his face in the bed with frustration.

"Yah, Yujin. Get up and tell me. Did something happen in school?"

Gunwook put aside his phone and climbed a stair to Yujin's bed. He sat beside him and patted Yujin's back. "Yah faster!"

"Urgh fine!"

Yujin gets up and sits in front of Gunwook.

"I don't feel comfortable with them sometimes. No, I think they're the ones who felt uncomfortable around me." Yujin said.

"What do you mean? You don't eat together with your classmates?"

"Not anymore. I always eat with my friends from different classes, but they're busy tomorrow. Tomorrow is the last day of promotion for extra tteokboki. They also have Malatang. I'm going to buy for our members too." Yujin said while smiling. "They're so busy last week; it must be delicious!"

"Yah! Put the food aside, we're talking about you and your classmates. What do you mean they feel uncomfortable around you?" Gunwook taps Yujin on the head for being too distracted about food.

"I don't know! Every time I walked into the class, they suddenly got quiet. They stopped talking and kept glancing at me, as if they were talking about me. Also, during lunch. They asked me to join them in eating lunch, but they didn't say a word. It was so awkward. But when I saw them from afar, they were always talking and laughing." Yujin explained to Gunwook with a pouty face.

"I feel like they can't be themselves because of me. That's why I decided to befriend students from another class who treated me like a normal person. No hard feelings, tho. I just don't feel comfortable eating with someone who's uncomfortable with me." Yujin said it again.

"You don't ask why?" Gunwook asked.

"Is it obvious?" "Actually, I've heard they're talking behind me. It's kinda hurt my feelings, but me and Leeseo are the only idols in the class. They must be talking about me. Probably the after-guilt after talking bad about me," Yujin said and chuckled.

Gunwook patted him on the head.

"Ohhh, Han Yujin. You've grown up well under my care. Good job. So, what is your solution for this problem?"

"I don't need a solution for this problem. That is not my problem."

Yujin said. He's lying on his back.

"I understand they might be intimidated by me because I'm an idol and good-looking. But it's not a reason for them to talk behind me. They can just tell it on my face, and I'm always at the back of the class. All of their assumptions about me are irrelevant if they don't know me well. Honestly, don't you think it was childish? They're all smiley when they see me, but they're still talking behind me." He said again.

"Hmm.. you don't need to mention how good-looking you are. It makes me puke," Gunwook said. "But I can relate to that. I used to get mocked behind my back because I joined a dance club full of girls' students. But they started to change when the club started with many people joining."

"You've heard me, right? I don't get bullied; I just wanted to go and eat. It's too sad to eat on my own. Gunwook hyung, pick me up, and let's go eat together."

"Where's yours, please? Repeat your sentences and add please in front of them."

"Gunwook hyungggg!"

"I have a promise with someone tomorrow."

"Ahhh, let's take your friend too and eat with us!"

"We're eating steak."

"Yah!"

"Han Yujin, I told you not to call me "Ya" when we fight, right? Am I "Ya"? to you?" Gunwook said while squeezing the waist. It makes Yujin pout his lips.

"But we're not fighting right now." Yujin said.

Yujin tugged at Gunwook's pajamas. "Hyung, please eat with me tomorrow. I'll treat you Malatang! Oh? Uri Gunwookkiee? Pleaseeee? "

Gunwook rolled his eyes.

"Urgh fine!"