The Only

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3 months in college, Joohyun was having a hard time adjusting to her new lifestyle. She was in a café reading a book, she was supposed to meet Junmyeon at 3:00 but by 2:30 she was already at the café. She waited for Junmyeon before she’d order anything. While waiting she was reading a book titled “Kim Ji-Young, Born in 1982.”

After a while she set her book a side on the table and headed to the comfort room. When she went out of the comfort room, she stopped at her tracks and smiled when she saw Junmyeon was already seating at her table. She quickly approached him. They greeted each other with a hug, She couldn’t hide how happy she was to see someone who didn’t remind her of college.

Junmyeon blushed seeing how happy she was. “Did you miss me that much?”

“Yes, why? Are you going to start teasing me again? All you ever do is tease me all the time even after all these months” she couldn’t say no because she really did, this made Junmyeon blush even more.

“okay, okay I won’t” he gave her an evil smile and in return she gave him her threatening eyes.

Junmyeon laughed “You haven’t change, you’re still cute.”

“And you still like me, don’t you?” Junmyeon just looked down at the menu and smiled “I can’t believe this you should already start looking for someone else Junmyeon you know I just want us to be friends” he had to hide his pain with a smile.

“How can I possibly find someone better than you”

“You don’t need to; you just need to find someone who makes you happier” Even though she and Junmyeon had a lot of fun together she knew how she had only been hurting him but she didn’t want to lose him as a friend. She had have made countless efforts to make him stop.

He just smiled and changed the topic by asking for her order. She knew he was changing the topic but she understood when he didn’t want to talk about things. After a while they finished their order.

“How are you?” Junmyeon asked

Joohyun pouted “I missed you, I miss granny, I miss High-school and I miss everyone in town”

“Me too”

Joohyun looked at him “Why did you have to go to a university 3 hours from mine”

He reached his hand and patted her head. “That’s okay, we’ll just get used to this, like we’ll always do”

She looked at him and took her time to stare at him and picked out every detail she could of his face. Even if she only saw him as a friend she couldn't deny that she found him attractive to look at, sometimes his attractiveness could unawarely make her blush. Junmyeon eventually returned the stare and smiled.

They finished their drinks and decided to go for a walk before they go to the movies. They linked their arms together and took a walk in the park. They talked about their first few months in college. Junmyeon was a major in Creative Writing and Joohyun was a major in Interior Design. Junmyeon took his pleasure to tease Joohyun for probably breaking men’s hearts before even giving them a chance but when Junmyeon saw she wasn’t liking it already he stopped. This was one of the things they’ve learned from each other throughout the years together, they both always knew when to stop nosing on each other’s business. Whole throughout it was mostly just them sharing their tough times.

“When I moved here in Seoul, I didn’t expect it to be like this.” They were already in the cinema, waiting for the movie to start when Joohyun whispered. She was looking at him

“We all didn’t” Junmyeon paused “I guess we just need to get used to all of this now and prepare for everything ahead of us.” The movie was starting already

“Can’t everything in this world stay the same?” Junmyeon looked at Joohyun who was now focusing on the screen.

They didn’t really pay much attention to the movie; they were constantly teasing each other with their glares. From time to time they were often shushed by other people when one of them shrieked too loud. Halfway through the movie Joohyun got tired and removed the dividers from their seats, she leaned her head on one of Junmyeon’s shoulders and linked their arms together. 

That was probably the best day Joohyun had have ever since she moved in Seoul. She was at her small apartment now. She was settling her stuffs and pulled out the book she brought with her earlier. When she opened it a piece of paper flew out from the pages, she picked it up and realized it was a photo of Junmyeon and her together. She smiled at the picture and flipped it, there was a note

“Everything around us change, but you’ll always have me”
-Your handsome rabbit friend

Below the note was a phone number

“If you ever have a hard time, I’m always one phone call away :)”
This made Joohyun smile. She immediately took out her wallet and tucked the photo in one it’s pockets where it could make the photo visible just by opening the wallet.