New Found Love | Onho

New Found Love

Minho’s life was pretty boring. He was team captain of his university soccer team and he loved it, but there was so much jealousy amongst his teammates causing him to drift apart.  He wasn’t even sure if he wanted to be part of the team anymore, so he entered some science classes just in case he has to switch to his “Plan B”.

He went back home and ate whatever his mom had made, he didn’t really care much about it as long as he wasn’t hungry, he would eat anything. He went up to his room and turned on his PS4 ready to play some FIFA for the rest of the day or until he got bored, then he would read manga online.

While reading, an ad popped up advertising an online game it was free and it looked pretty good. He registered and quickly got familiarized with the objectives. He needed to complete missions and earn points in order to buy better armor and chants. He was also able to chat with other users, most of them would use voice messaging but he still felt a bit shy so he stuck to text.

After only a couple of days, Minho had already made an impressive progress. But as soon as he hit level 50, he joined a mission in which he was struggling. He wasn’t supposed to defeat this boss alone but he didn’t have any friends, so there he was trying again and again refusing to give up. After about 40 tries an avatar in the form of a tree approached and offered his help. Minho laughed a bit at the ridiculous avatar but he was grateful to him. The tree-guy told Minho he would just help him heal so that Minho could defeat the boss alone, and Minho thought it was very generous so he agreed.

Both of them made a nice team and were able to defeat the boss after just three tries. Minho was not only happy at their victory but also at the fact that he had made a new friend. They started chatting short after, the tree-guy didn’t have any other accounts so they always saw each other during the game. Minho asked the boy for his name and age, and found out they were both 21 and that the guy’s name was Jinki.

About 4 months passed by like nothing, Minho would try to be online as much as he could. He had no interest in soccer anymore he just loved going to his house and play with Jinki, who had become Minho’s energy. He wasn’t the best at talking at all, but he was always kind and funny. He made Minho feel like he was interesting.

However, as time passed, Minho had started to feel that Jinki could be a girl. He just felt that both of them had a strong affection for each other even if none of them had explicitly said it. Jinki’s gender was completely unknown to Minho an after 4 months… it just felt weird asking.

Either way Minho felt he had a crush on this person. Jinki would always use cute emojis and praise Minho. Minho had learnt to trust him, he had told Jinki about the situation with soccer and how everyone ruined the fun with their jealousy, to which Jinki would always listen carefully and give Minho support accompanied with lots of heart emojis.

Minho imagined a petite girl, with long but fluffy hair, kitty eyes and a button nose. From time to time he got caught up drawing little sketches of her on his notebook, he felt like a little kid but it was a good feeling, it didn’t bother anyone and no one needed to know anyways. He even had started making plans about their first date: they would meet at a restaurant and eat nicely, then maybe go downtown and watch the sunset at Han River. He also felt a bit guilty though because after 2 months of talking to “her” he couldn’t help but to think of her when he was jerking off. It was time, he needed to know what she looked like.

And he finally got the courage to ask in one of their late night conversations. He just asked “What do you look like?”, Jinki replied “Umm.. not impressive XD” Minho sent a picture of himself in his pajamas, with a smile and a finger heart hoping this would give Jinki a little more confidence. Two minutes passed with no reply, so Minho pressed the Voice Message button and sent “Jinki-ah~~ Don’t be so shy, it’s not like I’m sharing it with anyone else, I promise” He intentionally tried to made his voice sound kind but a little naughty.