meant to be | johnten

[nine]

johnny was laying on the bed in his apartment and thought about what happened between him and ten yesterday.

it was a wonderful feeling to feel tens soft lips laying on his.

the american touched his lips again for the nth time today. he needs to talk to ten, now!

he left his apartment as fast as possible and made his way to the first place he would expect the small thai; his mother's dance studio.

the lights inside the rooms were lit up in two out of four of them. the 17-year-old hoped to find him in the usual room and thanks god he danced in there, beautifully as always.

"beautiful as always..." he said after the song stopped and ten realized the older entering the room.

"what are you doing here, john?"

"i need to talk to you, ten... about yesterday." ten's heart started beating faster. he hoped to never talk about it again and come to normalcy again, but he also could already think of johnny wanting to talk about it.

the younger actually loved it. he loved the feeling of their lips touching, but it was too early... too early for them agreeing to a relationship.

"it was a mistake, johnny. let's just... forget about it and get back to normalcy." it slightly broke johnny's heart to hear that and ten's heart to say that, but it was the right way to act in this situation.

"i thought about it the whole morning and i just want to say, it was a beautiful feeling, ten, but i agree with you. let's... let's just forget about it."

"what about we'll go somewhere to eat lunch together?" the beautiful usual smile was back on ten's lips again and the older happily agreed to the youngers idea.

they made their way to their usual restaurant. at first, the atmosphere between them was very cold, no one dared to say a word. but as time flowed by they got in one of those usual conversations they have and started laughing loud again.

"hey sicheng! still part-time working here?" johnny greeted the younger chinese with a light hug.

the 15-year-old ran away from home in china. his family owns a big company in china and, of course, has a lot of money why he had no worries about finding a new apartment or anything.

he opened a videogame company, but since he's too young to work as a ceo by himself, a friend of them, taeil, is having his name for that time.

"yeah, sadly. but i'm not far away from becoming the legal ceo." only around two years and he can legally become the ceo.

"same as always?" the two foreigners nodded and sat down at their usual table.

"you know, john. i had the thought of opening my own dance studio somewhere close to your company. what you think about it?" ten told the older after a while of silence.

"great idea. when will you start?" johnny already thought about how they'll meet daily; ten picking up johnny or another way around and much more. a smile appeared on his lips.

"i don't know. i thought of march this year..." in that moment johnny got a text message from his father but ignored it.

they kept continuing to talk about random stuff like the cameras they got as a christmas present and how good the quality is.

"johnny, don't you think you should check your father's message? what if it's something important?" the younger had an anxious look. he knew johnny's father would only call or text him if something happened.

"i'll check on it when i'm home. don't worry, ten." johnny said with a smile on his face. while he said it, he took the youngers hand gently.

a weird feeling spread through ten's whole body. he fastly whipped away his hand for this feeling to fade away.

for ten's luck, sicheng came and brought them their food.

ten hated it. he hated how johnny is such a flirt. he hated how he was falling for him. he hated how they can be best friends.

"ten... you've never told me... does your mom like me?" johnny asked the younger after they ate their meal.

"oh, she adores you! even she wants us to be a couple and have babies and whatsoever." ten started giggling and so did johnny.

so ten's mom and johnny have something in common, their ship has to sail.

unexpectedly, taeyong and jaehyun entered the restaurant. holding hands.

"so this is, what happened between you two yesterday." johnny had a dirty smirk on his face after he remembered what happened when a slightly drunk yuta and he talked about their past relationship.

"isn't like the age gap... you know..?" ten wasn't sure about what he saw in front of him. in his eyes is an age gap of 2 years a bit too much for teenagers like them.

"love is love, ten. and i'd highly appreciate if they make cute little babies as fast as possible." no one. not a single soul. not even the devil himself laughed with johnny about this... i don't even know what it is...

"john... that's greasy." jaehyun said silently and sat down on the free seat.

"okay, whatー" ten turned around to face taeyong but got interrupted by said male.

"how about we do not talk about it?" he quite of yelled and silenced his friends.

sicheng noticed taeyong and jaehyun and went to the table to greet them.

"sooo... how is your relationship with yuta?" taeyong asked the younger just to tease him. everyone knows how they hated each other.

"are you kidding me? he is awful! every time he sees me he asks me about the company in a shifty way."

"oh, but you don't do the same?" johnny laughed at the younger and made him blush in guilt.

"n-no... let's not talk about him, i guess i need to vomit just of thinking of him." all of them started laughing at sicheng's statement and continued talking about something else.

it was already around 5pm when ten and johnny decided to make their way to johnny's apartment.

for some reason johnny had his arm around tens shoulders. it gave ten a protected feeling.

as soon as they arrived at johnny apartment, ten threw himself on the cuddly sofa and so did johnny.

they always do it like that and no doubt, they'll do it till they get old.

after a few minutes of just cuddling, ten said "johnny... i haven't told my mom about the idea of opening my own dance studio... do you think she'll agree on it?" in a worried tone.

"of course she will, ten. you know she supports you in everything you do." a smile appeared on both, johnny's and tens lips when he said that.

it were only around five months, but they feel like they know each other for years now. a beautiful friendship that grew between them.

in the short silence that was created, johnny remembered about the text messages his father sent him in the noontime.

'the company is going bankrupt. we need to close all the offices in asia.'

"fuck."

_to be continued_