The more I see you
Strangely, the more I fall for you

-need you

"What are you doing here?" Jooheon was the first one to talk after a moment of dead silence.

"You lied to us," Changkyun said through his pursed lips. His face had gone to a shocked one, to an angry one then to a reluctant one.

Feeling manager Sehun staring at us even from the back of my head I pleaded, "Hyung, could we please go outside?"

They weren’t much amused, still they followed as I gestured Sehun to give me a minute.

The dark of the night embraced us as we stepped outside, a cold breeze rushed past. "Aunt is asking money from me, and I need to pay her like always," I said as fast as I could as if that could only get rid of all my pain.

"Like always?"  Jooheon was the first one to speak again. Changkyun, silent.

"... Yeah." There wasn’t much to explain, the words were stuck on my throat and I didn't even know what to say.

Probably that I wanted to get away from all this.

"We've been helping you from the very first and all you’ve been doing is lying," Changkyun muttered, finally. "All you do is lie!" he raised his voice this time.

Jooheon was flustered seeing him get angry all of a sudden but I knew what he was implying, I knew very well.

"Hyung you don't know-" Changkyun looked frustrated as he glanced between Jooheon and I. My heart stopped.

"Nevermind. I'm leaving, I got a headache," he said before he rushed on his feet. Leaving me and Jooheon there.

"What got into him," the latter said. "By the way, Minjae that wasn’t a very good explanation. Why are you working behind our backs, you could've told us if you needed money-"

"Hyung, please could you keep this a secret from the others?" I begged, the sound of my heart breaking was probably, audible.

Jooheon pushed his hands in his pants pocket. A minute after judging me with his eyes, he opened his mouth. "Okay."

And Changkyun had been ignoring me since that day.

I put my head over my knees, resting against a wall as a deep frustrated sigh leave my mouth. 

Changkyun avoiding me was awkward, it was making everyone wonder what happened too. 

Guess everyone would start feeling this way if they knew my bigger lie. All of them would act like that. It's surprising that Changkyun hadn't told anyone yet. I thought he would, considering how angry he was with me.

"Did you help the stuff cleaning the kitchen?"

I immediately knew who it was without even looking up. "Yes, I did."

"If you're done with your chores then you can go play video games with others. Why are you here?" I heard the sound of grass rustling, Kihyun took a sit beside me.

It's because Changkyun would leave if I joined them.

"Did anything happen?" He asked again. I wondered why he's the one always there, whenever, I felt sad and wanted to be alone.

I really wanted to sit alone here.

"You don't look like your usual self these days."

I pulled my head up from my knees and looked at him. He stared at my face then started laughing pointing his finger at me.

"Your eyes are all red. Don't tell me you were crying!"

"I was not!" I declared putting my head down again.

"A grown up boy crying like this." He kept on laughing by himself. Small giggles erupting from his mouth, agitating me and interrupting the peaceful place I wanted to be in. 

"Wonho hyung cries too. He cried watching a sad movie with us." I said in a muffled voice. Everyone cries. Crying is good sometimes. However, I never cry.

"He's a crybaby so he can be out of the category."

I stayed silent hoping that he would go away. But he didn't. "Hey," he suddenly called out, his voice soft.

"What?"

"Look at me."

I looked up and he was sitting quite close to me this time. He brought his hands closer to his face. "Ildeohagi ileun gwiyomi," he sang then showed me one finger of both his hands.

"Eeldeohagi eeneun gwiyomi" He showed two fingers bobbing his head by the sides.

Kihyun then sang the whole song, finishing off with kissing his fingertips and showing me his six fingers. At the ending he made a huge smile on his face like he just accomplished a big thing.

I watched his whole act with a blank face on. "You know you can't do good aegyo right, hyung?"

He gave me a disappointed look then made a scowl on his face. "Shut up!"

"You should learn from Jooheon hyung."

"Don't tell me you've started liking Jooheon instead of Shownu," playfully he said, making me frown.

"I don't like Shownu hyung that way!"

"Why are you lying to yourself?" He poked on my shoulder. "Hmm? Hmm?"

"Shut up hyung." I got back at him. "Did you just sing gwiyomi song for me because you thought I was sad?"

"No I didn't."

His cheeks turned red as he looked away clicking his tongue. "I just wanted to sing that song suddenly, that's why."

That's when let out the laughter, releasing myself since I'd been controlling it till now. He actually looked really cute singing like that. I wanted to squeeze his cheeks.

Even though I was laughing, my heart burned in the inside. Not only because of the disappointment coming from Changkyun but also because I was done, tired of working so much and still being unable satisfy anyone, me included. I was tired of keeping on the facade that I was okay.

When I left at the evening that day to work my shift at the cafe I really hoped I wouldn’t faint.

But I did.

My body could no longer take it and collapsed. Though only then did I realize, when I found myself at the back of the kitchen with my other co workers Hongbin and Suzy peering over me. My head feeling heavy, nauseated I still tried sitting up.

"You okay, man? We were scared," Hongbin's eyes were almost on the way of pouring out of his socket. "You suddenly fell like bam!" he was louder with making the impact of the sound.

"We were really concerned." Suzy said in her warm and milky voice, giving me my phone back. "So we called someone from your phone list."

"Byul?" I could hardly make my word audible.

"No, it was-"

"Are you alright?" a deep and husky voice, it couldn’t be...

"Mr. Changkyun? You're him right?" I saw Suzy standing up, so I looked over too despite my head almost feeling like it would fall off any second.

"Are you okay?" That's the first time he had spoken to me after a few days.

And then he came and grabbed my arm. "Stand up, we are going somewhere."

Was he still angry at me? Was he hating me? I looked at Suzy and hongbin as I stood up, helplessly but they were already bidding me bye.

Coming outside he lightly pushed me towards his car parked ahead. "Come on," he said.

"Your aunt, we are going to take care of that bitch."

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A/N: so far none of the ships has properly sailed. Who do you ship Minjae with the most?

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