Eunhyuk threw a glance at the coffee shop across the street for the umpteenth time that night. He then checked the time and sighed loudly. He had been repeating those actions for the past half an hour. He tried listening to the radio, but the songs just bored him. He tried playing with games in his iPad, but he grew tired of them. Then he picked up the novel that he bought 6 months ago, but he had been stuck on the same page for the past 15 minutes. Which was page 1.

"God, I hate waiting!" Eunhyuk yelled at nothing in particular and threw the novel to the backseat of his car.

He groaned and ran his fingers through his thick black hair out of frustration. Why he agreed to meet Ahreum after her night shift at the coffee shop was beyond his understanding. What was I thinking? Why did I let her boss me around?!

Well, actually, she didn't, his consciousness said. It had appeared more frequently lately since he started dating Ahreum. He hated it when his consciousness telling him the the exact opposite opinion. But, as musch as he hated to admit it, it always said the truth.

Ahreum told Eunhyuk earlier that day that she took the night shift at her part-time job and that she would go straight to his dorm after. Eunhyuk just replied her call with a simple 'okay'. But not until he finished his schedules that he finally realized how dark it was outside. The clock showed that it was almost 10 pm.

He had asked Sungmin what time would Ahreum get off from the night shift once they had returned safely to the dorm. And the answer made him go straight to the basement to get his car and drove away. It wasn't until 10 minutes after driving that he finally called Sungmin to ask him the address of the coffee shop. Only a fool would drive with no clear destination.

"A fool in love, perhaps?" Sungmin and laughed. Eunhyuk didn't bother to answer him and just hung up the phone abruptly.

And now there he was. Sitting inside his car which was parked right across the coffee shop with nothing to do or no one to talk to.

She would finish at 11. 11 o'clock. 11 pm. 11 freakin' pm!!! What was she thinking?! Taking the bus to my dorm this late at night? With burglars and erts on her tail?

Eunhyuk puffed his cheeks and furrowed his eyebrows. First he got worried and drove to her right away, but then he felt like he overreacted and she didn't deserve his attention and time.

Woah, I got serious mood-swing, he thought to himself.

Eunhyuk finally decided to get out of his car and just dragged her out of the coffee shop if he had to. He pulled his hoodie higher to cover his head and put his hands inside his jacket's pockets before he crossed the street.

He hesitated for a while as he put his hand on the door's handle. But he just shook his head and opened the door a little too harsh for his liking.

A bell sound that was placed above the door could be heard as he stood in front of the shop and scanned for an empty seat. Some people threw him a strange look, but he could care less about them and just walked straight to an empty table for one at a corner, beside a brick wall with a huge board hung above it.

Eunhyuk sat at the wooden chair and took a look at all the notes, post-its, poetry, pictures, photos, and many more stuck to the board. People from all over the world who visited the coffeshop had made sure that they left something behind.

Nice concept, Eunhyuk nodded slowly.

"Good evening, welcome to the Coffee Republic. Do you wanna place your order now?" Suddenly a really familiar voice spoke from beside him.

Eunhyuk quickly turned his head around to find the girl that had been messing with his head for the past week was standing right beside him while busy writing something down on her note and placed the menu on his table.

Eunhyuk mouth was slightly opened as he observed Ahreum from head to toe. She looked so cute in her waitress uniform. She was wearing a tight plain white t-shirt with a black rample skirt that reached the middle of her thighs. She wore black stockings underneath it and a pink pair of flat shoes. A cute small pink lacy apron was draped around her waist to finish the look.

It was amazing how she could look so beautiful with a simple uniform like that. Her hair was tied in a high ponytail, making her look even more adorable.

Eunhyuk just smiled as he watched her who was totally oblivious of his presence.

Eunhyuk stiffled his laughter and opened the menu. He pretended to read the menu for a while before he ordered, "Can I get... one Lee Ahreum?" He glanced up at her with a mischievous smile playing on his face.

Ahreum automatically wrote down his order on her note. "Okay. One Lee Ahreum coming right- Wait, what?" she suddenly stopped writing and finally tore her eyes away from her note.

A small gasp left as her eyes met his. "Oppa?!" she whispered to him in disbelief.

Eunhyuk laughed  seeing her doe eyes got even bigger. "Are you expecting someone else?"

"I'm actually expecting nobody." Ahreum let out an amused laugh. "I thought we're meeting at your dorm?"

"Change of plan." Eunhyuk casually shrugged his shoulder. "What time do you finish?" He pretended not to know about it yet.

Ahreum glanced at her watch. "Soon."

"Good. You better get back to work, your boss is throwing you deadly glares as we speak." Eunhyuk smirked as he eyed her boss who was watching her from behind the counter.

"Shoot! I'll finish off soon, oppa. See you in a bit," Ahreum smiled and quickly went to another table to take their orders.

Eunhyuk was just reading the notes on the board when suddenly a waiter placed a cup of hot chocolate and a slice of strawberry cheesecake on his table.

"Enjoy, sir," the waiter smiled and left as quickly as he came.

Eunhyuk furrowed his eyebrows in confuse. But then he realized that it must be Ahreum who sent him those. He smiled whistfully and drink the hot chocolate gratefully.

Ahreum put on her coat and let her hair fell down naturally. She smiled at her reflection in the mirror, which only happened like once in a century. She felt so much happier than she usually was.

Eunhyuk was there. Eunhyuk was at her work place and he had been waiting patiently for her for the past 20 minutes. She understood then, how happy those co-workers of hers everytime their boyfriends showed up at the coffee shop and picked them home after a long tiring day of work. She used to think those kind of things were overrated.

Ahreum said goodnights to her fellow co-workers and bowed slightly to her boss before exiting the staffs' room. She swept her gaze across the room just to find the table that was formerly occupied by her boyfriend was then empty. She turned her gaze to the door and saw him leaning by the window outside of the shop. Ahreum smiled and excitedly made her way out.

"Sorry I took so long," Ahreum nudged him playfully on the arm once she was outside and stood facing him.

Eunhyuk smiled and pushed himself from the window he was leaning on. "Apology not accepted." Eunhyuk as he walked away from the shop and left her behind, dumbfounded.

"Are you sulking?" Ahreum managed to catch him up and laughed.

"What am I? A ten year old?" Eunhyuk laughed and pulled her closer. He casually draped his arm around her shoulder and inhaled the fresh scent of her hair.

Ahreum smiled and nuzzled her face slightly on the crook of his neck. "Ten? Try three."

"Yah!" Eunhyuk protested and tickled her waist, hoping to find her sensitive spot. And he did. He smiled victorously as he felt Ahreum stiffened right away and let out a surprised laugh.

Ahreum immediately put a distance between the two of them and narrowed her eyes menacingly at him. "Don't.do.that.again. Ever."

Eunhyuk smirked as he intertwined their fingers together. "I won't if you behave~" he sang mockingly at her.

Ahreum let out a little laugh as her gaze fixed on the pavement underneath. She could feel her cheek starting to heat up as the result of their fingers laced to one another. She was glad that Eunhyuk was starting to warm up towards her. However, she couldn't shake the feeling that he was only doing that out of pity. He was only doing that because she asked him to treat her nicely, as if she was his real girlfriend.

Once again, the harsh reality hit her. Everything was merely a lie.

Eunhyuk realized that she had suddenly became quiet. Well, she had always been quiet, but it was a different type of silence. His eyebrows furrowed and he was starting to think that she didn't like the skinship that he had initiated towards her. Is holding hands way over the line? , I didn't even ask her first! Eunhyuk mentally cursed himself for being so reckless.

"Ahreum-ah," Eunhyuk called her with a soft voice.

"Mhm?" Ahreum turned her gaze towards him.

"Do you not like it if I hold your hand like this?" Eunhyuk asked her in worry.

Ahreum eyes widened as she frantically waved with her free hand. "No!" Now it was Eunhyuk's eyes that got two times bigger than usual. Ahreum realized the bi-standard her answer had created and quickly corrected herself. "I mean, yes! Yes, I like it when you hold my hand," then she realized once again that she sounded way too excited.

Her cheeks were turning red and it looked way too obvious against her pale white skin.

Eunhyuk laughed hard and put their intertwined hands inside his jacket pocket. "It's so fun teasing you," he flashed his adorable gummy smile at her.

Ahreum pouted slightly as she tried to change the subject. "Where are we going?"

Eunhyuk raised an eyebrow with an amused look on his face. "You stole my line."

Ahreum rolled her eyes at his statement. "I was going to come by your dorm and cook dinner for you. But now that you have decided to pick me up instead, I don't have anything planned for us to do."

Eunhyuk nodded as he was racking his brain for some ideas. "Oh! I heard there are plenty of great street performances around this area. Do you wanna watch them?" Eunhyuk glanced at Ahreum excitedly. He had always want to catch those performances, but he never had the time to. "We can buy some snacks and watch them perform. What do you say?"

Ahreum tried to hold in a smile that was threatening to surface. But she failed and her eyes turned to crescent-moon shape once again. "Sure, let's do that. But I can't stay out for too long, I need to rehearse my lines for the drama."

Ahreum was beyond happy that Eunhyuk was willing to pitch in some ideas for their date. He was taking her somewhere where he had always wanted to go. And it meant a lot for her.

Ahreum ate her cotton candy as she skipped down the street happily. Her eyes scanned at all the amazing performances on either side of the streets. Some of them were singing, some were doing impromptu drama, and some others were either playing musical instrument, or dancing.

Eunhyuk, was of course, interested in the dancing performance the most. They stopped by a group of youngsters having a dance battle against each other. Ahreum glanced at Eunhyuk and found him watching them with deep interest. His head was nodding along to the rhythm of the music and his hands were making small moves which she bet would look totally awesome if he did it for real.

Ahreum took a bite of her cotton candy and kicked Eunhyuk's leg playfully. "Don't you wanna join them?"

Eunhyuk laughed and bumped her arm lightly in return. "What are you talking about?"

"Go out there and show them your killer moves!" Ahreum retorted and did some silly poppin' moves.

Eunhyuk laughed even harder. He took her hand and once again intertwined their fingers together. "Silly Ahreum," he smiled affectionately at her.

"Are you not in the mood to dance?" Ahreum tilted her head in confuse as Eunhyuk dragged her away from the crowd.

Eunhyuk shook his head and smiled wryly. "No, I'll just ruin the atmosphere."

Ahreum furrowed her eyebrows questioningly. "What? Why?"

Eunhyuk let out a heavy sigh and glanced down at her. "Most of the street dancers don't really appreciate dancers from idol groups. They think we're overrated because we came from a big company who helped us gain recognition," Eunhyuk let out a dry chuckle and continued, "They think we don't deserve to carry out the title of the dancing machine of the group."

Ahreum chewed on her cotton candy and stated in her signature blank expression, "Stupid jealous idiots."

"What?" Eunhyuk's eyes widened and his mouth was slightly opened due to her calm yet stabbing words.

"You're the most awesome dancer an idol group could possibly have," Ahreum stated calmly. "From what I saw just now, they are nowhere near you."

"You amaze me sometimes," Eunhyuk said in awe.

Ahreum pouted slightly at his words. "I'm just stating the fact." They unconciously had stopped walking and stared at each other in the eyes.

Eunhyuk felt a string of his heart was being tugged by her. He pulled her closer to his body as he put his hand on the back of her head and the other on her waist. He rested his chin on top of her head and once again inhaled her sweet scent. "My adorable number 1 fans," He whispered at her with a smile.

Ahreum's cheek had turned crimson as she stood there awkwardly, not knowing what to do. Her head was burried against his chest and she couldn't help but got a little lost at his warmth. She finally rested her free hand against his chest and turned her head slightly upwards to meet his eyes.

Ahreum stared at him with her confuse big round eyes and slightly bit her lower lip. Eunhyuk thought she looked so adorable, like a lost puppy.

His hands were now both tangled behind her waist, securing her in place. He was afraid she would somehow leave him out and cold. He leaned in closer and rested his forehead against hers. Her eyes were just too captivating.

His eyes wandered to her lips as he whispered, "Do you have to go now? Can't you stay just a bit longer?"

Eunhyuk was unconciously in need to have her around. He was getting used by her presence. He would sometimes wish the day would end sooner so he could get a glimpse of her breathtaking beauty. But as his usual stubborn self, he wouldn't admit it. Not even to himself.

His lips hovered above hers, tempting her to sealed them together. She stared back at his mesmerizing brown eyes and slowly nodded.

Eunhyuk grinned happily, showing her his adorable gummy smile. He took her hand and excitedly led their way across the street. He turned his head from left to right, trying to find an interesting performance.

Ahreum laughed at his sudden excited attitude. She threw away the cotton candy as she finally starting to get sick of it. She followed Eunhyuk foot steps and they walked leisurely side by side.

Eunhyuk stopped abruptly in front of a group of crowd that was surrounding a young boy and a young girl. The boy held a guitar in hand as the girl sat in a chair with a small smile on her face. They seemed to be a couple as the boy kissed the girl's forehead before they started the performance.

Strings of melody were heard as the boy started to play his guitar. The girl sang moments later with her soft captivating voice. 

Eunhyuk glanced to his side and found Ahreum was focusing all of her attention to the performance with a small smile playing on her face. As the performance went on, the crowd was starting to get bigger.

Eunhyuk swiftly moved behind Ahreum and placed his hands on either side of her waist. He was afraid that she would get pushed around by the people who were trying to get a better view of the performance.

The couple went on to perform another heart-wrenching ballad song. Eunhyuk slowly moved his hands from either side of her waist to the front of her body. He circled his hands around her petite frame, hugging her from behind.

Ahreum was startled with the sudden change of his hands' placement. She tilted her head slightly upwards to questioned him, but his eyes were fixed at the couple who was performing in front of them.

As the song kept on playing and the chilly yet refereshing night air surrounded them, Ahreum decided to just enjoy the moment. She sighed contentedly and rested the back of her head against his warm broad chest.

Eunhyuk could feel that Ahreum was starting to relax in his arms. He smiled to himself and kissed the top of her head. Ahreum put her hands above his and squeezed them lightly.

Before they knew it, another song has ended. The couple started to prepare for their last song of the day when suddenly the boy whispered something to the girl. The girl seemed to like whatever it was the boy was suggesting cause she was smiling widely and trying to stiffled her giggles.

Not long after, the boy starting to play his guitar once again to a melody that was strangely familiar to Eunhyuk. Huh? I've heard this before... 

"This is going to be our last song for today," the girl announced and the crowd murmurred in disappointment. "You guys have been an amazing crowd tonight. Thank you," the girl smiled as she eyed the crowd. Her eyes spotted Eunhyuk and Ahreum. She smiled brightly and continued, "This song is called 'Falling Slowly'. And it's dedicated to the cute couple over there," she laughed and pointed at Eunhyuk and Ahreum. "Enjoy."

Eunhyuk and Ahreum was momentarily in shock with the sudden event. The girl's voice blended perfectly with the boy's guitar and created a perfect harmony.

I don't know you but I want you... All the more for that.

Ahreum let out a little laugh at what just happened earlier. She was really happy that the girl named them as 'the cute couple'. So we do look like a couple, huh? I wonder if he thought about this kind of things too... Am I allowed to be this happy?

But suddenly, she felt his arms hugged her tighter from behind. Ahreum tilted her head upward to meet his eyes. "What's wrong? Are you cold?"

Eunhyuk just stared blankly straight to her eyes. He leaned his face down and nuzzeled his cheek against hers. He then kissed her cheek gently and lingered there for a while. He closed his eyes and kissed her cheek a couple more times affectionately.

Ahreum's grip on his hands tightened as she felt her heart was beating rapidly. But what was more surprising, she could also feel his heart thumping loudly against his chest. As if it was about to burst any moment then.

Eunhyuk was tired of always second guessing his heart. So that night, he once again let his heart won against his mind. Ahreum just fit so perfectly in his arms, as if she was made just for him.

Have I gotten too carried away? All of this should merely be an act, right? Eunhyuk thought bitterly to himself.

He felt her soft skin against his lips and he couldn't help but to gave her another chaste kiss. Stop messing with my head...

Ahreum closed her eyes as her insides tight in knots. She felt warm, protected, yet confused. Her heart sank a little as she realized that she had fallen deeper for the man.

Eunhyuk trailed kisses from her cheek to her ear. He then answered her previous question with a soft whisper,

"No, not anymore."

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