𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬 | 𝐭𝐚𝐞𝐠𝐲𝐮

༺ 𝟏𝟐 ༻

Tuesday, 4:24 PM

"Taehyun can you watch the cash register for a moment, please? I need to go to the restroom."

The blonde boy wearing his regular black and brown uniform just waves at Ryujin as a sign for her to go and quickly walks towards the counter. He would do anything for Ryujin, the blue short-haired girl he liked so much. But don't get him wrong, he didn't have a crush on her or anything, he just thought of her as a genuine and truthful person who is as unlucky as him when it comes to life: both of them had crappy friends, not much money on their accounts, worked at the same café, and had extremely similar personalities. Ryujin was the perfect person to be Taehyun's best friend.

After a few minutes of standing there alone, the doorbell rang and some university students came in, all of them making their orders except for one person who just stood still, eyes fixed on the blonde's face. And Taehyun soon realized who it was.

"What do you want, Chanwoo?"

The mentioned boy just smiled, his body leaning against the counter while his eyes stared deeply into Taehyun's. He was wearing his typical football jacket, and some fancy jeans, and his chocolate brown hair was styled a little bit differently than usual.

"Wasn't expecting to see you here. I guess I'll have to come by more often..."

"No need to," Taehyun smiled cynically "Really, don't come by, we appreciate it if you don't."

"C'mon baby, I know you miss me..."

Taehyun controls the urge to roll his eyes. Was he being serious?

"Chanwoo, we just talked for two days or something before I found out you were a creep. What the fuck do you want?"

"I want an iced americano, thanks for asking nicely, my love."

Taehyun cringes when he hears the nickname and turns his back to prepare the drink. He stays facing the drink machine the entire time, feeling Chanwoo's stupid gaze on him. When the drink's ready, Taehyun picks up a pen and writes "asshole" on the cup. Putting on a fake smile, he delivers the drink to the older.

"Really?" Chanwoo asks when he gets a glimpse of what was written on his cup.

"Yeah. Now please leave." Taehyun demands, his smile fading into a poker face.

All Chanwoo's friends have already left the establishment, not bothering to wait for him as they knew he had some sort of obsession with Taehyun and it was best not to get involved.

"I promise I'll leave after I get one kiss."

Taehyun's expression remains blunt as he watches Chanwoo leaning closer to him, his index finger poking his lips showing Taehyun where he wanted to be kissed. Taehyun was about to grab a knife to scare the older, when the doorbell rang again, forcing him to go back to his place and serve the customer. When his eyes meet the new person, he sighs dramatically.

"Who the hell is this creep?" Beomgyu asks as soon as he sees a weird guy pouting his lips toward Taehyun.

Chanwoo quickly fixes his posture and puts on a serious face, analyzing the tall boy in front of him. He had long black hair, a bored expression, a random rock band's t-shirt, some black ripped jeans, and equally black shoes.

"Who the hell are you to be calling me a creep?" Chanwoo asks rhetorically, pointing his finger at the taller's chest. "As far as I know I'm older than you, so show a little bit of respect, will you?

Beomgyu's clearly unbothered by the shorter's words, switching his attention to Taehyun who was just standing in his place, waiting for the ravenette's order.

"Are you friends with this weirdo?" Beomgyu asks Taehyun again, pointing at the boy next to him.

"I know any of you. Now please go away so I can attend to the customers." Taehyun says to Chanwoo, ignoring his angry stare.

"Are you defending him Taehyun? Is he your boyfriend or something? Wasn't what we had special?"

Before Taehyun could answer, Beomgyu makes a vomit sound "Did you just say I was that ugly guy's boyfriend?"

"How dare you call Taehyun ugly! Who even are you, emo bitch?" Chanwoo talks back, getting a step closer to Beomgyu.

"I mean, I guess you're uglier than him but that doesn't make him less ug-"

"What did you just say!?"

"That Taehyun is less ugly-"

"No, before that!"

"That you're ugly-"

"HOW DARE YOU?"

Chanwoo rolls up both of his sleeves and was ready to start a fight with the 1.80 meters boy when he feels someone grabbing his hair and pushing him back, his neck and scalp screaming in pain.

"Get out of my shop right now!"

Chanwoo watches in displeasure as a short blue-haired girl dressed in the same uniform as Taehyun kicks him out of the café in front of several people that were casually eating at their tables. Feeling embarrassed, Chanwoo storms out somewhere else and Ryujin calmly closes the door, bowing at the customers as an apology.

"Thanks, Ryujin." Taehyun then looks at Beomgyu, both of his eyebrows painted in a frown "And what the hell are you doing here? You don't even like coffee..."

Beomgyu rolls his eyes and simply takes his phone out of his pocket, showing him a website page "I'm here to show you some doors, silly."

Taehyun chooses to ignore Beomgyu's sarcastic tone to save his energy and observes the diversity of doors that were showing on the screen, allowing Ryujin to take a peek.

"I tried to select the ones that were similar to our dorm's doors..."

"Yeah, I see that. We can go with this one, it's not that expensive..." Taehyun picks the most pleasing one and Ryujin nods her head in approval. "Have you talked to the university's office about this?"

"Yep, you don't have to worry."

"That's cute..." Ryujin smiles at both boys "Are you moving in together? Or getting a house?"

Taehyun just stares at his friend, not bothering to answer, but Beomgyu had other plans.

"Are you crazy? Me and this guy? I bet he likes those weird ugly ass furniture. I can't even bear the thought of it!"

Ryujin just laughed, taking a liking to the ravenette boy. "Then what is the door for?"

Before Taehyun could finally answer, Beomgyu puts on his acting face and opens his mouth to say something. "We need a new door because this pervert kicked the door open when I was taking a shower and now everything's broken, the door, his brain, and my feeling of safety in that dorm..."

Before Ryujin could ask something else, Taehyun interferes "It's an act. He was annoying the crap out of me and was locked inside the bathroom so I accidentally broke the door because I wanted to punch him in the fa-"

"Lies..." Beomgyu interrupts and Taehyun just sighs.

The blue-haired girl just smiles and extends her hand to greet the tall boy.

"You must be Beomgyu. I'm Ryujin, Taehyun's best friend, I hope."

Beomgyu equally smiles and shakes her hand "Didn't know I was famous around here, although I always knew Taehyun was my fan..."

"Oh, he's your number one fan, believe me!"

Taehyun mumbles some curses and quickly picks up his things, his mind too tired to fight. Hugging Ryujin, Taehyun says a simple goodbye and walks out of the door, ready to go buy a stupid door. Beomgyu wasn't planning on following him so soon as a method to annoy the blonde boy even more, but then he realizes Taehyun still had his phone. Fuck, my phone, he thinks to himself right before running after the blonde.

"So that's the guy you hate so much... Interesting..."