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"Please, Luhanie, just do it, will you?" The voice of a boy pleading finally makes Luhan turns his head to face his lovely older brother beside him.
"What is it again?" Luhan let out a sigh.
"You should come to the meet-up. You just have to show up there. Please~" Junhui, Luhan's brother, comes and sit on the edge of his bed, with both of his hand in front of his chest, begging Luhan to do what he says.
Luhan sigh. This is actually making him feels stressed out. Why he was born with a pretty face like this? People sometimes can't recognize him as a boy. And his two older brothers, Xiao Zhan and Junhui, sometimes taking an advantage of this to make him wearing wigs and makeup then meeting up with their girlfriend when they want to break-up with them. Luhan will act as if he is their new girlfriend or pretend to be the younger sister who doesn't like her brother choices.
Sometimes, his mother also will teasing him as if he’s her daughter and that makes Luhan feels like he wants to leave this house, but he can’t do that because his mother will be mad at him. Luhan must admit that the worst thing ever is when his mother mad, because it will turns her into an evil witch.
"I'm gonna talk to mama and baba." Luhan finally get out from his bed and go downstairs to meet his parents.
He's about to told them to stop making a meet-up for his brother. But his father gives him a shocking explanation.
"We don't want Junhui to do that, because it's you that should be the one to do the marriage interview!"
What?!
Luhan couldn't believe what he just heard.
Him?
Married?
He’s still 18 this year!
He still has to go to school!
He still wants to live a normal life without getting attached with something such as marriage!
"It's settled then! We're gonna told the Oh family about this!" His mother looks happy.
"Noooo! That's exactly not what I mean!" Luhan almost shout but none of them listen to his words.
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Luhan sighed for the hundred times today.
Today is the day where he should meet the one that he will marry soon. There's no other way he could escape from this marriage interview, because his parents always pursuing him to do this, not even listening to his complains at all and his brother doesn't even wanna know anything about this because apparently, his brother is taking sides with his parents to make Luhan doing this marriage interview.
The only thing Luhan knows about his future husband is his name.
Oh Sehun.
He already has a thought that this Oh Sehun probably a middle aged man, or a stupid 30 years old man. Or worst: a pervert man.
Luhan move the strands of his brown hair as he let out another sigh. His mother already makes him wearing a makeup even though he already insists of not doing a cosplay as a girl this time. Although his mother agreed to it and letting him wearing a suit, but his mother forced him to do an eye-makeup, blush on and a lipstick, which makes Luhan thinks that the man who will come to this meet-up might shocked if he knows that Luhan is a male.
He stares impatiently at his mother who is still talking to another woman in front of her, the mother of Oh Sehun.
If this Oh Sehun doesn't appear in the next few minutes, maybe his mother will cancel this marriage arrangement and he can get out from this situation.
"I'm sorry I'm late." The voice of a man disrupts his mind.
Luhan look up and see a young man comes and sit next to the old woman. The woman then introduces him with a bright smile on her face.
"Mrs Wen and Luhan, this is my son, Sehun."
So, this is Oh Sehun? Luhan stares, a little bit disbelief with the person who sit in front of him.
He's good-looking, he got a short-cropped black hair, he got a sharp stare, matched perfectly with his deep brown eyes. He got a perfect jawline, and his smile.....
Luhan thought that his smile is so sincere and sweet.
Sehun shakes his hand with Luhan and saying nice to meet you to him. Somehow, seeing his smile makes Luhan forget about his own thought of Sehun before. His face looks familiar but he doesn’t remember where and when he ever sees him before.
Wait!
This is not the time to feel impressed by this Oh Sehun in front of him!
At first he thought that Sehun won't appear, but he was wrong!
He doesn't want to get married to an unknown stranger and ruining his life as a teenager!
"Since Sehun already here, why don't we let them talk and know each other first," Mrs. Wen suddenly suggest that idea and Mrs. Oh quickly agrees with that.
Sehun smiles at Mrs. Wen and told her that they might be getting along soon. Mrs. Wen looks so happy with that words and she left, laughing with Mrs. Oh.
As soon as they left, the smile on Sehun's face faded. He stares at Luhan from head to toe and that makes Luhan feels a little bit uncomfortable.
"Why are you staring at me like that?" Luhan asked. Since Sehun decided to not be so friendly, Luhan also doesn't want to be that friendly to him.
"How old are you?" He asked.
"17 now but this year I'm going 18. And you? 30 or so, I guess."
"I'm still 24." He answers, with a frown. "Are you really a boy?"
Luhan almost got choked with his drink as he said that. "Can’t you see it clearly that I’m wearing a suit now? Although my mom forced me to do this makeup but I’m still a male, completely a male!!! And you should already know that this marriage thing is really ridiculous!" Luhan rolled his eyes. He thought that Sehun isn't the dumb type but it seems that he was wrong.
Sehun suddenly let out a sigh. "Yeah, I know. It sounds stupid but I have no other choice. My hyung who lives in Canada didn't want to have this marriage arrangement. Then my mom has no other choice and chooses me to do this. Otherwise she will keep calling me, following me everywhere and keep repeating that same words over and over again." He stares at his own drink on the table, "apparently my mom already agreed to arrange a marriage between our families after her kids was born. So, when my hyung doesn't want to do that, she chooses me."
Luhan nods, "so that's why my mother was so determined to make me do this marriage interview. My eldest brother is engaged with someone else and lives in China and my second brother already have his lover, so I'm the only one left."
Sehun stares curiously at Luhan, "why your mother makes you do this?"
Now it's Luhan turns to sigh, "I only have two brothers and my mother really wants to have her own daughter, so when I was born, she said that I’m the prettiest boy she ever seen and sometimes she even makes me to dress up like a girl and doing makeup for me. But to be honest, it sucks."
"Well, you can always oppose her if you want to."
"As if that is easy, “Luhan says,” if I make her mad, she will curse like a sorcerer or she will say that she got a heart attack and my dad will scold me She won't stop pretending she was sick until I said my apologize. That does not include her intense death glare to me. I feel like she could even kill me if she's in a rage mode."
They both let out a sigh.
"We're still young anyway, why they didn't think about that before?" Sehun seems somewhat depressed about this situation now.
"And I still have to go to school too," Luhan added. It's his last semester and he will graduate soon, but this isn't exactly what he wants to do when he graduated from school.
"Do you want to cancel this thing?" Sehun suddenly asks, making Luhan stares back at his deep brown eyes again.
"And what? Seeing my mother sending her death glare to me all the time again?! No fucking way!" Luhan glared at Sehun. "You want to live your life being stalked by your mother all the time? If you like it that way, then fine, go and cancel all of this, I couldn't care less."
"Of course not! It's annoying! I can't even go outside without her knowing where I want to go!"
"Then we got no choice left."
"We can pretend to them," Sehun suddenly said those words, "if this is what it takes to make my mom stopped bothering me, then so be it! At least I'm safe from her nagging."
"Do you mean......"
"Yeah, we should accept this. There's no other way," Sehun see his mother walks approaching them with Luhan's mother.
"But on one condition: this is only to fool them, to make them stay away from our life. No skinship except in front of them and don't interfere with my life unless I told you so." Luhan raised his hand in front of Sehun.
Sehun nods, "deal!" He grabs Luhan's hand with a satisfied look on his face. Seeing they're now entwined their fingers with each other making their mother happier than before. They even think that Luhan and Sehun is a perfect match for each other.
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