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You felt something tickling in your nose, and you were moving it because it started to be itchy but that tickling did not disappear.
Not two minutes ago you were sleeping and suddenly you did not know what was in your nose. Your mind, still asleep for a second started to think that it would be a bug so, taking into account that you were scared of bugs, you jumped on the bed shouting:
“NOT A BUG PLEASE!!!!”
Almost at the end of your sentence, someone started to scream: “BUT WHAT IS GOING ON Y/N???”.
You finally opened your eyes and wanted to die in that moment. You completely forgot that you were sleeping with Woo that night and, of course, you still were on his bed.
Covering your face because you felt like a clown, Woo started to massage his temples while sighing because you scared him. Of course you did.
He was a few minutes ago hugging you and now he is trying to recover from this and he still doesn’t know what was going on.
“What did you say about a bug?” he said, rising his eyebrow.
“I am sorry Woo, I did not remember that I was here and I felt something in my nose and for a brief second I thought it would be a bug or something” you lowered your head, ashamed of this situation. Your anxiety started to appear and even if you had a good relationship with him, you just felt stupid because how could you think that it was a bug? Probably it was his hair or even yours and you just bothered him and woke him up like this.
Your mind started to think about a million reasons of why he would be mad right now but suddenly you felt a hand on your cheek, caressing it.
“Don’t worry, there is none” He said and you looked at his eyes. You were sure that he had stars in his eyes and the way he was looking at you was something that made your heart twist. He has always been handsome, but he was the most handsome when he woke up, still sleepy. “The windows are closed because it is too hot and they always clean the house so we are safe” he said, still with his hand on your cheek. “It must have been my hair or something so I am sorry”.
“Wait, why are you feeling sorry, it was my fault I woke you up and it is my fault so...”
“Y/n” he said, “it’s fine don’t worry, it has happened to me before”. After these words, he just stretched and decided to roll his body in the blanked, despite of being summer, early mornings still were cold so there was no doubt that still was too early because you could feel the cold even in your bones.
Everything was quiet in his room and looking at the window you could see that it would be around 6 a.m, maximum 7 so probably... you slept around one hour? You felt even worse knowing that the two of you barely had any sleep so you just went back to bed, hugging you this time Woo: “Let’s get some sleep” and he just hummed, falling asleep.
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A warm sensation was hitting your face and you slowly opened your eyes realising that it was the sun that came through the window. You felt much better and it was the first time for a long time that you were able to have a proper sleep despite of what happened before.
And not only that, you were extremely surprised because you have never felt this relaxed. Well, you lied, you have been feeling like this in the past and it was when you used to spend the weekends in Woo’s house. Sleeping together after watching some random movies in his bedroom and then falling asleep together.
This time you didn’t watch any film but you had the opportunity to sleep again by his side, and probably, the fact that his bed smelt like him was something that made you felt secured and relaxed.
After a few minutes thinking about this and looking at the window, you realised that he wasn’t there anymore but a sound came from the bathroom. He probably woke up earlier and he should be taking a shower.
“Woo?” you said in a lower tone, afraid that someone from the staff would hear you and would kick you out.
But of course, he didn’t answer so you tried to call him again, this time trying to be a little bit louder: “Woo are you awake???”.
But still no answer from him.
Rising an eyebrow you thought what could be happening. There were noises from the bathroom, like if he was shaving his face or something but still he wasn’t answering you.
Waking up from the comfy bed you cautiously walked to the bathroom. The door was opened so he should not be naked so you kept walking to there until you knocked and went inside.
In there a sleepy Woo was in the bathroom shaving his face. He only shaved half of his two days beard, something that you found really cute but due to his work he had to be shaved despite of you insisting of maintaining his little cute beard.
He kept doing the same, wearing his earphones and not aware of your presence in the bathroom.
“So that is why he didn’t answer me” you laughed, looking how he was still moving his butt at the rhythm of the song while he continued his task in the bathroom. Another silly laugh slipped from your lips and you again found yourself staring at him while doing that.
“It has been awhile” you said to yourself.
You missed him so much, despite of being in touch all the time it wasn’t the same. You missed seeing him like that and looking his sleepy face, fighting to see who would take a shower first and then cooking breakfast for each other. But you guess that life change and despite of missing all these moments it was something selfish thinking like that. He was fulfilling his dream and you two would grow up and probably go in different paths at some point.
And that made you slightly disappointed.
But not today for you, because already Wooyoung saw you in the bathroom, and he knew that you were thinking about something because your face was showing a beautiful smile and suddenly it morphed into a sad smile with your eyebrows furrowed.
He walked towards you while you still where thinking about the future and he put foam in your nose.
“Hey!!” you slapped him on the chest, and him started to laugh. “Woo, this isn’t funny I hate the smell of the foam”, you said, cleaning your nose with his T-shirt.
“Yo, y/n, don’t do that it’s a new shirt!!!” with both of his hands, he took your face, moving it to look at your eyes. His face half shaved and his smile stared at you for a few seconds.
Was he always this charming? You thought for a brief second. Maybe yes, after all when you two still studied together you knew how half of the girls in your class liked him. He was really popular because he had it all: was charming, was funny, he was good at singing and dancing so all the girls gifted him chocolates and lots of love letters when Valentine’s day approached.
But you felt secured anyway because even if it was like that, he would always say that he did not care and then would share the chocolates with you.
“y/n, I can not reach this side of my face, can you please help me?” he took the razor and lend it to you with puppy eyes.
“And how do you do it when I am not here?” answered back taking the razor from his hand.
“Hm, well...” he scratched the back of his head. “Usually is San who helps me with this”.
You nodded and didn’t say anything else, still thinking about what happened yesterday you didn’t want to bring his name again so it was better to help him to finish shaving his face and then go back home.
“y/n” he suddenly say above a whisper “let me remove my earphones, I want to play a song”.
“Sure, go”.
And like that, he removed his earphones and started to search on his Spotify. One minute later he started to play a song which made you smile like a silly.
“You still like this one?” he said with a smirk on his face.
“I do, of course!!”.
He still remembered.
You two shared a lot of things in common but you two argued when it came to music: you truly loved slow songs. Ballads. Dramatic songs that made you cry. At first he didn’t want to play those but seeing the way your eyes turned glassy and soft while listening to some of the songs, he started to like it.
Humming you started to shave his face and he just closed his eyes to listen to your voice while enjoying this intimate moment together.
You. Him. Your voice and [your favourite song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YICvjnKN-gs&list=PLmFGdeHdf6ReeinDAw8dDkZtPTfGjDZol&index=3).
No one else in the room.
Wooyoung couldn’t be happier than now. His new life didn’t allow him to be as free as he used to be before. He still loved this, being able to fulfil his dream but still missing these moments with you. Sometimes he was afraid that this would make you run away and be alone but you never did. Still, you were supporting him, cheering him, complimenting him and giving all the energy he needed when he couldn’t do something.
“I missed this” he dared to say.
“Me too” and you kept humming the song.
“You still remember the song huh?” — he laughed and so you did — “I have to admit that I started to like it too”.
“Ahá!” you replied, washing the razor. “I told you, these songs are good Woo, it’s just that you are not that romantic so you can not appreciate it”.
“I am not romantic?” He said turning to the mirror and seeing that you finished shaving his face.
“You aren’t, I haven’t seen you being romantic with me”.
Oh shit. Why did you say that to him?
The two of you were looking at each other. Him trying to decipher why you said that to him and you started to be a living tomato in the room.
“I mean, I didn’t... I just meant... “
“Well, maybe I have to show how romantic I can be y/n” and like that he laughed and washed his face while you took this moment to run away from him and come back to his bedroom.
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After a few minutes he came back to you, while you were using his computer, browsing a few videos on YouTube of his last performances.
“You didn’t watch these ones?” he said taking a seat closer to you.
“Not this one” you pointed to the screen “I really like this outfit”.
“Uhm, yeah me too, the stylist is really good and I also recommended to add these details”.
“It was a good election”
And like that, the two of you kept watching the video in silence.
Since yesterday there was a strange vibe between you two but no one was dared to speak what really happened. And now, after what you said in the bathroom, you didn’t want to say anything else, afraid of breaking the mood or make the things weird between the two of you.
Bouncing your left leg Woo started to notice that you started to feel anxious. It was something you have been doing since you were in high school so every time he sees that you do this, he tries to find a new topic or proposes to do something different together.
“y/n, wanna go to grab some breakfast together?
“Yeah, but what if they see us? I don’t want you to get into any trouble”
“Don’t worry, as I told you there is almost no one here and I know a small cafe near to the studio and my cousin is the owner, so we can be safe”.
It didn’t sound bad at all so agreeing to his invitation, you took a quick shower and you got ready wearing another Woo tshirt that you chose yourself.
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It was a warm day, the sun was out and somehow you felt that this day was completely different. Maybe it was due to his company.
Him wearing a bucket hat and a mask, just in case someone would recognise him. You, as well, wearing a bucket hat so no one could see your face. Only he knew that it was you. And only you knew it was him.
It felt like a movie, walking on the streets trying to look like ghosts but still feeling the adrenaline in you in case something happened and someone would take a picture of the two of you.
He was telling you about his future schedules and how busy would be, but still would try to convince you to sneak in his dorm the following days so you two could spend a few hours together.
You, listening to his words and nodding because even if you felt that it would be risky, you would miss him a lot so it was worth the risk if it meant to spend more time together.
After 15 minutes he stopped and took your hand so you could stop walking.
“Here it is” he said, pointing a white door.
A small cute cafe , all white and aesthetic. You really loved these kind of places and you didn’t know that his cousin would be running this kind of cafe.
“It is really cute” you said while entering with him.
Woo waved to a boy, a little bit older than him and he waved back, rushing to go to his side and give him a hug.
“Yo, Woo! You are finally here!!” The young man said. “I am really happy that you had time to visit me!
“I had today free so I wanted to come by. I know that y/n loves this kind of places so I wanted to bring her with me”.
“Oh! I finally meet her! Hello, nice to meet you!” He said showing a huge smile in his face.
“Oh, nice to meet you too. You have such a cute place”
“Thank you very much. You are really nice, it’s like I imagined you”.
Wooyoung was turning red this time and you didn’t know that he has been talking about you to other family members.
“He always speaks about you and I also saw his phone wallpaper” he laughed “I thought that he finally had a girlfriend but it seems that nope”
“Ok we had enough we are gonna sit” and like that he took your hand and sat with you in the corner. A quiet place where it was hard to spot the two of you.
“So he is your cousin?”
And with that question, hours passed by. Talking about him and his cafe, how he didn’t speak too much with him but still were in good terms.
You also exchanged to him what you have been doing these past months, giving him all the details about your life. Details that you can’t share while texting but that it has to be shared in person with a warm cup of tea between your hands.
His laugh, yours, him looking at you with a smirk, you slapping him on his hand and some selfies together here and there until a cough behind you interrupted your story about that girl who slipped in front of the whole class and ran away crying.
“Lovebirds I am sorry but it is around 9pm and I think that my wife will kill me if I come late again”. It was his cousin and when he said ‘9 pm’ your eyes became wider and you rushed to check your phone.
“Oh shit” you said. “ It is already 9pm? They will kill you Woo”
Woo and his cousin laughed at the same time together, finding it cute how you were worried for him, not thinking about you and that you did nothing today and at home is waiting all your house chores and your homework for tomorrow.
“I can see that she is more responsible than you are” he took your cups and going back to the counter he said “I hope you come back soon. This is on the house, only if you promise me that you will come back with her again”.
Taking your phone and putting back your mask and bucket hat you two walked back to the dorms. again finishing your story about that girl and him promising you to send that selfie later.
“y/n”
“Yes?”
“I don’t think it is safe right now to enter to the dorms so, you want me to call a Taxi for you?” He said with concerned eyes because he didn’t want to leave you there alone but he couldn’t walk you back home.
“It’s fine Woo, I can go back walking, it’s around 30 minutes and it is not cold so go back to the dorm” you pushed him to the door but he turned back, grabbing your wrists and looking directly at your eyes.
“No”.
His tone was serious and you knew that when he started to speak like that you couldn’t change his mind. Or at least it would take a lot to do it.
“y/n, I will call for a taxi I want you to be safe okay?” and like that, he took his phone going to order a taxi, but you were fast enough to take the phone from his hands.
“I am fine, okay? I will go back by walk.”
He raised an eyebrow after that so you had to think about something in exchange that would make him agree about you going alone back home.
“Okay, let’s do something, if you don’t call a taxi I promise to... hmmm... you had next week free right?”
“Yeah”
“Okay what if you come to my house and we watch random films together? I will cook for you okay?”
Wooyoung smiled at that statement still taking a few seconds to think if it was worth it or not, but the truth was that having alone time with you was something that he was always craving for and movie night with you was something he missed so he couldn’t say no.
“Deal. But you better bring a lot of snacks, I won’t eat for a whole day so you will have to feed me. Like a lot.”
He laughed and you just slapped him again on his arm while nodding.
So it was a deal. Movie night together, snacks. A good formula to forget your exams, to forget how stressful these days have been and enjoy the company of each other.
He came closer to you and laid a kiss on your forehead. He took his time, placing his lips for almost a minute and closing his eyes.
You enjoying it because kisses on the forehead are specials and you could still smell his perfume.
And him could take his time to remember how soft your skin was.
No matter what others would say about you, he just hoped that you would allow him to be part of your life.
“Well, y/n, good night. Please, text me when you are at home okay?
“Okay Woo, good night”
And like that he went to the dorm. You waited for him until he opened the door of the building and, after that, you took your earphones out and started to walk back home listening to your favourite playlist.
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“Omg I am sorry are you okay?”
Not even 10 minutes after you started to walk you bumped into someone. He was strong because you started to feel pain in your left shoulder, touching it and your face showing that you were in pain.
“I am okay, don’t worry it was my mistake...too...”
After finishing your apology you looked at the person that bumped into you. A familiar voice that you were sure you heard before and after you discovered who that person was, you muttered a low “shit” because this couldn’t be happening.
In front of you was San. Wearing another bucket hat and some make up. It seemed that he had some schedule for today because he was wearing a suit as well and his sport bag was on the floor.
“Y/N?!” He said in surprise, taking back his sport bag and this time touching your shoulder.
“Does it hurt? I am really sorry I’m...”
When his hand touched your shoulder you just jumped back. Anxiety starting to build in you and a lot of thoughts coming to your mind.
You froze there, didn’t dare to speak again because: first of all, you were too shy to speak to new people and he was a famous one. And secondly, because still you felt bad about what he said and you didn’t want to spend his time. He should be busy and you knew that you were not enough funny or interesting for him.
San was still there waiting for you to speak back. He apologised, he thought, but you were not responding back.
Were you angry? Or hurt? What could have possible happened?
“y/n?” he asked. “Are you... okay? Why are you not answering me?”
“Yes, I am okay San. It’s fine. Sorry for bumping into you. Good night”
These are the only words that your brain could think about. It was enough: an apology, reaffirming that you were okay and now a friendly good night so you could get away from this awkward situation.
But it seemed that for him it wasn’t enough. He turned back grabbing your hand, stopping you right there.
“Oh no no no, lady, what is that? Are you mad at me? I am sorry I didn’t see you, I was just sending a text message to the manager and you know, I didn’t expect no one here”.
“So he wasn’t expecting no one here. What is that sentence? Like, you are no one? Or there is almost no one here? But it was 9 pm, it is not like you are in a random street in Alaska you know”
“Sorry?”
This time your brain and your mouth tricked you, voicing your thoughts out loud and San was there to hear it all. What an awesome start of the night and what an awesome second encounter with the best friend of your best friend.
“Sorry?” you replied back, wanting to die now and there. “San, sorry, that was rude of me”
After your apology, he saw that your hands were shaking and he probably started to think that you were an introvert person. The day you two met you always were hesitating when it comes to speak to him. Seeing how would you open and close your mouth several times before replying back to him.
And now, after this happened and seeing your hands shaking he would be completely sure that maybe he looked intimidating. Or you just were having a very long day.
He couldn’t be sure about which one but still he felt bad enough so he cautiously put his hand back on your shoulder.
“Does it hurt? Please be honest”.
You looked at him and you could feel that he was being sincere in this time, showing concern about you being hurt.
“I am fine, it was just for a few minutes but I am good. I am sorry about before, I forgot I was saying this out loud” you replied back.
He smiled, showing his dimples and you felt that was really cute. You have never seen someone with dimples so it was kinda captivating and at some point you wanted to talk again, wishing that he would smile so you could take another look at his dimples.
“I am glad you are not hurt, and I have to apologise as well” he said, slicking back his black hair. “I know my sentence sounded a little bit weird, I did not mean that”.
You nodded at his words because you still felt that this time he was being sincere. It was a different San than the one who show up yesterday at dinner.
He seemed way more cheerful and uncontrollable when he was with Wooyoung. You were sure that when they were together, they were like a hurricane, but when they were separated, each one of them were warm, nice and thoughtful.
But, why you were assuming this about him if you only met San twice? You wondered about this but you didn’t have enough time to still think about why you did it because he interrupted you with a question:
“By... the way, thank you for what you did yesterday. I am sorry that the first time we met I had to end up drunk and you bringing me back”
“It is okay, no problem, you are quite.. energetic when you are drunk” you said smiling at him and after you did that, San felt a strange warmth in his chest.
“Did I say something stupid?” he said with a shy tone in his voice “My apologies if...”
“No! It’s fine!” you were quickly to reassure him that everything was okay, but you were lying to him.
Even if he still made you felt bad you didn’t want to tell the truth and making him feel bad as well. So seeing how he is behaving right now, you are sure that he did not have any bad intentions and that maybe it was something that he just said because he was drunk.
You were completely sure that after a few days and maybe giving him a try, you would forget about this feeling or maybe you were just giving to that sentence too much importance.
“So...” he scratched the back of his head, looking at the sky thinking the best words for the question he wanted to ask “did you eat dinner?”
“Uhm? I haven’t. I will cook something when I get back home” you answered.
“Sooo just to repay you, do you wanna grab something to eat? To the same restaurant we went yesterday”
“Uhm, I am not sure San, you seem tired and I think I should g-”
“Pretty please?”
Here we go again, he smiles and those dimples appears on his face and somehow it is hard for you to say no. His puppy eyes and the way he smiles at you makes you feel shy and warm, makes you maybe ask him how his day was. This time you didn’t want to think twice and you just nodded, accepting his offer to eat together and maybe speak a little bit and get to know him.
The two of you started to walk together toward the restaurant, having to walk in front of the building of the company to reach the place where the two of you would dinner that night.
But you didn’t know that a pair of eyes were following you when he decided to go outside for a night snack.
Wooyoung couldn’t believe it.
After he told you goodnight he went inside but a few minutes later, he started to feel hungry so he just decided to go to the 7/11 that was closer to the dorms to buy something to eat.
Scrolling on your chat, thinking when would you write him back, he saw a couple laughing together but it was only when the two of you were coming closer, he discovered that, in fact, that was you laughing with San.
Not wanting you to see him, he just turned his back to you and went inside of the building again, checking the two of you behind a small window that was closer to the door.
Why were you with him right now? What did happen? You usually only laugh with him and it is hard for you to feel this comfortable with someone (or at least you looked comfortable and relaxed by his side).
An unknown feeling started to build in his chest, closing his fists and wanting to punch something in that moment.
Since yesterday what San told him has been living in his head and seeing the two of you together made him wanting to have a few serious words with San.
“Okay Woo relax, first of all they are just laughing together” he said to himself walking around the entrance of the building. “Secondly, the two of them are your best friends right? So why on earth you have to act like this?”
He kept walking around, feeling uneasy but trying to convince himself that probably it was a casual encounter so you decided to go for a walk, or talk, or something but... why you didn’t tell him? He would have gone to you to spend the night the three of you together.
Not wanting to get any conclusion he just decided to call you and pretend he doesn’t know, and just say that he wanted to check if you arrived safe at home.
He unlocked his phone and pressed ‘call’ to your contact.
1...2...3...4... voicemail.
“Shit”.
He opened Kakaotalk:
“*[10:01] WooWoo ♥: Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, are u okay? are u at home?”*
*“[10:29] WooWoo ♥: y/n? im a little bit concerned, are you... okay?”*
*“[10:57] WooWoo ♥: Please let me know if u are okay, i will be waiting for you”*
And like that, he just decided to sit outside on a bench with the hope to see you walking again because for some reason he was going crazy, and he still didn’t know why.
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a/n: it seems that we will have more Sannie in the next chapter...