Fake boyfriends AU - TinCan
@somewhatavidreader tumblr ate your ask when i wanted to save the draft so here goes! And also i just realized i forgot to post it before soooo *shrug emoji*
Can takes a deep breath and pinches his nose, exhaling deeply before answering Ley’s question. “Because I am already seeing someone, Ley, that’s why.”
He can picture Ley’s face as clearly as if she was standing in front of him. She’s going to scream at him any second now, and Can holds the phone away in preparation.
“What?! Since when? Why didn’t you tell me? Can!! How could you hide this from me?”
“Ley, shut up! I can’t answer twenty questions at once!” Can says as he leans against the hall’s vending machine. Students are passing by and giving him weird looks, maybe because he’s pulling at his hair and shaking his fist at the sky, who knows.
“Okay, okay. Is she pretty?”
“Uh…” Can looks wildly around him, at a loss. “Look, it’s private, okay? I don’t wanna talk about it yet,” he says, as if this is a valid excuse where Ley is concerned.
“So you’re lying to me and she doesn’t even exist, I knew this was too good to be true,” Ley says with her sweetest, evilest voice. “You’ve spent so long complaining about not having a girlfriend, if you had one you would have rubbed it in my face already. You don’t have a girlfriend, admit it.”
“Fine,” Can sighs after it becomes clear that Ley will let him simmer all day is she has to, “I don’t have a girlfriend, I lied, but I don’t want to go on a blind date with another friend of yours!”
“Uh-uh, that’s now how it works big brother. I have an obligation to your happiness, and it will come out of one of the dates, I just know it will,” Ley is saying, when someone steps right in front of Can.
Can recognizes him as Pete’s friend from the IC department, and he wordlessly hands him the phone when he thrusts his hand out with a confident smile. This can’t go any worse anyway.
“Hello, Ley?” Pete’s friend says, and how does he know Can’s sister’s name?
“This is Tin. Listen, Ley, I know Can has kept me a secret but it was because I asked him too, I wasn’t ready for… Mmh? Yes, that’s right,” the guy named Tin continues, batting Can’s hand away when he tries to get his phone back. Tin presses his finger to his mouth to shush Can as he continues humming and agreeing to whatever Ley is saying.
“Alright, now I trust you won’t try to set him up again? Thank you so much for your kindness. Oh, and please don’t blame Can for not telling you sooner, I made him promise… Yes, he was upset he couldn’t share it with you right away, but he’s been ever so patient, he’s been very good to me.”
“What the hell are you doing?” Can whispers furiously, not trying to get his phone anymore because he’s too focused on the sheer level of absurdity occurring right before his eyes.
“Alright, will do. Thank you, Ley, and I look forward to meeting you in person,” Tin says before ending the call and giving the phone back to Can.
“There you go, now she’ll leave you alone,” Tin says with a satisfied smile.
“What the fuck was that? Who are you? How do you know my sister’s name? What was that? I know I asked that already but it’s worth mentioning twice!”
“That was me saving your ass from another disastrous date, you can thank me later,” Tin says, as calm as something that is calm like Can isn’t at all right now.