"so are we going to chan's?" hyunjin asked as he and changbin left the café.

"do you really think thats a good idea?" changbin questioned, giving hyunjin a death glare.

"chan wouldn't have invited us if he didn't think we should be there." hyunjin stated, which made sense to changbin... somewhat.

"he probably knows you should go, but i was only invited so i wasn't the only one of the group that got left out." changbin stated as he let out a heavy sigh.

"changbin, i love you, but shut the fuck up. you're going to go see felix. you were friends before boyfriends, just get over yourself." hyunjin huffed as he grabbed onto changbin's wrist and began dragging him down the sidewalk.

as changbin walked alongside hyunjin, he felt the guilt eat away at him. it was easy to ignore the feelings that laid dormant all summer, but now that felix was back, changbin could tell everything was beginning to resurface.

he didn't like felix anymore, but seeing him was still difficult regardless of that. changbin still regrets breaking up with felix, but he knows it was better than staying with him when their feelings were clearly not mutual.

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as they approached chan's house, they saw all their friend's cars already outside of it, meaning they were the last two to arrive.

"do you think it's a good idea we show up together?" changbin asked, worrying what everyone else would think.

"it's not like we're dating changbin, they know were all friends. just come on." hyunjin said in a bit of annoyance with changbin, he thought the latter was acting weird, but there was not much he could do about it.

hyunjin knocked on chan's door, immediately be greeted by the boy, "hey hyunjin." he smiled cheerfully.

"hey chan," hyunjin smiled back, then turned to his side to look at changbin.

"oh... hey bin." chan said half heartedly, being slightly surprised that changbin had shown up.

"chan, is it hyunjin?" felix asked happily as he ran over to the door.

"yeah lix but--" before chan could finish his sentence, the damage had already been done.

felix saw changbin, making direct eye contact with the boy he spent all summer trying to forget.

felix froze in his tracks, just staring at changbin as if he was someone who died and came back to life. he then shook his head like he was trying to clear some sort of hallucination and then immediately put a smile back on his face.

"hi jinnie!" felix cheered as he latched onto the boys arm and dragged him inside, "i missed you all summer."

"really? you didn't text me at all..." hyunjin sighed, not understanding why felix was so excited to be with him all of a sudden.

"i-- i didn't text anyone actually... chan was the only person i texted because he'd spam me if i didn't answer him." felix laughed a bit causing hyunjin to laugh too.

"that's chan for you."

"yeah, you never texted me once this summer either though..." felix sighed but then shrugged it off, "but you're here now so that's all that matters!"

"right..." hyunjin smiled, but it didn't seem genuine. he felt some guilt bubble in his stomach, but he had no known cause for it, he just knew the last thing he ever wanted to do was hurt felix.

back at the door, chan and changbin were still standing there, an awkward tension lingering in the air.

"hey chan." changbin said softly, weary of the entire situation.

"you crushed him, i hope you know that." chan stated simply, trying to control his anger.

"i-i know." changbin sighed as his head hung low.

"stop!" chan whacked changbin in the chest, "you don't get to be sad about this changbin. you left him, not the other way around."

"do you like him?" changbin snapped back.

"what?" chan questioned, not knowing how changbin knew about his feelings.

"you're going to stand here and lie to me? go ahead, we both know you like felix. it was always so obvious." changbin groaned as he narrowed his eyes at the latter.

"you're delusional bin," chan scoffed, "but even if i did, you have no right to be jealous. YOU left HIM."

and with that chan left changbin to continue standing at the door, thinking over everything. chan was right and changbin knew that, but he didn't know why he accused chan of liking felix... that was just pure jealousy from the way chan and felix had gotten so close over the summer.

but like chan said, changbin had no right to be jealous.

a.n.

this story is gonna be all sorts of crazy oops

y'all think there's a love triangle??

that doesn't even begin to explain it... sorryyyyy