Love at the Coffee Town||ChanBaek Ff

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“Coming to café?” Kyungsoo asked

“I don’t want to” I replied. I was acting normal. But I cannot blame if my bestie had figured out I am not really normal.

“You need a change, come” he pulled me up from my place.

He seemed to know everything that happened. I hate this- when your best friend gets to know about you before you tell them yourself. I blamed myself for giving Kyungsoo’s contact number to Chanyeol. All boys are same I thought.

“Stop looking at me like that” I said sensing his continuous stare on me.

“Ha? Yeah, why is your cell switched off for long?” he asked.

“I know you know already. Did he tell you everything?” I blamed myself for my damn mistake of giving him his number. I gave it as a backup. Thinking if he cannot reach me than he could speak to him and not to inform all the bullshit he did.

“No, he did not tell, I knew this would happen” he said thoughtfully.

The sip of the coffee I took suddenly felt hot and burning. Things are already getting hard past a week that nothing is making sense anymore. I had switched off my cell phone for 7 days now. And I am attending the classes for the sake of not wanting to have attendance shortage and I am barely making it to college to have a degree and get out of this town soon. And here is my friend telling me fortunes.

“What are you saying?” I asked him casually yet confused.

“Baekhyunie, I knew who he actually is and what family he came from. I know him since I was a kid and I always mentioned him. My father works at their estate” He answered

“You kidding me? When did you ever mention him? You know what, I am trying to forget things and move ahead and this is really not a way to cheer me up"

“Yoda! You definitely remember Yoda right? The estates owner’s son”

I had heard that name like more than a thousand time in these years of friendship with Kyungsoo. There was a time when he always used to tell about him. ‘Yoda did that, Yoda did this, Yoda said that, Yoda brought this… all about Yoda. The sound of his name blurred my vision.

Holy cow!!! Yoda, Yoda is my first crush. I remember seeing him first time when he had come along with Kyungie’s father to drop him to school. I had instantly blushed seeing him smile at me.

I remembered playing hide and seek with him & other kids in the estate whenever I went to Kyungie’s house in 4th grade summer holidays.

I remember this incident where he was a seeker and purposefully did not catch me even when I was so close to getting caught. And well, I remember my first kiss. He had kissed me on cheeks bidding a bye saying he would leave the town the next day.

I was shocked to receive a kiss in front of other kids and Kyungie's parents. Later Kyungsoo had explained that’s how they say good byes in America and I got little upset thinking that’s how he would say bye to Kyungsoo also.

Once he went back to America and didn’t return for a long time, Yoda’s memory eventually remained in the closed shell until now.

How come I couldn’t recognize him? how did I fail to recognise Chanyeol is the adult version of Yoda. And that both of them are a single person?

The similarities between the kid and a complete 26 year old adult hit me. The unmistakably the same chocolate brown eyes, silky black hair, sharp jaw line charming attitude and a low toned voice

I did not know whether to feel happy about my first crush being my first love or to feel sad that my lucky love story did not end well. I was also angry on Kyung for he also hid the truth from me.

How can my friend just sit and watch things happen. A drop of tear fell inside my coffee mug that had turned completely into a cold coffee by this time.

“Baekhun ….”

“No Kyungsoo, let’s leave it here”

“I want you to listen”

“I don’t want to. I mean you could not just stay quiet about everything that involved me right?” I tried to remain even sounding less pathetic.

“No I could not, but you loved him that way, as a milk boy who struggled to stand on his own”

“Stop telling me you guys lied because of me. You don’t decide what I love or like” the tightness in my throat bulged to next level pushing tears out of my control.

“You think I like being fooled by my lover and best friend? And you? You think it is a movie to just accept and laugh it off?” my sadness took over my anger. I continued-

“If it was you, would you have just nodded and get over it that easily? This is not a story where the frog turns into a handsome prince. And I am not the princess.”

“I understand, I knew this day would come and I had well known you would be heart broken. But I know Yoda well. I know he would be there for you no matter what happens. I had to hide it for my brother like Yoda, Chanyeol.”

I wiping my face with a tissue stood up to leave for the class.

“Think about it, you did not care when you thought he is poor. You did not care when you thought he had no home, no money and no proper living. You loved him just as he is and not for what he has or does not have. You loved him as a person and your sudden discovery of his mere status is not going to change it. You were even ready to go against your parents for marrying him if they would not accept him. You love him Baek, and now you are running away from his status thinking you are running away from him. I care about you, you are like my soul sister, and you were there with me for most part my life like how my parents are and how my siblings would be if I had one.”

I stopped walking and turned to him

“You see him like your brother?

“Yeah, I always wanted a sibling and he is like my big brother, but why do you ask?”

“Because I thought you liked Chanyeol”. I said. A smile crossing my face.

He put her hands on my shoulders knowing well I was feeling good now.

“But that does not mean I am letting this go” I said.

“I know” he said biting his lips reminding himself how arrogant I could be.