Love at First Crunch | SooKai

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Kai awkwardly slurped his hot chocolate through his straw. He didn't stop until he was obnoxiously slurping on the last drops left in his cup.

Kai felt weird that Jin was just silently watching with warm eyes and a soft smile.

"What?" Kai asked once he finished his drink.

"You have nice skin" Jin suddenly said

"Ah.. thank you.." Kai crosses his ankles under the table and rested his hands in his lap.

"How old are you?"

"16" Jin eyes widened and the elder gasped softly.

"Wow I feel old"

"How old are you?"

"27"

"Yeah, you are pretty old" Kai quickly shut his mouth with his hands when he realized what he had just said. Jin's eyes widened with surprise but then he let out a windshield wiper laugh.

"Well now I can see why he likes you"

"Soobin?"

"Are you implying that you have more than one person who likes you?"

"Why did you invite me here?" Kai quickly changed the subject and decided to stop walking around the subject. He was never one to sit around idly.

"I just wanted to get to know you-"

"Jin, I may be 16, but I'm no idiot. If you want to ask about Soobin just say it" Jin bit his lip momentarily before slouching his shoulders with a sigh; he felt defeated. He couldn't believe a child was making him feel this way.

"He can barely stand being in the same room as me-" Jin laughed dryly "-I love that kid ya know? I thought about him a lot in America. I wondered what he was doing, was he getting into trouble still? was he sad? happy? ... how is he? Is he happy?" Jin finally asked.

Kai bit his lip and took in the elders features. Jin looked tired, so tired. The younger felt bad for what he was about to say.

"I don't know-" Kai answered "-that's something you should ask him yourself"

"He can barely even look at me!" Jin repeated himself

"But he still... he still loves you" Kai knows that even if it wasn't romantically; Soobin still loved Jin platonically.

"How do you know that?"

"Because only people you love can hurt you as much as you hurt him"

The two were so into their conversation that they didn't notice when Hoseok walked in. He made a b-line towards the two, and once he reached the table, he took a seat next to Jin.

"Hi Jin, hi Soobins boyfriend" Hoseok spared Kai a quick glance before turning his attention back to Jin. He smiled brightly at his hyung.

"My name is Huening Kai"

"Tomato potato" Hoseok waved his hand in dismissal. "So anyway, when are we ditching this place?" Hoseok asked Jin.

"You can go on ahead, I have things to talk about with Kai" Hoseok finally looked at Kai with slight disgust on his face.

"You're ditching me for a twelve-year-old?"

"S I X T E E N"

"Is there really a difference?" Kai felt his right eye twitch. He already knew him and Hoseok wouldn't get along; not that he cared anyway.

Suddenly, a large crash was heard from outside of the cafe. The walls of the cafe were glass so that you could see through them.

And Kai saw Soobin on top of a guy, punching his face in.