I stared at Seokjin as I tried to figure out how I was going to reply to his question. I didn’t want to lie, but then I also didn’t want to completely tell the truth.

     I glanced over at Daehyun, who also looked at me. I really couldn’t tell what he was feeling because of his facial expression. He drew his eyebrows together. Rokhyun seemed to look confused based on how his eyes were widened and he kept looking at Seokjin, then at me, and finally at Daehyun. 

     I crossed my arms and began talking.

    “I-We were waiting to use the bathroom, but the line was so long. By the time we were in the bathroom, the bell had rung.”

     Some people giggled and scoffed, like they didn’t believe a single word I had said.

     “Did you take a long or what?” One guy, Taemin, said and I refrained myself from rolling my eyes.

    “Y-yeah, I did.”

    “Really, now? Because,” Taemin raised his chin a bit as he put on a smirk. “from what I remember, you were wet. Unless, you were constipated so you had trouble?”

     What was wrong with this guy? Why was he trying to humiliate me in front of these people? What did I ever do to him for him to say these things to me? Then, again, I was wet but he was making it sound as if it was such a horrible thing. I wasn’t even completely wet! It was just my left leg, for crying out loud.

     “What the heck, Taemin,” Kyungsoo blurted. He looked a bit annoyed and I was thankful that he was trying to stop Taemin from speaking. “Youngjae answered the question already, so he doesn’t need to answer you.”

     “Oh, come on, Kyungsoo,” Taemin replied with a chuckle. “Don’t lie to yourself. You know you want to know what your best friend did with his so-called friend. I bet he didn’t even tell you because he was embarrassed.”

     Kyungsoo was silent and it looked like he wasn’t going to reply. What could he even reply with to Taemin’s statement?

     I bit my lip.

     “Youngjae, by any chance…did you and Daehyun have in the boys restroom?” Taemin innocently asked, batting his eyelashes. I clenched my hands and I could feel myself slowly falling into a pool of tears. 

     “Aw, poor baby, he’s about to cry,” Taemin cooed, which caused a few people to laugh. 

     I wanted to get out of there; I didn’t want to be there anymore. It was stupid of me to be a part of this trip. I should have just stayed home; playing songs on my stupid violin, pretending to listen to my parents, living my usual boring life instead of sitting with these group of people as they laughed at me. 

     I suddenly stood up and walked away from the group. I could hear Kyungsoo calling me out and Taemin saying something stupid about me, but I tried ignoring them. The tears that I was trying to hold in were finally pouring out, but I didn’t care. I was actually glad because I didn’t want to keep them in when I felt so ed up at the moment. 

     Why was I such a weak, useless human being? I couldn’t even muster the courage to talk back at that ! Not even a simple “ you” was able to come out of my mouth. 

     Daehyun probably thought I was a coward for not telling the truth, and instead was running away from the situation. He probably felt embarrassed and regretted ever knowing me.

     I wiped the tears with my arms and let out a cough. It was already dark and the stars were out. I could clearly see them, and they looked really pretty that I couldn’t help but stop and gaze at them. 

     “You know, you walked really far.” 

     I turned my head away from the sky and looked at the person. My eyes widened and I casted my head down, rubbing the remaining tears on my eyes with my hands. I didn’t want Daehyun to see that I was crying, although he probably saw already.

     “Why did you follow me?”

     He laughed, but shrugged his shoulders.

     “I didn’t want to leave my friend alone.”

     Friend.

     “Well, I’m okay and I wasn’t sad, for your information,” I retorted. I didn’t want to be with him anymore so I opted to walk back to the little houses. I was hoping I wasn’t going to see Taemin or any of the people that were at the group because I surely knew they were going to say something about my sudden walk out. I highly doubt, though, that I wouldn’t bump into him.

     “Wait, Youngjae!”

     Suddenly, Daehyun grabbed my arm and pulled me against him. I gasped when my face made contact with his chest. It kind of reminded me of the time when I leaned against him at that hill. 

     “I’m sorry,” he said as he let go of my arm to wrap his arms around my waist. I looked up at him, before looking down; my cheeks becoming warm. Daehyun was looking down at me, and I couldn’t help but want to escape from his embrace. “I’m sorry for randomly kissing you when I knew you weren’t…into guys…”

     I wasn’t sure what to reply with so I simply nodded my head; whatever Daehyun would take that as. 

     “Youngjae…these past few months haven't been that good for me, to be honest.”

     What?

     The embrace tightened.

     “After you told me to never talk to you again, I felt really sad because I knew we weren’t going to be friends anymore. Not only that, but I hated myself because I had ruined our friendship with my stupid feelings towards you.”

     Stupid feelings?

     Daehyun let go of me, but still had his arms on my waist. To be honest, I wasn’t sure why I wasn’t pushing him away or anything like that even though I still hated him. But, was I really even mad at this point? 

     “I still like you, Youngjae. A lot. But…I know you’re not going to reciprocate those feelings so all I’m asking for is…if you’re willing to be my friend again?”

     I still wasn’t able to make eye contact with him, so I continued to look down. What would I reply with? I mean, all he was asking for was to be friends, but would the atmosphere be the same as it was before? Hell, did I even want to be friends with him?

     I brought my head up and gazed at Daehyun. I stared from his eyes, nose, lips, cheeks, before averting back to his eyes. Biting my lip, I shut my eyes tightly. 

     “I don’t want to be friends.”

     Everything was quiet except for the sound of the waves coming in. Slowly, the arms around my waist were letting go, and it was making me feel rather cold. I still had my eyes closed.

     “Haha…I kind of guessed that,” he said, “but I still wanted to try.”

     “No, it’s not like that.”

     I clenched my fists. My eyes were still closed.

     “What?”

     “It’s not l-like that,” I repeated, my cheeks burning up, “because…I meant it as…I want to be more than just…f-friends.”

     That was it. That’s what I wanted to say and I finally ing did it. I had finally done what I wanted to do these past few weeks, and that was to confess my feelings to Daehyun. At the same time, I was strongly going against my parents. Would I regret it, though? Nah.

      I slowly opened my eyes, scared of what would happen next. And it was, indeed, frightening to my eyes. There, standing in front of me, was a stupid guy grinning from ear-to-ear; not knowing what the heck to do. Or it seemed like he was because he just kept staring at me with that weird smile on his face. Looking at him kind of made me regret what I had said. 

     “Hello? Earth to Daehyun?”

     He blinked his eyes, coming back to reality. He first looked at nothing in particular and then turned his head towards the raging waves. It took him a while to take in everything because he started pacing around. 

     “Oh my God,” he said when he looked at me, a smile forming once again. He stopped right in front of me, and placed his hands on my shoulders. I eyed his hands before quickly averting my eyes back at him. “This isn’t a dream, right? Like, I’m not in some ty love game where the character magically loves me, right?”

     I scrunched my face.

    “Uh, no, you’re not.”

     He sighed in relief. 

     “So this is real, right? Yoo Youngjae actually said he liked me, right?”

     I rolled my eyes because I was getting tired of this.

     “Oh my gosh, YES. YES, DAEHYUN,” I yelled, “I, YOO YOUNGJAE, HAVE CONFESSED MY DEEPEST, INNER FEELINGS TOWARDS YOU, JUNG DAEHYUN. THIS ISN’T A FREAKING LOVE GAME NOR IS IT A DAMN DREAM, BUT THE REAL . IT’S THE REAL DEAL.”

     “Are you sure?”

     I grunted, rolling my eyes in disbelief. 

     “You know, forget everything I sai-“

     I couldn’t even finish that sentence because the next thing I knew, Daehyun had pressed his lips on mine. Like the first time, his lips felt very soft and plump; quite entrancing. They were moving in sync with mine, and it felt so good to be kissing him. It got deeper, and without realizing it, Daehyun’s hands were sliding down from my shoulders to my waist. It felt nice having them there. I felt desperate and wanted more. I wrapped my arms around his neck, our mouths still connected and, God, did it feel so amazing. As Daehyun squeezed my waist, he gently bit my bottom lip, and I made the weirdest sound ever. 

     I was so in the moment, I didn’t even realize what the hell I actually did with Daehyun.

     Gasping, I removed my arms from his neck. My whole body was feeling hot and my cheeks were hardcore blushing. I pulled my hair back with my hands as I processed what happened a few seconds ago. 

     Without realizing, Daehyun pulled me closer to his chest and I made a squealing sound. 

     “What’s wrong? Is our little Youngjae feeling shy?”

     “Oh, shut up.”

     I covered my blushing face with my hands, not wanting to look Daehyun in the eyes. I had just made out with this guy, for crying out loud! 

     “You know, you’re a pretty good kisser.”

     “Stop!”

     “And that moan, , I didn’t expect that,” he said, laughing. “Save that for when we’re in an actual bedroom, though.”

     “Stop, Daehyun, oh my gosh!”

     “You’re so cute!”

     “Stop! Sto-AH!“

     He squeezed my waist once more, and I couldn’t stop myself from squealing. His laugh radiated through my ears, and I wanted to punch him in the face.

     “You’re the best thing that has entered my life, you know?”

     I scoffed, removing my hands from my face.

     “Are we going to have this emotional talk when we just got together a few minutes ago?”

     He shrugged his shoulders, and smiled.

     “Maybe. And did I just hear you say us getting together?”

     “Yes, you did. Why does everything I say surprise you so much?”

     “Because it’s you! It’s hard to believe you're the same Youngjae I met a few months ago. The ‘I hate you, Daehyun. Stop talking to me. Stop ditching, it’s bad for you. Blah, blah, blah!”

     I rolled my eyes, but couldn’t help to laugh at his failure in trying to impersonate me.

     “Well,” I started as I gazed into his eyes, “I’m the same Youngjae. I still hate you, and I don’t want you to talk to me and you need to stop ditching because it will hurt you.”

     Daehyun laughed before leaning closer. I widened my eyes a bit, my cheeks feeling warm once again. Seriously, what the hell.

     “Okay, boyfriend.”

     Wow, that word sounded foreign to me, but it still brought a smile to my lips and, to be honest, I liked the ring to it. 

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HAAAAAAAAAAAA AFTER FREAKING 23 CHAPTERS (two years oh gosh), DAEJAE HAVE FINALLY GOTTEN TOGETHER OMFG OTL LET US ALL CELEBRATE THIS WONDERFUL MOMENT BECAUSE IT FINALLY HAPPENED. THE MOMENT YOU GUYS HAVE WAITED FOR HAS FINALLY APPEARED! DAEJAE ARE TOGETHER.

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! I tried my best writing the makeout part lmao OTL I at writing kissing scenes sdkjfl IMAGINE ME WRITING LMAO that would be worst XD And I apologize for not updating at all even though I said I would OTL You guys probably don't trust me anymore when I say I'll update it frequently OTL I can't promise that after all these past times I've said it but haven't done it so I'm just going to say this~~ I'll still be writing this story, but my updates will be slow as always. BUT IM GOING TO CONTINUE WRITING THIS STORY BCUZ I DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP ON IT XD I love it too much, too, since it's an actual story where I had the whole story layed out and shiz sajkfsl Okay, enough of my babbling!

Let me know what you guys think! I'm curious what you guys felt AT THE EXACT MOMENT from when Youngjae confessed to the end!!! XD

Love you, my lovelies!!! Bye-bye! ^^