Straykids OS (Book)

Ask you tonight

Ship: Minchan
Triggers/Warnings: none

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Chan works in a café not far from his apartment. He's been working there for a few years now and for some time now he's noticed the same group of boys over and over again, but only one particular boy didn't let Chan go. Every day the twenty-three year old waited for the handsome young man to come walking through the door again, but Chan didn't have the courage to have a conversation with him, but he still enjoyed watching the young man, from far away. What Chan didn't know, of course, was that this particular boy noticed that he was being stared at, but just left it at that, but Chan caught his eye too, but like Chan, it was the same with the young man, he just didn't have the courage to start a conversation with the waiter. 

Weeks passed and the 'nameless' boy started staring at Chan as he did his work. The young man's friends just looked at it without saying a word, after all you're not supposed to get involved in something like that and let it happen at the speed it did. Without words and with just a look, the six boys had made a compromise that meant something like: If the two of them can't figure it out themselves, they will help out a little. Days, weeks and months passed until something finally happened. 

It was on a Saturday, the seven boys went back to the café where Chan worked and surprisingly they had Chan as their waiter and not just the person who gave them their drinks and brought the food. He walked towards the table of seven with a smile on his face. "Hi, welcome to Lee's Café, what can I get you?" He asked, but no one answered. After about five minutes of the boys staring at him, his smile fell a little and you could tell he was feeling uncomfortable, but before he could walk away one of the boys came out of his stare and apologized. "Omg! I'm so sorry! It wasn't our intention to stare at you, but we would pass on our drinks first since we haven't agreed on the food yet." He said and Chan nodded with a smile, but it fell again when he noticed that the others were still staring. 

The young man, who also noticed this, smiled awkwardly at Chan and clapped his hands together and so the others were present again and so they all ordered their drinks. After that, Chan walked away with a smile and prepared them. Minutes passed as he prepared the drinks and brought them to the table of the seven. When everyone had their drinks, he took the order for the desserts and walked away with a smile. What no one knew was that he left a note with the 'nameless' boy's drink. He wrote: 'You're pretty! I hope you had a nice day!' 

And while he was still preparing the cakes, cupcakes and donuts for them on the plates, out of the corner of his eye he saw the person in question reading it and a small smile forming on his lips. He looked up and in Chan's direction, who looked back and grinned at him a bit until he came back to said table with the desserts. Everyone got their orders and just as Chan was about to walk away, the young man put a note in his hand. Somewhat surprised by this, he went back behind the desk and opened the piece of paper. 'Thanks. Thank you for the compliment! By the way my name is Minho. Lee Minho.' 

Chan grinned to himself, which of course the others saw and giggled. After putting the note in his pocket, he went back to work, which for Chan also included getting the children who were restless to calm down again, i.e. playing with them or taking a walk through the café with the little ones among them in order to then bring them back to their parents completely calm or, in some cases, asleep. Of course, Minho and his friends all saw this and they were amazed that the other customers trusted him with their children and babies. While the others were talking, Minho wrote another note and gave it to Chan who was walking past. And so it began that the two started talking. 

Every now and then Minho came without his friends and so he sat at the front table and waited for Chan, who then sat next to him and they could talk. Minho learned that same day that Chan was a year older than himself and Chan met Minho's friends, who liked him pretty quickly. It took another year before Chan had the courage to ask Minho out on a date. Why he suddenly had the courage was simple, it was on that one day when the café played a song that had the title 'Ask you tonight', he didn't know who exactly sang that song, but the lyrics were enough for him and so he had the plan of plans. 

He was well aware that asking the younger boy would definitely not work out the way he had it planned, but it was worth a try. And luckily for him, Minho came to the café alone that day, later than usual, but Chan ignored this. He gave Minho his usual order and walked with the words "I'll be with you in a moment!" to another table and served the customer there. Finished with that, he came back to Minho as promised and sat down next to him. He didn't even have to say anything, Minho immediately noticed how nervous he was. 

"Chan?.. Are you okay?" He asked and Chan nodded, but then he shook his head and the worry was visible in Minho's eyes. "I.. there's something I've wanted to ask you.. for a while now.. but I couldn't because I didn't have the courage.. but.. now.. it feels like it's the right moment but at the same time not..." Chan stammered together and then the song that gave Chan the courage to do this whole thing played again. Which is why he fell silent and listened to the text and then looked into Minho's eyes. "Minho? Would you go on a date with me?" 

Silence.

Minho looked at Chan with a surprised look because he wanted to ask the older man the same thing, which is why he didn't come to the café until later to accompany him home and ask him there. "Minho?..." Chan said uncertainly and this brought Minho back to the here and now. He stared at Chan for another moment until he grinned. "Yes. Yes I would very much like to go on a date with you Chan!" You couldn't ignore the grin on Chan's face the rest of the day and so the two of them walked together to the older man apartment after Chan's shift ended. 

"Here we are... I'll write you more details... or tell you in the café when we see each other... okay?" Minho nodded and walked towards Chan. The two hugged each other and so Minho walked to his house and Chan went to his apartment. A week later their date took place, but Chan got sick and so they had to postpone it, but Minho stayed with the older one and nursed him back to health and listened to these endless apologies that he rejected over and over again and reassured him that he cant control things like that.

After the older man was healthy again, he took Minho out to eat. The evening went exactly as Chan had imagined and the dates that followed were just as nice until finally Chan asked the big question and they finally got together. The next time Minho came to the café with the other six, they were amazed when Minho ran behind the counter to Chan and the two kissed. Jeongin, Hyunjin and Felix squealed after they realized what was going on and stuck to their boyfriends, who then understood and smiled. 

I'm gonna tell you tonight
Everything you wanna hear
And for the rest of my life
Plus like a million more years

You're the only one I wanna love
The only one this I promise ya
If that sounds alright
I might just ask you tonight

the end.

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Hi.

Its me, I just wanted to post something. I am back..

Hope you like this Chapter, this song from Big time rush inspired me, idk if some of you know this band, but those album is really good, so go and listen to it if you need some new songs. Well, thats it. haha

Bye bye.

Tayla ♡