A/N: Double update!🤗

• Xiaoting •

After a few more minutes of talking, I finally decided to leave Yujin's house. I said goodbye to Hikaru, Hiyyih, Youngeun and Yeseo. Yujin walked me outside to the door. She was walking in front of me and I couldn't help but remember what Shiro said.

Step up your game or someone else might take away your precious Yujin.

I unknowingly reached out my hand to grab hers.

"Yujin?"

We were standing by the gates and she was just about to open it when I called her. She looked back at me.

Ah, she's so beautiful.

"Hm?"

To hell with small hints, I'm going all out and here goes nothing.

"I don't want to be just your best friend," I begun. I saw hurt flash by her eyes so I immediately spoke up again. "I can't be satisfied with that anymore. Not after realizing my feelings. The other thing I've realized during the time that I avoided you was that friendship will be hard if what I wanted was to have you for myself only." I breathed in nervously for the next thing I wanted to say.

"May I court you?" 

I kept my gaze at her so I noticed how a blush started creeping on her cheeks.

"H-huh?" She stuttered.

"I asked if I may court you." I repeated with a smile.

"C-court? You mean like— like those— the uhm—"

"If you mean like those people who do some of the most ridiculous things I saw to show their admiration for the person they want to pursue, then yes, that's what I meant by courting you."

The few seconds of silence felt like hours. This made me anxious and disappointed. I looked away because I didn't want to show her the hurt I was feeling. Moreso for the friendship I might have lost because of my feelings.

"If you don't want to, it's okay—"

"N-no! Wait, I mean y-yes— I guess? Okay. I meant yes, it's okay for y-you to c-court me." I smiled at how she was fumbling with her words.

Cute.

"Really?" I turned my gaze back on her. She was looking at her feet while her right hand was twirling a strand of her hair. My smile was so wide that I'm pretty sure my gums were showing.

"Y-yes." I held her chin so that she could look at me. I looked at her eyes in wonder. I almost got lost in a trance until I notice that she was practically turning into a tomato with how red her face is.

I laughed. She has always initiated physical interactions between us so I guess she wasn't used to this side of me.

You better get used to it 'cause I'm charging head on, Yujin.

I can't express how happy I am so I engulfed her in a hug. She hugged me back which made me squeeze her in my arms. I stepped back, still having that wide smile on my lips.

"I should get going now." I held the handle of the gate to open it.

"O-okay. Uhm, t-text me when you get home, I guess."

"I'll call you."

"O-oh. I mean okay, yeah. Sure that's good too."

I giggled at her cuteness and turned to leave.

Ah, I forgot something.

"Oh, wait. I should have said this before asking if I could court you." I stepped forward and gently cupped both of her cheeks in my hands.

"I like you."

I pressed a feather-light kiss on her forehead to express my adoration for the woman in front of me.

I said goodbye and closed the gate behind me. I jogged towards my parked car. When I got in, I didn't know what came over me but I laughed. I bumped my head on the steering wheel. The bump hurt which made me smile even wider because this really wasn't a dream. I actually did that.

Yujin said yes.

Even I was blushing with what I did but this made me even happier. I knew that this was just the beginning, but when Yujin said yes and the way she reacted, made me hope that we were going somewhere.

I looked at myself through the rear view mirror with new determination.

"Shen Xiaoting, fighting!"

• Yujin •

I dazedly closed the gate when Ting drove off. I didn't even realize that I was finally back in my room as I stood there for a few minutes before slapping myself awake.

Shen Xiaoting likes me. Me! She likes Choi Yujin.

Feeling giddy at the thought, I jumped over my bed and rolled around under the covers.

I like you.

The way she stared directly into my eyes when she said this made kick my feet in succession.

May I court you?

Remembering that I said yes to her courtship, I grabbed a pillow and cover my face with it and shouted at the top of my lungs. When I let it all out, I abruptly sat up.

"Yah, what if I just tell her that she can just claim me?" I muttered.

I knocked my head once. "Choi Yujin, no!"

As much as I'd love for us to become official as soon as possible, I want to experience how a certain Chinese beauty would court me.

I flopped down dreamily. Her confidence earlier. I would never tell her but I was more than ready to kneel for her if she told me.

Would my gay little heart be able to take a confidently domineering but sweet and kind Shen Xiaoting?

"... No." I giggled under my breathe.

I would just have to be strong enough to take on her advances with the same gusto like I usually do.

"Choi Yujin, fighting!"