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"D'you want to get snacks?" Jungwon says after he knocks softly on Sunoo's door, leaning onto the white wooden frame as he waits for Sunoo to answer.
"Hmm? Yeah sure, let me just finish this…" Sunoo states, continuing to write in his notebook about something that's flashed on the screen of his laptop.
Jungwon figures that Sunoo won't be done in a short while so he walks over to the desk and peeks on what he's writing about "Still not done with your feature writing essay?" He questions, looking intently at the paper in front of him, it was full of scribbles and crossed out words but yet it still looked nice and neat.
"Yeah, My English teacher just decided that what I wrote was rubbish so I have to start over again…" Sunoo answers, huffing as swipes again on his laptop's trackpad.
"Give me five minutes…You can sit on my bed if you want to. It's okay, I'm changing the sheets later so…" Sunoo adds on. Jungwon smiles, he knows how big of a thing it is that Sunoo is letting him sit on his bed even with outside clothes on 'cause he knows just how much having a clean space means to the boy.
"M'kay, just tap my leg or something if you're ready to go." Jungwon states, fishing his phone out of his hoodie's pocket. Still opting to sit on one of Sunoo's random bean bags around the room.
A few minutes pass and Jungwon finally hears the click of the pen Sunoo uses. Noises of him clearing his desk are amplified in the small space.
"Let's go? I want to eat ice cream like right now…" Sunoo asks, offering his hand to a still seated Jungwon. "Mhm. Let's go!" Jungwon answers, taking the hand and hoisting himself up. Once fully standing, he's eye to eye with Sunoo.
"He's seriously so fucking beautiful. I can stare at him forever… I think my heart just went on to do fifty somersaults in a second-" Jungwon thinks to himself.
"Let's goooooo!" Sunoo giddily says and walks outside his room. Grabbing himself a beanie and his wallet before completely skipping outside their dorm. Jungwon stares blankly at the wall for a few seconds before running after Sunoo. "The fuck was that about- tch" Jungwon snickers to himself.
"How's nursing school?" Jungwon raises the question once they're fully outside their dormitory. "I feel like shit actually… It's stressing me out! And add in the essay thing! I just-" Sunoo rambles on, pausing his sentence to take a breather. Ranting to the other was no stranger to them, they constantly ask the other about how they are and if they're willing to share something that's happening to them lately. Kinda like what most best friends do. Except they don't exactly feel platonic feelings for the other…
"You're doing great Sun… don't you give me that look! I genuinely fucking mean it!" Jungwon defends himself as Sunoo raises his brow at him, clearly not that happy with the way things are turning out for him at nursing school. Sunoo had a habit of doubting himself and Jungwon took it upon himself as his roommate and friend (and potential soulmate) to make sure that Sunoo knows he's doing great and someone's proud of him.
Nursing school is challenging, Jungwon knows exactly that, nothing more, nothing less. Exactly the reason as to why he's so proud and in awe of Sunoo for pursuing the course, because he himself wouldn't even dare go down the path the latter is taking. Jungwon thinks he doesn't have the patience for that type of course yet, he's taking business management which Sunoo replies with a "You're fucking crazy if you're in business management. I can't stand that many numbers!"
"Yeah right…sure, whatever you say you dimwit…Oh hey, we're here!" Sunoo says, excitedly running into the store to go get the ice cream he has been talking about almost ten minutes prior. Jungwon just looks at his happy back that's waddling around like a baby penguin as he tries to locate the ice cream freezers.
Jungwon follows inside and greets the cashiers, walking into the aisles. Grabbing multiple bags of chips, bottles of iced coffees, and a slushie from the slushie machines inside the store and then walks back up to the smiling cashier whom Sunoo handed his credit card to.
"So what are you doing once we get back home?" Jungwon brings up, hoping the older boy had nothing to do (which is very unlikely).
"Study? Yeah…I have another pdf to skim through before I finish that fucking essay." Sunoo says as he rolls his eyes.
"Oh. So much for a movie night…" Jungwon clicks his tongue discreetly.
"Crap, is it raining?" Sunoo whispers, licking his ice cream as Jungwon finishes his transaction with the cashiers. "It's just a little drizzle, we'll be fine Sun." Jungwon answers, holding his plastic bag of goods in one hand and his slushie in the other, walking outside the store, handing Sunoo his card back.
"If I get sick I'm going to kick you on the face. Goddamn it Jungwon-" Sunoo tries to say but he doesn't quite finish because Jungwon's already out of the covered area, signalling Sunoo to come with.
"When did you last go under the rain and enjoy it? Let's loosen up for a bit. I don't wanna go back the dorm yet-" Jungwon splutters continuously like he's fucking rapping, still slurping the slushie very rapidly, "ah shit! Brain freeze!" He calls out and Sunoo cackles at him.
"Deserved- Ah!" Sunoo says and gets pulled under the continuous rain, the droplets gradually getting larger and duplicating in amount. "Jungwon- this is full on fucking raining! Drizzle my ass!" Sunoo half yells, throwing away the leftover packaging of his now long gone mint flavored ice cream. "Oh great! I'm wearing flip flops too-" He notices his black colored slip on slippers as he looks down and wipes the raindrops that have settled on his eyelashes.
"Goddamn you Jungwon!" Sunoo says as he chases Jungwon who started running while carrying the snacks he bought for the two of them. "Bleh! Come catch me you turtle!" Jungwon teases like a second grader, looking back at him while sticking his tongue out.
Sunoo and Jungwon run through the streets that are barely awake in the darkness and cold of the night. The moon's glow serves as light and guide for the both of them and the fast pacing of their hearts and mind clearing them of any worries momentarily.
It wasn't long before Jungwon slowed down, worried about his roommate's stamina and well being. And being the caring boy he is, he waits for Sunoo to come closer to him.
"You okay?" He asks.
"What… Do…You…Think? Ha-" Sunoo barely manages to say. With his palms on top of his knees, he almost accidentally sits himself down on the wet ground. Jungwon giggles. "Oh my God what are you laughing at?" Sunoo spews out, sneering at Jungwon.
"Come 'ere, I'm carrying you all the way back." Jungwon says, crouching down on the ground in front of the boy. One of his hands runs through Sunoo's wet hair while the other hand holds the boy's chin up so he can look at him. It's rather romantically cringe if Sunoo and Jungwon would see themselves from a third person's point of view…
Sunoo continues to calm himself down before grabbing the grocery bag from in between Jungwon's legs and telling him to turn back on him. Jungwon feels himself smile so wide the moment he turns his back on Sunoo. The butterflies in his stomach rapidly flapping around that he feels that if he throws up he'll be puking up multi-species of butterflies.
He hears a moment of rustling before he feels cold and wet arms around his neck, feeling Sunoo's weight on him as he stands up before Sunoo can properly situate himself as he's being carried. Sunoo's body behind him was cold, wet and slightly weird yet it feels warm, comfortable, and it fills him with love and affection. The warmness if their bodies pressed together creating a small fire of warmth within them that keeps them toasty and shielded from the coldness of the rain and late might breeze.
"What the fuck is Sunoo doing to me… He's going to drive me crazy." Jungwon thinks once again to himself. He also thinks if they don't get home right now, he'll confess right here, right now…
Which doesn't sound like a bad idea for someone who is sleep deprived and is hungry for another round of late night snacks.
Sunoo (after being carried) reduced himself to only huffing and puffing here and there every once in a while, taking it to a minimum as he doesn't want Jungwon to let him down from his position because he started to feel lazy and tired (and also because he likes Jungwon to the point he doesn't mind being carried by him at all…).
The boy huffs again for the nth time that night and cranes his neck to the right. His nose bridge and eyelashes touching the side of Jungwon's neck. He feels Jungwon's breath hitch, he doesn't mind it as he thought Jungwon was just surprised by the movement.
And boy was he wrong because Jungwon was full of red on his face if he looked at him right now.
"I'm taking a nap, wake me up if we're at home." Sunoo whispers, already closing his eyes and drifting off to sleep.
"Right now? Yeah sure…" Jungwon says before he repositions to carry Sunoo properly. Holding the boy gently so as to not shake him awake.
Jungwon walks on the empty road with a sleeping Sunoo on his back who is also carrying a bag full of food. Jungwon smiles at the thought of them right now, he enjoys spending time with the older. He would do absolutely anything just to make Sunoo happy. He looks up at the night sky and sees two stars twinkling brightly above them, he closes his eyes for a split second; wishing that those stars would guide them both on their journey's on life whether it were them being together or them being in different paths, he wishes for the both of them happiness and fulfillment in their lives…
"I love you." Jungwon says out loud to Sunoo whom he thought was sleeping soundly until he heard a "I love you too." back with a matching kiss on the back of his neck.
He smiles.
Night times truly are full of moments to treasure and remember…