Julia's POV:

~meeting part 2~

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I was getting so nervous, as I heard Chan yelling.
It was him Bang Chan. In real life.
I never thought this could ever happen.
O-

"Hey", I heard Jeongin yell back completely excited.

"Why are you so happy?", Chan chuckled.

"We have a surprise for each of you!", Seungmin explained.

"A surprise?", Felix asked obviously confused.

"Yep. Jisung come with me, Felix go with Jeongin and Minho, and Chan come with me to Hyunjin, he's already in your room", Seungmin said.

"Should I be scared?", Jisung asked laughing nervously.

"No, you'll love it! It's an early christmas gift!", Jeongin said like a little child. He was almost as excited as I was.

Then I only heard footsteps and my own heart.

It was beating so fast, I thought it would jump out of my chest any moment.

Then I heard the door open and I started to get sweaty hands.
Holy christ, I was so nervous.

"What. Is. That?", I heard Chan asking before he burst out in laugher.
A freaking adorable laugher.

"Did you buy a doll or what?", he asked giggling, stepping closer.
My breathing become uneven.

"Nope, just open it", Hyunjin replied.
I felt him getting closer and closer and then Chan took the hoodie off.

It suddenly felt a bit cold and I immediately missed the warmth of the hoddie.

"Wait a minute... IS IT BREATHING?", he asked shooked and touched my shoulder.
Hyunjin started to laugh at him and then I heard Chan gasp.

"Oh you didn't-", he said and ripped the christmas paper.
Light came across my face and I blinked a few times before I could clearly see Bang Chan standing in front of me with his hand on his mouth and watery eyes.

He looked stunning like always; with a cute black beanie, a black Hoodie and black jogging pants. The only clour besides black on his outfit, was the white text on the sleeves of the hoodie and a silver chain.

"Ju....", he whispered to himself stepping a bit away from me, to look at my whole body. He looked up and down, not moving anything else.

"Happy early christmas", I said and shortly after that I was pulled into a warm, comfy hug. I got goosebumps everywhere, a familiar warm feeling starting to come back.

He started to cry softly: ,,You're here....you're here in my arms", he whispered and I patted his shoulder softly.

"I indeed am", I jokingly said, making him giggle.

"I can't believe it", he added hugging me even tighter.

Then I heard a high-pitched scream: "MIA", Felix yelled making me laugh.

Chan pulled away from our hug admiring me again, just like he did as we had our first video-call.

"You are so pretty", he whispered while carefully starting to play with my hair.
I teared up as a few memories, from what had happened the night before, came up. All those worries I had, he made them vanish in just a few seconds.

"Why are you tearing up, did I say something wrong", he asked worried.

"No, no, no! It's just.....I was a bit scared", I admitted and looked down.

"Of what- please tell me you didn't feel insecure", he said serious, making me look down.
I knew I couldn't lie to him, especially not now when he's standing right in front of me.

His eyes softened and he lifted my chin carefully, so that I had to look him in his beautiful, sparkling brown eyes.

"Oh Ju. You are so adorable and beautiful, don't make yourself down. You literally perfect and I don't care about all the flaws you think you have. These are all beauty mark and make you yourself", he said softly.

"Okay lovebirds, let's go to the others. I'm feeling too much like a single right now", Hyunjin said pointing at the door and ruining the moment.

Chan sighed and took my hands, intertwining our fingers, as we walked back to the others.

Mia and Felix were standing together hand in hand, while Mia was admiring Felix freckles and telling him how perfect he was, making the older one blush.

Hayley and Jisung were standing together as well, while Jisung was making some strange faces and Hayley was laughing.

"Hello everyone, nice to finally meet you", Chan said making everyone turn to us.
We all greeted and hugged each other before Jisung asked: "How long have you been planning this?"

"2 months?", Mia asked, thinking a bit.

"I think almost 3", Hayley corrected.

"And you were hiding that from us all the time? But wait, we weren't even together at that time", Felix said to Mia with wide opened eyes.

"And you didn't knew about our true identities", Chan added looking at us confused.

"Yeah, the actual plan was to confess to you in Korea. We would've tried to get you to tell us were you live and suprise you", I giggled.

"Really?", Jisung asked shocked.

"Yeah and after we found out who you really are, things got a bit more difficult. But Jeongin helped us a lot", I winked at him.

"That's why you send us out to get food!", Chan explaimed and pretended to be hurt.

"Let's eat before the food gets even more cold", Jisung chuckled before walking into the kitchen.

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While we all were eating what Chan, Felix and Jisung bought, we talked about the flight, our house, the weeks we had spent alone, .....

"What I really want to hear is Chan and Ju singing together", Mia suddenly said and I looked up with wide opened eyes.

Chan chuckled: "If she wants to"

"I- ummm"

"It's okay if you don't want to", he comforted me, cupping my right cheek.
I smiled shyly.

"By the way. Chan what are you doing on Friday?", I asked, suddenly remembering what San told me.

"Nothing. I don't know for how long you'll stay here, but I for sure know it's not gonna be forever. So I want to spend the days with you", he answered in a baby voice, pulling me into a side hug.

"We're going to stay until the 17th of January, so we have enough time", Hayley smirked.

"Really?", Chan, Jisung and Felix asked all together, extremely happy.

"Yes but you can for sure keep on hugging me", I chuckled.

"Urgh get a room", Minho sighed, pretended to be disgusted.

"Why did you want to know what I'll be doing on Friday anyways?", Chan then asked, letting me go.

"I'm going to meet up with San.....", I took a deep breath, "and Wooyoung", I saddened a bit as I said his name.

"From Ateez?", Changbin asked surprised.
I nodded.

"Since when do you have contact with Ateez?", Hyunjin asked confused.

"Long story. By the way, San was the boy who asked for my number"

"Him?", Chan asked in disbelief.

"Yeah and we're going to meet up on Friday. So do you want to come with me?", I asked.

"Of course!"

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Changbin did the dishes like always, while Chan and me went into his room, Jisung and Hayley went go Jisungs room and Felix and Mia went to our house.

As I entered I immediantly felt home.
Chan was a bit embarrassed since the room was a mess, but that was exactly what made me feel like I'm home.

"I can clean up a bit-"

"No, Chan. Leave it like that, it looks way more comfortable like that. Which one is yours?", I asked smiling and pointing to the bunk beds.

"The upper one", he answered and pointed at it.
I tried climbing up the latter but slipped somehow. Chan reacted fast and held my waist so I wouldn't fall down.

I slightly flinched as I felt his warm hands on my waist.
As he noticed that, he made sure that I wouldn't fall down when he would let go and then immediately put his hands away.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want to make you feel uncomfortable", he panicked cutely.

"It's okay, I was just surprised", I explained climbing the rest up to see his bed. It was small, but looked very warm and cozy.

"Can I maybe-", I asked shyly, not being able to complete my sentence.

"Of course", he chuckled, knowing what I was about to ask.
I smiled widely as he agreed and cuddled myself into his blanket.

There was this now familiar scent again. The scent I smelled as Hyunjin put one of Chan's hoodie over me and as Chan hugged me.

It was his scent.

And something about that made my body relax.

"I'm cold", I mumbled, knowing that Chan was watching me right now.

"Do you need another blanket?", he asked sweetly.

"No I need a Bang Chan", I whispered shyly.

"You want cuddles?", he asked amused, but still in a caring way.

"Yes", I answered blushing.
Then shortly after that, he came up and lied down next to me, slowly wrapping his arms around me and pulling me into them.

"Is this okay?", he asked carefully.

"Yes", I replied, while burying my face into his chest.

This was the first time after so many years, that I felt safe.
Really safe.
It made all my worries and sad feelings disappear.

I wanted this to last forever....

~☆~