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"Your ex? Where?" -- for some reason they have never really talked about Yeonjun's shitty ex, too busy with their own lives to cry about past lovers and from he gathered from Yeonjun being kicked out he can only guess how much of a straight up bitch his ex must be. His eyes quickly scanned the room, but he can't see any girl glaring at them.
"Right next to the bar, left side."
Soobin's eyes shift to the other side of the room, but the only person he can see standing there is a guy. He is not looking at them right now, but Soobin can see his profile clearly. "Where? I only see that wannabe thug asshole over there."
Yeonjun lets out a snort, burying his face against his shoulder. "Yeah, that's him."
Something inside of him finally fell in place. Yeonjun's ex was a guy not a girl.
Then something else fell in place.
"Wait, you're gay?"
Instead of answering, Yeonjun started to giggle, but stopped once he saw the look of utter confusion on Soobin's face. "Wait, are you serious? How did you not know that?"
Maybe because Soobin can be really, awfully, painfully slow when it came to things like that? But he couldn't say that right now, could he?
Instead he just stared at Yeonjun dumbfounded not knowing what to say, but then his brain did that thing where it stopped working and he just word-vomited whatever came to his mind.
"Wait, wait, wait -- stop, stop, stop; you are gay?", it was more of a theoretical question than anything else, "So, back then when we were pretending to be a couple," -- he can suddenly see Yeonjun tense up, shit was he saying the wrong thing?
He stumbles over his words a bit, trying not to make a complete ass out of himself, "-when we, you know, I mean was that okay for you? Like, I didn't make you uncomfortable with me pretending to be your boyfriend, did I? Because I don't know you actually like guys and maybe I don't know I did something you didn't like? Does that make sense?"
Once he started to speak it was like he couldn't stop anymore but once he did, he really wished he wouldn't have said a word. He can feel the way everyone at the table is staring at him and he just wanted to crawl under a table and pretend to be dead because oh god did, he really just say all of that?
He was about to open his mouth and apologize a thousand times, but then Yeonjun busted out into another fit of giggles and he felt the awkward tension bleed away and then he saw that Taehyun and Huening are also cackling at him.
"You really are kind of slow with things like that, aren't you?"
"Uh, yeah. Sadly."
Yeonjun wiped away a stray tear that treated to fall from his lashes due to excessive laughing. "To answer your question no -- you did not make me uncomfortable. If anything I should be the one asking you if I made you uncomfortable, I mean you clearly didn't know I was gay and I am not James Charles to jump straight men like that." (a/n James Charles anyone?)
"No -- no you didn't make me feel uncomfortable, Yeonjun. We are friends and I trust you and it really doesn't matter to me if you like guys or girls."
There was a warm smile on Yeonjun's lips and Soobin feels his chest tighten at that. He really liked making Yeonjun smile. But then that smile slipped away and Yeonjun suddenly looked nervous.
"Hey, uhm, about you pretending to be my boyfriend -- do you think we could do that once more?", he fidgeted with his shirt under the table, "It's just that -- my ex is a real asshole and if he sees me here he will probably try to hit on me again or make a scene or whatever so I'd feel more comfortable with, you know, being here with my boyfriend."
Yeonjun looked so lost in that moment, Soobin had no other choice.
"Yes, of course.", without missing a heartbeat Yeonjun started to smile brightly again and cuddled up against his chest, draping Soobin's arm around his shoulder and taking a hold of his hand.
It was not much different to how they sometimes ended up in front of the TV when binging shows, so Soobin really didn't mind at all. If he could help a friend like that, he would gladly do it.
He tried not to look in the direction of the ex, but he felt angry right now. Why would someone hurt Yeonjun like tats and even kick him out? His friend was such a sweet and caring person, he wouldn't even be able to hurt a fly so why the hell would someone so that to him?
"Yo, Soobin. Just because you play his boyfriend now, doesn't mean you have to glare down his ex-boyfriend.", the joking voice of Taehyun pulled him out of his head and he snapped back to the conversation on the table.
Taehyun was grinning at him and Huening was also smirking at him. Did he miss something? He looked down at Yeonjun, trying to figure out what was going on, but the younger one just buries his head in his neck, not even looking at him. Whatever. They can joke all they want he is not going to let that asshole ruin their night or even so much as come close to Yeonjun.
They fell back into small talk and the typically socially accepted 'deep talks' thay have while tipsy or drunk rather quickly and it's good. He feels the light buzz of the alcohol in his stomach --almost feels like butterflies that get worse whenever he takes another sip of his drink or whenever Yeonjun chuckles against his neck, he doesn't know nor care.
It's nice to sit with all of them like that, Taehyun making terrible jokes (that are actually low-key funny, but he would never admit that out loud), Huening being the entertainer of the night, and Yeonjun laughing at everything, pushing himself closer against Soobin.
