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Jisung is moving back to town after a long 9 years. Jisung has been living in America with his grandmother for the past 9 years, studying abroad. He had been living in Seoul Korea for the first thirteen years of his life, up until one night Jisung's parents decided it was best for him to go live with his grandma in America, due to his parents both being far too busy with work to take care of him In America he struggled a lot with bullying in Highschool and mental health problems. When he got out of high school he made the decision to move back to his home town in Korea hoping for a fresh start.
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"I'm gonna pick you up at the airport around 3:30pm, Is that good?" Chan said on the phone talking to Jisung
"Yea I should be landing around 3 so that works." Jisung said taking a sip of water before heading to bed
"Alright sleep well I will see you tomorrow, love ya." Chan said
"Ok goodnight love you too." Jisung said hanging up the phone
Chan and Jisung met in elementary school and have been good friends since. Chan was one of the only people he stayed in contact with when he left Korea. Since then they have been calling almost everyday, Jisung was entirely grateful for Chan even though they are thousands of miles away from each other it was nice to have a piece of home with him in America, Chan has always been there for him when he had a long day and needed to talk to someone.
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The next morning Jisung had to wake up at 4AM to catch his flight that was at 5AM which was rough for Jisung especially because he sleeps in almost everyday if he doesn't have work. In the uber on the way to the airport, Jisung looked out the window looking back at the past 9 years he had spent in America, as much as he loved living with his grandma and how much he is going to miss her, America just didn't have much going for him.
After a long 11 hour flight Jisung landed in Korea. He went to go pick up his bags and then go meet Chan.
"Hey man!" Chan said after getting out the car and running to hug Jisung
"It's been so long I missed you so much, even though we talk on the phone almost every day" jisung said hugging Chan
"I know! here let me take your bags we can talk in the car" Chan said grabbing Jisung's bags and putting them in his trunk and they got in the car
"So how was the flight?" Chan asked
"It was okay, I never sleep well on planes plus I'm exhausted from waking up at 4am."
"Yea I could imagine" chan said
The rest of the car ride they were talking about some things they missed over the years and how excited they are to be back together
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Thank god Jisung got the keys to the apartment the day he arrived in Korea cause he didn't really have a back up plan...He also had very little money, after buying the apartment the only furniture he could afford at the moment was a mattress to sleep on and hopes and prayers. So he decided that the next morning he is going to go look for a job but as of right now what he really needs is sleep.
The next morning Jisung woke up around 10am which is a little early for him but he got enough rest.
He decided to skip breakfast and head out to find a job because he was in desperate need of money. So just like that he set off to go find a job. Did he know where he was going? absolutely not. Was he going wherever the wind takes him? yes. While walking the streets of Seoul he found a small cafe nearby that had a "Hiring!" sign outside.
Jisung walks into the cafe and sees a blond guy with freckles that was astonishingly pretty serving coffee behind the counter.
"Hi!" Jisung said walking up to the counter
"Hi! What can I get for you?" the blond says to jisung
"oh actually im not here to order anything but i saw your sign outside the store that said your Hiring?" Jisung said pointing over his shoulder to the sign outside
"oh yea! Are you interested?" the blond guy said
"oh my god yes you have no idea" Jisung said desperately
the blond giggled "no problem, have you had any experience working at a cafe?"
"....no?" jisung said nervously
"...can you cook?"
"haha...No but i can learn?" his voice pitching at the end
"alright well you can start whenever! What's your name?" the blond asks
"Oh my god thank you so much! I'm Jisung"
" I'm Felix, nice to meet you!" Felix says giggling again
"Can I start tomorrow?" jisung asked
"Of course! We open at 8am. I can teach you the basics then"
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Jisung unfortunately for him, he had to get up at the ass crack of dawn to go to work.
"Morning Felix!" jisung said walking into the cafe
"G'morning jisung! ready for me to show you the basics?"
Jisung and Felix actually hit it off pretty well. They were giggling the whole time Felix was teaching him the basics, and jisung was having fun. Jisung was surprisingly good at making coffee. At the end of his first shift Felix treated him to some cheesecake to take home, which Jisung was entirely grateful for because Cheesecake is his favorite thing on earth, he could literally eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner without getting tired of it.
When Jisung got home he was exhausted from work so he went straight to bed right after he got home.
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It's been a week since Jisung moved in and things were going pretty okay. Jisung got a text from Felix saying he didn't need him to come in till later in the afternoon so he had some time to go shopping for groceries because at the moment all Jisung had was an apartment and has been ordering out everyday since he got there and he was in no position to be spending money on takeout every night.
“Where the actual fuck is this store” jisung said looking down at GPS on his phone. Korea was actually pretty walkable place but unfortunately for Jisung he wasn't a very walkable person, so after 10 min of walking he was already exhausted and he was thinking of turning around and going back home, but he really couldn't postpone it because all that was in his fridge was a few plastic water bottles and bread, why was bread in the fridge you may ask? Jisung had the same question, he found it when he moved in assuming it's from the past owner and decided just to leave it there.
When jisung finally arrived at the grocery store he grabbed a cart and was kinda just winging it because he didn't actually know what he needed so he didn't make a list
After grabbing some fruits, milk, snacks, and bread because there was no way he trusted that bread in the fridge he had no idea how long that had been sitting there.
When he was walking to checkout he stopped in his tracks. He saw someone who looked awfully familiar. I mean he only saw the back of the person but he felt strangely connected. He was reminded about someone who was very special to him, someone who he had been thinking about since the day he left Seoul 9 years ago because the way they ended things off wasn't great. The person he was thinking about had black hair, and the person he was looking at was blond so there simply is just no way. So with that Jisung decided to just keep walking .
The walk home was just as bad as the walk to the store except now he had a little sense of familiarity. He had around 2 hours to spare before work so he put his groceries away and decided to doom scroll on his phone before he had to head out.
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At work Jisung and Felix were sitting around talking due to the cafe being a bit slow
“I need your opinion on something its a little TMI” Felix said
“Of course whats up?”
“ if you slept with someone and it was supposed to be a one time thing... But it was really good and ends up being a recurring thing and you kinda want to start getting to know the person and maybe become something, but you don't know if the other person feels the same way and you wanna ask but there is a probability of ruining everything, what do you do?”
Jisung is probably not the best person to answer this question because he has only slept with a couple of people, and all of them were one night stands and none of the sex was good enough for him to get attached to.
“Wow umm..." Jisung blinked "honestly i think if he….wait its a he right?” jisung asks
“Obviously!” Felix says
“Okay okay im just checking” Jisung continues “ if this is a reoccurring thing then that could mean that it's not just for the sex and it could be because it's you, assuming it is only you that he is sleeping with. Plus you don't have to be straight up about it you can always just hint to it and say stuff like “i really like being with you” and see if he feeds into it” Jisung said shrugging
“Hm ok i can try, thankyouthankyou!” felix said
“Of course let me know how it go’s”
After that another customer came in so they had to get back to work
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A couple days later Jisung was really starting to settle into his apartment and the city. even though he lived in this city for the first 13 years of his life, Seoul was huge. So he was still somewhat learning his way around the city.
One night Jisung was in his appartment and incredibly bored. He thought about going out to a bar or club to just hang out but he did not have the energy to change and walk to the closest bar that was a 20 minute walk. After thinking for a little he decided he was gonna make a cheese cake, has he made a cheesecake before? No, but there is a first time for everything right?. He started looking for a recipe online and decided on his favorite simple vanilla cheesecake, and then the inevitable happened, he had all the ingredients except for flour “uhgggg are you kidding me” Jisung whined looking at the time reading 9:30, the store closes at 10:00. Jisung decided he doesn't have the energy nor time to change so he went in his grey sweat pants and plain white T-shirt.
Jisung went as quickly as he could to the store and arrived with little time to spare. He grabbed the flour and left.
When jisung got home he was starting to get a bit hungry so he started making the cheese cake. Going step by step off the recipe adding the ingredients to the mix, He turned to the fridge needing 3 eggs, “no…oh my god this cannot be happening.” jisung said noticing he only had 2 eggs “UHGGG why does the universe hate me!” by now the store was closed and he was thinking that the recipe will be fine with one egg short, but if jisung knew anything about cheese cake he knew that you have to be very precise or it will throw the whole thing off.
After pacing back and forth thinking about what to do, an idea popped in his head. He can ask his neighbor to borrow an egg, Jisung looked at the clock reading 11:00 “There is no way im about to go knock on my neighbors door at 11:00 at night just to ask for an egg”
Jisung exited the front door, closing it behind him and looked at the door across from his apartment. Jisung gulped as he took a breath and rang the doorbell. “God jisung this is so stupid what am i doing…” jisung thought, He has never spoken to his neighbor matter of fact he has never even laid eyes on his neighbor, And now here he is ringing their door bell at 11:00 at night asking for a egg…what a great first impression
The door swung open pulling Jisung out of thought “Hi im so sorry to bother you this late i was wondering...” jisung stopped.
They both stared at each other. Not saying anything. Jisung felt like he was dreaming… There was no actual way…
“Minho?” jisung whispered feeling almost dizzy