Taking a chance on love [chapter 2]
Author comment:
I said the next one would follow soon, didn't I? Atm I've freetime, so I'm writing and writing and writing~
Okay let's go with chapter two!
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Sunggyu stared on his fast cooked ramen. Woohyun made better food, he tought. He didn't came after he turfed him out of his apartment one week ago. But he wanted to cook for him at least two times a week. It's getting cold, too. He really needs to eat slow food, not fast food for being healthy.
He sat on the sofa and looked at his cellphone. Should I call him?, he asked himself while eating his way too hot ramen. Sunggyu didn't do anything wrong, he just said that he hates it if somebody goes through his stuff. In their lectures Woohyun still sat next to him, but he was pretty quiet as compared to the beginning. All Sunggyu received was one or another wink and shy smiles as he would wait for Sunggyu to apologize for his behavior. So what to do? Should he call or shouldn't he?
It's true he didn't like to be surrounded all the time by anyone, but he loves good food. And more over he really likes the happy and cheesy image that Woohyun transports. It's all different from his. Maybe I should call? But that would mean I see my mistake although there isn't any! Okay, maybe I was a little rude. But...
Sunggyu sighed while he opened Kakao Talk.
-Yah! You jerk! Maybe I was a little rude to you, but I'm really hungry, hurry up!-
He looked on his written massage and put his head in his neck. “Maybe not...”, he mumbled and deleted the written words.
-Nam Woohyun, maybe I was a little rude, but just let's be alright together, okay?-
He wasn't good in apologizing. He never did it because everybody knew his character. He was like this all the time and if Woohyun can't handle this, they should part company anyway. This he should say to him.
“Last try again. But nice.”
-Namwoo, I'm sorry if I was rude and kicked you out. But I am like this. I didn't wanted you to be hurt because of what I said and did. I am just like this...not as nice as you thought...-
He pushed the send button and sank into the backrest. Right in this moment his bell rang. Hacked off he stood up and went to the door.
“Woohyun?”
The younger man smiled shy. “Uhm.” He nodded. “I know you don't like this kind of visit, but...”
“It's okay, come in!”
Sunggyu took Woohyuns hand and pulled him into his apartment. The man reached for his cellphone after it ringed. A familiar smile showed on Woohyuns lips.
“It arrived just now?”
“Namwoo?”
“Why did you came then??”
“Namwoo?? I like this~ But only if you calling me so!”
“Nam Woohyun!”
“Uhm?”
“You received my message just now. So why did you come?”
“Same as you. I wanted to apologize. But I don't have prepared such a cute nickname like you did.”
Sunggyu set on the sofa. “There wasn't no need to write this message.”, he mumbled. I knew he would come sooner or later., he thought. But the fact Woohyun came more later than sooner made Sunggyu play with the thoughts he would never come.
“Of course there was! Now I know your feelings. Okay not really, but now I know that you're hot-tempered. Although I've to say I knew that anyway, because you can be really iffy.”
Woohyun smiled and sat next to his friend. “Anyway. It's good you taught me by yourself.”
“By chance you're not here to cook, are you?”
“I see you ate ramen, hyung.”
“Which man would ramen make full?”
“Me?”
“You're not a man then. Just a little boy.”
“Aigooo! More over I thought we should go and buy a winter jacket for you.”
“How come do you think I don't have any?”
“Because it's really cold outside and you're wearing a leather jacket.”
“Leather is warm you know?”
“But a leather jacket is supposed to be worn open.”
“Then tell my, why it has a zipper.”
“Hyung, there are things in the world of fashion you don't need to understand. Nobody uses the zipper on a leather jacket!”
“I do.”
“Because you're cold.”
“When I wear it open, then it would be could, that's right.”
“Let's buy a winter jacket. You can't go out with your jacket when it snows anyway.”
“That really would be way too cold.”
“Then let's go!”
“Hyung? Are you ready?”
“Eh?! You made me wear all these things, so please wait a little more.”
He never should have go with Woohyun shopping. A winter jacket? He bought one, but Woohyun kept giving hi things he should try. He doesn't have any fashion instincts, Woohyun had said. And he should try clothes Woohyun would give him.
“Ah, you look really good!”
!!!!!!
Sunggyu turned around and saw Woohyuns face looking through the curtains. “Are you stupid?! I said WAIT!” The elder one grip his shirt to cover his chest. “Go out! Don't look!”
Woohyun laughed and entered the changing cubicle, which was luckily big enough for both of them.
“What's wrong with you? We're both guys.”
“You're not half naked!”
“Should I take off my shirt, too?” Woohyun grip the hem of his shirt and raised it up to his chest.
Sunggyu reached his hand out and pulled it back to where it has to be. “Don't be like this Woohyun!”
“I am not. You are! Are you that shy regarding your body?” Woohyun was still amused about this situation.
“My mum wouldn't like it, that's all.”
“Wouldn't like what?”
“Showing my naked self to another guy!”
“Come on! We're friends! There's nothing strange. What do you do in the swimming bath? You don't really want to tell me, that you're wearing a shirt there!”
“I do!”
Woohyun laughed. “Hyung. Do as you please, but don't scream at me when I'm seeing you showing off some skin.”
“I don't scream!”
“You do and please don't do it. Although you're rally cute shy like this.” Woohyun exited the cabin, leaving an open-mouthed Sunggyu. “Just come out when you're ready!”
Sunggyu shook is head and continued to get dressed.
“Tada!!” Sunggyu stepped out and looked in the mirror.
“That's good! It's how I see you. Classy but still cool.”
Sunggyu looked on himself in the mirror while he let Woohyun pull here and there on his clothes. He was right, those clothes looked good on him. Woohyun is a fashionista!, he thought and tried the beanie his friend gave to him. “I like it thought.”
“I knew you would!”
Sunggyu felt something cold on his back. “Ah” He cringed and turned to Woohyun. “Don't touch me with your cold hands!”
“I'm sorry hyung. I..I just wanted the clothes to fit.”
“They do! I go change now.”
Sunggyu went to the cabin not seeing Woohyun how looked on his hands as they'd touched something special.
Myungsoo looked at Woohyun. “What?” He was really surprised what his friend had done.
“I saw him half naked and I touched is bag...while he was changing.”
“This...wasn't he angry?”
“I think he was, but he tried to keep calm because of his tongue slip last time.”
“...”
“I don't think he liked it Myungie...”
“Aigo..that wasn't something special. I touched your back for a hundred times and I saw you full naked, not only half, and it wasn't a fuss.”
“But he's shy.”
“He's inhibited.”
“We don't know each other really well. We're just at the beginning.”
“Then just keep trying.”
“But it's hard you know? I want to touch him...not as a lover but as a friend.”
“He doesn't like skinship?”
Woohyun shook is head.
“You felt in love with a tough nut.”
“Help me Myungie...”
Sungyeol who was lying on the bed looked up. “Wait, wait? What if he just don't likes men? If he wants to be together with a cute girl, who calls him oppa all the time?”
Woohyun looked down what Myungso tempted to hit the leg of his boyfriend. “Sungyeol! Be more sensitive!”
“But he's right. He'd a girlfriend before he came to Seoul.”
“Look! I was right. He loves girls not him. Woohyun should overcome this man and don't try to get near to him. He never will be!”
“I believe there's some kind of spell between people who can fall in love with each other. The gender doesn't matter. Isn't it the person who we fall for and not the gender?” Myungsoo sighed and looked to Woohyun. “Cheer up dear. He will fall in love with you if you try. Who wouldn't?”
Woohyun lent on Myungsoos shoulder. “I wished you're right.”
“I am. I could fell for Sungyeol although I thought he was awkward. He just kept trying. And so you must.”
“...”
“It just takes time and courage.”
“If you want I can help you! I'm successful in paying attention to the beloved one.”, Sungyeol added. “Myungie and I want to go to the amusement park on Halloween. There are lot's of events you can do there and there're monsters all over the place. It's really frightening!”
Woohyun looked up to Sungyeol.
“This is what you need Woohyun: Angst.”
“I bet he will be more scared than Sunggyu would be!”, Myungsoo laughed.
“That doesn't matter. Isn't it important that one of them is the scaredy-cat?”
Myungsoo nodded. “What do you think Woohyunnie?”
“I will ask him. Then we would go in a group of four?”
“Like that he wouldn't see it as a date. That's good.”
“Why would he even think that Sungyeol?” Myungsoo turned to Sungyeol behind him.
“Doesn't he know that Woohyun isn't as straight as him?”
“Of course not!!”, Woohyun screamed. “That would be terrible!”
“Wae?”
“I think...I think I can't be like this to him, when he knows why I'm so touchy. He would see me and my actions with other eyes...”
“Accepted. You're right. But we're still going as a group. Myungsoo and I will be always together so actually we're just addressable for you if you need help.”
Woohyun nodded. Hopefully this would help him to get closer to Sunggyu.
Too hot. It was way too hot in the starbucks café. Sunggyu opened his winter jacket and fanned himself with his hand. “One tall macha green tea frappochino please.” He paid and walked to the counter. While he was waiting he looked to the guy making his order. Somehow he knew him.
“Uhm, was it with milk or with soya?”
“Soya!”
“Without cream?”
Sunggyu nodded. The guy following his order looked at him as if his thoughts were same as Sunggyus.
“Excuse me, aren't we in the same lecture? Uhm...Music economy?”
Sunggyu blinked. The guy was right. He always sits in front of him. “Ah yes! We must know us from there.”
“Haha, cool! In a few minutes I've finished my trick. If you wait I will come to you and we could talk?”
“Yes, I haven't anything to do, so it would be good to get some time around.”
“Fine then here's your tall macha green tea frappochino with soya and without cream. Take a seat, I will be there in a few minutes~”
As the young man said, he arrived at Sunggyus table and sat down. After a long sip of his coffee, he leaned forward. “An case that you doesn't know: I'm Jang Dongwoo and studying in the second year.”
“Eh? So you're my hyung?”
“It looks like this. I'm 20.”
Sunggyu laughed. “I'm your hyung. I'm 21.”
“But you're still in your first year?”
“I didn't go to university right after school you know?”
“Ah that makes sense!” Dongwoo laughend.
“Ah sunbae! Then maybe you can show me some tricks to get better marks.”
Again Dongwoo needed to laugh. “There aren't any and don't be so polite and call me sunbae!”
“But you are!”
“And I tell you, I want to be called by my name.”
“But you call me hyung.”
“I don't have any other chance. I don't even know your name hyung!” Dongwoo laughed again.
“Ah! I'm sorry, I totally forgot about that. Kim Sunggyu.”
“Nice to meet you Sunggyu!” He held his cup of coffee in the air. “Cheers!”
“Hyung.” Sunggyu corrected him and touched his coffee with his plastic tumbler.
“You really want this.”
“It's all about respect.”
“I respect you even if I call you Sunggyu.”
“It's still hyung.”
“Don't be like this Oppaa~~”, Dongwoo fooled around in a girly voice leading now Sunggyu to laugh.
“Who are you, and where are you from?? Don't be like this Dongwoo!”
“It's just funny, isn't it?”
“What's funny? You playing a girl and fool around?”
“Me playing a girl that has a crush on you. That's the funny thing.”
“Whats funny about this? There are actually many girls who confessed their feelings towards me.”
“Are there?”
“Of course! Wae?? Wae do you look so curious??”
Dongwoo shook is head. “Never mind. I'd just a feeling about you that there should have been some boys who confessed to you!”, he grinned and took a sip of his coffee.
“Boys?? Do I look as if I would go out with men??”
“Your dressing is very good. I don't know any straight men who combine their clothes like this.”
“A friend helped me buying this clothes. But he's straight too. He has a lot of fashion sense. You know him! Nam Woohyun, he's sitting next to me in our lecture.”
“Ah this guy! He really dresses well. You're sure, he's straight?” Dongwoo laughed.
“Of course!!!”
“Ehhh...don't get mad hyung. I was just making fun. It seems that there are some men who could dress well and aren't attracted to men.”
Sunggyu sucked on is straw. “You have an interesting style.”
“I know. That's why people recognizes me after seeing for the first time. But you were different, I needed to talk to you first.”
“I'm not good at recognizing people.”
“I've noticed it. But say hyung, why are you here all by yourself?”
“Why not? I wanted to drink something.”
“But usually people are coming together to a café.”
“I'm not a usual person. I'm mysterious~”
Dongwoo laughed. “You really are. Wheres Woohyun?”
“Uhm..I don't know? Maybe by his friends? Why?”
“Aren't this your friends too?”
“I don't know them really well. I just moved to Seoul.”
“So you don't really know where to go to get in touch with some students and because of this you're going alone to starbucks!”
“I go alone, because I want to go alone.”
“You should go and see the places where the students are! All the bars and clubs!” Dongwoo continued to talk without reacting to Sunggyus objection. “There is a concert this evening. If you want to, we could go together!”
“I don't have money for such things, I'm sorry.” He had money but he didn't want to spend it for such events. He was scared of a huge amount of people. Not because he's claustrophobic, just because he didn't like people that much.
“No prob hyung. It's a free concert. We're going in a pub and there they will play, that's all.”
“In a pub?”
“Don't say you don't know a-”
“I do know!” A pub was the only thing he really was attracted to. He really loved those little and old bars. And the people in there are more or less okay thought. Sunggyu looked at the younger one who was waiting for his answer. “Okay I will come.”
“Really? Tell me your address I will come and get you at 9 o'clock!”
Another one who wants his address. Sunggyu sighed but tipped it into Dongwoos cellphone.
There was no chance Sunggyu wouldn't come with him, Myungsoo and Sungyeol. Woohyun was sure he would like to go to an amusement park, all he needed to do is to ask him. And that's why he was on his way to his apartment. Maybe I should call him, that I want to talk to him?, he thought.
The older one has mentioned often enough that he don't want do be surprised by someone knocking on the door.
For some reason his glance went to the left. As soon as he saw Sunggyu with another man sitting together he stopped. “Who..? Who is it?”, he mumbled and looked through the Window. What he saw was nothing he really liked. Why would Sunggyu type in something into the mans phone? He surely was giving away his phone number.
Woohyun remembered how hard it was to get his number. He'd asked the first week they've met constantly and was close before begging for it. And what he saw now was that he was happily typing it in. “What the heck...”
This wasn't anything Woohyun liked and could ignore. He'd to get out why Sunggyu was apparently close to this guy.