Magic

Dinner not a Date

"Excuse me?" Taehyun blinked as he looked at the long haired in front of him.

"Did I stutter? I said eat dinner with me. Like a date, duh" He said with a bored expression.

Taehyun frowned and crossed his arms. "Why would I do that? I don't even know you well enough to go on a date with you." He huffed "who said I would even if I knew you?" He raised a brow.

Beomgyu rolled his eyes and looked at Taehyun "my name is Choi Beomgyu, I'm 23, and I'm an artist with only a mom. There, now you know me"

"That doesn't count! You can't just go out with someone just because! You literally just gave an introduction someone in high school would give if they were introducing themselves" he said with an eye roll.

Beomgyu groaned and huffed. "Okay fine, how about this. You eat dinner with me, not as a date, and we get to know each other better, then we can keep seeing eachother until we can date."

"I- you are a weirdo." Said Taehyun who then sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose "fine, I'll eat with you, but that doesn't mean we will date"

"Alright! It's settled then ..... Um....." he looked at Taehyun, not knowing his name.

"Kang Taehyun"

"Right! Come on!" The taller grabbed Taehyun's hand and dragged him away from the park.

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Taehyun watched Beomgyu in horror as he basically inhaled his food. He was stunned and didn't know what to say.

The older looked at him and raised a brow. "Are you not going to eat your food? It's getting cold." He said and Taehyun looked down at his sandwich.

"I've lost my appetite..." he said softly and the other just shrugged, eating the rest of his food.

Beomgyu finished his food up and looked at Taehyun. "So pretty boy, tell me about yourself. What do you do, what are your hobbies, have you dated before?" He asked quickly, the younger coughing lightly.

"It's not pretty boy, it's Taehyun. Anyways, for your information I work at a high tech science lab where we do mutiple research types at. I like to do magic tricks and dance. Sometimes I sing at home." He answered quietly, though Beomgyu could still hear. "As for that last question you asked. It's none of your damn business but no I have not. I have neither the time or patience to be with someone who could possibly bring me down and off track."

Beomgyu looked at him with an amused face before nodding. "What about you?"

"I've never dated before either" Taehyun raised a brow.

"Really? You seem like you'd have both girls and guys all over you constantly" he replied, a bit surprised.

Beomgyu chuckled and smiled "well, I do but they usually just like me for my looks, not me." He said with a sigh.

"Oh. Why did you ask me on a date though? Did you just like me for my looks?" Taehyun said in a teasing manner.

Beomgyu shook his head "well, I do think you're hot, but that's not it. Whenever you came up to me I thought you were going to ask me out like all the other people that approach me all the time so I was confused when you didn't. I was shooketh dude. You're the only person besides my two best friends to not ask me out so I guess I got attracted to you more easily."

Taehyun stared at Beomgyu, shocked but not really. I mean, the boy was hot, but that didn't mean Taehyun liked him like that at first sight just because of that.

"Want a picture, pretty boy? It will last longer~" Beomgyu said with a slight smirk and Taehyun smacked his shoulder. "Ow!"

"Shut up idiot" he said, taking a bite of his nearly cold food. Beomgyu huffed

"Fine" he said softly, leaning back on his chair and looking at Taehyun. "So, do you have a type?"

Taehyun chocked on his food before looking at the older boy "a what?"

Beomgyu rolled his eyes and poked Taehyun's nose. "A type. Like a dating type?" For me, I'm straight as a circle. I hate all women except my mother. They're too fuckin' dramatic and annoying. And they're mostly ugly" he said shamelessly, as if he forgot they were in a public place.

Taehyun was quiet for a while, thinking before he replied. "Well, I never really paid attention to other people romantically so I don't know for sure what my exact type would be, but I think I like boys rather than girls. If I had a boyfriend he'd have to be able to take care of me and not be afraid to show me to the public. He'd also have to pay attention to me and not just leave me be most of the time." He said with a shrug before looking at the other who looked like he was taking in all this information as if taking mental notes.

"I see. This conversation was very informative." He said before looking at his phone. "We should probably get going soon, it's getting late."

Taehyun looked at his phone as well and nodded, starting to clean up his trash.

Once they cleaned up and left the restaurant Beomgyu handed Taehyun his phone. Taehyun looked at it then looked at Beomgyu with a brow raised.

"Put your contact in, I want to hang out with you more"

Taehyun rolled his eyes and typed his phone number in "what if I don't want to hang out with you though?" He said, handing the phone back to Beomgyu who snorted.

"Is that why you just typed in your phone number?" He said as he sent Taehyun a kissy face emoji, the boy's phone lighting up, signaling he got a text.

"Whatever" he said as he added Beomgyu's contact and named it 'Stinky Choi Beomgyu 🗑'

Beomgyu gasped when he saw the name Taehyun gave him "what the heck dude! After I named you 'Pretty 🧚‍♂️ Taehyun'????? I'm offended Kang Taehyun" he said with a huff and Taehyun just laughed.

"It's what you get, stinky boy" he stuck his tongue out at the other boy and Beomgyu licked it as revenge before Taehyun pulled away, Eyes wide. "What the hell?!?!? Why did you do that?"

"Next time I'll kiss you" Beomgyu answered with a wink and Taehyun hit him again. "Ouch, I'm sorry! I'm just joking!!" He said as he ran away from Taehyun who started chasing him with a shoe.

Once the two calmed down they stood at a fork in the road.

"I have to go this way." Taehyun said, pointing at one of the two streets.

"I go the other way" Beomgyu replied with a sigh. "Well, I'll text you or you can text me next time we want to hang out or talk, sound good?"

Taehyun nodded "yeah, that's fine" he said softly Beomgyu smiled genuinely, his pearly whites on display, and Taehyun almost fainted.

"See you next time, pretty boy" Beomgyu said before walking down the road to go to his house. Taehyun walked down the opposite path to his apartment and once he got inside he sat his stuff down and took a shower before getting into bed.

He thought about his conversations with the older earlier then remembered something, specifically what happened at his work. 013 was modeled after a baby with an aging app to see what they would look like in the future and Beomgyu only lived with his mother since he was a baby. Taehyun couldn't help but feel a bit spooked by the fact that 013 looks exactly like Beomgyu and couldn't stop his brain from wondering if Beomgyu was that child. He just shrugged it off before going to sleep. He was looking forward to speaking to 013 the next day.