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kim seungmin is having day off for the rest of the week, well stray kids is having day for the rest of the week before their scheduled comeback next month.
he is isolating himself in his room while the others are either out enjoying their days off or at jyp's, like bangchan and minho are,
he scrolls through a ticketing website, looking for an empty seat that are side by side. he clicks the B row while rolling down, supporting his body with his arms. he sips his americano that yongbok gave him earlier this morning, and with that few clicks he is done buying two tickets for this sunday's baseball match,
one for him and one for minho hyung, he thought happily.
he hasnt asked minho yet, he plans to ask him today when minho is done with his practice. he has been going to the baseball game all alone because he knows that no one in the group really understand baseball like he does, so he just thinks that it will be better to ...just watch it alone. until minho came to him that day, face grimmacing, arms folded on his chest and his squinted questionable eyes,
"yah kim seungmin, is it fun? watching the game all alone?"
he shrugs, throwing his baseball cap on the couch as he joins minho in the couch,
"i dont know, no one in this circle seems to know how baseball game works"
"yeah, we- i dont know" minho corrected, "only because you never ask, i might like it if you decide to ask me to one of your game"
so he thought, he might have the chance to watch his favorite baseball game with his favorite hyung afterall, with the thought itself he has been smiling like an idiot, making possible scenes in his head that minho will not stop asking how this and that works, why is the game like this like that with his mouth full of fried chicken they bought before the game starts
its gonna be such fun, he thought
he never thinks that it would be a hassle to answer all the questions about baseball, afterall it is something that he likes, he got no problem telling people hundreth times how baseball works, and on top of that he got to tell his favorite thing to his favorite hyung
at the sounds of the front door being open, he hurriedly gets up from his bed to ask minho before minho could do anything else like sleeping (because he sleeps like a log and tomorrow is their day off)
"minho hyung"
"what kim seungmin" the beads of sweat rolling down onto minho's face, the evidence that he is done his best for today's practice. his eyebrow furrows at the sudden presence of kim seungmin
"uhm..,"
"minho hyung, lets watch baseball together"
he finally said it, all the scenes that has been playing in his mind are going to be real in just few days, he wont be alone cheering for his favorite baseball team, he wont be the only one finishing up the fried chicken, right?
or so he thought,
"and why would i do that?" minho replied, unbothered
that one sentence kills him, piercing his heart into million pieces that one sentence finally brings him back to the reality, right why would the minho hyung watch baseball game with me
"oh.. right. sorry hyung"
maybe minho was drunk the other night when he was offering himself to watch baseball with him, maybe minho lost the bet with others that day and the punishment is for him to watch baseball with him and maybe the bet was called of, maybe minho was possesed that day, maybe minho was not minho that day, for whatever reason is-
right.. why would he watch baseball with him
with his heads down. he walks away while gripping his phone. tries hard to hide the phone screen that showed 2 tickets of baseball game from minho. he walks away from minho who have this questionable look on his face
he looks at his phone screen, it become more reflective as tears starts to gather. he deleted his and minho hyung's baseball ticket from the tab and snickers at himself,
“right, i should have known better” he chuckles bitterly,
"why would hyung watch baseball with me”