New Students // NCT Renjun

How to get smacked in the face by Huang Renjun

How to get smacked in the face with a pillow by Huang Renjun: An 100% effective guide by Sofia

Step 1: Ask him to play Truth or Dare with you after his aunt picked you up from Han River and you got comfortable on the bed.

"Renjun?"
"Hmm?"
"Wanna play Truth or Dare?"
He chuckled and sat up straight. "Truth or Dare? I'm in."

Step 2: Make fun of him.

"How much do you like me?"
"How much? Bold of you to assume that I like you at all."
"You literally told me yesterday. You cried too."

Step 3: Enjoy the results!

Renjun smacked me with a pillow. Laughing I tried to crawl away from him. "I guess you're embarrased to admit how deeply you're in love with me."
He grabbed me by my waist and pulled me back, but I didn't stop, "I totally get it, it's hard to talk about your undying love to me."
Much to my surprise he didn't smack me again, but instead he cupped my face with his hands. "You're completely right. I need to confess my love to you right now. That's why I dare you to kiss me."
"That's not how Truth or Dare works! You didn't give me the Truth option!"
"Truth or Dare?"
"Truth."
"How do you feel about kissing me?"
I acted like I was throwing up.
"Well, if that's the case-"
He started tickling me until I was begging him to stop.
"I'll stop if you kiss me!"
I put on the most sarcastic tone possible. "Oh no, I guess I have to do it then. How tragic. I am so sad. I am literally-"
"Oh, stop it," Renjun said before grabbing and kissing me. I could have stayed like this forever, but we kept giggling into the kiss. In the end we just held each other and enjoyed being together. After a minute or two I broke the silence.
"Renjun? Can I ask you something? Seriously?"
"Yeah, of course."
"Since when did you like me?"
It took him a few moments to answer. "I'm not sure. At some point I just realized that I liked being around you and I couldn't fall asleep without thinking about you."
I tried to hide my smile. "You're so cheesy."
"I'm just being honest."
I hesitated for a bit before I asked my next question. "So...are we really dating now? Like, really actually dating?"
Renjun frowned down on me. "Well, at least I hope so. Unless you didn't mean what you said before?"
"Of course I did, I just wanted to make sure. Everything happened so suddenly these last few days, it sometimes feels unreal, you know?"
"Yeah, things have been moving fast since yesterday, huh?" He ran his hand through my hair. "Sofia? I'm Renjun, I'm in love with you and I would like to be your boyfriend. Would you like that?"
"I'd like that," I giggled. Another question formed in my head. "How are we gonna tell our parents? Do you think they'd be okay with it?"
He pouted a bit while thinking. Cute.
"My mom likes you, so I think she'd be okay with it. My dad doesn't know you yet, but I don't think he would mind."
"My dad likes you too. I think he'd be okay with it."
Renjun hesitated. I could hear the uncertainty in his voice when he finally spoke. "Sofia? We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to, but I noticed that you never talk about your mom. Is- Is she..."
"Oh." My heart plummeted. I hadn't expected this topic to come up. I usually hated talking about it, but Renjun made me feel as if he actually cared about it.
"She... She died in a car crash when I was four."
Renjun didn't respond, he just kept stroking my hair.
"I don't remember her clearly, all I have are a few memories of her face and us playing together, but that's it. It still sucks, but I guess I'm better off than my dad. Her...her death was so so sudden, you know? Nothing could have prepared him for that. Suddenly he'd lost his wife and had to raise a kid alone. He... He did a great job, though. I can't even believe how he must've felt. He's the best dad ever."
"Thank you for telling me." He didn't say something like 'I'm sorry for your loss', which I appreciated a lot. I didn't want to be pitied.
After a while he started singing. I didn't know the song, but his voice shocked me. He sang calmly and softly, without a single crooked note. I stared at him in surprise when he finished.
"You can sing?"
"I'm pretty okay at it."
"That's an understatement. That was amazing!"
"Don't overreact."
"So you can draw and sing. You're seriously making me feel talentless right now."
"You do have talents!"
"Name one then."
"Making me smile."
"I'm going to puke on your perfect, talented face."
"How about you kiss me again?" he grinned.
I sat up. "Actually, I think I'll lie down on the mattress now."
He grinned even more. "Why don't you sleep with me instead?"
"Gotta go!"
Laughing he wrapped his arms around me. "Seriously, though, how about we both sleep on this bed again? I swear I'm not gonna do something weird in the middle of the night."
I laughed and he let go of me. I got out of the bed and walked to the mattress - only to turn around and jump right on the bed again. Smiling brightly I lay down next to him. He put a blanket over me, put on arm around my waist and pulled me closer to him.
"Goodnight, Sofia."
"Goodnight, Renjun."