lilacs || Minsung

Second Chance 7 | between sheets

"Do you believe in love at first sight?"

Changbin chokes on his food and takes a quick sip of his orange juice to wash down the choking hazard in his mouth and give his friend his immediate, undivided attention. Eyes wide when he looks at him for a bit, blink a few times with all sorts of questions ready to come out at any point.

"Uhm... where did that suddenly come from?"

"Just answer me. Is it stupid? Do you think it can happen?"

"It's kind of weird coming from you, but from anyone else, I'd say that it's possible? I don't know. Never really thought too much about it, but I think sometimes it's just like that and people are lucky enough to meet someone they are instantly feeling some sort of extra deep connection with.", Changbin explains, actually thinking about his own words while he does, "Why though? Met someone special?"

His voice is clearly filled with a certain undertone, teasing his friend with an additional wide grin. He finally digs into his food while Minho mindlessly stirs his coffee, his lips slowly stretching into a little smile. So soft that Changbin almost feels like he is going to be the one getting flustered because of it. Not once has he seen Minho smiling like this. Especially not when they talked about anything close to something as romantic as love at first sight. They never even talked about it to begin with.

But Minho's smile has Changbin invested. All in. So, so curious.

"Yeah, I think I might have.", Minho says, huffs out and takes a sip of his coffee, his smile still there when he places his cup back down again.

"What?!", Changbin exclaims far too loudly, is quick to turn around and give a slight bow along with a whole bunch of little apologies to everyone around them who could have possibly gotten disturbed by his sudden scream. He turns back to Minho when he is done, cheeks still flushed in embarrassment. "You fell in love with someone? At first sight?"

Minho chuckles.

"I don't think you can call it love yet. But I don't know, just... I feel like it could be one day.", the older admits, "They had me interested, strangely captivated at first sight, then uhm... we kind of had sex and I can't get them out of my head again. At all. Even more so than before. It just feels so different than anything I have ever had before with literally anyone, you know? They're just so stunning and fucking hell, Changbin, I've never had such great compatibility with anyone before."

"Oh my... wow, that's like, really sweet, actually. Shit, Minho, I'm so happy for you!", he says in the most genuine way. Smiling so brightly it has Minho all touched as well. Of course Changbin would be happy for him. He is his most important friend after all. Minho would be just as happy for him if he found someone he genuinely liked. "I guess I'll meet them once you know whether you'll be official?"

"Of course. You'll be the second one to know.", Minho says, knows they are both very well aware of Felix always having to be the first with finding out about literally anything that could possibly ever be found out. He has special rights to hear everything first.

They part ways after everything as always, Minho smiling from ear to ear for a whole while longer, overall more chipper than usual when he starts his work the same exact way as every other morning too. Even Jeongin notices something is different, jokes with his colleague about how great the September air seems to have been treating them.

But it is not until Taeyang is being dropped off and Minho slips out again with Jisung to sneak his daily morning kiss that the older of the two teachers feels like everything is making so much more sense again. He is looking forward to these small bits and pieces he gets of Jisung on work days, is texting him whenever he can in between while they are apart.