I need You || Seungchan

2. "B side"

Chan helped dress the now sleeping boy and carry him to his car to take him home, all meanwhile thinking about how to find a way to call Felix back. But there were bigger problems to think about as he had to take care of Seungmin first and before anything else. Even Felix can wait when it comes to his best friend.

He drove back to his place, a place where both him and Seungmin were familiar with. It would've been much more trouble to bring the boy to his own home than let him sleep peacefully at Chan's place. He carried Seungmin carefully into his apartment and layed him down in his own bed to help him sleep better and comfortably.

He found himself in the kitchen, a room further away from his bedroom to make the call, somehow afraid not to wake Seungmin up with the fuss made.

His thumb trailed over the call button. He pressed his with his heart pounding out of his chest.
One ringing sound followed by the second and so on until he heard that deep, with a soft voice echo from the other line.

"Chirs?" that's how Felix is used to call Chan, by his english name, since they're both australian. It felt like they were closer like that.

"Yeah, Felix, hi! You called me earlier, sorry for not picking up and not calling sooner, I was busy with something.". Why did it feel like he was rambling? "Is there something you wanted to tell me?". Yeah, get straight to the point.

"Right!" his voice sounded cheerful, "The manager said our next week's schedules overlap, so I wanted to ask you if you're free to grab lunch with me after."

Did he hear that right? Did The Lee Felix ask him to grab lunch together? As in, a date?

Who was Chan to decline such a sweet offer, he agreed to it immediately. "Of course! That means I'll see you next, beautiful."

Felix giggled at the nickname thrown by Chan in such a casual manner, "Right, see you, Chris!"

The call ended at just that, lunch, lunch with Felix for the next week. This had to be the luckiest day of Chan's life, because what angel sent that angel to call him needs a reward as soon as possible.

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The next day he left as early in the morning as possible, leaving Seungmin all alone in the apartment. He, of course, prepared some breakfast for him before leaving and left a note saying 'Left early today, will explain later. Enjoy breakfast, Seung :)'.

The whole photoshoot felt like it was taking more than usual, the minutes becoming hours and the hours felt like days. His mind was only at how he's going to spend lunch with Felix. On break, Chan went to the cafeteria of the building to buy a cup of coffee to clear his mind and kill off a little of that excitement he felt. The feeling was one like a five year old kid being promised ice cream after a day of school, it was all he could think about involuntarily.

Meanwhile he waited for his order to be ready he heard a deep voice beging a conversation with him. That damn devil voice. Felix was standing next to him looking over the menu displayed on the walls behind the counter.

"I never know what to get when I come here. Is there something you'd recommend?" Felix began the conversation.

"Felix, good to see you here! Well if you put it like this, I'm a boring guy when it comes to coffee myself." he laughed anxiously, "My usual order is a simple iced americano."

Felix smiled at him. "I'll have an iced americano with two pumps of vanilla syrup, please." This time he redirected his gaze to Chan, "I like my coffee sweeter."

"A sweet coffee for a sweet boy, then?" flirted Chan.
No response from Felix, only a low giggle.

"So, I was wondering how italian food suits your taste." asked Felix.

This caught Chan off guard for a moment. He was obviously talking about that lunch planned after work, of course. Why else would he ask Chan is he liked italian food?

"It suits me just fine. It means I'll take you to italian after work."

"So you do remember."

"How cand I forget about lunch with the most gorgeous boy who walked on this Earth?"

"All you've been doing is flirt with me, Chris." Felix arched an eyebrow.

Was he that obvious?

"Am I not allowed to?" Chan slid his hand over Felix's waist, "Or are you taken?"

Felix didn't push him away, only shook his head in response. "I'm not."

"Good then.. See you in an hour?"

"Sure."

Chan grabbed his coffee and left the cafeteria grinning like an idiot. That ice cream is going to taste so good after school for sure. As for him, lunch with Felix will be even better.

And it sure was amazing. The conversations were smooth and not awkward at all, the atmosphere was light, even the food was fantastic. They enjoyed eachother so much in that time they spent together eating. Chan was satisfied with how much flow Felix talked to him, not a single sentence didn't feel right, with quick flirty words here and there.

"Before I go, and if I didn't missread your signs, can I take you out for dinner some time?" Chan stopped Felix outside of the restaurant before leaving.

"As in... Like a date?"

"Yes, a date." Chan was sure with what he wanted.

"Of course! I'll call you tonight." he winked at Chan and took off.

Chan felt so accomplished.

On his own way home he called Changbin to tell his big news and tell him how the lunch had went. Changbin was waiting also waiting for Chan to update how it went, if everything came out good or if it was a complete disaster. Fortunately, everything was a success.

"I even asked him out on an actual date! He told ne to call him tonight to discuss it in better detail since now he had to rush somewhere." explained Chan cheerfully on the phone.

"That's amazing, bro! I'm not surprised a hottie like Felix would accept your advances, you're practically just the same as him." laughed Changbin, happy for his friend and coworker.

"They'll go out on a date?" asked another voice on the other line in the background.

"He managed to do it? No way!" another one jumped in excitement.

"Is Jisung there with you?" asked Chan.

"Uh..Yeah, him and Seungmin."

"Seungmin?"

"Yeah, he stopped by the studio to hang out a little before going to work himself. Apparently he has a big meeting today at noon and wanted some opinions for his presentation." explained Changbin.

Seungmin is a really talented designer at the company that he works at. He is really popular amongst his coworkers and other workers at the companies in that department, sort of like a mini celebrity in the industry. His designs became popular in the first year he started working.

Everyone was surprised at how quickly he became known and how skilled he was for a newbie.
Most people even had crushes on him, women and men. He is a really good looking man so it'd have been natural many people took interest in his looks, skills, brain and personality.

"I'll stop by there before going home too then. See you." Chan hung up the phone and went on his way to the studio.