Love Me Too

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OMG THEY FRIKIN SEXY

sorry

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"Yeonjun?"

The blue haired male holds an iced coffee in his right hand while the other contains his phone. He quickly looks down, taken aback by his and Soobin's sudden eye contact.

On the other hand, Soobin rolls his eyes internally, praying that he would not mess up in any way. "I'm not really surprised to see you here, Yeonjun-ssi. This is quite a popular place." he starts. "Yeah, it is." Yeonjun states, nonchalantly taking a seat where Soobin's mother sat not too long ago. The latter's eye twitches a little.

"What brings you over here, Soobin-ah?" Yeonjun asks casually, sipping his drink. Soobin clenches his fists on his lap tightly. "My mother wanted to come here to have dinner. She's outside taking a call." "Dinner? At a café?" Yeonjun asks, sitting up abruptly. "Yeah, I usually eat the bread they sell here." Soobin answers, glancing at the entrance for his mother to come back in.

After a while, his phone buzzes suddenly. Startled, he looks at the screen, trying to calm his heart down.

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Eomma💕
Binnie, I see you have met the other person in the Instagram post. I'll leave first so you two can discuss this problem, kk?
I love you <3

ISarangBread🍞
Okay, Eomma. I'll walk home after I'm done with this. I love you too!

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Soobin sighed. "Yeonjun-ssi..?" he tries to get the older's attention. "Call me Hyung." Yeonjun grins at him. Soobin rolls his eyes and says, "Okay, Hyung. I want to ask, have you seen the Instagram post yet? The one about us?" The other's eyes widen slowly. He starts nodding. "Well, you see," Soobin presses on, "I want to try to stop people from thinking we are together." he stops for a second, letting Yeonjun process what he was trying to say.

"So you want to deny everything?" he responds finally, feeling a little heartbroken. "Yes. I think we can do that together. Right now they think we're dating, so trying to convince them won't work. Maybe we can pretend to go on a date or something and start to fight and break up?" Soobin suggests. Yeonjun thought about it, pain inflicting his heart even more. Not wanting to upset Soobin, he agrees with him.

The door to Soobin's house swings open slowly. "Eomma?" he asks. The lights are off, so he assumes his mother had gone to bed already. Oh well. He kicks off his shoes and places them neatly in the corner, before walking to his room and collapsing on his bed. Before his mentally exhausted body hit the sheets, he was already asleep.

Back to Yeonjun

The wind blows in Yeonjun's direction, lifting up his blue dyed hair as he walks back to Hueningkai's house. He thinks about the talk with Soobin, and he clutches his chest in pain. Suddenly, Taehyun's words echo in his mind.

"Be positive, Hyung."

Yeah. Maybe Soobin just needed time to like Yeonjun back. He smiles confidently and walks back faster to Kai's house. For Soobin, he'd do anything. It was weird, what love did to you.

Taehyun and Beomgyu are asleep on the couch while Kai sits on the said couch's armrest, scrolling through Twitter. A slamming sound could be heard. Beomgyu wakes up, startled, while Taehyun slowly opens his eyes.

"Guys! I'm back!" Yeonjun announces happily before falling onto the couch, slightly pushing Taehyun, who was still half asleep. Beomgyu frowns. "You sound very merry tonight. What happened?" Kai asks. "I met Soobin at that one café!" Yeonjun gushed. Really? That's nice." Taehyun yawns quietly. "Let's sleep now. I'm tired." he mutters before collapsing onto Beomgyu's shoulder and falling asleep almost instantly again. "Yeah. My baby needs his beauty sleep, even though he's already beautiful." he says, and shuts his eyes.
"Yeah, I'll go to bed too. It's 11:30pm, Hyung. Go to sleep." Kai says, heading up the staircase.

Try as he might, Yeonjun, who was curled up in a blanket on the floor, could not fall asleep. Despite telling himself that Soobin would like him back eventually, he couldn't stop negative thoughts from entering his mind.

What if he's straight?
What if he thinks I'm joking?
What if he rejects me?

What if he's taken?

Oof, that'd be awkward. He made a mental note to ask Soobin the next time they met.

After mindlessly tossing around on the ground, Yeonjun fell into a peaceful, calm and dreamless slumber.