Deer Luhan, With Love

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Chapter 20 – In Which TVXQ Meet My Creepy Coffee Face

Deer Luhan,

Why is it considered a date when Sehun took me out to see Seoul but not when Changmin invited me out for coffee with the words “it’s a date”?  I thought boys could be illogical sometimes, but this just doesn’t make sense.

Leigh

It was nearly three-thirty in the morning before we got back to the dorm, and I was shivering up a storm in spite of Luhan’s warm jacket.  Sehun had considered lending me his as well, but we both agreed it wouldn’t be great if he got hypothermia, so he’d settled for wrapping his scarf around my neck and forcing one of his gloves on me, holding onto my other hand with his bare one to keep it warm.  Both our hands were so frozen by the time he opened the front door that even superglue would have had a tough time matching how stuck together they were, and I couldn’t feel my own fingers, let alone Sehun’s.

The living room light was on and, as we kicked off our shoes, I realised somebody was gaming in front of the TV.  Sensing company, Chanyeol paused the game and tossed his controller aside, turning to grin at us.

“Hi, guys!” he began, and then his eyes dropped to our hands, and a smirk the like of which I’d never seen before crossed his features, and I knew we were in trouble.  “How was the date?”

“It wasn’t,” Sehun replied evenly, waiting for me to nudge my trainers into a neat position on the shoe rack before heading across the room, dragging me along behind him.

“It wasn’t?” repeated Chanyeol, vaulting over the back of the couch to skid to a halt in front of us.  “And you come back holding hands?  You’re even wearing the same socks.”

Poker-faced, Sehun disengaged his fingers from mine and pressed his freezing hand to the crook of Chanyeol’s neck.  Chanyeol yelped out a curse and hastily got out of the way.

“I was just showing Leigh a bit of Seoul before she leaves,” he said.  “And now we’re going to bed.”

I winced.  He could have phrased that better, and Chanyeol promptly took him up on it, smirking again.

“What, together?”

“Oh, shock horror,” Sehun said sarcastically.  “I forgot – would sleeping in the same room like always make poor Baekhyun jealous since Leigh slept with him in the hospital?”

“Hey!” I objected.  “You’re making it sound far worse than it was!”

“Oh, that’s a point.”  Chanyeol snapped his fingers and dug around in his pocket.  “Baekhyun asked me to ring him when you got back—”

Sehun had him pinned up against the wall faster than I could blink, and he jerked his head towards the bedroom when he caught me staring.  Clearly, Chanyeol was due a ‘little chat’, possibly with Baekhyun on the other end of the phone, and Sehun thought I could do with catching up on my beauty sleep.  I slipped into the bedroom and quickly changed into my pyjamas before heading out to the bathroom to make my ablutions and brush my teeth.

D.O. was leaning against the sink when I got in, attired in an office suit and wearing a large pair of lens-less glasses.  His cheeks were almost blue, as if he’d just come in from the cold, and his coat was slung over his arm.

“Now, dear,” he said, using his index finger to pull his glasses down his nose so he could inspect me over the rims and gesturing to the toilet with his free hand.  “Take a seat and tell me about your date.”