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Till was working as usual, waiting for the day to end so he'd go home and rest after a long exhausting day. "Till wanna eat lunch together? With Sua, Luka, and Hyuna too" Mizi smiled; Till blushed from her smiles, I mean who wouldn't? Your crush literally smiled at you! "Uh... Huh? S-sure!" Till was practically stuttering at this point..."nice! I'll go tell the others, let's all meet up outside the building, Hyuna said she knows a place where to eat at" Till nods slowly as the blush on his face grows redder from how pretty Mizi gets every word she says.
Mizi goes back to her place and they start working again. Finally lunch break came and Till fixes his things and heads outside the building where he sees Luka and Sua standing there while Mizi waving at him, asking Till to go to where they at and so he does "where's Hyuna?" Till asks while looking around to see signs of Hyuna "she said she's just fixing her things, let's just wait for 5 minutes I'm sure she's almost done" Sua says while looking at her watch.
Hyuna finishes and goes down to where the others are, she firsts pinches Till's squishy cheeks and they all start to walk to the place Hyuna suggested to eat at.
It was soon interrupted by a black haired twink calling out for Till with a huge smuggish grin, his eyes turns cresent shaped when he opens it a little while looking at Till's back "Till where are you going? Thought we set a date already?" He walked up to Till from behind and stopped when he's 20 feet away from leaving a gap so he'd be able to pull his back collar from behind, pulling the guy to him.
"Ack! Ivan!? What the fuck are you doing here!?" He practically yells in both concussion and madness, Ivan smiles at him only not giving a response.
"Mr Ivan...?" The group stares at the two boys and Sua starts talking to make it less awkward for them. Ivan stares at the grojjj?
up with no expressions, all the cheekiness leaving his face when he's faced with others that aren't Till.
"Yes?" He replies back to Sua, everyone looks at each other awkwardly except Ivan and Till (which was patting away dusts from his clothes from the pull Ivan did) "Mr. Ivan... Uhh... Would you like to join us from lunch..?" Mizi asks shit why did I even ask him for lunch! Of course he'd decline this guy's rich as fuck! Aaaaaaaaa!!!! Mizi internally yells to herself.
"Hm? Hmmm..." Ivan looks towards Till while humming thinking of an answer "sure" he shows a sinister grin to everyone.
Everyone was at loss for words, they couldn't believe it, the biggest sponsor of their company is currently eating with them. Everyone felt awkward except for Ivan which was joyfully munching his food.
After a while the lunch ended and they all said their good byes awkwardly and hurriedly leaving. It's not that they don't like Ivan or anything, it just feels awkward eating with some hot shot from your workplace.
Before Till could leave though Ivan talked to him privately or just one-on-one, "Till I'll message you later, I have something to say alright? So don't you dare ignore it" a dark aura fills the room an intimidating one from none other than Ivan which was just grinning innocently; He pats Till's head not waiting not wanting a response from him.
While Till starts working again trying to get rid of everything that happened between him and Ivan at lunch, but h le just can't seem to focus, only thinking of the message Ivan will send sooner or later.
"Let's settle another date tomorrow, just the two of us" Ivan sent to Till followed by a winning emoji. Till starts to break down inside his head fuck! why did I even overthink his stupid message when it's just this!? Till stops himself from slamming his clenched fists on his table, so he ends up just sending a like emoji.
Ivan wasn't satisfied with his reply but he let's it off the hook anyways, he sighs and takes a sip of his coffee while looking at the view from his ginormous window haa... Till... and so he stresses over some guy again tonight, and the same guy as the other nights.
Till leaves work at 6PM and heads home. Once he got there he takes a warm shower and gets into comfy clothes, ready to sleep. He lays down on his bed, his eyes slowly starting to close until it fully closes.
There he dreams of another odd dream, a dream from the past.
"Auntie this tastes really good! Can I get 5 bowls!?" Till asks at the pretty looking woman cooking chicken soup, eggs, and rice; she laughs at his cuteness and nods "of course, eat as many as you like, Till" she says with a warm smile, Till's eyes glow up and he starts to eat everything prepared. Ivan looks at Till's eyes "Till... Your eyes are really pretty, they're shinning even" Till's friend says nonchalantly while taking a bite of his food.
Till tilts his head "huh? Really?" He asks then quickly looks at any shiny glass to see his reflection, he gets close to it trying to check his eyes if it really was shinning just like what **** said "huh? No it's not!!" Till pouts and huffs annoyed, **** looks at Till and starts to laugh at his silly gestures; Till seeing his friend laugh lit up his mood and starts to laugh a little finished with a very huge smile.
And so they both continue to eat while smiling and laughing.
Till wakes up from his dream and checks the time: 5:00AM he grunts and sits up while rubbing his eyes "another day of work, feel like I'm gonna die soon at this point" Till jokes to himself then shrugs (A/N: Read First date/day 3, he died there lol).
He arrives at work on time, the usual 7AM and he starts working. Lunch time comes and he stretches out his arms, he walks to the elevator to go down to the work's canteen until he sees Ivan leaning against the door frame "you aren't going anywhere, because you and me are going somewhere" Ivan smiles, Till tries to speak but was cut off by Ivan grabbing his hand and dragging him to his car. Till gets in and Ivan puts on his seat belt so Till doesn't have to do it.
"Where' we going?" "To my favorite Cafeteria" Ivan starts the car and starts driving too, Till looks at him in a "???" Way but he dare not ask about it.
They got there and Ivan orders a chicken soup, eggs, and rice just like what I saw in my dreams last night! Till looks at Ivan with wide eyes, Ivan looks back at Till "hm? Something wrong?" "N-no... Just uh... Nevermind" Till coughs and looks away out of embarrassment. They both enjoy their lunch and once done Ivan drops Till back to his work "You free tomorrow?" Ivan asks "Yes, of course, it's Saturday" Till said rolling his eyes sarcastically letting a laugh out of Ivan's mouth "haha right, I forgot. Well shall we part ways now?" "Yeah" and they both went to separate ways.
After work Till arrives home a little late than the time he usually arrives home. He does his normal routine and gets to bed, only this time he spent his whole night texting with Ivan and ended up staying awake late, until 2AM to be specific; eh it doesn't matter anyways cause he has no work tomorrow anyways.
"Till! Time to go home now!" Till's mom said. Till all dirtied and sweaty from playing at the playground, "Yes ma!" He answered and took all his toys and of course waved to his friend "I'm going now! Bye ****!" He said and ran to his mom where she scolded him for being all dirty.
**** just sits below the slide waiting for his mom, all alone with no one to play with.
He wakes up from his dream and yawns while stretching "phew it's been a while since my sleep ever felt nice" "ha..." He lets out a breath of relief, "that was an odd dream though... " I wonder what happened...
Till checks his phone to see Ivan message him: "Let's meet up" Till reads the message and reacts it with a thumbs up, a little too lazy to type anything.
No one knows how but whenever Ivan asks Till out to go somewhere they know what place to meet at, the park... What an odd spot though but no one complained.
They both see each other and Ivan takes Till to fun places that they lost count of how many places they went too. Their last destination was a playground near Ivan's house back when he was a child, he sits there on the swing with Till while they talk about literally anything and everything going on with their life.
"Hey, I have one place I want us to go to" Ivan says while looking at the view in front of him, the wind blowing away his hair and Till looking at him mesmerized "where?" Till asks and looks at the view also curious as to why Ivan loves it so much "hm, it's a secret place of mine back when I was a child, I used to go there with a friend of mine before... You're the second person to ever see that place with me..." Ivan smiles bitterly "why? What happened to your friend?"
Ivan tries recalls everything he could "well, he was a really important person to me, if not he's more important to me than my own family even. Well we both got into an accident and I lost my memories of him and everything that happened before I was 8, I don't exactly know what happened to him but seeing how I don't feel a sense of nostalgia to the kids in this playground we're at then I'm guessing he didn't survive" Ivan looks at the ground, Till looks at him with pity in his eyes, he pats Ivan's back to comfort him a little. He doesn't say anything though, he knows he doesn't have to anyways.
As time passes they become even more and more closer with each other, during week days they would eat together at lunch time, and weekends or just when they aren't busy they travel around various places.
7 months passed and both felt like the happiest person alive, they've never felt so much joy in their lives and it was a really nice feeling to say the least, they didn't want to separate to one another.
"Let's go to the secret place I talked about 7 months ago" Ivan casually says while taking a bite of Ivan's homemade lunch that they both shared "really? You trust me that much?" Till says sarcastically but still Ivan nods "yep"
"So when exactly?" Till takes out his phone to put it on his reminder "..."
"When I feel alone" Till looks at him with a "are you serious?" Face then puts his phone back to his pocket "stop being vague, tch" he clicked his tongue and they both continue to eat.
Ivan arrives home and suddenly he gets a phone call from his mom, he answers and they talk about how they are doing which both are fine. "Ah by the way, the child you used to be friends with..." His mother stops and tries to just switch the topic "ah nevermind, anyways I have to go now, your father wants to eat dinner now" Ivan was confused why she bought him up "why what's wrong with 'him'?"
His mother remained silent then starts to talk "he's alive... I won't tell you any details about him, I want you to regain your memories alone" she hangs up and Ivan feels a sense of relief and sadness at the same time. He scrolls through his contacts looking for Till's name to give him a call, Till picks up "what?" He straights up says.
"Let's meet" Ivan said, "Right now!? What are you insane? It's nine 'o clo–" he was cut by Ivan hanging up.
Ivan drives to Till's house and there he waits for his friend to get out of the house (A/N: Ivan messaged Till that he's going to his place btw I was just to lazy to write it) Till gets out of his apartment and there he sees Ivan. Ivan grabs his hand and takes him somewhere, Till doesn't know where though, he just let's Ivan drag him.
They arrive to a windy hill and went to the top of it, Ivan and Till stands there while holding hands, their hair blown by the wind and Ivan inhaling the fresh air, Till doesn't know what's happening then he realizes this is the secret place Ivan was talking about, he looks at Ivan worriedly "are you alright?"
"... Let's watch the stars tonight" Till doesn't mind Ivan ignoring his questions and just nods. They sat on the green grass and watched as more and more stars starts to shine in the dark blue sky, Till's face lights up from how beautiful it looks. And it remained that way, the two boys forgetting about all their problems as if it never existed.
"Till...your eyes are so pretty, they're shining even" Ivan looks at Till.
haven't I heard that line before? Oh well Till shrugs to himself and rests his head on Ivan's shoulder.
"Your eyes are also pretty, the darkness lighting up from the stars, don't you feel a sense of happiness? For the first time, your eyes covered the darkness with light" like how you came into my boring life and gave me memories like the stars, always shining and beautiful to look at.