Minho’s POV:

Yesterday was the best day of my life so far. Each time I recall that moment, I felt my whole body burn up in heat. I spent the whole night replaying it in my mind, still not believing it actually happened, until I drifted to sleep.

I woke up a bit earlier than usual to have the opportunity to see ____-ah a bit before the start of class. I happened to be there quiet early, and ____ wasn’t there yet so I waited for her in front of her classroom, my back and head leaning on the wall and my eyes closed. I heard steps coming toward me, thinking it was ____, I put on my widest smile, and looked at her finding Hyo Joon instead. My smile faded away for a second fraction before smiling again. I didn’t want her to see the disappointment that built in me. She smiled back at me as she saw me there.

“Hey there!” she said.
“Hyo Joon-ah! How are you?”
“I’m fine. I see you’re happy. Did everything settle?”

I smiled widely again before answering.

“Kind of… But things are surely better… Much much better!”

I was waiting her to get all cheery for how things went for me, but I was disappointed once more by the gloomy face she had, she just smiled sadly at me. I could guess that something was going wrong with her. I tried asking but she just changed the subject asking me if I saw ____.

“No… I actually was waiting for her! You know … I missed her.” I confessed with blush coloring my cheeks.

Her eyes went dark as I said those words, and I was getting really worried. I decided to keep it for myself for now as I knew she won’t answer, and ask her about it when she is in a better mood.

Your POV:

I just stepped inside the school and started to walk toward the stairs when I felt a strong arm circle my neck and force me to lean to the front.

“Good morning Pinky Cherry!” I heard a now familiar voice sing. I turned my head to look at him with a glare, as all the blood of my body rushed to my cheeks as I thought of the position that I was in with him, and for the whole world to see.
“Taeminie! What are you doing right in the morning?”
“Toying with you?” he smirked at me.
Another voice came in rescue: Onew!
“Minnie mouse grow up already! Aren’t you intending to? Like ever?”

As he heard him calling him Minnie mouse again, Taemin let me go to attack Onew this time.

“Minnie mouse again? Hyung are you serious?”

I laughed to my heart contain as I watched the two boys argue.

“I guess you earned yourself a new nickname!” I teased.
“Yah! Are you two now pairing up against me?” Taemin shouted.
“I guess you are right” Onew answered a big grin on his face, “but now we have to go to our classes, we only have two minutes left!”

Taemin and I looked at each other in shock and run unconsciously to the first floor. They waved at me goodbye as my classroom was the nearest and continue to run each in a direction toward his.

As I walked inside, breathing heavily, Hyo Joon waved in my direction showing me that she kept me a place next to her. I sat and she as always smiled at me, but today’s smile was weak, forced, and her eyes were even more swollen than yesterday. As I was going to ask, the teacher stepped inside and everyone opened their books. When the teacher started lecturing, I grabbed a piece of paper and wrote to Hyo Joon.

“Girl night in at my dorm today?”

She looked at it for a while before grabbing a pen to answer.

“Why so suddenly?”
“Because I feel like it has been a while since we spent time together!”
“Yeah… Right… As you wish then ”

She pushed the paper toward me for a last time and we smiled at each other.
At the end of that class, she excused herself first telling me that she has something to do. This wasn’t the first time, so I got pretty used to it. I nodded and she just left.
As I was about to leave, the teacher called me and asked me to make her the favor of returning the datashow. I just accepted as I knew that I had no chance in sneaking from it, and she handed it to me.

In the hallway someone called my name, and I returned to find Minho giving a hand sign to go to him, I smiled and showed him the tool in my hand, he nodded knowing that I had to go.

The data room was in the second floor, one who is always empty since no classes were held there, and was reserved for self study and club gatherings which more commonly happened in the afternoon rather than morning; the only active room was the one I was heading to.

As I walked toward my destination, I heard the cries of a girl. They weren’t loud but due to the echo I could hear her clearly. I can’t lie saying it didn’t give me shivers after all the horror movies I watched but I kept telling myself that ghosts don’t exist as I kept walking forward, at last those were only movies. To my surprise, as I reached the class from where the cries were coming , I saw a girl hugged by someone, I couldn’t see who he was since the wall hid him, but I could guess it was a boy from the look of his arms and the mumbles that were escaping from there. Suddenly, the girl raised her head from the boys’ embrace, and my surprise grew even more, my jaw dropped when I discerned that the girl was actually Hyo Joon. I stayed freezing in my place until the realization that they could see me hit me, so I brought myself together and went to do what I came here for.

On my walk back to Minho, I couldn’t not think of the scene that I witnessed. It felt totally weird. She never talked about a boyfriend to me. It has always been her, Minho and I.
Then maybe, they didn’t want people to know about their relationship, but then, I was her best friend. If she doesn’t tell me about these stuffs, then where are friendship and trust gone?
I believed that the girl night in idea was just great at this rate.

Drifted by my thoughts, I didn’t notice that I already reached Minho’s classroom, and he was punching my arm to wake me from my daydreaming.

“Daydreaming again?”
“Kind of!” I smiled at him and he smiled back.
“We have fifteen minutes left; want to have a hot chocolate? My treat!” he offered.

My smile went even wider, anything having the word chocolate in it was my weakness, and he knew it the best. I nodded happily, while he passed his arm around my shoulders dragging me with him toward the school cafeteria. I didn’t mind his arm since it was just him, and he was treating me, so I walked under his arm till there. We were sitting at a table and waiting for the hot chocolate to get ready when Taemin came and sat right in front of Minho.

“Hey there!” he said, waving at us while he was comfortably sitting.
“Do you even mind taking permission before sitting? This was our table!” Minho answered him with a half smile, he was saying it as a joke, but I could feel Minho tense at the moment Taemin came.
“You both are my friends why should I bother and ask?” he said with a brow raised and a smile, then the evil in him woke up again, “Or am I intruding something? Ah your lovey dovey break?” he laughed hard enough while I glared at him. Minho kept silent. I looked at him and saw the blush on his face, and his red ears. I don’t know why he reacted that way each time someone made this kind of remark, but as he didn’t speak, I was obliged to answer Taemin instead.

“Taeminie, I already told you, we weren’t dating, he is my best friend, and that’s all, right Minho?”
“Yes” he answered me as Taemin just smiled while looking at us.

Minho got up suddenly, and I looked at him, he understood and made a sign toward the cups of drinks that were waiting for us. As he went Taemin leaned on the table coming closer to me and give me a sign to do the same. As I couldn’t disobey him consciously, I just did as told, and he whispered in my ear.

“Now I see who’s the one with the wrecked love.” He winked at me as he went back to his first position, while I just looked at him in awe, kind of shocked, he seriously didn’t want to let go of this unbelievable story.

When Minho came back with the hot choco, Taemin got up leaving us alone.

“He is such an asshole” Minho said while sighing.

I instantly frowned at him.

“Why are you saying so? I thought you were practice buddies!”
“Well we are… but… never mind!” he just answered and looked away.

I couldn’t understand why he said that, true Taemin has his devilish side, but he was just too cute and sweet that you can’t hate him, and I couldn’t stand my best friend say such thing of the one I had a crush on for so long. I wanted to lecture Minho about it, but then the darkness in his eyes made me abort the idea… We just made up not long ago.

I sipped at my drink while looking at him. He was still looking everywhere, with no special goal, and emptying his cup very fast.

Moments later, the bell rung, so we got up to leave. My cup was still half full, but I had no time
left so I left it on the table, kind of sad that I didn’t get to finish it. When Minho looked at me; he knew what I was thinking.

“I’ll treat you to another one later, don’t be sad!”
I punched his arms before answering, “Stop reading my mind!”
“You know I don’t need to do so to know!” he smiled at me, and I smiled back, then we headed back each to his class.

As I arrived to my class, I was surprised seeing everyone leaving instead of going inside of the room. Hyo Joon wasn’t there either, so I asked a girl about what was happening to know, that the teacher wasn’t coming. Like everyone, I just left too. I wanted to leave to the dorm but then I remembered that I promised Taemin and Jinki to go with them, and I had no way to tell them that I’m leaving first, since I didn’t get to take their phone numbers. Seeing the situation was like that, I just decided to wait for them.

To make the two hours of wait fruitful, I headed to the library. I took a random book and sat in my favorite spot, on the wall of the window, between the shelves. As I just started looking inside of the book, I heard someone talking to me.

“Psst!”

I looked to my left and discovered Jinki sitting at a similar spot of mine but from the other side of the shelf, and was looking at me from between the books. Seeing him made me feel my heart warm up, and I smiled fully with all my teeth showing.

“Hey, Onew!”
“Chuuut, speak slowly, or they will kick us out!” he said with his finger on his lips.
I laughed, he was right, but I just got too excited seeing him.
“What are you doing here Cherry?”
“The teacher didn’t come and I was waiting for you guys to finish!”
“I see, well I was doing the same here, and … I think we can go already if you are finished…”
“What about Taemin?”
“We were going without him anyway, he told me that he was going to leave with a friend of his, they have to prepare for some exam.”
“I see, then let’s go?”

He nodded and we both got up. Something made me feel weird at the thought of us being alone for the ride. It wasn’t a bad feeling, but it was totally different.

Notes

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