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“One large americano please” Hongjoong fumbles around in his wallet for his change.
“Anything else sir?”
“Uuhhh… Yeah can I get one of those donuts” Hongjoong points to the big pink ones by the counter and tries to avoid the gaze of the server
“Of course sir…”
He knew that his looks didn’t quite match the bright pink donut he had chosen but whatever just because he liked to look a certain way didn’t mean he had to act a certain way. Just because he loved his bright red hair with black clothes and a big chain didn’t mean it was all he had but people could think whatever they wanted.
Yeosang is watching the scene in front of him, the boy with bright red hair black clothes and a big chain acting so cool in front of everyone. He goes to the cafe every morning mostly to get his coffee but also to see this boy. He has tried to talk to him but everytime he does it seems that the other boy dismisses his actions and leaves all too fast.
Hongjoong picks up his coffee and looks around for a place to sit he notices the boy who is there all morning every morning, sometimes the boy tries to talk to him but he always gets too awkward to stay and leaves. That’s when the “bad boy image” comes in handy because he can just play it off like it’s how he wants to be seen. So he tries to act cool and sits at a table not too far from the boy but not too close either.
Yeosang sees him sit and as much as he wants to just go up to him and talk he has to work on this assignment and now is his only time so reluctantly he gives up for this morning. He looks down avoiding the socializing of the rest of the cafe focusing his thoughts on this essay in front of him, that is until he hears a loud groan from the cute boy and looks up in his direction.
Hongjoong’s hand slips and the coffee spills onto the table he tries to be quiet but a groan still falls past his lips as he tries to clean up the mess with the napkin he got from the server. Suddenly he sees more napkins on the table and when he looks up his insides flip he sees the boy, the same boy but this time he isn’t talking only helping to clean up the coffee from the table. It isn’t long he is able to look at him but in the time he does he notices how beautiful he is even with the nerdy glasses and plain t-shirt.
Yeosang shot up from his seat and grabbed his own napkins as soon as he understood what had happened. He practically ran and started cleaning up the table though the donut is already soaked in the lukewarm coffee ‘that’s not so appetizing’
“I don’t think you should eat more of this”
Yeosang says and looks at the boy slightly
Hongjoong coughs and looks at the donut avoiding Yeosang a eyes
“Oh uhm don’t worry I’ll *cough*” Hongjoong clears his throat
“I’ll figure it out dw” he says trying to get the boy to walk away
Yeosang is perplexed the change of personality on the boy is like two different people but he ignores it
“I’ll just throw it out no worries” yeosang tries to continue the conversation
“Nah don’t, just go back to writing I gotta go anyways”
Hongjoong pick up all his things quickly throws his charger in his bag and swings the bag over his shoulder
“Okay bye” Hongjoong yells as he starts going towards the door
“Uhm bye?”
Yeosang looks after the red hair half running out the door as he stands there with a coffee mug now filled with a soggy donut and soaked napkins.
‘No, this won’t happen like this again’
Yeosang quickly throws away the trash and picks up his laptop and runs out of the cafe.
Lucky the cute boy has red hair so he isn’t too hard to spot even the speed he was walking away earlier he hasn’t gotten far enough to be out of sight. Yeosang bolts after him yelling once he got close enough
“HEY WAIT UP”
The boy looks back slightly and stops up once he notices Yeosang running after him.
Once Yeosang is finally caught up he notices how the boy is standing fiddling with his chain looking at the ground, much less intimidating and cool than he seemed in the cafe.
“Why do you always run off like that”
“What do you mean”
“Well whenever I try to talk to you, you just leave!” Yeosang fixes his glasses
“I… I didn’t mean to I’m just not used to people talking to me randomly” ‘especially cute boys’ Hongjoong thinks to himself, thanking the gods he didn’t say that out loud.
“Well you could be a little nice about it!” Yeosang is still a little angry that his attempts were unsuccessful for so long.
“I’m sorry” Hongjoong whispers only just loud enough for Yeosang to hear and he is stunned
“Excuse me what?”
“I said… I’m sorry I just didn’t know how to act” Hongjoong Looks down at his hands now fiddling with his rings.
“Well maybe if you sit with me tomorrow morning we can try to talk more and it won’t be so awkward”
“Uhm okay I guess we can do that”
With that yeosang’s face lights up ‘FINALLY’ all his attempts hadn’t been for nothing.
“Okay that’s a deal then tomorrow, same time as always?”
“Yeah let’s do that” Hongjoong agrees to yeosangs question and starts to turn around to walk away
“Wait what’s your name?” He remembers to ask just as they’re about to part ways
“I’m Yeosang” the boy smiles ‘hmm Yeosang that’s pretty like him”
“I’m Hongjoong” he answers back and Yeosang smiles at him
“See you tomorrow”
“See you”