Love at the Coffee Town||ChanBaek Ff

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That was Wednesday. It was an unspoken law that we meet every Wednesday afternoon as we both had no classes. His college was half an hour journey from mine and I would stand near the gate waiting for him to come and then we both ride in my scooty to have lunch. Today looked different. I did not still switch on my cell and he had stopped coming to deliver milk. We didn’t see each other since I slapped him. I stood unsure if to wait for him or just get back home. He came exactly on the time smiling sweetly. My heart skips a beat every time he smiled. I stood looking elsewhere trying hard to ignore him. His smiled widened seeing me acting hard to suppress his presence.

“Where shall we go today? “He asked casually like he always did.

“May be nowhere” I replied.

“Then whom are you waiting for?”

“Don’t bother”

“Okay, this is hurting. Baekkie, I know I lied you but I did not cheat you or betray you. I was so much blindly in love with you I did not realize that the truth would hurt you one day.”

I did not reply.

“I am ready to do whatever you say, please forgive me”. He said.

“If so please leave now.” I told looking firm.

He nodded and left the place without a second word.

I knew he loved me. It was not a betrayal. Is not the saying “everything is fair in love and war” true? Lying to love someone did not appear very bad now.

What matters most is that we are being loved. What would I do if it was me in Chanyeol’s shoes? He was in no position to tell the truth. I slowly closed my eyes and let myself free in his thoughts.

Mom was surprised to see me happy after almost a week. She usually never asks about my mood swings. She is wise enough to let me correct things on my own. Yet sometime her silence makes me fear she knows everything about me and that’s why she never takes the trouble to ask me anything.

I lay on the bed switching on my mobile for the first time in that week. Messages flooded in my inbox. I quickly opened them to see Chanyeol’s. There were 3 from him. Two of them are photos and one was a text message.

One photo was of us taken last December in the chilled cold morning. I had sneaked out of the house 4 in the morning in my scooty to the milk parlor to find him loading the milk packets to his bike for house delivery. I had stood at a distance admiring him work hard in that cold. And when I went near I could not help myself from hugging him. I was not sure if that was cold or the long moment of close observation of his well-built body through the thin cotton t shirt he had worn. This photo was taken when I was about to kiss him and he moved suddenly making me kiss the air. I laughed remembering how I faked anger and did not let him go until he gave me a peck on my lips.

The second photo was ours as kids-I, Kyungsoo and Chanyeol were there. It was taken probably when we did not notice we were being captured by a camera.

It looked like Chanyeol was saying something to me and I was laughing and Kyung was looking at the photographer. I tried to remember when it was taken but I hardly remembered anything.

The third message was a text message that read-

“You may not remember the second one, it was when you were calling me Yoda and I was correcting it saying that it is Yoda and not Yoga.

I loved you when I was small, I am sure I was the first guy to kiss you and I love you always. It looks like I have never grown at all. Meeting you after so long and falling in love with you again is a beautiful coincidence.”