Yongguk POV

"Zelo, we've been walking for a while now...are you sure we're not lost?" I asked, I wasn't lying, we had been walking for some time and my legs were incredibly tired. Not only that, but I'm almost positive that I had heard Zelo's voice hesitate when I asked him if we were lost an hour ago. That did nothing to comfort me then, and now I was sure that he didn't know where the hell he was going. For whatever reason, I didn't mind much.

"N-no! We're not lost at all! I just need to remember where that coffee shop was...." His voice faded hesitantly. He led me by the arm, and we kept stopping and speeding up at weird intervals. It was like he was trying to figure out which way to go on impulse, the guy probably knew nothing about directions, this was a terrible idea. Either that or he was leading me somewhere to murder me. That last thought sent shivers down my spine because I knew that was actually a possibility with my situation. I put that last thought aside and shook my head, deciding to trust the man for now.

Yep, there was no doubt now, we were lost and I couldn't see, the situation was hopeless.

"We're lost aren't we." I stated.

"I told you, we aren't lost. We should keep walking though!" He pulled me along with him. walking huh- like that hasn't been what we were doing for the past hour.

While I was being pulled along he started to think out loud to himself, but I hardly paid any attention."You know I'm blind, right? I have to trust you to know where we are. I am putting my life in your hands right now." I grumbled to myself, half expecting him to hear it.

"Hush, I'm thinking!" He snapped, I smiled a little at his panicked voice, shaking my head slightly. It was probably a bad idea to trust someone who moved here only recently. I laughed softly and apologized to him in a small voice, a little scared that he would get angry at me again."I remember walking down this path, but then- where's that coffee shop at?" He stopped suddenly and I bumped into him. His ramblings went on and on and I couldn't help but feel a warm feeling in my chest. How could I have been fond of someone that I barely knew?

I didn't know either.

"I would help you, but I can't." I said speaking to myself. Earlier Zelo offered to tell me what the streets and shops looked like but I declined, telling him that I didn't really need to know. He quickly assured me that everything looked a bit boring anyways. While Zelo was busy thinking to himself, I tried to imagine what the streets looked like but I just imagined a plain old street. The only difference was that I couldn't really hear any cars zooming past that often, unlike the busy city we used to live in. That was probably my favorite thing about it at the moment, it wasn't as suffocating as the last place we were at. This place was nice.

"Then, I turned around this corner...and....there was that cupcake shop. Okay. Then what was after that?" I could hear Zelo shuffling around here and there his voice was still strained and I figured he was just scared that he had ruined my day. 

"Zelo, let's just go to the cupcake shop." I suggested in order to put a stop to his endless worrying.

"Should we?" He asked, sounding relieved. I nodded."Well, It's just in front of us so we don't have to walk far." Zelo took the leash from my hand. "I don't think this place has a rule against dogs." Zelo pondered for a bit, "Let's go then." He held onto my arm, and led me into the shop. Once he told me where to sit, I finally relaxed. All the walking really got me tired. I heard Zelo walking around, he was probably wearing sneakers of some sort because they made an odd noise when he walked. It was either that or some kind of boots, I wasn't very good at this yet. While I was waiting for Zelo, I grew curious as to what the cupcake shop looked like, so I asked him.

"What does what look like?" Zelo asked absentmindedly and I wanted to laugh at him, the guy's mind really was everywhere at all times.

"The shop that were in." I clarified, and it seemed to satisfy his question.

"Oh! Well, It's kind of small, it's really cute. It has pink decorations everywhere, pink flowers, pink cake displays, pink figurines. Ribbons hanging from the ceiling and a lot of plush dolls.It's kind of odd that they have all shades of pink mixed together." He went off into his own thoughts again and that was as far as he explained it. I really didn't need any more of an explanation. I had seen enough cupcake shops in my lifetime.

"Are we the only ones in here?" I asked, a bit quietly this time because I didn't want to embarrass myself if there did happen to be people present in the small shop.

"Yeah." I heard Zelo's footsteps walk away. "Excuse me sir?" I heard him say timidly. "Can you play some music please?" He asked and the shop owner talked happily to him for a bit. A few seconds later a song started to play out into the open. I smiled, now that I thought about it the shop had been awkwardly quiet.

"Yongguk Hyung, I'm ordering a lot of cupcakes so you'd better eat them all!" Zelo said to me from, what I guessed, was across the room. I laughed.

"I will, don't worry...but- shouldn't I pay?" I asked him, readily digging into my pocket in search of my wallet. He immediately piped up like he had been planning this in his head all day. 

"No, I want to pay!" He objected quickly. I knew that I wasn't in a position to argue, if the guy was willing to pay then I would let him. There was a chance he had a good job unlike myself. I started to feel a bit of self guilt, because while I was off eating cupcakes, Himchan and Youngjae were working hard to pay off the debt that was originally my problem. While I was feeling bad about my situation I suddenly realized that Zelo called me Hyung.

"Wait- you called me hyung, does that mean I'm older than you?" I asked curiously. It was quiet- almost a shocked silence. He laughed my accusation off, and I sat up straight in my chair, it was kind of interesting having to guess everything about him. 

"I did?" he asked. "well- you're not much older than me." His voice faded off towards the end of his sentence. I tilted my head a bit, I wondered if he actually remembered the age I had told him yesterday. 

"Oh really?" I asked, I wanted to ask more questions but he cut me off quickly.

"Mhm." He quickly dismissed the subject, and I didn't ask about it. A few minutes of silence went past, if Zelo was close to my age then he must be 22, or maybe even 21. It depends on his definition of "not much older." Either way, it didn't really matter to me, he was good company and I didn't really mind not knowing much about him. He was kind of charming actually, and I had never really thought that about anyone before. Not counting Himchan or Youngjae, those two had a natural talent for this kind of stuff. It was a little weird honestly.

I heard Zelo speak again."Can I have two cups of milk please?"

"Sure!" Another voice responded. I suppose he was speaking to the owner or worker of the shop again. I heard him approach the table and he set things down in front of me, I stared straight ahead of myself, trying to figure out where everything was placed  around me. Bokshil was walking around under the table, the dog was actually quite calm when he wasn't running around crazily in the park. He brushed against my leg a few times, and I pondered how fluffy he actually did look. Maybe he could have been mistaken for one of the stuffed animals that were in the shop.

Zelo hesitantly asked me to reach out my hand, so I held it out in front of me, he took a hold of my wrist and led it to the right side of the table."Here, is strawberry cupcakes, with vanilla frosting." He moved my hand to the left side. "These are chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting." He moved to the center of the table. "Last but not least. Red velvet." I smiled, Zelo had good taste when it came to food, it made me wonder if he could cook.

"Thank you Zelo." I told him. He made a small, embarrassed noise in response and let go of my wrist quickly. I heard a noise of scraping glass on the table, he slid a cold glass of milk in my hands. 

"I like this shop." He suddenly said, his voice sounded sincere and I wondered about it for a bit. If there were other sides to him that I had yet to see, or even if the side he has been showing me was even his real personality. 

"Why is that?" I asked back, drinking the milk I had in my hands before eating anything, I was still parched from having walked so long.

"I'm not sure. I just like it...you know that feeling?" He said thoughtfully, I nodded. It was an acceptable answer. I liked it when people weren't sure of things because then it meant that they hadn't thought much on the matter. To me, that seemed like it showed the rawest of emotions, even if the feeling you had was wrong. I liked it because Zelo seemed like the person who would feel things deeply, and I knew then, that he wasn't who he was showing me.

We both ate in silence for a bit before my mind started to wander again, I never had the chance to ask this question because I was always with Himchan and Youngjae and I already knew what they looked like. "Zelo...what do you look like?" I asked. He sighed a little, I heard him take a drink of his milk and gulp it down before answering.

"Like a normal person." I figured that already, but I didn't comment on it, I just went along with his game because it amused me.

"What does a normal person look like?" 

"I don't know...I have arms, legs, and eyes too!" He laughed a little at his joke and I realized that I liked hearing his laugh a lot. But I wasn't going to let myself think about that right now.

"You and Bokshil share a striking resemblance then, I'm sure he has legs and eyes also." I smiled a bit, picking up the small milk glass and spinning it between my hands. He scoffed a bit at my response and mumbled something to himself about how he wasn't fluffy like Bokshil.

"I'm tall." 

"Anything else?"

"I...." He stopped short. Once I realized he wasn't comfortable with the questions I stopped and grinned, letting him know that I was just joking with him.

"It's okay-I can't quite explain myself either." I smiled, then searched for a cupcake to eat. I slid my hand across the table gently until I felt a glass plate, I held up a cupcake. 

"Is this strawberry?" I asked.

"Yep." Zelo cheerfully answered, I bit into the cupcake. This shop here was actually pretty good. I would have to tell Himchan about it later, if he had the time of course, both Youngjae and him informed me they would be coming home late from work from now on. Now that I thought about it, now would be the time to plan out how I would express my gratitude to Himchan and Youngjae for the past week.

"I have two friends named Himchan and Youngjae....I want to buy them something nice while were out- will you help me?" I asked. I figured Zelo was smiling, because his voice was filled with joy, he agreed and asked me what I wanted to buy for them. Himchan liked wearing earrings with all his outfits so I figured I should buy him a pair, and Youngjae liked to wear beanie's."Jewelry for Himchan, and a hat for Youngjae." 

"Okay! We'll search for stores after were done here."

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We were satisfied after having eaten all of our cupcakes. We talked for a little while, I asked Zelo why he moved here from Seoul. It seemed like a pretty random place to decide to move to, after all, there were dozens of places that were way better.

"It's a really long story, there were a lot of reasons." He vaguely answered. "What about you?"

"I guess its kind of the same. Me and my friends are trying to pay back some people...and well- money is hard to come by nowadays. We had to buy some time, so we moved here for now." I wondered if it was a good decision telling him this, but I figured someone who buys me cupcakes is a good person. Besides, if he was going to do something he would have done it already instead of wasting his time in a cupcake shop.

"I understand, but wasn't it hard to move?" He asked, his voice became hardened, like he was trying to stabilize his voice. I couldn't read his face so I had to assume off of what his voice sounded like. It was more difficult than I thought it would be, I couldn't quite understand what he was feeling. When I thought about it, he seemed to be a guarded person.

"Not really, were always moving, so there's not much to miss. And what about you, did you leave some of your friends behind?" 

"Well...yeah I actually left behind one of my best friends. I kinda want to go back to Seoul to see him again, but it will be hard." Zelo's voice was sad. It made me sad also, so I changed the subject.

"The Doctor says that I have to learn to see with my hands. Can I try something?" I asked.

Zelo POV

I nodded, but then remembered he couldn't see me. It was a little difficult having to change all of my actions into speaking ones. "Yeah, sure." I spoke out loud this time to make sure he could hear me. I thought I did a good job at avoiding most of his questions about me, I just hoped he wouldn't ask too many more. I couldn't stand to make up things about myself, I would rather he know only the things I want him to know about me. It would be better that way anyways.

Yongguk stood up."Give me your hand." I immediately held his hand. He walked over to my side, I wondered what he was doing. His fingers trailed up my arm and to my shoulder. He placed both of his hands there. "Small frame." he noted. He paused for a moment, then he moved further up towards my neck, I tensed up. My hands became shaky and I wanted to throw off Yongguk's hands but I knew that I couldn't. I couldn't, I couldn't. I took a deep breath and calmed myself. Yongguk wasn't here to hurt me. 

"Are you wearing a scarf?" He asked, surprised. I'll admit, the weather was a bit warm to be wearing a scarf, I only laughed it off.

"Yes." I replied. It was a good thing I decided to leave my mask home today, that would bring up too many questions. He moved his hands to the side of my face and stayed there, my heart started to beat abnormally fast. I tried not to seem tense, but I couldn't help it.

"Flawless skin, thin face." He whispered a bit and I closed my eyes in order to fight off the blush that was appearing on my face. I then realized it didn't really matter because it's not like Yongguk would see it or anything, I could avoid embarrassment this time. My face was becoming a little warm, though.

He patted my head and ran his fingers through my hair. "Your hair is curly." he smiled fondly, I nodded my head. I didn't really trust my voice at the moment, I felt quite ridiculous. He trailed his fingers lightly over my eyes."Long eyelashes." He trailed his finger down the side of my face again and stopped at my chin. His thumbs lightly rubbed over my lips. He stayed there for awhile, lingering there for a moment.

"Soft lips." He said and held the sides of my face for a second. I smiled. "Beautiful smile." He laughed lightly.

"How can you tell?" I asked, slightly amused.

"I just can." He moved his hands away from me. I immediately missed his warmth.

If only he knew what kind of person I really was.