Honesty

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Changbin and Seungmin's Private Chat

9:47 pm

Changbin:

Hello seungmin

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Seungmin:

oh wow, hi changbin

Changbin:

how are you?

Seungmin:

Ive been good, what about you?

Changbin:

same, pretty good

Changbin:

okay so uh... long story short, im in california

Changbin:

my mom took a temporary job in la technically, but we're in san francisco for the weekend right now and our hotel is pretty close to your campus

Changbin:

do you wanna maybe meet tomorrow evening, to catch up?

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Seungmin:

thanks for the offer! But i have plans tomorrow, so I cant :(

Changbin:

oh, are you sure? thats the only evening im free

Seungmin:

yeah that sucks. but my friend will kill me if I bail, really sorry

Seungmin:

maybe another time?

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Changbin:

no, im probably busy the rest of my time here. Just figured id reach out this one time but if youre not free, never mind

Seungmin:

sorry, idk what else to say. you should have notified me beforehand so i could make time. especially if youre only free for one night. its really busy over here as well

Changbin:

yeah, bad planning. just drop it okay?

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11:17 pm

Seungmin:

ok this is really bothering me

Seungmin:

ur texting me out of the blue to meet up and then get upset when im unsurprisingly not free, even when im open to rescheduling. like i dont know what the problem is?

Seungmin:

felix recently pulled this same shit, dont just reach out and ditch halfway. its better if you dont reach out at all if thats what you want to do

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4:43 am

Changbin:

why are you suddenly projecting all of this on me?? okay im sorry for my attitude but those messages seriously came out of the blue

Changbin:

fine, if we're not going to be thinking before we speak, then i might as well get this off my back

Changbin:

i was reluctant to reach out because i still feel weird about how everything ended years ago. because last i checked, it was partly your fault

Changbin:

you and han get into a fight and act suspicious as hell, and none of us know what is going on. and then a few days han goes missing

Changbin:

Im not making any conclusions, but han was clearly going through some shit and none of us were there for him. but he decided to take it out on you for whatever reason and i highly doubt you two resolved it

Changbin:

so yes, its weird. and i cant pretend im ready to have this happy reunion, i just thought i would try to get over it. but im not

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7:10 AM

Changbin grabbed his phone before his eyes had even fully opened. He opened the group chat to see the sleepy texts he had sent barely three hours ago.

His heart lurched in horror. His hand rushed to the Delete Message button but he knew it was useless. The eye icon was clear as day, the message had been read. He put his hands over his face, letting out a silent scream.

Shit, what had possessed him to tell Seungmin any of that!?

Changbin spent the rest of the day in a daze, faking enthusiasm as he went sight-seeing with his mom, his head feeling like it was going to explode.

Late that night, when he had given up on sleep, his phone pinged. Changbin all but flew towards it, pulling the notifications bar down. Seungmin?

It was Seungmin. But also wasn't.




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