Seven

Like Clockwork

It was seven in the morning when Woohyun fetch Myungsoo in his condo unit. They intended to left that early for them to avoid the heat of the sun and the morning traffic. Woohyun thankfully that Myungsoo didn't had a second thoughts coming with him to visits the orphanage. He knows in his self that he had a lots of delayed lately, that he disappoints Myungsoo the last time they should have dinner date.

They drop at the convenience store first to bade their goodbye to Sungjung. Too bad he can't be with them, he had to work and no one can take over his place to watch the convenience store. Woohyun knows that Sungjung is only making an excuse. He knows his Hyung will takes Myungsoo home after they visits orphanage. Sungjung was taking his time trying to weigh things up. Instead pushing him to, he let him be. He was sure he would evidently come home sooner or later. He could probably fix the messed he made between him and his parents.

"You'll love it there." He said to Myungsoo while he was escorting Myungsoo to his black crossover car. He even open the door for him. He saw Myungsoo looking thoroughly to his car. "Myungsoo, anything wrong?" He worriedly asks.

"Ah! Nothing. Is this yours?" He couldn't help but asks.

"Yeah."

"Ah, okay." He said when he sits at the passenger's seat. Woohyun close the door and turn to the driver's side. He hops in and starts the engine.

"Just exactly what do you do for a living?" He asks. He was surprise when he saw a glimpse of worries on his face.

"I'm a businessman. I've already told you that, right? Have you forgotten already?" He smiley asks. They track their ways to the orphanage.

"Sort of." He answers.

Woohyun couldn't help but to smiles when he looks the man sitting next to him, he looked so childlike that way, as he stared at the landscapes outside— eager and enthusiastic. He was like a child who goes out for a field trip.

"Is it your first time?" He jokes.

"Nope. I used to drove far before during my college days. I used to drove places to places before every vacation.

"Myungsoo is it okay with you if I take you home with me after we visits the orphanage? I have told my parents about you."

"Huh? Yea— yeah. What did they says?" He nervously asks.

"They're eager to meet you. For sure I'll be dead later."

"Why?"

You know, the usual. You bring home a pretty man for the first time, and they tell him all your childhood adventures. Even the most embarrassing ones."

"Don't worry, if you want I won't be listening to them. I'll feign that I'm listening." He suggests. He couldn't help but to stares him that long in the eyes. Every time he would look at him, it would feel just like the first time they had met.

He was very beautiful. His eyes were black and his short boyish hair that he sported made him seem look like he didn't give the rest of the world a care. He had smooth creamy face that didn't require powder.

"Did ever someone told you that—" Woohyun starts.

"That what?" awaiting for what he wanted to say.

"That you look like an animé."

"That was the best compliment someone has ever gave me."

"What I mean is, you look lovely," he corrected, "that's what I mean to say."

"I like the first one better." He smilingly says.

Woohyun returned a smile, "Can I ask you a question?" they said in chorus.

"Okay, you first." Myungsoo let him asks first.

"Okay, what do you look for in a guy?"

"Is that your question?"

"Yeah, that's it."

"I want someone responsible, someone neat looking, just by the way looking at him you know he smells good. Someone with sense of humor, had a good personality, simple.."

"What does "simple" mean to you?"

"Simple.. just like retardate, just like that simple."

Woohyun laugh his lungs out.

"Take it easy, we might end up bumping to something." He reminds him. "Why did you ask?"

"Nothing."

"You sure?"

"Yeah." He have caught him in the corner of his eyes that Myungsoo still looking at him. "What's the silly grin on your face?" He asks.

"I wonder if you ask that often to a guy."

"No— only to the girls I met." He answers while laughing.

"Really?"

"Isn't it a girls and boys thinks the same? I mean, I don't want to sound ist."

"A friend of mine told me before that you don't normally ask that question to anyone, right?"

"What question?"

"The one you asked me awhile ago. He told me, you only asks that question to the person you like. Otherwise, he wouldn't bother asking his opinion."

"You know, now that you mentioned it, I also have a friend told me once, you will know if a guy likes you if you asks that question then he will answers you with a good anwer. Otherwise, he would just joke around about his answer. Because he was asks before, and he didn't take it seriously. Unless, he likes the guy."

"Seems you want to trick me. You sure a friend of yours told you that?"

He nodded. "What was your question?"

"Are you a drug lord?"

Woohyun laughed when he heard that. He only stop laughing when he notice that Myungsoo was not joking.

"Seriously?"

"Well.."

"Whatever gave you that idea?" He himself wondered why did Myungsoo thinks that.

"Nothing. At least, you're not. I'll believe you. If you say so, I believe in you."

Woohyun play some songs along their way. It had been minutes since they hadn't talked. He was starting to panic. He thinks, maybe, Myungsoo was bored. He right away thinks for a topic for them to have a conversation.

"Myungsoo, is it possible for you to like me?" He asks him while his eyes on the road.

Myungsoo didn't give him any answers. When he glance at him, he saw him sleeping. He didn't even realize that Myungsoo had slept.

He smiled while he was looking at him. He was thankful they had met. Though, it's not in a normal way. What matters is they've met.

He recalled the night were they first met.

He went to Key's place when he receives a call from him. It was his birthday, and they haven't met for so long. Key also informed him that his cousin Sungjung was also there.

He was thankful for that news. He have looked for Sungjung everywhere, he left home when his parents scolded him. He was thankfully enough that he went to Key.

Key's place was one of the highest condominium in the city. When door flungs opens, he was surprised when he saw familiar faces. All of their friends was there.

"Happy birthday, man." He greeted.

"Thanks, man. You made it. Come inside." Key invited him. He brings him to the living room.

"Hey! Woohyun, how are you?" Dongwoo greets him.

"I'm doing good. You?"

"I'm sorry to hear about Gyu." Key says almost a whisper, when he handed him a drinks.

"Forget about it. I'm trying to." He smiles. It's been a month now since that his and Gyu wedding was off. Gyu didn't appear in church. What he got was a letter explaining everything instead. Gyu run away with Howon; the man he truly loves.

He wants to get mad, to throw a fit but he doesn't know to whom he should— to his parents who insists him marrying Gyu, or to Gyu's parents that they have a depth in his family, and the payment was there son. They have been wishfully thinking that Gyu will learn to love him. Both there parents knows that they were only friends, they grew up together. He knows, that Gyu was still in love with Howon but he made his self believes that Gyu will love him sooner.

"I'm sorry, man. I remind you about that again." Key felt sorry.

Truth, if Key doesn't talk about that he couldn't even think about Gyu. The day he run away, he realized what a big fool he was. He had should stop before it happens. And, now he was the talk of their neighbors.

"Where's Jungie?" He asks about his cousin.

"He's on the ground floor. You haven't seen him?"

"Ground floor?"

"Yeah, on my convenience store. He wanted to work, I gave him. Sorry man, not that I'm a considerate guy. In fact, when he arrives here I scolded him and advices him. I even told him, that he needs to get home. But, he's too stubborn. He said, if I couldn't help him, he would asks somebody for help. For me, might as well have him stay here. He could be run somewhere, and it will be my conscience." Key explains.

"Thanks again, man. What he was doing in your convenience store?"

"Working. He's a cashier boy. And I needed him. The one I hired before went home to Busan. I needed someone I could trust to handle the cash register, its only your cousin I could trust with."

"You won't get bankrupt with that?" He joke.

"Hey, your cousin's more capable than you imagine."

"I know that." He smiles.

"What seems to be the problem?"

"His parents finds out that he wasn't enrolled in school. He asks for a money but he didn't enrolled. He got scolded. Then, he run away."

"That's really a headache."

"Nice place you got here." He commented on Key's pad.

"Uh-huh, when was the last time you were here? When I first got this pad. The interior design wasn't done."

"Yeah, now it's totally unrecognizable. Like s pigsty." He jokes.

"Crazy!"

"We're very noisy." Woohyun recognised the party of Key.

"Relax, it's just for tonight. Not that every night is my birthday."

"How about the owner of the other units?"

"Don't mind them. Its their presents for me. Besides, no one comes to complaints. He smile. Then a loud howling from a group who sits in a carpet.

"What are you guys doing?" Key asks them.

"Truth or dare, come join us."

"I don't like. It's corny. I'll just play a song. Since everyone is here, I let you listen to the newest song I wrote." Key left for a minute to get his guitar.

Key was a song writer. He was good in writing a song. Truth, some of his song was played and perform by many artists. He had a good voice too but he chose to be a song writer instead of being a singer.

"You, Woohyun wanna join us?" Dongwoo asks him.

"I'll eat first. I'm starving. But later, I will."

"You should."

Instead he eats, Woohyun signaled Key that he will go down on the ground floor. He wanted to talk to his cousin.

To his dismay Sungjung doesn't want to listen to him. He have done everything but still he doesn't wanna go home. Sungjung asks him to let him first to think and to weigh things up and when he was ready he'll be coming home.

After he talked Sungjung he went up to Key's unit. He join them,  first spin of the bottle, pointed him.

"Truth or dare? Dongwoo asks him.

"Dare!" He answers. Honestly, he doubts when he says truth for sure everyone will ask him about what really happens between him and Gyu. Besides, he knew to his self that whatever they ask for him to do as a dare he could possibly can make it.

Someone taught him a long time ago that as long as he was doing nothing wrong, he shouldn't be ashamed.

"Okay, what are we going to do with Woohyun here?" Dongwoo thinks.

"Lets just ask him to write his name using his ." Kai suggested.

"What are you high schooler?" Dongwoo said.

"Wait, I was thinking," Key interrupted while strumming his guitar, "You would do this. You go out in the hallway then choose one door for you to knock. Then, if someone opens it, if it's a girl or a boy, you claim yourself as her or his boyfriend.

"What if a married couple?" He worryingly asks.

"Wow, man! That's trouble." Dongwoo and Kai says.

Everyone was howling.

"Well? Are you up to the challenge? Key asks him.

"Call!" He answers.

"Whatever you do, don't tell that it's all just a game. That's the deal." Kai reminded him.

"Don't worry, I won't." He said, then he was out of the hallway, for him to do his dare.

It was always been a thought to him when he introduces his self to Myungsoo that he was his boyfriend, Myungsoo didn't deny it or ague with him. He looked frightened when he first saw him, his hair covering his eyes, like he had been fighting off something, or someone. When he introduces Minseok to him, he felt his blood rushing through. He felts that it was Minseok that Myungsoo has been afraid of. And he was right, and he was on time saving him. He looked so fragile he felt it was up to him to protect him. Then and now. 

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So, this is it. Hope you will like it. (Not expecting that you will but I am hoping.) See you in my other fic.

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deadmoon
#1
Chapter 12: Thank you for the sequel. It's beautiful!!! (^•^)
nana0415 #2
Chapter 11: Thanks for this beautiful and amazing story^^
deadmoon
#3
Chapter 11: Sooo short, but beautiful! Thank you, for an amazing story!!! And happy holidays, too! (^~^)
lwu_91
#4
Chapter 11: why it has to end T-T
nana0415 #5
Chapter 10: Oh no..Please dont go woohyun..Poor myungsoo..Btw thanks for the update and please update soon^^
Sonia_Lee
#6
Chapter 9: Yey! Hope their relationship last forever~
Sonia_Lee
#7
Chapter 8: Update soon!
Anglealexa
#8
Chapter 8: Poor Whoohyun lol Thanks for the update !! It's official: they 're boyfriends but what will happen next?
nana0415 #9
Chapter 7: Poor woohyun..Never mind, myungsoo will be there for you..Cant wait for the next chapter..Btw thanks for the update^^
deadmoon
#10
Chapter 7: I'm very impressed by this chapter! (^.^) Waiting for the next one))))