Kyungsoo always thinks that fate needs to start using a new method whenever it wants to approach human. At least give some sign, like a kick, or a punch before coming to human life. At the age of twenty two, Kyungsoo didn’t expect this coming. He didn’t expect to be proposed in the midst of crowd at the mall – with thousand roses and a beautiful serenade from someone he less expected to confess to him.

Kim Jongin.

But of course, Kyungsoo can’t blame fate for doing that. Of course, fate is something you less expected because fate is another way to spell surprise.

Now, he’s standing in one of stalls in the washroom after running away from the crowd who are still in awe from Jongin’s proposal. Jongin must be crazy to do this.

It can’t be true.

Kim Jongin can’t love him.

At the age of sixteen, Kyungsoo had a dream and he told Jongin about it.

“I want to marry you, Jongin.”

To that, Jongin cracked up while Kyungsoo looked at him confusedly. “Why?” Kyungsoo asked, a little bit down because Jongin laughed at his biggest dream. Jongin didn’t answer, he just opted to smile.

And Kyungsoo hated it because he knew that smile comes along with another whisper,

 “Sorry, hyung, I can’t.”

They said the age of eighteen is the starting point of the duration where human starts to meet their soulmates. Kyungsoo didn’t know if he believes in that because he already meet his soulmate since he was seven years when his mother brought him to visit their new neighbour who have a son who just a year younger than him.

He met Jongin since he was seven and Jongin was six. Since that, they become inseparable.

He knows everything about him, from the smallest thing like, the brand of his cologne to the biggest thing like, his favourite star, oh, scratch that, but in a nutshell, Kyungsoo knows every single thing about Jongin more than Jongin did. 

When Valentine’s Day comes that year, Kyungsoo thought it was a good idea to propose again. Somehow, he felt confident that Jongin will say yes, well by judging from those times they spent together, laughing together, crying together, and so many together, they must be more than friend, right?

Kyungsoo prepared homemade chocolate in a heart shape for that proposal, he tried to make it simple yet pleasant to Jongin. He held it tightly in his arm while waiting for Jongin to come. They had promised to meet after the class at their usual place, at a bench under a cherry blossom tree at the very far from the school building.

“Hyung!”

Kyungsoo’s love of life came. “Hey.” Kyungsoo greeted cheerfully, and his heart started to beat in a dreadful way. He didn’t like the way this proposal will go if he’s acting this way so he thought it better to propose immediately.

“Jongin. I think….” Kyungsoo paused, “Jongin, I- err, I-”

“Jongin, I think- I think I love you. Can we- can we be a date?”

Finally, Kyungsoo finished his confession in a breath but yeah, with difficulties and stuttering. He handed the chocolate to Jongin, and Jongin took it, smiling in a glum way. Kyungsoo noticed that, even Jongin tried to hide it.

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