Best Served Cold

Chapter 16

"You two are awfully close," San said softly as they walked side by side, picking out ingredients for dinner. Wooyoung rolled his lips inwards nervously and shrugged.

"I guess we always have been."

"To the point of kissing?" San's voice was small but it wasn't timid. In fact, Wooyoung felt a chill in his spine from the way he spoke. He quickly turned to San and frowned.

"We are not usually like this. He finds it fun to disturb me. I didn't even want him to kiss me," Wooyoung said with a pout. "I couldn't push him away either. He's from the basketball team so his arm strength is no joke."

"I see."

"Are you upset?"

"Why would I be?"

"I don't know. You seem upset."

San sighed and looked down at the basket that was filled with enough food for two but Wooyoung still wanted more so he could make pre cooked food for himself. "Maybe a little."

"Huh?"

"Seeing the person I like kiss someone else isn't fun," San said softly and Wooyoung couldn't really hear what he said so the other stepped closer to him.

"What did you say?"

San flinched and pursed his lips. "I said I like you."

Wooyoung blinked and it took him 2 seconds before registering what San said and even then, his brain refused to compute as he froze up yet his cheeks burned. "Wh-"

"I like you," San repeated, thinking that he didn't hear him again.

"I heard it the first time," Wooyoung squeaked, clearly flustered from the sudden confession. "B-but-"

"Wooyoung, won't you date me?"

"Hah?!"

"Is that a no?"

"No! I mean, that's not a no. That's...you-this is really sudden."

San grabbed his hips and pulled him in, colliding their bodies as San stared down at him. "I don't want to see you kiss someone else again so I can only confess to you first before someone takes you away from me."

Wooyoung blushed even harder as he cleared his throat and slowly pushed himself away from San who let go unlike Yeonjun. "Um..."

"I'll give you time to think," San said and walked ahead of the other, leaving him to his own thoughts that were running like crazy. Did San really just drop a confession bomb like that? He already knew the other 'confessed' but he had tried not to think about it that hard since Yeosang had warned him about jumping right in when he still had ongoing problems. He really wanted to accept San, he really did but he was afraid. What would San think of him if he found out what was going on? If he was already saying such words just from Yeonjun, a friend, kissing him, what about S? Would he get mad? Would San dump him? He was scared. He didn't want to get together with someone as important to him as San just to be thrown aside. He had already wronged the other once. He didn't want a second time. "Wooyoung, would you like curry?"

Wooyoung jumped and hurried after the male who held up the instant curry pack.

"Earth to Wooyoung," Yeosang said while snapping his fingers in front of his friend when they were working at the front of the bakery on Sunday.

"Oh."

"What's wrong? You've been staring at the floor for almost 20 minutes while I've been handling all the customers that come in," Yeosang asked, hand on hip.