Peaches & Ice Cream ᵗᵃᵉⁿⁱⁿᵍ ᵉⁿᵍ

2. Top secret

While Beomgyu and Taehyun were just playing around, the waiter wasprecisely decorating their deserts, until somenone interrupted him causing a bottle filled with the topping to almost fall out of his hands. 

"Oppa!" 

He hissed quietly, then briefly sucked on his finger covered in caramel. 

"Yes, duckling?" he mumbled to a fair-haired girl who appeared next to him behind the bar. 

"There is some delivery guy," she pointed with her thumb to the back door behind them, "so if you just could-" 

"Ah, of course," he smiled slightly. 

The sudden conversation caught friends' attention. Although they couldn't hear the rest of it, they just stared at Huening Kai's distracted actions while he was talking to that girl and tried looking at the guys sitting in the box from time to time. 

Taehyun straightened up in kind of a tension. 

"Okay, got it," she responded in understanding, then a nervous smile appeared on lips of both of them before Kai walked out of the back door. She put her hand deep into a side pocket of her brown apron as she watched her brother's back disappear. 

After that, the girl tied her long hair, took prepared bowls filled with the ordered ice cream and stepped towards the customers with a focused expression. 

"And here comes... the Charmander," Beomgyu dramatically whispered girl's nickname, snapping his fingers. 

"Hahah- Stop it... please." 

Taehyun actually somehow loved Beomgyu's weird sense of humour but he really didn't want to laugh out loud at the sister of the person he fell in love with, even though it was more cute than funny because she really resembled the named pokemon in a lovely way. 

"Hey guys~ So here it is... Peach one...," she carefully put a bowl in front of Taehyun, "and pineapple flavoured one." The waitress gave both of them a warm smile. "Enjoy~" 

"Thank you, Bahiyyih," Taehyun politely looked at the girl with a smile on his lips and deep eyes before focusing his attention to his bowl. 

"Thank you~" unlike his friend, Beomgyu immediately grabed the spoon and kept his eyes glued to the ice cream in front of him with an amazed look. 

"You're welcome," she replied, sprung, jumping on her toes and then walked away. 

Taehyun glanced at his friend and after that picked up his spoon to enjoy his ice cream. This one seemed to be really special to him or Beom. Not just because of who prepared it, but also because of the way it was made. The owner of the store makes the ice cream himself, uses no sweeteners besides caramel and decorates it with freeze dried fruit such as peaches. Just so delicious. 

Nothing but the clinking of glass and spoons out of satisfaction could be heard. 

Suddenly, something caught Taehyun's eye and he stopped himself from eating for a while. 

He tilted his head a little bit and noticed a corner of a small piece of paper lying under his bowl. He picked up the bowl and took the paper between his fingers. It turned out a text was written on it by hand. 

Taehyun just checked on Beomgyu who focused on scrolling down his social media while eating his ice cream, and then he started reading the letter under the table: 

HI! 

It's Huening Kai. I know it's sudden, but it's my birthday tomorrow and I would really... really like to invite you to my B-day party. I didn't know how to do that, so that's why I'm writing this weird quick letter, using even weirder words, I guess... Anyway, the number written down bellow is my phone number so, if you would like to come, text me, I will send you the adress, 

Hyuka ^^ :* 

His eyes opened wide. He crumpled the paper in a rush and put it in a pocket of his shorts, before Beomgyu would notice it. Then he tried to continue eating as if nothing happened. Succesfully. 

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"Hyung?" 

Taehyun just watched chuckling Yeonjun, as he was sitting on his matrace leaning against the wall behind him. His friend was reading the letter and walking around the room until he finished and stretched his arm holding the crumpled piece of paper in front of him. 

"You gotta go there," was the verdict of Yeonjun's sudden serious look. 

The young man just exhaled in despair. 

"What's even the problem, Tae?" Yeonjun asked, while sitting down next to Taehyun's legs, caressing them. 

"I-I don't know. I mean... I exactly know what those emojis at the end stand for," Taehyun pointed his finger on the paper put between them. 

"And?" 

"... and Beomgyu-hyung said that I am practically hopeless... Anti-romantic, to be specific," he added with a dead look in his eyes. 

Inhale. 

"Oh, that damn kid," Yeonjun hissed and held the root of his nose with his thumb and index finger with his eyes closed. 

"I need your help, hyung... seriously." 

"So that's why you didn't tell Beom... I see. Hah. Good choice, brother." He slapped his thighs with his palms then stood up as if he was really taking it seriously. And he was. 

"Okay, let's do it." 

"Do what?" Taehyun quietly gulped as he was staring at his friend's hand that was reaching out to him. 

"Let me teach you what to do when someone flirts with you and how to talk to someone you want to confess to." 

Although Taehyun didn't like the idea and wanted to reject him, it was actually what he wanted Yeonjun to do - to give him some tips in case he would need them. So even though he was extremely shy and kinda lost, he was listening to Yeonjun's words carefully. 

But to be honest... he didn't really believe that he would be able to use the advice right and naturally anyway. 

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