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Summer had just started and it is boiling hot in the middle of the day in Seoul. Kun had just entered a busy cafe where everyone is trying to cool off the heat, he nonchalantly ordered the only drink he can think of, an iced americano, and picked a seat right next to a window where he would be able to see if his friends had arrived.
He can see his two friends walking from the distance, those two men being Chittapon Leechaiyapornkul, or Ten in short, the short and feisty one between the three, and Kim Dongyoung, or you can just call him Doyoung, the one who carries the last braincell whenever Ten and Kun would bicker endlessly.
His mind went back to earlier that month, where out of the blue, his friends who are also his roommates, started a bet, it was mostly Ten’s idea. They need to find a boyfriend within 30 days, and the one who fails this will be assigned the task of buying the groceries for the next 3 months, which is “Insane, how could a broke college student like me afford 3 months worth of groceries for 3 people?” Kun said frustratingly to Ten the day they started the bet. “Not my problem,” Ten shrugged. And from then, the fight is on.
It has been 15 days, halfway towards the end of the bet, and Kun hasn’t even got a clue to someone that could be his boyfriend, or a fake boyfriend at least, so that he would not be accountable for the groceries. He knows several freshmen and sophomores in his college, all of them he knew because they were all Chinese international students, just like him. But those are not included, because Kun had managed to adopt each and every one of them. The people from his year that he really know are only Ten and Doyoung, and there’s no way he could be acquainted to a senior. So he’s just there desperately needing a miracle, that for some reason, a stranger would just walk up to him, and asked him to be their boyfriend.
Kun was just absentmindedly waiting for Ten and Doyoung to order their drinks when a tall senior came up to him (he knew this because he had seen them and their group of friend hanging out several times anywhere near their college), this particular senior being the one he had a crush on in his earlier years in college, but that’s nothing big, just a platonic “Oh he looks good,” and Kun had never think about any of it again.
He was preparing himself to answer a few questions as he knows that most of the seniors were assigned tasks to interview people around the college to add to their paper. So Kun cleared his throat and sat back up to look presentable. But what comes next was unimaginable, the senior walked towards him with a confident smile and asked “Would you be my world?” And in that moment, for some unknown reason, either it is because of his desperation of finding a boyfriend just to win the bet, or because of the caffeine rush in his body, Kun straight up answered “Yeah, sure, what’s your number?”
And the man’s confident smile just faded away, replaced with a shocked face, and a second later, a proud face, as if he just won a lottery.
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It was a particularly hot day and Johnny had reminded his friends of that for a million times that day. “I know, it’s hot, but can you please just drink this iced americano and stop complaining, you talking would just make it hotter for you,” answered Taeyong. “Just chill dude, the heat will cool down eventually,” Yuta added.
Those two are his friends ever since the start, they were in the same class for psychology 101 and they had been best friends ever since. Taeyong being the mother and more mature one of the group, and Yuta being the most playful and annoying of the group. While you can debate that Johnny also likes to tease and annoy them, he just simply can't beat Yuta when it comes to fooling Taeyong with his false informations.
And out of the blue, Yuta had suggested to play truth and dare, which in the beginning Taeyong opposed to as they were already sweating badly even with doing nothing, but he finally gave in as both of his friends convinced him that it would distract them from the heat.
So the game started. At first the game was going on relatively civil, with the truths of asking whether they have any crushes or any secrets that they kept from each other, and the dare of buying ice cream for the other person. But as it goes, the game progressively grew crazier to the point where Johnny had to give a pick-up line that Yuta can only describe as “Cheesy as hell, but if it’s Johnny who said it, i’d give a thousand fucking yes,” to a stranger in the cafe. Thankfully Johnny noticed a familiar face seated in the table beside the window, a junior that he sometimes sees hanging out either in the piano room by himself, or in the park with his group of crazy friends (that is objective, as he thought his group of friends are crazier).
So he confidently walked towards the dimpled man and asked “Would you be my world?” no hellos, no introductions, straight up to the point. He can see that the other person is taken aback, but he didn’t get to prepare himself for what’s happening after, the stranger suddenly answered “Yeah, sure, what’s your number?” with a weird smirk on their face. Johnny nearly failed to put himself together but he managed to put a somewhat winning smile on his face, as if he just got an award from the president himself.
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It is currently summer in Seoul, a particularly hot one, Johnny barely managed to get out of the bed as he didn’t really have any energy to face the day. As he walked towards the kitchen, a warm smell of fresh cooked pancakes and hot coffee emerged towards him, which immediately wakes him up. A familiar face peaked from behind the kitchen, “I’m cooking bacon and egg, do you wants some?” asked the other person, “Yes please,” Johnny answered. It has been 10 years since the cheesy question asking thingy happened and Johnny still can’t get it out of his head, how that little question had brought an immense love and comfort in form of a man, Qian Kun.
“Do you remember that day when I asked you to be my world?” Johnny asked. “I wouldn’t be able to forget, a not so unfamiliar stranger just walked towards me and asked me a question that nobody had ever asked me, I was startled, but also thankful that I wouldn’t need to buy the groceries for the next three months,” Kun answered with a smirk.
“It was also a really really humid day in Seoul,” Kun added. “That’s why I was reminded of that day, it is not really different from today,” Johnny answered. “But what is different is that day, I was trying to cool it off with friends and was trying to give pick-up lines to strangers, but today, I get to cool it off with you and no need for pick-up lines or strangers,” Johnny said with a wide smile.
No one could ever known, in a dramatic turn of events, that a person who was once never present in Johnny’s world, can be his entire universe. “You’re not only my world, you’re my universe, my whole life revolves around you.”