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❝ if these crazy days became yours? ❞
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jinyoung's head was a mess. he thought more than twice about ignoring his best friend, who tried awfully hard to get him to notice her.
stepping out of the school, jinyoung walked to the nearest café where he sat down and thought everything through there. he sat at a table that was blocked off from the windows, the one no one really goes to except the workers since it was so dull around it.
sipping his foamy hot chocolate he ordered, despite it being warm outside, he took out his phone and started scrolling on his social media to check out what was happening.
he almost dropped his phone at what he had read. choking silently, jinyoung coughed it up and fixed himself before looking crazy or causing a scene.
❝ "just liking each other" huh? ❞ he muttered bitterly. a photo of yoonhui and taedong kissing in front of a beautiful mountain was uploaded. ❝ is this what people call "just liking each other" nowadays? ❞
across the café was jinyoung's classmate, duran.
she was standing in line, waiting for her number to be called when she spotted jinyoung—alone and scared-looking. figuring that her latte could wait, it is getting a little late anyways, she thought.
sitting in front of jinyoung, she started to scroll on her phone as well, acting as if she had been there the whole time. jinyoung noticed her presence and laughed suddenly.
❝ what are you doing here, rannie? ❞ he asked in a silly voice. her ears had reddened, but he couldn't see that.
she laughed it off, ❝ just hanging out with my best bud, jinyoung, ❞ she explained in a voice that screamed "duh!"
❝ jinyoung? i don't see him, ❞ jinyoung looked around for a jinyoung—bae jinyoung—who wasn't in sight.
❝ not baejin, i was talking about you, you buffoon! ❞ duran laughed, a real laugh that she didn't have to force out of herself. everything jinyoung said or did made her laugh—out of how cute he was and how embarrassing it must've been.
jinyoung laughed with her, as if his sorrowful self had never even crossed paths with him, ❝ if i'm a buffoon, what are you? ❞
❝ me? i'm just duran, ❞ she said between laughs, ❝ rannie. ❞
❝ oh, i see you've finally accepted my nickname for you after, i don't know, about ten years? ❞ jinyoung said in an overly sassy voice. duran laughed quietly seeing how he acted.
❝ whatever, jinyoung, ❞ duran waved her hand at him as the waiter came to give her the latte she ordered. ❝ thank you—baejin?! ❞
❝ what the hell, duran, we literally had a whole discussion about me working here yesterday! ❞ bae jinyoung shook his head in disappointment and walked away in shame.
❝ ah, that boy! ❞ duran clicked her tongue and turned to jinyoung, ❝ i've got to go hang out with ryujin, so see you later, buffoon! ❞ she stood up and started to leave, waving to him. jinyoung waved back, secretly sad that she was leaving.
him being alone with his thoughts and a phone screen filled with pictures of yoonhui and taedong made him more anxious.
as intimidating as he looked, he stared at yoonhui, sadness and other unexplainable feelings came his way. most of them ran into him while others waited to strike him at any given moment.
❝ i just want to know, ❞ he scratched the back of his ear, trying to look uninterested in what he was doing to avoid getting stares, ❝ i wondered, what if these crazy days, also became yours? ❞
