Chapter Text
On a cold spring day,
only warmth can
bring us
together.
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Kenshin is a bright 16 year old high school student in his first year.
He has a special perspective in viewing life that can make everyone around him smile from ear to ear.
He woke up today at 6:00am to get ready for school while rubbing his eyes, yawning and trying to remember what dream he had last night.
He got up and looked outside his window and noticed a bright and energetic rainbow.
He then freshened up and wore his school uniform and put on some cute natural makeup with some pink pretty blush.
He was excited to start his day today as his favourite roblox game was going to get a huge update and just thinking about it gave him butterflies in his stomach.
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He was ready to head off outside his bedroom until he heard some very loud footsteps outside his window.
He wondered,
“Who could possibly be walking this loudly at 6am?
That's really strange.”
He moved to the corner of the window hiding his whole body except his eyes because the footstep sound was getting louder, and louder and he was starting to get
scared and have all sorts of scary thoughts and conspiracy theories that the footsteps were coming from a zombie and that maybe a zombie apocalypse has started without his knowledge.
Kenshin's heartbeat started beating faster and faster as he can no longer handle the suspense and a few moments later..
Kenshin saw a guy he had never seen before.
Who could it be?
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As Kenshin was still hiding and only his eyes were visible, he noticed that the mysterious person was yelling for someone from his house to come out.
Kenshin was confused about what was going on but he didn't seem to mind it because he was handsome and had a great outfit that was just his style.
“Hello??? Is anyone at home?”
The mysterious guy yelled while looking around for human activity.
Kenshin was just about to answer until..
The mysterious guy threw a newspaper at his window, and since it was opened, the newspaper landed inside Kenshin's room.
“Huh? What just happened?”
Kenshin thought while scratching his head.
But soon he realised that the mysterious guy was a newspaper deliverer and quickly all the suspense that was beating in his heart quieted down.
He picked the newspaper from his bedroom floor to see what the newspaper was about.
“Eh..
Boring.
Hmm..
Oh.
There's an article about baking chocolate chip cookies!!!”
He said.
Kenshin has a deep love for baking.
He bakes desserts very frequently and loves handing out his handmade desserts to people around him, so seeing this article about baking made him happy.
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“Goodness I'm late for school..”
He mumbled and quickly put on his school bag and headed outside to the kitchen to make himself some breakfast and prepare his lunch and finally headed outside and headed outside his house.
He hopped on his bicycle and started heading to school.
His school is 15 minutes away from his home so he often spends time drowning in his thoughts.
He spent today drowning in his thoughts too, thinking about the newspaper delivery guy.
In his mind, he found him extremely handsome like a complete webtoon character even though he only had a glimpse of his face for 5 seconds, but he remembers every single detail of his face like it's second nature.
He noticed a lot of his facial features, like the mole under his eye, his eyes having glitter like sparkly effect, a warm yet cold look, a look that seems sweet and approachable but also somehow kind of cold? What could it be?
His outfit was definitely cute.
He has such a great sense of fashion that Kenshin can always admire for hours, without any end.
This mysterious newspaper deliverer is just perfect.
He wondered what his name could be.
Does his name start with an A? With an M?
He had all sorts of questions about him.
The view outside is so heavenly that he just wished that everything could stay like this moment forever.
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Admiring the heavenly view, yet again he started thinking about the guy from earlier again with a huge smile on his face.
He just can't help but have a huge smile whenever he thinks about him.
This time, he was getting out of hand and already started thinking about their future..
He started thinking about the possibility of them attending school together, taking their college entrance exam together, going grocery shopping, and baking various types of desserts and feeding each other the desserts.
Safe to say Kenshin has become quite delusional..
At last, he arrived at his school and he parked his bicycle.
Phew, he made it on time without getting in trouble by the security guard.
It is now 7:00 am and he has about 5 minutes to get to class without getting in trouble by the homeroom teacher.
He ran quickly because now, there's only 1 minute to get to class on time but unfortunately he ended up dropping his school bag on the ground and he was about to pick up his bag until..
Someone already picked his bag up and handed it to him?
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Kenshin couldn't see who the person was as he hurried to his class to be on time but did get a small glance of the person's hair and the hair looked quite familiar.
He arrived to his class and luckily the
homeroom teacher hadn't arrived yet so he quickly sat on his seat and pulled out his notebooks and pen.
“Ugh! Math again???”
Kenshin thought and proceeded to draw roses on his notebook paper.
The teacher arrived and started taking attendance but Kenshin was thinking about the hallway incident that happened 5 minutes ago and was trying to figure out who that person could be because the hair definitely seems familiar but he is not 100% sure..
“Could it be the newspaper delivery guy?
It doesn't make sense those two were wearing two different clothing.
But the hair is definitely the same..
Did the newspaper guy teleport to me just so he can save me???”
Kenshin had all sorts of thoughts but not one was a thought about maths.
The teacher called Kenshin's name and he quickly started focusing again.
The teacher announced to the class that today they are going to take a surprise math test and that getting a good grade on this test is quite important.
Kenshin was shocked and indeed very surprised and all that thinking made him forget about every math knowledge he had stored in his mind.
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An hour has passed by and Kenshin is now fully done with writing his test.
He just closed his eyes and picked whatever his pen landed on..
His seatmate asked him if he is going to join him for lunch later and Kenshin replied with
“Sorry, no, I have things to do.”
It is now the second period and Kenshin is about to have his English class.
Every time a class ends, there's a 5 minute hallway break time, so Kenshin headed outside his class to take some fresh air and started walking around the hallway and taking a peak in other student's classes in hopes to see the newspaper delivery guy.
“I don't see anyone..
Nope.
Not here either.
Here?? nope.
Oh??????????
I think that's him.
Omg.”
He thought that with the biggest smile that could possibly be made on his face without exploding.
“Goodness he looks so cute just sitting and writing on paper..
I wonder what he is writing.
Could it be my name?
He doesn't even know my name though...
Do I approach him?
What do I approach him for?
I don't know..
Oh?
What's happening?
No way.”
Kenshin thought with excitement and confusion.
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Kenshin and the newspaper deliverer have just made eye contact with each other.
The eye contact is intense and no one is moving their eyes from each other.
This is the very first time the newspaper deliverer has seen Kenshin's face.
He has this cold look to him but the cold look is not scaring Kenshin away, in fact, it is making him more curious about him.
It's been 5 seconds and the eye contact is still going strong, no one is moving their eyes away from each other.
Kenshin looked at his watch and realised there is only 1 minute left to get to his class so he is wondering if he should break eye contact first or have him break the eye contact instead.
As Kenshin was thinking that, the newspaper deliverer got up from his seat and closed his notebook with a serious expression on his face and a concerned look and was about to open the door to let Kenshin in until..
“Oh no! I'm so sorry but my class is about to start, I'll see you when I get the time!
My name is Sakurada Kenshin by the way.”
Kenshin said to the newspaper delivery guy.
The newspaper delivery guy was about to say something to Kenshin but couldn't because Kenshin ran to his class.
“But I had something to say..
That my name is Seungho and that you dropped your pen from dropping your school bag..”
Seungho said.
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Kenshin is now in his English class with his heartbeat beating like crazy.
One might think his heart turned into Usain Bolt because of just how fast his heart is beating.
Kenshin's cheeks are extremely red from blushing like crazy.
He just can't stop blushing.
He has the type of blush that no makeup product can duplicate because duplicating the colour would be literally impossible.
Kenshin sat in his seat and the English teacher arrived at the class to teach them.
So far, Kenshin has not been paying any attention to class because of a specific someone.
Will Kenshin focus this time?
He is copying from the board and transferring the words into his English notebook while thinking of Seungho.
In Kenshin's head at the moment, he just keeps replaying the moment where Seungho and him made eye contact.
He is dying to know Seungho's name and more about him.
His stare was so intense and sharp that it almost sent him chills down his spine.
Kenshin started sketching Seungho's
pretty face on his notebook instead of focusing in class.
After English class is finished,
Kenshin was thirsty and went outside his class to drink some water.
Meanwhile Seungho is outside his classroom too, thinking if he should approach Kenshin to give him his pen now or later.
Seungho was thinking while looking at Kenshin with concern because in his mind, he thinks Kenshin doesn't have anything to write with and is getting scolded by the teacher for not being able to write anything.
Moments pass by and Seungho decided that he should make a move during lunch time instead, since the hallway is filled with people and there is only 5 minutes to get to class.
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3 hours passed by, and it was now lunch time, which everyone was looking forward to.
Kenshin quickly went to the cafeteria in search of Seungho, but he was nowhere to be seen.
He searched his classroom just in case, but again he was not there.
He almost gave up but then thought that maybe he should search the rooftop for Seungho.
Kenshin went to the school rooftop and then..
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Seungho was on the rooftop sitting on a chair waiting for Kenshin as if he knew that Kenshin would come to the rooftop no matter what.
“What are you doing here?”
Kenshin asked.
“I was waiting for you,
I thought you might come to the rooftop.”
Seungho replied.
“Oh that's smart, can I ask if there is a reason why you were coming towards me in 2nd period?”
Kenshin asked.
“It's because..
You dropped your pen from your school bag so I was worried that you might not have anything to write with in class.”
Seungho answered.
“Omg you are so kind.. You have no idea how touched I am.
Are you also the one who picked up my bag from the ground and handed it to me?
Words can't describe but I'm truly truly touched right now..”
Kenshin said with a touched look.
“Oh yes, I am.
I'm glad I could help.”
Seungho said and handed Kenshin's pen to him.
“Wait..
Don't tell me you are also the newspaper deliverer that delivered a newspaper this morning..”
Kenshin asked.
“Hold on..
I am.
I didn't know someone from our school would receive one from me.
I thought the newspapers are being
delivered to people from different schools, but you know what, I'm glad you received one.”
Seungho said.
“I actually loved the newspaper a lot.. It had a baking article which I really liked because I really enjoy baking delicious desserts”
Kenshin said with a pout.
“If you don't mind..
May I ask what your name is?
Since we are already talking to eachother you know..”
Kenshin asked.
“My name is Song Seungho and I'm a 16 year old in my first year!”
Seungho said with excitement like he has been waiting for this moment since he was born.
“Oh!
Nice to meet you!
My name is Sakurada Kenshin and I'm 16 years old in my first year too!”
Kenshin said with excitement too.
“Have you eaten yet?”
Kenshin asked with concern.
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“No..
Not yet,
Should I eat?”
Seungho asked.
“Omg..
Is that even a question of course you should eat!!!!!! Do you have any food with you?
If not, you can have mine!!!!!!!!”
Kenshin said with a lot of concern and in a way that looks like if Seungho doesn't eat food now he will get extremely angry and upset.
“You are so silly..
But yes, I do have lunch with me.”
Seungho said with an adorable smile.
This is the first time Seungho smiled since meeting Kenshin.
“We should eat here since we are already on the rooftop and going to the cafeteria is too much work..”
Kenshin said with a nonchalant look but then turned to the corner away from Seungho to release his giant adorable smile with a satisfied look because this whole moment was his plan all along.
Kenshin and Seungho pulled out their lunch boxes and put them on a table and sat on the chairs and started eating.
“Yum, the food I made today is so tasty.”
Kenshin said with a look that is trying it's best to convince Seungho to try it.
“Oh really?
I made yummy food today too.”
Seungho said without suspecting anything from Kenshin as he is too naive.
“Seungho, do you want to try my lunch?”
Kenshin said with excitement and a huge adorable smile that no one can say no to.
“Since you asked so sweetly, I'll try it!”
Seungho said with a huge smile on his face like he just won the lottery.
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୨ৎ Today's menu ୨ৎ
Kenshin's lunch: gyudon, gimbab and
braised tofu
Seungho's lunch: bibim guksu with lots of spicy kimchi and gamja jorim
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“Wait, Kenshin, your food is truly so delicious!
How did you make it?
Do you have a specific recipe?
It's like the perfect balance of sweet and spicy, oh my goodness..”
Seungho said with wide eyes as he can't believe someone's cooking can taste so heavenly.
“Haha, it's nothing, I just whipped up some stuff from my pantry and refrigerator.”
Kenshin said with a shy smile.
“You can try my lunch too if you want, Kenshin”
Seungho said with a careful look and shy smile.
“Really? I'd love to try it!”
Kenshin said with a bigger smile than previously and no longer looks shy.
“????????
Why is this the yummiest food I ever had?
Are you secretly a chef that became a student to be undercover??????
No seriously this is so good.
It's quite spicy but in a good way.”
Kenshin said with an extremely shocked and surprised look.
“Ahhh, thank you, thank you!!!”
Seungho said with a touched look.
“It's nothing!!! Also by the way, you know how you saved me some seconds by picking up my bag and now you even gave me the pencil that I dropped earlier?
I was wondering if I could take you to lunch another day and pay for it”
Kenshin asked, hoping that Seungho would say yes.
“You know you don't have to do all that, but if that's what satisfies you, so be it.”
Seungho said with a warm smile.
“Yay thank youuuuu, I'll order us the tastiest food in mankind.
I forgot to ask, what day are you free?”
Kenshin asked.
“I'm free on Saturday.”
Seungho answered.
“Great! That's in five days.
Oh and since we are going to go out and eat, is it okay if I can have your phone number? You know, for the location and timings.”
Kenshin asked with a careful expression.
“Oh yeah, of course it wouldn't make sense not to.
Here's my phone number
12345***”
Seungho said calmly.
“Okay okay I'll put it on my phone,
Anddddd, done.
Here's my phone number.
54321***”
Kenshin said with extreme excitement like he is about to start flying in the sky any second.
“Oh time is almost up..
I have to get to my class now.”
Kenshin said with a sad pout.
“It's okay, I'm sure we will meet again!
We also got each other's phone number so we can always talk to each other."
Seungho said with a sad yet hopeful smile.
“You are right, I'll get going now, have a great rest of your school day!”
Kenshin said with a hopeful smile too.
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Kenshin is now in his biology class learning about concepts he finds boring.
He can't believe what just happened.
He just had the craziest day of his life.
He was not expecting him and Seungho to actually talk today, and yet they shared a whole meal together and he even got to try Seungho's handmade lunch!!
It tasted so good according to Kenshin.
The lunch box container itself was so cute and shaped like a puppy that for some reason resembles Seungho so accurately as if he bought the lunch box container just because it matches his face.
The food in the lunch box was all placed so cutely and neatly and was all animal shaped which reminded Kenshin of his childhood.
Just by thinking about the fact he just tried Seungho's handmade lunch, gave him butterflies in his stomach again and his cheeks got extremely red like a bright apple.
As the teacher is talking about biology, Kenshin started thinking about Seungho and was imagining his face and admiring just how pretty and handsome he is and replaying the rooftop moment for an hour straight and admiring how sweet he is.
“He is so sweet, I wasn't expecting him to be so sweet.
The way he smiles..
It's so cute, how can one smile so cutely?”
Kenshin thought while pouting.
2 hours has passed by and school day is now finished and kenshin quickly got out from his seat so he can go home and think about him for the rest of the day, until kenshin realised he is quite hungry from all the Seungho thinking and decided to head to the convenience store that's 10 minutes away from school.
As Kenshin walked into the convenience store he was shocked and looked like he was about to faint because of what he had just seen.
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“Seungho?!
What are you doing here?”
Kenshin said while trying not to stutter his words so it's not obvious to Seungho how shocked he is.
“Me?
I work here as a part timer!”
Seungho said with a proud smile.
“That's so cool!!!!!!
You are very cool.”
Kenshin said with admiration in his eyes.
“I'll go grab some things real quick if you don't mind!”
Kenshin said, waiting for an answer.
“Yes, of course, go ahead!”
Seungho said while smiling at Kenshin's natural cuteness.
Kenshin went ahead and grabbed two strawberry milk from the freezer and grabbed two triangle kimbaps from the shelf and went to the checkout section.
“Is that all?”
Seungho asked.
“Mmh! That would be all.”
Kenshin said with a smile.
“Okay your total is 3$”
Seungho said as he put all the items in a bag.
“Okay, here's 3$”
Kenshin said and proceeded to hand Seungho 3$ and one of his strawberry milk he bought.
“Are you sure you want to give me
your strawberry milk?”
Seungho asked with a worried look.
“Yes! Totally! I'd love to!”
Kenshin said with a bright smile hoping that he would accept his strawberry milk without any more questions.
“Since you're offering it so kindly,
I'll accept it.
Thank you for the drink,
Kenshin.”
Seungho said and grabbed the strawberry milk and the 3$ from Kenshin's hand.
“See you soon then, Seungho!
Have a great rest of your day.”
Kenshin said while leaving with a satisfied yet sad look because he has to be away from Seungho now.
Kenshin then hopped on his bicycle and started eating his triangle kimbap from earlier and started heading home while thinking about all his interactions with Seungho today.
“Did all of this actually happen or am I dreaming right now..?
If this was a dream, it's the happiest and sweetest dream I ever had.
A dream that I would hate to wake up from.
Should I pinch my arm?
This feels too unreal and unrealistic.
Why am I blushing so hard right now?
Even my cheeks are really red.
I feel so shy right now whenever Seungho's face appears in my mind as if he is able to read and see my thoughts like a clear mirror..
It's too much to be shy over this right?
It doesn't make sense..
But think about it, Seungho is so handsome, I am questioning if this is a dream or not because of how unreal Seungho looks.
I wouldn't mind seeing him tomorrow
and the day after tomorrow,
and the day after tomorrow, tomorrow..
I wouldn't mind seeing him everyday.
Today Seungho was so sweet and even saved me by handing out my bag to me and even handing out my pen.
He must have been really worried that I might not have anything to write with..
His eyes are so special looking too.
I am not sure why I am thinking about Seungho so much..”
Kenshin thought while looking around the sweet green trees around him while driving on his bicycle.
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Kenshin finally arrived home and freshened up and changed into his comfortable home clothes and lay down on his bed feeling extremely exhausted.
“Hmm, I'm bored now, what should I do?
I can text Seungho but wasn't he working at the convenience store earlier?
I'm sure he's too busy to text back.
I wonder if Seungho is tired..
He must be very tired. He probably woke up around 5am to get ready for his newspaper delivery job and then had to attend school and then immediately after school ended had to rush to work to go to the convenience store.
Texting him right now is probably not the best time, should I just play a game instead?
What games should I play?
I can play roblox, my favourite game had an update today.
Maybe I should do my homework instead and be productive,
but that's not fun.
Should I try to learn a new dessert recipe?
That sounds really fun.
I saw this cool roasted strawberry
cheesecake brownie recipe on youtube last night, maybe I should attempt to make it, I'm sure me and my classmates will like the brownies.
The recipe says to put strawberries into a baking pan and add some sugar and put it in the oven, and then for the cheesecake, you would need some cream cheese,
granulated sugar, cornstarch, vanilla
extract, and one egg. The brownie part is kind of long but you know what, it's fine.
It says, in a bowl add unsalted butter, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, light brown sugar, powdered sugar, semi-sweet chocolate chips, 3 eggs, flour, salt and olive oil.
You would need to take out the strawberry mixture from the oven and it should have almost jam-like consistency and you are supposed to pour it on to your cheesecake batter.
After you are done with pouring, you are supposed to take your brownie batter and put it in your baking pan and spread the batter around and then take your cheesecake batter and put it on top of your brownie batter and continue until both the batters are finished and then bake it in the oven.
Seems easy enough! Let's get to working.”
He thought.
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Kenshin spent one hour making his brownies and then sat on his couch and turned on the tv.
It is now 6:00 pm.
Kenshin went ahead and turned on his favourite romcom tv show and started eating his brownies that he just made.
“Wait, these brownies are actually so good..
Am I a genius?
Maybe I should get into a culinary school in the future..
Anyway.”
Kenshin thought.
He started eating more and more brownies as he made a huge batch of them.
An hour has passed by and again Kenshin is quite bored again so he decided to do his homework for an hour and took a small nap.
“It's getting a little late.
I should probably eat my dinner now,
I haven't had a proper meal yet.
But I don't think there's anything in the refrigerator so maybe today will be a takeout day.
What should I order??
I think ordering some fried chicken would be great.
Let's order non spicy fried chicken.
Oh! It says it will arrive in 20 minutes.
That's lovely.
Kenshin thought.
Kenshin placed an order for his fried chicken and started doing some push ups because he realised he hasn't done any workout the whole day.
While Kenshin was doing his pushups, he wondered if it was the right time to text Seungho.
Kenshin thought he should text Seungho after eating his dinner so Seungho doesn't overthink on why he hasn't gotten a text yet.
“It's been 20 minutes now and the food should arrive soon.
I wonder how it will taste.
Just by thinking about it I'm getting hungrier..
I heard the fried chicken from that restaurant sells really great fried chicken that will remove all the stress from your mind.
I think that's just a way to promote the restaurant..
it can't be true right?
I mean just think about it, how can fried chicken remove your stress?
Is it because of the strong, powerful taste?
That would make sense.
When I bake and eat my brownies, all my stress seems to go away as I get really passionate and forget about all my problems.
I hope that restaurant is not a scam,
I am really hungry right now and would love it if all my stress goes away.
Today was a very long day with Seungho.
I am glad it was long, I would have hated it if today was short.
Today is very special because I met a very cool person named Song Seungho.”
Kenshin thought.
Someone knocked on Kenshin's door
indicating that the food has arrived.
Kenshin quickly ran to his door and opened the door to get his food.
“Seungho?!
What are you doing here?????”