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Chapter 3

They meet at a small cafe on a corner near Bighit, it was miraculously a free day for them. Hoseok wears his favorite black snapback and his gray hoodie. He sits in a corner table visible to everyone that's entering the cafe.

Hoseok waits for another 5 minutes before he hears a series of laughter coming out of the staff room and he sees an extremely bubbly Taehyung getting out of the private area.

Taehyung spots him and stops, "you're here early," Hoseok smiles at him and gives a pointed look towards his wristwatch. Taehyung gets the message and raises his watch at eye level and his smile drops, "Oh. I'm late."

Hoseok nods and gestures at the seat in front of him, Taehyung walks over embarrassingly slow. But when Hoseok calls for the waiter the talkative side of him resurfaces, "Don't order. You don't have to. I'm friends with the owner and his crew are preparing their best-selling coffees for us."

A small smile replaces the shocked expression on Hoseok's face. He wanted to ask Taehyung something but the boy is literally doing everything he can to avoid Hoseok's stares.

"Taehyung," he tries, it's the 5th time in under 3 minutes. The boy seems like he wants to listen and is curious as to what Hoseok would say but he continues blabbering about the stray kittens he played with before he got there.

Hoseok isn't really stupid and dense like how Taehyung thinks he is, and Taehyung isn't really that hard to read, he was so transparent no matter how hard he tries to appear difficult. The deep red on his cheeks and the stutter he makes after Hoseok shoots him a smile are enough to confirm that he was indeed lying when he said it was "when he fell ON hoseok." and not "when he fell FOR hoseok."

The coffee arrives 30 minutes later. Hoseok had given up on interfering in Taehyung's conversation with himself. Hoseok tried listening for 5 minutes and he realized that Taehyung was literally just repeating the same story over and over again but rephrasing a few sentences so it wouldn't be too obvious.

Taehyung smiles at the waiter that slides the two cups on their table, Hoseok orders a few pastries and chats with him for a while. It was about a half minute later that hoseok realizes Taehyung was not talking, he looks over and sees Taehyung fanning his tongue that was hanging off his mouth. Hoseok laughs at Taehyung's scrunched up face. "What happened?"

Taehyung looks down at the coffee and grimaces, "Hot." is the only word he says. Hoseok clamps a hand on his mouth to avoid laughing too loud, "Yku should've waited a bit or at least blew on it before gulping it down."

Taehyung only pouts and hoseok swears he tried to keep his hand to himself but before he knew it he was already pinching taehyung's cheek. "So cute."

He stands up, his fingers still clutching taehyung's cheek. "I'll get you some water, don't gulp down your coffee." He scolds taehyung while moving his hand from left to right. Taehyung nods and removes hoseok's fingers on his face.

Hoseok comes back to Taehyung giggling by himself and bread crumbs sticking on the corner of his lips. Hoseok wipes on it, enjoying the shocked expression on Taehyung's face. Hoseok places the glass of cold water in front of Taehyung and sits down. Taehyung gladly drinks up the water after pushing the plate of cookies to Hoseok, "Try it try it try it."