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chapter twenty-eight.

"Give that back."  snatching her phone back from Saeyoung, decided to turn it off or she might catch Yemin rummaging through some of her private files. And she definitely needs to set her own password as well.  "What's up with you, asking me about Soul or whatnut. It's nothing even serious."

Yemin tilted her head to the side.  "Well that's not how I, see it! Same thing goes for the students under Hyevin."

"Hyevin?" Yemin nodded. Saeyoung forgot that her cousin attend's the same school as Soul. "Why? What's going?"  questioned Saeyoung.

"Apparently, some students from Hyevin is very interested in getting to know the girl that Haku Shota likes. A student from Soul's year spotted him and a girl from Adroit High going out on a date perhaps?" Yemin had her left eye brow raised, her head slowly tilting while she stared at Saeyoung her eyes wide open, indicating that the girl she was referring to was her.  "After that, students are starting to think that Soul is in a rendezvous or...secret relationship with someone from the opposing school? Especially that the school is the home of Nishimura Riki and his dance team?"

Saeyoung lies down on her bed and covered her face with a pillow, a loud groan following.  "I invited you to watch a movie of TATBILB with me, in peace because I wanted to relax and forget about Soul and Ni-ki for awhile but you're basically not helping at all. Should I kick you out of my room?"

Yemin stuck her tongue out.  "If you fucking kick me out, I'm gonna tell everyone in Hyevin that you're in a love triangle with Soul and Ni-ki! And besides! This is our room now─well until my parents comes back from vacation. So like it or not, I'm staying and that's period!"  Yemin sat back at the bed and started playing the movie again. Saeyoung smiled in satisfaction.

Damn it!

This is the day.

Sigh

From: Kitty 💜
To: Nishimura Riki

takara is at the cat cafè
while im at hj ice cream
shop, 5 blocks away. u
know what to do right?
Sent ✔︎

yeah, ik.
Sent ✔︎

Taking a deep breathe, Ni-ki placed his phone back at his back pocket, a frown visible on his face. In just a few more minutes, he's going to hurt one of the girls he cares about the most. It's going to hurt, yes. But days, weeks and months will pass by and hopefully they could be able to forget the painful feeling of rejection and false hope. As for Ni-ki, the feeling of guilt will be the one to consume him for awhile.

"Hurting one is always better than hurting two. You don't have much of a choice now, do you Ni-ki?"  Jay questioned, his eyes fixed on the road. The japanese boy didn't bother to answer and continued to stare outside the car's window.  "So, what's the plan? Are you just going to tell one of them that you chose the other or....?"

"The girls are located in different places. Saeyoung just informed me that she is in HJ's Ice Cream shop while Takara is at the Cat Cafè."  he answered in a sad tone.

Jay gave a quick glance at the maknae and saw how pale he looks. He looked like he ran out of energy, Ni-ki's atmosphere was a little gloomy and Jay felt it, he has never seen this side of Ni-ki before and it upset him to think that he, a hyung, did not know what to say to a dongsaeng in need of help.  "So, whoever girl you chose, you have to go and meet them at their location? To like, determine that you chose to be with her, rather than the other?"

Ni-ki just nodded.

Jay sighed.  "Alright then, where are we off to?"

Instead of answering verbally, Ni-ki chose to send Jay a text instead. Seeing his phone turn on as the notification of Ni-ki's message was sent, Jay had a small smile and hummed as his response. He hit the breaks and wished his dongsaeng a good luck.

"Are you going to be okay after this whole thing?"

"I will." exiting the car, Ni-ki shut the door closed before staring up at the logo of the location, he chose to go to. Just outside the monument, Ni-ki was able to easily spot the girl, who was sitting down inside, her phone in hand and a worried look drawn on her face.

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Taking a deep breathe, he finally entered the monument. And there she was, waiting for him. Ni-ki made his way to her table, a welcoming smile plastered on his face.

Hearing the bell of the entrance ringing, she immediately glanced over to the door. She couldn't believe her eyes, it was him. Here she was doubting that he wouldn't come and leave her waiting but no, he came for her. Suddenly, all those doubts has washed away.

"You're late." she smiled at him.

Ni-ki chuckled.  "I'm sorry. I won't do that ever again."

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It has been awhile hasn't it? Oh gosh, I feel so bad for not being to update in such a long time, I'm so very sorry! I didn't mean to keep everyone waiting.  ㅜ ~ ㅜ

So, I'm down to the last quarter of my school year and I'm so relieved that I have to endure a bit more time and effort since summer vacation is on soon! But sadly, reality had hit in this quarter. Teachers gave us more projects to do and most of us had barely enough free time for ourselves.

Gosh I can't-  ㅜ ~ ㅜ

And sadly, I became a lot more lazy than usual. So I'm not sure that I can update as often as I can right now, but I will try my best to update at least one to two times a week! Again, I'm so sorry for a long wait! Thank you for being so patient and understanding ♡︎

Stay Safe!

Have a great day everyone ~