After a week, he was finally finished with his project, it was challenging one but now he was smarter and more experienced when translating another thing he decided to pick. He was pretty busy not only at work but also with his newfound friend that didn’t let him be even for a day.

They hadn’t met again since both were busy with their respective lives, and Kibum had to also get the project out as soon as possible since he promised his followers to be done in a few days. However, they talked online a lot, the whole week, the other male messaged him privately on his SNS and they shared nice talks together most of the time but it really messed with Kibum’s translating schedule since time flew by without neither of the two new friends noticing. Not to mistake this as Kibum complaining, though. On the other hand, he was very much happy he could spaz about things with someone he knew somehow personally.

After he was done reviewing the subtitles and correcting mistakes and typos, he could finally let the world see his work. When he was done with everything, it was already afternoon, the upload finally finished after one long hour as he browsed the net looking for another project to pick up. He opened his website and quickly posted his work for the people to see, not before skimming through it once again, though. He liked to be precise and not do much errors.

When the post was made, it notified all the subscribed watchers, who like zombies commented one after another in just a few minutes after he posted it. Obviously Turtleman being the very first like always, Kibum still found it pretty contradicting and couldn’t help but smile a little.

Turtleman, 13:20, Sunday
“Yo, my saviour, thank you for the hard work like always, take a break and check your PMs, ;D”

DubuTofu-san, 13:24, Sunday
“Ochhh, my Keys, you’re such a hero to the people of this world! Love you and thank you very much. ^_^”

DinoPUP, 13:32, Sunday
“Ooh, the translator-sama God is back! Your work is amazing like always, surely gonna enjoy it! Love you! Thanks!”

JekkiJjang, 13:33, Sunday
“Yeees, love you! Thanks for such great and fast translations! Looking forward to your next one. :D”

DancingTaem, 13:41, Sunday
“Oh, yeah! It’s here! You’re great! Thanks, translator-sama!”

DoubleJartist, 13:45, Sunday
“Universe is thanking you, Key is the key to the greatness of this world. Will leave you my fan art here of this so use it for promo! ;)”

Tony’swifeDuckie, 13:49, Sunday
“Oh, yes! Great! Thank you on behalf of my friend, too! He’s a lazy- so count this comment as two ^^! Off to watching!”

G1leader, 13:56, Sunday
“OhOhOh, this is great, thanks as always! You always know what I want to watch, you’re amazing! Thanks again!”

HoonyFlower, 13:56, Sunday
“Oooh, great! Thanking you to the heavens and back, I wanted to watch this so badly for a long time now, so thanks for picking it up! My love for you can’t be measured! ^_^”

ChickedFeetJjangS1, 14:00, Sunday
“Great. Thank you and have a great day, looking forward to your next project.”

SHINee’sMyLove, 14:08, Sunday
“Love you! Translator-sama, you have worked really hard so take a break and see you again with the next project! Gonna watch it now! :D”

Troublemaker’sAppa, 14:13, Sunday
“Thank you, now I can finally take some much needed break! Thank you for the hard work and have a great day today!”

JionHoon, 14:22, Sunday
“OMG, finally! It’s here, the long awaited translation is here! Thank you, love you! Off to watch this again with subs this time, tho! Love you, really! My hero! :D”

Kibum read every single comment with a smile on his face, he didn’t have time to check his PMs yet but was finally about to do so. His great mood was reaching the ceiling as he humming finally opened his PMs.

There was one unread message from Minho that he sent him one-hour ago. Kibum felt a tad bit apologetic, he should have checked it immediately. He quickly opened the new message and immediately thought otherwise, good thing he didn’t check it right away.

“Yo, Kibum, wanna go for a date?”

He blinked a few times before reading again to make sure he didn’t read wrongly. His eyes were good and it really said ‘date’ but maybe it was typo from the other or he didn’t mean it that way. He decided to quickly send the other one back.

“What do you mean? And where do you wanna meet?”

“What ‘what do I mean?’ Date obviously… On the bench.”

“What kinda ‘date,’ you . Ok, but when.”

“Date! Romantic date! Understand now?? At 3 o’clock?”

Kibum stopped in his tracks. Minho liked him? What?

“WDYM, you like me???”

“Seems like it… Ok with time?”

That, what? Kibum couldn’t quite fully comprehend what the other exactly just wrote. He was so lost in thoughts that he forgot to even reply. After good ten minutes, the other wrote again.

“Are you calling it off? :( Do you find me gross?”

Kibum finally snapped back to reality and after reading the two sentences thought for a while. He didn’t find it gross nor did he want to call it off or cut the other out. He was surprised, yes, but it didn’t disgust him. He started to imagine what it would be like to be with the other and he honestly quite liked it. Yes, they didn’t know each other for long, and met only once but from the long talks online he concluded they had quite a lot in common. Also, the other was very good-looking as he remembered, so he was ready to give it a try. Nobody ever achieved something if they didn’t at least try, right.

“No and no. Sorry, just shocked a little. No biggie. :D Anyway, the time’s good but sorry in advance if I’m late a little. :)”

“I’m relieved that you’re not hating me now! ^^ Ok, see you then.”

“See you!”

And Kibum closed his browser and quickly went to choose appropriate outfit. It took him a good twenty minutes but he was finally satisfied with his choice. Now he only had to style his messy hair a little and he would be done. Thankfully it didn’t take him that long and he was finally ready to go. After he put on his shoes and grabbed his keys, he locked his door and flew outside. He was running late as he envisioned. However, he didn’t run as he didn’t want to be all sweaty nor mess his hair.

He arrived 15 minutes late and saw the other sitting on the bench in all his handsomely force. Kibum’s breath hitched a little and he slowed down admiring the beauty in front of him. He didn’t have the chance to properly see the other as he was flustered and avoiding eye-contact most of the time. Only taking glimpses as they talked. But now it was different story, although he didn’t see his face fully, his side profile was breath-taking, Kibum was stunned. He couldn’t believe such a perfect man liked him of all people. He was about to flee so he didn’t embarrass himself if the other changed his mind when he saw him. But he had to discard that plan right there and then as Minho finally noticed him.

“Hey!” Minho waved as he smiled his sunny smile. Kibum’s heart immediately did a turnover and sped a little.

“O-oh, sorry I’m late.” Kibum faltered before composing himself again. He smiled in return, perfectly masking his nervousness.

“I thought you ran away.” Minho joked, little did he know it was almost reality. Kibum sulked in his mind, he should’ve ran the moment he saw him, damn it! He then laughed dryly.

“No way.”

Kibum sat next to the taller male when he tapped the empty space on the bench beside himself. While Kibum wanted to put a little more distance between them, Minho scooted over and shortened it, the shorter male let it be as scooting away again would make it weird.

“You look great, no wonder it took you so long.” Minho said looking the other over, “You prettied yourself for me?”

Kibum almost died from overheating, his whole body burned from embarrassment at the other’s nonchalant words. He couldn’t believe how shameless the other was and cursed him in his mind for making him flustered.

“I-I didn’t!” Kibum retorted agitated just a little too loudly. Minho just laughed at him, the bastard actually laughed at him!

“Don’t sweat it,” Minho winked as Kibum’s soul flew out of his body with his next words, “You look y, actually. Quite the change from last time.” That shameless, flirtatious bastard. Kibum’s heart was ready to give way as he just listlessly sat there and let the other do his magic. Even if he was shameless bastard and make him die inside, Kibum just couldn’t hate him. It was funny if he thought about it. He never noticed before but now he understood the weird things the other would sometimes write to him. He was dropping hints here and there all the time but Kibum was a little slow on the uptake, plus Minho knew how to not make it obvious.

“You don’t look half-bad, too.” Kibum decided to change his approach and flirt the same, ready to fluster the other.

“Oooh, getting feisty, aren’t you.” Minho whistled and the shorter male was ready to kill. No, but really, where did he learn this .

“Can you stop?” Kibum was about to cry and go home, he didn’t want to die young and at this rate his heart wasn’t about to make it.

“Oh, sorry,” Minho changed airs, “You didn’t like this?”

“Uhm,” Kibum was trying to somehow, go around saying the truth without wanting to flat-out lie, “why the change?”

“Just,” the other paused looking Kibum in the eye, “my friend’s advice was to flirt as much as I could…” Kibum was ready to strangle the so-called friend of his. Who in their right mind would give such useless advice, was he planning on killing him?

“Uhm, just if you could at least tone it down, please.” Minho turned his head a little to the side in confusion as he made the ‘hmm?’ sound. Kibum, with all his very might and mental strength uttered in a hurry.

“You’re killing me!” His whole face burned red as Minho, after few moments of confusion, chuckled.

“Oho, so it’s too much for your heart to take.” Kibum was just about to stand and leave when the other’s word turned him to stone.

“That is just too adorable, my love!” His heart stopped and the next second beat like crazy. He didn’t expect for the other to just casually call him his ‘love,’ it sounded so sweet from the other’s deep voice, he knew he was falling without turning back.

“But you don’t even know me for long…” Minho hummed a little confused by the shorter male’s words, “how can you ‘l-love’ me?” Stuttering a little he finally asked what weighed on his mind from the message convo.

“Well, I might not know you long personally,” Minho looked deeply into the other’s eyes, “however, I did know you long online.”

“What?” Kibum’s eyes showed great confusion. What did he mean by that?

“I mean,” He leaned closer to Kibum, “I’ve liked you for a long time, way before we even met.”

“But,” Kibum did realize what he meant but he still couldn’t quite fully understand, “why?”

“No idea, just fell in love.” Minho replied and when he noticed the other’s face with full curiosity, he added, “Does love have to be rational? It just happens.”

Kibum’s cheeks turned to tomato as the taller went even closer to his face and then whispered the last sentences. Indeed, love wasn’t to be rational, nor didn’t happen with reason. He realized that today, as he was falling into this deep and black hole that just happened to be Minho. Once he fell to the bottom, he knew there wouldn’t be a way to turn back nor did he want to. He quite fancied this fellow that happened to stumble into his life when he was out taking a break on this very bench.

“No, it doesn’t.” He replied and with great resolution pecked the other a chaste kiss on the handsome man’s plump lips rendering him speechless. Kibum flushed and decided to make a run for it.

Minho was stunned for a few seconds before realizing his ‘idol’ stood up and ran away. He quickly followed after but despite being the more athletic failing to catch up and prompted to follow instead.

“Hey! Why are you running!?”

Kibum didn’t know where did this strength suddenly come from but he didn’t question it for he was too embarrassed to face the other. He was almost home when all his strength all at once depleted allowing Minho to outrun him. He slowed down and turned around smirking a little and Kibum wanted to dig a hole right there and then. He finally reached the main entrance of his house and while fiddling with the key, Minho said:

“So this is where you live.” Kibum nodded and had a very bad premonition, he shouldn’t have let the other know where he lives, damn it! He quickly unlocked the door, wanting to be away from the other as soon as possible before he did something else. He was about to go inside, when:

“Why the rush?” Kibum turned to the smirking male confused, “We have all the time in the world, let’s not rush it.” He said as he seductively winked.

Kibum was ready to kill right then and there. That ing ert! He rushed inside red to his ears and closed the door, leaving the other standing outside. The taller man couldn’t help but laugh affectionately at his flustered date and went after few minutes also home, ready to spam the other with love on his SNS. He chuckled as he imagined the other’s pink cheeks and pouty lips.

Sorry, it took longer. :) I got caught up with reading asian novels... Once you start, there's no turning back. :D

Anyway, this is the second part of the short two-shot. Hope you enjoyed it. :)