01: Little Incident

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"My head still fcking hurts."

Suho mumbles to himself as he puts a pack of ice on a small swelling area on his head.

It's been two days since that little incident happened, yet his head still hurts.

Well, if it isn't for the male who bumped into him, he wouldn't be 'suffering.' Suho thought— a male with dark black hair, wearing specs that night, and is in the same height as he is. That male was surely in a hurry! Or maybe he just wanted to run— ride his bike in a very hasty manner for fun and didn't want to look in front of him to see if he's going to bump into someone.

To continue the day, which Suho had already started by thinking about that little bumping incident, he went to work and immediately to his office without greeting nor looking anyone on the way there. He's surely not in the mood.

He almost got no sleep last night, and he didn't even eat his breakfast this morning. So at the moment, Suho is just doing some PowerPoint. Emotionlessly staring at a blank page, he typed the words which he needed to encode. After this, he would do some paperworks, and then lunch time would occur eventually.

Three boring hours at work, and now it's finally lunch time— the moment that he had been waiting for since he arrived at the office.

He lowered his head and walked outside the building to go to another store. While walking across the street, he suddenly lost his appetite, his hunger started fading away. He doesn't know what has gotten into him.

Suho shrugged to himself and walked to the other side of the road instead, where you can find a small coffee and sweets shop. He entered the shop and as he was just about to go in line, his ringtone started playing on his phone.

He looked at the unfamiliar number written on his screen. Maybe someone just clicked the wrong number— or one of his friends changed their number. Without further thoughts, Suho decided to answer the call anyway, but almost throwing his phone in mid-air when he started hearing loud noises of a male whining.

Hesitating on whether he should end the call or say a word, he decided to speak up with his soft and calming voice.

"Hello?"

"Baekhyun! Your boyfriend is so damn annoying! Please do come back soon with our food, or else I'm going to throw him! This giant, I swear."

Suho hastily moved his phone away from his ear. The loud screaming of an familiar-yet-so-unknown voice will surely make him deaf.

"Sir, I think you got the wrong number."

He laughed, but not too loud, and not that obvious too.

Baekhyun? Chanyeol? So the male must be a co-worker of mine? His voice is quite familiar. Oh wait, is this the whiny guy next to Baekhyun's office? I think I heard him somewhere, and I saw him too! When he got the ink of his sign pen on my white polo shirt-- what's his name again? Uhm, Chin? Chan? Charlie? But I know it ends with an 'N.' Uhm, maybe Jin? Ken? Nevermind, that's not my problem.’ Suho thought.

"Omo, I'm so sorry! I thought it was Baekhyun's number, it was saved on my contact numbers and I don't know why. I apologize once again. Have a good day sir, or ma'am—"

With that, he ended the call and it just made Suho chuckle.

‘Ma'am? Does my voice sounds like that of a girl?’

Finally, he got the chance to get in line. Suho ordered a medium cup of coffee and one chocolate donut before finding a seat. He sat down and breathed heavily. It was lunch time, yet what he was eating seems like it was for breakfast or for a normal snack. Lately, he's been looking so haggard.

He plugged his earphones in and started playing music on his phone while silently drinking his cup of coffee. Many thoughts suddenly started to float inside his head, but was soon interrupted when he heard the sound of thunder. It was loud. It startled him so bad like it always did.

Suho placed his hands on his chest and tried to breath normally again. Once he did, he continued eating and drinking until he finally finishes. He left the shop and still has thirty minutes left before lunch time is over.

He hurriedly walked back to the building, with his head still lowered. He then went inside the elevator— it was about to close, but a male on the same height as he is, quickly ran to the elevator and almost got squished, but luckily not.

There was an intense, awkward atmosphere between the two for they are the only ones who are inside the elevator, and they don't get together that much. Or at least.

Suho turned his head to the side, only to see the other male standing right beside him. He looked closer to the other one with an anxious feeling since he doesn't want to get caught, but he doesn't want to look away too.

He found the other male undeniably attractive. It's not the first time that Suho saw him, he saw him multiple times already, he's always hanging out with Baekhyun and Chanyeol, being the third wheel. And if not— Suho would often see him and Xiumin together, talking to each other.

Suho looked at him once again and suddenly started recalling what happened the other day since he remembered something by looking at the other's eyes. A scene appeared on his head, and it was about what happened to him two days ago. That little bumping incident.

The stranger who bumped into him— and the male who is in the same elevator as he is— is the same guy.

Suho almost fell down at his own thought. Yep, he couldn't be wrong. He was so shocked even though a part of him tells him that there's nothing to be shocked about it.

Without realizing, he lost control of his own balance and almost fell down. Luckily there was a person standing right beside him— and he held to the other one's waist, causing both of them to fall instead.

The other one fell on top of Suho, while Suho himself on the other hand, felt like being squished by the heavy weight above him. His head almost hit the elevator's floor but faith had other plans in mind.

"Holy mother of my mom, I'm so sorry Suho!"

With that, the unnamed male slowly stood up, offering his hand to Suho to make him stand up.

Small dust particles went near them which caused Suho to sneeze. He bowed at the male, whom he had stared at earlier, to make an apology. He wanted to say a word to make it clear that he was apologizing, but no words can come out from his mouth.

Suho then turned around, only to see Baekhyun and Chanyeol holding hands as they stood firmly in front of the elevator.

‘Since when did it happen?’

Suho thought again and blinked with a blank face.

‘What if Baekhyun and his boyfriend saw what happened? For sure they would start a ship between the two.’

He knows them too well. They do that all the time.

With a creepy smile printed on his face, Chanyeol looked at them and said, "Hello Suho-hyung, hello to you too Chen. Nice fall."

𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆, 𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐄 , suchen Where stories live. Discover now