Angel's Voice; NCT Markhyuck FF

III

"D-don't tell me you are the one who wanted to meet me here...", I asked unsure since I've never noticed anything.
"I-I am...", he held his head low. "I am sorry if I caused you problems...", I could see that he started biting on his lower lip after finishing his sentence.
"No no! You didn't!", I encouragingly smiled at him which made him smile too. "Just why didn't you tell me directly?", I tilted my head a bit and locked my eyes with his.
"D-do you even know how difficult that is?!", he replied while blushing madly and looked away angrily. "Ok ok, stop acting like a drag queen. So... you really like me that way...?"

"Y-yeah... I guess I do...", whispering he looked away embarrassed. "Why haven't you told me..?", I whispered to myself again and took the boy in my embrace. "Chenle, I-"
"Wait! Before you say it out loud! Go with me on a date! Just one!", the blonde shut my mouth with one hand looking at me intensely. "Chenle I can't answer like this-", I muffled against his hand, making it sound strange but he understood it anyway. "Oh! S-sorry!", he said before taking his hand down. And once again he bit his lip.

"Just one date, huh?", I ran one hand through my hair and looked at him. He nodded quickly. "Alright-", his face brightened up immediately. "But don't tell anybody it's a date! I don't want any bad rumors"
"Ok!"

"Where will we be going tho?", the other boy grinned happily. "To the Arcade and afterwards I take you to a café!", I looked at him surprised.
He must have planned everything before.

That thought made me chuckle, without noticing it at first. "But I don't know if I have so much money with me. We'll have to get some more money." "Who said, you need any? Well, I didn't.", he smiled brightly. I looked at him shocked but he only giggled.
"Are you crazy?! That's way to expensive!"
"Pssssssht! No more words about money!", he tried to stop me. "B-but-"
"Nah!", he cut me off immediately. I gave up and replied with a quiet 'Alright'.

To be honest, I was flashed from the boy's sudden revealing.
I mean. He just told me he liked me.
Like 'like-like' me.

I looked at him trunken in thoughts and questions.
I asked myself if I like him too... and since how long he's having a crush on me... or was he pranking me?
My mind was going wild as I looked at him.
All of a sudden I was taken back to reality when he shyly took my hand. "Wanna go now...?", he almost whispered and I nodded while smiling softly at him.

I had to admit it. He was cute.
Hella cute to be honest.

I blushed at my own thoughts and quickly stood up, then reaching out my hand to him which he took thankfully and I pulled him up.

Without even wanting it he fell against my chest. I had thought that he may weigh some more than he actually did, so I put way too much power into pulling. "You have to gain weight, Chenle!", I scolded him and poked his stomach, wait- which stomach? "No, I don't! You just have to train less, your arms are too strong!", he protested pouting while crossing his arms.

"Yeah yeah", I laughed slightly at the pouting boy. He looked like a five years old like that. "Now come on, let's go~"
He nodded and immediately took my hand just to pull me with him. Quickly I snatched my bag before he also did that with his very own.

Together we walked downstairs and out of the building. "So let's go straight to the arcade!", Chenle let go of my hand and smiled at me. "Sure! And afterwards to which café?" "The one down the street westside the supermarket", he answered confidently and my eyes widened a bit.

How did he know that's my favorite café?!

"I also brought a self made bento for you. And I bought a cola for you.", he added to his previous sentence and smile at me brightly, showing his white teeth. He quickly put a bottle of cola and a baby blue and light yellow box out of his reddish bag.
Once again my eyes widened a bit.
"You really didn't have to do that! Oh my gosh, thank you LeLe!", I thought it would be rude to not accept it, plus: Chenle was a pretty good cook. He already cooked for me several times and not even my mom's food was that good.
"Wait until you opened it~"
"What? Why?", I asked and looked at him curiously. What did he cook?

"What about we'll take a walk after going to the café?", the blonde boy asked me and walked to the arcade's direction. "Why not?", I replied with a smile, knowing that he wanted to keep the date as long as possible.
But I could understand him, this was his chance to make me fall for him.

A sad smile appeared on my lips. I liked him. But not in that way. But it was cute how he tried his best even tho he knew that I didn't love him. When I got back from my thoughts, he looked at me and I looked at him.

Our eyes locked.

And maybe I did just imagine it but somehow I could see his broken heart through his dark brown eyes. They had lost their lively shine which I loved about his eyes.
And maybe it's ridiculous but somehow it hurt me seeing him like that.

Now we were already standing in front of the arcade and I smiled at him genuinely.
"Let's go and have fun!", I cheered and his sad smile got brighter again.

"Yes let's have fun!"

Chenle POV

I looked at him with the best smile I could give him now. My heart squeezed itself together as I saw him with that sad smile and it hurt.

It hurt so bad to see him look like that.
It hurt so bad to know why he looks like that.
And it hurt so bad to know that I was the one who caused that he looks like that.

But I smiled anyway.
"Hyung, I'll go and get the tickets, we'll meet up at the car driver, alright?", I only got a nod as reply and we both made our ways. While walking I thought about some things. And I asked myself if I should give up or try to steal his heart today...

All of a sudden I bumped into somebody and fell to the ground.
"Oh my god, are you okay?", the soft voice asked me. "Y-yeah, I am sorry", I looked up and saw a boy with hazelnut to orange colored hair and the arcade's staffs' outfit.
He smiled kindly and reached out his hand to help me stand up. I took it thankfully and stood up carefully. Afterwards I bowed immediately.

"Hey hey, it's alright! Can I help you out with something? I'm the staff for now", he asked happily while smiling and seemed like restarting an old arcade game machine. He quickly turned on the machine, then he looked at me again. "I just wanted to buy tickets, Mr...", I snatched a look at the name sign at the shirt he was wearing and continued, "... Lee."
He chuckled, "No no please don't say my last name, Donghyuck is perfectly fine! So let's get you some tickets, not?", he seemed pretty cheerful and had a smile on his face mostly all the time. But he also seemed pretty young. I guessed he was in my age. Maybe a bit older.

"So Mr- euh I mean Donghyuck, aren't you a bit young to work already?", he shook his head. "No, not anymore, but I will visit the School Of Performing Arts near here soon~", he honestly answered and smiled at me brightly.

I widened my eyes.

Could it be that he is that new student?!