When I Saw You

- 9 -

They were back again at the dorm. Saying 'goodbye' to grandpa wasn't easy, even his friends weren't ready to leave from there. But they had to, they didn't have many choices.

The day he talked to his grandpa, after that he called his mother and told her and talked to her, she said almost the same thing, and Junmyeon liked that he was part of a woke family. He felt so proud that he couldn't go to sleep.

Now, all he had to do to talk to his friends. They were dying to know, he knew that but also they were worried about him and Junmyeon didn't want them to.

Everyone sat down at the table and ordered the food. Everyone was hungry and why wouldn't they be, they had six-hour traveling on the train and two hours on a bus, a total of eight hours traveling. They were tired, yes, but more hungry as it was almost dinner time.

"Baek can you not sleep on the table" Minseok commented, "I'm tired. so tired" Beakhyun whined. "you weren't tired when the day before" now it was LuHan, patting other's heads. "I was excited to go, not to come back" Baekhyun snapped, sleepily and everyone hummed in response to that.

Food was served and everyone started digging in. "It's not a day and I'm already missing the food I had yesterday" LuHan commented. Minseok, the man of fewer words or no words, nodded. While everyone was enjoying, Baekhyun looked like he was about to pass out. He was eating so slow that Junmyeon felt annoying.

And finally, they finished eating and Junmyeon told them to sleepover in his room, everyone agreed as they were dead tired and Junmyeon's dorm was close by.

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In the morning, LuHan and he met at the University cafeteria to eat, when LuHan finally asked, "so?" Junmyeon didn't understand the question so he asked back, "So, as in what am I thinking or what am I gonna do now or what was I thinking?" At that LuHan gave him a puzzled look, he looked at his plate, open his mouth, and closed again, "Everything?" he said.

Junmyeon nodded as the other two joined them, LuHan and Baekhyun had their weird handshake on that the other two rolled their eyes, like always. "So what's up?" Baekhyun asked, plopping beside Junmyeon.

"Junmyeon's saying something..." LuHan said, pointing at the other boy with the fork he was holding. "Yeah. Don't interrupt me in the middle" He looked at everyone, but they all knew who he was pointing to. "As you all know that I was confused about my feelings, not unclear, but confused, I knew I like Yixing, but I thought I don't know him that much to like him, you know as in a person, yes I know a thing about him, but not that to the core. I was confused about that, if I do really like 'like' him or it's just an attraction, a 'stupid crush nothing more' kinda thing." He began with gestures that his hands were automatically made.

With a smile forming on his lips, he continued, "so I talked to my grandpa about it, my confusion and trying not to accept that I like a boy maybe came from the thing that I used to think that I should make my grandpa happy by marrying a girl and giving them grandkids, but boy, was I wrong, My family is happy with me being happy no matter if it's with a boy or a girl or no one. " At that he was now smiling big, flashing his teeth and looked at his friends.

"So I'm thinking to pursue Yixing. Maybe he doesn't like me, maybe the song he sang for someone else, but I want to give it a try. There's a chance I would end up hurt, but I want to take that chance. I want to understand him." He said and the first reaction came from Baekhyun, "Eww, so cheesy." and he swats the boy with a pout.

Everyone smiled at that and they welcomed the decision that their friend made, by nodding approvingly at him. He acknowledged that by giving a nod back.

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"Don't you think that I was too fast? Maybe I should have approached him slowly, maybe singing that song for him was too fast for him, now he's thinking I'm a creep" Yixing said, pacing back and forth in the dance room, "Dude, that boy is changing you, I never saw the stone-cold Yixing like that." Jongin teased, practicing his ballet.