Know Me

029

"thank you for having us!" the ten of them chanted and proceeded to bow, earning claps from the staff. "thank you for the effort!" the director says then also bows.

the photoshoot have ended successfully with each one of them supporting each other.

now, they are gathered at the side of the street, bickering in where should they eat. "let's just eat ramen!" yeonjun pouted, in which he received a smack from chaeyoung.

"there's a taiwanese restaurant nearby, you guys want to try?" shuhua suggested. all of them looked at each other and nodded at the same time, "great! it's just a walking distance from here." she smiled and led the way, the others cooing at her cuteness.

yuqi crunched her face and started to walk when her phone began to ring, she quickly answered it when she saw it was from her mother.

"mom!"

[yuqi! how are you there?]

"i'm fine. how about you?"

[we're also fine here, don't worry]

"that's nice. why did you call by the way?"

[your birthday is coming up. would you like to go visit china? let's celebrate with your grandparents!]

"oh. i forgot about that hehe."

[hm? why would you even forget about your own birthday?! tsk tsk. well, are we coming home or not?]

"of course we will!"

[great! i will book our flight, okay? i'm gonna turn this off now. take care!]

"you too!"

the conversation lasted shortly, yuqi then quickly looked at the others who were still walking. there was already a distance from them to her, "yah." she flinched when she heard a voice from behind her.

and behind her, yukhei suddenly came out. "hey! where did you come from?!" she asked, yukhei then laughed. "i was waiting for you."

yuqi's face reddened at the latter's words, quickly moving her face away. "y-you shouldn't have bother." she says and walked away.

yukhei quickly caught up to her with his hand resting at the girl's head. "why are you so small?" he teased, patting her head. yuqi was still so red but luckily cannot be seen because of the shady lamp posts that served their light.

she then pinched him at the side, yukhei groaning. "i am not small! you are just big and tall." she pouted. the latter beside her chuckled and walked along with her.

"hm. by the way, are you free tomorrow?" yukhei suddenly asked, it wasn't obvious but he was really nervous asking this, and he didn't know why.

yuqi's eyes widened and the question. her face blushing once more at the thought she has in her head. she bit her lip, and nodded abruptly. "yeah. why?"

yukhei felt relieved but also nervous at her answer. he hmed for awhilea and then, "wanna go out?" he asks.

"w-with the others?"

"no."

"oh."

yukhei panicked at her answer, all he wanted was to go out with yuqi alone. he then processed an excuse, "it's our anniversary tomorrow, and i just wanted to be accompanied." he says, which is true.

it's true that it was their anniversary tomorrow and it's also true that he just wanted to be accompanied. but not for the reason of the anniversary.

yuqi awkwardly giggled, "then why did you ask me? you should ask someone who's closer." she says bitterly, not liking the idea of hanging out with him just because he's lonely.

"t-they heard enough of my stories with her." yukhei convinced, yuqi raised her eyebrows at him. yukhei just then sighed ,giving up. "i'm not gonna force you if you don't want to."

yuqi then felt guilty. the latter just wanted her to hang with him but she's being mean.

the two walked and stopped when they were outside the restaurant, yukhei was about to go in when yuqi tugged his shirt, "i'll go with you." she says before going in ahead of him.

the boy was left their dumbfounded before he found himself smiling widely and entering the restaurant too.

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