The last game was pretty easy. They just have to pick a piece of paper and find the thing written on the paper.

Hyunjin looked at his paper and don't know what to do because there wasn't anything written in it. He just stood in the middle of the room like an idiot while Jisung ran around trying to find what he was given.

"Everybody have 30 second left!", They started the countdown and Jisung ran to Hyunjin, grabbing his hand. "I don't want to choose you but it looks like you're not busy", if Hyunjin wasn't participating in the game, he wouldn't hasitated and just grabbed him.

"Because this couple is earlier than you and there's an error with the paper...we will give you third place", in the end they didn't win the first place but they still received the couple shirt. Jisung held the shirt up in the air, "it's ugly", it was a bright yellow coloured shirt with big heart printed on it.

"But we will wear it for later.", He folded it and placed it bag into the bag that came with it.  Hyunjin nodded, he was thinking of something else while Jisung was complaining about the shirt.

"Just what did the paper wrote? Why did you dragged me?", He still couldn't remember the smile the host had when Jisung returned with him. He had thought Jisung dragged him.because he gave up but turned out Jisung brought just what was written on the paper.

The weather was nice, just like the weather when Hyunjin confessed to him. He looked at the paper in his hand, he hadn't throw it away but he didn't want to show it to Hyunjin either. "I will tell you later"...but not now.
I want to tell you each good news I have one by one. Jisung started humming as he swung their intertwined hands. "Yesterday...I got a phone call from JYP"
Hyunjin stopped, pulling Jisung who was trying to walk forward. "What did they say?", His face was calm but deep inside he was nervous to hear the news. Was it a good one? If not, should he lend his shoulder to Jisung? "They want me to come for an interview"

"..."

"Really?!", Hyunjin asked excitedly, grabbing Jisung's hand tightly. "They say they like my song. They even emailed me after that", Jisung fished out his phone and showed his mail to Hyunjin who was just as excited as him. Hyunjin grabbed Jisung's shoulder, "that's great!! Of course, they would love your song!", Hyunjin's big hand pulled Jisung for a hug.

His silly action caught Jisung by surprise but he still hugged Hyunjin back, tapping his back when he realized where they were. "Hyunjin, we're in public".
Hyunjin separated their bodies, shyly backing away.  "Does that mean I can hug you in private?", Even if he was shy, he still had the time to flirt. Jisung couldn't say no to that but he didn't say anything either. He just breathed in and exhaled, pulling Hyunjin to start walking again.
"Most important treasure", he suddenly said. Hyunjin hummed, tilting his head in confusion. Jisung suddenly said such a weird word out of blue. "The paper. It's written in the paper"

"Most important treasure?", Jisung nodded. What part of 'most important treasure' wasn't clear to Hyunjin. "But you brought me?"

"Yes, and why do you think, you silly?", Hyunjin pointed at himself and mouthed, 'im the most important treasure?'
"Someone once asked me this cringe question. One day if I find someone I like, will I treat them like they're my whole world?",Jisung shook his head. "I wouldn't say you're my whole world or anything but you're my most important person"

He patted Hyunjin's head. "I don't know how long you hold yourself but I'm not as patient"

"I'm saying I like you back", it didn't have to take Jisung another 8 years to realize his feeling not to confess because he wasn't as patient as Hyunjin. "That's why you have to change a bit for me."

"Don't just kiss me when I ask you too, don't just hold my hand when I ask you to, don't just hug me when I ask you to because I'm not as patient as you"

If Jisung used to look at Hyunjin like friends would look at another friend, now people could probably see him looking at his lover not his friend.
A drop of tear fell onto the ground, Hyunjin was so confused at first he didn't know whose sobbing was he hearing but when he saw the curve on Jisung's lips did he realized whom those tears belonged to. It was him. He had started crying. He should stop because he knew Jisung would tease him for it.
Jisung looked around, grinning widely while grabbing Hyunjin's arm. He ran, dragging Hyunjin somewhere, passing by his friends who were shocked to see them running out of the campus.

Cold air hit Hyunjin's face, stopping his tears and now focusing his strength in his leg as they ran. Not knowing his direction, he followed Jisung. The destination didn't matter as long as he was with Jisung. Right, as long as he was with Jisung, he will be happy. At this moment he was the happiest human on earth.

To be honest, it hurt. Jisung who just healed from his little accident was in pain but he ignored the pain on his leg and ran with all his might. His father once said, if you can't yell your heart out, you run.

Jisung stopped when they arrived at a park, pulling Hyunjin behind a tree before he tiptoed, wrapping his hand around Hyunjin's neck.
He giggled, nose brushing against Hyunjin as he stared into Hyunjin's loving eyes. Hyunjin closed his eyes when Jisung pressed his lips on his forehead. He returned the kiss on Jisung's nose and Jisung returned it on Hyunjin's lips, smiling as he pulled himself up, holding Hyunjin tightly.

"I'm your boyfriend", Jisung said. "For real"

Hyunjin held Jisung's face, stroking his cheeks. "And I'm yours", he said, closing their gap.

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Three years later.

Hyunjin's POV

"Run another lap!!", I yelled, blowing the whistle as soon as they finished running. The juniors glared at me, 'what kind of senior was this sadist?', I'm sure they thought that.

"what are you bastard doing? We're the swim team not the track team.", Kevin asked after slapping my head. Even after all these years, he's still so annoying. If not for Jisung, I would have killed this bastard for annoying me so much.
I rolled my eyes and took of the whistle from my neck, shoving it to Kevin. "You handle them then. I have somewhere to go", I quickly ran out, grabbing my jacket. "Where are you going in the middle of practice?!"

"Jisung!", I yelled back. "This is why people with boyfriends shouldn't be trusted", I heard his complaining but it didn't stop me from running out of the campus.

Shortly after we started dating...for real, the both of us moved out of our dorm and bought a room off campus together. It was a disaster when his mother found out we lived together, she was so angry she chased me with Jisung's guitar.
The image of her trying to run over me with her car was still vivid in my mind. It took her 2 years to finally accept me but even now when I visited her, she would glare at me and pretend like I'm not there. I'm not sure if that was accepting me but she didn't try to run after me with a knife or a pan...then I guess it's alright.

"I'm home! I bring lunch!", Jisung raised his hand, he was hidden in front of the sofa. He was probably watching some drama I recorded again. He sat up and smiled at me, "come here!", He waved his hand.

I sat next to him, placing the food on the coffee table. "Why are you on the floor? It's cold", I asked, wrapping my hand on his waist and placing my head on his chest as I hugged him.

He started playing with my hair, brushing it with the tip of his fingers gently. "It's hot", he answered.
"Kevin told me you told the juniors to run again", Kevin that snitch. I will really choke him later. "Well, it's good for their stamina."

Jisung grabbed a handful of my hair, "stamina you said. That's torturing. Torturing I'm telling you" I pouted, patting Jisung's hand to let go of my hair. "that hurts you know?"

"Hrm...you do know pain. Why did you do that to you juniors then?", I laughed. Jisung was scary. "You're similar to your mom. So scary"

"I'm scary? Yeah, when we get married I will run after you with a machete if you cheat", he warned, laughing as a sign of joking.

"Right, Na-Eun said she's treating us out tonight", Na-Eun? I hadn't seen her for a month. She suddenly went quiet for a long time. Seemed like she contacted Jisung first. "Her parents called me and the both of them were yelling at each other"

"Why?"

"Na-Eun brought home a guy", I almost choked on my spit. Na-Eun that nun actually brought home a guy. For three years she hadn't dated anybody, I was pretty sure she was a nun who wasn't interested in any guy. Seemed like I'm wrong.

If I think about it again, it's really funny what happened between the three of us. Who would knew all of us would end up doing different things? Well, except me. I'm still swimming. I'm still well known for the water craze guy who wouldn't leave the pool until Jisung call me.

"Why are you laughing?", Jisung asked, I laid my head on his laps. "Just...we used to like Na-Eun"

"Hrm...you were quite an asshole back then", should I say ouch at that? He was right but..."you were an asshole too"
"But you still end up with me".

"Let's eat. The food is going to get cold", he pushed me up, standing up to get plates with us.

If someone ask me when was the happiest moment I experienced...it would be everyday with Jisung. "I love you!", He threw a pillow at me. "Don't say it often. The meaning behind it will disappear if you keep saying it"
"Come on say it back", I rarely hear Jisung say it back to me.  "Why do you want to hear it so much? I say if you say it often it will lose it's meaning"

"But still...", Sometimes I wondered if he regretted it with me or not. "Fine, I love you! Satisfied?"

I embraced him, "very"

"Thank you", thank you for loving me back even though I had been a coward in the past. Thank you for accepting me even though I had been a bad guy to you in the past.

Who said that friends can't be lover? Who said that in life you have to stick on one choice to succeed? There's so many choices out there, you don't have to look so hard for the answer because who knows if it might just be around the corner...the answer you're looking for just like how Jisung found me and I found him.

~The end~
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Ahhh! I don't know what to say! 🥺 I started writing this story around last year and I don't know if I can finish this story but I did 😭.  It even reached 12k views and 1k votes. I'm really touched 🥺. Thank you so much.

I know you guys love to tease me when I do typo (and I still haven't corrected my typos hahahaha. Maybe someday) you guys shouldn't bully people like that 😂

I hope everyone is safe around this year because of all of this crisis and Corona. It's really scary each day I wake up but if only I can make people happy by reading my story, then I'm happy.

I love reading your comments that I become so attached to this story.

I hope I won't shock anyone when you see the completed sign 😋

Everyone who's reading this, I hope you have a nice year, nice month, nice days and nice time. I hope you find what you want to do in life and be happy with your choices 💖

Regret is fine but don't you think you can find solution to not feel that? Find something you like more than the thing you couldn't do so you won't feel regret anymore. I'm not sure if you understand me but good luck anyway 💗💗💗💗
- from your dearest, hunny.

Start:7 December 2019
End:26 march 2020