Tender Love {Chanyeol/Jongin} [English Ver.]

~59~

"Do you like this one?" Eunji asked her friend, the one resting her back in the wall infront of the dressing room, after coming out of it wearing a loose short red dress. Naeun looked up from her phone and looked at her up and down.

"No," she told her and looked back to her phone. The dress was pretty but not for Eunji. It did not fit her.

Eunji sighed and closed the curtain again. Three dresses down, two more left. She was already tired but she could not leave the store without finding her dress for the graduation.

Naeun had already bought hers and she was tired of waiting for Eunji, which annoyed Eunji more because instead of helping her better to choose, she was only texting Chanyeol.

The college year had ended the previous week and everyone had got their marks. Excellent ones. They had studied hard for their exams, which gave them a great result. What they had expected. Like their final projects. Eunji and Baekhyun's books were well criticized. The model Chanyeol made of a hotel amazed some professional architects. The photo shoot of Naeun and a few of her class -the best ones- had the opportunity to be published in different fashion magazines. And the projects of Jongin and Sehun also had good results.

Eunji and Naeun walked out of the store, the first one with her hands empty. She was stressed already for not finding her dress. And the graduation was the next day!

They used to do that: wait until the last moment to buy something that they need.

Two hours later they were found in a bus on their way to Jongin and Chanyeol's apartment. The boys received them with big hugs and hunger. Naeun put a food bag in the coffee table and they sat in the floor around it to start having dinner.

"How was it?" Jongin asked the girls about the dresses shopping.

"Exhausting," Eunji replied. "It took me four hours to find a freaking dress." Naeun chuckled. "But I'm happy with the one I found. It's beautiful."

"It is." Naeun agreed with a grin. "What did you guys do today?" She asked the boys. They looked at each other with smirks.

"We went shopping as well," Jongin answered and ate from his plate.

"Didn't you have your clothes for tomorrow already?" Eunji wondered.

"Yes. But we were buying something else. Not for tomorrow though," Jongin told her and kept eating.

***

The big day arrived. The day in which the college seniors would start as adults and face real life. All of them were nervous and excited. They were achieving their biggest goal in life. . . . And soon they'd start to achieve the next one: get the job they always dreamed of.

The place were the graduation ceremony was being held was at the theater of the college. Hundreds of people were there, the students and their families. The students were wearing their academic regalia, which consisted of a black gown and a cap of the same color, and the hood was white.

The students were sitting by order of surname so Baekhyun was sitting in the first line, Eunji and Jongin in the third line although not side by side, Sehun was in the fourth, Chanyeol in the fifth and Naeun in the sixth. The family members were sitting in the back seats holding cameras and such to film the moment they had been waiting since their childs were born.

"What?" Naeun asked Chanyeol without making a sound and only moving her lips. He was trying to tell her something from his place instead of listening what the teachers were saying. She winced after she couldn't understand what he tried to tell her. At the end, he gave up and made a heart with his thumb and index finger as he smiled without showing his teeth. She giggled and looked down, her cheeks turning red.