prettier than flowers (jookyun) [✔]

6

  jooheon had a girlfriend. 

changkyun swallowed uncomfortably as he realised that the boy who had kissed him had a girlfriend. changkyun breathed out slowly trying to control his shock and sadness.

"so have you found it yet?" the girl- jieun said in an irritated voice.

"uh so yeah, the person who sent the rose is lee jooheon" 

jieun just sighed as she raked her fingers through her dark brown hair.

"yes. i know. it says on the card"

changkyun just nodded feeling a bit stupid.

"i want to know where he lives now or just anything about where he is now" she said, eyes filled with fury and hope.

changkyun felt strange under the intimidating stare of jieun - which felt slightly familiar.

"i'm sorry, we can't disclose any personal information of our customers", changkyun said. and it was true, it was part of privacy issues and whatnot, but for some reason changkyun didn't want to give this angry girl jooheon's information.

the girl sighed again before she stepped a little closer to the counter.

"look, i haven't seen him in years and he randomly sent me a rose okay? i need to know where he is and how he is", the girl said in a low voice. her voice became much more soft and strained at the end, as if she was trying to hold back tears.

changkyun suddenly felt sorry for the girl and he scratched the back of his neck.

"i-i", changkyun started off but he gave in when he saw the tears piling in jieun's eyes.

"i don't have his address or anything like that, but i do have his phone number..."

jieun's eyes widened as she pleaded changkyun to give it to her.

changkyun was reluctant, after all who was he to give jooheon's personal information away to someone he wasn't even sure about.

jieun saw through changkyun's doubts and she spoke up.

"i- he's my brother" she said and changkyun looked at her in shock before she continued, "i don't really know if you even want to know all this but here it goes", jieun breathed in and out for a bit before she continued.

"jooheon is my brother and 5 years ago, our father died in a car accident. lets just say alot of things happened after that and so we've been separated for years now. he-he joined a gang or something and since then i've told him i didn't want anything to do with him. he disappeared since then and even though i don't approve of him being in a gang, he's still my brother and-"

jieun broke into tears before she could finish her story. changkyun just looked at the girl before he reached over the counter to pat the girl's shoulder. it was quite awkward but it seemed to help.

"i- i honestly would be going against the law if i give you his phone number... but i can call him for you"

jieun's face had gone to distraught to hopeful and changkyun hoped he could help her.

jieun eagerly nodded as she waited for the boy in front of her to make a call.

"uh we might have to wait a few days", changkyun said aware of jooheon's injuries.

jieun's face fell but she nodded her head.

"don't worry, i'll call him for sure and then you can meet up with him"

jieun nodded again and gave changkyun a small smile before she wrote her number down for changkyun to call her when he contacted jooheon. she left after and changkyun could only sigh.

"ooooh, our changkyun got a girl's number"

changkyun looked up to see a smirking jin and he gave him a glare before he realised that his food was in jin's hands. he put on a fake smile as he headed over and snatched the food out of the taller boy's hands.

"hey!", jin shouted.

changkyun was already stuffing the food in his mouth to care about what the older boy was saying.

***

it was a week since jieun had given changkyun her number and the boy thought it was about time that he called jooheon.

changkyun was nervous though. not only was he meddling in with the issues of the 'lee' family but he was also anxious talking to the boy who had kissed him. changkyun knew jieun was not his girlfriend and this only made him more anxious.

changkyun cleared his throat before he dialled the number he had saved from the shop's computer. his phone ringed for some time before someone picked it up.

"hello?"

jooheon's voice was crystal clear and changkyun already had butterflies in his stomach when he heard the taller boy's smooth and dreamy voice.

"hello", changkyun replied.

"changkyun?"