THE NEXT DAY after the first two periods taeyong went over to chayu's desk and turned the chair of the empty desk in front of him. "hey chayu!" he said in a friendly tone.

with a confused look on his face chayu raised his head. "hello, taeyong?"

actually taeyong had no clue what made him do this, but now it was too late to stop anyway. "i just wanted to tell you, that i watched some of your youtube videos yesterday and i liked them a lot."

as chayu's jaw almost dropped, taeyong wasn't sure whether it was funny or sad. "oh my, i never thought someone in my class would watch my videos... how bad was it, though?"

lee taeyong flicked the blonde boy's forehead. "psst i already said, that i liked them."

"for real?" asked chayu shyly, while holding his forehead.

"of course! and why would you think no one in your class would watch your videos, you're actually famous?" said taeyong, honestly not getting a single thing chayu said. how was he always so clear in his videos and heads in the clouds in real life?

"i would kindly disagree-" mumbled chayu, not knowing how to react. "you're the one, who is famous here."

"whatever." sighed taeyong, actually kind of amused. "this is pretty random, but you said in your q&a video, that you wear fake lashes to school every single day?"

the conversation was a little too fast for chayu to keep up, especially since he rarely ever had conversations. "yeah i do, my natural eyelashes are basically non existent... uh taeyong, what're you doing?"

awkwardly he backed away from the latter, who had moved his face closer to observe chayu's eyelashes. "this is amazing, i never noticed it, it looks so natural." mumbled taeyong.

"maybe because you never saw me before?" said chayu, trying to sound jokingly, but it turned out rather whiny.

apparently taeyong hadn't missed out the hint of sadness in his voice, so he replied with a smile. "this might be true, but now it changed. still, your lashes... wow."

"don't exaggerate, you make it sound like so forced." said chayu, almost too quiet for taeyong to hear. "you don't have to talk to me, no one does."

at this point taeyong got slightly annoyed by how the other was talking down himself. "sssh you seem kind enough, so why wouldn't i?"

just as chayu was about to reply, a teacher yelled lee taeyong's name, asking him to go back to his seat, since the next period was about to start.

one of my classmates talked to me and took me a little more seriously... chayu still couldn't get it and the thought kept ghosting through his thoughts for quite a while. after all taeyong seemed like a nice person and he stopped disliking him as little as he had used to do.

still, the whole situation seemed too strange to be unforced.

taeyong meanwhile literally didn't really care what was happening; would he now have to learn to care for someone else than ten?

he was trying so desperately to be close to someone else, when the only person he wanted to be with was ten.

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in the evening ten was on the way back from his dance practice and checked his phone, while sitting on the bus. out of boredom he scrolled through instagram and suddenly his eyes caught a notification saying

tae.gram__ commented on yu.1004's picture

it would've been a lie to say, that he didn't feel lowkey jealous, since taeyong had also unfollowed his social media.

he knew it would hurt, but he decided to read the comment anyway.

yu.1004                                               follow       •••

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yu.1004 somehow my hair color is fading, should i dye it black again?
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tae.gram__ i'm sure it'd look great
sae_72281 you look good with whatever hair color
j00shua so adorable ~

his gaze went back and forth between what taeyong had commented and the last comment on the page; he couldn't help but agree.

just who on earth was that random boy? for some reason he seemed awkwardly familiar to him.

suddenly it was as if his eyes had been opened: this was the waiter at the small café! he gave me a tissue though? so the boy wasn't too random at all.

once again ten looked at the screen of his phone bitterly. of course he would follow him he thought and it made him feel so miserable about himself.

don't get him wrong, ten had always been confident about his talents and looks, but ever since taeyong had left him alone he was lacking it.

he wasn't even sure what to feel anymore; then again he thought that he was too young to feel all these things.

too young, too ugly, too whatever...

with a sigh he dragged himself up from his bed and put on a hoodie that was lying around on the floor. ten quietly left his room, tiptoed down the hallway past his parent's bedroom and sneaked out of the apartment.

soon the cold winter breeze hit his face like a wave, while he just went wherever the street lights would lead him.

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check out the characters chapter to see the updated side characters ~

Q1:  does ten go to kun's house or to taeyong's house?

Q2: recommend a name for the café where chayu works

nobody cares, but i made this cute wallpaper of chayu...

it's fun making these, so does anyone want a taeten/chaten or taeyu wallpaper?

yes i'm actually using this these days, so don't judge too hard