096. "I Like You. I Like You. I Like You." [100 SuJu Fic Challenge]
Title: Dares and Eternal Maknaes are Evil
Theme: “I like you. I like you. I like you.”
Pairing: Kyuhyun x Zhou Mi
Kyuhyun never thought he would say those words. He hated bluntly and openly expressing feelings for someone around others. He had his pride to withhold for goodness sake; he couldn’t get rejected in front of all those people. He could say “I love you” and mean it, but he simply couldn’t say “I like you.” “Like” was such a childish word. He was a grown man and he still had to use “like.” “Like” because he was dared to. Dared by that evil little boy of an eternal maknae.
“You have to follow this dare exactly,” Ryeowook had instructed him, “word for word.”
Kyuhyun, being the oblivious real maknae he was, just agreed, not willing to back down because of the height of his pride.
“Keep saying, ‘I like you’ to him until he says ‘I like you’ back. Nothing else. He has to say those words exactly and so do you.”
Kyuhyun had wrinkled his nose in disgust. “Like? That’s such an obsolete word.” Ryeowook just ignored him and pranced away.
Not only does he have to say “I like you,” but until Zhou Mi says those exact words back.
So he finds himself hanging around Zhou Mi, muttering those words over and over. “What?” The person the phrase was directed to was genuinely confused.
“I like you...r hair.”
“Aw, Kui Xian, you’re such a sweetie! You noticed I’ve been using new conditioner, haven’t you?”
“I like you.”
“Thanks, Kui Xian.”
“I like you.”
“You can stop saying that now.”
“I like you.”
The older raised an eyebrow. “Oh; so you want an appropriate response? ‘Kay, Kui Xian. I love you too I guess.”
Kyuhyun face-palmed. “So close. Just say ‘I like you’ already, or I’ll have to repeat those words to you for the rest of my life!”
“That sounds like a good idea. I’ll be able to hear you confess your undying feelings for me for as long as I live.”
“Oh no... I like you.”
“Now start confessing!”
“...I like you.”