Tension | Hyunsung ✓

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Jisung was running late, all because his working shift suddenly shifted. One guy quit the job, so, he had to replace his shift too. He swore he wasn't paid enough for this.

"Oh my God! It's almost noon now!", Jisung shrieked, receiving a slap on the back of his head by Haechan, his co-worker and also his ex-teammate in high school but he went to a different uni then quit basketball for good. "You don't even have practice today. Why are you in hurry?", Jisung bit his lips, pushing Haechan away.

Well, he was banned from practice, he had a lot of time which was also one of the reason he was making a move on Na-Eun. If he waited for the ban to be lifted, Na-Eun might be going out with Hyunjin already. He must be crazy to not do anything at all.

"11:58" Jisung counted. "11:59" Haechan shook his head and quietly moved away from Jisung's cashier counter. "12:00!!"

"I have to go now!", Jisung waved at Haechan who panicked. "Hey! There's customers lining up!"

"Sorry, Haechan! Help me with that!" Haechan sighed. "He could at least turn the next counter plate for me"

Jisung ran as fast as he could, passing by a few couples, children, old ladies and whoever was in the road.

He was going to meet Na-Eun at 12:30 and the café was exactly 30 minutes away. He didn't want to wait for the bus, so he just ran until he arrived at the café.

He smiled at the barrista and waiters before sitting at the furthest back, trying to catch his breath.

"Order?" The waiter asked, walking to his table. "Cheesecake and bubble tea" he smiled. "And also green tea cake" not forgetting to get Na-Eun's order too. He didn't know what to buy for her drink because she liked to change her order everyday according to her mood.

"Jiji!" His head snapped towards the figure at the door. She jogged to their table and sat down in front of Jisung. "You ordered?", She asked as per usual. "Yeah but I don't know what drink you want to have"

Na-Eun hummed. "Then, I'm going to order. Give me a few minutes", She informed placing her bag next to Jisung. She trusted him enough to keep her bag safe.

With her wallet in her hand, she walked up to the front counter and ordered for some mango surprise mix. Despite the fun name, it really was just a mix of banana and mango juice which tasted mostly like banana but Na-Eun insisted it tasted like mango.

While Na-Eun was waiting in line to order her drink, Jisung fished out his phone.

"I wonder what he's up to" , he tapped on Hyunjin's and his shared chat room. 'hey, what r you doing?', he asked.

He didn't get an immediate respond and quickly his his phone when Na-Eun returned to their table. She grabbed her bag before pulling out her camera.

"I'm going to take a lot of pictures today", she giggled, taking a picture of Jisung by surprise. "I will print it out for you later if there's any picture that you like!"

Jisung laughed. "Sure hut it surely aren't this picture. Delete it", Na-Eun pouted. "It looks cute."

"No, it's ugly", Jisung retorted. If not for the waiter coming with their orders,they might ended up fighting about stupid and small matter again.

After finishing their food, Na-Eun hopped off her seat. " let's go "

Seeing how energetic Na-Eun was made Jisung cheered up. Na-Eun was like happiness, like a bright warm star? Whatever she was, Jisung just felt happy with her.

Jisung walked side to side with her to the skating rink. He felt kikenothing could ruin this day with Na-Eun.

"Hyunjin!", The smiling Jisung immediately frowned at the name she called. He looked up to see where Na-Eun was waving at. Standing a few meters away from them was a tall guy who shared the same confused look as Jisung.

" you guys don't mind skating together, right? ", Na-Eun asked when they walked closer to Hyunjin. " oh...should I have asked you guys first? ", Na-Eun frowned, thinking she had made a mistake but the both of the guys immediately shook their heads. " no! It's fine!" , Hyunjin said, laughing when he felt Jisung stepping on his shoes.

"Phew", she sighed in relief, holding her chest. " let's go then!", she said, cheerfully entering the skating rink. "Na-Eun, I already bring skating shoes for us!", Hyunjin said, pulling two pairs of skating shoes from his bag.

" that's not Na-Eun's size " Jisung commented, deadpanned. "That's mine"

Na-Eun laughed awkwardly, she could feel the tension between the both of them. "I'm just going to get myself a pair!"she said before dashing to the front counter. Jisung held his hand upward, trying to stop her but Hyunjin slapped his hand away.

"What are you doing?", Jisung gritted though his teeth. "Well, I could say the same to you", Hyunjin raised his eyebrow provocatively, a sneered on his face. "I thought you said you had other important plan so, you can't hangout with me"

Jisung stayed mum before retorting back, "well, this is the important plan. Why? Got problem with it, Hwang?" Jisung didn't expect to sound that rude. This reminded him of middle school first year again.

Hyunjin opened and closed his mouth a couple of time, trying to think of a good answer but before he could, Na-Eun appeard with a toothy smile on her face. She really seemed happy about going skating.

"Hey, you guys don't mind if I go first, right?", She asked, putting on her skate. The other two smiled and nodded at her, taking a note in their minds to bring her here again also studying how cute her expression was.

With both party agreeing, Na-Eun skated away to the middle of the ice rink, leaving the two awkward best friend to stare each other with blank gazes.

"You better don't skate my way, Hwang", Hyunjin scoffed, he hadn't heard Jisung calling him that since middle school. Whatever happened between them at the moment, even if none of them ever talked about it, they weren't dumb. They knew they were going after the same girl. It's really foolish at some point to be fighting over a girl with their friendship on a high stack.

"Don't worry. I won't even go anyway near you", Hyunjin grumbled, trying to hide his pained feeling with his overwhelming annoyance.

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Okei, I know I said I will be back in a week but it's weekend and I'm feeling fine now 😢. Somehow? -hunny