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Krist stared at the phone, numb with disbelief. What did Singto mean by that? He called once, twice, thrice, all going straight to the voice mail. He opened his Twitter, almost stalkerlike habit to check on the older's timeline and his likes.

"A person who you secretly love knows your feelings but pretended that they didn't because they want to keep you in their life even if they did not love you"

He paused a second seeing that before also liking the same tweet. Who is the one secretly in love? Himself? Who is the pretender? Singto? But if so why the cryptic oneliner which implied otherwise? Why is this so fucking complicated? What does it even fucking mean?

He gripped his phone, the urge to smash something riding him hard as more calls went to voicemail. He threw his phone down next to him as he thought furiously on how to corner the older.

It is easier planned out in his mind than done. Despite being in the same company, both have differing schedules and projects. He gave in and enlisted two person to help.

P'Jane and P'Yuyui sat in front of him, listening to him rant about the situation. It didn't occur to him till he was done that he is effectively coming out to the two managers and potentially implicated Singto in the process. His face reddened and he try to backpedal his words before P'Yuyui took a pity on him and halted him.

"We are not dumb"
"Unlike the two of you. Why can't you two just talk it out vs the constant misunderstanding? You would have saved each other the heart ache from your own imagined issues and I didn't have to watch him not eat not sleep and pretending everything was okay"

Krist's head lifted at that, worry creasing his brows. P'Jane shook his head at the younger, these two men would be the death of them.

*****

Thanks to P'Jane's careful planning, Singto was left alone in the dressing room before the next promotional interview of Friendzone. The remaining casts were either in solo interviews or photoshoot.

He pinched the bridge between his eyes, feeling the onset of a headache. His daily routine of school and work with very little sleep in between is catching up on him. Even when he lay in bed, sleep don't come easily, his thoughts often going to that someone.

The force of nature walked purposely to the dressing room, the backstage staff pausing in surprise, not expecting him for today's segment. He gave a tight smile as he quickened his pace, reaching far too fast in front of the door to the dressing room. He took a deep breath and pushed the door open.

Singto looked up, his heart did a weird flip at the sight of Krist. He walked in and closed the door behind him, a finger pushing the lock in, giving them the needed privacy.

"What.."
"No, you listen to me"
"We.."
"Just fucking listen! What did you mean by let's fucking end it? When did we even fucking start? When did you even fucking let me in? You never reciprocated at all, always running away when I tried to talk to you. How could you just throw me that one liner and then shut me out of your life? How could you just abandon us before we even start? I am not in any relationship with anyone else, how could I be when my world revolves only around you and only you? You are such a fucking idiot. How can..."

Krist silenced as Singto pulled him into a tight embrace, hugging him close as he calmed down.

"I'm an idiot"

Krist nodded at the soft declaration, not denying it as Singto chuckled.

"But you are my idiot"

Singto leant back and looked at the face that is so precious to him. He nodded and both shared a smile. He leant forward as their eyes fluttered close only to be jerked apart by the loud banging on the dressing room's door.

The debate to ignore it ended pretty soon when the loud banging resumed. Opening it, Singto saw P'Jane and the rest of the Friendzone cast staring back at him, all with different forms of amusement on their faces at the unexpected drama they overheard.

"Can you all be any louder?"

P'Jane teased them as they entered the dressing room for touch up before the interview. Krist flushed and looked away while Singto held onto his hand, a wide smile on his face.

A/N : Thank you all for your comments in the past chapter. To be honest, I hadn't thought of continuing it but the thought did linger in my mind on why did Krist also like the same tweet and I guess that is also why this chapter came about.