Can't U see ME ㅤㅤ/ VERIVERY /

3. it's all Hoyoung's plan

The little cat cafe was placed in a too hided way in Myeongdong market place, and Hoyoung found himself very grateful to that publicity panel for guiding him that yes, here is the place where you can pat fur and hear meow. He goes in slightly, climbs up the tiny wood stairs until he comes to a little room destinated for keeping the commoners' shoes before entering the actual cafe.

The transparent wall, which is keeping him away from the cats, and eventually, that Dongheon's friend, makes him stop for a moment and think well about his future actions. Hong Minchan is inside; that's what he knows from what Dongheon told him. But Hoyoung doesn't know who from those two lonely guys he sees now is actually him. So he will have to guess.

He slides the door and comes in. The two girls welcome him and urge him to desinfect his hands as fast as possible, after what they ask him what would he order from the menu.

Suddenly a fluffy white ball of fur comes closer and starts to caress itself of Hoyoung's legs, and he can't hold back a smile. Then he just orders a limonade and pays for the entry.

The white cat is still at his legs; he barely can take a few steps and come in a safer place to sit, in the middle of the room. The cat takes its chance to nestle on his lap.

But after a few moments, attention still captured by the white meowlady, he feels a pair of eyes watching him; he looks at the guy in front of him, who is watching the cat Hoyoung is caressing; he looks rather sad and discouraged. "Oh."

The guy sighs hard, before finally saying: "I was playing with this cat until you came. Can I- " He doesn't end his question, just comes and sits closer to Hoyoung and continues to pat the white cat.
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"You are Hong Minchan?" asks Hoyoung only after another few minutes, with a slight fear in his voice.

Minchan doesn't act surprised, he just watches the cat stretching out paws and leaving Hoyoung to come back to him, before leaving out a low "Yes."

"I'm Hoyoung, Dongheon's friend. He told me where to find you."

"Why?" Now it seems like Minchan is really paying attention to him.

Hoyoung didn't really know how to say it in a few words and in a way Minchan won't feel uncomfortable. "Please help me with my uni homework."

"But I'm a random person to you."

"But Dongheon isn't." replies Hoyoung with a smirk.

Minchan got it.

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"Truth."

The bottle of soju, half emptied by Minchan in the second he said this, goes all down his throat as he empties it. Then it becomes the object number seven of their collection of emptied soju bottles on the table.

"You do love Dongheon. Yes or yes?"

This past week was one very productive to Hoyoung, as he got closer to Minchan enough to talk freely about Dongheon. Well, that was mostly just times when Hoyoung had to ask him out to eat or play video games together; anyway, it was paid off. Now Minchan was kinda ready to tell him what he wants to hear.

"Yes."

"Then why you didn't tell him yet?"

"I caaaaaaaaan't~" and a few uncontrollable moves make him fall down on his back, eyes closed. "He won't understand me. he isn't gay."

"Are you sure? Tell me are you even sure about this? Or you just decided you don't wanna come out?"

Drunk? Tipsy? No that's only Minchan. Hoyoung haven't.

"Sshhhht~"

Minchan does some brave moves to stand up and still failing. Hoyoung watches him, wondering how much it will take him to end all this.

The past few days have him the next general conclusion: Minchan is a good guy. He has this calming aura around him that may take Heon's depression off. He pays attention to details that can easily escape from others' eyes. He is very sociable, despite his apparently lonely life, he would have enough words to talk for every topic. And of course, his clumsiness just adds flavor to his persona, making it... yes, Hoyoung was thinking every once these days... a perfect fit for Dongheon. They just have to give it a try.

Minchan finnaly found a comfortable position to continue his words: "It's not like I haven't tried to tell him. I did... try like every time when I started to call him to pick me up. These calls were all just a chance for me to tell him "I like you" but something was stopping me everytime. And later I decided to give up."

Hoyoung's gaze is fixed on him, he forgot how to move. He wants to know this Minchan, in this state.

"Hoyoung, I love him, okay? But now he is my only long time friend and I'm really afraid to change it. And I have this assumption that if I tell him, he would just leave and destroy our friendship too. And I madly don't want it. It better... I'll just let it be like this."

"You lost all your friends with these calls, but Dongheon is still here. You never thought why he still keeps helping you no matter what is he doing at the moment?"

"Because he knows he's the only who can help me?"

Minchan is smart, Hoyoung knows. But sometimes he really wants to be Rapunzel with a frying pan and smash one nice coup to both Heon and Chan, until they both will understand that they are actually hiding from each other.

"You have to tell him, you know? I wouldn't have tried to find you and talk to you if he won't tell me about you everytime we met. He even has your photo as lock screen. And he seems to think about you often during his work shifts."

A look of pure curiosity is all Minchan's face, as he's listening to Hoyoung.

"You will give a try, okay?"

He just nods, after a few seconds.