Chapter 13 Supposed to be

Hanbin had been in a very good mood since the day Dahyun asked him to accompany her at a music concert. It was only Friday, but he was already pumping with anticipation for what is about to happen on Sunday. It might be just a junior requesting for senior’s help to Dahyun but to Hanbin, it was a progress. The only thing he needed to do was to find Yunhyeong for this day to be done and over, so he could sleep off the night and the next day and just wake up on Sunday. They were having a basketball wrapped up meeting for their training camp early next year that is why he was sweeping the campus looking for his hyung. The earlier they could start the meeting, the earlier for this day to be over.

But all the excitement he has left him in a blink of an eye when he finally saw Yunhyeong, whom on that time was being smothered by Chanwoo with a hug out in the open for all the student to see.

“What’s going on?” He asked in a deadly calm voice making the other two aware of his presence.

Yunhyeong was the first to react. Hanbin heard him say something to him but he only regarded him with a quick glance before he focused his glare back to Chanwoo whose arms still loosely draped around Yunhyeong.

“What’s going on?” He asked again.

Hanbin had the urge to just forcefully separate the two when Chanwoo just stared back at him with a confused expression, hating the fact that the he had been used to his glowering. It took Chanwoo a few seconds before he finally picked up the meaning behind his scowling face and he let go of Yunhyeong. Even so, Hanbin’s piercing stare never falter.

“Nothing. Chanwoo’s just being a big baby,” Yunhyeong answered for the two of them. Hanbin was totally displeased with the fond tone of his hyung’s voice more so when he ruffled Chanwoo’s hair. Yunhyeong turned to him, “What are you doing here? Are you looking for me?” He asked.

“We have a team meeting today, remember? Coach’s already waiting at the court,” was Hanbin’s terse reply as he glanced at Yunhyeong.

“Is that today? I thought it’s on next Friday.”

“C’mon hyung, let’s go,” Hanbin said, ignoring the remark. He grabbed his hyung by his wrist and pulled him in.

On that time, Hanbin did not know why he was only thinking of getting Yunhyeong away from Chanwoo as quickly as possible. He did not know why he was being so irrational and rude and why he doesn’t even care. He did not know why he was so relieved when he heard Yunhyeong said his goodbye. Most of all, Hanbin did not know why he was so furious, especially when Chanwoo hold them back by reaching out to Yunhyeong’s other hand.

It was good that Chanwoo was quick to let go and Hanbin instantly dragged Yunhyeong away before he could do something out of his unreasonable animosity towards the younger guy.  

“What’s on Sunday?” Hanbin asked as soon as they were out of earshot, pertaining to the last thing Yunhyeong said to Chanwoo before he towed him away.

“I’ll answer that if you tell me why are you so pissed off?”

Hanbin balked up a little. “What?”

Yunhyeong stopped, wiggling his wrist out of Hanbin’s hold and cocked his head. “What pissed you off today?”

Hanbin opened his mouth and clamped it shut quickly before he could correct the older guy for asking the wrong question. Because it’s not ‘what’, it should be, ‘who’.

***

“Sorry, sunbae.”

Hanbin blinked out of his stare at the falling snow when he heard the apologetic voice of Dahyun. She smiled shyly at his puzzled expression when he glanced at her.

“You must be thinking of someone you like.”

“What?”

Hanbin was baffled how Dahyun came to that conclusion. They were just watching the languid snow fall outside the building where they watched the classical concert. He looked at her incredulously, but she only giggled cutely at him as a response before she gazes at a distance.

“Sunbae looked so deep in thought a while ago like you’re remembering something,” Dahyun explained in a quiet voice. The amber glow of streetlights glittering with nostalgia on her eyes. “You must be thinking of being with someone you like. It’s the first snow after all. I apologize for dragging you today, Hanbin-sunbae,” Dahyun turned to him and bowed politely.

Panic and embarrassment automatically kicked in as Hanbin thought about how long had he looked lost with the snow that Dahyun assumed that he wished to be somewhere else. He waved off all Dahyun’s apologies and kept assuring her that she has nothing to be sorry about, that he was not thinking of being with someone he likes.

Because I’m already with someone I like.

“But you really look like—”

Shaking his head, Hanbin instantly held his hand up to cut his hoobae off, “Dahyun-ie, I told you it’s not like that, ok?”

Dahyun peered at him for a moment and nodded with a nervous smile as she tucked some strands of her hair behind her ear.

“I just feel strange,” Hanbin began after a moment, wanting to clear out the awkward silence that befall upon them. “As far as I remember I’m always with Yunhyeong hyung every first snow.”

“Every year? With Yunhyeong sunbae?”

“Yeah. At first, we think that it’s just lucky coincidences, but it goes on every year, from middle school to high school until last year, like we needed to be together for the first snow to fall as Jinhwan hyung joked about it,” Hanbin paused, chuckling wistfully. He held out his hand in front him, feeling he was catching all those memories with every piece of snow that landed on his gloved hands, wondering if Yunhyeong had his hand held out too, thinking about the same thing as he was. “I guess that’s not the case anymore. It was just coincidences after all…”

The nearby sound of the traffic drowned their