while you were gone + yugyeom

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"i would date you too, bella" it was almost a whisper, but she heard him say it. she closes the door as if she had heard nothing, making her way through the dorm. when she's passing through the living room, she stops and says goodbye to everybody.

"bye bye everyone. good luck on your new choreo, ill be there on wednesday to see how you're doing anyway." they all smiled at the younger girl, taking turns to hug her.

jaebum adds, "what would we do without our good luck charm?" bella blushes for the second time tonight and reminds youngjae that he actually needed to get out of bed before 11. 

she leaves the dorm and leans against the wall. she can't stop thinking about what yugyeom said. does he feel the same? does he really mean it?  bella was now beyond confused, but she decided to just let it pass, taking it as if it had never happened.

the apartment she shares with her uncle was a mere 5 minutes walk down the road, so she frequently makes the journey on her skateboard. this time, she forgot in the rush to see bambam's new hair and has to walk home. she looks down at her sandals and sighs, "youre smart", bella says to herself.

as she starts the small walk down the pavement, she hears a familiar voice shout her name from behind her. "bella! wait for me!" it was yugyeom, running out of the jyp dorm building and earning a few looks from passers by.

"what is it, gyeomie?" she turns around and waits for him to catch up. when he gets to her he slides an arm around her shoulders and begins to walk with her. "i just realised how late it is, and you didn't have your skateboard so i didnt want you walking home by yourself. you know, just in case."

"you know, people arent as dangerous as you think. you worry too much.", almost every time bella walks around somewhere yugyeom would walk with her or give her a lecture, just in case. "no, i worry about you too much."

they walk for another two minutes in silence, until her apartment was in sight, when yugyeom stops the both of them. "oppa, what are you doing?" bella asks, trying to get past. 

he reaches up and moved her hair put of her face, tucking it behind her ear. "bella, you know when got7 debut, we can't be the same." bella tilts her head to the side in thought. she knew it, of course, but she didn't really think it would make that much of a difference. "what do you mean?"

"it means that we won't be able to hold hands or go for midnight snacks. it means we won't be able to go to coffee shops and we won't be able to hang out.", she picks at the zip of his coat, "bella i want you to know that i really really love you. no matter what, even if we drift apart, i love you."

"i don't like what you're saying, kim yugyeom. we aren't going to drift off. we will be like we always are and were, just.... we'll just see less of eachother." yugyeom sighs. they won't be the same, he knows it. he wishes that it wasn't going to be like that, but he'd seen how it had happened to other trainees when they became idols.

"bells.. i want to say this before i debut, but i don't want it to change us." not knowing what he was about to say, bella's heart beat a little bit faster. "what is it? what's wrong?"

yugyeom blushes pink, "nan naega joha."