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Hyunjin is sitting at a local bar he swore to never visit because of the "fruity" aura illuminating from it. But here he is, heartbroken and tired, head against the hard counter top.
His girlfriend of 5 years, the "love of his life" just broke up with him. Not only did she break up with him but she also called him a failure.
Is she wrong though? Hyunjin spent 4 years of his life in art school just to end up working a minimum wage job at 7/11 alongside 16 year olds. Truly pathetic.
Just as hyunjin is sitting sober, sulking his life away a soft masculine voice broke past the walls of somber.
"Can I help you...?"
Hyunjin looks up from the dark marble counter he's been inspecting for the past few minutes to find a long blonde haired man in a half undone white button up shirt with a subtlety visible tattoo underneath
Hyunjin looks like he's just seen a ghost. None of this was in the Bible. The long bleached blonde hair, the tattoo and definitely not the boner forming in his pants...
After taking in the man's looks, hyunjin responds flustered
"Oh yeah sorry, can I just get a bottle of soju?"
"Coming right up.." the blonde haired man responds and walks away to get the bottle
Hyunjin didn't know a lot of things. what to do with himself? why he was in the gay bar? or how a voice like that came from a gorgeous man like this.
The bartender came back and slid the bottle with a shot glass towards the dark haired man. Hyunjin just nods and tries to open the bottle. But he's Hwang Hyunjin, so nothing goes his way.
Not even this.
He continues to fumble with the bottle until the blonde haired man notices and can't mentally take it anymore. He snatches the bottle from Hyunjin and opens it with ease. Hyunjin just watches it happen in defeat.
"I'm Felix but just call me lix" he says nonchalantly pouring some soju into Hyunjins shot glass
"Thanks....I'm Hyunjin" he responds awkwardly followed up by him downing that shot of soju like a champ.
'im a fucking idiot'
"...Just let me know if you need anything..." Felix concludes the awkward encounter walking away to serve a different customer.
....
Felix comes back to check up on hyunjin around 20 minutes later only to see him passed out drunk.
"What does one do in this situation..." He thinks out loud
Felix decided to wait until the bar closed and his shift was over to somehow get this drunk guy home. He walks around the counter and notices he only drank half the bottle. What a lightweight.. He also noticed that hyunjin did not have his cellphone with him which cancels out any option to call a friend.
Fuck...
The blonde man gets him onto his back with the help of his collegue and walks outside. The cold air hits him instantly. He has no idea where the taller man lives but he heads for the metro station anyway.
"Hyunjin, mind telling me where you live??" Felix asks to which the man on his back responds by mumbling something an alien wouldn't even understand.
At this point it's 00:45. The last train in Felixs direction is at 1.
Hyunjin is gonna have to come home with Felix.
As they're waiting for the bus Felix gets a call from a very familiar number
"Yes han?" Felix starts
"Yeah hi, so can I have some of those cookies you make, my friend wants to try one." The man on the other side responds
"Okay sure for when?"
"Tomorrow evening???"
"..."
"And you're telling me this now?! Do you think I'm made of cannabis?"
"Sure seems like it"
"Fine... I'll get them to you by 5 tomorrow"
"Thanks you're the best, bye"
And just like that, Felix had another thing on his to do list.
...
Hyunjin stirs awake to the unfamiliar smell of cookies, incense and something else. More herbal, more skunky... He realizes soon enough that he is not home. He doesn't know where the fuck he's at.
Hyunjin looks around noticing the off white walls, the messed up vanity and all the colourful clothes scattered all over the ground.
"Fuck..."
He starts panicking. Hyunjin looked under the covers and noticed that he was still wearing the same things he wore last night. He exhales in relief. His suspension was proven wrong.
Hyunjin gets up from the single bed and leaves the small room he slept in, following the smell and ruckus he woke up to. He walks into the kitchen to just to see Felix with his hair in a ponytail listening to music on his tangled wired headphones wearing a white tank top and grey sweatpants.
The taller man just watches the other man mixing dough with a pink spatula. Hyunjin didn't know what to think. His head was killing him, his stomach feels like it's been through through hell and back but one thing he can't deny is that this man was handsome. Not in a gay way of course...
Felix turns around to grab something and notices the man he dragged home last night staring holes into his back.
Hyunjin turns his head awkwardly to look somewhere else hoping Felix didn't catch him starting.He did notice the way Felixs tattoo was slightly peaking through the white almost translucent top.
"You're up!" Felix says taking his headphones off and placing them behind him on the already crowded counter top.
"Yeah..." Hyunjin responds awkwardly. As always..
'why am I so awkward'
"You hungry?" Felix asks, washing his hands from flour.
"No I'm fine.."
A moment later hyunjins stomach growls louder than usual, instantly blowing his cover.
'this is so embarrassing'
"yeah sure, I'll make you something when I get these in the oven" Felix says as he turns back around to place the cookies on the baking tray
"What are you making?" Hyunjin asks out of curiosity
"Edibles, my client, well I guess my friend, asked for a batch by 5 today so yeah.."
"Edibles?" Hyunjin questions. It does explain the herbal scent. He wouldn't take Felix as the 'drug dealer' type though. I mean he does have a tattoo on his chest, long hair and a job at a gay bar but still..
"Mhm" Felix confirms placing the last cookie on the tray before putting it in the oven
'thats...cool.." hyunjin says
"What's with the tone, have you never had an edible?" Felix asks teasingly as he starts washing the dishes after himself
Hyunjin scoffs "do I look like the type to take drugs?"
Felix turns around to face hyunjin "you've never been high?!"
"Is there something wrong with that or..." Hyunjin asks rhetorically
"No, I just find it wild" he turns back to the sink
"I'd let you try one you know, see how you like it" Felix adds
Hyunjin paused for a moment "I'll think about it ,not today though, I have to go to work at 6"
"Where do you work?" Felix asks
"7/11..."
Felix burst out laughing
"Hey don't laugh I work really hard"
"Okay, okay I'm sorry....god" Felixs laugh calms
"And how's that like for you?" Felix adds
"Fine I guess. I have enough to survive.... barely, but it's hard to live comfortably"
Felix nods in agreement
"Okay what do you want to eat. I have chicken flavored instant noodles or spicy instant noodles" Felix asks while looking through his cabinet
"Thats some variety....Ill take the chicken one" Hyunjin says sitting down at the small two person dining table.
"Kay Kay"
Felix gets the kettle boiling and sits down across from Hyunjin, their knees grazing against each other slightly which doesn't sit quite right with hyunjin.
"Do you live alone?" Hyunjin asks
"No, I have a roommate, seungmin, he's funny you'd love him. He's in class right now"
"Ohhh, do you guys go to uni together?"
"Nah, I mean we used to but I dropped out early on. Not for me"
Hyunjin nods as Felix gets up to pour the boiling water over the noodles
"I finished art school" hyunjin paused "not much you can do with an art degree now since ai is taking over"
"You went to art school? That's sick, are you any good?" Felix asks bringing the noodles over to the table
"You can be the judge of that.." hyunjin laughs
"Can I actually? I've been looking for a painting to put above my bed"
Hyunjin raises his eyebrow at Felix "seriously?"
"Yes! Hyunjin will you paint me?" Felix leaned in batting his long eyelashes at him
Hyunjin got to see Felixs face up close for the first time. He noticed the freckles scattered across his cheeks that he wasn't able to notice last night. He noticed that one was heart shaped.
The man hasn't painted since he finished art school but ever since he met Felix he got a sudden urge to. Felix looked like a painting already, this shouldn't be too hard to execute.
Hyunjin got himself together and answered "sure I'd love y- I mean I'd love to!"
"Great, so that's my number and text me all the details" Felix said grabbing a sticky note from the top of the fridge along with a pen
He passed the note to hyunjin and the number was written alongside a little, innocent heart which made hyunjin Panic internally.
"I got to go.."
"What-"
hyunjin got up immediately leaving the apartment with his shoes barely on. He has never felt this way before. He has. But not for someone the same gender as him. Not for a man.