mblaq/after school ; you and me are not real
joon/lizzy ; pg ; 532 words
i want you to be the person i fell in love with
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30 days » day five » transformation.
she will never initiate the contact, she claims she’s too shy for that or that boyfriends are supposed to make the first move. he doesn’t mind it, because he will hold her hand and she will giggle, clasping her other hand around his arm and body moving closer to him shyly. other times she will laugh awkwardly, pulling her hand out of his hold as her body moves a few centimeters away from him.
he doesn’t know what he does wrong. he doesn’t know when it’s safe to act as her boyfriend and when it’s not.
“let’s go to that restaurant i was talking about last time,” joon mutters, arm around her shoulder and fingers fiddling with her hair.
“i don’t know, i’m busy,” she answers, moving so his arm slips off her shoulder.
after three months of dating, he figured out she was switching between lizzy and sooyoung. lizzy was the bright and loud girl, only up for friendly talks and friendly selcas. she didn’t like hand holding, or sharing kisses in an empty hallway. no, lizzy liked demanding for presents, ignoring him in front of her friends, claiming he was just a colleague friend. and then there was sooyoung, a shy and quiet girl, who whispered her confession to him and who send him cute text messages at night. she loved it when he would hold her hand and gave shy kisses on his cheek before he had to go on stage.
it was unfair of him to think like this, because he was joon and changsun too. but he liked to think he was at least a little better at being both people at the same time. it’s just that he had fallen in love with lizzy at first, but only because sooyoung was hiding just around the corner, personalities blending together every now and then. lately though, it has just been lizzy, it was as if sooyoung didn’t exist anymore.
“when will you have time?” he asks, a tremble in his voice.
“oh, we will find some empty place in my schedule. next month shouldn’t be so busy,” lizzy answers brightly, opening her bag to get her phone.
joon looks over and sees a photo of him and her as her background, taken on one of their first dates. his heart clenches painfully and it’s then that he realizes he isn’t ready to give up on her just yet.
“shouldn’t you update your background?” he says, pointing at the little screen. “we changed hairstyles and those clothes are so outdated. come on, let’s take a new photo.”
the look on her face softens and she smiles at him shyly. sooyoung.
“i…yes, let’s do that.”
his arm moves around her shoulder, softly pulling her closer to him until she fits just right under his arm. her head moves closer, soft hair brushing the side of his face and he chuckles as he feels the heat of her cheeks intensifying.
“one…two…three.”
and there it was. a new photo of sooyoung and changsun. a couple that was deeply in love. as long as there was still a little bit of the real them left, things would work out by itself. right.