golden repair - geminifourth

crush

"What do you think?"

They already had their dinner and obligatory ice cream and were now shopping for clothes. Well, Winny was. He was currently holding up a pink, knitted crop-top.

"It's so cute" Fourth said with sparkling eyes.

"Yeah, it's... cute." Satang said, avoiding the sight in front of him. 

"Please, those eyes just imagined me in it, didn't they?" He loved teasing his boyfriend.

"Shut up and just try it on!"

Winny laughed and vanished into one of the cubicles.

Satang walked over to his friend who was still eyeing the racks with the pink crop-tops. 

"You should try it on too, if you like it that much."

Fourth looked up with an uncertain face. 

"No, I shouldn't... mama said boys don't wear that."

"Well, your mother is wrong. We talked about this. You're 18 and don't have to listen to everything they say." 

Fourth nodded but yet let his head hang low. "But they will be angry again. Their anger hurts."

Satang growled, overwhelmed by the desire to protect his friend from his parent's abuse but he knew there's only little he could do.

He observed Fourth anxious demeanor as he teetered on the balls of his feet and surveyed their surroundings in search of something that would not provoke further wrath from his parents.

He wished nothing more than to put this boy into his pocket and never let him leave.

Suddenly, Fourth froze in place. A rosy hue crept up slowly onto the boy's face.

Satang scanned their surroundings, desperately trying to identify what had caused this reaction. His gaze followed that of his friend and settled upon... Gemini?  That was his name right? He couldn't quite recall it. A popular business major from their university who typically kept to himself within a close-knit circle of friends

Satang looked back and forth at the dazed boy in front of him and the tall guy at the denim section. Wait.

Hold on.

"What... no. Fourth?"

Satang had no time to sort his thoughts into a coherent sentence as Winny scrambled through the curtain of the cubicle he vanished into minutes before. Hair disheveled and his upper body unclothed.

"What happened? What's the tea?" He said, looking around curiously.

"Huh? How did you know?"

"Please, we've been dating for three years. I know what every sound of yours means. And that's your 'I have tea' tone."

Satang looked dumbfounded at this boyfriend.

"Now tell me, what's the tea? Hurry, I am deprived! I study physics and those het nerds never have any good tea."

Satang just wordlessly pointed at the still dazed boy next to him. Winny crunched his nose and inspected the boy in question. Just as his partner did before he followed the boy's gaze.

"I don't get- oh."

Excitedly, he repeatedly slapped Satang's shoulder. "Oh my god, it's finally happening!"

"Satang! Satang! It's happening!"

"Stop this!" said the boy, swatting away the hand. "Put on some clothes first."