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yerin was staring at the ceiling, hating every moment of her awkward phone conversation with jaehyun. "so...what's new with you?" she didn't want to go in with the whole liking him thing first.

"nothing.... but last time i checked, you didn't really care." yerin almost forgot how she left things with jaehyun.

"i'm sorry. i was just doing the easy thing to do and blaming you for what happened." yerin walked in circles as she nervously continued to talk. "i gotta admit that i actually do miss you.." she waited anxiously for his response and was washed with a wave of relief when she heard him chuckle.

"that feels good to hear coming from you, and apology accepted." yerin couldn't help but smile. "listen, i have to ask what you meant that day."

"funny that you mention that." yerin cuts him off, her heart going crazy before the words could even come to mind. "i was also mad because you told me to forget everything, and i couldn't just forget it." yerin stopped the circles and sat down on her floor.

"i said that so things could be normal again, i was dumb to try something like that." jaehyun says with a sigh.

"but only you weren't dumb." yerin paused to think of how she could possibly tell jaehyun she felt the same way he did that day. "what you said gave me a lot to think about. at first i didn't want to hear it, i wanted to wake up with memory loss as an excuse to ignore your feelings."

"that actually hurts to know." jaehyun half admits and half jokes, making yerin playfully roll her eyes.

"my point is, i now know that i have those feelings too and that they grew as i got to know you more." yerin put her phone on speaker to get up and grab her pillow to scream in (she didn't actually).

"wow, well...that's great. i mean.. i don't know what to say." jaehyun was thrown completely off guard and wasn't expecting for yerin to return his feelings like that.

"me neither." yerin sighs, "was it okay for me to even—"

"yeah yeah! of course." jaehyun cut her off. "i obviously still have feelings for you, but i'm just waiting for whatever you have to say about us."

"are we still an us?" yerin put her face in her pillow.

"you always hated the whole fake-ness of us, but now we can be a genuine us." jaehyun says and yerin smiles again.

"okay, good." she didn't know what else to say, and they both laugh awkwardly.

"you're coming back to school soon, right?" jaehyun asks, trying to change the awkwardness.

"yeah, i'll be back tuesday."

"great. i'll see you soon, ok?"

"yeah, see you soon." yerin ended the call and ran out her room to hang with her brother before she could look back to only cringe at herself.

after watching johnny go, doyoung knocked on yerin's door. as he waited for it to open, he looked at the million messages from yugyeom.

yerin opened the door, "thank god its you." instead of inviting him inside, she closed the door behind her and joined him outside. "i have something to tell you!" she was excited to tell her friends that she had real feelings for her boyfriend.

"that can wait. you got time to go out to eat?" doyoung shuts her down, needing to get yerin to meet yugyeom. yerin nods, despite being a little sad about not to telling doyoung. "okay, lets go."

they arrive to the one and only mickey d's. after ordering their food, they find an empty booth to sit in. they waited in silence until doyoung said he had to use the bathroom, leaving yerin alone.

sighing, yerin leaned back and texted johnny.

       yerin: hey, you trying to switch me places at mcdonald's? doyoung will never know.

johnny: would i?! 🥺
johnny: i'd love to, but doyoung told me to avoid mcdonald's for the day...

yerin: that's weird.

johnny: hey, maybe he was the one who wrote u that letter!!!

yerin: what letter?

johnny: the love note! maybe he's trying to confess or something, lol
johnny: oh yea how did the talk with j*****n go?

                              yerin: we're still an us, just real this time.
            yerin: its weird to admit but i like him, a lot.

johnny: that's great.

"hey, listen." yugyeom slides into the seat in front of yerin. "we got to talk."

yerin gives him a confused look, "hey... but you're in doyoung's seat."

yugyeom nods, "i-i know, we arranged this." he explains and yerin just hummed in response.

"i guess that's fine." she tried not to be annoyed and criticize that he could have just called her without involving doyoung.

"i was going to plan a big gesture and impress you, but all i need is for you to listen." yugyeom clears his throat before continuing, "prom is in two weeks. i haven't had the slightest reason to go until you."

yerin wasn't saying anything, so he felt like he needed to explain. "until you as in, you became the reason—"

"i know." she cuts him off, "but isn't that a bit weird?" she awkwardly looks down at her hands.

"not at all." yugyeom reached for her hands. "we can be yerin and yugyeom again. like the old days, and it's not like i'm proposing to you." why do i keep mentioning marriage? yugyeom mentally rolled his eyes. "please come to prom with me, as friends."

yerin smiled, "okay, it kind of sounds fun." she admits and yugyeom smiles back. "why'd you make a big deal of it if we're just going to go as friends?" she teased, not knowing that yugyeom only thought of that in the moment so that he wouldn't be rejected.

"just overreacting, i guess." he awkwardly laughed. "did you ever get your order?" he changed the subject and they both realized doyoung ran off with the food.