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After 3 years, Woojin comes to the cafe that Jihoon works as a part time at. As much as it is weekend the cafe is full of customers and the line in front of the cashier counter is unbelievably long that causes Jihoon to not notice the boy with the red head.
It's Woojin's turn to make an order. Upon seeing the familiar face, Jihoon's heart beats twice as fast than before but did not show it on his face.
Jihoon proceeds to take his order while a lot of thoughts run in his mind.
why is he here?
what makes him come here?
he has never came here after the day but why now?
Thankfully Woojin is the last one in the line and the clock hands show that it is already 4PM which mark the end of his shift for the day.
While walking home using the shortcuts, he bumps into someone as he was walking while checking his phone.
"oh shoot! i'm so sorry!" Jihoon lets out strings of apology the the person without raising his head.
"Jihoon?! oh my it's really you! wow you look good in red!" the person replied after Jihoon has finally stopped apologising
"how did you.... Seongwu hyung?" Jihoon recognises the person in front of him.
"don't tell me you've forgotten your lovely hyung not when i treated you late night snacks for almost every night when you were sophomore" seongwu nags at jihoon for a while while jihoon just chuckled.
"how are you? what are you doing here? i mean aren't you supposed to be in the US?" Jihoon asks purely out of curiosity of seongwu's well-being
"wow calm down kid. we're only left with the final year project which gives us a lot more time and plus we're almost done with it and the lecturer says we could go back for a while and only comes back for the presentation" seongwu explains his situation to jihoon
"we? who else are you with?" Jihoon frowns for a bit since so far that he know seongwu is the only one that continues his studies in US
"yeah we, Daniel and Woojin, didn't woojin tell you? well we meet Daniel in the US and turns out he knows Woojin previously when they were in Busan and he's acquainted with Jaehwan" Seongwu says without any hint of knowledge of what happened between him and Woojin. Well, it's because although they were housemates, Jihoon never talks about Woojin as someone more than just a friend.
"Oh yeah he did tell me" Woojin did not "I forgot since it's been 3 years we last see each other. same goes to you! Anyway, we should catch up again later. I have some assignments that are due next week so i better get them done asap" Jihoon tries to end their conversation there before Seongwu notices the slight change in his expression.
"Yeah sure, definitely!" They exchange their numbers and proceed to be on their way.
When Jihoon arrives at his house shared with another two friends from the same department, he stands still behind the closed door with his back against the door thinking to himself.
Is that his reason?