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“When is your brother's wedding?” Yeonjun groaned, this was the last thing he wanted to talk about. His tone remained bored as he took a sip of his drink, “Next month.”
Beomgyu must’ve not gotten the memo as he continued happily asking questions. “Are you really not going to bring anyone?”
An exaggerated sigh left Yeonjuns mouth. “I don’t know yet”
That was a lie. A very big lie.
Not to be exaggerative, but Yeonjuns love life was a mess. Some would even call it a complete disaster. He hasn’t been in a relationship since he was 16 (he’s currently at the ripe age of 23), and he doesn’t even know if that could be counted as a relationship since it only lasted a couple weeks.
However, just because he hasn’t been in a relationship doesn’t mean he hasn’t had the opportunity to be in one. Many people in his university know about him and have wanted to talk to him in one way or another. He’s received many confessions by men and women alike but has never felt a spark with anyone. He’s tried really hard to develop relationships with some of the people that have confessed to him but it felt practically impossible.
He prides himself in having a good judge of character. Yeonjun likes to think that he is being cautious and practical when choosing a partner. He is meticulous with almost everything he does and that includes relationships. He can tell a lot about a person just by looking at them and uses that as an excuse to politely reject many suitors. At least that’s what he thinks.
His friends say that he is too picky (which Yeonjun heavily disagrees with).
Taehyun had even told him to stop rejecting people otherwise he’d have no one else left to date. The whole table laughed at the comment but it truly left Yeonjun feeling slightly frightened, thinking that it was actually a possibility.
He genuinely wished he could just go up to his friends and family and say “I have a boyfriend.”
Even though he wasn’t completely listening to Beomgyu ramble about the wedding, he heard the voice in front of him stop completely. “What? Hyung what did you just say?”
Yeonjun looked at Beomgyu confused. “Huh? I didn’t say anything.”
“Yes you did. It was quiet but I swear I heard it.”
He sat there for a second before letting out a small laugh. “Oh, I have a boyfriend? That was meant to stay in my head.” Beomgyu stilled for a second, “Holy shit are you serious?”
Yeonjun took one look at Beomgyu’s face, making him chuckle. “Oh ya for sure. He’s the hot one over there behind the register.” His tone was heavily sarcastic, almost anyone able to sense that he was kidding.
Considering the tone of Yeonjun's voice, Beomgyu looked appalled. His head whipped around towards the cafe counter, looking at Yeonjuns boyfriend. Beomgyu stared for a couple seconds before turning to Yeonjun, ushering him in closer. Yeonjun gave him a puzzled look but did so anyway.
“You’re telling me you are dating that hottie behind the counter? You bitch why haven’t you told me?!” He shrugged in response causing Beomgyu to glare at him. Yeonjun was amused at the reactions Beomgyu was letting out, surprised that he was putting so much effort into this sarcastic joke. “Hyung I thought we were friends!”
Yeonjun was an instigator. He loved to say things just to get a rise out of people. Even though this trait of his brought some spice into his life, it has also put him in many sour situations.
Yeonjun looked at Beomgyu with a boastful look on his face. “It's been a long time gyu and you never found out. I thought you were a master at figuring out secrets?”
Beomgyu was truly a master at figuring out secrets. He knew so many people around campus and was able to get any information one could ever want. If you gave him 48 hours and a question he would come back to you with a fully detailed answer.
Beomgyu was about to fire back at Yeonjun’s dig at him, a ringing interrupting him before he could start. Beomgyu looked down to his phone to see that his mom was calling, he immediately picked up with a smile on his face. “Hi mom!”
He started packing up his stuff, about to leave until he put his hand on the bottom of the phone, covering the microphone. “Choi Yeonjun this talk is not over. Be prepared to be interrogated at lunch.”
Beomgyu took his hand off the bottom of the phone, now talking with a much more pleasant tone as he walked away, chatting with his mother.
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Yeonjun sat down at their lunch table with a sigh. The two already sat at the table looked up at him. “Something wrong?”
He looked at Huening Kai and nodded his head. “My knee is killing me.” Yeonjun was majoring in performing arts, specifically dance, so it was normal for his joints to ache, but his knee hurt which was never a good sign.
Taehyun scoffed. “I told you not to over-practice because you are going to get hurt.” Yeonjun rolled his eyes as he picked up his chopsticks. “Oh be quiet I don’t need you to nag me, you’re not my mother.”
“We all know this friend group would fall apart if I didn’t keep you all in check.” Kai started laughing and Yeonjun gasped in mock offense. “I’m literally the oldest here-- Kai stop laughing! That was an insult to you too!”
They all kept bickering until a loud but familiar voice made its way to them. “Yeonjun hyung I found your boyfriend!” Kai choked on his food and Taehyun went absolutely still. Yeonjuns head whipped around to see Beomgyu dragging a poor boy towards their lunch table. Yeonjun knew many people were staring at them but he couldn’t bring himself to care.
Beomgyu made a point of sitting the man right next to Yeonjun as he sat across from them with Taehyun and Kai.
“Beomgyu what the fuck are you doing? Why did you bring this random guy here claiming to be hyung’s boyfriend?” Beomgyu looked at Taehyun offended. “Why are you looking at me like I'm the crazy one? He is actually his boyfriend!” Beomgyu crossed his arms as he and the two other guys stared at Yeonjun and the man next to him.
The man next to Yeonjun just sat there looking at this catastrophe unfold.
Yeonjun tried to pull himself together. “Beomgyu why did you-- how did you find him?”
“It’s his first day today so he introduced himself as Soobin at the start of the class. You didn’t tell me his name but I immediately recognized his face and told him to come sit next to me.” Apparently, Yeonjun must’ve been scowling at him as he started to defend himself. “Why do you look so angry? I brought your hot barista boyfriend to you to eat lunch with us.” Beomgyu shoved his fork into his rice, annoyed. “If anything you should be thanking me.”
As Yeonjun was trying to process what was happening, a voice from beside him startled him. “Hot barista boyfriend? That's what you called me?” Yeonjun growled, turning his head towards the guy to reprimand him for teasing him but was met with one of the most beautiful guys he’s ever seen. Yes, he had seen him from afar, but being this close to him made a world of a difference. Yeonjun was never one to back down from an insult but he couldn’t find any words in him to strike back with.
“Yeonjun stop ogling at your boyfriend and tell us what is going on.” Yeonjun shook his head startled as the man beside him let out a laugh. His stupid laugh irked Yeonjun. He gave Soobin a glare. “You shut up.”
Soobin frowned, trying to look hurt, “Wow. Is that how you should be talking to your boyfriend?” Yeonjun pressed his lips together, trying to hold back another insult. Fighting with this man was not going to help him get out of this situation. “Listen you three—”
Before he could come up with an excuse, Soobin’s phone started to ring. Yeonjun will forever love whoever called Soobin at that moment. “Sweetheart your phone is ringing, we have to go.” Yeonjun could not for the life of him remember the man's name so the endearing name would have to do. Soobin noticeably looked thrown off but didn’t have any time to question it as Yeonjun pulled his arm away from the table, bolting out of the cafeteria.
Once they were far enough away Yeonjun let go of Soobins hand. “Aren’t you going to answer your phone?”
Soobin shook his head, “It was a spam call.”
“Oh ok.” They both stood there staring at each other before Soobin crossed his arms over his chest. “Are you not going to explain what the fuck is going on? On my first day of school I am bombarded by a rambunctious child and am suddenly in a relationship with a random guy?”
Yeonjun could tell Soobin was pissed. “Um well… look at the time!” Soobin's eyes narrowed as Yeonjun awkwardly chuckled. “I have to go--”
“Absolutely not.” Soobin grabbed Yeonjun’s arm, pulling him back in front of him. Yeonjun gulped, Soobin was scary when he was mad. “Meet me at the cafe I work at 4:30, that's when I have my break. You don't show up and I'll embarrass you in front of all your friends.”
Soobin turned around without another word leaving Yeonjun there stunned, he was fucked.
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Yeonjun was at a cafe table, unable to sit still. His knee was bouncing as he was playing with one of the many rings on his hands. It was 4:45 and he was starting to think that he got stood up. The man made it very clear that he wasn’t going to waste time yet Yeonjun didn’t even see him! He continued to doubt himself until someone slid in the seat in front of him.
“Sorry I had to finish something up in the back.” Soobin sat in front of him with a brown apron over a white shirt and black jeans. He was obviously baking something as he had flour all over the front of the apron. He also had a name tag which Yeonjun was very thankful for. “You have 10 minutes to tell me what is going on.”
Yeonjuns eyes widened, “10 minutes?! That's all?” Soobin curtly nodded. “You’ve already wasted two.”
Yeonjun tilted his head in annoyance, he was already getting fed up with this guy. However, he really needed his help so he decided to put his pride aside and ask. “I’ll do my best to at least convince you to help me. If you do agree we can meet up and I will explain more.”
Soobin just stared at him, making him assume that it was okay to keep going. “So a couple of days ago me and Beomgyu, the guy you called a rambunctious child, were sitting at this cafe. The guy talks a lot so I tend to zone out and passively agree with what he says. He’s not the most observant person and tends to miss out on social cues so--”
Soobin looked at him with a disinterested expression. “I'm sorry how is this relevant?”
Yeonjun scrunched up his face, he was trying so hard to be nice but this man was extremely aggravating. “If you didn’t interrupt me you would see why it's relevant.”
Yeonjun took a breath and continued. “The topic of dating came up and I sarcastically said I had a boyfriend and pointed at the first person I saw, which was you. Now, because Beomgyu sometimes misses social cues, he didn’t sense my sarcasm, taking us to the situation we are in now.”
Soobin slowly nodded, uncrossing his arms and laying them on the table. “You said something about trying to convince me to agree to something? What do you want me to do?”
Yeonjun sucked in a breath of air, it was now or never. “I need you to pretend to be my boyfriend.” Soobin’s face stayed neutral as he continued. “The reason I mentioned dating was because the topic of my brother's wedding came up and I said that I wanted to bring someone. I was honestly just going to go alone and face the wrath of my family, but now that we are in this situation I thought I could use it to my advantage. You could get something out of it too, I'll honestly do anything. It would also be fun to trick my friends, they deem me to be ‘undateable’”
Soobin snorted, “I can see why.”
Yeonjun shot a glare at the man across from him. “You know I’m trying really hard to be nice to you right now. You’re making it very difficult.” Soobin shrugged. “You’re easy to make fun of.”
He ignored that comment and continued, “Well? Are you in or not?”
The time Soobin sat there was agonizing. Yeonjun inwardly cursed at himself, why did he think that this cocky, stuck-up, egotistical man was going to agree to-
“Give me your phone.” Yeonjun looked up from the table, “What?” Soobin let out a harsh sigh. “Do you want me to help or not? We’re running out of time.”
The moment Yeonjun realized Soobin was going to help him his face lit up. He fumbled for his phone, giving it to Soobin. After Soobin finished putting his number into Yeonjun's phone, he got up, dusting his apron off. “Send me a text to make sure I get it.”
Yeonjun nodded, opening his phone, making his face go red. “Really?! You had to name yourself that?” He kept complaining as he sent the text to Soobin. “Yup. I have a nice name for you too.” He turned his phone screen towards Yeonjun, laughing at his ears getting red. “We’re supposed to be together, aren't we? We can’t just call each other by our first names, that’s boring.” Soobin gave him a small smirk before turning around, still looking at his phone.
Yeonjun was cursing at Soobins back until he felt his phone vibrate in his hand.
sweetheart
you better not change the contact name
my love <3
no what is with these names
you are so cheesy
sweetheart
but you love it
my love <3
fuck off
aren’t you supposed to be working?
sweetheart
nope
my break is a half hour long
my love <3
I am going to kill you
sweetheart
it’s not healthy to lie to yourself yeonjun
my love <3
i'm older than you
sweetheart
and how do you know that?
my love <3
you’re in beomgyu’s class
i’m not stupid
sweetheart
that’s debatable
my love <3
choi soobin
sweetheart
wow the full name i'm so scared
my love <3
stop bothering me and go finish your cake
sweetheart
I was actually baking cookies
I can bring you some during lunch tomorrow
my love <3
no you are not sitting with me at lunch
sweetheart
you can’t let your boyfriend eat lunch alone
plus i'm pretty sure that beomgyu kid will drag me with him anyways
my love <3
that's true
ew I hate that i'm agreeing with you
sweetheart
the feeling is mutual
my love <3
i’m done talking with you
i’m leaving
sweetheart
~~stay safe on the road hyung~~ <333 :))) <333
my love <3
text me like that again and i'll choke you
sweetheart
didn’t know you were into that
my love <3
fuck you