I want to hear you from a closer place
Everything about you, I listen

-be quiet

Yoo Kihyun

"Come back to earth, will you?" Wonho snapped his fingers before me and I jolted up, realizing that I was in the university cafeteria and I was indeed dozing off.

"By the way, you look like shit," Jooheon commented.

You would too if you had kissed a boy even after being so obnoxiously straight.

"I told you I hadn’t slept much for the last two days yet you said that for the thousandth time." I barked at the boy who only shrugged his shoulders.

"Your crush kept you awake?" Wonho popped a piece of cracker in his mouth and munched on it, still managing to have a playful look on his face.

"Soyou noona!" Minhyuk whisper-screamed.

"Just shut up, would you?" I sneered as I took a bite of my sandwich menacingly.

"You've been looking disheveled lately," Shownu spoke for the first time in a while. "Are you alright?"

No, I ain't.

I accidentally kissed a boy after mocking him for being gay.

When I'm straight as a pole where his gay boyfriend could dance on.

My face shrunk in disgust and I lost my appetite. "I'm okay."

Where was the culprit Minjae actually.

"Hyung!" Just when I was wondering about his whereabouts, I heard his chirpy voice. Oh, how much I was hating it.

Then I felt him grabbing my arm for a second and I roughly pulled out, which didn't effect the little boy at all. "Let me borrow you for a second, hyung!" He smilingly said.

Before I could say anything harsh I saw Hyungwon massaging his own temple. "Just go with him, would you? You've been avoiding the boy for God knows what reason."

"Yeah, the worst he could've done was to steal your underwear, right?" Wonho opened his mouth and I had the urge to rip his tongue out or not.

"Let's go!" Minjae lunged forward to grab on my arm again but before that I threw them up in the air and got up.

"Okay."

Though only a few seconds late,r when we were away from the said table I stopped and called out the hyperactive boy who was taking the lead. "Yah! Where are you taking me?"

"Somewhere!" He turned behind for a second, his brows dancing.

At that moment, I was really hating the short and dark haired lad and it was getting to my nerves.

Just when I was about to let out a scream towards him he stopped. "Hey, Soyou noona!" He beamed and called a girl in which she smiled and waved her hand to. I just forgot everything at that moment.

By everything, I meant everything.

Things happened fast. I saw him talking to Soyou then disappearing soon, not before he had turned behind and winked at me, which I noticed even though I didn't want to.

"Oh, hey Kihyun!" She smiled at me, that heavenly small smile that meant the world for me. My heart fluttered in my chest like a fish out of water.

"Hey," I said with my breath almost hitching, acting like I had just noticed her.

"Minjae?" She pointed to the way the boy went. "Your friend, right?" She asked with curiosity lacing her soft voice.

No.

"Yeah." I shoved my hands inside my pants pockets and nodded.

The way her dark brown, long and slightly curly hair waved in the air, the way she talked with her voice gentle, and her smile were doing things to my heart which obviously wasn't good.

"He's such a nice boy! I hope things start going well with his girlfriend soon. By the way, haven't been seeing you in campus lately. Were you sick?" She spoke and I was drunk in her words.

Still, I could fathom that Minjae lied about his girlfriend here too, that idiot.

"Yeah, been sick a little. I'm fine now." I tried my hardest to not show her that I was nervous.

"Nice to know that." She nodded to herself smiling brightly. "See you around then, Kihyun."

I just loved how my name rolled off her tongue.

"See you," I said. She went away bidding me goodbye.

That was... That just took all my energy. Perhaps, I could forgive Minjae for that or perhaps not.

Later, when I reached home in the evening I saw him first, along with all the other guys. Making a circle on the lawn as they sat with Minjae and Jooheon standing in the middle. As much unbelievable it may sound they were both wearing colourful afro wigs on their heads.

And I just had the feeling that they lost a bet to the other boys.

The boys were hollering for god knew what reason, and I started approaching them from where I was standing, a few feet behind. Just then Minjae shoot a hand in the air and started dancing, with Jooheon following his lead.

"Pick me pick me pick me up
Pick me pick me pick me up!" Both of them dancing and singing as the boys hollered.

A laughter erupted from me unknowingly. Even when I was so angry at Minjae, and myself for what happened the other day, that fiasco had me forgetting them all.

Right that second, I heard a loud voice and the boys stopped too.

"No! Let me go! She must be here!" I heard a woman's angry shout followed by the security guards' voices saying that they wouldn't let her in.

I was the first one to reach the gates where the incident was happening. And there I saw a middle aged woman with a bag filled with clothing. Her attire gave away she was from the outskirts.

"Tell her to show her ungrateful face! I know she's in there!" She screamed, this time eyeing me in between her sentences.

I felt someone standing next to me and realized it was Minjae when he wore off his wig and his hand fell to a side of his body.

"That's my aunt." His voice sounded almost inaudible.