You gasped as someone trapped your body between their arms and involuntarily you walked back in fast movement, causing your back met the wall. Because of sudden movement which made you surprised and scared, you shut your eyes tightly. You didn’t hear or feel anything for a moment except your heavy breathing, so slowly you opened your eyes to see the person who pinned you to the wall after you calmed down your heart rate. You let out the second gasp after finding a familiar face that only 30 centimeters away from your face. With your eyes widened, you were too shocked to even let out a single sound, so you were stuttering.

“Cha—Chanyeol?” you choked with a dry voice. Chanyeol didn’t make even a single movement, his eyes were gazing to yours without breaking contact and he shut his lips tight. Unintentionally, you gulped down as you felt the pressure. You didn’t want him to be too close to you because you couldn’t handle the awkward vibe after avoiding him the whole day. Well, you didn’t want to avoid him as well, but you had no choice since weirdly, Minkyung was always around you today. You felt Chanyeol’s gaze was softened, so you braved yourself to speak. “What is it?” you asked calmly.

“I guess we need to talk?” Chanyeol asked a leading question with his deep voice. His voice wasn’t louder than your voice, but it rang inside your ears.

Staring at him blankly, you realized that you forgot to discuss things about his plan and Minkyung after the school ended like you planned because you were too devastated over that deadly math quiz. Although you prepared the topic you wanted to talk with him, you couldn’t help but being surprised because he took initiative to find you although his intention might be different from yours. You could see that Chanyeol was clearly confused and concerned about something.

“What do you want to talk about?” you asked him back.

Chanyeol was closing the gap between your faces even more as he leaned forward, which trembled you. “About you avoiding me, like, the whole day?” he continued with sharp tone, then he removed his arms from the wall and stood straight. His action relieved you so much.

You sighed lowly. Chanyeol didn’t seem to understand why you were avoiding him all day long. Realizing that your thought was stupid, you mumbled inside. Of course he didn’t understand. If he understood, he wouldn’t search for you and demand an explanation.

“I have a reason,” you replied, trying not to waver too much. You your dry lips and stared straight into Chanyeol’s eyes with puppy eyes. “But why don’t we talk about this somewhere else? This place makes me uncomfortable,” you added with a trembled voice.

Chanyeol grinned as he sensed your fear because he found it cute. “You pick the place,” Chanyeol agreed coolly. “But not somewhere too crowded, okay?”

Ten minutes later, you and Chanyeol sat down on the furthest table from other customers inside a tteokbeokki restaurant. You didn’t like the original tteokbeokki because it was too spicy for you, but you could eat tteobeokki with cheese because it calmed the spiciness a bit. That was why before entering the restaurant, you bought milk at the minimarket nearby. This place was the only tteokbeokki shop you and Minkyung liked, not because it was more delicious than other shops, but because it was not too crowded inside. Cheese tteokbeokki was placed at the table by the ahjumma and you thanked her, so did Chanyeol.

“Minkyung and I always come here if we want to eat tteokbeokki,” you explained. “Sorry, I ordered the cheese tteokbeokki, the original one is too spicy for me.” You moved one of the milk cartons closer the Chanyeol.

Chanyeol smiled widely. “I can’t handle spicy as well! I was wondering why did you buy those milk, but now I can see that we have similar taste buds,” Chanyeol chimed. He picked one tteok and put it in his mouth carefully because it was still hot.

You followed him eating after made sure the milk was ready to be drunk if you couldn’t handle the spiciness. “Minkyung likes spicy so much,” you spoke. “She would be upset if I ordered the less spicy tteokbeokki when we eat together.”

Chanyeol swallowed the tteokbeokki inside his mouth. “I don’t know that twins could have many differences like that,” he commented.

You raised your shoulders lightly. “I don’t know, maybe… because we are fraternal twins? We’re not sharing genes that many like identical twins. We are more like sisters, not twins,” you explained. You asked that question to your mom once when you were still in elementary school, and your mom told you that explanation. Of course after explaining, she commented on how Minkyung was better than you in almost every single aspect.

Chanyeol nodded as he was listening. You took this chance to talk about what both of you wanted to talk earlier. “Are you still questioning the reason why I avoided you today?” you asked, put another tteok inside your mouth.

“Of course,” he answered, sounded firm. “Now, please explain.”

You gulped down the tteok and sipped the milk before explaining. “A