My Mate Is Too Shy {Jiminxreader}

35) Of Curiosity and Shyness

Date: November 23rd
Time: 11:51am
Location: University cafeteria
Mood: Futurama Fry squinting
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"Unnie?"

Daydreaming in silence, Hyuna startled when Y/n spoke up. As was their custom, the older woman kept the younger company while she ate lunch in the university cafeteria. They'd already talked about as much as Y/n could manage to about Jimin and their date. The amount she was able to muster up wasn't much at all, as she became far too flustered even thinking about it, much less talking about it.

"Hmm?"

"W-why do you...like me?"

Y/n was the only person she'd ever met that couldn't understand why someone liked her. Which, she supposed, was part of the reason why she did.

"Cause yer Velma." she shrugged.

"No, I-I mean, what drew you to me in the first place?"

Hyuna had to try hard not a bust an uwu as she observed her. Hands clutching her sandwich, eyes trained downward as a soft pink dusted her cheeks. Y/n was ridiculously cute and at times, Hyuna had the strangest urge to squeeze her death. She wouldn't. But the urge was still there.

"Cause you're like my little sister. And because...I don't know, I guess you could say I've gotta soft spot for introverts. I like to think that I'm the extravert that every introvert needs. I can't say I click with you on that basis, or even understand you sometimes. But I like bein' that person that will get up and ask for more napkins or ketchup when the other person is too shy to go up and ask. Everyone needs a support system and I don't mind being the backbone to yours."

"Oh." Her face now brighter than the sun, Y/n didn't try to contain or hide a smile. "Thank you."

Hyuna winked and appeared to be in a particularly good mood today, giving Y/n the boost of confidence in which she needed to ask her next question.

"Um. How-how come you never eat?"

"Eh? Ah, it's nothing." Hyuna waved a dismissive hand but even as bad at reading people as she was, Y/n was still able to catch the nervous note to her voice.

"Are you ok?"

Her best friend smiled and to Y/n, it felt sad.

"I'm fine."

A clear line, full with a towering brick wall was drawn between them. It was so abundantly obvious Y/n had to look away and utter an apology, trying hard to not display how hurt she was over the rejection. For a moment she had thought, or maybe had tricked herself into thinking, that they were close enough for that to be ok.

On the other side of the table, Hyuna contemplated stabbing herself in the eyes but figured, maybe that was too dramatic. She grappled with ideas to break the tension she had created, when the freckled man apparently adamant on talking to her best friend invited himself to sit at the table.

Eyes wild and determined, he pointed a finger in Hyuna's face and the action instantly flared her temper all the way up.

For a milisecond she internally debated on whether biting this guy's finger off would be worth getting expelled for. Odd that she questioned herself when she knew that her soul whispered that it gave no fucks.

"AAH!" When he yelped and jerked back she let him go.

Placing her chin in her hand, she said the only thing she really had the energy for. "Get lost."