Welcome to Teddytopia (JunChanFF/Eng)

Chapter 3

Working with Jun wasn't as awkward as Chan had feared. Actually, it was really fun. He loved being in the shop, making children happy and feeling like he was also one of them again. What he hadn't expected though, was Jun to act like one too. The serious man, who could be a model or an idol, disappeared and left behind a seemingly five-years-old, totally in his element, while advising kids and parents which toy they should preferably get. Chan suddenly didn't know anymore, why he had always been so scared of simply talking to the older. Now he knew that he maybe could look extremely serious and terrifying but was actually a huge softie. At least as long, as you didn't do anything to make him angry or offended.

One week after another seemed to pass in a blink of an eye and after a month Chan felt completely comfortable around the other. They often talked, when the shop wasn't busy or sometimes went to get dinner or lunch together. But spending so much time with Jun didn't help him at getting over his crush. Instead he felt himself falling deeper and deeper for him and he started yearning for being able to spend even more time with Jun. What gave him hope though, was that the older also seemed to feel really comfortable around him and often touched him in subtle ways. Like, when he needed to get past him and carefully placed a hand on his waist or when Jun casually put a hand on his arm while they were talking. It wasn't much but these moments meant the world to Chan and started to strengthen the idea in him of asking the other out someday.

That was also what he proudly announced to Jason one afternoon, after they had met to eat lunch together. His friend looked excited.

"That is amazing! I'm so happy you finally became confident enough. Your younger self didn't even want to think about a date, because you were so scared." Jason grinned.

"Well...I haven't asked him yet and he hasn't said yes yet either, so you should save your happiness for when it has worked out."

"Of course, it will work out! I mean look at you. You are really handsome and cute at the same time and there was definitely tension between you two, when I visited you in the shop last week. I can't know it for sure, but I think he likes you too."By now they had nearly reached Jun's shop, to which Jason had wanted to accompany him and from where Sehyoon was supposed to pick him up.

"Really?" Chan asked, still not fully convinced but happy at the thought of the possibility. His friend nodded and encourangingly squeezed his hand.

"It's a bit like when Seungjun and Hyojin didn't get their shit together, remember?"

"That's different! Everybody already thought they were dating and we are just working together..." Jason shrugged his shoulders.

"If you don't do anything it will become the same, believe me." Chan sighed, a little annoyed.

"I'll ask him out today, okay? Right after he comes back from lunch break..." At this a smile appeared on Jason's face and he pulled Chan into a tight hug.

"Everything will work out. You can do this!" Were his encouraging words.

In that moment a car parked next to them and nobody else than Sehyoon got out. He immediately walked over to Jason and gave him a quick kiss on the lips, before he turned to Chan and smiled at him friendly.

"Hi, nice to see you. How are you?"

Meanwhile, Jason snuggled himself as close as possible to the older so that they looked more like one person than two. Chan knew that they weren't really over their trauma with the whole losing, finding each other and then Sehyoon nearly dying and because of that them losing each other again thing. He clearly remembered how broken Jason had seemed after the older had been transported to the hospital, without much hope of ever waking up from the coma again. Chan, too, would never forget the night, in which a crying Jason had called him and asked him to pick him up from the hospital. At first, he had thought his friend had been the one who had gotten into an accident, so he had been extremely relieved, when he had seen him sitting on one of the chairs in the waiting room, full of blood but apart from that seemingly healthy. However, his relieve had been quickly gone, when he had realized how horrible Jason had felt.