Sun & Moon // Markhyuck

Getting to know each other

Mark arrived at Coex Mall 30 minutes prior their initial meet up time, not wanting to give a bad impression by being late. Spending at least one and a half hours deciding what to wear. In the end, he opted for some light washed fitted jeans and a grey hooded jumper with his gold-rounded-rimmed specs.

He walked back a forth in front of the entrance, where the automatic door kept on inviting him in but he chose otherwise. His hands in his pockets started to sweat, he took them out and wiped them on his jeans.

The bundles of fresh and blooming bouquets of the ending spring flowers from the florist store was too beautiful to not be noticed. Mark busied himself, killing time by making his way to the store and admire the flowers. Roses, daisies, tulips all reminded him of something delicate. Reminding him of how the sun is needed for how these flowers bloom vibrantly.

"Need any help there young man?", asked the elderly woman who Mark assumed was the owner.

"Uhh", Mark contemplated whether or not he should give Donghyuck a greeting flower. But he didn't want to come off as desperate or creepy, so he left it as it is. "No, I'm good Ma'am. Have a good day!", he slightly bowed with an apologetic smile and returned back to the entrance.

Leaning against the bricked wall, he eyed the hands on his watch running in five laps. After getting bored of that sight, he looked and saw that sun and moon are both up at the same time, getting ready to reach the evening. He spotted Donghyuck in a distance, constantly fixing his ruffled hair that was caused by the wind and straightening his white t-shirt and creamed coloured cardigan with his slightly trembling hands. Mark couldn't help but smile to himself, seeing how the younger looked so nervous. But the moment he was five metres away from Mark, his whole aura changed into a much calmer and "careless" attitude. And this time, Mark chuckled out silently while shaking his head in disbelief.

"So, I'm expecting you to take me to some kind of magical kingdom", Donghyuck sarcastic remarks had put Mark speechless. Speechless at how and where he got the confidence from, considering he looked so small and nervous from afar.

"Ehh, not quite", Mark's head had dropped a little before making eye contact with Donghyuck who had looked a little different. This time, showing his bare tanned skin (skipping the bronzer) but the focus are on his eyes. A simple smudge of eyeliner added wonders to his already alluring eyes.

"Are you done staring mister?", Donghyuck crossed his arms and quirked and eyebrow at him.

"Ah yeah, what?", Donghyuck thought that Mark's face looked so stupid but those specs weren't being on his side. He just thought that those rounded specs looked cute, that's all.

Mark had caught him staring for a little too long, when Donghyuck got himself out of his own train of thought, he looked else where but the older in front of him. Mark found it amusing how Donghyuck says such things but does the exact same thing. There was a lot that Mark needed to learn from him, he didn't mind it one bit.

Donghyuck looked over his left shoulder and eyed the fluorescent florist store with his lips slightly parted, silently gasping at the pink and white bouquet. "Those are some nice flowers", he said nonchalantly and entered the mall, leaving Mark three footsteps behind.

Mark cursed under his breath, regretting his decision on not buying the bouquet before hand.

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"I didn't know what you liked, so I took you to the movies", Mark explained himself to the question that Donghyuck had bombarded him for the last 20 minutes as they walked into their cinema room.

"God, you're so corny",Donghyuck rolled his eyes followed up with a restrained smile, trying to hide that fact that he was already enjoying it too much, even though this is just the beginning to a new friendship. He honestly didn't know why he made effort to come out tonight, he was in no place to be. But he thought meeting Mark wasn't going to be too bad, considering the amount of times they had ran into each other where it's mostly unexpected.