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Five days to Christmas eve~

[-so Yeonjun saved me from that.]

"You are so bad Binnie like I sometimes wonder how you even survive in this world. So mischievous."

[You don't know me, I'm very bad.]

"If this is some kind of dirty joke, I don't wanna listen."

[As if you don't like them~]

"Shut up!" I chuckled but was not able to hide the blush that crept up. I stood in front of the sink of my bathroom, glancing at my reflection at times while I dyed my hair. It had been a while since I changed my hair colour. I was now dying it to silver because I was bored with the red. Soobin suggested that silver might look good on me, but he leaned more towards platinum blond as his gay awakening and first love were Draco Malfoy. Surprising isn't it? 

I had seen in the news that we might observe a white Christmas at the outskirts of Busan, unusual as it was a coastal city but everything this year had been unusual so I didn't even care. I was happy, rather. I could hear my mother hum some old Christmas carol while arranging my room for me. I normally do that but I was rather busy that particular evening.

[Soobitch get yo suitcase outta here!] Came the distant voice of Lia, Soobin's cousin. That particular words caught my interest. Soobin cursed Lia away before turning back to his laptop screen. Without looking towards him, I asked, "Why is your suitcase lying around? Are you perhaps-"

[Ah, nope. I am not going anywhere.]

"I never asked that. I was asking if you wanted to get killed by Lia." Realisation dawned on Soobin's handsome face and he hid it behind the curtain of his hand. [No! I meant- well- I was actually trying to find this shirt of mine I took for vacation in Jeju last year.]

"Believable," I stated flatly. I was a bit hurt at his lie, he was really bad at it or I was simply smarter, not that I was boasting obviously. I continued to layer the hair dye, spreading it neatly while Soobin went on and on about his mischievous escapades.

~~~

Gyu?

Did Soobin tell you
about something?

Like is he going
somewhere?

Gyu: ...no

Gyu: Did y'all have
a lover's quarrel O_o

What? No.

I was just asking.

Gyu: IDK honestly

Gyu: the last time we
talked was in skribbl.io

Oh.

~~~

And I was overthinking again. 19th of December rolled over with me physically attending my evening calculus class in the living room while mentally I was somewhere in Ansan with a certain someone with those cute dimples. I wondered if what Soobin said was true, he wasn't going anywhere. Not that I had anything against him if he did decide to take a trip. I was just... Afraid. Corona was in much control in South Korea and now people could be seen walking down the streets, of course following necessary precautions.

But, to be honest, I still wasn't over what happened with Hueningkai, even though they had forgiven me, the hint of awkwardness was gone as well. I couldn't help but feel this sheer guilt around him. So I was rather concerned for everyone who went out of the house and just prayed to god for them to return safely.

That was my reason for being so bothered by such a thing.

[Taehyun-ssi, please tell us the derivative of the sixteenth function.] I snapped out of my daze, eyes darting to the open book that I hadn't glanced at even once. The question seemed hard and I didn't want to look ignorant in front of the sincere teacher. So I went with a random guess that popped in my head.

"It's minus one hundred and twenty cosine x."

[Correct! Now if you look...]

And I drifted away once again to some random place far away.

~~~

Beomgyu's pov

Yah! Choi Soobin!

Can't you even keep a secret?

guy with cheek holes: I'm sorryyyy

Are you online?

☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆