It’s 11 pm and I’ve already on my bed. All ready to sleep, I’ve even already dimmed the lamp until I hear some weird noises from my kitchen.

“For God sake.” I hid under my blanket as my mouth mumbling things like ‘please, God save me’—if that was a culprit.

I heard a clinging sound, which I’m sure came out from glass that been taken out then followed by the sound of pouring water.

If that’s a culprit, please just let he be thirsty, drink my water then gets out. I pray to myself.
I keep hiding under my blanket and mouthing stuffs I really don’t understand why did I mumble that until I heard something been thrown and hit my apartment’s wooden floor.

I get out from my blanket slowly and gather all my courage to open my door slightly and peek through it.

What? I couldn’t believe of what I saw. Thank God, it wasn’t a culprit and all my fear has gone immediately. I walk towards someone who has been bumped himself on my couch.
I found him sleeping peacefully with his right arm rested under his head on the arm resting and also an empty glass.

“Changhyun ah.” I poked him on his shoulder but he didn’t reply anything, instead he’s making that short humming noise.

“Yah!” I poked him one more time. This one was harder.

“Uhhh…” He murmured with his eyes still closed. He even changed his position.

“What are you doing here?” I asked in confused. “Aren’t you supposed to be filming?” Actually it’s a common thing, that this childish 18 years old boy comes to my apartment—but not in the middle of the night when I was about to sleep.

“I’m done filming. Now, I’m tired.” He answered vaguely with his eyes still closed.

“Why don’t you go to your dorm? Where are the others?” I keep asking him.

“Yah, Min Ah…” He calls my name, still with his eyes closed. “I’m tired. Will you just let me sleep?” He asked with a husky voice.

“Not with that full of sweat shirt you wear.” I look at him from head to toe. He’s even still wearing his shoes, seriously?

“Yah, wake up!” I shook his smelly body but he just ignored that and even sighed.

I walked back to my bedroom, trying to find something that fit in his body. Oh, this will works. I take out my brother’s old sweatshirt that he left. In no time I walked back to Changhyun, he’s still sleeping.

“Change.” I throw the sweatshirt right on his face. He opens his eyes spontaneously and takes that off his face.

“Akh!” He gets up slowly and begins to take off his shirt.

“Not here!” I stopped him before he finished take his sweaty shirt off. “You know I love things to be perfectly clean before I’m going to bed and your sweaty shirt glued to my couch is… nu’uh.” I said as I dragged him to the toilet but he seems didn’t hear that.

“I’m going to bed. I warned you, do not go back to my couch except you have changed.” I pointed at him, he looked at me with his 5-watt eyes.
Oh, I finally can sleep in peace.

I covered myself with my most comfy blanket and cuddled with my pillow. Before I close my eyes I could hear a door being closed and I supposed that was Changhyun already got changed and got back to the couch. Well, that’s cool.

“Min Ah…” Jeez. I almost jumped out of my bed after I heard a heavy voice calling my name.

“What, Changhyun ah? I’m trying to sleep!” I look at him who’s now standing on my door.

“Can I sleep on the bed? My back hurts sleeping on your couch.” He said while he makes his way to another side of my bed.

“No, no!” I shouted immediately.

“Please, Min Ah. I just need a comfortable sleep this night.” He begs. Actually, it really works when he’s begging. Like, look at that cute face!

“But best friend didn’t sleep together!” I blocked his way. I could feel my face as red as a tomato right now.

“We are not going to sleep like that. Please let me sleep here.” I quite. Oh, of course… Of course we wouldn’t sleep like ‘that’.

“Whatever you say, but don’t touch me!” I warned him and walked back to my side of bed. He didn’t reply but bumped himself to the bed. Facing me. Oh, God.
Oh… Let this thought stop, Min Ah! You know he’ll never like you back. You are just a best friend to him.


*****

The morning light touches my eyelids forcing them to be opened. I moaned as I stretched myself.

“Whoa!” I shocked of what I saw. It’s his arm on my stomach. “Yah, Changhyun!” I moved his arm and shook him.

“Hmm..” He murmured and starts to open his eyes.

“I warned you, do not touch me!” What is today going to be like when I already got mad in the morning?

“I didn’t touch you!” He denied as he stretched himself.

“But your arm was on my stomach when I woke up!”

“It moved when I slept.” He said coldly with his eyes fully opened and look right into my eyes. I froze when he said that, I don’t understand why, that wasn’t even a romantic sentence, for God sake.

“Swear to God, you didn’t touch me!” I ordered him. He sighed and gets up from bed.

“I swear to God, I didn’t touch my best friend, Tae Min Ah. Was that enough?” Best friend, uh?

“Ok. I believe you. Now get yourself ready and go back to your dorm. Your manager would be worried searching for you if you’re not there.” I shooed him from my bedroom.

“He gave us 3 days off. That’s why I came to your apartment last night.” He explains as he made his way to my balcony.

“But that was almost midnight. That was so wrong!” I denied.

“I thought you were still watching movies or watch some weird videos on YouTube like you always did in weekend.” He rested his arms on the balcony railing.

“Not for last night. I was super tired and you made me even more tired.” I complained as I tangled my arms on my chest. He turns himself and facing me from the balcony.

“Why? Why didn’t you tell me? I could maybe… help you.” He beamed with his serious face. He seriously has a super cute face but when he made a serious face, it’s also look good on him.

“It’s just… you don’t have to know.” I sighed. This one, he really shouldn’t know.

“What is that? Why are you keeping a secret from me?” He’s walking to me closer and closer until he sits beside me.

“It’s nothing… really.” I faced down but then immediately smiled at him. He narrows his eyes to me like he didn’t believe of what I said.

“I left it to you if you don’t want to tell me but if you changed your mind, I’m always here.” He smiled and left me to the balcony.

“I’m going to make some tea. Do you want one, too?” I asked as I make my way to the door.

“Sure. Thanks, Min Ah.”


Thank God I didn’t let any single word coming out from this mouth. I know it’s weird for us for me not telling what happened because we basically talking about anything. He told me when his first kiss was and even how was that, in the other hand I told him that I never have my first kiss, until now, until I am now 18 years old, but for this one, I don’t think I’m ready to tell him.

“Ah…” I spilled the hot water to my hand as I was thinking about not to tell him this secret.

“Yah, Min Ah! Everything’s cool?” He shouted from the balcony.

“Cool as me.” I joked as I immediately wiped the spilled water.

“You’ll never be cooler than me, you do know that don’t you?” He laughed and I didn’t realize that he’s already in my living room.

“Oh. Yes I forgot. You are the cutest member and I know every girls would go all ‘kyaa’ when he looks at you.” I teased him.

“Not every girls.” He denied as he walks and stand beside me.

“Uh?”

“You wouldn’t fall with my ‘bbuing-bbuing’, would you?” He smirks. Wait… did he just tease me or… what?

“Yes, I wouldn’t.” I give him his mug. He did that ‘bbuing-bbuing’ thing once again before he takes the mug. “I wouldn’t fall for that, Changhyun. Never.” I smiled.

“Well, then. I think you’d fall for this one.” He followed me to the living room because I’m going to watch morning news.

“For what?”

“Ta-da!” He took one envelope from his bag that he left last night beside the couch.

“What is that?”

“Open it.” He handed me that envelope with nothing written on it. I put my mug and begin to open the envelope.

“Seriously?” Omg! This was a two-days ticket to Everland! I even haven’t go to this amusement park with my family.

“My manager gave me yesterday and I decided to go there with you.” He smiles.

“Why me? Why don’t Cha Eul? You’re now…”

“Things between us are not going smoothly as I planned to.” He cut my sentence.

“But out of that, do you still want to chase her?” I carefully asked. He drinks the tea and takes a heavy sigh.

“I don’t know.”

“What actually happened between you both?” I tilted my head.

“Her ex just got back from Canada and…” He stops talking. I could see his eyes are seeing things that happened before.

“Don’t tell me she chose him and not you?”

“Pretty much that.” I sit closer to him and circling my arms around him.

“Don’t worry. It’s her loss. I’m she’ll regret her decision to choosing him instead of you.” I smile to him.

“And how about you? Still got nobody to introduced to me?” He asked out of sudden.

“What are you talking about?” I pretended I didn’t understand that.

“You know… Where was the last time you date? 10 years ago?”

“Not that long! It’s only 4 years ago!”

“Ah, I remember. Just after you broke up, we met.” He winked. “So back to the question?”

“No one, Changhyun.” I sighed.

“So we are both available, uh?” He looks at me with thousand meaning of faces.

“What do you meant?”

“That Everland thing. I consider it as a date.” He smirked.

“What are you talking about?” I hissed. “We are best friend. No such thing as a date.”

“Yah, Min Ah! You know she just dumped me. If you are my best friend, you supposed to cheer me up!” Uh, this boy.

“So best friend also play date?”

“Only between us.” He smiled innocently. I look at him with a ‘seriously?’ face. “Please?”

“For you, Chang Hyun. Only for you.” I got up to the kitchen to cook some pancake.

“I believe that’s a yes?” He repeated.

“Do you have a wrong hearing or what?” He laughs.

“Thank you, Min Ah. I know you are the best!”

“Thank you for the compliment but will you stay here for a pancake or you have to go soon?” I asked him that because I don’t want to make too much pancakes.

“Don’t ever ask me whether I’ll go or no if you will be cooking pancake. You know I really love your pancake, don’t you?” My face turns red after he said that.





Oh, if only you know how I felt.