Yeonni 🧡💜

"Excuse me?" "Date me." Mng was a friend of a friend, Yvn, that had become Sn's friend, somehow, in the sense that they occasionally went drinking together without Yvn. Mng was chill and funny and didn't mind how clingy Sn got when drunk. +

Mng didn't mean *date*, he meant he was lonely and they could be each other's pretend crush. Mng even came to sit next to him bumping shoulders, saying he could go ahead and flirt right now. +

It was really very stupid but Sn glanced in the corner of his eye at Mng's lips while he talked and the many rings on his fingers and it felt a bit cute. He bumped Mng's shoulder and smiled a little awkwardly and Mng patted his hair.+

Some weeks later their pretend crushing was going great. They'd texted sometimes late at night when Mng couldn't sleep, and Sn made him play out romantic anime scenes with him, and the flirting was turned up to 200% bc it was fun and unserious.+

One weekend, in the middle of the night Mng got "you're so stupid" from Sn. "Are you drunk?" "I said you're stupid. How obvious do I have to be before you ask me out?" Oh right. Mng played along and Sn drunk-sulked about Mng not +

getting the hint. By the end of the weekend they'd moved on to pretend dating. Yvn was mighty confused. Mng took Sn to a concert bc it was boring to go alone, and they laughed about Sn hating the music. Sn met Mng for lunch a few times and took him to a new cute cafe each time. +

They kept messaging, but if a day or two passed in between sometimes that was okay, it was just pretend. The flirting was still top level, Mng was having a lot of fun actually, he could say whatever since it wasn't real. Sn was mostly scandalized but the times he bit back +

and hit on him so damn hard were the best, Mng loved it. They met for lunch at a new cute cafe and Sn got a bit embarrassed about the level of cute, but Mng absolutely loved it, and he fell into the way they texted and blurted out some very inappropriate pickup line +

making Sn blush bright red, while he spun his rings nervously. "Whoa good one," Sn said. At the end of the lunch, Sn launched into a speech about why they should be exclusive, and Mng said they hadn't even kissed, so Sn pecked his lips and said, "There." Mng's turn to blush. +

The pretend dating was now pretend boyfriends and Yvn complained he never got to hang out with only one of them. A while later Sn stopped by Mng's apartment to ask if he could mention Mng to get out of a blind date. "Don't you want to date?" Mng wondered. "We're exclusive?" +

"Uh yeah we pretend, but don't you want-" The look on Sn's frozen face said Mng had missed something very important, and Sn excused himself and left. A few things popped into Mng's mind, like Sn being cute asking to take things slow, and the kiss, and the initial drunk text +

and wow he really was incredibly stupid. A few weeks later, Sn was at Yvn's place after Yvn had finally been informed, and Mng called. A very drunk Mng declared he missed Sn horribly and Sn was a cruel monster for not forgiving him and giving him a chance and by the way +

he was outside Sn's apartment. Sn hung up, but Mng kept calling, and Yvn said he wouldn't stop so Sn went home. Sn found a very pouty Mng outside his building, holding a little scruffy bouquet of flowers. "One chance," Mng asked. Sn accepted the (probably stolen) flowers. +

Alone in the moonlight, with autumn leaves scattered around them and music leaking from a basement nearby, Mng muttered, "How about you don't pretend to not kiss me," and it was very confusing but still the most romantic thing Sn had ever heard. +

And the kiss was the most romantic kiss he'd ever experienced, too. //END Random rambles hijacking Ren. Ofc it's SnGi. I can see Mng's face both at the realization, and when pouting outside Sn's door holding out the flowers, so vividly lol.