I shook my head to indicate, “It’s nothing,” and looked away. “Ooh, look at you two!” Tao exclaimed. “You guys already can’t keep your eyes off each other, eh? Getting along already? Nice!”

“It’s not like that! We just happened to look at each other at the same time!” I argue. “Please don’t get the wrong idea. Tell them, Xiumin!”

I asked Xiumin to back up my story but he looked away without saying anything.

back to story.