"Why do you want to meet me?"

 

Junho asked Hyoyeon as he took a seat across her, in a cafe near his house. He shook his head at the waitress when the latter came to ask his order.

 

Hyoyeon tightly intertwined her fingers, a flash of anxiety sparked inside her. She's not ready, yet she's ready. To tell him about her thoughts in backing off from the competition. She couldn't tell him the reason why she wanted to back off, and that's made her hesitating to start the topic.

 

She couldn't just suddenly said, "It's because I felt weird with another guy holding my body,"

 

She took a long sip on her orange juice before taking a deep breath. Making a mental note to be prepared on any trashed Junho might give her. They had promised to win this competition, before and after Junho hurt his leg. But after trying to dance with another guy, Hyoyeon just couldn't do it.

 

"Hyo?" His voice interrupted her thought.

 

Hyoyeon blinked, snapped out of her daze, and looked at him. "Yeah?"

 

He looked at her questioningly. "What is it about, Hyo?" He asked again, a bit more urgently. She had been acting strangely these days; not like he didn't though. He was still in dilemma of checking his heart whether he really does in love with her or not.

 

At some point, he knew this feeling is real, but at another point, he couldn't help but wondered if this feeling is only a temporary filled one, because he was just *facing the truth* having his heart broken. And the only person there, before Taeyeon came to talk to him, there was only Hyoyeon.

 

Hyoyeon was there comforting him, not even saying a word about how stupid he was and not forcing him to let go, she just be there, beside him, sitting down while occasionally patting his shoulder in comforting way. She had been so warm to him and somehow he knew she cares.

 

"So?" He asked again; it was getting into his curiosity that she didn't tell him what she wanted right away.

 

She took a deep breath before blowing it out. Her head slowly got up and her eyes met his. "I'm backing away from the competition."

 

It took a whole second for him to finally fully understand what she had just said. "What?" He knew it was a rhetorical question, but he couldn't help it.

 

"I said-"

 

"I know what you said!" He muttered angriy. "But why?"

 

Hyoyeon bit her lip, hesitance flashed on her eyes. She knew he would ask, and this was what she wasn't prepared for. She took another deep breath before saying, "I just want to back off."

 

Junho rolled his eyes unbelievingly. "Yeah, sure."

 

Out of all people around her, maybe only Junho that knows how much dance meant for her, how much dance could bring her happiness, and everything related. Because that's what he felt when he dance too. And there's no way Kim Hyoyeon backing out from a dance competition.

 

He saw it before; the excitement in her face when the teacher said about the competition that is going to be held, the pure thrill she expressed when they finally done their dance moves, and the joy she received when they were nominated for the National Dancing Competition, which is like National Singing Competition.

 

He knew how much this competition worth for her. Then why?

 

"Why, Hyo? You have to tell me what's wrong." Junho almost pleaded when he told her.

 

Hyoyeon looked extremely uncomfortable under his gaze. "I-I.... I can't tell you. I'm sorry, Junho." She shifted on her seat.

 

Junho eyed her. Something's wrong. Like seriously. Hyoyeon had never been this uncomfortable around him and never try to avoid his eyes. He needed to find out what's wrong. "Hyo...."

 

Hyoyeon stood up abruptly. "I have to go now."

 

Before Junho could protest, she had already left.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"So you ditched him like that?" Taeyeon asked calmly as she painted her toe nails with sparkling blue color.

 

Hyoyeon had come up on Taeyeon's doorstep right after she left Junho alone in the cafe. She had to break this story somehow to someone; and one person came to her mind: Kim Taeyeon.

 

After the storytelling, Taeyeon questioned Hyoyeon.

 

"It's not ditching." Hyoyeon denied.

 

"Yeah, of course." Taeyeon said with a hint of sarcasm. "You left him without any explanation and it's not call ditching."

 

Hyoyeon rolled her eyes. "Fine, it's ditching."

 

Taeyeon's lips curled into a victorious smile. "You know I'm always right."

 

They laughed and back to topic again.

 

"What are you going to do then?" Taeyeon asked, squinting her eyes on her pinky toe as she painted the last toe.

 

"I don't know. Maybe avoiding him for few weeks, you know?"

 

"Oh yeah. I know that well. I did that to Wooyoung before." Taeyeon replied and changed her interest on her fingers nail. "Do you think one tone or two tone is better for my nails?"

 

"You did that? Two tone one." Hyoyeon replied in surprised. "Why?"

 

"Well, as you can see, I have a very big problem at those times." Taeyeon picked out a sparkling clear color and sparkling pink one. "You know about my fake relationship with Woo and we ended up being in love," Taeyeon blushed as she spoke, "and I have to go through painful weekends of avoiding him. I was in denial if I'm not wrong."

 

"Because friendship." Hyoyeon understood right away. Tiffany had once told her about her crush on Wooyoung one day when they were in dancing class. They were on a break and Tiffany just couldn't help but blurted out her feelings. She only matched the pieces together.

 

"Yeah, and maybe a little bit of consciousness that I hated him before." Taeyeon chuckled, brushing the last nail on her finger. "DONE!!!" She squealed and practically showed her fingers to Hyoyeon happily.

 

Hyoyeon chuckled. Taeyeon was still as childish as before. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I absolutely don't know what's wrong man." Wooyoung stated after Junho frustatedly told him about Hyoyeon's sudden weird behavior.

 

"You're her cousin!" Junho demanded, almost wanting to pull his hair. He was so frustrated, for real.

 

"Yeah, that doesn't mean I have to keep an eye on her to watch every moves she make." Wooyoung rolled his eyes. "And more, why do you come here to talk about this matter with me? You know I'm not good in... yeah, advice." Wooyoung muttered.

 

"Because you're her cousin. So I thought, 'Hey, Wooyoung is a good cousin, probably he knew about Hyoyeon's weird behavior'." 

 

Wooyoung shot Junho a nasty look for the sarcasm. It did hit him hard. "You're trying to say I'm not a good cousin?"

 

"Technically, you're not." Junho replied.

 

"Yah." Wooyoung growled.

 

Junho waved his hand in dismiss. "We don't have to get into quarrel right now. I just wanted to know about her sudden change of behavior."

 

Wooyoung scowled childishly before munching on the potato snack that he had opened before. He insisted that there should be something to eat while he listened to Junho's problem. Junho was like 'psh, pig', but didn't really say it out loud.

 

"So who should I go for a good advice?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nichkhun was kissing Yuri passionately in his room when a loud voice echoed in his house.

 

"KHUNNIEEEE~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'M HEREEEE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~" Wooyoung's loud voice resonated in the house as if the house was his. *what a shameless man*

 

Nichkhun and Yuri broke the kiss immediately, and Yuri looked at Nichkhun with flabbergasted look.

 

"What do we do?!" She whispered urgently, not wanting to be found in his room this soon.

 

They had just started dating for a few weeks, and it's sure not good to be found in his room with heated look.

 

"Just... hid in my toilet!" He said quickly and hauled her up from his bed.

 

Yuri hurried over to the toilet and quickly locked herself in. It was a spacious room for a bathroom.... HEY, it's not the right time to describe the surrounding! She pressed herself on the door, heart beating so fast that she might get heart attack soon. She was horrified with the sudden appearance of Wooyoung, and seriously wanting to curse the man so bad.

 

DID HE NOT KNOW THE WORD 'TIMING'?

 

Psh, seriously. That awkward moment would be when one day she is kissing Nichkhun and Wooyoung walked in leisurely. Hmm, that sounds like a nightmare.

 

The bedroom door opened and Yuri heard not one but couple of footsteps walking in to the room. So the interrupter is not only one person?

 

"Hey Khun." Yuri barely heard Junho's voice.

 

She wasn't that close to Junho and barely talked to him. 

 

"Khunnie!" 

 

Yuri rolled her eyes. Now that what we called annoying. It was obviously Jang Wooyoung's voice. That damn guy.

 

"So what are you two doing here?" Nichkhun asked as calm as possible, although his hormones was raging up. *Tell me right away so you two can leave immeadiately.*

 

Junho noticed the slightly unwelcomed aura from Nichkhun. He wondered why.

 

Wooyoung was oblivious with the unwelcoming manner, and continued his talked. "So Junho came up to with a girl problem, and I told him that I won't be able to help him because I'm just not good at advice like that."

 

Yuri who listened from the bathroom nodded eagerly. *You're right! You do aren't good at advising.*

 

"What girl problem?" Nichkhun asked, slightly becoming interested.

 

Just slightly though.

 

"Hyoyeon, my cousin." Wooyoung explained the whole problem and somewhat heard exaggerating.

 

"She did not ditch me." Junho growled. 

 

"Yeah of course. She did not leave you alone there." Wooyoung shot sarcastically.

 

Junho huffed a angry sigh.

 

Nichkhun was so desperate to say something, something that better be good because he didn't want to waste one hour more to have a talk with boys. He wanted to do something better with his girlfriend. And surely, it doesn't include talking.

 

"Then why don't you help him Woo? You could've asked Taeyeon about this matter, or better, asked Hyoyeon right away. You're his cousin, right? She might tell you the reason."

 

Wooyoung waved his hand in dismiss. "The only thing Hyo would ever be truthful to me, is when she's mocking my fashion style."

 

........

 

"Err... *cough cough*" Nichkhun put his palm over his mouth, trying to quiet down his coming laugh.

 

"Hahahaha!" A girly laughed was heard, before the voice suddenly disappeared, as quick as Flash ran to help Mr. Incredible.

 

The three men snapped their head to the voice direction. 

 

Wooyoung squinted his eyes on the suspicious bathroom door. "Is someone inside?"

 

Nichkhun looked flabbergasted immediately and he shook his head. "No, nobody's there!"

 

The lie was obviously increasing the two men's curiosity. 

 

"I mean it." Nichkhun shot them a look.

 

Junho caught it right away. "Okay, I understand."

 

Wooyoung was a bit slow in that department. "Ey, I believe someone is in there."

 

"Jang. Woo. Young." Nichkhun spelled his name through gritted teeth.

 

Wooyoung gulped. Sure, Nichkhun is known for his very wise, but he also has a temper when angry. And it wasn't really good to see.

 

"You know what? I think your advice is amazing! I'm going to find Taeyeon now!" Wooyoung ran from the  room quickly, leaving Junho all alone.

 

"That's the second time I was left alone." He muttered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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