longshot. || nct johnny [COMPLETE]

17

it was a quiet walk to the ice cream parlor. as much as saori wants to talk to johnny right now, she always ends up tongue-tied whenever she attempted to speak.

johnny could tell, of course. he, too, wanted an ice breaker between to them. but despite his perfectly functioning brain, he couldn't think of something as of the moment.

when they got to the shop, they instantly noticed two huge figures near the window. seniors sehun and kai sat at the far-end part of the parlor, talking and eating ice cream. they were probably discussing about ice cream flavors again.

"should we greet them?" it's the first time saori's talked to johnny that it took him a few seconds to respond.

"i-i gu--yeah, we should." the two head towards the two seniors who pauses their conversation when they see them.

"oh, hi!" it was kai who greets them first. (his actual name is jongin but people at school liked to use his 'dancer' name often because it sounds cool.)

"hey, hyung! just wanted to say hi. we're getting some ice cream ourselves," johnny says to them.

"oh, i see. want to join us then?" kai offers, already offering them chairs but sehun steps on his foot from under the table. "ow! what's that for?!"

sehun ignores him and eyes the two.

for a second there, johnny and saori looked panic and glanced at each other.

they were supposed to be on a date (??) right now but because of the awkwardness, they're not sure if it still was.

"so it's just the two of you?" sehun asks.

"y-yeah," johnny answers.

saori remains silent at his side, blushing.

"what-ohhh." kai finally gets it as sehun rolls his eyes at his best friend. "i see. good luck, youngho! hope you sco--ow!"

"you guys have fun." sehun goes back to his ice cream, pretending as if he didn't just kickkai's shin.

"thanks, hyung." johnny shakes his head at the two's shenanigans.

saori gives them a bow before leaving with johnny to find their own table.

"contrary to popular beliefs, they're really dorks," saori mentions as soon as they sat down.

johnny guffaws in laughter and wipes a tear. "i still don't get that cool and mysterious persona people try to put them in," he admits. "those could star in the dumb and dumber movie and people would still think they're the coolest guys in campus."

"it'll be really cool if they did star in a movie. i mean they're pretty handsome."

"exhibit A." johnny jokingly gestures to saori, who has proved his point.

"shut up! even a blind man would agree those two are actor-like handsome!"

"i guess they are." johnny shrugs and accidentally makes direct eye contact with saori. "um." he then remembers what they're there for.

slowly, his hand crawls over to hold saori's, his thumb rubbing the back of her hand. he sees her cheeks redden at the gesture, but doesn't pull away.

instead, he holds his hand with both of hers, and that's when he realize how tiny they were compared to his.

they talk like they always do. saori sharing bits of her life back in japan, and johnny mentioning his life back when he was living in america. it shocked the girl at first but then she remembers being at awe back in lit class when johnny recited a poem in perfect english.