travellers || Woosan

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"Do you uhm... do you have a moment?"

The young man he is speaking to blinks a few times, yet looks up at him immediately. A soft smile graces his ethereal face and Jongho can feel the air leave his lungs when he directly sets eyes on the perfect beauty of Kang Yeosang.

He gulps, sitting down on the bench right next to him right after he receives a nod from the older. Yeosang is sitting here as he always does during free periods, enjoying the peace and quiet of the university's gardens that almost no one ever comes to. Most of the time it is just Yeosang and he took Jongho here a few times before when they had to work on projects together and needed a quiet place to themselves.

So Jongho has seen Yeosang so many times by now. Yet, his beauty never fails to strike him in the most concise way. Lord, how could anyone as stunning as Kang Yeosang be real?

The two of them have gotten along from the start. Though they have never been able to completely let go of their initial shyness around each other. At first, that is. Usually they would be fine after a little moment. Especially from Jongho's side that is more of an unusual thing though. He is usually not this shy in front of others. But Yeosang is just different.

Yeosang has had him trapped under some kind of spell, not making it possible in the slightest for Jongho to not like him the way he does.

"Do you want one?", Yeosang asks and holds up a bungeoppang, still having two more on a napkin he is holding in his other hand. Jongho nods and takes it, giving Yeosang a sweet smile, which the other just returns as he grabs one for himself and starts to eat it.

"Red bean filling?", Jongho asks, then bites into his own piece, enjoying the taste. The fact that it is still warm just confirms what Jongho was thinking, which is that Yeosang was probably craving those as usual and just got them from the auntie selling them right outside the university building. He must have just come back from getting them before Jongho found him here. "Oh and they're still warm too! Thanks."

"I just got them, so you're lucky.", Yeosang says, chuckling slightly.

"I figured. I know you like these."

"I do indeed. Look at you remembering the most random shit about me.", Yeosang teases now, continuing to eat while Jongho just turns to look at him. He can feel his gaze, can feel how he does not look like he wants to turn away anytime soon at all. So Yeosang faces him too, chuckling nervously, "What? Is there something on my face?"

Jongho shakes his head.

"No. And it's not random at all. I noticed you getting them frequently and I find it really cute how you always get at least three or four when you do. When it's three, you get all red bean filling. When you get four, it's only one with custard. You'd eat the custard one last because it's a special one and you don't want to mix the flavors in your mouth. So usually you have some water after the third red bean one to rinse your taste palette."

"How did you-"

"I do not find any of this random knowledge. I simply notice things you do and remember them. It's that easy.", Jongho states, still looking into Yeosang's eyes, making the other gulp.

"Why would you remember or even notice stupid things like that though?", he huffs, honestly feeling a little touched as his heartbeat quickens and Jongho's does too.

And Jongho decides to finally do what he should have dared to do a long time ago.

"I notice because I like you, Yeosang.", Jongho admits, seeing how the other just stares at him in surprise, "I have liked you for a long time and literally nothing you do is stupid. You're just... god, all I ever think about is you. But I cannot even talk to anyone about it, because San cannot ever know that I am romantically interested in a man and Mingi would probably let it slip very randomly in a conversation between the three of us and then I'd lose them both because I confessed to his roommate and -"