Baekhyun’s book gets published four months later, a month after his actual deadline.

Juyeon knew from the beginning that he would finish it, anyway. Baekhyun always talks as if he’s going to go broke for failing to publish a book before his deadline but he manages to push through every time, and Juyeon is always there to tell him I told you so. Well, not this time anyway.

She purchases it on a whim after work one day, seeing the dark blue book displayed in front of a bookstore she passes on her way home. Dark blue was always her favorite color, not to mention the gold-colored fonts that made the title was too attractive to pass. She remembers something about Baekhyun wanting to make the cover orange but she guesses she heard wrong, then.

THE YOUNG AND DYSFUNCTIONAL, it read, and Juyeon makes a note to read that as soon as she gets home. She is temporarily and shamelessly living with Jihye, despite all the protests Jihye had. She knew deep down Jihye was more than happy to take her in.

Juyeon’s things are actually still at Baekhyun’s and she figures she’d move them out later when Baekhyun is finished with his book—meaning sometime soon. She’d thought that the least she could do was to not bother Baekhyun when he’s working on his book. She misses her cat, too, but there was no way that Baekhyun would ever give his baby away.

When she gets home, Jihye is already waiting for her with dinner served. They eat dinner and Jihye notices the book peeking out of Juyeon’s bag and ever since she noticed it, Jihye turns weird, and Juyeon assures Jihye that she didn’t buy it because of Baekhyun. She tells her best friend that she simply bought it because it is a well-designed book. At the end of her explanation, Juyeon starts to wonder if she is convincing Jihye or convincing herself.

Staying mum, Jihye just pushes Juyeon into her room and stuffs some snacks onto Juyeon’s hands after they finished dinner and tells Juyeon to finish the book ASAP so she could get it over with. Juyeon laughs and proceeds to make herself comfortable before finally opening the book. She didn’t even bother to read the back cover of the book to know that it's going to be a good book.

Juyeon is actually excited. Everyone knows Baekhyun is a good writer, his last book had been about a romantic dystopian-college life and has been one of Juyeon's favorite books. He has a way with words that Juyeon just loves, the way he depicts a normal situation and paints it into the beginning of a thousand perhaps.

Reading his stories had always been a refreshing experience, because Baekhyun always manages to keep his stories a secret from Juyeon until it is actually published.

To: The Girl who puts her feet up my car’s da