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A/N: This chapter is gonna be slightly different from what I wrote til now, but I thought it would be nice and suit the story well. Hope you enjoy it!
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Moonbyul was sitting by the table of her favorite cafe, waiting for her friend who was, as always, late. Her drink was getting colder while her mind was wondering about everything. The rain hitting the window in front of her matched her mood perfectly. Actually, she was not sad, but she was also not happy. She didn’t know what she was feeling or why she was so worried about it. The truth is, since Solar showed up in her life, the girl couldn’t think of anything else. She was falling in love and that was not surprising at all, the same thing happened with her ex, but she dared to think that this time would be different. What an idiot. It would be so much easier if she was just an heartless asshole like some girls she dated in the past, but no. She’s soft hearted and she knew that. It’s always her heart that ends up shattered and there’s nothing she can do about it after.
Moonbyul’s thoughts were interrupted by the sudden noise of her friend, Seulgi, dropping her handbag on the table.
“Moon, I’m sorry I’m late, it seems like everyone forgets how to drive when the first drop of rain falls. Anyways,” Seulgi comments, gesturing for the waitress to come to the table “I came as fast as I could and I am starving.” the waitress looks at them with her little notepad and pen in hands and before she could say something Seulgi spits out “Hi sweetie, I want the largest cappuccino please and a genorous piece of that red velvet cake, okay?” the waitress nods, writes down Seulgi’s order and look at Byul waiting for her order, but the girl just shake her head once and the waitress leaves.
“So, what do you wanted to talk about?” Seulgi asks, once there's just the two of them.
Moonbyul don’t answer at first, she keep staring at the window, it’s not that she don’t wanna talk, she just don’t know how to even start.
"Is it that girl again, Moon Byul Yi?” Seulgi looks at Moonbyul, judging her, like she couldn’t believe her best friend was suffering because of a girl. Again.
“Yes.” Moonbyul finally admits.
Seulgi sighs “What happened this time?”
“She went out with someone else.”
“Oh…” Seulgi is surprised by the sudden confession and squeeze Moonbyul’s hand that is on the table “I’m sorry, babe.”
“And then she went to my house after.”
Seulgi looks at Moonbyul with frowning brow “After her date? Why did she do that?”
“I don’t know.” Moonbyul take her eyes of the window for the first time “She didn’t knew I knew she was on a date. She just showed up in my apartment.”
“Wait,” Seulgi fix herself on the chair “so how do you know she was on a date?”
“Her friend told me.”
“Okay. So… obviously the date didn’t go well and she decides to go to your house.”
“I guess.” Moonbyul gives her shoulder.
“And you guys had sex…?”
“No.” Moonbyul answers calmly.
“No?” Seulgi was more confused after each sentence.
“No.”
“Then what did you guys did?”
Moonbyul take a sip of her, now cold, coffee and starts telling.
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“Hey, Byul."
Moonbyul was ready to fight whoever was knocking on her door so late in the night, she was convinced that it was her friend Seulgi, probably drunk. She was absolutelly not expecting to open the door and face the mouth she’s been picturing herself kissing all day. So, yes, she was surprised to see Solar standing there, with her pretty chubby face and her very desirable lips.
"Are you gonna let me in or…?” Solar asked after a few seconds of complete silence.
“Um, yeah yeah…” Moonbyul said finally waking up from her naughty thoughts “Please, come in.”
Solar steped in the apartament that she had been in countless times in the past few months and Moonbyul closed the door behind them. Solar didn’t knew how much money Moonbyul make with her job, but she knew that an apartament like that on that side of the town wasn’t actually cheap. But anyways, that wasn’t important.
After another few minutes of silence, Moonbyul finally break the awkwardness and said:
“I’m making cup noodles.” She points to the kitchen “Do you want some?”
“Oh, it’s okay, Byul. I just ate."
"You sure? My friends say I make the best noodles."
"What do you mean, you just have to put boiling water in.”
“Are you doubting my cooking abilities?” Moonbyul shakes her head “Unbelievable.”
Solar gasps and finally sits on the tip of the sofa “You can cook real food for me anytime and then we can discuss your abilities."
"It’s a date.” Moonbyul says smiling.
Solar looks at Moonbyul with a playful smile “By the way, lovely outfit you’re wearing."
Moonbyul blush when she suddenly get aware that she’s not wearing any pants, just her favorite over sized hoodie. Because, again, she thought it was Seulgi at the door, not the girl she’s hooking up with.
"Oh god…” Byul utter low “I wasn’t expecting anyone… I-I’ll be right back."
Moonbyul turn and head to her bedroom pulling her hoodie down in a failing attemptive to cover a little more of her bottom while Solar was laughing at the sofa. It’s not like Solar haven’t seen that before, and more of that, but in that situation Moonbyul got embarrased.
Minutes later, Moonbyul got back to the living room, now wearing sweat pants.
"Looked better before.” Solar commented with a smirk, while Moonbyul headed to the kitchen, ignoring Solar’s comments, to finish her cup noodles.
“Are you sure you don’t wanna eat?” Moonbyul asks again to make sure Solar wasn’t hungry.
“Yeah, don’t worry. But I do wanna know what you wanted to show me.” Solar says loud enough so Moonbyul can hear her from the kitchen.
“Ah, that.” Moonbyul was distracted with her food and came back to the tv room after a while “I can’t show you right now, but I can tell you what it is.”
“I’m listening.”
Moonbyul grab her food and sit on the couch next to Solar. The girl put her noodles on the table before she starts explaining.
“Remember that friend that asked me to help him the other day cause his bandmate was sick?” Solar nods “Well, his bandmate is out of the band for personal reasons that I don’t really know about, and he asked me to join!”
“Really?! Byul, that’s awesome!” Solar hugged Moonbyul tightly and they stayed like that for a little bit too long. The older girl was really happy for Moonbyul.
“Yeah,” Moonbyul said finally letting go of Solar “I wanted to show you the studio, but we can go there this weekend. If you want to.”
“I do! I’m very excited.”
Moonbyul laughs at the sight of Solar’s smile. The later girl sure had an infecting smile. Moonbyul felt like no matter what she was going trough, if Solar was smiling she knew it would be okay. That’s how powerful her aura and energy was. She was incredible in Byul’s eyes, and Moonbyul felt like she could stare at that smile for the rest of her life and she wouldn’t need anything else.
But she couldn’t. Not at that moment. Moonbyul made sure to look away before Solar could think she was a creepy, starring at her for so long. Then, Byul grabbed her food from the table and starts eating it.
“Wow this tastes sooo good. I can’t believe you won’t even try some.” Moonbyul speaks with her mouth half full.
Solar’s eyes are wandering between Byul’s eyes and mouth as she was biting her lower lip “Okay, you convinced me. Let me try.”
Moonbyul got some noodles on her chopsticks and get closer to Solar to feed her. Solar get a mouth full of food and her eyes go wild when she realize how tasty the food actually was.
“BYUL! This… taste… so… good!” Solar muttered while she chew and swallow the food.
Moonbyul laughed at the other girl’s reaction.
“I told you I was good.”
“You really are.” Solar rests her back on the sofa “I’ll add that to the list.”
“What list?” Moonbyul asks, intrigued.
“The list of the things you’re good at.”
Moonbyul choked on her food.
“You have a list of that?” She said, while coughing.
“Well, not literally. On my head, only.”
“Oh. And what is on that list so far?”
“Hands and tongue.”
Moonbyul stop eating and looks at Solar with arched eyebrow.
“What does that mean?”
“It means you’re good with your hands, you know, the piano and stuff. And,” Solar straight up her back and get closer to Moonbyul “your tongue can do pretty good things too.”
Moonbuyl chokes again, but this time she even get up from the couch.
Solar is laughing hard. She had learned that no matter how greasy Byul was, she could never stay serious when Solar flirted back. The girl could look all tough on the outside, and that was what Solar thought when they first met, but on the inside, she was soft. She would get embarresed very easily, and Solar thought that was cute, so she never missed an opportunity to let Moon flustered.
“Are you okay?” Solar asked, wipping the tears, from laughing, on her eyes, after Moonbyul stoped coughing.
“YEP.” Moonbyul answered a little too loud. “You’re unbelievable.”
Now the silver haired girl was laughing too. And Solar was satisfied.
They kept talking about Byul’s new job and how she would have to quit some works to make time to go to the studio, but she didn’t want to stop playing at Mamamoo’s so she would make sure she’d be there at least twice a week, cause it was her favorite place to play. Byul also said she would have to go travel with the band for a little tour through some cities eventually, but it would probably not be longer than three or four weeks.
Solar was really happy for Moonbyul, it was gratifying to see her friend conquer her dream. But she also felt like she was staying behind. Hwasa and Wheein had their own sucessful business, Moonbyul was joining a band and going on tours. While she had nothing. She had a job that she was not so happy with anymore. Solar’s plans was to work for a few years at a hotel, get experience and then built her own building and make business. But she got acomodated and had left her dream behind. For the first time this was bothering her, and after hearing Byul talking about her job so excitedly, she decided she had to do something and go to the next level of her life.
Solar’s thoughts were interrupted by Moonbyul’s yawn and she realized she was tired and it was late.
“Oh my god it’s almost two in the morning.” She noticed, looking at her phone “You must be so tired and I’m here annoying you.” Solar gets up from the couch and grab her stuff she had left on the floor beside her “I’m sorry, Byul, I’m going already.”
Moonbyul holds Solar by the hand and force the girl to sit back on the couch.
“Don’t be silly, it’s late, you can sleep here.”
“…here?” Solar asks, surprised.
“Yeah, you can sleep in my bed. I’ll stay on the couch.” Moonbyul says as calm as always, still holding Solar’s hand.
“Oh, Byul. I can’t do that to you. I'll sleep in the couch, then. That or I just go home.” Solar adds before Moonbyul can argue with her.
“Okay…” Moonbyul says, reluctant. “I’ll get you pillows and a blanket then.”
Moonbyul gets up and go grab the things so Solar can sleep, meanwhile Solar get her phone and send a text to Wheein ‘the date your girlfriend got me in today went so great that i’m sleeping on the couch tonight loool ily’. Solar giggles at the text she wrote, cause she knows Wheein will get all confused with that.
“Here you go.” Moonbyul hands the things to Solar “I got you pajamas too, in case you don’t wanna sleep in your clothes.”
“Thanks, Byul. You’re amazing.”
“Nah. I’m just decent.”
The two girls stare at each other for a few seconds before Moonbyul said goodnight and head to her bedroom, leaving Solar all alone in the room.
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“That’s it?” Seulgi says, a little unsettled “I thought you were going to tell me that you confessed and she broke your heart, or that you confessed and she reciprocated and now you were going to get married.”
“Seulgi, this is not funny, I’m actually hurt.”
“Hurt about what? Moonbyul, please, you’re suffering for anticipation. That’s not how i raised you.” Seulgi was drinking her cappuccino and enjoying her cake while Moonbyul was having a mental breakdown.
“Anticipation? Seulgi, have you heard what I said?” Moonbyul was starting to get mad at her friend for not being comprehensive.
“Yes, I did. You’re the one not hearing yourself. You’re crying over a girl that is on the palm of your hand. You need to talk to her, Moonie. I don’t know why you didn’t do that yet.”
“She’s not on the palm of my hand. What if I say something and I scare her? I want something more serious, yes, but if I have to choose between hooking up with her and not having her at all I’ll stick to the first.”
“You can’t do that.” Seulgi says, shaking her head and with her mouth full of cake “The longer you wait the worse is gonna be. You know that thing people say? You need to rip the bandaid at once? That’s what you have to do. Just tell her already, if you wait more and get rejected is only gonna hurt you more.”
Seulgi’s words hit Moonbyul hard. She knew her friend wanted the best for her and that she was right. Moonbyul knew the longer she stayed with Solar, more in love she would be and in the end she would be even more hurt. When and if Solar decides that she don’t want to have fun with Moonbyul anymore, Moonbyul would be broken apart. She knew she had to be sincere about her feelings, not ony with Solar, but with herself. But the thought of being without Solar was painfull enough for her to just stick in that position of friends with benefits. She hated it.
“Byul, I know you, and you deserve something better than this. You have to talk to her.”
“I know.”
“Also,” Seulgi said eating the last piece of cake on her plate “what happened in the morning after?”
“Nothing. When I woke up she had left to work already. She just left a note saying she had to go and didn’t want to wake me up.”
“Um… okay then.” Seulgi said, finally “So, promise me, the next time you see her you gonna be honest with her, and if she says no to you, you’re gonna back off and find someone else who’s gonna treat you like you deserve.”
Moonbyul looked at the window again, the rain had stopped and the drops were rolling in the glass.
“I promise.”
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A/N: Hello fellow moomoos :) I know it's been a while since the last update, but I'm back. The last two months were crazy, I moved out from my parent's house and I started college, so I was ajusting myself to my new routine, that's why I took so long to write this chapter. But, hopefully, I'll be able to update more often now. Thanks for reading my dumb words and I hope you liked this chapter :D.