a work of art [meanie]

Chapter 21

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The restaurant is huge - and so beautiful. There are lots of candles, a nice scent of vanilla is floating in the air, and there are couples everywhere -  and all that makes Wonwoo feel a bit nervous. Why would Seungkwan pick this restaurant for their friend group? Isn't it a bit... too romantic?

"Nice. This is really fancy. I like it," Mingyu says, making Seungkwan smile proudly.

"I know. Isn't it nice, Vernon?" Seungkwan asks, turning to Vernon who just shrugs. Wonwoo can tell by the small smile on his face that Vernon likes it more than he admits.

The boys choose a bit secluded table, and the waiter comes to take their orders. They all dare each other to order something they've never eaten before, and soon they all have food they probably can't even pronounce. Vernon and Seungkwan are sitting on one side of the table of four, and Wonwoo and Mingyu on the other.

"Okay, this is not even half as bad as I thought," Vernon admits, as he shoves more of something green and slippery to his mouth.

"Really? Mine is bad though," Seungkwan pouts, "can I taste yours?"

Vernon feeds Seungkwan his weird green thing and they look like a couple again. Wonwoo tries to act as if it's not making the atmosphere awkward.

"Oh true, this is good," Seungkwan smiles, reaching for more of Vernon's food but Vernon stops him. Mingyu and Wonwoo just eye Vernon's green food suspiciously, and stick to their own food.

It goes pretty much like that for the rest of the evening; Seungkwan trying to steal Vernon's food unsuccessfully, Seungkwan pulling a pathetic pout face of his until Vernon ends up feeding Seungkwan, and Mingyu and Wonwoo watching the two boys in front of them act all cute and stuff.

Wonwoo feels like a third wheel although there's Mingyu as well. It's maybe because Mingyu is so quiet he sometimes feels like Mingyu isn't even there. And that's kind of the truth; Mingyu sitting next to Wonwoo isn't the usual Mingyu.

Their plates are empty - except for Seungkwan's because he didn't like his food and ended up eating half of Vernon's food - and the boys are still sitting at the table. They're currently talking about everything under the sun when Mingyu suddenly nudges Wonwoo's arm softly to get his attention. Wonwoo turns his attention from Seungkwan's grumbling about Vernon's smelly socks to Mingyu and looks at him questioningly.

Mingyu leans closer to Wonwoo, whispering: "should we go for a walk or something?"

Wonwoo nods, "exactly what I was thinking, we probably should get going now," he sits up, getting ready to leave.

Mingyu grabs Wonwoo by the wrist, pulling him to sit back down and hissing: "not all of us! You and me only."

"Oh," Wonwoo says, and Mingyu just gives him a look that tells him to stay quiet for a while. Seungkwan stopped his ranting about Vernon's socks and he and Vernon are both watching Mingyu and Wonwoo expectantly.

"Are we leaving already?" Vernon asks, disappointment evident in his voice, and also Seungkwan looks unsatisfied with the idea of leaving.

"No! Definitely not!" Mingyu yelps a bit too loud for so fancy and calm restaurant.

"I mean... we, me and Wonwoo, need to take care of this one thing real quick, so... But stay here for a bit longer and maybe we'll give you guys a call when we're done with it and maybe we could hang out somewhere for a while, okay?" he explains, and Wonwoo's face basically says 'What the fuck?'. What thing do they have to take care of? Seungkwan and Vernon don't seem to notice anything weird or suspicious at all though.