Poppin' Star

⭐chapter three⭐

dark city dont have colors its only black and white. its all about being professional, business, formalities and being symmetric. they have knowledge about anything and everything, the one who started GRAY's and built system but they never feel. they just dont think its necessary, when someone dies they do proper burial but no tears like as if when someone disappear they dont matter anymore.

taehyun loves it, loves getting away from those and a week has passed already and they're escaping together again. taehyun is holding on kai's hand as they both jumped from the window, the advisors just left after giving them papers and kai of course persuades him to do it at their wormhole and he said yes without second thoughts and all. it just feels right that every week they'd make appearance on this place and disappear together to stay on the dark red tunnel with blankets on the ground.

taehyun glances at the colorless forest scene in a circle picture from where they are. kai was searching on his bag, "i bought us a drink!" he took out two bottles and gave taehyun one. "was supposed to be an ice cream but it melts so,"

"thanks," he said. taking a sip of it and tasting the fresh sweet flavor of the colorless drink, "strawberry?" he asked kai who smilingly nods at him before drinking his own.

"you know how we always create weird combinations its like a fruit juice but you wouldn't know which one." kai showed the bottle to taehyun who noticed that it does not have any color at all to distinguish flavor "but it taste a lot! its nice to guess whenever i get these," kai drinks his bottle and make a face as if he just had a sour expression.

"lemon?" taehyun asked, kai didn't answer and instead gave him the bottle which he took and took a sip himself and it is indeed lemon.

"fun right? its like those colorless skittles its exciting."

"you get excited over guessing flavors from colorless edibles?"

"hey! i didn't judge you when you took one shot of my drink we were supposed to share."

"touche,"

"are you not even feeling sorry,"

"its just a drink and you know i like strawberry."

"didn't know it is!"

"not my fault then,"

"this is a stupid argument,"

"i know," taehyun smiles, "its fun here," he said laying down the blankets on the ground and kai looked at him and he stares back at his eyes and taehyun could tell that it made kai shy but its nice.

"is there something on my face?" kai asked.

"your eyes, nose, eyebrows, lips and moles of course." taehyun replies sarcastically to kai with a smile. but if taehyun is going to be honest, he thinks kai looks attractively adorable, he have too many moles that's just like black glitters on his face and kai is shining beautifully with them that he's just so nice too look at compare to the grey forest or dark clouds back at home.

kai shyly looked away and took his bag, "oh i almost forgot we have questions to answer here," he took the papers from his bag. it was the paper that their advisors gave them taehyun took his one and its on a black paper whilst kai's on white.

"oh yeah," he said skimming through the page "i dont have a pen for black paper." kai showed a white pen on his hand and taehyun reached for it, putting his own against it and held the pen. his held almost stayed until he quickly pulls away. its like electricity, whenever they held hands. he also just realized that they always do it whenever they go. taehyun likes the warmth. "thanks." he said.

"oh its about you," kai said reading his paper. "what do i think of you?" taehyun looked at him, curious of how does kai see's him. mayhaps cold? expressionless? not fun nor interesting? normal? formal? he's from dark city after all.

"i think taehyunnie is mysterious also smart," did he just called him 'taehyunnie'? "he's like a star! its so pretty from afar and when you get close its even brighter." kai said as he writes down, the way he compare taehyun to a star sent fireworks to taehyun and he couldn't help but stare at him. because how could he say that?

"how ironic," taehyun said. "im from dark city yet you say im a star."

"you are, and a singer too." kai immediately writes it down too before gasping "oh! i forgot you're supposed to sing for me!"

taehyun laughs, writing down on his paper. "do we even have time left?" and as a cue kai's watch started beeping that made the boy pouts at taehyun. "next time, okay?" they both stood up from the ground, and taehyun reached to held kai's hand that close fit in his walking back to the GRAY's.

when they both got back at the room, taehyun hissed and held on his knee's, there's another cuts from the bushes. "are you alright?" kai asked then staring at his cuts. "wait i have band aids." taehyun sat down the chair as kai started plastering band aids on his knees.

"there, all patched up now!" he smiled.

"thanks," taehyun looked at the stickers and they're color white. taehyun held his arm before reaching to his dark bracelet as he watch kai arrange his bag, he looked at him and flicks his bracelet on his skin.

after kai is done he sat beside him, they're now waiting for their advisors "this gives me an idea," taehyun looked back at his eyes. "we should name our band, aid."

taehyun giggled "so its a band aid?" kai nods his head smiling at him "you're funny."

"right? im a genius."

"sure kai." taehyun looks at his own paper and realized he didn't finished it yet, "im writing that you are a genius then,"

"good!" kai encouraged.

the paper have only one question, 'what do you think about kai?' and he answered beautiful genius, bright, messy, clumsy boy from light city.