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14

jisung blowed his nose into a tissue, groaning.
he really shouldn't have stayed to long outside few days ago.
it was finally catching up with him.

turning on his side, he closed his eyes.
his head was hurting, and his throat felt like a desert.

suddenly the door of his room opened.

"good morning brother."
junho skipped over to jisung's bed, sitting down on it.
"what a beautiful Saturday. mom and dad told me that I have another date with minho, so you should get ready, it's at four."

jisung turned around, showing junho his state.

"oh damn, you look like shit."
junho said.

"thanks, I appreciate that."
jisung said, burying himself deeper into his blanket.
"I'm not going on that date of yours."

"yeah, I figured few seconds ago."
junho sighed.
"I guess I can go on one."

"you should have been going on ALL of them, but okay."
jisung said.

"wow, sick but still sassy."
junho said, ruffling jisung's hair.

jisung just groaned and turned around again.

junho chuckled.
"get better soon, kay?"

"mhm."
jisung hummed, hearing junho getting up and walking away from his room.

•~•

stealing some clothes from jisung's closet, junho wanted to gag when he looked at himself in the mirror.

"seriously I should have made him wear my clothes on these stupid dates."
junho groaned, before taking his phone and checking the time.

taking his cigarettes and lighter, he put it into his pocket as he made his way downstairs, hoping he wouldn't really bump into his parents.
he looked overly like jisung right now, and they would sure as hell find it weird.

putting his shoes on, junho slipped from the house and made his way towards the meeting spot, lighting up his cigarette when he was far away from the house.

me might be a jerk who is high most of the time, but he sure as hell was everywhere on time.
even earlier than the set time.
that's just how he was.

so as he waited for his date to arrive, he finished his cigarette, looking around the place a bit, trying to remember all of the things he and jisung had talked about, so there wouldn't be a single suspicion from minho.

I mean, they did an amazing job at the charity ball a week ago, so he wasn't that worried.
this was just one date.
nothing could go wrong.

speaking about the wolf, minho made his way towards junho, giving him a small smile.
"hi."

"hi."
junho greeted back.

"so, wanna go grab some tea, and then we could go into a bookstore if you wanted?"
minho said.

"I would not really go into a bookstore, there aren't any books that I want to buy at the moment, and I'm kinda broke."
junho said, masking the fact that he didn't know shit about the books jisung reads.
"how about just grabbing some coffee and we will see from there."

minho nodded.
"sounds good."
he said, and the two of them made their way into a close by coffee shop.

"ahh, I'm so excited to grab a coffee."
junho said.
"it's been days since I had my last one."

"o...okay?"
minho was confused.
didn't junho say he wasn't the biggest fan of coffee?

"anyway what are you gonna get?"
junho said as he opened the door of the coffee shop, holding it for minho.

"well, it's a nice day today, so I'm not really feeling like drinking hot coffee, I'll just get an iced americano."
minho said.

"good choice. I'm thinking the same thing."
junho said, as the two of them stood in a line.

"so, how did you enjoy the charity ball? we didn't really talked about it that much."
minho said.

why is he bringing up the charity ball?
shit, does he actually suspect something?
he can't be, right?
"it was great. lots of nice people, and amazing food."
junho gave a simple answer.
"what about you?"

"I did have my fun. met a lot of my other friends, but I still spend most of the time with you, didn't I?"
minho said.

"I guess we're meant to be."
junho said, quite literally knowing this is something jisung would say.

minho looked at junho, his eyes furrowing slightly all of a sudden.
and junho noticed that.

"what?"
junho chuckled, trying to hide how nervous he was.

"oh nothing."
minho waved his hand.
"I missed you."

"oh please, we're seeing each other too much for our own good."
junho said, as he was about to take out his phone.

but he stopped.
shit.
he and jisung had different phones.
he couldn't show his phone at zero cost.
but he had his credit card in the phone, how was he going to pay for his coffee without taking out his phone?

"anyway, last time you paid for our ice cream, so I'm gonna pay for the coffees now, how does that sound?"
minho said with a small smile.

you fucking just saved my life.
"yeah, isn't that what we're always doing anyway?"
junho said.

eventually it came their turn, and after ordering and getting their coffees they made their way outside.

"it would be shame to spend such a beautiful day sitting in a coffee shop."
minho said.
"I'm glad we agreed on taking the coffee to go."

"same."
junho said.
"can you hold my coffee please? whenever I have a coffee I just need to have a cigarette with it."

"oh...okay."
minho took the coffee from junho, watching him take out cigarettes from his pocket and taking one, lighting it up, before putting everything back in his pocket and taking the coffee back from minho.

"thank you."
junho said, taking a drag.

"I never really asked, but do you smoke often? I mean, I think I saw you smoke like two times trough the time we have been seeing watch other, and the second time is now."
minho said.

"sometimes."
junho answered, slapping himself mentally, because he knew that jisung hated smoking.
what if they talked about it?
but no, they definitely didn't, because if they did, jisung would definitely tell him.
and if not, minho would word it differently.
"let's just not talk about it."

"okay."
minho nodded.

for another hour they hung out, junho was under constant pressure, but in the end, they said their goodbyes, and he did have a feeling like he didn't fuck anything up.

so as junho was returning home, he bought chocolates for jisung, for more reasons.
one, he wanted him to get better.
and two, he realized in how much stress jisung must be because of this.