20 cm || Choi Yeonjun

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"Yah! I've been telling you a pretty cool story and you space out on me?" I felt Felix's hands lightly shaking me. I shot him a glare. He didn't really have to do that.

"I was listening! And FYI mister, this is the second time I'm hearing that story." I rolled my eyes. Felix only huffed out. He started tidying our ice cream cups, stacking each one and pushing them to the side.

"Whatever. Let's just go. Me being a very kind and awesome best friend, will walk you back." I chuckled. He really was feeling the title, being my ultimate best friend.

I can only imagine his face when I tell him Ningning already occupied that spot.

Felix held out his hand and pulled me right up. I winced when I hear my hip let out a loud crack. We've been hanging for about two hours in this parlour. The cashier let out a not so subtle sigh of relief when she finally sees us readying to leave. She's been giving us dirty looks for thirty minutes now, seeing that we weren't going to leave any time soon when Felix started rambling in his seat.

"Thank you, Lix! Let's meet again soon." I pulled him into a hug. He only hummed and started swaying us.

"That's gonna be a pretty long time. You'll be touring." I couldn't see him but I assume he was jutting his lips out again.

"Duh. Then message me as much as you can! I promise, I'll listen to you this time." I pulled away and tried to make his lips stretch out into a smile with my fingers. "Get going, Mr. Yongbok-ssi. It's already 9:30."

"Fine. Promise me you'll buy me vegemite when you land to Australia." He lifted his pinky up and I gladly entwined it with my small one.

"Bye!" I waved again, staring at his now disappearing form.

I was smiling from ear to ear when I continued walking to the dormitory's entrance. This day will be one of my favourites to remember. Having a cute date with Kai and hanging out with Felix after. I consider myself extremely lucky to have met and get to know them. Those two are such sweethearts.

I was humming a song in the elevator when a hand suddenly popped out preventing the steel doors from closing. I unconsciously stepped back when Yeonjun's form appeared from the now open elevator doors.

We were immediately embraced by awkward silence. I was holding my breath until he decided to speak up.

"You were out with Kai, right?" His gaze remained in front, staring at his reflection. I gulped a bit before nodding my head. I wasn't sure where this was heading. He was probably just curious and will later on ignore me. "I heard he arrived early. Where were you?" My eyes widened when he still continued to hold a conversation with me. Well, his tone wasn't exactly friendly but this was something new.

"I was out with a friend." He was about to ask another question but the doors were already open. This was my stop. I turned to him and slightly bowed my head. He was still my senior so I had to show respect. "I'll go now. Good night, sunbae." I faced him once more and offered a smile.

He didn't return it. He just held my gaze until the elevator closed again. I shivered unconsciously. His eyes held something in them and I just can't tell exactly what it was but it was there.

I exhaled loudly. Today was beyond exhausting. I dragged my feet towards our room. Opening the door, I was greeted with clothes. Tons of them. They were neatly folded on the floor while Ga eun was busy taking another batch from her room. I stepped inside and went near her form. "Ga eun, isn't this a little too much?"

I was aware that we'll be travelling for two months but this was just over the top. We can just buy a couple of cheap clothes from cities and do the laundry. Ga eun right here looks like she planned to have sets of new clothes each day. "No, no. I'm just sorting out clothes to see what items to bring. It's too difficult to scavenge through my wardrobe so why not lay it all here on the floor, right?" She huffed, letting her body sag on the foot of the couch.

I rolled my eyes. I'm not surprised. If anything, that was somehow a good idea. "I mean, okay? Let me help." I sat down beside her and scanned the pile of clothes laid out accordingly. "Have you packed yours?" She asked me.

"Yup. I finished packing the other day." Ga eun only hummed in response. She looked more tired than me. Her hair was tied in a very messy half bun and she had on her favourite pyjamas.

"Our interview for the magazine dropped like an hour ago. Guess what the fans are buzzed about." She laid her head on my lap and started playing with her necklace.
I puffed my cheeks out. God, I just wish it wasn't anything about what I was thinking. "Ria's aegyo?" I dumbly asked.

Ga eun let out a very sarcastic laugh and slapped my arm. "You and him are trending again, silly. I bet the fans will go even more crazy once the CF video plays on tv." I rolled my eyes.

"I bet your crazy ass used the fake stan account again and started the hashtags." I lightly pulled her hair.

Yup. That's right. We created a fake twitter account just to see what our fans were up to. And let me say that they have a pretty wild imagination. Their humor is top notch and their edits are very well-made. Sometimes I wonder if I'm even considered talented at all.

"I swear, this time I didn't! Our notifs were bombarded with thousands of mentions from the fans. They found your reaction very sketchy, Ms. Yeonwon4ever." She gave out a very unladylike snort when she saw my already 'done with life' face.

"They made me sign another contract, you know." Ga eun's smile dropped once I started sharing what really happened in the meeting. I kept it to myself because the publicists specifically asked me to keep it all down once the tour starts. "In the meeting, they said that it'll be better if I stick to him throughout the tour."

"Will you be okay?" Gone was the humor that danced in her eyes. It was replaced with worry and uncertainty. I smiled. What a very soft girl. "Yeah. As long as you guys won't leave my side then I think all is well."

"I've been thinking for a while now. Would a blunt cut suit me?" I diverted the topic because it was already getting a little tense around us. I looked down towards Ga eun's face. She was already thinking. "Yes! It will 100% suit you! Oh my gosh! It's about time another member gets a short hairstyle! Ria's hair is getting pretty long."

"You sure?" I raised my brow at her. I have never once cut my hair short so this was something to really think twice about. "Just below shoulder level! And change your boring ass hair color. Its too plain." Ga eun got up to a sitting position and began playing with my hair.

"I saw the fake highlights our stylist unnie put on you in our predebut photos. And it really looked good on you. Maybe grey undertones? What do you think?" She looked at me expectantly.

"Hair dresser tomorrow?" I asked.

"Hell yeah!" Ga eun screamed on top of her lungs.

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They'll be touring soon!!!!! WOOHOOO!! Let's get this bread!

Yo I'm lowkey excited 🤣🤣

++ Thank you guys for reading up until 51 chapters! Damn. This story is getting too long ://