A line i read from a book.
Characters: Sue Yin/ Hyunseung
Genre: Lighthearted romance Oneshot
What if you were in love with your best friend all along, but never realized it until you’ve actually lost that person, completely unreachable.
I read that line of the book over and over again, somehow being drawn to that line. It was like I have an attachment to it, probably because it’s the only thing interesting in the story book that I was reading. If not that line, the book would have been completely dull and utterly boring.
After reading that line a couple of times, I hear my phone ringing. I got up from my bed, exasperated and headed towards my phone, which was probably a text message from either Leanne or Alya. Turned out it was a text message from Hyunseung.
Hey! Can you come to the park for a while?
Hyunseung and I have been best friends since, forever. We practically did everything together (with the exception after meeting Alya and Leanne because now we all do practically everything together) and know each other in and out. We only live next to each other, so sometimes we would talk to each other through our window or maybe throw the occasional water balloon at each other’s room like an atom bomb was dropped. This is how we roll.
I found it kind of weird that he bothered to text me, because all he needed to do was ring my doorbell, since the park is right outside our house. But Hyunseung is weird in his own funny way. He doesn’t know it, but sometimes I spy at him dancing and singing, doing the air guitar occasionally. And I’ve snapped a couple of pictures just in case I might need them to black mail him into doing something for me. Evil, I know.
Immediately went to the park after i got his text. Saw the tall skinny figure sitting by the wooden bench, seemingly staring off into the field. I jumped right in front of him and shouted “BOO!”
He wasn’t surprised at all. He looked at me with his droopy eyes, “As if that could scare me.” and proceeded to sticking his tongue out. I placed myself right next to him and stared at him.
“If you asked me to come all the way out here from my room to tell me you need to fart, I am going to slap your face so hard, you’d have to go home crying and beg for my forgiveness afterwards. And I will scorn you until you’ll have no face to see anyone else ever again.”
“But I really need to fart. Reeeeeeeeeal bad!” he smirked.
“Go fart in your own face!”
“Can I fart in yours?”
I just stared at him, trying to give my death glare, but failed because I had so much urge to just burst out laughing. Then he proceeded to place his ass so near to my face, I swore that if he ever farted, I will bury him alive.
“Seriously, what’s up?” I asked after all the laughter had died down.
And then he suddenly got so serious. I’ve never seen him so serious before. He was always the clown, the one to joke around. But from the looks of his face, he was dead serious. And it terrified me a little on the inside.
“Have you ever confessed to anyone before?” He suddenly asked
I looked at him, dumbfounded for a moment. Was Hyunseung asking me tips on how to confess to a girl?
“Nope, because I never liked anyone before.” I answered him honestly, because I really haven’t liked anyone before.
“Oh,” He gave a small sigh “But, how would you react if someone confessed to you?”
I thought about it for a moment. I’ve got a couple of guys who confessed to me before, but I usually always brush them off because I never had feelings for them. But I thought really hard on how to construct my answer for Hyunseung because I wouldn’t want him to lose hope to whoever he was gonna confess to. “Well, I’ll think about whether I have feelings for the guy. If I do, then I’ll probably… accept the thing? Sorry, I’m not really good at this.”
Hyunseung proceeded to pat on my back, really hard by the way, while bellowing away with laughter. ‘You’re so hilarious Sue Yin!”
“What was so hilarious about that?!” I asked in defence.
“You’re so… innocent. Pure little Sue Yin.” For reasons unknown, he started pouting his lips. Maybe that’s his idea of a pure image.
“SHUT UP YOU FREAK. YOU’VE JUST WASTED MY PRECIOUS TIME. GOODBYE.” I stomped off without looking back, heading straight to my house. I didn’t bother looking back because I can still hear him laughing even after I’m back in my room with the doors shut. What an idiot.
The next day I had a sleepover at Leanne’s place, and we all ordered pizza’s and stayed in Leanne cozy little room to eat and chit chat. Then, I brought up the Hyunseung topic.
“He really asked you that?” Leanne asked with her mouth full of pizza, bit literally flying off from her mouth as she spoke.
“Ewww! Leanne! Please close your mouth while you chew and talk when you swallowed everything in! A piece of pizza just flew in my eye!” Alya complained.
Leanne took a big gulp, “SORRY!”
“GUYS, CAN WE GET BACK TO TOPIC?” Sue Yin said exasperated.
“Well, I don’t really see a problem. Hyunseung is one of the most popular guys in school. Any girl would swoon over him. I don’t think he’ll even need to confess!” Alya said.
“I know right! Girls would just give themselves up to him.” Leanne chipped in.
“Which he would gladly accept, knowing the perverted bastard he is.” I made a disgusting sound.
“Who knows? Maybe he wanted to confess to you? Since you gave that reply, he didn’t have the gut to come forth with the truth? Or maybe he was testing you, just before he pulls out the real thing.” Alya said dreamily while lying down on her matress.
I was quite surprised at that comment. I sat straight and looked at Leanne, hoping she felt the same way as I do about what Alya said being completely absurd. But Leanne nodded her head in agreement.
I looked at them dumbfounded for a moment. “Guys, you can’t be serious. Hyunseung would never have feelings like that for me.” Or could he? “Besides, he literally treats me as his little brother, so whatever you guys are saying is absurd!” Or not?
Having a mind battle with myself isn’t easy. But I’ve decided to dismiss that feeling because I KNOW it’s not true. Hyunseung will never look at me that way, and neither do i. Oh really?
It was getting really frustrating.
The next day, we all went to school like any ordinary day. I managed to put aside the thought and managed to go on with the day quite normally in fact. Until the end of school.
Alya, Leanne and I were walking out of school, wanting to have some snacks for teatime at a nearby café and just chit chat away. At the school gate, I saw Hyunseung waiting over there. I looked at him and he seemed sort of happy to see me. He immediately came running to me, with somewhat of a nervousness I saw in his face. I was aware of the amount of people around us and what Alya and Leanne thought might have been true. I braced myself.
“Hey Sue Yin!” He said quite happily.
“Hello douchebag.” I said coldly.
“Ouch.” And proceeded to punch me in the arm.
It’s okay, he’s punching me in the arm. It’s brotherly love, not that sort of feeling.
“I gotta go man, need to grab something to eat with Alya and Leanne. I’ll talk to you at home.” I tried to get out of there as soon as possible, but it seemed as I was too late.
“Wait! Sue Yin,” He took a deep breath and a big gulp. “-look there.” He pointed at the back of me.
I turned around, and my eyes literally bulged out from its socket. Hanging off the school wall, a huge, gigantic poster saying Hyunseung loves Sue Yin.
I couldn’t think at that moment. My mind was too fuzzled. Hyunseung looking at me, hoping for an approval. Alya and Leanne looking at me, full of hope and glee. I can only tell there was terror in my face. The whole school was looking at me, looking for an answer. But I couldn’t, because I don’t have an answer. I broke into a run, pushing aside people, wanting to get out of that place as fast as possible. It was a nightmare, only I’m awake to experience it all.
When I got home, I immediately ran into my room, locked the door behind me and screamed into my pillow, with tears flowing out. I don’t know whether was I embarrassed or just refusing to accept the truth. Because never in my life would I have thought Hyunseung would have feleings like that for me. Was I happy? Sad? Angry? Or just plain confused. But I think I was just plain surprised because again, Hyunseung liking me seemed like a distant reality.
But thinking about it, Hyunseung and I have been so close, because many would often mistake us as couples. I don’t blame them. We practically did everything together. We ride our bikes together, play video games either at his place or mine, anything you could think of.
Which made me think, do I have the same feelings for him? What exactly can explain that my heart silently skips a beat whenever I saw his smile, him being dorky, weird but still lovable. And he makes me laugh, my real laugh, not those where I control my laughter just to not get embarrassed. But I decided to lay it off and forget about it.
I completely ignored Hyunseung, for a few weeks in fact. And he seemed fine with it too, since he’s acting as though I never existed. Which was fine by me, because I can’t possibly return those feelings he has for me.
“Are you sure you’re fine with it?” Alya asked in class.
“Yeah… you seem really down these past few weeks.” Leanne chipped in.
“Yeah. I think it’s better that way.” I replied looking at neither of them, just to hide the sorrow in my eyes.
I missed Hyunseung. I missed walking with him to school everyday. I missed us talking through our windows. Our game day together. His lame jokes. His goofiness. Him.
Then it hit me. The line to the book that I was reading that day. About how you could be in love with your bestfriend all along, just had to lose them to make you realize. I mean, what could explain me missing him, the emptiness I felt without him, about how my heart skips a beat whenever the sight of him smiling came. I was in love with him all along.
When I got home that day, I went to his house and rang the doorbell multiple times, but no one seemed to be home. So I ran up to my room and sat by my window until he came back. After waiting for a couple of hours, I heard some noises from his room. I peeked over and saw that he had just came back. I took a deep breathe, it was either now or never.
“HYUNSEUNG!” I shouted from my window. He couldn’t hear me.
“HYUNSEUNGGGGGGG!” I shouted a few more times.
After my 10th or so attempt, he heard me. He gave me the typical ‘you weird’ Hyunseung look, because I would find it weird myself because I haven’t talked to him nor looked at him for weeks. He proceeded to opening his windows and gave me a long stare.
“Are you really Sue Yin? You just shouted for me and you haven’t talked to me in weeks. Weird much?” He raised an eyebrow.
My heart was racing at that very moment. My mind went blank. I couldn’t possibly think of anything. I just stared, giving him the bewildered look.
“Hello? Blur much?” He stuck his tongue out.
I took a deep breath and did the unthinkable.
“I….. I…. I LOVE YOU!” I stammered and shouted. I shut my eye tight, not willing to see the look on his face. But slowly, I lifted my eyelid, and saw him grinning, evil-ly. A cunning smile.
“You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting for you to say that.” Then, he took a few steps back, ran and jumped. I screamed and moved aside, not wanting him to fall over because I was in the way. I heard a loud thud and saw him kneeling on the floor.
“DON’T EVER DO THAT AGAIN! YOU GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK!” I shouted at him.
He came up to me, without uttering a single word, took me in his arms, stared at me for a moment and proceeded to plant his lips on mine.
It was the best feeling ever.
I did my best! Sorry if it's so sucky! :(
Genre: Lighthearted romance Oneshot
What if you were in love with your best friend all along, but never realized it until you’ve actually lost that person, completely unreachable.
I read that line of the book over and over again, somehow being drawn to that line. It was like I have an attachment to it, probably because it’s the only thing interesting in the story book that I was reading. If not that line, the book would have been completely dull and utterly boring.
After reading that line a couple of times, I hear my phone ringing. I got up from my bed, exasperated and headed towards my phone, which was probably a text message from either Leanne or Alya. Turned out it was a text message from Hyunseung.
Hey! Can you come to the park for a while?
Hyunseung and I have been best friends since, forever. We practically did everything together (with the exception after meeting Alya and Leanne because now we all do practically everything together) and know each other in and out. We only live next to each other, so sometimes we would talk to each other through our window or maybe throw the occasional water balloon at each other’s room like an atom bomb was dropped. This is how we roll.
I found it kind of weird that he bothered to text me, because all he needed to do was ring my doorbell, since the park is right outside our house. But Hyunseung is weird in his own funny way. He doesn’t know it, but sometimes I spy at him dancing and singing, doing the air guitar occasionally. And I’ve snapped a couple of pictures just in case I might need them to black mail him into doing something for me. Evil, I know.
Immediately went to the park after i got his text. Saw the tall skinny figure sitting by the wooden bench, seemingly staring off into the field. I jumped right in front of him and shouted “BOO!”
He wasn’t surprised at all. He looked at me with his droopy eyes, “As if that could scare me.” and proceeded to sticking his tongue out. I placed myself right next to him and stared at him.
“If you asked me to come all the way out here from my room to tell me you need to fart, I am going to slap your face so hard, you’d have to go home crying and beg for my forgiveness afterwards. And I will scorn you until you’ll have no face to see anyone else ever again.”
“But I really need to fart. Reeeeeeeeeal bad!” he smirked.
“Go fart in your own face!”
“Can I fart in yours?”
I just stared at him, trying to give my death glare, but failed because I had so much urge to just burst out laughing. Then he proceeded to place his ass so near to my face, I swore that if he ever farted, I will bury him alive.
“Seriously, what’s up?” I asked after all the laughter had died down.
And then he suddenly got so serious. I’ve never seen him so serious before. He was always the clown, the one to joke around. But from the looks of his face, he was dead serious. And it terrified me a little on the inside.
“Have you ever confessed to anyone before?” He suddenly asked
I looked at him, dumbfounded for a moment. Was Hyunseung asking me tips on how to confess to a girl?
“Nope, because I never liked anyone before.” I answered him honestly, because I really haven’t liked anyone before.
“Oh,” He gave a small sigh “But, how would you react if someone confessed to you?”
I thought about it for a moment. I’ve got a couple of guys who confessed to me before, but I usually always brush them off because I never had feelings for them. But I thought really hard on how to construct my answer for Hyunseung because I wouldn’t want him to lose hope to whoever he was gonna confess to. “Well, I’ll think about whether I have feelings for the guy. If I do, then I’ll probably… accept the thing? Sorry, I’m not really good at this.”
Hyunseung proceeded to pat on my back, really hard by the way, while bellowing away with laughter. ‘You’re so hilarious Sue Yin!”
“What was so hilarious about that?!” I asked in defence.
“You’re so… innocent. Pure little Sue Yin.” For reasons unknown, he started pouting his lips. Maybe that’s his idea of a pure image.
“SHUT UP YOU FREAK. YOU’VE JUST WASTED MY PRECIOUS TIME. GOODBYE.” I stomped off without looking back, heading straight to my house. I didn’t bother looking back because I can still hear him laughing even after I’m back in my room with the doors shut. What an idiot.
The next day I had a sleepover at Leanne’s place, and we all ordered pizza’s and stayed in Leanne cozy little room to eat and chit chat. Then, I brought up the Hyunseung topic.
“He really asked you that?” Leanne asked with her mouth full of pizza, bit literally flying off from her mouth as she spoke.
“Ewww! Leanne! Please close your mouth while you chew and talk when you swallowed everything in! A piece of pizza just flew in my eye!” Alya complained.
Leanne took a big gulp, “SORRY!”
“GUYS, CAN WE GET BACK TO TOPIC?” Sue Yin said exasperated.
“Well, I don’t really see a problem. Hyunseung is one of the most popular guys in school. Any girl would swoon over him. I don’t think he’ll even need to confess!” Alya said.
“I know right! Girls would just give themselves up to him.” Leanne chipped in.
“Which he would gladly accept, knowing the perverted bastard he is.” I made a disgusting sound.
“Who knows? Maybe he wanted to confess to you? Since you gave that reply, he didn’t have the gut to come forth with the truth? Or maybe he was testing you, just before he pulls out the real thing.” Alya said dreamily while lying down on her matress.
I was quite surprised at that comment. I sat straight and looked at Leanne, hoping she felt the same way as I do about what Alya said being completely absurd. But Leanne nodded her head in agreement.
I looked at them dumbfounded for a moment. “Guys, you can’t be serious. Hyunseung would never have feelings like that for me.” Or could he? “Besides, he literally treats me as his little brother, so whatever you guys are saying is absurd!” Or not?
Having a mind battle with myself isn’t easy. But I’ve decided to dismiss that feeling because I KNOW it’s not true. Hyunseung will never look at me that way, and neither do i. Oh really?
It was getting really frustrating.
The next day, we all went to school like any ordinary day. I managed to put aside the thought and managed to go on with the day quite normally in fact. Until the end of school.
Alya, Leanne and I were walking out of school, wanting to have some snacks for teatime at a nearby café and just chit chat away. At the school gate, I saw Hyunseung waiting over there. I looked at him and he seemed sort of happy to see me. He immediately came running to me, with somewhat of a nervousness I saw in his face. I was aware of the amount of people around us and what Alya and Leanne thought might have been true. I braced myself.
“Hey Sue Yin!” He said quite happily.
“Hello douchebag.” I said coldly.
“Ouch.” And proceeded to punch me in the arm.
It’s okay, he’s punching me in the arm. It’s brotherly love, not that sort of feeling.
“I gotta go man, need to grab something to eat with Alya and Leanne. I’ll talk to you at home.” I tried to get out of there as soon as possible, but it seemed as I was too late.
“Wait! Sue Yin,” He took a deep breath and a big gulp. “-look there.” He pointed at the back of me.
I turned around, and my eyes literally bulged out from its socket. Hanging off the school wall, a huge, gigantic poster saying Hyunseung loves Sue Yin.
I couldn’t think at that moment. My mind was too fuzzled. Hyunseung looking at me, hoping for an approval. Alya and Leanne looking at me, full of hope and glee. I can only tell there was terror in my face. The whole school was looking at me, looking for an answer. But I couldn’t, because I don’t have an answer. I broke into a run, pushing aside people, wanting to get out of that place as fast as possible. It was a nightmare, only I’m awake to experience it all.
When I got home, I immediately ran into my room, locked the door behind me and screamed into my pillow, with tears flowing out. I don’t know whether was I embarrassed or just refusing to accept the truth. Because never in my life would I have thought Hyunseung would have feleings like that for me. Was I happy? Sad? Angry? Or just plain confused. But I think I was just plain surprised because again, Hyunseung liking me seemed like a distant reality.
But thinking about it, Hyunseung and I have been so close, because many would often mistake us as couples. I don’t blame them. We practically did everything together. We ride our bikes together, play video games either at his place or mine, anything you could think of.
Which made me think, do I have the same feelings for him? What exactly can explain that my heart silently skips a beat whenever I saw his smile, him being dorky, weird but still lovable. And he makes me laugh, my real laugh, not those where I control my laughter just to not get embarrassed. But I decided to lay it off and forget about it.
I completely ignored Hyunseung, for a few weeks in fact. And he seemed fine with it too, since he’s acting as though I never existed. Which was fine by me, because I can’t possibly return those feelings he has for me.
“Are you sure you’re fine with it?” Alya asked in class.
“Yeah… you seem really down these past few weeks.” Leanne chipped in.
“Yeah. I think it’s better that way.” I replied looking at neither of them, just to hide the sorrow in my eyes.
I missed Hyunseung. I missed walking with him to school everyday. I missed us talking through our windows. Our game day together. His lame jokes. His goofiness. Him.
Then it hit me. The line to the book that I was reading that day. About how you could be in love with your bestfriend all along, just had to lose them to make you realize. I mean, what could explain me missing him, the emptiness I felt without him, about how my heart skips a beat whenever the sight of him smiling came. I was in love with him all along.
When I got home that day, I went to his house and rang the doorbell multiple times, but no one seemed to be home. So I ran up to my room and sat by my window until he came back. After waiting for a couple of hours, I heard some noises from his room. I peeked over and saw that he had just came back. I took a deep breathe, it was either now or never.
“HYUNSEUNG!” I shouted from my window. He couldn’t hear me.
“HYUNSEUNGGGGGGG!” I shouted a few more times.
After my 10th or so attempt, he heard me. He gave me the typical ‘you weird’ Hyunseung look, because I would find it weird myself because I haven’t talked to him nor looked at him for weeks. He proceeded to opening his windows and gave me a long stare.
“Are you really Sue Yin? You just shouted for me and you haven’t talked to me in weeks. Weird much?” He raised an eyebrow.
My heart was racing at that very moment. My mind went blank. I couldn’t possibly think of anything. I just stared, giving him the bewildered look.
“Hello? Blur much?” He stuck his tongue out.
I took a deep breath and did the unthinkable.
“I….. I…. I LOVE YOU!” I stammered and shouted. I shut my eye tight, not willing to see the look on his face. But slowly, I lifted my eyelid, and saw him grinning, evil-ly. A cunning smile.
“You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting for you to say that.” Then, he took a few steps back, ran and jumped. I screamed and moved aside, not wanting him to fall over because I was in the way. I heard a loud thud and saw him kneeling on the floor.
“DON’T EVER DO THAT AGAIN! YOU GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK!” I shouted at him.
He came up to me, without uttering a single word, took me in his arms, stared at me for a moment and proceeded to plant his lips on mine.
It was the best feeling ever.
I did my best! Sorry if it's so sucky! :(