Private Message / BBH

3.1

     "Why did I agree to do this?" Joohye rubbed her hands together from the cold winter air.

She's been out of the social media game for a couple months, the last time she posted was when it was around May. A lot of her followers really have gotten worried. Not only that, she has been getting tons of dms from followers and him.

Joohye didn't know what had gotten inside her head when she agreed to meet Baekhyun. It was almost like some force was trying to make her do it, weirdly enough.

The cold continued to freeze the girl to death and her outfit wasn't that warm enough, but the ulzzang inside her would sacrafice her warmth for the sake of her outfit.

She was actually kinda happy that she didn't cut her hair. She did spend most of her life cutting her hair short again after it reached a certain length, but it did act as a scarf for her.

"Joohye." A voice called that interrupted her thoughts.

The no longer short-haired girl turned to see a familiar face with a white mask on.

He was a popular ulzzang, much much popular than her. But Joohye really didn't know why he needed that mask.

"Hey." She simply greeted, not getting over the fact that she's actually meeting him.

Baekhyun walked closer to the girl, "You're taller than I thought."

Joohye gave a weird look to Baekhyun, "Huh?" she chuckles. "That's a weird way to greet someone who you just met."

"But we already know each other, right?" He tilts his head as his smirk was outlined against his mask.

Joohye sighed as she crossed her arms, raising one eyebrow at him. She didn't exactly know how or what to say to him. She often wondered if there was any hard feelings between them.

"Is it rude to have thought you were short?"

"Kinda." The girl remarked.

"At least we finally met." Baekhyun states with a smile, taking off his mask.

"Yeah." Joohye said awkwardly as she kept on bouncing between her heels and toes.

"Are you cold?" He asks the freezing girl.

"No shit." She muttered.

Baekhyun laughed, "Let's go." Grabbing her wrist, he lead her to the nearest cafe.

"Two hot cocoas please." He tells the barista, paying along the way.

Joohye walked away from Baekhyun, finding a seat near the window of the crowded shop.

Before she knew it, he came back with two small cups.

Joohye blew into the hot drink, trying her best to not make eye contact with him.

"Um, what did you want to talk about?" She asked, taking a small sip from her drink. The drink was still burning hot but she didn't react.

"Since you kept on 'seening' me on instagram, why not talk to you in real life so you wouldn't escape." He explains.

"Escape?"

"Yeah, you do that a lot."

Joohye sighs, "Can you just tell what you wanted to tell me so I can leave?"

"My exact reason."

The girl rolls her eyes, "I'm leaving." Leaving the cafe, Baekhyun quickly followed her, calling her name along the way.

"Joohye!" He yelled, jogging towards the girl.

"Joohye listen to me." He says, grabbing both of her shoulders so she can stop.

"What do you want!?"

"I-I—"

"Just say it already!" Joohye shouted, getting impatient.

He took off his white mask, "I like you." Baekhyun said calmly.

Joohye's eyes widen "W-what?"

"I like you." He said again.

"What do you mean you like me? You go this far just to trick me on thinking that you actually care about me? I'm not dumb, this happened to me before!" She emotions exploded right in front of her.

"I'm not tricking you or anything! I have no idea what your talking about!"

"We literally just met ten minutes ago! You can't like someone by just talking over some app!"

"Then how did you meet Ryou?" Baekhyun asked Joohye, looking straight into her eyes.

"Through—" The girl was about to answer, but recalled how they met.

      Ryou and Joohye met through kik a long, long, time ago. During the first year of talking to each other, they haven't seen each other face to face, let alone video chat for obvious reasons. But the more they talked they slowly became such amazing friends, yet from different countries.

      Kik, Instagram, Twitter, and other social medias was the only thing that continued their friendship. If it wasn't for that, they would've just been mutuals.

"Through an app." She finished her sentence in defeat.

"Exactly, Ryou himself told me that."

Joohye was speechless, nothing was coming out of her mouth. "What do you mean he—"

      Baekhyun interrupted her again, "He even told me you liked me back."

"So tell me, do you like me back?" Baekhyun asked the girl, not caring about the other people staring at them.

Joohye felted pressured and embarrassed, it wasn't long until people started to recognize the extremely popular ulzzang with a much smaller ulzzang. She looked down at her shoes, letting her hair fall over her face.

"Maybe?"

Baekhyun giggled before taking her cold hand and running out of the area. A lot of followers, they guessed, started to crowd around them with their phones out. Escaping from the mob, they ended up at a small part of Seoul.

Their chests heaved up and down as they tried to catch their breaths. Joohye looked up at the male with a giggle and a smile, Baekhyun couldn't help but smile back at the girl.

Joohye covered her face with her hands and whined, "That was so embarrassing! Couldn't you have confessed to me somewhere else private?"

"Please, you would have probably escaped if I didn't tell you then and there." Baekhyun said as he took her hand and held it tight.

"So..." He trailed, giggling afterwards. "You like me!" He squeezed Joohye's cheeks between his fingers.

"Stop it!" She pouted, taking something out of her backpack. "Anyway, here Baekhyun. It's the music box I made while I was in Japan."

"No way," Baekhyun muttered, "so I'm that special someone?"

Joohye nods slightly due to embarrassment.

"Thank you, but can I ask you something?"

"What is it?"

"You've been tricked before? By who?"

"Um, someone who I thought actually cared about me." Joohye answered vaguely. "But can we go back at my place or yours? We really shouldn't be like this in public."

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