So they just cried for a long time.
They must have been pretty shocked by the sudden situation, but
Minho kept a calm expression and waited for the crying to stop.
As the crying subsided, the hand that had been rubbing their back came to a stop.
“Why are you doing this? Tell me.“
They couldn’t bring themselves to speak.
They just kept sniffing and wiping away the tears that kept falling drop by drop.
“Should I take a guess? Why you came here? ”
They nodded silently.
He pressed his lips together, let out a short sigh, and then
rolled his eyes as he said,
“It doesn’t seem like you came because you needed help.”
After nodding lightly once more,
a tear that had been running down their cheek dropped straight off.
“You came because you missed me, right? “
A silence fell in an instant.
It felt as if time had stopped.
Minho stared intently at the lips that gave no answer, and
after wetting his dry lips with his tongue, added one more thing.
“Earlier, when I saw you on the street with that woman,
you came because you couldn’t stop thinking about it, right, you.”
“... Yeah, but.. “
The words caught in their throat.
The cliché line that they were annoyed because it felt like a friend had been taken away,
the line they could barely even use as an excuse,
they couldn’t bring themselves to say it.
The fact that I was paying attention to Minho
whether it was because I cared about him as a friend,
or because I was harboring feelings
of love for him, in a situation where I couldn’t even tell
I didn’t want to force that same confusion on Minho.
Just as I was trying to think of what to say,
he suddenly spoke to me.
“Why can’t you just be honest with me, even if it’s only me?”
“I don’t even know what this is either.”
With an expression that looked like he’d already guessed what I was going to say,
he slowly nodded.
“Honestly, back then, it’s true I felt like I’d had a friend taken away,
but.. But this…
whether it just feels like I lost a friend,
or whether there’s some other feeling mixed in, I don’t know either.”
After hearing what I said, Minhopaused for a moment,
then cupped both my cheeks and met my eyes.
It felt like my heart might burst any second.
I could feel my ears slowly burning up.
“Then can you kiss me? Sober?”
