"Well, I think I should be going now," Sungchan sparked. Now that the trio had reunited after awhile, the three had spent another hour at the park watching the sunset and eating food. Hyesoo looked at Sungchan, her mouth agape. She pouted, "Channie, you can't leave now."
"Sorry Hye. It's still a Monday, and it's getting late," Sungchan reasoned. Hyesoo heaved a sigh and nodded. The three of them began to bid their goodbyes as Sungchan exited the park. It was now just the two of them, Jeno and Hyesoo.
"Come on. It's about time we get going too," Jeno said, standing up as well. He extended his hand for Hyesoo to grab, but she didn't. She sat there for a few minutes, her hair flowing with the light breeze occurring. Jeno was a bit worried that the girl was frozen, but everything became fine as Hyesoo smiled and grabbed his hand, dragging him towards the bus stop.
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"And so that's why I think Into the New World the ballad version they did at their concert should be released on Spotify," Jeno concluded. The two of them were currently sitting on the bus on their way home. For the past 10 minutes Jeno had been making an argument over why Spotify should add the ballad version of Into the New World on Spotify, a great and worthy argument. However, someone was clearly not paying attention as heard by the little snores she was making. "Are you even listening to me?" Jeno questioned, he turned his head to look at the girl sleeping on his shoulder, "I guess not," He sighed.
Just then, the bus had arrived at their stop. Jeno shook Hyesoo to wake her up, but the girl was passed out cold. Not a single sound could wake the girl out. Jeno sighed and shook his head, he looked forward at the bus driver who was waiting for them to get off patiently. Jeno reluctantly made a decision, picking up the girl and placing her on his back in a piggy back position. He carefully made his way of the bus and onto Hyesoo's street.
"You know, I kinda hate how you're always on my mind," Jeno began, though he knew Hyesoo was asleep and wasn't listening, he still couldn't help but express his feelings, "I know, I need to understand what I want and love myself first. But, I just can't help myself. How can you be the light of my life, helping me in my toughest days. yet my worst darkness, making me question everything about myself?" He questioned.
"And now I sound like an idiot talking to myself," He chuckled, "I miss you. I hope you know that. Gosh, how stupid of me to lean in and try and kiss you today? What was I thinking?" Jeno cringed at himself. He looked up to see Hyesoo's house right in front of him. Jeno sighed and shook Hyesoo, "Hye, we're home. Wake up," He said in a soft manner.
Almost in an instant, Hyesoo had woken up from her deep slumber. "We are?" She questioned. Jeno nodded in response, letting her down from his back. She quickly brushed herself off, and, almost like magic, she was back to her energetic self. Jeno was slightly confused with her sudden burst of energy, he raised an eyebrow at her, "Are you sure you hadn't been awake this entire time?" He questioned.
Hyesoo looked at him flabbergasted, "What? Why would I? I literally just woke up," She responded. Jeno still questioned her, but he decided to ignore that. "Well, then you didn't hear me talking to myself?" He asked to reassure himself.
Hyesoo giggled to herself, "You were talking to yourself? I didn't know that."
"It doesn't matter," Jeno said, waving his hands in assurance, "Goodnight, Hye."
"Goodnight Jeno," She said with a smile. Jeno turned around, making his way back home. Hyesoo watched him go his own way before walking up to her front door. She turned around to see if Jeno was still around, but alas, he wasn't. She smiled to herself. "Sorry for lying, but I was listening," She said to herself, a wide smile on her face as she thought about what Jeno had said, "I hope you know I missed you as well. I want to be with you too."
But our time isn't yet.
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It was the next morning. The sun was shining more than it does on a cool autumn day, and Hyesoo could hear the leaves of the trees in her neighbourhood pitter-pattering as they fell to the ground. As she woke up from her slumber, she looked out the window to admire the bright view. The birds were chirping, and the day had already been a beautiful view to the girl's eyes. Approaching her phone that was sitting on her night stand, she unlocked it to see if there were any messages just in case. To her surprise, there were messages sent to her the same morning by someone she didn't expect.
Nono
hey good morning. how are you doing? :)
Hye
i'm good thanks for asking. why?
Nono
just wanted to check in on you that's all
Hye
well thank you then😊
Nono
no problem <3
Seen
Hyesoo smiled to her phone, her lips reaching her cheeks, resulting in her gums showing from her genuine joy. She quickly jumped out of bed, slightly shocked by her own sudden movement, and got ready for the day.
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As Hyesoo walked into the school, she began her day nice and easy. She saw her friend, Jieun, in the morning and even managed to see Sungchan in his department during her break. Like any other morning, her day was mundane and simple. Nothing has happened, and Hyesoo was used to this cycle.
As she got up, collecting her books from World Literature, she proceeded to make her way to the cafeteria, her steps light as if she was floating. "Hey," She heard next to the lecture hall's door frame. Hyesoo turned around to be met with someone she wasn't extremely familiar with. "Umm... hi?" She said in confusion.
The guy approached her, slinging his arm over her shoulder. Hyesoo was a bit confused and slightly uncomfortable, but nevertheless, she let the guy do what he did; she's heard from others about his personality, and that the boy enjoyed being close to other people. "You may know who I am," He briefly said, walking with her to the cafeteria.
"Perhaps I do, Lee Haechan," She stated in a serious manner, not wanting to cross any border of friendliness.
"Oh, come on. Lighten up a bit please, I'm not gonna hurt you. The guys and I just wanted to invite you to each lunch with us. We wanna get to know you since you're Jeno's girl," Donghyuck remarked.
"I'm not his girl," Hyesoo huffed.
"If you say so," He announced in a sing-song voice, "Just come sit with us please."
Hyesoo sighed. She was slightly skeptical towards Haechan's words, and perhaps she wasn't exactly sure if Jeno would want her there; but then again, she couldn't just deny an opportunity to meet Jeno's friends. After all, they're the friends that healed him after she left, it'd be interesting to get to know them. "Okay, let's go."
Donghyuck clapped his hands and guided the girl towards the lunch table as they made their way into the cafeteria. Hyesoo was slightly regretting her decisions as she saw dozens of eyes upon her; most likely coming from the Dreamies' fangirls, they were always annoyed seeing other girls with the guys. How cliché of them, it's almost pitying. "Guys, Hyesoo is here!" Donghyuck exclaimed, sitting down. Hyesoo looked for an empty seat at the table, finding one in between two other guys; it also just so happened to be right across Jeno.
"Where's Mark hyung?" Donghyuck asked. Hyesoo presumed he was talking about some other friends. "Probably taking a shit," a blonde boy shrugged, the boy then turned his head towards the girl that was just sitting there, "Hi, Na Jaemin," He introduced with a large smile.
"Ryu Hyesoo," The girl responded, an equally large smile on her own face.
"We know," The guy on her left said, "Huang Renjun, Jeno talks nonstop about yo-" He revealed before Jeno kicked him in the leg. Jeno sent a death glare to Renjun to which the boy returned.
"Zhong Chenle!" Chenle said, she remembered talking to the younger boy once, "The one right next to you that's about to fall asleep is Jisung," The boy, Chenle, introduced. Hyesoo turned her head to see where the younger boy was dazing off.
"Huh? What? Nope, I'm up!" Jisung show up. Hyesoo giggled at the boy's response, knowing damn well he was lying. But, it wasn't her place to say anything, so she turned towards the last boy that just arrived. "And you are?"
"Mark. Mark Lee," He introduced.
"Nice to meet you Mark," She replied. From what she could tell by the guys' response, so far, they liked her. She looked straight ahead at the boy in front of her with a smile on her face, to which he didn't respond with. She frowned in slight confusion, wondering what was wrong. She ignored that feeling she had, however, and began getting to know the rest of the group. She had gotten along quite well with the younger ones mostly, Chenle and Jisung.
As Hyesoo was making conversation with Jisung, she was pulled out from her seat and dragged out of the cafeteria. She let out a small yelp, looking up to see who was taking her. To be quite honest, Hyesoo was slightly scared as she didn't know who was taking her, but fortunately, she was only met with the face of Lee Jeno.
Pulling herself together, Hyesoo escaped from the hold of Jeno's arms and looked at him rather annoyed. "What's wrong? I was just making conversation with your friends, but you had to drag me away."
"Why were you even talking to them?" He questioned back.
"Because they invited me to! What's wrong with that? Are you jealous or something?" Hyesoo answered, flabbergasted at Jeno's response.
"Maybe I am jealous!" He answered back.
Hyesoo scoffed, "Why would you be? We aren't even together!" She fumed, "You can't be going around, getting jealous of other people when we aren't even in an actual relationship anymore. Ok? You have no right to be like this because you're not my boyf-"
"Well, what if I want us to be?" He exclaimed.
is this chapter the one i'm most proud of? absolutely not i only like the ending lol
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