You wait for the waitress to bring your credit card back after you pay for your food. You take a piece of paper out of your bag and write your phone number on it, you also write “Girl from restaurant.” You ask the waitress to hand it to him after you leave and she agrees to it. As you leave the restaurant you two share another look while you walk past him and his friends. 

You reach the apartment you’re staying at, thankfully the school is paying for it. You change into a big shirt and some pajama shorts. You get into bed waiting for a message, hoping the waitress actually gave it to him. Shortly after you begin over thinking, you get a message saying “Hi girl from restaurant! Haha my name is Dongho by the way” after you read it, all of the worry you just had goes away and you begin to smile to yourself and respond “haha hi! My name is Y/N. I know it was probably weird when the waitress gave you the paper” After you send that, you say to yourself “Why did I send that? I can’t take it back!” He responds and says “Don’t worry, it wasn’t weird. I should’ve just talked to you when you were there. Sorry!” Your eyes light up and you smile saying “Oh no! Don’t apologize! I was nervous, I’m sorry” 

You two text until 11pm. You end up falling asleep with your phone in your hand. You turn the screen and look at the time “8:45” You plug your phone in and groan while slowly getting up to take a shower. After your shower you arrive at a library. As you enter the library you turn your phone onto vibrate. You pick a book and sit down to read, you feel your phone vibrate through your pocket so you quickly get it. You see that Dongho sent you a message, as you see it you smile. The message says “Good Morning Y/N. How are you?” You reply “Good Morning!! I’m okay, I’m at the library for a little while. How are you?” 

You sit at the library resting and texting on and off for an hour. You go to a café not far from the library and get a French Vanilla coffee. As you leave the café, you see one of the men from last night walk up to you and says “Thanks again for giving us the soy sauce!” You laugh saying “oh! No problem, I’m Y/N” As he shakes your hand he says “my name is Minki! Wait so you’re the girl Dongho was talking about this morning!” You look confused, then another man walks up to Minki and says “Are you ready? Oh, I’m sorry” Minki looks upset and makes a playfully upset face towards him. Minki says “JONGHYUN! I’m in the middle of a conversation with Y/N! She’s the one that gave us the soy sauce last night!” Jonghyun’s eyes light up and he says “Oh! okay, thanks for the soy sauce” You all chuckle and Jonghyun says “wait, your name is Y/N?” You nod your head and he says “your name sounds familiar.” You see Minki nudge Jonghyuns arm, Minki begins to whisper “I think she’s the one Dongho was talking about” You interrupt and say “Um did Dongho talk about me at all?” As Minki is about to talk, a man in a car yells to the men saying “CAN YOU TWO HURRY UP?! WE’RE GOING TO BE LATE!” Minki says “sorry but we have to go, we’re going to see a movie. I’m sorry to leave so sudden” You reply “Oh no it’s alright. Have fun at the movies!” Jonghyun waves to you while saying “Goodbye!” You wave back to them saying bye. 

After they drive off you pull out your phone and send a message to Dongho saying “Hey, I think I just met two of your friends, Minki and Jonghyun” You begin to walk and your phone vibrates. Dongho messages you saying “Really?!Where did you meet them?” You reply “At the café near the library I went to” He replies quickly saying “Can we meet?” As you read the message , your heart beats fast. You reply “Sure..” He replies back quickly again saying “I can meet you at the café! I think I know which one you’re talking about. Stay there, I’ll be there soon!” You walk back inside and sit down towards the window looking outside waiting for him. You get nervous because you don’t really know what to say to him, how to act around him or know what he finds funny. A few minutes later you see someone walking near the café. Your eyes widen as they walk inside. The man looks around for a minute then sees you and walks up to you saying “Y/N HI!” You get up and he pulls you into a tight hug, after pulling away he says “I’ll be right back, I’m going to get a coffee. Do you want anything?" You look back at your coffee and say “no thank you, I still have a lot of coffee left” 

He smiles and says “Okay, I’ll be right back” You sit back down and take a few more sips of your coffee while scrolling on Instagram. Dongho walks back and says “Sorry I took long” You say “You don’t have to worry, you didn’t take long”

You two sit for an hour and a half talking and getting to know each other. Dongho looks outside and sees that its getting dark outside. His eyes widen and he says “it’s getting late.. Should I walk you home?” You look outside and say “You don’t have to. I don’t live far” He stands up and says “Come on, I’ll walk you” 

You both begin to walk and you’re nervous because now he’ll know where you live. As you reach your apartment he says “Oh wow. You really aren’t far” You chuckle and say “Thank you for walking me home. You really didn’t have to” He smiles and says “it was no problem” You say “Let me know when you get home, okay?” He says “I will”

Before he leaves you give him a tight hug and a kiss on the cheek. As you kiss his cheek you can feel it getting warm slowly. You stop and smile saying “Goodnight Dongho. Don’t forget to text me!” He’s pretty much frozen in place and says “o-oh yeah, I will!” 

20 minutes later you get a message from Dongho saying “I’m back! Can we meet again soon?” You read it and smile say “yeah, whenever you’re free!”

A few days go by, you text Dongho sometimes but he’s been busy with his friends. You want to see him again and get coffee again but at the same time you don’t want to seem clingy or obsessive. You wait for him to text you instead of bothering him about it. You keep playing back the moment when you kissed his cheek over and over in your head wondering if your shouldn’t have done that. But you’re pretty glad you did. You also wonder if Dongho talked about you to his friends.

Later on that night you’re in your bed catching up on American Horror Story. As you’re watching it you see your phone screen light up and feel it vibrate. You pause the episode on your laptop and see a message from Dongho saying “Y/N! I’m finally free. Can I take you out for dinner?” You say “Sure, I’ll get dressed :)” You turn your laptop off and run to your closet trying to find the right outfit. The main thing that catches your eyes is a light pink sweater, black high waisted jeans and black heel boots. After you’re ready you tell Dongho that you’re ready.

About 10 minutes later, he arrives at your apartment and gets to the front door. As soon as he sees you, his cheeks turn a light shade of pink and he smiles. He says “You look beautiful” You smile as he says it and you say “thank you, you look handsome.” He says “thank you” You reach his car and he opens the door for you and you get in. As you drive you ask him “When I met Minki and Jonghyun, they made it seem like you talked about me to them” Right after you say that you say to yourself “Great.. said another dumb thing” He chuckles and says “I’m not surprised they said anything. I told them that a pretty girl gave me her number, then they were asking where I met you, what your name was, what you looked like. They ask about you a lot. They were actually excited that they met you. Well my other friends Aron, Minhyun were actually upset” You laugh as he tells you. You say “Was your friend the one that was in the car and yelled for them to hurry up?” He laughs and says “Pretty sure that was Aron” 

You smile and then look out the window. You look back over at him and see his hand is free, you wonder if you should hold it or not. You sit your hand on the side of your seat. He looks at your hand and slowly moves his hand to yours. As he holds your hand, your heart feels like its going to beat out of your chest. He laces his fingers together with yours. As he does so, you blush very hard. As you two reach a red light. 

You have your head down not making eye contact with him. He says “Y/N” You look over at him and get nervous. He asks “are you okay?” He sees your face getting red and lets your hand go. You reply quickly “Oh no, I’m okay” He looks at your with a worried look on his face and says “Are you sure? I’m sorry, you probably didn’t want me to hold your hand.” You look down and say “no that’s not it” 

He continues to drive and you sit in silence for a few minutes until you arrive. You get out and follow behind him. You see his other friends and Minki runs up to you and says “You look sad” You fake a smile and say “No, I’m okay” You look around to see the rest of them inside the restaurant. You ask Minki “Does Dongho get upset a lot?” Minki says “well I haven’t seen him upset.. why?” You look down kicking the rocks underneath your feet and say “He held my hand and I was nervous and then he saw me blushing then he just stopped holding my hand and stopped talking until we got here” Minki looks angry as he hears you talk and says “why is he being mean?” You say “it’s alright, you can go inside.. I’ll be in there in a minute” He says “Okay” and gives you a quick hug then walks in the restaurant. You stand near the entrance waiting to see if he’ll come out or text you. You slowly walk in and see him laughing with his friends.

You know you’re being dramatic but the last relationship you were in, you were hurt physically and mentally. You get scared when people touch you but you get scared trying to tell anyone. You think that if you tell anyone they’ll think you’re being dramatic or tell you that it’s not that serious. 

You call for a cab and get a ride back to your apartment. You throw your bag on the chair closest to the door. You change into a big shirt then crawl into bed. You wait for a message but you also know you wont get one. An hour after you fall asleep, you get a call from an unknown number. You answer it and it’s Minki, as your hear his voice you cry and tell him everything. About why you were scared, why you were nervous. Why you’re quiet a lot. You know you’ve only met him about a week ago but you feel like you can trust him.

After your phone call with Minki you fell asleep waking up to 20 text messages and 5 missed calls. You see that all of them are from Dongho. They say “Where are you?” “Call Me” “why’d you leave?” “Minki told me… I’m sorry” “I didn’t mean to be rude” “can you text me?” “Y/N.. Call me please” Instead of responding you get in the shower. You feel refreshed and drink a cup of hot green tea. You hear a knock on your door and your doorbell ring multiple times. You get up nervously and open the door.

Dongho is standing there sweating, having a hard time breathing. You say “Come inside and sit down” All he does is hug you. You say “Dongho.. um..” He doesn’t say anything. You say, “Can you come inside?” He finally goes inside and sits down. You look at him and say “Dongho.. it’s 10 am. What are you doing here?” He says “I came to see you, you didn’t call or text me back” You look down and say “I’m sorry..” 

He stands up and says “Y/N.. I’m sorry. I shouldn't have gotten weird. I wasn’t mad at you.. When Minki told me I actually got upset. What I am upset about is why you left without telling me” You say “I know I should’ve told you I was leaving. I don’t want you to feel bad.. I am sorry”