𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ✧ 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐞

Chapter 46

Chanmin raised an eyebrow. "You told him you liked me."

My soul momentarily left my body.

"I-WHAT-no I-THAT-"

"I mean, not directly," he cut in with a little amused smile. "You said I smiled like an idiot and called you pretty without saying the word. Which is... kinda accurate."

I wanted to die.

"Hey Choyeon?"

I looked up, cheeks burning.

He leaned back slightly, expression unreadable. "Can I ask you something?"

"Sure," I whispered.

"Do you actually like me, or was that just the soju talking?"

I stared.

I didn't know.
I didn't know.
Maybe it was both.
Maybe I liked him because he was kind and stayed when others left. Maybe I liked him because he listened without pushing. Or maybe I was still broken and just clinging to the first soft place I could land.

"I..." I began, then stopped.

"You don't have to answer now," he said quickly. "I just... needed to know. Where we stand."

I nodded.

Then I added, softly, "I'm honestly not sure. You're a great person and I definitely look up to you, but I don't know if I can call this that typa 'like' yet..."

Chanmin smiled gently. "Ok then."

And just like that, we went back to studying thermodynamics.

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I rushed out of class as soon as the bell rang, not even noticing siyun and dahee standing by the gate.

Where was I going?

Anton's class. That bastard owed me an explanation.

And when he wasn't there, I went to the second most likely place he'd be.

The cafeteria.

And sure enough, he was there. Slouched on the bench near the vending machine laughing with his friends. Hoodie half-zipped, hair a little messy like he ran his hand through it a million times this morning.

I stalked up to him.

He looked up right before I got to him, his eyes widening slightly. "Hey-"

I didn't let him finish.

I rushed him, looking at nothing else but him. "Get up, we need to talk."

"Why is something wrong?"

He didn't even manage to finish standing up before I grabbed his hood and dragged him to the far corner of he cafeteria where not too many people sat.

"Ok bastard I somehow accidentally told you I liked chanmin and you go and decide 'you know I broke up with her and now she likes my brother so let's embarrass her by telling him' huh? Was that funny to you?"

He looked taken aback all of a sudden. "I swear I didn't mean to embarrass you I just thought he'd want to know-"

"Yeah but what are you gonna do now? I literally can't face him anymore oh my gosh. Plus you shouldn't trust a drunk person's words anyways cause bitch I don't even like him I like-" I stopped myself. And I was glad that I did.

But his expression grew softer. Softer? More like upset. But he still smiled. "So you also didn't mean it when you said you like me?"

I had no memory of that. My mind was killing me. "I said what now?"

He looked around, checking if any of his friends were around. After he made sure, he leaned in slightly and said, "you said you liked me a lot, maybe still do." He smirked slightly.

"Well you look satisfied. What answer would you prefer?" I tried to act tough, praying he wouldn't see my ears that were definitely red by now.

"I was actually hoping you still did."

"No, your just saying that to get a reaction off me and I will not be giving you the satisfaction of that today."

"What if I actually mean it?"

"Well you don't and I don't think I did either in whatever that call was yesterday."

"You never know, I might. And I have this feeling that you did too."

"Ok so now that's just wrong. If I liked you I would've directly told you ages ago."

"No you wouldn't, you never even had the courage to confess before and now it'd just hurt your ego."

"Ok then I do. What now genius?"

We both stood there in silence, frozen. It took my brain a few moments to process my words but when I did a hand immediately shot up to cover my mouth.

And him? What was his reaction? He laughed it off. So casually. Like "oh you like me? No big deal, happens everyday" which lowkey pissed me off a bit.

"So I was right?" He said, smirking prominent.

"No. You weren't...." I tried to sound confident. Spouler alert, I failed miserably.

"I mean you just confirmed it, and I'm pretty you're not drunk right now are you?" He leaned closer.

"Ok if I say yes will it be enough for you to shut up?"

"Mhm."

"Ok then yeah I like you, a bit more then I'd like to admit. Happy now?" I said head held high somehow, embarrassment to the max.

He just stood there, leaning back, smirk morphing into more of a smile before he said, "That's... nice to know."

I was about to give a reply out of pure frustration but just on que Taesan called him.

"I'll talk to you later then, gotta go now. Bye."

Frustration makes the best confession scenes