Love Me Too

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"What am I going to do?!" Yeonjun wails, his voice slightly muffled by Kai's pillow. He looks like a mess, right hand holding his phone with the cursed picture on it while he lies down on the bed face down.

"Relax and just be cool with it." Beomgyu says nonchalantly, picking at his nails while lying down on Taehyun's lap. "I agree. If you tried to deny it, your reputation would be further damaged. So I suggest..." Taehyun pauses. Yeonjun brings up his head to look at Taehyun, waiting for him to finish his sentence. Hueningkai looks up from his Taegyu to listen as well.

"...you start actually dating him. After all, everyone thinks you're gay now, and you are. Embrace it." he finishes. Yeonjun uses his arm to prop his face up, thinking. "I do like him.." he muses. "Then do it! No one can stop Choi Yeonjun from getting what he wants!' Kai cheers. Yeonjun gives him a warm smile as Beomgyu mutters something about why someone like Yeonjun has the same surname as him.

Back to Soobin

Muffled screaming sounds could be heard from Soobin's room when his mother came to call him to go out for dinner.

"Soobin-ah, why are you screaming?! The neighbours will kill us!" the woman opens the door and says. Soobin looks up from his pillow, eyes red and face wet with tears, sniffling like a baby.

"Eomma.. someone.." his mother immediately sat on the bed next to Soobin. "What's wrong?" she asked gently, soothingly stroking his hair.

Soobin calms down at this show of affection and tells his mother what happened.

"Oh dear.." she says. "In my point of view as a parent, I think that you should maybe try to explain things to people, in case they misunderstand." Soobin frowns and shows his mother the Instagram post.

"Oh.." she trails off.

"Yeah, people think we're together now! I'm not even gay or bisexual, and I doubt Yeonjun is too!" Soobin groans, exasperatedly running his fingers through his hair.

The older female sighs. "Honey, let's just see what happens, alright? I'm sure we can figure this out. We always have." she smiles up at the giant boy. "..okay.."

She squeezes his cheeks and grins widely. "Come on, let's go out for dinner, yeah?"

Soobin wipes his tears and smiles. "Okay."

Back to Yeonjun

"Guys.." Yeonjun says, after 3 rounds of monopoly.

"What is it, Hyung?" Kai asks, looking up from the game.

"What if Soobin doesn't like me back?" he asks doubtfully, mostly to himself. Beomgyu is about to make a snarky comment but stops when he sees the face Taehyun was making at him.

"Who wouldn't want to be with you, the most handsome boy in Korea?" Kai says, the corners of his lips twitching up. Yeonjun smiles, then sighs. "I just feel like.. I'm not good enough for him or something. Maybe I'm not his type."

"Come on Hyung, try to think positive. What if Soobin does like you back?" Taehyun tries to help. Yeonjun looks at him thoughtfully. "Well then, that would be great, wouldn't it?"

"Yeah, and you'll finally never get irritated by us again, Hyung." Beomgyu smirks, pulling Taehyun, who was facepalming, closer to him. "Oh my gosh, can you two get a room?" Yeonjun groans. "No, I don't think we will." Beomgyu laughs, pulling Taehyun in for a kiss.

Yeonjun strolls outside, breathing in the fresh autumn air and listening to the satisfying crunch of the dead leaves as he stepped on them. He had gone out of Hueningkai's house on the excuse that there was 'too much cliché Taegyu'. Of course, he would come back. It would be bad of him to ditch his friends like that, but right now he wanted to get a drink in a café.

Back to Soobin

Sipping her coffee, Soobin's mother asked, "So, how's it going at school? Any bullies?"

"No, Eomma. Not now, at least." Soobin replies, obviously still unhappy about the post. The female sighs.

"Binnie, we will overcome this, okay? Ever since your father.. passed away.." the male flinches, "..we told each other to be brave, right? We would beat everything that comes in our way to happiness." she takes his hand in hers. "Promise me to never give up, okay?"

He beams at her, dimples showing. "Okay." At that moment, his mother's phone rang. "Sorry, dear, I have to take this call. It's work." She tells Soobin, leaving him alone in the café.

"Soobin-ssi?"

Soobin turns around and his eyes widen.

"Yeonjun?"

Author's note
Sorry for late update 😓

I have good news! I've finalised the plot for this and now I'll actually stick to it. 😅

I purple you 💜🤡