[G39] FALLING IN LOVE
Prompt Code: G39
Title: Falling In Love
Rating: pg-13 for profanities
Side Pairings (if any): bromance!sekai, bromance!baeksoo and slight!chanbaek if you squint
Warnings: mention of ex-members and non-members of exo
Word Count: 4164
Summary: Inside a shitty toilet stall, two hearts are fluttering.
AN: First of all, thank you to the mods for the guides, cute emails, cute cheers .. everything! :D Thanks to dear A for helping me when I’m stuck T.T Next, thanks to the prompter for this fluffy prompt!I hope you’ll like it. Sorry if it didn’t meet your expectation T.T
p/s: sorry but bts is too adorable and weird so I have to put some of them in this! :’((
Jongin lets out a relieved sigh. Finally he’s done with his assignment after burying his ass into the chair for hours. The assignment was given last month, but he’s dumb and eventually forgot about it.
He’s thankful that Sehun was there to remind him, but still he’s an asshole for reminding him 4 hours before the submission time. Nope, Sehun is an Asshole with capital A in bold for reminding him so late and doesn’t let him copy his assignment.
“This shit is a bitch to do, okay!I’m not giving it for free” Sehun said, and Jongin asked him to fuck off.
So, he ends up in KFC, eating 3 sets of spicy fried chicken, 2 boxes of cheesy wedges and 3 cups of medium-sized coke. He decided that he’s done with potatoes and coke for the week. He’s practically born to eat fried chicken anyway.
After pressing the ‘send’ button and emails his assignment to Prof. Minseok, he stretches his numb limbs and starts packing his things and leave after ordering another box of snack plate.
He passes by Boost, thinking that a King William Chocolate would be good. But there’s too many girls there, shouting “oppa!oppa!” and squeals and more shouting.
Curiosity killed the cat, they say. And he is about to be killed as he suddenly becomes a part of the crowd. He gets pushed around and people are screaming to his ears and it’s annoying. Before he knows it, he screams out loud and everyone stops.
The crowd falls into silence in instance, eyes all on him and his eyes falls on the petite boy in the centre, who he believes the victim in this situation. The boy cowers deep into his black hoodie, not moving from the crowd. Jongin manages to caches his eyes slightly, and he sees fear in them.
Jongin doesn’t know what hit him, as he mutters “excuse me!” while parting the crowd like Moses parted the Red Sea. He takes the chance to grab the boy’s hand and they both run as fast as they can to whatever direction their feet (or just Jongin’s) bring them.
Jongin takes them to the least used toilet at the west wing of the floor and pushes both of them inside the most end toilet stall.
“We’ll be okay here .. They should leave anytime soon ..” Jongin says as both of them huffing and puffing for air after the ‘run of their lives’. They should be okay. It’s male toilet and only stupid or crazy girls would enter the toilet.
But Jongin is wrong. The toilet’s door is harshly opened and the silent toilet is now filled with screams and loud poundings on the door. Now, it is proven that those girls are brainless zombies and the thought of it makes Jongin shudders. Jongin quickly sits on the toilet bowl’s lid and pulls the boy to sit on his thighs.
“Pull your legs up!” Jongin whispers and the boy quickly pulls his legs up.
“Oppa! We know you’re in here!Come out!” one of the girls screams. Jongin can feel the boy trembles.
Again, he unknowingly circles his arm to the boy’s waist and pulls him closer.
“Thank you for your help, but I need to leave soon .. My flight is in 2 hours ..” the boy said with his soft, delicate voice and Jongin feels his heart drops. Then, the boy smiled and fuck Jongin just lost it.
There is no signs of the girls to leave the toilet anytime soon. So, Jongin fishes out his phone and makes a call. Luckily, his brother in-law works there as a manager. He asks for security guards, and quotes ‘no question asked’ and ‘be quick’ before ending the phone call. The boy looks at him with wide eyes and slightly gaped mouth and heol, Jongin wanted to squish his cheeks so bad but no he decided to go against it, since he doesn’t even know the boy and he’d look like a creepy pedophile.
“Why did you help me?” the boy asks.
“You look like you’re about to cry there .. Why did they chase you anyway?” Jongin asked.
“You .. don’t know me?” Kyungsoo asks, eyes go wide in disbelief. Jongin frowns at the way Kyungsoo reacts.
“Should I?” Jongin asks back.
“No ..” the boy shakes his head and smiles. “I’m Do Kyungsoo, by the way ..” he offers his hand for a shake. For the first time, Jongin notices the way his lips look like. A bit plump, pink and holy shit it’s heart-shaped!
Jongin hopes he doesn’t stare too long at the boy’s lips.
“K-Kim Jongin ..” he stutters as he takes the boy’s hand and oh God how much more embarrassing he can be!Kungsoo seems like he doesn’t mind, as he still beams like a fucking sunshine and Jongin knows by then, he’s so damn whipped up to his ass.
Despite of the shitty toilet stall that fills with scribbles of horny boys and dicks, Jongin can’t deny how the boy looks so perfect in his arms.
“Okay, so we’ve passed the introduction part and we still can’t get out .. So how about some bedtime stories?” Jongin suggests, before adding “Just to kill time, you know” to ensure the other boy that he’s perfectly a normal youth and not some weird, hormonal boy that drags people to somewhere out of the blue.
In Jongin’s 22 years of existence, the only person who can be categorized as weird he’s met is Kim Taehyung, a chemistry major freshman, who is also happens to be his roommate. Taehyung has postcards of bunnies hung on the soft board above his bed, he loves cutting holes to his oversized sweatshirts (sometimes his stripped pajama pants that he loves to wear to classes) and he cries everytime he watches ‘Descendants of The Sun’, screaming ‘why Song Joongki whyyyyy’ whenever he goes ‘Song Joongki oppa’ mode.
He really hopes his roommate’s weirdness doesn’t rub on him.
“You’re bored, right?I’m sorry for dragging you into this ..” Kyungsoo mouths apologetically, and Jongin decides that he hates the way Kyungsoo’s perfect heart-shapped lips and cute eyeballs look so disheartened.
“No, I’m not .. Really though, I know you’ll be like ‘wtf is wrong with this guy’ but I don’t care just listen because I think I will die if I don’t talk in 2 seconds ..” Jongin says ever so fastly, making Kyungsoo chuckle in amusement. There, Jongin has lost it for the nth time of the day.
Jongin will go frenzy like this only in certain situations, which are 1) when he’s nervous 2) when he had too much sugar 3) when he’s bored and 4) when cute things are within his radar. Jongin would like to believe the cups of coke he’s taken earlier is the cause of the hyper activeness of his mouth.
“So here it goes .. Once upon a time, in a land far, far, far away. There’s a prince named Kim Jongin ………” he ends up telling a remixed, fucked up version of Rapunzel and Cinderella with him and Kyungsoo as the main characters.
And disregarding the commotion happening outside, Kyungsoo laughs out loud and clenches his stomach. He wipes a drop of tears at the corner of his eyes, slightly coughing for laughing too much.
“Thank you for laughing!My niece never laughs at my jokes. You’ve just mend my broken heart, little kid ..” Jongin says and pats Kyungsoo’s head softly. He tries so hard to ignore how soft the dark locks are and how he wants to keep stroking them with his fingers.
“You’re welcome and I’m not a kid ..” Kyungsoo replies with a slight offended look. Yeah, he knows he’s short and such but that doesn’t declare him ‘kid’. This stranger doesn’t even know him, so what the hell!
But no, Jongin doesn’t buy it because hell no this boy looks like he’s only 16 or something. He half-heartedly shrugs his shoulder and mutters “yeah yeah whatever” before telling another funny story about his niece dancing to Girl’s Day’s Something. Then, he moves on to the stories of his beloved Monggu, Janggu and Jjangah.
Other people may be like ‘the fuck is this guy for real!’, but no. Kyungsoo finds it endearing and cute that Jongin thinks that Kyungsoo finds his stories funny (they’re dumb and nonsense, to be very honest). Kyungsoo finds that Jongin is indeed an attractive fellow. He has nice tanned skin, chiselled jaws, perfect sets of teeth, beautiful smile and mesmerizing pair of eyes. Unlike him, Jongin gives out the vibe of a young boy and manliness. Meanwhile, Kyungsoo is always gets mistaken as a toddler wherever he goes. He even needs to show his ID like the characters in a movie where the guy is obsessed with sex and the weird girl puked all over him inside a subway. If only he could get a tattoo on his forehead saying ‘I’m a big boy!’, but Baekhyun will fry his ass for real if he did that.
Baekhyun, a.k.a baekshits, youtuber-slash-bestfriend-slash-Kyungsoo’s childhood buddy, is also famous with his covers. Even though he’s more active singing covers with Jongdae, youtube ID: jongdae_wiggle (yeah weird as fuck), he sees Kyungsoo everyday. Technically, they live together.
Anyhow, only these two ever make contacts with Kyungsoo directly in his entire life, until today. He’s met other youtubers (courtesy to baekhyun and jongdae’s sassy butts, forcing him to ‘stop playing with his imaginary friends and get a real life’), such as realpcy, junmaen and galaxywu. He’s grateful that all of them understand his introverted self, but still they’re so damn loud. He didn’t know how he ended up promising for a cover duet with Chanyeol and Kris (maybe because Baekhyun texted him, saying ‘agree or there’ll be bloodbath, bitch!’).
Baekhyun and Jongdae decided to extend their stay at Busan, and Kyungsoo decided that no he’s used all his social skills in a day and he’s done. After all, he still has classes to attend and assignments to submit. But fate must be against him as now, he’s stuck in a smelly, narrow and crappy toilet stall with a stranger and listening to horrible stories the teller thought comedic (but he’s hot so Kyungsoo let it slips).
And now Jongin takes out his phone and shows him pictures of his niece, dogs, niece and more dogs. There’s one or two pictures of him in badly chosen filters and four squares, but they’re almost left unnoticed due to the overflowing pictures of not-Jongin.
“You don’t take selfies?” Kyungsoo asks. Jongin smiles and shakes his head.
“No. My amazing photography skills don’t apply on my front camera. I just don’t like how I look ..” Jongin says, as he scrolls more pictures in his camera roll.
Kyungsoo is infuriated. Not only he’s so damn outdated about artists (Hello, D.O. has 150K subscribers and a fanclub. So, he’s famous, bitch!), he also blind and unable to recognize how aesthetic he is. The dictionary should change the meaning of beautiful to Jongin instead. He’s perfect in every angles and Kyungsoo doesn’t know how more perfect he can be.
“You’re joking, right?” Kyungsoo asks. Jongin raises one of his eyebrows, signing that he doesn’t get what Kyungsoo’s talking about. Kyungsoo lets out an annoyed grunt.
“You’re beautiful, okay?Like what the hell!You don’t like how you look?People would be lining up at the plastic surgery clinics to have your face. Your eyes, nose, lips, everything is perfect!Look at me!Now this is ugly, okay!” Kyungsoo screams to Jongin’s face in dissatisfaction. He’s puffing as he tries to calm down, a pout unconsciously starting to take forms on his lovely heart-shapped lips.
Jongin is in awe. And the toilet is getting hotter all of the sudden. Oh God, he wished Kyungsoo won’t be able to notice how flustered he is right now.
“You know .. You’re the most beautiful being my eyes have ever laid on ..” Jongin says softly. His hands move out of system, going closer to Kyungsoo’s cheeks.
As he’s about to touch the fluffy cheeks he’s been wanting to touch for the past 28 minutes and 40 seconds, Kyungsoo looks away and heol this is awkward.
They stay still for a good 2 minutes, before Jongin’s phone rings.
“Yah!We’ve secured the way .. After you open the door, run as fast as you can!” Jongin’s hyung says. In a blink of an eye, Kyungsoo’s fingers are tied with his and both of them are on a swift move again.
“I have 45 minutes to reach airport .. thank you so much for your help ..” Kyungsoo says after catching their breath at a secluded corner outside the mall. Jongin escorts him to hail a taxi, “those crazy fangirls may chase you again” he says.
“W-wait!” Jongin suddenly stops him from closing the door. His cheeks are burning, but he knows Kyungsoo won’t notice since it’s dark outside.
“Can I have your number?” Jongin says shakily. His face burns even more, cold sweats starting to wet his back. He rubs his neck softly, hoping that it will ease the nervousness and the thumping heart of his.
Kyungsoo smiles, eyes disappear into two thick, black lines. His adorable heart-shapped lips looks even prominent and cuter. Jongin’s heart flutters at the sight of it.
Kyungsoo takes out his phone and hands it to Jongin. He waste no time and perhaps a bit too excitedly punches in his number.
“I saved it under ‘Jongin’. Now give me yours ..” Jongin says after handing back Kyungsoo’s iPhone. Jongin about to hand in his phone, until he’s surprise with Kyungsoo’s sudden move.
“I’ll text you!” he screams inside the taxi and smiles cheekily before the taxi drifts away. Jongin stands there for a good two minutes, too blank to even utter a word.
He lets out a sigh and smiles.
What a cutie!
*
“Kim Jongin .. I swear I’m two seconds away from bitch slapping you!” Sehun says in annoyance, eyes still on the screen playing Mario Kart with Jongin’s roommate. He’s been losing since round 1 and blames Jongin’s never-ending moans and cries in agony for distracting him.
“What make- SHIT NO KIM TAEHYUNG!” Sehun curses as Taehyung’s Luigi passes by him, taking the first place. In no time, Taehyung arrives at the finishing line, which marks Sehun’s fifth defeat of the day and second week of eating Taehyung’s disgusting tuna kimchi pizza with extra gouda cheese on top.
“If I die because of your disgusting choice of food, I’ll hunt you to your sleep!” Sehun said in annoyance as he takes a slice and shoves it into his mouth. Taehyung looks at him with contented smile on his face. Somehow, seeing Sehun suffering brings him the joy that he can’t explain.
Jongin fiddles with his phone and grunts over and over again as he scrolls the menu screen sideways and opens random apps. Can’t take it anymore, Sehun takes his phone away and tucks it under his butt.
“Yah!!” Jongin screams, pushing Sehun away to retrieve his phone. But Sehun remains unmoved, munching on his slice of pizza. Taehyung cackles at the sight of distraught and frustrated Jongin.
“If you fart of my phone, I’ll piss on your shoes!” Jongin barks. Sehun just rolls his eyes and ignore the ‘not-gonna-happen-in-two-fucking-million-years’ threat.
“Why are you looking so gloomy these days?Is Janggu dead or what??” Sehun says casually. Jongin takes a slice of pizza to his hand and presses it on Sehun’s mouth, a scowl forms on his lips.
“Seriously, Oh Sehun .. I swear I won’t be surprised if I saw your dead body at a dumpster with that shitty mouth of yours!” Jongin scowls, giving up in getting back his phone. Sehun just dismisses Jongin’s unnecessary diss with “yeah yeah whatever” and licks the mess on his mouth clean.
“Like really, though .. What’s up with you, dude?” Sehun asks the golden question again. Jongin doesn’t say a word, only lets out a sigh and it annoys Sehun to the pit of hell for the lack of respond.
“I will really bitch slap you if you don’t spill it now!” Sehun’s threatens him. Jongin groans as he flops himself deeper into the couch.
“There’s this guy - “
“A GUY??WHO??HOW??WHEN??WHERE??WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME??I THOUGHT WE’RE BFFFFFFF!!” Sehun shouts, spitting pieces of kimchi to Jongin’s face. He glares at Sehun, who’s still screaming ‘omg omg omg’ repeatedly besides the gaping in shock Taehyung.
“Calm the fuck down, like seriously!I met him at the mall, after I was done with the assignment you had been bitching about!” Jongin says, after slapping Sehun’s thigh hard.
“Yo, ma bitching scored you a date, you ungrateful kid!” Sehun screams while rubbing the reddening part on his thigh. He winces in pain as his rough hands make contact with the injured skin.
“I’m fucking 3 months older, idiot!” Jongin bickers. Sehun frowns. Jongin has pulled out the fucking ‘I’m-your-hyung’ card, and Sehun hates it.
“KIDS!” Taehyung screams, stopping the two boys from fighting like a bunch of 5 years old. Really, sometimes Taehyung feels like he’s older than the two.
“Anyway ..” Jongin says after he’s calmed a bit and continues, “He was surrounded by some crazy girls and he looked so pitiful and scared and sad, like a puppy surrounded by hungry, big dogs you know. So, I helped him and we ended up in a toilet and stayed there almost an hour. Omg you can’t believe how perfect he was. He’s so small and squishy and cute I wanna bite him and adorable and fluf - “
“That sounds so gay, dude ..” Sehun replies and faking the act of throwing up. After all, he needs an excuse to stop eating Taehyung’s nauseating pizza.
“Shut up!Like you don’t prefer dicks over boobs!” Jongin screams back, feeling so attacked over his sexuality. That’s low, Oh Sehun!
“I can live with both, thank you very much!What’s his name, though?” Sehun dismisses the sexuality argument with another question.
“Do Kyungsoo” Jongin replies bashfully. A shy smile appears on his face, his eyes glint in excitement as he recalls his brief moment with Kyungsoo. It’s love at the first sight, Jongin swears.
“Ohhh” Sehun says shortly, too disgusted with Jongin ‘boy-in-luv’ face to come out with a better reply.
“Wait!That sounds familiar ..” Taehyung, who has been watching the two bestfriend bicker silently, says.
The air is filled with silence until suddenly, Sehun laughs. He laughs hysterically, as if someone was tickling him from every sides of his body.
“Dude, your phone vibrates against my balls!” Sehun says, hands clutching on his stomach to refrain himself from laughing more.
With much, much stronger force, Jongin pushes Sehun away. Sehun falls on the floor hard, but Jongin can’t give a damn about it. He quickly takes his phone.
It’s a message from an unknown number.
Hi. It’s Kyungsoo. 11.32 pm
You remember me, right? 11.32 pm
Jongin? 11.33 pm
Jongin’s eyes sparks in excitement once again and Sehun tries so hard to not actually throw up for real seeing it.
*
“Good job, Kyungsoo!” Chanyeol pats on his shoulder and smiles.
Kyungsoo has been busy for the past week, trying to perfect his cover collaboration with Kris and Chanyeol. Kyungsoo wonders how Chanyeol can put up with Kris, to be honest. He’s cold and demanding. Kyungsoo had to sing the song over and over again, because “I just can’t feel it, Kyungsoo!My bones aren’t shaking!!”, Kris said.
Thank goodness the agonizing one week has ended.
“Sorry, Kyungsoo. I just want it to be perfect ..” Kris apologizes with his blank face.
“It’s okay .. Now I really have to go .. See you guys!” Kyungsoo excuses himself to go back early. He has tons of assignments and a boy, who has been invading his mind for a week, to deal with.
He waits no more as he quickly sends a message to the said boy.
Hi. It’s Kyungsoo. 11.32 pm
*
Kamong seems extremely busy, compared to any other days since it’s opened for business. Well, it’s always busy when Jongin is around. That’s why his sister puts his pictures as decorations all around the café, even without his consent.
“Jongin-ah, you’re the mascot of our café!Be proud and have a little confident, will you?” his sister always says whenever Jongin whines about putting his ugly face for the sake of the café’s revenue (“You really want this café to go bankrupt or what?” he always says and earns a smack on the back of his head within seconds later).
“What’s up with today?” Jongin asks as he puts on his custom-made apron (a cute bear with ‘the handsome one ready to serve you!’ written on top of it). The girls and some boys keep flooding in, giving no space for Jongin and his sister to tend them all in one time.
“Some famous youtubers are doing a gathering here. Galaxywu announced it on his latest cover song collaboration with D.O. and realpcy. He’s coming with some of his youtubers’ friends. It’ll be so damn pack today, but no worries. I’ve called Jimin and Seokjin to help out ..” his sister explains.
Jongin frowns. Galaxywu?D.O.?realpcy?What kind of dumb names are that?
Jongin decides that they’re not important enough in his life or him to give even a space of curiosity over the names. He takes out his phone and notices a message on his notification feed. His smile forms almost immediately.
Seeing ‘Kyungsoo bae ❤’ with the outdated emoticon of heart really flutters him every single time. He really like the boy and it makes him wonder how it’s possible to feel so breathless over a boy who he’s seen only once and less than an hour.
Jongin thinks that that’s how love works.
Hi, Jongin. I’m going to Seoul today. Want to meet up somewhere? 11.45 am
Jongin wants someone to slap him, telling him that ‘yo, this ain’t a dream. you’ve been asked out for a date from your highkey thirst’ in Sehun’s annoying deep voice. His hands are trembling, eyes are suddenly sweating. He’s too happy and omg he feels like a fucking hormonal schoolgirl having a crush on senpai.
He’s about to reply when a song is played on the tv. He knows the song, Guilty by Dynamic Duo. It’s one of the song on his top playlist. He’s ready to sing along with the song until he hears unfamiliar ad-libs at the beginning of the song. His eyes drift to the screen, and sees three guys sitting in a row, feeling the beat and nodding their heads.
“Who?” he asks his sister, a finger pointing at the tv.
“That’s galaxywu, Do.O. and realpcy. Dude, live a little!They’re idol-famous level but you don’t even know them!” his sister disses, making Jongin pouts. It’s not his fault that he always ends up looking at dance covers whenever he’s on youtube. He always wants to post a video of his dancing, but he’s bad at editing so he decided that his dancing is not meant for public.
His eyes go back to the screen. The camera goes close up and moves to the three, one by one. Then, it stops a bit longer at the last person, since he’s currently singing his part.
Jongin’s eyes bulge in shock. He rubs his eyes over and over again, but no he doesn’t see it wrongly.
He knows how his ‘Kyungsoo bae ❤’ looks like and the boy in the video looks exactly like him!
“Who’s that?” he quickly asks. He finds out that the boy is D.O., famous with R&B cover songs and apparently, his sister most favourite youtuber. She’s said something about ‘baek-something’ and ‘jong-something’, but he literally deaf to his surrounding at the moment. His eyes is fixed on the screen, looking at D.O. even though the camera is no longer close up on him.
He has a beautiful voice ..
The doorbell’s chimes, signing that someone has arrived. His gaze only changes direction when he hears his sister screams in joy, welcoming the person who just arrived. The girls also start squealing, sounds of photos being taken echoes inside the café.
And his eyes falls on the shortest boy in black hoodie he’s seen before. Jongin feels lightheaded and his heart skips a beat.
He’s falling in love, again.
“Jongin?” the boy says, eyes wide in shock.
Jongin smiles an approaches him. His surroundings turns numb and blurry as his gaze fixes on the still in shock boy.
He stands right in front of the boy, forcing him to crane his neck above slightly to meet Jongin’s eyes. Kyungsoo wants to blush, he can feel his face starting to heat up.
“Hey, beautiful ..” Jongin says ever so softly and sweetly. Kyungsoo can feel his cheeks flushes and his palms are sweating and yes,
Kyungsoo’s falling in love, too.