mute ; junhao

SEVEN

Without noticing it Minghao stared at the bigger one, admired his beautiful side profile and didn't seem to want to solve his gaze anymore. 
He had never seen anyone so beautiful from the outside, but inside Junhui was...Well, he couldn't judge that yet, they didn't know each other enough.

"Are you soon done staring?" Junhui asked suddenly and Minghao flinched, quickly looking straight ahead. His cheeks turned red, which he tried to hide with his hands. How embarrassing was that?

Junhui had to refrain from pecking the smaller one's cheeks as cute as he was. He loved cute things again and Minghao was clearly cute, in his opinion at least.

"Put your hands down. You don't have to hide," he said to the younger one, but he just shook his head. So he had to take it into his own hands.

Carefully Junhui took the hands of the other and pulled them away from his face. Minghao took his hands almost directly from him and became even redder, now competing with a tomato and lowering his gaze.

What did this boy do to him? He never became so red otherwise and even if his hands had touched only briefly, he had liked it.

After a few minutes of nothing happening, Junhui raised his voice:  "How old are you?" he wanted to know, because Minghao's behavior reminded him of a little sixteen-year-old boy.

Minghao first showed ten fingers and then another ten fingers to show his age without having to talk.

Fortunately, the older boy understood directly and nodded slightly.  "Twenty...I am twenty-one," he said and smiled. Their age difference was not great, that was good, but for him the smaller one remained a small, innocent boy, whom he somehow wanted to protect.

Minghao seemed so fragile and helpless to him, something seemed to oppress him all the time and so he wanted to protect him.

A glance at the clock revealed that it was getting late and Junhui had another appointment he had to keep.  He reluctantly got up and drove through his hair.

"I have to leave now, unfortunately."

Without further ado he pulled the younger one up and into a hug, pressed him to himself and disappeared shortly afterwards, leaving a perplexed looking Minghao in the park.