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thescentifollow · 5 years

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Neighbor - Part 1

Reader x YoungK

Genre: Lecturer Brian au / neighbors au / romance

Word count: 457

Saturday 16:27

You were disturbed again thanks to the noise of your new neighbor’s motorcycle. You took of your glasses and went to the kitchen to get a cup of green tea. God knows if you drink more coffee, you’ll die of caffeine. While the water was boiling, the boy carrying grocery bags outside caught your attention. You could see that he was tall, and he had a nice body. Now that you think of it, you have never met him. The only thing you know about him is that he moved here from Canada. You remember your mom saying when she came to visit you a week ago: “You have a new neighbor. He looks nice, I think he is around your age, you should go talk to him sometime. He moved here from Canada. I bet he has no friends here yet.” With the sound of the kettle you snapped out of these thoughts. With an instant decision you poured the tea to two cups. Feeling still undecided about this you knocked the door.

“Coming!”

You hear the steps approaching. 1-2-3.

“Hey! Um… I’m y/n. Your neighbor.”

“Nice to meet you, it’s Brian.”

He extended his arm to shake your hand. He didn’t notice the cups you were holding.

You said immediately, “It’s for you. Green tea.”

“Oh, thank you. It’s still a bit messy but do you want to come in?”

“Yeah, okay.”

There were still a few boxes need to be opened inside.

“Still busy with moving, huh?” You said when you walked into the kitchen.

“Is it that obvious?” He joked and you laughed.

“My mom told me that you are from Canada.”

“Oh, so Mrs. y/l/n is your mom.” He smiled. After he took a sip, he said, “Yes, that’s right. I moved here because of my job.”

“What do you do then?”

“I teach at NYU.”

“Really? I am doing my PhD there. What are you teaching?”

“Well, it’s not that interesting actually. Leadership Theory and Business Marketing.”

“Not at all. It sounds totally interesting. I would like to learn Marketing.” You took a sip from the green tea.

“Really? Do you want to attend one of my classes when you are free?” His eyes became big when asking excitedly.

“I would love to.” Hearing this, he smiled and looked out of the window.

You checked the time and realized you have five minutes left for a Skype meeting.

“I am sorry, I must go. I have a meeting through Skype in a few minutes.” You hurried to the door.

“Okay, see you later then.” He said and waved as you go back to your house. When he went back into the kitchen, he realized the cups on the table and smiled.

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Neighbor - Part 4

Reader x YoungK

Genre: Lecturer Brian au / neighbors au / romance

Word count: 1628

With the sound of the doorbell, you guys came to your senses.

“Aidan is here!”

“Coming in a second.” You answered.

He came to greet you before you could.

“Hey, darling.”

“Hi!” You hugged Aidan. YoungK was a little taken aback by this warm greeting, considering your position just a moment ago.

Trying to not show his perplexity, he fixated a smile on his face. And that smile caught Aidan’s attention.

“Hi there.” Turning you to introduce him.

“That’s YoungK, my new neighbor. This is Aidan, childhood friend and Ashley’s twin brother.” You need the feel to emphasize him being your long-time friend.

“Nice to meet you, I can totally see the resemblance.” Feeling kind of relieved.

He was caught by surprise with the twins’ enthusiastic laughs at his wit.

“I’m glad to see a new face in this circle. It’s quite rare.” He said smiling.

When you finally sat on the table, Meg asked YoungK something you were curious about too.

“Your real name can’t be YoungK, right?”

“No, of course, it’s not.” Laughed and continued, “You can say that it’s my stage name. I am in a band called Day6. But we’re not performing anymore.”

“Oh, why is that?”

“Well, I moved here, two members live in Korea, one is doing his master in Canada and the other one moved back to his birthplace, Argentina.”

“It’s sad to hear, it would be great to see you perform.”

“Maybe when we hold a reunion concert.”

“We’ll be the first ones to get the tickets.” Everyone agreed and laughed.

“So, were you singing or playing an instrument?”

“I rapped, sang and played bass guitar. I haven’t been doing the first two for a while. But I still play guitar from time to time.”

“What a well-rounded man! I’ll be waiting for your reunion concert.” Aidan yelled basically.

Thanks to everyone being easygoing the night went well. Oh, and with a little help of the alcohol.

When you were finally alone, you reviewed the night lying on your bed, but got stuck in one moment especially. The moment you met his gaze.

As you tried to brush it off by saying that you just met him, that you are too busy to date and stuff, you fell asleep. But you were aware that these were just excuses, and deep down you felt something that you hadn’t felt for a long time. He was the one who made it.

Next Monday

As soon as you woke up, you hopped in the shower. Monday is not a busy day for you, thankfully. Just a meeting with your advisor and you can enjoy the rest of the day. But today you also had to run some errands such as grocery shopping and doing laundry. After a morning coffee, you decided to go grocery shopping to get it out of the way as soon as possible. It was a relief to get your car before the start of continuous days with heavy rain, you thought to yourself, while entering the garage. Just then you heard someone calling your name.

“Hey, y/n!”

It was your neighbor Brian, whom you haven’t seen for a week. Being busy with papers and stuff, you didn’t even get a chance to eat properly this past week. But truthfully, he crossed your mind from time to time.

“Hi, what’s up?”

“Nothing much, heading to class. What about you?” He was smiling, but you were both aware that something was off.

“Grocery shopping.” You smiled as you pointed at the shopping bag in your hand.

“Ah… Free day?”

“Sort of. I just have a meeting in the afternoon.”

“I see. How was your trip to New Jersey?”

“It was fine, you know, nothing much.”

“Right. Well, uh… I have to go now.” He said looking at his watch and continued, “But I’ll see you later.”

“Yeah, see you. Drive carefully.”

“You too.”

There was a huge awkwardness, that no one could deny, in the air. The words just couldn’t get out of your mouth. Though it wasn’t intentional, it made you both feel uncomfortable. You tried not to overthink and told yourself that it was because you didn’t see each other for a while. Oh, and because of that moment you shared. You haven’t seen each other since that day; therefore, you didn’t get a chance to talk about it. It’s for the best, somethings are meant to be just moments. Nothing more than that.

When you were about to pay at the grocery store, you got a phone call from your advisor. He called off your meeting because of a personal problem that came up. To be honest, you were glad. After being away from home for the weekend, naturally you wanted to spend some time at home.

Even though you prefer spending time home alone, this time you wanted to spend this free time with someone else. It would be a good way to break the ice too.

Knowing he had a class, you decided to text him.

“Are you free after your class?”

You were expecting a text message but instead your phone rang.

“Hello.” You could hear the students saying goodbye to him.

“Hi, I didn’t mean to disturb, sorry.” Taken aback by his unexpected call.

“No, you weren’t, my class just ended.” You were about to answer but then he kept talking.

“But I’m going to Virginia today for a 3 days long conference.”

“Oh…” You sounded a little bit disappointed.

Then he offered something, “How about this? You water my plants for 3 days and when I’m back let’s watch a movie together.”

“Sounds good.”

“I’ll text you once the plane lands. Oh, you can find the keys under the doormat and there are 4 plants in the house, one in the living room, two in the kitchen and one in my bedroom. Thanks a lot.”

“Got it. No problem. Bye.” You felt a little bit frustrated but chose to just let it go. It’s not like you’re close enough to feel this way.

After finishing laundry too, you decided to reward yourself, as if you’ve done something great, by watching a movie. But when you think about it, just to survive the first day of the week feels like a success.

You prepared a cup of green tea and wrapped yourself in a blanket. After choosing Before Sunrise to watch for the hundredth time, it’s finally time to enjoy yourself.

Halfway through the movie, a text message destroyed the whole mood. Annoyed, you decided to check the message as soon as possible and get back to your movie.

“Y/n~ What are you up to? I’m at the hotel right now.” Seeing him being the one who texted eased your annoyance a little.

“Just recharging.”

He smiled at the picture attached to your text.

He answered as soon as he saw the scene from the movie by saying, “Ah, that movie is a classic! When I’m back let’s watch Before Sunset too.”

You were surprised at his sudden excitement and enthusiastic answer. To be honest men usually don’t like to admit that they like romance movies. That’s why, even though his offer was not a big deal, it was enough for you to see his soft side.

“Sounds good.” You answered.

He answered, “Great, I’m looking forward to it.”

A few more texts about how tired he was and what your plans for tomorrow are were exchanged between each other before you went back to the movie.

This movie always makes you feel all kinds of emotions at the same time because it’s so real. Their meeting, emotions and how they represent them. This movie has a great impact on how you perceive love.

Feeling peaceful thanks to the masterpiece you just watched for the hundredth time, you went to his place to water the plants. As you came in, you realized things were a quite different than before. He had finally unpacked all boxes and put some baubles and pictures around.

Because you didn’t want to want to hover like a stalker, you decided to do what you need to do as soon as possible. You knew what having a stalker means and frankly it wasn’t pleasant.

His tidiness totally baffled you. The kitchen, nothing left unwashed or left on the kitchen counter. Same goes for the living room. Everything is in the proper place, nothing out of ordinary.

“Then his bedroom must be a complete mess.” You murmured.

Contrary to your guess, it was quite neat. His bed was a little messy though. So, you were not totally wrong.

Just when you were about to leave the house a picture on the coffee table next to the comfy looking sofa in the living room caught your attention. There were Brian and four other boys next to him, one of them holding a birthday cake. They were all good looking. Some could even go crazy for such guys.

“So, this must be Day6…”

You smiled at the wholesomeness of the photo. Then Brian caught your eye, as always. His indifference in the picture didn’t fail to make you laugh. You lifted your head and looked around. You could see parts of him everywhere. A sweet peacefulness filled your heart.

“I like it. I… I like him…” Finally confessing to yourself.

You remembered what Meg said a long time ago, “When you have feelings for someone, they get all your attention. And if you try to avoid it, it gets worse.”

You did listen to her last time. It had severe consequences. But it’s almost impossible to live the same thing again, right?

You were torn between the two choices. Should you show your feelings or just keep avoiding until they disappear?

I thought of this picture while writing that part of the story. so wholesome :’)

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