seventeen oneshots

candy thief (gyuhao)

LINK:http://archiveofourown.org/works/12577184
Summary:

it's minghao's first halloween experience
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we're both doing last minute candy shopping and you're not allowed to grab the last chocolate variety pack i'll fight you (but also not really cos mingyu runs off lol)

It was Halloween. The sky hangs low and overcast, making the area seem gloomy and dull. Minghao check his watch. 5:48PM. He quickly picks up speed and walks a little faster. Once he turns the corner, the campus 24-hour supermarket comes into view, its friendly green and blue sign giving off some rather welcoming vibes. He enters and sighs as he pauses to take in store, the still and cooling air of the interior greeting him. To be honest, Minghao does like going to the supermarket to get groceries; especially at odd, off-peak hours of the day. There's something calming about the clean atmosphere and the leisurely pace of slowly strolling through the aisles to shop, but however today's not the day he can take his time. He's doing an extremely last minute candy shopping and has absolutely no time to spare.

Digging through his pocket, Minghao fumbles for the shopping list Junhui had given him a week before.

spooky sweets!! (˼●̙̂ ̟ ̟̎ ̟ ̘●̂˻)
- candy corn
- hersheys kisses
- reeses
- snickers
- m&ms
- skittles
- swedish fish

Minghao resists the urge to roll his eyes at the weird emoji faces (because who even writes them out? Junhui, that's who) but nevertheless goes in search of the sweets. It appears that it wasn't a very good idea to do candy shopping so last minute, as Minghao grabs almost the last pack of each candy. It wasn't really his fault; he never celebrated Halloween before and wasn't planning to this year, until his roommate Junhui heard of it and jumped on Minghao while dramatically crying out, 'You haven't celebrated Halloween before?? HOW?' So Junhui put him in charge of getting candy this year so that he will be able to 'experience the joys of Halloween'. Junhui even convinced him to go to a party this year, or else he would be 'missing out'.

And of course, being the person he was, Minghao forgot all about Halloween until Junhui reminded him yesterday, saying that there was apparently some secret dress code and that he would need to get ready. So here Minghao is, doing extremely last minute candy shopping when the party was going to start in about two hours.

One thing Minghao is glad about is that he's buying his favourite chocolate, m&ms. They were some indulging good stuff that came from candy heaven in the form of little colourful circles. He could eat as much as he wanted and never get tired of it. Maybe it was the fact that they came in such small bits that he couldn't stop eating them. Whatever it was, as he arrives at the corner that displayed his most treasured candy, he quickly realises that it was the last packet left. Damn, imagine being this lucky. Maybe today isn't so bad after all.

'Hey wait! There's a fire, run!!' A loud voice interrupts his thoughts and Minghao freezes for a second. He whips his head around to see who it was and any words he wanted to say dies on his lips. There's a stranger standing a meter away from him. He was freakishly tall, taller than him even, wearing a white cap that covered part of his black hair. He had a straight, long nose bridge and strong brows, a healthy tan skin and twinkling black eyes. Minghao registers the words only a beat later, and he narrows his eyes.

'What do you mean by fire? There's no alarm, I don't smell anything, what are you even talking about-'

'Can I have that?' The stranger points towards the last packet of m&ms.

'No. I'll fight you if I have to. Over my dead body.' Minghao snaps and folds his arm across his chest.

'Well then, uh, sorry, just gotta grab this, bye!' The handsome stranger reaches forward, snatches away the last packet of chocolates and dashes off. He trips and almost falls in the process, though.