{ ♡food encounters♡ }

"electricity"

"Are you alright, Hyeri?" he asked.

Hyeri's breath hitched, then she exhaled. "Woah... I-I swear I saw my life flash before my eyes." More precisely, it was Sehun's eyes that peered into her soul and melted her soul as she felt his strong arms around her waist.

She felt her cheeks warm up, which brought her to stand back on her two feet in an attempt to end her embarrassing clumsy moment into the arms of someone she doesn't quite like.

Unfortunately, her abrupt movement resulted in Hyeri's head colliding into Sehun's.

"Ouch!" they both exclaim as they recoil a step away from each other.

Great move, Hyeri. She muttered in her head as she winced at the blunt force on her forehead. She looked over to Sehun who grimaced as he held both of his hands over his nose.

"Oh my God, Sehun! I'm so sorry! Are you-" Hyeri rushed to check his nose, "-ok?"

She removed both hands to uncover blood trickling from one nostril.

"OH GOD!" Hyeri yelped. Sehun raised both eyebrows from her reaction, "I'm... fine," his voice sounded nasal since he pinched his nose again.

"Ok, don't worry! I know where the first aid kit is now because of you and the small injury I had because of you last time." Hyeri pushed Sehun down on the stool behind the register before she ran to the back of the store.

Sehun let out a laugh, "From our fight over the last bag of hot Cheetos? Yeah, I'm glad I didn't get to experience the wrath of your strength that night."

Hyeri came rushing back with the first aid kit in hand, "Shut up! Do you want me to chuck this at you so you can tend to more wounds on your own?" She raised the kit at him in which Sehun let go of his bloody nose to shield himself.

"Ok, ok, ok. I yield, I surrender!" Sehun chuckled at Hyeri's adorable threatening stance, "Please help a wounded soldier from his battle wounds of saving a damsel in distress from falling on her face!"

That statement earned him a playful but forceful punch on his arm. Sehun's impish grin was erased to reveal a slight whimper in pain, "Ouch."

"You are so lucky you're Baekhyun's roomie. Those who attack and ridicule women would get a punch stronger than this." Hyeri gritted her teeth and took in a breath to calm herself.

Sehun let out a nervous chuckle, Alright note to self: Don't say demeaning jokes towards women in front of Hyeri.

Sehun paused at his thought as the pain from his arm was still throbbing from Hyeri's restrained punch, Wait a minute scratch that. Never ever say anything demeaning towards women at all. That's just not right.

The sound of the kit clicking open brought Sehun back into reality.

"Ok, Sehun. It's actually not good to pinch your nose like that. Let go," Hyeri's warm hands took Sehun's bloody hands off his nose and place some gauze to catch the blood.

"Oh, well I always pinch and tilt my head back whenever I get a bloody nose," Sehun shrugged, still sounding nasally as he watched Hyeri fill a zip-lock bag with the ice from the soda dispenser and cover it with a napkin to make an ice pack.

Hyeri giggled, "I don't think you'd want to sound funny and look funny craning your head up!" She came back to his side and grabbed some more gauze to clean the blood off from under his nose that dripped down his lips.

Sehun scoffed, "Well, I still sound nasally and look like a fool with this on my nose." 

"Sojin told me that it adds pressure on the bleeding vessels, so..." Hyeri begins wiping the blood off, "...you just have to let your nose drain the blood out until the ice helps it stop."