ELEVEN:

more months had passed since taeyong and chittaphon promised each other to help each other out. through this time the friendship between them got stronger and stronger, but apparently destiny played its own game. both boys felt for the other person more than just friendship, but neither of them made a move. everybody could practically feel that bond between them, but the ones who felt like that were too blinded from panic. that's until ten's and taeyong's friends couldn't bear to hear the complaints from their friend, about never being together with the other one because they were afraid to drag the other one down, hurt the other person or ruin their place in society.
so the group of friends had to do something and begin their cupid plan.

yukhei and sicheng should look after the boys the whole school day long, while the other fourteen boys, who volunteered to help, did the secret work. this included doing everything what was planned correctly.

it seemed like the plan would go perfectly but taeyong felt something was odd. he noticed that three of his four friends were missing and sicheng was the only one, who hung out with him in the lessons, periods and breaks. taeyong just saw the other three boys during lessons, but right after those they vanished. he was about to ask sicheng if he knew what was going on, but he bumped on the way to him and his locker ( like in all those cliche stories ) into the least expected person he wanted to meet — chittaphon.

"oh god sorry, I didn't mean to run into you-"

"it's no big deal. nobody got hurt."

"ten?"

"yes, it's me. hey, aren't you supposed to be on the way to your sports class?"

"yeah, but something is strange with my friends. come with me, I need to tell you about it."

the taller boy dragged the younger boy with him through the hallway, to the entrance of the sport hall. they sat on the floor and taeyong began to explain his theory and worried thoughts. after the korean went silent, chittaphon softly convinced taeyong that his friends aren't planning to hurt him or do stupid things. they'll probably plan something to surprise him. and ten didn't know that he was right with his guess.

   the thai boy reached his hand out to the other one and helped him to stand up. before taeyong wanted to leave again, ten wrapped an arm around taeyong's slim but muscular shoulder to cheer him up.

suddenly they heard a low murmur followed by cursing. this unknown person seemed to grumble at the other person, because he said something about the other one was no help and he did everything alone. chittaphon recognized the voice and as he was about to look after the people, ten saw that his guess was right again.

it was kun and donghyuck who stood in the halfway light filled boxroom, which was stuffed with old records and folders on shelves. kun asked chittaphon surprised if he and taeyong could search after a record with templates for a religion project since donghyuck and he couldn't find it. ten accepted kun's wish and dragged taeyong with him on the search after this wanted record. gladly taeyong helped chittaphon eagerly. this led to the point where both boys were so into their work, that they didn't notice that donghyuck and kun disappeared until the heavy door was closed with a loud noise. ten ran shocked to the door and wanted to open it, but unexpectedly it was locked.

"those little—"

"hey, how do you know it was them?"

"it was obvious. don't you remember your skeptical thoughts, which you have the whole day long? as you said, our friends plan something and locking us into this damn small room counts to their plan."

"I get what you mean... but why do they keep us locked?"

"I have no clue but I think it's a reference to our first meeting... oh, I know it!"

"spill the truth, sherlock."

"oh god, these jerks! it could be that I gushed a bit about you since we're officially friends..."

"uhm and what are you saying with that?"

"well, they probably plan to get us together... god that's so embarrassing."

"... do you like me? in the way the way they want it?"

"oh—eh, god yes. I like you!"

"then I'm glad you do because I do so too."

"are you serious? for like hundred percent?"

"yes, I am, dumbass."

"wow, I feel loved."

and the next thing chittaphon feeled was taeyong's soft lips, which were pressed carefully but with a bit of strength, onto his lips. surprised the dark haired boy widened his wooden brown eyes but did the same as the taller boy. the intimate moment got destroyed as kun and donghyuck practically stumbled through the opened door. totally excited they texted the others, that they succeeded after taeyong asked chittaphon to call him his boyfriend and their relationship officially started. eventually the cliche cupid plan worked at the end and everybody was for a good time ( filled with ups and downs ) prepared.

NOTE ⚊ so that's the end of this short story and I hope you liked it ( I'm not that happy with the end but nevermind. ) this was my first english story, which included k-pop celebrities and I hope I did it somehow fine. but there's one thing I wanted to clarify: the way I portrayed taeyong in this story is pretty unrealistic to his real personality — at least I guess so, because off stage he's a softie. so please don't come at me for that or how I portrayed ten. I love them both very much!

thank you to all of you who read this and special thank you(s) are going to: DUMBLEWHORES SOLUNARTIC THRANDUIILS OOnaCrate lovminho wittae -cherryyong @sighamy
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