No You Girls || 艺兴

t h i r t e e n

t h i r t e e n

Sun arrived at their meeting place first, since she left her dorm building first, and its location was slightly closer to the Han River than the SM building was. She waited for around fifteen minutes before he arrived. Like the first time, he had attempted to surprise her by grabbing her around the waist and whispering into her ear. And like the first time, she resorted to hitting him before knowing who it was. This time she elbowed him in the gut and he fell to the floor by her feet. 

When she saw who it was, she brought her hands to her face and let out a gasp, "Damn it, baobei! Why do you have to surprise me like that? I'm on edge here." She scolded him, kneeling by his side to make sure he was okay.

Other that getting the wind knocked out of him, Yixing was fine. With his arms around himself, he said to her, "Sorry, jagi. Its just really funny to see your reaction." He let out a chuckle, but it was a rather breathless and pained one.

"Its not funny when I kung fu chop you into next week." She replied with worry lacing every word, unamused by the situation. Her hand went to touch the affected area and he winced slightly. But since there was nothing too serious about his injury, she helped him get back on his feet.

"Have you really studied martial arts?" He asked her, his hand still gripping his abdomen where her elbow made contact. His eyes were semi-closed in pain as he winced once more. "You really have a deadly strong arm."

"You deserved that." She blew a raspberry at him.

"Just a little." He agreed with her.

"So..." She began slowly, the atmosphere changing to something more serious as she continued to speak. "You wanted to talk to me about something, baobei?" 

She eyed him suspiciously, awaiting an answer.

He smiled wide with excitement, taking her by surprise. "I saw your press conference the other day on the television, where you talked about your secret boyfriend." Sun was confused. She remembered the interview, and she did remember mentioning a secret boyfriend. But there was no room for confusion because she remembered mentioning it was someone from the agency. 

Unless the media had cut down on her footage in order to save time. Then there would have been no way for Yixing to know that she wasn't talking about him.

Snapping her out of her thoughts, he continued, taking her hands in both of his. "Baby, I'm ready to let everyone know that we're in love. Who cares what our agencies, our groups, and our fans think? I would accept an suffering in life, as long as I can get through it with you." He brought her hands up to his lips and kissed them with so much love and conviction that it managed to break her heart into a million pieces.

Uh...I do, Sun couldn't help but thinking to herself.

She saw where he was going with this, but she was scared.

People wouldn't understand.

SM and Pledis just didn't get along. To even think that two of their idols were in love was something no one had thought of or even remotely considered.

"Will you do this with me?" He asked her, eyes full of hope.

Sun pulled her hands out of his grasp, already giving her answer before she even spoke. "I really want to, Yixing. You don't know how much I yearn for that." She said to him, remembering all the happy people she passed on the way from the airport to the dorm building once she returned from China that afternoon. She wanted that kind of freedom for herself and Yixing, but sadly they didn't have it. And daring to challenge their agencies was bound to have its negative consequences on their careers. Sun didn't want that for herself, and she didn't want that for Yixing who had worked even harder and sacrificed even more than she had in order to get where he was.