The Star | KaiSoo (boyxboy)

Chapter ten: pepero stick

Kyungsoo

I felt something different inside me. It felt like something was inside my belly that made it tickle in a funny way. 

If someone would tickle me weakly I wouldn't feel it unless they were literally attacking my ribs, but this time I felt it. But no one was attacking my ribs, nor my skin. It was nothing more than a feeling. Jongin was squeezing tightly on my cheeks, making sure I'd feel it. 

I felt even more shy as he continued, and I wanted to hide my face, but since he was grabbing it, forcing me to face him, I had no other choice than to stare at him. 

He stopped the moment he realised we both got a text message at the same time. He frowned at his phone and we both picked it up to read what it said. It was from Baekhyun, and I read out loud what he wrote.

'Hey Kyungsoo! Can Chanyeol, Jongin, you and I be at your house and hangout tomorrow? Chanyeol came up with the idea. Whatcha say?' Jongin smiled. 

"Yeah, Chanyeol sent the same text," he said. 

I was ready to reply, so I asked, "do you want to?" 

"Sounds fun!" he cheered. It slightly surprised me as I actually thought he wouldn't want to because he didn't want to see them together. Was he just acting strong? 

I didn't what him to think that I wasn't there for him, since I was. Even though we had just been friends about a week now, and I couldn't understand his pain, I could still tell he was hurting emotionally. 

I also had pain in my heart I couldn't describe, but I'd never cried before. I wouldn't know if it was the same pain or not. I did have the genetic disorder after all, so I wasn't really surprised I couldn't quite understand it. 

"Are you sure? We don't have to," I told him, "I mean, they will both come." I waited for his response after asking one last time. 

"I don't mind," he smiled sweetly, "even if I have...feelings for Chanyeol, I still want to be a good friend to him. It's worse to be alone with him, so when we're all four here, I feel a lot better," he explained. I nodded, then I replied back to Baekhyun that we both agreed to their plan. 

He replied quickly back. 'Yes! We'll come around five o'clock and bring some food. See you then!' 

I tossed my phone to the side and closely watched Jongin to see if he was trying to hide something. It's too unbelievable that he agreed to it straight away without any persuasions or any of the sort. 

Was he really okay with this? Did he feel more comfortable when I joined? He probably found it unpleasant when it's only the three of them, which I could understand. 

I also enjoyed Jongin's company a lot. 

"I'll get some snacks," I suggested and went downstairs to find something for us to eat. When I glanced at the clock to look what time it was, my eyes widen, as I didn't know how much time had passed without my awareness. 

Jongin

Kyungsoo came back up with some pepero sticks with chocolate flavour, and placed it between us on the table.

"We might as well do some work on the school project, since you're definitely not in a condition to go back to training straight away anyways," he suggested, which I agreed to with a nod, so we both started reading with Kyungsoo's school book, as I still hadn't my own book.