prettier than flowers (jookyun) [✔]

5

  "then make it heal faster" 

changkyun just stared at the boy in front of him with shock and confusion. changkyun wasn't that stupid and he knew what that phrase could mean, however he wasn't certain that the tough boy meant what he was thinking.

"what do you mean?", changkyun said in a low voice, nearly a whisper.

"you know what i mean", jooheon replied. his voice wasn't as deep as changkyun's yet changkyun felt like jooheon's voice was so smooth and so nice to listen to.

"i-i don't",  changkyun replied. their faces were not as close as before as changkyun had moved away but they were still relatively close with jooheon holding changkyun's wrist. the air in the room was almost suffocating and changkyun felt as if the small room was getting smaller and hotter by the second.

"kiss me"

changkyun stared in shock at the injured boy. had he heard right? was he just dreaming these things up?

"e-excuse me?", changkyun stuttered as he stared at jooheon. jooheon was still propped up on the couch and he was looking intently at changkyun.

chankyun felt like melting under jooheon's gaze.

"kiss me", jooheon repeated in the most calm manner changkyun had ever seen.

"i-i"

"just-"

with that, jooheon had let go of changkyun's wrist and with all the strength that he could gather, pulled on changkyun's shirt so that the boy plunged forward. 

changkyun's lip crashed onto jooheon's.

jooheon gave changkyun a simple and short kiss before he pushed the boy away. changkyun was still dazed, only comprehending what had happened moments after.

changkyun could slightly taste the disinfectant and iron on his lips as he watched jooheon attempt to get up again.

"w-where are you going?"

"away. i know i can't stay here"

"n-no. you can't leave like this", changkyun said referring to the state jooheon was in. he was seriously injured and could barely even get up properly.

"just stay here", changkyun said firmly, "until the morning, and then i'll kick you out".

jooheon looked at the boy before a small smile etched its way onto his face.

"are you sure?" jooheon asked.

"yes, now go to sleep!" changkyun muttered before he stood up and walked to the door in an attempt to hide the blaring blush on his cheeks. he closed the light off before he closed the door leaving jooheon alone in the small room.

maybe it was because of the antibiotics, or maybe it was because of how tired jooheon was, or maybe it was because he was in a good mood, jooheon fell asleep in under 5 minutes after changkyun had left.

changkyun sighed as he closed the door and he walked to the counter. he hit his head a few times before he finally came to his senses. and then after that he just stood there staring off into the distant street lamp outside the shop.

changkyun checked the time to see it was already past 2:30AM and he sighed. he would have to sleep at the store too if he didn't want anyone knowing that he had let a gangster on the verge of dieing crash at the place.

'what am i doing? what have i gotten myself into?', changkyun thought to himself as he silently banged his head on the counter desk.

changkyun silently whined as he thought of what had happened before his mind started replaying the kiss.