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Yeonjun really shouldn’t let this affect him as badly as he is doing, but you can’t blame him. After six months of being single with his ex nowhere in sight, of course when he finally tries to find someone new they just HAD to cross paths once again.
With ragged breaths and teary eyes, Yeonjun makes his way through the lonely streets of Seoul reminiscing on what could have been a lovely night where he could have gotten a cute guy's number and, if he was extra lucky, his ass getting obliterated. Instead he’s walking home at 10pm with tears streaming down his face out of pain and not pleasure.
Suddenly, a loud honk rings in his ears and the next thing he knows a huge truck is swerving right past him, almost crushing his toes right into the road's concrete. He was so distracted by his thoughts he hadn’t even realised that he had wandered into the middle of the road where a truck was driving right at him… stepping back onto the path fuck that was close “if only it was a bit closer…” he sighed to himself
Wiping his eyes and shaking off the adrenaline, Yeonjun continues to walk home. He felt it first on his ankles, the pain of being crashed into with those heavy, automatic scooters. Before he knew it, Yeonjun was face first on the ground. Head hitting the pavement with a massive bang. Whipping his head around he shoots a glare at the perpetrator feeling anger bubble in his blood, even more so when he realises how fucking hot the guy is. Cursing under his breath he clambers onto his feet, pushing these huge strong hands that were trying to help away from him whilst forcing his mind to stop thinking about how they felt wrapping around his arms.
“Oh my gosh I’m so sorry I’m so sorry my scooter lost complete control I… I don’t know what happened”
With that Yeonjun burst into a body shaking sob leaving Soobin completely stunned, unknowing what to do.
“Are you hurt? What’s wrong? I’m so sorry I promise I didn’t mean to hurt you..”
Hearing this Yeonjun started spluttering mumbling incoherently between cries “stupid fucking scooter.. stupid delivery driver..” Seeing that the crying man was not calming down Soobin rubs his shoulder with his hand trying to calm him down and pull Yeonjun back to his senses whispering “It’s okay. You’re okay. Take deep breaths.”
Eventually Yeonjun sobs came to a stop, by now Soobin had brought them both to sit down on the curb still holding Yeonjuns shoulder. With a shaky breath, Yeonjun turned to face Soobin.
“I’m so sorry I don’t know what happened. I’m just having a really shit night. I didn’t mean to disturb your work, you can go now.”
“It’s okay, don't worry. Let me treat you to some ice cream?”
Yeonjun stared at him with an incredulous look.
“What did you just ask me?”
Soobins goes beet red covering his face and his ears out of shame.
“Ahh i wasn’t trying to be weird i promise, i just wanted to buy you a treat… because you’re having a bad night and you’re visibly upset, iI was hoping it would calm you down. I’m sorry if it came off as me being weird”
Soobins ramblings were cut off with a loud snotty laugh, sneaking a peak to his left catching Yeonjun looking at him with starry eyes.
“It just caught me off guard, you can treat me to ice cream if you want to…” He looks curiously in Soobins direction
“Soobin, my name's Choi Soobin.”
“Choi Soobin ... My name is Choi Yeonjun. It's nice to meet you.”
“It’s nice to meet you too, Choi Yeonjun”
With that they walked side by side towards the convenience store across the street with smiles on their faces. Excited by the prospect of devouring a cold soothing mint-chocolate ice cream, yeonjun sprinted towards the cold food section with Soobin following close behind.
“THEY HAVE IT THEY HAVE IT!! THEY HAVE MINT CHOCOLATE!” Yeonjun proceeded to squeal, holding his precious ice cream in front of Soobins face, smiling so widely his gums almost hurt. However Soobin just looked at him in utter disgust, “You… like mint-chocolate.. Ice cream?” Yeonjun was still gleaming, nodding his head up and down confirming Soobins worst nightmare. “I can’t believe I am about to purchase this… getting actual toothpaste would be cheaper.”
Yeonjun gasped in offense, holding his ice cream closer to his chest like a granny clutching her purse. “I can not believe you just said that mint-chocolate is NOTHING like toothpaste. I’m going to make you try it and you will like it I promise.”
Despite being disgusted, Soobin reluctantly agreed whilst picking his own respective ice cream rum and raisin.
“So here you were dissing my beloved mint chocolate ice cream and now you’re picking up rum and raisin…”
“Excuse me, it’s an acquired taste Yeonjun, you’re just not sophisticated enough.” Soobin says with the poshest voice he could muster before bursting into giggles making his way to the counter with Yeonjun mocking his words right behind him.
They leave the small store with ice cream in hand and chatter filling the air.
“Soobin, you said you would try some, open your mouth say ahhhh~”
Doing as told Soobin opened his mouth just a little, Yeonjun making little airplane noises leading up to the flavour, the disgusting flavour, of mint chocolate in his mouth. “Mmm delicious, thanks.” He said through gritted teeth. Yeonjuns laughter filled his ears and there Soobin decided that maybe mint chocolate isn’t that bad, not if it makes a cute guy laugh so angelically
After finishing their last few scoops, it was time for Soobin to continue his work, realising now that the food he was supposed to deliver has probably gone cold by now. Begrudgingly he breaks the news to Yeonjun seeing the cute boys face immediately fall.
“Hey, it was fun, thank you for tonight, I'm sorry I have to leave so soon but I don't want to lose any more stars…”
“Of course, I'm sorry for crying on you, I really appreciate the ice cream…uhm..it would be nice to do this again, under different circumstances you know? where you don’t try to kill me with your scooter?”
“That would be nice, next time I'll leave the scooter at home I promise.”
With smiles on their faces they exchanged numbers and parted ways walking in different directions but with hearts fluttering with excitement at what the future might hold for them