our treasure - ateez

twelve

third person; the store cupboard 

"hey what are you doing?" hongjoong asked turning around to face mi-young who had plastered some innocent look on her face, trying to hide the mischievous glint in her eyes. "nothing," she replied casually walking over to hongjoong and placing her hands on his chest. "just wanting to spend some time with you alone."

she winked, causing honjoong to almost gag. as much as he thought she was nice, these were the times when she was incredibly overwhelming. he wasn't really interested in anyone, nor was he in a relationship. he could claim that he was gay, he was sure one of the members were but he couldn't think straight in this situation.

"what are you trying to imply?" hongjoong questioned, trying to shove her off him in as much of a polite way as he could. she seemed intent on getting something out of him, and he wasn't going to let that happen.

"I'm saying," she began, the mischevious look only growing, "we should get to know each other better." with that she closed as much distance as she could between them. continuously walking towards hongjoong, who was continuously backing away until he bumped into the wall. 

obviously he was taller than her but he still found her slightly intimidating. she held an incredibly strong gaze, that shook him to the bone. when she had got him where she wanted, she leaned incredibly close to him and whispered directly into his ear.

"who is min-ju to you?" she looked at him in full curiousness. he rolled his eyes slightly, was she jealous? over something that didn't exist, sure they were friends but hongjoong had never really thought of min-ju in any other way. or had he?

"she's just a friend, why?" he asked, high-key done with whatever mi-young seemed to be planning. she grinned slightly grabbing onto hongjoong's shirt. "really?" hongjoong nodded, "totally."

"so then you wouldn't mind if I did this." mi-young abruptly smashed their lips toghether. hongjoong was slightly surprised at this action, but returned the kiss, not really having the energy to push her away.

as he kissed her, he felt nothing. no emotions. which did confuse him. normally you would feel something while kissing someone, right? he just didn't.

it got slightly more heated, mi-young obviously being more into it than hongjoong was. they continued with whatever they were doing for a good few minutes before pausing for breath and going back at it again.

hongjoong at this point was seriously questioning his sexuality. was he gay? was that why he didn't feel anything kissing her? or was he just not kissing the right person? was there even a right person? maybe he was asexual? he was sincerely confused.

after they had definitely been in the room for way too long, hongjoong lightly pushed mi-young away. "we should stop." he said firmly walking over to the door and unlocking it, before stumbling slightly out, mi-young following him closely behind.

he noticed once he got out that min-ju was stacking the shelves with the products he had failed too before. across her face was a mixture of disgust, hurt and anger. hongjoong was confused by this, why would she get angry at something like that. surely she didn't like him, did she?

mi-young walked out the shop, waving toward hongjoong before making a gesture signalling for him to call her, to which he just replied with a smile and a small nod. he then turned towards min-ju who was now ignoring him concentrating rally hard on whatever the package she was putting away said.

he debated on wether he should ask what was wrong but then heard the bell, signalling that there was a new customer and he walked towards the counter serving them and the other customers that they had in the store.