Carrot Tales (Seventeen Imagines)

15_#Mingyu

You've been friends with Mingyu since high school, ever since he save you from getting detention on the first day of school. Three years has past since then and now you were both in college trying to survive your individual courses and in return reality.

Now it comes to no surprise that you; over the course of years develop a crush on your friend, not when he's irresistibly charming, has a pleasing personality, the most sincere person and not to mention a handsome cutie. And like the movies and stories you've read, you didn't know what to do and didn't want to make things awkward between the two of you.

So you decided to keep your crush on him a secret but of course doing so makes him even more attracting to you. Eventually that simple crush of yours turn into full on liking and once you've realize your feelings there was no turning back. You tried even harder to suppress it and to act as normal as possible but it was hard, so hard; even more so since you two tend to spend time together a lot.

You didn't want to avoid him, you've read enough and saw enough to know that those wouldn't do you any good and just complicates things more and so you had no choice but to accept that you were harboring feelings for your good friend who seems to only see you as nothing else but that... a friend.

You felt wary whenever he was in close distance, which is silly because you shouldn't, you really shouldn't. But you had no clue what to do, not when he's your first love.

Things become even more complicated and conflicting when your family and friends decides to intervene.

"Aren't you and Mingyu dating?" Some would ask.

"I thought you two were dating since you two look at each other so fondly as if you're in love." Others would say.

'Do we? Do we look at each other like that? Does he? Does he like me the way I like him?'

But every time those questions pop up, your thoughts quickly get dismissed.

'No. He doesn't see me that way. They've just misread the situation.'

"No. No. we're just friends. Really... just... friends." That was always your reply, no matter how many times you have told that answer, it always leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. It makes you realize... that... that is all you'll ever be to him. No matter how hard you wish for it to be something else... you knew, you were just friends.

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They're words got stuck in your mind a lot these days. No matter how hard you try to brush it off, it keeps on popping up again and again as if it was an annoying notification or a song stuck in a replay button. And it doesn't help that the source of all these thoughts is around you almost 24/7.