Actually, he had planned to spend a relaxing evening playing computer games, like most evenings of his boring life, which he did not spend with one of his friends at home.

 

But what he did not know was that this would be the beginning. Day 1 of the time when he would meet the love of his life and fall in love with him. (But if he'd known, he probably would have turned around and went back home, no, he'd driven to the nearest airport and traveled to the other end of the world, because when you meet the love of his life, you're never ready .)

 

Annoyed, Donghyuck looked around. It was getting darker, but the streetlights were not lit yet.

It was a strange feeling to walk outside again on this warm autumn evening, even if he did not have to walk for a long time. His parents lived in Seoul's suburbs in an average sized house, not far from his destination.

 

Just at the thought of the conversation that he had with Mira, the daughter of his parents' neighbors, not even five minutes ago, he blushed a slightly red again.

"Only ten minutes," she had said. "Only to the drugstore and back...  please."

Never before had he been in such a position - one of the advantages of not being interested in girls at all.

He had forgotten his sandbox friend for just a second and then she struck out of ambush. This little .

 

She was ill. She had a fever. Her parents were not at home. His parents were not at home. And just now she had this great stage of the month when women bleed to death like on a slaughter. A little bit, Donghyuck was sorry for them. But which woman did not have those things you need to take care of this problem at home?

Once he had turned his mother's bathroom cabinet upside down, it soon became clear that it seemed to affect many women. Stupid women.

They always acted as if they were neat organizational talents and then they did not even have tampons or liners on hand.

"Only ten minutes." To hell with these ten minutes. He had been walking for almost ten minutes and could not even see the drugstore from afar.

His precious time to play computer games run through his fingers like the sand in the sandbox in the garden of his parents house.

 

It was already so rare and precious and limited to the 4 hours a day that stayed next to school and learning. Does Mira not understand what he sacrificed for her?

Grumbling, he kept on walking the way, as Mira had described to him. He had grown up in this neighborhood, but he did not even know that drugstore existed, let alone where it was.

He was about to give up and turn around again when he saw his destination in the distance. He did not even know if he was relieved or angry.

He entered the shop shortly after the streetlights had lit up. He looked around a little uncertainly. At least the shelves were labeled, so it was easy to find your bearings.

 

If he was not mistaken, his destination was the shelf labeled "toiletries."

But when he stood in front of said shelf, the next problem was: Why were there so many products? And then so different and the similar ...

Mira had not told him exactly what he should buy her. The conversation had been so unpleasant to both of them that he had run out rashly. Now he had to face the consequences.

 

He stood on tiptoe and looked over the other shelf as well as he could. But he could not make out a shop assistant. , and now? Should he just go home without buying anything after he got that far? Or just take something, and hope that was the right thing?

As he stared so thoughtfully at the goods on the shelf, suddenly a salesman passed him by, who eyed him strangely, greeted him with a miserable welcome and just kept walking.

Unsympathetic guy, Donghyuck thought. But then he realised something.

Sure, the guy had to know. After all, as a salesman you knew the goods you sold.

He quickly ran after him. When he caught up with him, he wordlessly grabbed him by the collar. The young man, who was about his own age, and  only a little taller than himself, was taken by surprise by his client's sudden attack and allowed himself to be dragged without resistance.

"What the hell is that?" He pointed to a pack of menstrual cups. "Why did they put such a weird tissue on it?" He asked, pointing to tampons with leakage protection. "What's the difference between the tampons and those over there?" The answer was simple: the size.

 

"Why is this so big and these damn thin and what the hell is that please? Who the hell has decided that women need thousands of different products for one ing problem?

And what the hell am I supposed to buy now? "

Donghyuck huffed as he held the various tampons and liners under the helpless salesman's nose.

He was furious and frustrated and just wanted to go back to his Conputer. The salesman frowned.

 

"How the should I ing know? Do I look like I'm going to use it every month? "

 

The salesman replied, almost cursing, audible that he was struggling to suppress his own anger, and that he was not so pleased with that situation either.

Donghyuck rolled his eyes

"You sell it, so you have to know it."

 

He was staring at the name tag on his chest, M. Lee.

He had not lost the feeling of having seen this guy anywhere before, "That does not change the fact that I'm a man and we have saleswoman too,  who'd love to answer all your questions. "

 

" Right now I can only see you, " Donghyuck replied and he could see a vein sticking out on the salesman's forehead.

"Apart from that: You should know your girlfriend at least enough to know stuff like that.
How is this scratching me? "

Slowly the situation is getting worse and they seem to be doing very well in raising each other's bad mood.

 

" She's not my girlfriend and because I'm not interested in girls, I should not have to know all that , You are working here and ing sell this stuff." Donghyuck snapped at him. For a moment, the salesman looked at him in amazement, "You ... you're gay?"
"Yeah, problem with that?"

 

Donghyuck raised his eyebrows while the salesman looked at him almost blankly now, "But you have not got anything erted about it in mi-" before he could finish his sentence and Donghyuck could punch him right in his face, they were interrupted.

"Mark, are you leaving? Oh. ", A young woman came around the corner and stopped in surprise when she saw the two in front of the tampon shelf, their faces quite close together, their cheeks flushed with a clearly visible red.

" Oh, am I interrupting something, Mark? "

 

She asked Mark, pointing to both of them," Do you know each other? "

" Just an idiot from my university who thinks I know how to use that stuff right there. "

Donghyuck  halted and blinked in astonishment.

Mark went to the same university as he did, and recognized him even though he did not really remember him.

The shop assistant smiled at them alternately, then went to the shelf.

She seemed to be looking for something while she spoke, "Oh, Mark's friends are my friends as well. I am Jiwoo. Kim Jiwoo to be exact. I study Nursing as a major subject at SM University. "

 

She slid her slender fingers over the price labels before she stopped.

"I didn't say we were friends. "Mark complained to her left. Finally a sympathetic girl, Donghyuck thought, simply ignoring the objection of that Mark.

"I'm Donghyuck. Lee Donghyuck. I have general chemistry as a major. Nice to meet you. "

Jiwoo smiled at him slightly before handing him three different packs,

" If you don't know what she wants, those are the basics. Besides, we've just got a discount on it, so you're saving some money as well. "

Donghyuck thanked her and then followed her to the check out.

 

Mark, who only rolled his eyes, followed them as well, Jiwoo was just a too friendly  person.

"Your girlfriend is lucky. There are not many guys today who would overcome their pride and help a lady in need, "Jiwoo said when they arrived.

" She's not his girlfriend. He's more into guys, "Mark remarked as he pretended to sort things out at the check out, and Donghyuck wanted to punch him in the face. Again.

 

Jiwoo looked back and forth between the two, then laughed briefly,

" Typical. The handsome guys are on the other bus. "

She pulled the goods over the scanner." But bad for us girls, better for you, Mark-ah. "She grinned broadly in Mark's direction,

Donghyuck following her gaze. Mark seemed so surprised by that statement that he tore down a whole chunk of chewing gum. He cursed while picking them up again.

 

"Don't talk such a nonsens, Jiwoo. You know exactly that I'm straight. "

" Yeah, straight like a spaghetti. But as soon as you douse it with hot water, it bends suddenly. "
She pretended to whisper this to Donghyuck, but even with her hand shielding she spoke loud enough for Mark to hear it.

He gritted his teeth and his ears turned red.

 

Wow, Jiwoo had probably hit a sore spot?

 

Donghyuck grinned at her as she shoved a small pack of chips into his grocery bag.

"Thats on me. Oh and- " She pulled her phone out of her pocket, briefly typed something, then grabbed Donghyuk's arm and wrote a number on it with a pen.

"Feel free to write a message."

 

She grinned at him and he could not help grinning back and thank her. Mark rolled his eyes. But Donghyuck ignored that skillfully, "Come back soon, see you."

Jiwoo waved after him. When Donghyuck disappeared, she dropped her arm, "You know such a cute boy and still claim to be straight?"

"Knowing is a bit over the top, I just saw him a few times. I didn't know anything about him, not even his name. But yeah, even if he's cute, that does not change my uality. "

 

" Man, to be you, right? If such a guy slipped through my fingers, just because you can't admit, that maybe you're not that straight- Sorry, I meant, of course, because you're into girls. "Mark rolled his eyes again.

"Keep going like that, you will not find a brain anyway."

 

"I'm going home now," Mark announced, before he disappeared back into the locker room. On the other hand, Jiwoo smiled to herself.

She had not seen that Mark had been so mad for a trifle for a very long time.

Actually, he was a relaxed, sometimes upset, sometimes calm person.

The fact that he almost fought with a man or woman, was really ages ago.

But as she said, this Donghyuck was an exceptionally cute guy.

 

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Hey guys,
Thanks for reading. Hopefully y'all enjoy my Markhyuck story. It's supposed to be funny but my humor is quite something so idk.

Have a nice day ♡