melting heart. | the boyz

bbangkyu ¦ presents

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「 presents 」
kim younghoon & ji changmin
word count: 3072

younghoon aims to give his crush the best-est present for his birthday, only for his shyness to take over that made him fuck everything up

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Do you ever wonder where your shyness will take you someday? Do you ever think about what you can accomplish with your timid personality? Well, Younghoon always thinks about those.

Younghoon is a very, very, very shy boy. And when I say 'very' three times, I'm not exaggerating. Younghoon pretends he doesn't recognize certain people when he meets them in public, he stays silent even if the driver misses his bus stop, he never says anything when someone checks his test paper incorrectly. Heck, he can't even ask for extra ketchup at McDonalds. That's how shy he is.

So when his friends asked him when he would plan to confess to his all-time crush on the school's student council treasurer Ji Changmin, he just stayed silent. Confess? When did he ever told them that he's planning to confess? He doesn't have the courage to confess. Knowing himself, he'll just stay on the corners watching Changmin alone and waiting for his feelings to fade out.

His thoughts were cut out by a loud sound caused by a paper cup being smashed on the table. Younghoon looked up and saw his friends Jaehyun and Juyeon that just got out of class.

"You might want to quit staring, bro. Changmin might melt anytime soon." Jaehyun smirked and that's when Younghoon realized that he's been staring at Changmin all the time. The brown-haired boy didn't seem to notice it, as he is still busy talking to the rest of the student council members Sangyeon, Jacob and Chanhee.

"Is lover boy finally thinking of a way to confess?" Juyeon asks him, and Younghoon immediately shook his head. "Me? Confess? No way."

Jaehyun sighed as he opens up a carton of milk. "You know what, dude? I feel like you'll end up dying single because of your shyness. Sometimes you just gotta... go! And scream YOLO!" He even raised his free arm in the air, acting as if his hand is an airplane who suddenly sped up on air.

Juyeon cleared his throat. "What Jaehyun meant was you only live once. Go and confess because you might never have the chance to do so someday."

"But I don't have the courage to do it. Plus, I don't know how." Younghoon squeaked.

"Then we'll think of a way how." Jaehyun rolled his eyes. "But you're gonna confess no matter what, okay? You can never know what can happen."

Younghoon has nothing to lose, he knows that. It's not like Changmin and he are friends. If he ever confesses and got rejected, there's no friendship that will break. They'll just go back to being strangers, like they always are.

Ah, rejection. Younghoon closed his eyes at the thought. It's really a no-brainer that once he confesses, Changmin will reject him. I mean, who even is he? They never interacted even once before. But hey, like what his friends keep saying since forever, you only live once, right? It's worth a shot. And who knows? A miracle might happen and Changmin might actually like him back too.

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Younghoon fiddled with his ballpen, biting it from time to time while staring at his professor who's currently teaching something that Younghoon knows that he'll forget later.

Both Jaehyun and Juyeon are not taking this elective, claiming they don't need it (although they both need it more than him) and Younghoon almost threw a fit when he found out because it means that he'll be stuck with unfamiliar people. He now founds himself listening to a professor with a lullaby-like voice and he wants to sleep but he can't, afraid that the professor might notice and call him out, bringing attention to him.