《 What if we run away? 》

↠ chapter two

"It's totally fine if you don't want to give me your number tho" says Hansol assuring.
I still feel so flustered and overwhelmed by the thought that Hansol Vernon Chwe wants to see me again. He actually wants my number. What is this dream? I mean, of course he doesn't like me the way I like him and he is just being social and kind but still.. how is this happening?

"No, it's cool! Wait, let me grab a piece of paper.." I say while looking in my bag for a pen and my notebook.

"Here you go" I hand him the piece of paper that I just ripped out of a journal I keep in my bag.

"Nice, thank you. Sorry again for leaving this soon. I'll text you later if I can" he says with a last smile and walks into the restaurant to get Joshua.

I sit down the bench next to the restaurant, holding my arms tight around my body. I need to process what just happened. Evelyn walks out looking for me, when she finally sees me sitting there.

"What happened? Did he say something mean?" Evelyn asks.

I look up to her and say "You have no idea what just happened.."

"Then tell me what happened!"

"Hansol and me were talking about his life and stuff and suddenly he dropped the bomb saying that he's an Idol, but I still pretended not to know him, right. And you know what? He wants to see me again and asked for my number" I say ecstatic.

"No way!! He did what? You're totally lying" says Evelyn sceptical and starts to chuckle.

"I'm serious. He said he will send me a message later, you'll see"

"Yeah, right and I'll get a call from the White House" Evelyn doesn't believe any word I say.

We make our way to our apartment. It's Wednesday and tomorrow starts the first day of work and it's already pretty late. Once we're home, Evelyn goes straight to the bathroom to get ready for bed while I sit down on the chair in our room, looking at my phone in hope that Hansol's text message would pop up anytime.

"Why are you staring like crazy at your phone? Even if you really gave him your number, do you think he'll text you? That would be too good to be true. I don't want to destroy your dreams but he's still an Idol. He would never get himself into someone ordinary like you. Don't get me wrong, I mean you're beautiful and awesome but Idols just date amongst themselves, unfortunately" Evelyn says.

I start to chew my lip as I try to push his image from my mind, but it honestly seems futile. I know that Evelyn is right. I go to bed with the thought that I won't receive any text message from him.

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My eyes shoot open with the buzzing sound of the alarm and I immediately get up and take my phone from the nightstand next to my bed to turn the alarm off just when I see an unread text message. It's from an unknown number.

「   01:53am
       Hi, it's me Hansol. I'm sorry it took me so long
       to text you but practice was really exhausting.
       I just got back home.
       I think you're already sleeping.
       Good night                                                                          」

He really texted me. I never thought I would wake up to his text message. I jump out of bed with a huge smile on my face making my way to the bathroom to get ready for work.
Evelyn slowly gets up as well and the first thing she asks is if I got a text message from Hansol. I grab my phone and show her the text message while grinning like crazy.

"He texted you.. oh my god, he actually texted you!"

I can't help but put on a proud smile on my face. I pack everything necessarily into my bag and head out without breakfast.