SHES THE MAN [l.hc smau]
FINAL: 29 - you already do. wc: 1.4k
college esports fair — 7:29pm
somehow, ten had convinced you to watch the main stage tournament.
“ten, please, can we just watch 5 minutes and go. i really don’t want to bump into haechan right now, on valorant it was bareable but i wouldn’t even know what to say if i saw him in person…” you rant off to your bestfriend, stood next to you.
infront of you, ten and the crowd, was a stage with empty spaces for 12 contestants lined along the back, tbu’s esports coach, johnny suh, stood at the front with a microphone.
as johnny was beginning to explain the rules of game, ten whispers to you.
“sure. but it’ll be fine! trust me.”
you give him a suspicious glance but decide to go along with it anyways, finally tuning into the coaches speech after he had got the microphone to stop buffering.
“there will be two teams, team 1 and team 2.”
“creative.” you whisper to ten, who laughs.
johnny glances at you, somehow having heard you, before clearing his throat to continue. the people around you laugh.
“each team will be chosen by 2 of the college leagues finest captains. drumroll please?”
you roll your eyes before lazily drumming your palms against tens arm.
“ow!” ten yelps, but you only laugh as he brushes you off.
but your laughter is soon cut short as the two faces you wish would no longer exist, step out onto stage.
from the left, eric sohn.
and from the right,
haechan.
“you’ve got to be fucking kidding.” you murmer, but tens smirking. why is he smirking??
“boys, please choose the 5 players you would like to contribute in your team, taking turns. a coin flip will decide first choice.”
your heart is pounding and you have no clue why.
eric yells heads, leaving haechan to be stuck with tails.
“tails, tails, tails, please, tails.” you hear ten chant from beside you, but you dont ask why, you make a mental note to ask him later. not that you’ll have to, of course. little did you know it’d all become evident, very soon.
johnny flips the coin. “and its heads!”
ten swears to himself and you want to question him as to why he cares so much, but there’s a pair of eyes looking right at you that pull you straight out of your thoughts.
or should you say, two pairs of eyes.
“ten, we have to leave. i have a bad feeling about this.”
but ten only laughs in reply.
as either teams first 4 contestants get decided and called onto stage, you’re still begging ten for you to leave but he ignores you.
johnny calls out to eric to decide his final team member. “do you care to choose your last player, eric?”
he’s looking directly at you and you hate it.
you need to get out of there.
“yes i do. i know exactly who i’d like to pick.”
his attention turns to haechan. and for some reason, haechan looks angry. it’s like there’s some secret between eric, haechan and for some reason ten, that you don’t know about.
you find out why, the second the next four words leave eric’s lips.
“i want yn zhong.”
you feel eyes turn to you. ten beside you, clenching his jaw in anger.
“what?” you whisper. you want to say no, you want to call out and disagree. but haechan beats you to it.
“not happening.” haechan says. eric laughs in spite.
johnny picks up his mic. “do we have a disagreement here, haechan lee?”
haechan turns from eric to face johnny before finally letting his eyes fall to yours.
“i want her.”
you know he means he wants you on the team, but you can’t help but wonder if there’s a double meaning in his words.
he’s supposed to hate you, he’s supposed to despise what you did to him, all that you lied about.
but he wants you?
“then i guess that leaves us with only one option. the chosen persons decision. yn? choose. team 1 or team 2?”
your heart is racing. johnny is making you choose between your ex boyfriend and haechan. so as you walk up to the stage, you spent those 6 seconds deciding exactly what team you want to join.
as you walk straight over to him, he smiles. haechan smiles.
— 9:48pm.
you won. you did it. you finally beat eric.
you could nearly drown in the look on his face as he stormed off that stage the moment you had wiped out his entire team.
but finally, after all that had happened. you got your revenge.
not as chenle, not as anyone else. but as you.
and my god did it feel amazing.
to celebrate, you had jumped up, throwing your arms around the nearest person to you.
but it’s only now that you’re realising who that person is.
slowly, he breaks the hug to look at you.
“look…yn…”
“should we take a walk? i don’t really wanna argue in front of all these people.” you interrupt.
“argue…?” haechan asks under his breath. but your already off the stage, waving bye to ten as you walk towards the empty, turned off carousel. leaving haechan no choice but to rush after you.
wow, that game must have lasted alot longer than you thought.
sitting on one of the faux carriage seats, haechan takes a seat next to you.
“you still hate me, don’t you?” haechan starts.
you look up at him. “what?”
“you know, i kicked you off the team. got mad at you for no reason then just refused to hear you out.”
you’re silent. but he continues.
“you know, i didn’t believe it at first. you pretending to be your brother, but it all makes perfect sense to me now.”
“what do you mean?”
“you helping me with somi, finishing my homework for me when i forgot deadlines, logging into my accounts to finish levels. you were just being a good friend, and i blew it off over jealousy.”
you wanted to cry. you never thought you’d feel so much guilt, but now he’s laying it all before you as his fault…you don’t think you can stand lying to him about anything, any longer.
“im not mad at you haechan.”
his attention on you peaks at this. you pause before continuing.
“in all honesty, i thought you hated me for, well, you know, lying to you about who i was.”
your suddenly very aware about how small this bench is, and how dark it is around you. but he’s right next to you. and that’s something you’ve unknowingly been wishing for, for weeks.
“really?” haechan asks, and your surprised at his confusion. “you thought i was mad at that?”
and now it’s your turn to be confused.
if he didn’t hate you, and you didn’t hate him. what was all this for? why had you been avoiding eachother ever since he kicked chenle out? why had you blatantly ignored every chance there was to see him, if neither of you hated eachother?
unless.
you both liked eachother instead.
“yn, im not mad at you for lying to me.”
your breath stops at his words. he carries on.
“im mad at myself for not realising you were here, directly infront of me, this entire. fucking. time.”
it takes a moment for you to register his words, so you stay silent as you let him continue.
“so give me a chance to know you. the person who stayed up with me all night, the person who fixed my busted cheek. i wanna know you.”
you smile.
because there’s something inbetween all this that he’s forgetting. something that makes all of this a whole lot easier.
“you already do.”
his eyes never cease to leave yours as his hand grazes your chin. and slowly, under the light of the stars and the distant rumble of voices and game music behind you, he kisses you.
and it’s perfect.
through all you’ve been through together, finally you don’t have to hide. this moment is everything you’ve ever wanted.
more than beating eric, more than making the team, more than jaemins limited edition pokémon cards.
this.
for, from this moment on, being with haechan means one thing and one thing only.
you’ll never have to pretend again.
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