brainstorm (Ao3)
Everyone's convinced Youngkyun and Taeyang are in a relationship.
Youngkyun doesn't know.
Taeyang is just trying not to lose Youngkyun.
Everyone is just confused until they are not anymore.
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"So... you and Taeyang hyung, huh? It was about damn time."
"Huh?" Youngkyun looks up from his lunch to look at his friend Chanhee with a confused expression.
"You and Taeyang, come on."
"What? What about me and Taeyang?"
Chanhee rolls his eyes at him, "you're a thing."
"A thing?"
"Yes, a thing."
"What does that mean? Why are we a thing?" Youngkyun looks more and more confused as he eats his food.
"Well. You're dating. So. A thing." Chanhee shrugs as he puts his food into his mouth and Youngkyun suddenly chokes on his food.
"What?!" he almost yells. "What the fuck are you talking about, oh my God, you're delusional!"
Chanhee just blinks. Their friend Zuho appears with his tray of food and sits next to Chanhee. "What's up?"
"I think Youngkyun here just realized he's dating Taeyang."
Zuho frowns. "What?"
"See!" Youngkyun exclaims, "you're crazy!" he points at his younger friend.
"No, I mean," Zuho says, "they've been dating since forever, why is this news?"
"Exactly!" Chanhee laughs.
"What?!" Youngkyun yells again, now earning some weird and annoyed looks from people passing and sitting near their table.
"Youngkyun hyung, seriously, are you so oblivious-"
"What are you yelling about, Youngkyun-ah?" Taeyang suddenly appears and sits next to him, an arm resting around his shoulders.
"It's just- hyung!" Youngkyun moves away, "they think we're dating!" he looks at Taeyang with big, wild eyes before he starts laughing hard. Taeyang's face has a look their other two friends can't really read. Something like hurt crosses his eyes. But Youngkyun doesn't notice, he's too busy laughing the discomfort away. So he laughs too. A laugh that sounds forced but of course Youngkyun doesn't notice either. Both Chanhee and Zuho look at Taeyang with a shy and sad expression.
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Youngkyun is sitting on a table on the campus' coffee shop, sipping on his coffee while reading some super boring text for his class. He's not really paying that much attention to it. He's distracted thinking about... stuff. Like what Chanhee said a couple of days ago. Taeyang and him dating? Ha, sure.
"I bought us tickets to see that movie you wanted to watch," Taeyang's voice suddenly came. Youngkyun looked up from his book.
"When did you get here?"
"A couple of minutes ago. You seemed really into your reading so I didn't want to interrupt," he chuckled, "but then you seemed kind of gone so," he shrugged.
"We going to the movies with the guys?"
"Uh, no, just us."
"Uhm," Youngkyun frowned, "why?"
"I- I don't know?" Taeyang seemed kind of taken aback by the question. They've been to the movies by themselves countless times before and Youngkyun had never thought it was weird. "Because you said you wanted to watch it when we were together there last time so I went and bought us tickets?"
