prettier than flowers (jookyun) [✔]

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  "i said i'll take you home" 

changkyun looked at jooheon as if he had said he was an alien.

"but i can walk home alone", changkyun retorted.

"it's dangerous", jooheon said while sighing.

a part of changkyun just wanted to say 'yes' so that he could spend some more time with the attractive boy yet one part of his brain was telling him no, in all honestly jooheon could be more dangerous than the empty streets. 

"i think-" changkyun started off but was cut off.

"just come, i'll take you", jooheon said as he pulled softly on changkyun's arm to motion him to guide the way.

changkyun wanted to say he could go alone but then again he had nearly been bashed by a group of people most certainly in a gang, he also didn't want to anger the boy in front of him. 

if jooheon had come to buy a flower then he wouldn't be that bad, right?

changkyun sighed a little as he led the way, jooheon walking next to him.

"you know it's dangerous to walk alone at night like this", jooheon said, not even looking at changkyun.

"i think it's just dangerous because of people like you..." changkyun muttered under his breath as he didn't want jooheon to hear.

the next few minutes were spent in silence and as soon as changkyun could even catch a glimpse of his house, he said bye to jooheon before thanking him.

"don't", jooheon said when changkyun thanked him, "i'm not doing this for you, i just want to make sure that my rose gets to jieun on time", jooheon finished as he gave changkyun a slight scowl. 

changkyun just nodded before he ran to his house. as soon as he closed the door to the front door of his house he took in deep breaths as everything that had happened slowly sunk in.

he heaved a sigh of relief before he went straight to his room.

***

"yah! chae hyungwon! stop being such a lazy ass and come here and help with the roses!", seokjin yelled at hyungwon before he went back to organising the roses. 

it was valentines day today and everything was hectic. changkyun, hyungwon and seokjin had arrived at the store at 5AM with some of the part time employees coming to help. it was already a busy day.

changkyun just chuckled at the two elders thinking how he was much more of a lazy ass than hyungwon was. he had been organising the roses that would be picked up and so his job was much easier than seokjin and hyungwon's who had to organise the roses to be delivered by 9AM.

changkyun looked down at the bouquet of roses in his hands and smirked to himself.

"seokjin! are you nearly done with those? the truck will be here any minute"

they had already worked for 3 hours now and they were all tired but didn't complain. it was for someone's happiness anyways.

"yeah! i just have to move the boxes when the truck comes", seokjin replied. he had worked nonstop and was tired, he wiped a bit of sweat on forehead as he stretched his back.

"okay then. come here", changkyun said, he saw the immediate frown on the tired boys face but continued, "i'm done with these ones but there's something wrong with this one", changkyun finished as he held up the bouquet in his hands.

seokjin sighed as he walked over to the younger boy. changkyun handed him the bouquet before he walked over to hyungwon who were now clinging onto each other excitedly as they watched seokjin.

seokjin looked at the roses, there was nothing wrong with them so he looked at the name.

"kim seokjin..", he muttered and his eyes lit up when he realised.

"hey this dude has the same name as me!" seokjin exclaimed while he giggled. changkyun and hyungwon only face palmed as they watched the elder and rolled their eyes at him.

seokjin turned his attention back to the little card as he read it slowly, "i'm so sorry that i have to work today but i'll see you afterwards. how was the surprise baby? i hope you like these roses and remember, you will always be the prettiest to me! love you. from kim namjoon"

"what?!? namjoon?!?", seokjin shouted out and changkyun and hyungwon only smiled and nodded as they saw how ecstatic the older boy was over the small gift that namjoon had teamed up with the two boys for.

seokjin could only calm down when the delivery van had come and they had to move the boxes to the van so that the first batch of roses for the day would be delivered on time.

-

it was nearing 11PM and chankyun was alone in the shop. seokjin had gone out with namjoon and hyungwon had left too a few hours ago, he had been nice enough to buy some takeout for the younger boy who had to stay till 1AM since it was valentines day.

the annoying thing wasn't that changkyun had to stay till 1, it was that there were still people coming into the shop to buy a rose. it was mostly people that had forgotten but it was a bit irritating as changkyun had to greet them and assist them every time.

changkyun looked outside the clear glass to see it was mostly empty. it gave him the chills but he didn't mind if it meant he wouldn't be disturbed.

he took out his notebook and a pen before he started to write a few poems. somehow his mind would always wander back to the boy with jet black hair, straight eyes, a slightly pointed noise and a dainty mouth that didn't suit the way he scowled all the time. the way he had looked at changkyun as if he was staring into his soul and the way he almost felt a sense of sincerity in his actions.

changkyun sighed as he looked down at what he had written. a bit of him was surprised to see most of them were related to love and he shook his head. 'no. i can't fall for someone i've met three days ago, and not even officially meet too". changkyun took his phone out and was surprised again to see that it was already 1:13AM. 

changkyun cursed. he could have left 13 minutes ago but he was too engrossed in thoughts of lee jooheon. changkyun began to tidy up the place, quickly brushing away remnants of any flowers on the floor. 'i should've done this earlier' he muttered to himself.

when he was done with cleaning the floor, he arranged the buckets of flowers and pots to the back of the shop where the storage room was so the flowers wouldn't die as fast. changkyun put the last bucket of flowers in the storage as he brushed his hands on his apron before taking that off and hanging it in the small room for employees next to the storage room. he looked at the time on his phone which read 1:27AM and was about to leave when he heard noises and the chime of the door sounding ever so slowly.

"sorry! we're closed for the day", changkyun yelled as he quickly made his way to the front of the shop.

there was no reply and because changkyun had already closed the light when he went into the storage he could only make out a hunched figure near the door.

"uh sir?", changkyun said uncertainly, "we're closed".

changkyun was starting to get scared. the person in front of him wasn't making any sounds and there were no people outside too.

changkyun walked closer until they were only about a meter apart. "sir, we're closed", changkyun repeated again.

but changkyun gasped when the figure looked up. he had a bruised eye, cuts near his eye that made the right side of his face all bloody and a swollen lip with cuts near it. the person was hunched up from the pain and changkyun's heart hurt seeing him in such a state.

"jooheon?"