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Seungkwan picks up his phone from his coat pocket and he sighs when he sees the name.
"This better be good." Seungkwan says and he hears nervous laughter from the other line.
"I'm running late but I'm gonna buy you coffee on the way to make up for it." Chan says and Seungkwan rolls his eyes as he unlocks the front door.
"Buy me the strawberry cheesecake too and I'll think about not firing you." Seungkwan says and Chan laughs.
"Yes, yes, okay. Best boss ever. Oh and the big order I was telling you about last week is due today and it's in the work table at the back." Chan says and Seungkwan walks in.
"Yeah I saw last night. It's basically done anyway so don't worry about it. I'll handle the rest.
"Okay okay. See you." Chan says and Seunkwan ends the call.
Seungkwan says good morning to the flowers like he always does every day and he starts opening the windows. He sets his things down behind the counter and sets his phone down on their speakers and he sets his playlist on.
He starts by cleaning up a bit around the back. Sweeping the floor and then making sure the worktable is organized with all the wrappers and ribbons and everything they use for their bouquets. He smiles at the huge one in the middle of the table and if Seungkwan remembers it correctly, someone had asked for a bouquet with one of every flower they have in the store. Seungkwan thought it was a prank call or someone ordering without knowing how expensive flowers are (there's always at least one client who gets shocked by the price that Seungkwan has to smile his way out every time they start asking why). But Chan assures that after he did the math and said it to the client they just asked how to pay online and a minute later Chan pulls Seungkwan towards the screen of the laptop to show him that they indeed did pay.
Seungkwan wonders who it's from. And who it's for. Is it a birthday? An Anniversary? Maybe it's for someone's proposal. Just the thought of it makes Seungkwan smile and he moves to the front of the store.
That's when he realized that the song playing on his phone was his.
Seungkwan stops by the door and he takes a deep breath. It's been months since he last saw him in person and he can't help but wonder how he's doing.
The last time they met was at the airport, with Mingyu frowning behind his sunglasses and Seungkwan making fun of him for it.
In the end, Seungkwan did join themfor the tour. But only the U.S. part of it. It lasted for more than a two weeks and when Mingyu and everyone else was headed towards one side of the world, Seungkwan was headed towards another.
Vernon's family were thrilled about the news and they even went as far as to watch the concert a few times. Vernon agreed on doing the whole world tour and he promised to visit Seungkwan as soon as he landed in Korea.
Seungcheol and Wonwoo were a couple of new friends he's gonna have to say will always be special to him. And not just because they rich and have a stable relationship and basically living the life Seungkwan had only dreamed of having. Seungcheol had already asked for Seungkwan's shop's address, promising to always contact him for flower arrangements and stuff like that whenever they have to and Seungkwan isn't above saying no to that. He needs all the clients he can get.
They parted ways like that, the same way they met. In an airport with Mingyu close to tears and Seungkwan laughing at him. Seungkwan felt like it was a sort of break up but they were never really anything at all to begin with so he just didn't say anything at all. Seungkwan didn't say anything when Mingyu pulled him close and Seungkwan didn't say anything when Mingyu kissed him in front of everyone. And Seungkwan didn't say anything when Mingyu asked him that one thing. He nodded but he can't find the strength to say or do anything but to keep Mingyu in his arms.
Seungkwan didn't even say anything when they were walking towards different ends of the airport. Seungkwan didn't say anything the entire airplane ride back home and he didn't say anything when his sister welcomes him home in the airport and asked him what's wrong.
And Seungkwan didn't say anything even after he cried to his sister in her car.
Seungkwan jumps when he hears the bell by the door and he sees Chan smiling at him with a paper bag in his hand.
"They didn't have the strawberry cheesecake one but they have this new strawberry shortcake one so I got that, instead." Chan says and he walks past Seungkwan to leave his things on the table in the storage room and then set the food behind the counter. Chan hands Seungkwan his coffee as he sips his and he stares at Seungkwan's phone by the speakers.
"I didn't know you liked Kim Mingyu." Chan says and Seungkwan laughs.
"I never said I did." Seungkwan says and Chan points to his phone.
"That's Kim Mingyu." Chan says and Seungkwan shrugs.
"My friend likes his music. I told you about watching his concert in L.A., Chan. I was gone for like three weeks." Seungkwan says and Chan shrugs.
"You were gone? I didn't notice since I was doing everything around here anyways." Chan says and Seungkwan flicks his ear.
"Go bring out the rack outside. It's almost ten o'clock." Seungkwan says and Chan nods.
Seungkwan starts setting up the laptop and fixing his things when Chan comes running back inside.
"Dude. The client is here. He's hot." Chan says and Seungkwan rolls his eyes.
"Chan. We talked about this."
"No I'm being serious. He's like, wearing a suit and everything and I feel like his watch costs more than my entire life." Chan says and he runs to the back of the store to get the flowers. Seungkwan gets up and puts on his apron before going outside to greet the client.
"No way." Seungkwan says and he laughs.
"Surprise." Wonwoo says as he reaches for a hug.
"You're here!" Seungkwan says and Wonwoo laughs.
"Yeah. I heard the flowers here are amazing." Wonwoo says and Seungkwan laughs. Just then Chan comes out, stuttering as he holds the giant bouquet and hands it to Wonwoo. Seungkwan rolls his eyes and figures Wonwoo just really has that effect on people.
"This is Chan. He helps me out with the store. Chan, this is Wonwoo. I met him a while ago." Seungkwan says and Wonwoo takes the bouquet from Chan and shakes his hand.
"Don't break him." Seungkwan says and Wonwoo laughs. Chan bows and then goes back inside. Seungkwan laughs and Wonwoo laughs along.
"I'm gonna have to go. But I will be coming back okay? I've been asked to hover over you." Wonwoo says and Seungkwan laughs.
"How has he been?" Seungkwan asks and Wonwoo shrugs.
"He's doing good. Whiney." Wonwoo says and Seungkwan laughs.
"Are they coming back soon?" Seungkwan asks and Wonwoo nods.
"I'll tell you when they're back. Don't worry." Wonwoo says and he walks away with a smile.
Seungkwan goes back and finds Chan standing by the entrance, watching Wonwoo walk away.
"You should move on. He's practically married anyways. Trust me." Seungkwan says and Chan sighs.
"I don't know if I want to be him or if I just want him." Chan says and Seungkwan laughs.
Seungkwan goes back to the counter and brings out the cake Chan got. Chan starts setting flowers outside and Seungkwan laughs as Chan sings along to Mingyu's songs. Seungkwan goes to the back to grab for his logbook to check for the inventory and he comes back to Chan standing by the counter with Wonwoo and the bouquet again.
"Oh, hey. Was something wrong with the flowers?" Seungkwan asks and Chan starts pointing at the flower while shaking his head.
"They're here!" Wonwoo's voice says from the entrance and Seungkwan peeks behind Chan and sees Wonwoo and Seungcheol smiling at him.
Seungkwan's mind processed everything in front of him right now, like how the flower is a couple of feet away from him being held by someone while Wonwoo was outside.
"Oh. Oh shit." Seungkwan says and then he hears him laugh. God, Seungkwan missed that laugh so much.
"Hey." Mingyu says and Seungkwan stares as he brings the bouquet down to smile at him.
"You jackass!" Seungkwan says as he walks around the counter to hit Mingyu's arm.
"You don't talk to me for months and the first thing you say is hey?" Seungkwan asks, hitting Mingyu's arm with every word.
"But I got you flowers."
"Oh yeah. It's really romantic of you to get me flowers from my own flower shop." Seungkwan yells and Mingyu laughs nervously.
"I didn't... I was just- Wonwoo told me to." Mingyu says and he points toward the entrance and Wonwoo smiles.
"You're so annoying and insufferable. I don't even know why I bothered missing you." Seungkwan says, crossing his arms in front of him as he stares at the flowers.
"I missed you, too." Mingyu says, he brought his arms down and wraps them around Seungkwan. Seungkwan unfolds his arms in front of him and held onto the back of Mingyu's shirt.
"Uhm. What the fuck?" Seungkwan hears from beside them and Seungkwan pushes Mingyu away. He turns to stare at Chan who's staring at him with the most horrified look Seungkwan has ever seen on him and Seungkwan smiles.
"Right. Uhm... Chan, this is Kim Mingyu. He's uh..." Seungkwan turns to Mingyu and Mingyu smiles.
"I'm his boyfriend." Mingyu says and Chan grabs Seungkwan's shoulders and grips at his sleeves.
"What the fuck?" Chan hisses under his breath and Seungkwan laughs.
"Sorry about him. He's a fan." Seungkwan says and Chan pulls at Seungkwan.
"Don't tell him that. What the fuck is wrong with you?" Chan hisses again and Mingyu laughs.
"Seems like everyone close to you is a fan. It's nice to meet you, Chan." Mingyu says and Chan lets go of Seungkwan in a matter of a second and faces Mingyu.
"Nice to meet you, too." Chan says and he kept bowing his head.
"Speaking of fans." Mingyu says and Seungkwan turns to the entrance and sees Vernon smiling at him. Seungkwan runs past Chan and Mingyu as soon as Vernon steps in the store and they laughed as they hold on to each other.
"You're here!" Seungkwan says and Vernon nods. They pull away long enough to laugh at each others faces and Seungkwan looks around.
"Seungcheol was helping me look around for a place I can stay in. We're gonna start preparing for my thing in a week."
"our thing?"
"His debut." Mingyu says and Vernon laughs.
"Dude. Stay with me." Seungkwan says and Vernon smiles.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure." Seungkwan says and Vernon laughs as he twirls Seungkwan around.
"This is real, right? I'm not, like, making this shit up?" Seungkwan says and Chan huffs.
"Oh, It's real. Trust me." Chan says and Seungkwan laughs.
Seungkwan watches as Mingyu pulls Vernon off of him and Vernon rolls his eyes.
"You know, after doing the entire tour with him, I can see what you mean about him being annoying." Vernon says and Mingyu huffs as he presses himself behind Seungkwan and wraps an arm around him.
"You used to have a twitter account dedicated to me." Mingyu reminds him and Vernon laughs.
"I still do. Now it's just for dissing you." Vernon says and he walks past them and looks around the store.
Chan regains his sanity for a while and ushered Wonwoo and Seungcheol in, and Seungkwan can't really hold it against him for staring at the couple since he's pretty sure he did that, too. Vernon sits behind the counter and beams at everyone, pretending to talk to a client, and Mingyu's arms tighten gently over his body as they stay where they are.
"Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to come by my place tonight? I can make dinner." Mingyu says and Seungkwan smiles and throws Mingyu's arm off of him.
"You've been back for like, five minutes and you're already hitting on me?" Seungkwan says, louder than he should to let everyone hear and Mingyu turns bright red as he looks at everyone looking at him.
"That's not- I'm just asking you out to dinner!" Mingyu argues and Seungkwan laughs.
"Sure. Dinner. Is that what kids these days say when they hook up?" Suengkwan asks and Mignyu groans.
"Come on, man. I thought I raised you better than that." Seungcheol says and Mingyu glares at him, red ears and all.
"You. Shut up. And you. Don't even think about saying anything." Mingyu says, pointing at Wonwoo and Wonwoo shrugs.
The rest of the morning went well, Seungkwan would hide all of them in the storage room in the back when there were people going in the shop and Chan was in cloud nine the entire day. Claiming that when he dies, he wants his heaven to be like this. a room full of flowers and pretty men. Seungkwan laughs at him and told him he can come to dinner with them if he promises to keep everything a secret. Chan nods and stares at Seungkwan.
"What?"
"I don't see it."
"See what?"
"That thing you have that I don't. do you think Mingyu will go out with a fan?" Chan asks and Seungkwan hits him at the back of his head and Chan laughs.
And a month from now, when Seungkwan's shop is filled with people and he'd already hired another staff to help with the sudden influx of orders, he assures Chan that it had nothing to do with the fact that he sends Vernon and Mingyu flowers at every single event or schedule they have. A single flower with a ribbon tied around it, a bouquet when it's a bigger event, and even flower crowns that Seungkwan had started to get a huge amount of requests for so they decided to just make them a regular thing for the shop. All of which would then end up in both of their Instagram accounts. They think Seungkwan won't notice them purposely letting the name of the store show in the photos so Seungkwaw had started sending them ones without tags or the name of the store.
Which just made them post photos of the flower and openly tag the account Seungkwan had for the store.
Chan won't believe him that he has nothing to do with their dumbassery so Seungkwan would still reasure him every once in a while.