buy me your love (no returns)

chapter 6 ☆

"hyung, it's me!" jinyoung hollered as he entered the store. offering up a small but caring wave, jihoon went back to helping another customer. he wasn't as invested in it as he should've been though, for he was too busy thinking about jinyoung.

he'd long finished talking when jinyoung rolled up to the counter with his latest gift idea. jihoon took in a deep breath before setting his eyes on the gift.

jesus fucking christ.

no, literally.

he'd placed an inflatable jesus onto the counter.

jihoon could only stare over at the object, shocked that they even sold it in the first place. he'd never seen it before and, truly, this isn't the way he wanted to acknowledge the horrifying thing.

"why." there was no justification for this present at all. no matter how hard jihoon tried to conjure up a theory for this wacky present, the reason never came. he stared at jinyoung expectantly.

"naeun wants to become a nun so voilà!" he cheered, laughter full of innocence. jinyoung then proceeded to chatter on about naeun's "spiritual reawakening" from the other day though jihoon was oblivious to most of it. instead, he was too busy haunted by the damn inflatable prophet to listen clearly. why did they sell this in the first place? what ungodly deed did his manager have to commit to get this atrocity placed in their once homely convenience shop?

"this is nothing short of blasphemy." jihoon thought as he scanned the cursed item.

"that'll be $11.49 please..." jinyoung handed over the money, still high in spirits. his demeanor was a clear contrast to jihoon who was still busy having a mental crisis over this entire purchase.

"thanks hyung, you're the best!" jinyoung grinned, skipping out the store, "bye!"

"b-bye..." he stuttered out.

calming himself down somewhat, jihoon reflected on what'd just happened. jinyoung had come in like usual, sure, but something still felt slightly off. he didn't feel the same as he did before when jinyoung arrived; he used to feel plain happiness and relax. instead of that now though, jihoon found his joy increasing significantly when jinyoung came along. maybe it was because they were closer now? deep down though, he knew that wasn't it at all.

...he would pray for naeun's sake.