our flower | nct female member

【六十七】 protective ‣ pt. 2

while walking to school the next day, haechan would not let go of yingyue's hand. his fingers were laced with hers and he acted as if they were glued together.

"hyuck, you have to let go."

"but whyyy?" the said boy pouted in the cutest way possible.

"because you have literature and i have math," yingyue deadpanned.

haechan frowned and huffed before grabbing renjun by the arm. he untwined his fingers from yingyue's and made renjun take his place.

"okay, what's going on?" she asked.

"nothing, yinnie~ let's go!" renjun dismisses her question and tugged her along.

as everyone went their separate ways except for yingyue and renjun, the girl couldn't help but pout at the feeling of being left out. however, she decided to let it go and take her assigned seat at the front of the class.

renjun sat on the other side of the room, to their dismay, and reluctantly let go. he kept taking glances at yingyue and his eyes widened when he saw the boy behind her start a conversation.

"isn't that chani..?" he mumbled to himself under his breath.

meanwhile, yingyue turned around at the tap on her shoulder. she was met with the friendly smile that chani wore and kindly returned it.

"morning, dayoung-ah," he softly mumbled. "d-did you, by any chance, go to your locker yesterday after break?"

she pondered for a bit until she shook her head. "i didn't but chenle and jisung did."

chani's face suddenly flushed as he fiddled with his fingers.

"did they find a note in there?" he inquired with a soft voice, embarrassed.

yingyue wanted to coo at how cute chani looked at that moment, but instead, she held it in and said, "they haven't told me anything about it if they did."

he nodded and kept quiet for a split second, thinking about how to word his next sentence.

"well, i-i was the one to leave it in there, and since you haven't gotten it yet, i'll just ask you—"

from across the class, renjun observed as yingyue's eyes lit up. she nodded her head to whatever chani had asked her and she grabbed a pen, scribbling something down on his palm. with an unnoticeable frown, renjun turned away and focused on the teacher that had just arrived.

the dream members now stood near the front of the school since they were just dismissed, and they were waiting for yingyue to arrive. her last period of the day was the farthest from the entrance, so the boys usually waited for her.

as the other students were eagerly heading home, chenle stomped his feet and let out a whine, tugging on haechan's arm.

"let's go get noona," he begged. "we still don't know who wrote the letter and he could be in her last class!"

jaemin pulled the youngest chinese member off of haechan and patted his head. "we always wait for her here, lele. yin should be here soon."

and he stayed true to his word.

after a bit, yingyue walked out of the building but she wasn't alone. chani was walking beside her, and when jeno spotted them, the two were laughing together.

"there! there!" he exclaimed.

jisung impatiently drummed his fingers on the side of his leg until yingyue waved goodbye to chani. she made her way over to the six dreamies, looking happy as ever.

the maknae knew chani, of course. similar to himself, chani was sf9's dancer and rapper. he was also yingyue's age which made his mood drop, but he didn't express it.

"you took so longgg~" jaemin pouted once she was close enough.

yingyue only chuckled and leaned into his open arms before pulling away. "i am so ready to go home and nap."

"we actually need to do homework, so your nap has to be postponed," said haechan while interlocking their hands like normal.

"that's alright."

she had a smile as she murmured those words which caught most of them off guard.

"you're okay with missing your nap?" jisung asked. "did you hit your head or something?"

he put his hands on her cheeks and looked around for any injuries. yingyue laughed and gently tugged them away with her free hand.

"i'm fine!" she replied.

as they started to head to the subway station, renjun glanced back at chani who was climbing into a vehicle and sighed.

keeping yingyue away from other boys is hard, he thought.

➥ 終。
➥ okay i wasn't planning on making this a three part series but it happened ((:
wasn't planning on using chani either because bomin was the original boy i wanted to include but.. chani just stole my heart ｏ( ><)o