𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 : 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫
❝ everything becomes beautiful
because of you. ❞
— ᵃᶜᵉ —
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chanhee's gaze followed changmin as he left the auditorium, his head bowed slightly as he shuffled past others.
"that's weird," chanhee muttered, hugging the bear closer to himself as he redirected his gaze back onto younghoon who tilted his head slightly, silently asking what about him was weird. "he didn't bother me that much."
"did you want him too?" younghoon asked, smiling at chanhee and although chanhee was wearing his mask, younghoon could tell that he was frowning, his eyebrows furrowed as he stared at younghoon before smacking him on the head with the bear's paw. "it was an honest question! and if you're so concerned, why not go and talk to him? i'm sure he's somewhere outside," younghoon said, still smiling at chanhee as he gave the bear a pat on the head.
chanhee weighed his options. he could either stay with younghoon or go and find changmin and although the former sounded like a safer, more comfortable, choice, he couldn't help but be curious as to what would happen if he chose the latter.
what he didn't notice was that, while he internally debated with himself, the smile on younghoons' face faltered ever so slightly, his hand just resting by his sides as he watched chanhee try and choose between him and ji changmin.
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changmin stared at the message from kevin, sighing as he quickly replied and turned his phone off again, slowly making his way back to his dorm since he no longer had any lessons that day.
although he had left without seeing anymore interactions between chanhee and younghoon, the moments that he did see kept replaying in his head, a never ending loop that seemed to find joy in his overthinking.
as he walked, multiple people stopped to wave at him, smiling and asking him about how his day was with him instantly reacting by smiling and talking to them, dismissing any thoughts about chanhee and younghoon and instead replacing them with his standard replies of how wonderful his day had been.
but once he had reached his dorm, the smile slipped off his face as he stared blankly at the white walls. "don't be like this changmin," he whispered to himself, feeling his knees buckle. "don't be like this changmin," he repeated, now sitting on the floor and hugging his knees to himself.
chanhee wasn't his first crush. in fact, he had liked (and dated) plenty of people before coming to university but the idea of his feelings being one-sided never hurt any less no matter how many times he went through it.
he didn't cry, nor did he speak anymore. he simply sat down and stared at the empty white wall that kevin had wanted to use as a decoration wall but had forgotten about.
he didn't know how long he sat there for but he finally snapped out of it when his phone buzzed inside his pocket and with a sigh, he took it out. upon seeing who the message was from, he immediately sat up straight, eyes wide as he locked and unlocked his phone again so as to check that he wasn't dreaming.
choichanhee wants to send you a message.
accept decline
he hurriedly pressed accept before chanhee could backtrack and delete his message, standing up to find a more comfortable spot to message him at.
choichanhee
thanks for coming to the
performance despite your
busy schedule since i'm sure
that the campus prince has
lots of other stuff to do
choichanhee
if it wasn't obvious,
this is chanhee
jikyuwu
yea! it was really good!
you were so cool up there
and just WOW! (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ
if you guys perform again,
you HAVE to tell me about
it!! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°
changmin looked at his text and bit his fingernail, wondering if his normal texting style was too much for chanhee to handle, afraid that somehow, chanhee would think that he was overeager (which he admitedly was) and not want to talk with him ever again.
choichanhee
that's a lot of emoticons
but i'm pretty sure jacob
will tell kevin and from him
you'll be aware as well
jikyuwu
i express myself through
emoticons! is it weird?
(｡•́︿•̀｡) but yea! i'll know
from kevin hehe (≧◡≦)
jikyuwu
by the way...
choichanhee
what
changmin stared at the words he had typed out, weighing the pros and cons before taking a deep breath and pressing send.
jikyuwu
mind if i get your number?
or! we could just follow each
other here on instagram if
you'd prefer that ('｡• ᵕ •｡')
once he saw chanhee typing, he covered his eyes with his free hand, unable to deal with the embarrassment he felt coming, already visualizing chanhee's outright refusal towards both ideas and the more changmin thought about it, the more he wondered what chanhee would gain from saying yes to either of his suggestions.
slowly calming himself down, he took his hand away and looked down at his phone, a rush of adrenaline coursing through him as he read his reply.
choichanhee is now following you!
follow back?
he let out a scream, kevin opening the door right that moment only to be tackled by an overexcited ji changmin. "hi to you too...?" kevin said, dropping his keys as he returned changmins' hug.
"kev! h-he followed me!" changmin yelled, still hugging (or more accurately squishing) kevin.
"congrats on getting chanhee's follow!" kevin congratulated, immediately knowing which he changmin was talking about seeing as how there was only one he that changmin was obsessed with at the moment. "that's a step forward!"
changmin held kevin by the shoulders, shaking him as he spoke. "and! he did it first! kev, he's slowly warming up to me!" kevin smiled at his friend, still mildly afraid that the excessive shaking was going to launch his phone out of his hands and out the window. "maybe choi chanhee doesn't hate me kev!"
"well, he might if you don't respond to that soon," kevin said, pointing at changmin's phone which was still on his direct messages with chanhee. changmin quickly letting go of kevin and sitting back down on his bed.
choichanhee
should i be shocked that you
have 8,109 followers?
jikyuwu
but! you have 7,983!
and, you don't even post
yourself ヾ('ヘ')ﾉﾞ
choichanhee
why would i lol
jikyuwu
you'd probably get more
people falling for you
if you do ☆⌒(≧▽° )
choichanhee
you say more as if there
were already people who
have fallen for me
"why's he so dry?" changmin jumped back slightly, not even realising that kevin was sitting right next to him with a pack of chips and reading his conversation with chanhee. "sorry, didn't mean to interrupt but damn, his texting style lacks flavour."
choichanhee
anyways, this conversation
is way too long
bye ji changmin
jikyuwu
byebye! (≧▽≦)/
hope to talk to you soon!
despite the fact that it was just a short conversation that barely got anywhere, changmin couldn't help but smile, pushing away everything he had seen in the auditorium and only focusing on the fact that choi chanhee had made the first step forward and now, there was no way that changmin was going to back out.
"kev." kevin looked up, meeting eyes with changmin. "how'd you get jacob to date you?"
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[a/n: crying bc this story is getting more support than i expected (the last chap had like 20? comments and I WAS SHOCKED)]