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The sun was barely filtering into the room casting soft rays of light on a boy peacefully sleeping on a bed. The boy's name is Lee Hyukjae. He has bleached blonde hair and average features, but he is not bad looking. A long face with a square jaw, full lips, round nose, and single lidded eyes. He is incredibly thin, but not sick looking. He was the type that could eat his weight in chocolate and never gain an ounce.
The boy then furrowed his brow slightly before his eyes groggily opened to gaze in annoyance at the window near his bed. He groaned and rolled over to lay on his back, throwing an arm over his eyes to shield them from the rays of light. He laid there for a moment, before throwing his arm down by his side with a huff and opening a single eye to glance at his monkey clock on the shelf behind him above his bed. Once he caught sight of his clock, he closed his eyes again in frustration and let out another annoyed groan.
"I can't believe I woke up before my alarm again..." Hyukjae muttered to himself.
He laid there with his eyes closed, but a frown marring his face, before he suddenly threw a small tantrum with his body. He kicked his feet and flailed his arms slightly, knocking his blanket to the foot of his bed, before stopping and laying there again. He opened his eyes and glared at his window with a pout.
"No point in going back to sleep now..." He sighed and sat up, simply sitting there til his body decided it was fully awake. Hyukjae, by no means, was a morning person. He hated waking up before his alarm because he felt it was minutes wasted that he could have been happily sleeping. His sweet, sweet beauty sleep. He sighed again.
He had been sitting in his bed for about ten minutes now, the only progress he made to actually waking up was moving to set his feet on the floor.
Suddenly his alarm went off with a loud annoying screech.
"HOLY SHI--" The boy was startled into a standing position holding his chest to calm his rapidly beating heart. He made a face before quickly turning around to shut off his alarm. "Stupid thing scared the piss out of me..." He muttered.
He hated that stupid clock sometimes, but god damn, did it get the job done when it came to waking him up. Hyukjae grumbled to himself a bit as he fixed his blanket in some half ass attempt to make his bed, before turning to make his way into the hallway and straight to the restroom to take care of his morning business. Once he was finished brushing his teeth and taking his morning piss, he went back to his room to get ready for school. He took off his pajamas, the bottoms being a blue and white striped pants and the top a pink heart patterned shirt that belonged to his older sister (What? He lost his pajama shirt and that's all he could find in the clean laundry down stairs. Don't judge.), and then proceeded to put on his school uniform for the day.
His uniform was a white short sleeve button down polo shirt with two black stripes on the collar and another two black stripes on the top of the breast pocket. On the pocket was also the crest for his school, Yangchung Middle School, and under the crest was his name embroided in black. He also had a pair of plain black slacks to go with it. All in all, a fairly plain uniform, but then again all uniforms were pretty plain in Hyukjae's eyes. He sighed as he finished up the last button on his uniform, if only it was Saturday instead of Wednesday, that way he could stay in bed longer with no repercussions.
"Two more days..." He mumbled to himself as he picked up his backpack that was by his desk. He turned to head out the door when he thought of something. Stopping in the middle of his room he unzipped his backpack and took a quick peek in. "Okay, my homework is in there. I'll be damned if I work on it all night again and forget it." The blonde grumbled.
All ready for school, Hyukjae started to make his way downstairs for breakfast. As he made his way closer to the dining room he could hear the voices of his family. His older sister, Sora, asking for some more rice while his mother told her too save some for him and his father grumbling about something in the morning paper.
"Oh! Good morning, Hyukjae! You're just in time for breakfast!" His mother said cheerfully as she went to fill a bowl with her doenjang soup and another with some rice. Anyone who saw Hyukjae's mother would immediately say that he looked just like her. Her features were of course more rounded, but they shared the same single lidded eyes and long round noses. Her black hair was cut short, just below her ears, and combed to the side. His father, however, he didn't share many features with. While Hyukjae's face was long and square, his father's short and round. He had a small wide nose and small squinty eyes. His hairline has already receded all the way to the top of his head, probably from the stress at work. Hyukjae could only pray that he got his mother's hair genes.
Hyukjae quickly moved to sit next to his sister so that he could eat. Sora drank down a spoon full of her doenjang before turning to look at her brother. She was only two years older than him. She was very beautiful with her midlength black hair, long nose and single lidded almond eyes, just like her brother and mother, but she had thin lips like her father. Hyukjae noticed her look at him from his peripherals and turned to see what she wanted with a raised eyebrow. She drank another spoon full of her soup before speaking.
"I was hoping you would sleep in so I could have your half." She said with a giggle making Hyukjae roll his eyes.
"Lee Sora!" Their mother scolded as she set down Hyukjae's share in front of him. Hyukjae stuck his tongue out at her for a second in victory but their mother continued. "Look at how skinny he is. Would you really deny him his share?" Both women giggled while his father smiled over his paper. Hyukjae made a face.
"I can't help it!" He whined. "I'm just naturally this skinny!"
"Aw, we know Hyukjae." His mother cooed as she took her own seat at the table with her share of food. "It makes me so jealous too!" she continued, gesturing to her own body that was slightly round from natural fats that come with age.
"Don't be like that." Her husband grumbled. "You look beautiful no matter what."
The older woman looked at her husband with a bashful expression and shyly nudged him. "Honey, don't be cute so early in the morning!" She giggled.
Hyukjae could only wish to have a relationship like his parents. All these years and they still acted like this.
They ate their breakfast with little chats inbetween, until their father brought up something he just read in the paper.
"Hm, that one boy was spotted leaving the scene of a crime yesterday." He said with a sour look on his face as he read further.
"What boy?" Sora asked.
"It's that one boy that is pretending to be like that Guardian V that is always on the news." He said, making Hyukjae's ears perk up. Guardian V was his idol. He was a masked vigilante who helped fight crime on the streets. He was basically a real life super hero and something about it just seemed so cool and exciting to Hyukjae. He was the whole reason Hyukjae bleached his hair in the first place. Much to his parents disagreement. Recently though, people have been seeing someone who dresses similar to Guardian V, but isn't him. The scenes that are left where this new person has been haven't been pretty. Just last week two people were found dead in an ally where people reported seeing this new 'guardian' engaged in some struggle or fight, presumably with the two that were found dead. Either way the police were looking for him, or for anyone to come forward with information about him. Because of this new guardian there as has been rumors about the police looking in to Guardian V as well.
"What happened this time?" Hyukjae asked curiously.
"It says here that explosives were rigged to a building downtown where this boy was seen fleeing the scene. The building nearly came down, luckily the support beams held, but unfortunately there was at least three people were found at the scene. Thankfully not dead, but all three are reported to be in a coma. They aren't sure what's wrong with them. I hope they catch this kid, sooner rather than later." He recited as he turned the page.
The girls looked very disturbed at this news, while Hyukjae just looked upset. Why was this person going around doing bad things when he could be doing good instead, like Guardian V. Hopefully Guardian V will get a hold of this guy and bring him to justice so nobody else had to get hurt.
"Alright you two, it's time for you to head to school." Their mother said after a while. "Hurry up now!" She ushered as she took their empty bowls.
Quickly they both grabbed their backpacks and headed for the door to put on their shoes.
"Love you, Mom! Love you, Dad! Have a good day!" Sora yelled from the door way as she walked out.
"Bye, Mom and Dad! See you later!" Hyukjae also called out as he followed his sister closing the door behind himself.
"So, Hyukjae," Sora started the moment Hyukjae fell into step with her as they walked to school. "Are you going to the arcade after school today?" She asked with a slight smirk and a giggle.
Hyukjae made a face at her. "I don't need to today..." He thought about it for a moment. "... Unless you know something I don't." He said looking a little excited.
"I do!" She said with a grin. "I heard Zhou Mi is going to work today, even though it's his day off, to help with the release of a new game!"
"What!? Really?" Hyukjae couldn't help the grin that spread across his face. Hyukjae didn't really keep it a secret he was gay. At least not to friends and family. His parents kind of accept it, they don't talk about it much and change the subject if it's ever brought up, but they didn't kick him out or stop loving him which is always a plus in his book. As for his sister, she is more than okay with it. In fact she has been happily trying to hook him up with a crush of his, Zhou Mi. Zhou Mi used to go to the same high school as his sister. He was a foreign exchange student from China, and when he graduated high school, moved to Korea. He is a little bit too old for Hyukjae at 20, but what is age if not just a number?
"I'm definitely going there after school!" Hyukjae exclaimed with an excited squeal. "I can't wait to see him!"
"Hehe! Calm down, Hyukjae! You are worse than me when I see Jihoon!" She giggled. Jihoon being his sister's crush from school. He hasn't seen him personally, but his sister seems to really like him.
"Hey! I am not! Besides, have you made a move on him?" Hyukjae asked, smirking at her slyly.
"N-no..." Sora mumbled looking at a small business building they were walking passed.
"What? Why not?" He asked as he nudged his sister.
"Oh! Look there is the street I need to take! Bye Hyukjae!" She quickly exclaimed as she power walked down a different street. "And don't drool over Zhou Mi too much!" She hollered.
Hyukjae blushed furiously. "I don't drool!" He yelled at his sister's retreating back.
He huffed and continued walking to his school. It was a rather boring walk now that he was alone, so his thoughts drifted off to Zhou Mi. During his second year of middle school was when he first met Zhou Mi. His sister was put in a study group with some seniors from their school, and Zhou Mi was one of them. They had all come to their house at one point to study and Hyukjae was introduced and was even offered to study with them. To say the least, he fell head over heels that night. Hyukjae even tried to impress Zhou Mi by teaching himself Chinese, since the language wasn't taught in his curriculum. He was now in his third and final year of middle school. He was excited to start High School and take a more advanced class in Chinese to really impress Zhou Mi.
Hyukjae sighed as he thought more about Zhou Mi. To be honest, even though he has crushed on him for a year now, he wasn't sure if he would ever confess. Zhou Mi has never showed any interest, in himself or boys in general, and Hyukjae was sure he was going to take this crush to the grave.
Before long he was at the gates of his school, along with tons of other students who were obediently heading to their respective homeroom classes. Hyukjae was quick to go to his homeroom since the student council liked to give him a hard time because of his hair color. When he first bleached it, which was sometime at the start of his third year, he got so much hell for it. He was given detention almost everyday because of the student council and even his teacher would pick on him because of his hair. He held strong though, and eventually his teacher laid off seeing as he wasn't dyeing his hair anytime soon. The council was a different story. They were still after him, so he did all he could to avoid them. He didn't want to say he's become some kind of pro at avoiding them, but he was pretty good at it.
When he reached his class room there was already a handful of students there, including the popular girl in their class Lee Soonkyu, better known as Sunny. Why she was called Sunny was beyond him. It just seemed to be the name a lot of popular girls were calling themselves, but he didn't really see the appeal in the name. Hyukjae, however, couldn't wait for high school so he would never have to see her again. It wasn't that Sunny bullied him or anything, it was quite the opposite actually. Sunny had the biggest crush on him and everyone knew it, which forced him to come out about being gay to pretty much the entire class. Sunny never accepted his polite refusals to her confessions and kept pursuing him, then one day he blurted out that he was gay to finally get her to leave him alone. Only she didn't. Luckily for Hyukjae, him outing himself to the class didn't really get him any new trouble. In fact, the only noticeable difference was that a majority of the boys in the class didn't really talk to him unless they had to. Other than that he was not bullied or harassed. If you leave out Sunny that is.
Speaking of the girl, she turned to see who just came into class, only to spot Hyukjae. The biggest most beautiful smile spread across her face upon noticing his arrival.
"Hyukjae!" She exclaimed, getting up from her own desk and smoothing out her uniform, which had the same polo shirt as Hyukjae's but had a black skirt instead, and made her way over to the boy currently taking a seat at his desk. "How are you this morning?" she asked sweetly, even turning her head to the side cutely.
Hyukjae would be honest, if he were straight he would have definitely dated Sunny at the drop of a hat. She was literally the most adorable thing and beautiful to boot, it was no wonder why she was so popular. Unfortunately, he just wasn't attracted to her.
"I'm alright." He answered. "How about yourself?" He asked politely.
He may want her to stop hitting on him, but he could never bring himself to be rude to her. She was, after all, an extremely sweet girl. He really wanted to atleast be friends with the girl, her personality was so easy to get along with and carefree. It was too bad she was so hyped on hitting on him, even when he has refused her multiple times.
Just as she was about to answer, a loud voice from the classroom entrance interrupted them.
"Hyukjae!" The girl cheerfully exclaimed as she power walked to his desk and casually nudged Sunny to the side so she was the one standing in front of Hyukjae's desk.
Hyukjae chuckled at the other girl's energy so early in the morning. "Hey, Hyoyeon."
Kim Hyoyeon has been Hyukjae's bestfriend since their sixth year in primary school. She was very beautiful with a kind of European look to her. Even more so since she bleached her hair an almost golden blonde color around the same time Hyukjae bleached his, not for the same reason he did, but more because they were besties and it would be fun. To say the least, she also had to avoid the student council as well. Not to mention she was the first person he came out to. She claimed she always knew, but he doubted that.
"I dreamt up some new choreography last night!" Hyoyeon says excitedly. Her and Hyukjae usually use the school's dance room after school, when it wasn't being used by a club of course. They both have a passion for dancing and put a lot of time and effort into it. Not to mention both of them were amazing at it. "I can't wait to show you after school! You'll love it!"
Sunny had an interested look on her face. "Is it okay if I watch?" She asked.
Hyoyeon turned to look at Sunny with a raised eyebrow. The blonde girl was barely an inch taller than Sunny, so they almost looked at each other eye to eye.
"Why would you want to watch?" Hyoyeon asked. "You don't dance."
"Well I've been interested in picking up dance!" Sunny reasoned.
Hyoyeon simply made a face. She knew damn well Sunny was just interested in Hyukjae and his hobbies. Before Hyoyeon could answer Sunny back, Hyukjae spoke up.
"I would love to see what you came up with Hyo, but I'm actually planning to go to the arcade today." He gave her an apologetic smile. "Maybe tomorrow?" He asked hopefully.
The girl turned and looked at him so fast, Hyukjae was sure she got whiplash. "The arcade? But..." She paused before side eyeing Sunny and then leaning close to Hyukjae and speaking in a hushed whisper. "But he doesn't work today."
Hyoyeon knew full well about Hyukjae's crush on Zhou Mi, but they both thought it would be for the best that Sunny never found out about it.
"He does." Hyukjae whispered back excitedly.
The blonde girl looked surprised then smiled wide at Hyukjae. The two proceeded to giggle, communicating with no words in that special way only best friends could. Sunny however had leaned close to the two who were still leaned together over Hyukjae's desk.
"You guys are going to an arcade? Can I tag along?" The bubbly girl asked aloud.
Her loud voice startled the bestfriends out of their silent conversation, making them quickly look at the other girl. Sunny however simply tilted her head to the side and smiled cutely at the two, still waiting on an answer.
"Of course not!" Hyoyeon said matter of factly, while frowning at Sunny. While Hyukjae had a hard time turning Sunny away, which is why he couldn't wait for the changing of school to do it for him, Hyoyeon had no problem turning the other girl away. "This is just between Hyukjae and I!" Hyoyeon said.
Sunny looked visibly upset as she looked between Hyukjae and Hyoyeon before settling her eyes on the blonde boy. "I can't go...?" She asked him in the saddest voice she could muster paired with big sad eyes.
The blonde girl scoffed before looking over at her bestie, only to roll her eyes. Hyukjae looked conflicted. Of course he didn't want Sunny to tag along, but that face. How could they be so mean to poor Sunny?
Just as Hyukjae was about to open his mouth the teacher walked into the room.
"Alright students, to your seats! I want everyone seated before the bell rings!" He looked to the wall clock before turning back to the class. "You have one minute! Anyone still out of their seats will receive punishment!"
With that the two girls quickly darted to their seats. Sunny to the front left of the room and Hyoyeon on the next row over about three seats back while Hyukjae was seated a little in the middle of the class room. And with that their school day started.
During lunch period Hyoyeon sat next to Hyukjae, luckily for them they didn't have to worry about Sunny as she was seated with a majority of the girls from their class and a handful of boys and seemed to forget about their conversation that morning.
"So, the arcade, huh?" Hyoyeon asked with a smile as she ate some of her packed lunch.
Hyukjae side eyed her before nudging her shoulder and stealing some of her meat with a triumphant grin. "Don't even try and tease me, Hyo!"
She looked upset about the stolen piece of food, then a wicked grin crossed her face and she reached over and nabbed some of his. Hyukjae looked mortified over the stolen meat.
"That was the best piece!" He cried then covered his food with his hand. "Okay no more! It's not funny!" He exclaimed.
"Pfft. You started it." Hyoyeon grinned.
Hyukjae simply glared as he mumbled under his breath. "Bitch..."
Hyoyeon didn't even flinch as she grabbed his drink. "Look who's talking!" She simply said as she took a huge gulp of the drink. Hyukjae flailed his hands and snagged his drink back. "Okay! Okay!" He yelled.
"You'll stop now?" She said with a smirk.
Hyukjae huffed. "Yes, I'll stop."
"Good! So what's this about Zhou Mi working today?" She asked as she tried once again to pick up the conversation from earlier.
"I heard through the grapevine that he would be helping out today because of the release of a new video game." Hyukjae said excitedly giving Hyoyeon a casual nudge on the shoulder to show his excitement.
"Is that so? I forgive you for ditching my choreography this time, but you totally owe me tomorrow! Even if he works again tomorrow!" To make sure her point got across she gestured her chopsticks at him with narrowed eyes.
"Deal!" Hyukjae chimed, and clinked his chopsticks with hers in some kind of cheers gesture.
"Eew!" Hyoyeon exclaimed, making a face. "That was in your mouth!"
Hyukjae gave her a deadpanned face. "You drank out of my drink, Hyo."
Hyoyeon made a horrendous face. "Oh god! You're right! I'm going to die!" She yelled.
With that set the tone for the rest of their lunch period. Soon they were back to their lesson, both not being able to wait til school let out.
At around 4pm, the final bell sounded to release the students for the day. Both Hyukjae and Hyoyeon quickly left the classroom heading for the school gates before Sunny could spot them. Not that they had much problems as the girl was quickly swept away by her group of friends.
"Ah, I'm so excited!" Hyukjae squealed as they finally set on their walk to the arcade. "If I had known I would see him today I would have done something better with my hair." He said as he pouted at his best friend.
Hyoyeon pouted right back at him as she combed her fingers through his fringe. "I don't think you could really do anything with this stuff. Your shit is so fried from all that bleach, and your roots needed to be touched up like months ago." She said with a nod.
"Why are we friends again?" Hyukjae asked with an upset face.
"Because you love me!" Hyoyeon sang as she tugged on some of his hair.
Hyukjae could only sigh in defeat. It was then that he heard a loud screech as his foot stepped on something. It was a horrid and loud noise and nearly gave him a heart attack, and by the look on Hyoyeon's face, her as well. After the two stumbled back a few steps in surprise they barely caught the glimpse of something black scurrying over the stone wall beside them.
"What the hell was that!?" Hyukjae exclaimed, just now realizing he was holding on to the shorter girl's arm for dear life.
"I... I think that was a cat..." She mumble as she held onto Hyukjae's hands, that were around her arm, equally as tight.
"God damn... I didn't even see it. I think I stepped on it." Hyukjae said as he finally got his heart to calm down enough to let Hyoyeon go.
"That poor thing." Hyoyeon said as she looked up at Hyukjae. "How could you step on a cat? What did it ever do to you?"
"I didn't mean to do it!" Hyukjae argued back, "I wouldn't have stepped on it if it moved out of the way!"
Hyoyeon simply shook her head at him and continued walking toward the arcade mumbling loud enough for Hyukjae to hear about how he was cruel to animals and such.
"I am not cruel to animals!" He yelled after her.
It took them a little more than 20 minutes to walk to the arcade. The closer they got the more nervous and excited Hyukjae became. His heart was nearly beating out of his chest when the arcade came into view, but then he had a look of disappointment. The arcade was so full of people all here for the new videogame being released. There was even some people hanging around at the windows outside looking in.
Hyukjae could only feel genuinely upset. He wasn't going to see Zhou Mi today after all.
"I guess... I guess Zhou Mi is going to be pretty busy today, huh?" Hyoyeon said with a chuckle, trying to lighten the mood when she saw her best friend's upset face. "Hey don't worry we'll see him on the weekend for sure!" She placed a hand on his shoulder and squeezed.
"Yeah, I know." Hyukjae mumbled. "I guess I was just really looking forward to seeing him."
"You're always looking forward to seeing him. What else is new?" She grinned.
Hyukjae pouted and promptly elbowed her in her side. Hyoyeon giggled and tried to block the elbow which made Hyukjae resort to his hands and try to tickle her to death. Both of them were giggling and laughing at their spontaneous tickle fight that they didn't see someone walk up to them.
"Hey, you two!" A happy male voice exclaimed.
The two friends immediately stopped. Well Hyukjae more than Hyoyeon, since the girl got one last hit in before stopping to look at the new arrival.
"Zhou Mi!" Hyukjae exclaimed with a bright smile and blush already covering his cheeks. He couldn't help it, the man made him so giddy inside just from seeing him.
"We didn't think we would see you today. There are so many people here!" Hyoyeon said.
Zhou Mi laughed at her statement turning back to look at all the customers still trying to file into the arcade.
"Yeah, we are pretty busy today with the new release of a Guardian V game." He turned back to look at the two students. "Are you two not here for it as well?"
Hyukjae who had been unable to really speak, since he became tongue tied at just listening to Zhou Mi laugh, perked up at the mention of Guardian V. "Guardian V?"
Zhou Mi looked a bit confused at Hyukjae's question. "I know you know who Guardian V is Hyukjae! Don't pretend to look cool in front of your girlfriend!" Zhou Mi giggled and patted Hyukjae on the head.
Hyukjae frowned really hard at that statement. It wasn't the first time Zhou Mi has accused Hyoyeon of being his girlfriend, no matter how many times the two of them denied it and claimed just friendship.
"We are not dating!" Hyoyeon yelled at Zhou Mi and smacked his arm. "If I have to tell you one more time I'm gonna beat it into you! You hear me?" She said clearly angry.
"Okay, okay!" Zhou Mi said holding up his hands in surrender. "I was just playing with you two. You know that!" He then smiled at the two of them.
Hyukjae became fascinated with just looking at Zhou Mi once again. He was so handsome and tall, just Hyukjae's type. When Zhou Mi smiled it always seemed like it was a hundred times brighter outside and no such thing as dark clouds.
"What are you doing out of your cage anyway?" Hyoyeon asked as she crossed her arms. Still clearly pissed about the dating accusation.
"Oh! I'm on my break. I needed some fresh air." He said once again with one of his gorgeous smiles.
Hyoyeon then elbowed the blonde pretty hard, and Hyukjae was half tempted to yell at her for distracting him from looking at Zhou Mi. How dare she? Instead he turned and looked at her and noticed her shifting her eyes from him to Zhou Mi then back. Hyukjae could only raise an eyebrow at this. What did she want him to do? She started doing it again, and Hyukjae was still confused. So this time he mouthed 'What?' in hopes that it would get her to spill what she wanted. That of course wasn't the case, and instead she just looked exasperated. It looked like she was about to make some more crazy gestures at him to get her point across when Zhou Mi came to save the day.
"I don't know what you two are talking about in your secret code there, but I'm gonna head to the cafe for a snack. I'll see you two around, okay?" Zhou Mi said, once again patting Hyukjae on his head as he got ready to walk away.
"Wait!" Hyoyeon yelled making Zhou Mi stop and Hyukjae look at her like a deer caught in headlights. What was she doing?
"I have to head home since my Mom expects me home early today." Hyoyeon said with a straight up look of innocence, that Hyukjae wanted to hit her for. How could she lie to Zhou Mi's face like that?
"And Hyukjae was just complaining about how he was hungry on our walk here." She then leaned in to Zhou Mi pretending to whisper, but actually talked in a normal voice. "You know how he is with food."
Zhou Mi laughed at her last statement. "I definitely know what he is like with food! He can eat all the plates and maybe even the table if you let him!" Zhou Mi once again ruffled Hyukjae's hair. Each time he did made Hyukjae want to die a little on the inside. "What do you say Hyukjae? Want to come eat with me? I'll pay for you if you like!" He said with an award winning smile.
Hyukjae looked over at Hyoyeon and saw the wild look in her eyes. If he declined he knew that would be his ass. "S-sure!" He hated himself in that moment for stuttering. "How can I turn down food?"
"That's the Hyukjae I know!" Hyoyeon cheered. "Never turning down food! I'll see you at school tomorrow!" She began walking away in the direction of her home, but as an after thought she turned around to wave at them yelling out for Hyukjae to text her later, and then she was rounding a corner officially leaving Hyukjae alone with Zhou Mi.
"Come on, Hyukjae! Let's get something to eat!" He laughed once again and with all smiles slung his arm around Hyukjae's shoulders and lead him in the direction of the cafe he talked about earlier.
Hyukjae wasn't sure what he was going to do. He's pretty sure he only spoke like three words to Zhou Mi since they met him today. Fuck his shyness in the ass. And on top of all that Zhou Mi was pretty touchy feely with him today. The skinship was real, and Hyukjae was going to die from it.
When they reached the cafe, Hyukjae was frozen stiff in his seat. This was pretty much his biggest fantasy, Zhou Mi taking him out for a romantic date at a cafe, and he couldn't bring himself to so much a communicate with the other. He hated everything at this moment.
"So what do you want?" Zhou Mi asked him as he set his menu down. "I come here pretty often, so I already know what I want."
Quickly Hyukjae snatched up the menu to look through it. It was a typical cafe with different coffees, teas, pastries, and sandwiches to choose from. Eventually he decided on a hot tea and two different sandwiches.
Zhou Mi didn't look all that bothered that Hyukjae was planning to order two sandwiches to eat, after all the man was paying, but he decided to bring it to his attention anyway.
"Is it really alright if I order two sandwiches..." Hyukjae asked kind of meekly.
"Don't worry about it! I was kind of expecting you to order three to be honest!" Zhou Mi then proceeded to laugh at his own assumption on Hyukjae's eating habits.
"Well if you thought I was going to order three... maybe I should!" Hyukjae then said, having a burst of courage to play around a bit with Zhou Mi.
"Oh no! What have I done!" Zhou Mi said laughing again.
They ordered and talked about different things. Zhou Mi told him about the new game at the arcade, that Hyukjae was definitely going to have to look into some time, and asked about his studies. Every now and then Zhou Mi would bring up when they first met last year during his sister's study sessions.
It was very relaxing and Hyukjae was having a great time. It got better when the food arrived. They quickly began eating, but then Zhou Mi offered Hyukjae a bite of his sandwich if Hyukjae let him have a bite of each of his. Hyukjae immediately complied. It was basically and indirect kiss, right? Right.
After they ate, Zhou Mi told Hyukjae bye and went back to the arcade to finish his shift. Hyukjae watched him go and sighed to himself. He would always cherish that day, even if it technically wasn't a date.
Hyukjae began walking home and texting Hyoyeon about his 'date' the whole way. Luckily he glanced up at one moment to see a black cat sitting right in the middle of the walkway. The cat was pretty big, in Hyukjae's opinion, and was staring straight at him with bright gold eyes. He thought the cat was very unique since it had one tanish-goldish colored fur patch on it's forehead in the shape of a moon.
"Wow, you're really pretty." He said mostly to himself.
The cat continued to stare at him. Hyukjae wasn't even sure if the cat blinked and it started to unnerve him a bit.
"Okay, pretty kitty, I'm going this way." the boy said as he tried to go around the cat while still staying on the walk way.
After he passed the cat, Hyukjae looked back, only to see the cat was now standing and still looking at him. It was now borderline creepy. Hyukjae quickly walked away and around one of the corners toward his house. He decided to glance back, since he assumed he was far enough away from the cat, only to see nothing. He let out a sigh of relief and couldn't help but giggle at himself for stupidly thinking a cat was stalking him. When he turned back around however the cat was there on the wall beside him and looking at him expectantly.
Hyukjae straight up flipped out and ran as fast as he could home.