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In Wonwoo’s life, there is a single most familiar to him, and the is Wen Junhui. Wonwoo met Junhui when they were in elementary, a cute foreigner kid who just transferred in their class, and Wonwoo just gravitated to him because he likes the quiet and calm Junhui, unlike all the kids in their class that is rambunctious.When the duo entered middle school, they then met the loud Kwon Soonyoung and his complete opposite Lee Jihoon. The four seemingly different people was put together by fate but they had an unbreakable friendship that would stand the test of time. By the time they entered High School, Wonwoo and Jun had already fallen in love, being made fun of because their extremely conservative classmates but that just made them stronger, and by the time they entered University, both of them already lived together having both gotten kicked out from their respective homes because their parents are homophobic and can’t accept that both their eldest children are in a relationship together. But Wonwoo and Jun is fine, they are both smart kids who had gotten scholarships to Uni and they have Soonyoung and Jihoon’s parents taking care of them as their second parents and everything is alright in their world.
Fast forward to the four of them finishing University, Wonwoo is now an architect, having interned at a famous firm that immediately snatched him up as soon as he finished studying, Jun as a Music major have gotten teaching position at a private institution, Soonyoung, contrary to everyone believing he’ll grow bored and change majors every year in Uni, has now finished studying Law, and Jihoon is a shadow artist, taking up the cyberworld by storm and everyone wanting to know who the mysterious ‘Woozi’ is. All of them is successful in their field when tragedy struck their world.
“Zhuu Jai*...wake up, hmmmm, you have an early meeting today right?” a gentle voice shook Wonwoo awake making a smile appear in his face. Wonwoo opened his eyes and saw his lovers handsome face, with his messy hair and sleepy eyes still, Wonwoo can’t believe how lucky he is that he has someone like Junhui in his life.
“Thank you so much, Junnie, I’ll just go and take a shower. Can you cook for me? Please?” Wonwoo asked with a cute tone that made his boyfriend laugh.
“Already done! Now go and get your butt in the shower so you could eat already,” Jun said with a smile and kissed Wonwoo’s forehead one last time before going outside the room. Wonwoo really doesn’t know what he did in his former life to deserve Jun, but he promised himself once again that he’ll do anything to make the other happy.
Wonwoo finished up his shower and worn the clothes his boyfriend had thoughtfully laid out for him. He then followed the sweet scent of french toast to find his boyfriend wearing an apron and whistling a familiar tune. He can’t help himself and hug the older.
“It’s not fair, how can you be so good looking, knows how to sing and dance, and then is an excellent cook? How are you still human? Can you have an obvious flaw please so I won’t be intimidated to have you as my boyfriend?” Wonwoo teasingly whispered into Jun’s left ears making the older blush.
“I have an obvious flaw Zhuu Jai, and that is loving you,” Jun said with a laugh and got away from Wonwoo’s embrace. Wonwoo let out an indignant huff and jokingly glared at him.
“Excuse me, the greatest thing you did in life was loving me, hmpf!” Wonwoo huffed and Jun just laughed at how silly Wonwoo looks right now. And just like that, the morning they spent was lovely as ever.
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It was business as usual for Wonwoo at the office. Just after a few years of work in his company, he had already been promoted at a senior position and was handling big accounts that only senior management can get their hands on. And right now, Wonwoo is looking at the proposed blueprint that he and his team had formulated for a good month just to satisfy their client.
"Sir, I don't think we can change anything to the plans anymore. We had already give it our best so that we could satisfy our customer's picky demands. Why don't you just send it for their perusal already?" Lee Chan, one of their young interns asked.
"Kid, you're too young still. Look at the plan, do you think this is perfect?" Wonwoo asked with a teasing smile.
Not just Chan, but his whole team looked at him with confusion in their eyes. In their perspective, they've done everything they could have done to make this project a success!
"No one gets it? Okay, look here," Wonwoo enlarged the 3D blueprint and pointed at the lower section. "Who designed this part?"
"I did sir!" a female voice answered.
"Great work as usual Seola! But you missed out one vital point of the project, anyone can guess it?"
Still, silence answered Wonwoo and he just sighed. Working at this industry, it is easy to get lost in the glamour of the design work that they sometimes forget the most fundamental parts.
"If we implement this as is, give it a good 10 years and the building would collapse, you know why? Because the foundation is not secure. The design is brilliant and you won't figure it out if you're a newbie, but if you look at it this way, the weight of the material would be the downfall of the whole building..." Wonwoo continued to explain the problem he noticed to the astonishment of his team. After careful consideration, they managed to fix the problem to their great relief.
Their meeting lasted for a whole six hours so now it is time for break. One by one, his team members got out of Wonwoo's room with a smile on their face because they finally finished their main work with a week to spare. The only ones left in the room is Chan and Wonwoo.
"Chan, why don't you go with the other interns and get some food? Our work is done for the day anyway and you could finish up some school works in your free time."
"Sir, I can do that later, but I wanted to ask before someone else does." Chan took a deep breath and shakily looked at Wonwoo, when he received his nod of approval, he continued. "I just... Can you be my mentor after my internship with the company? Graduation is just around the corner and I am already contracted to work here at that time. And I know a lot of interns would be working here too and would want you as their mentor so I need to be the first yo ask and hopefully you'll accept. Sir please, if you do accept I'll do my best to-"
Wonwoo stopped the blabbering intern's words with a laugh. "Lee Chan, breathe. Okay, inhale, exhale. Yes, now you're not as red as before. Slowly now, get to the main question."
"Sir Wonwoo, would you be my mentor?"
"Now, isn't that an easy question? Of course I'll be your mentor! You know you're my favorite intern," Wonwoo said with a smile.
Wonwoo could see the young man wanting to jump for joy when Wonwoo whispered, "but you have to keep this a secret first, okay? Especially me saying you're my favorite. I don't want Boo Seungkwan coming here screaming hysterics! Imagine the loudness!" WOnwoo shuddered playfully.
Lee Chan imagined the scenario painted by the older and shivered. Boo Seungkwan is his loudest classmate and had a severe crush on Sir Wonwoo and if he ever finds out that he, Lee Chan, beat him to ask for Wonwoo's mentorship, there would be hell to pay.
"Don't worry sir, not a word would come out of my mouth until you say the word that I can reveal it."
"Good boy, Channie. Now of you go and take your well deserve break. Meet me with the rest of the team tomorrow okay?"
"Yes sir!" And with a military salute, the intern went out of Wonwoo's office.
Wonwoo smiled fondly at the younger's antics and just shook his head. Wonwoo the looked at his phone that had been vibrating nonstop earlier but he can't look at it until he finished the meeting. Seeing Soonyoung's name and the number of missed calls, Wonwoo is torn if he should call back his friend. Normally, Soonyoung would only call to annoy him knowing he's busy with work, but before he could think much of it, his phone rang again, this time it was Jihoon.
"Hey Ji! What's up?" Wonwoo asked with a cheerful tone.
"Wonwoo, don't ask any questions, just please go to the hospital near our former Uni. Please hurry, I'll tell you everything when you get here," Jihoon said in a forced calm tone but Wonwoo could hear the silent panic in his voice.
"Why? Did someone got hurt?"
"Wonwoo please, just come here okay? I'll tell everything to you later."
"Okay, I'll be there, I'm going out of my office now, okay?"
"Thank you Wonwoo, please, just hurry up. Please," Wonwoo heard Jihoon's defeated tone as he hung up. Wonwoo doesn't know why but he suddenly feel something awful had happen so he quickly put all his belongings in his bag and quickly walked out of his office.
Seeing Chan eating a sandwich in his cubicle, Wonwoo instructed the young man to tell the others that he will be going out for the day and the rest should decide if they would also want to go home after they come from their break. Seeing the younger nod his head, Wonwoo walked quickly to the elevator, and rushed out from the building to go to the hospital, his heart beating fast, hoping and praying to all the gods out there that everything would be alright.