GRAFFITI | Jookyun ✓

#3

~Jooheon~

This guy was weird. I introduced myself but he didn't. He only shaked my hand. Instead of talking to me, he rummaged his backpack and started writing something on a sheet of paper. He reached me the paper and i looked at it and started reading.

"Hi, my name is Changkyun. I'm glad you like my graffiti. Sorry for not talking to you but I can't hear you.
I'm deaf."

I looked up right into his smiley face. He looked so hopeful while waiting for me to reply. Is this true? Fuck. It's our first meeting and I instantly fucked up. I fucked up before our meeting as well. I only left my phone number here. How could he contact me when he was deaf? He really called me and tried to meet me even if it's hard for him to call and impossible to hear me.

But somehow he managed to call me and tell me where to meet. To be honest I was so confused with this call. He only said a few sentences and hang up without a second waiting for an answer. Now I know why. I internally face palmed myself for my dumb behaviour. But how should I know? I bowed my upper body down and said "sorry." And at the same time I wanted to face palm again. HE CANT HEAR YOU JOOHEON! He chuckled at my behaviour. I started writing a message.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know. Is it ok with you to write like this? Or do you prefer another way to communicate? What about drinking a coffee together?"

He looked at the sheet of paper and only nodded with a super cute smile in my direction. He raised his hands and placed them above his ears so his palms faced me. I looked at him in confusion but as he moved his Fingers up and down I get what he wanted to tell me. I did the same move and smiled at him. He wanted to go the the cat coffee shop so we walked for a  few minutes until we arrived there. It was weird to not talk to someone while walking next to him.

Instead of talking we shared some happy expressions with each other. Damn his smile was so cute I wanted to pinch his cheeks. Finally we arrived at the cat coffee shop and entered it. Changkyuns eyes widened as he saw all the cats. His mouth formed an o. I couldn't stop looking at him. This scene was too cute. He walked to a table full of cats and sat down so I followed him and sat down next to him. At first we only ordered coffee and stroked all the cats.

He really loves cats. I'm sure he loves Yoshi and Gucci too. I took a sip of my coffee while Changkyun was busy rubbing his cheek on a black cats head. I really don't know him but if I should guess I would say he's always shining like the sun. His smile suited him so good. After a few minutes of waiting he finally managed to took the pen and sheets out again. He struggled because all the cats were around him. I laughed. Maybe he's a cat magnet?

He started writing so I played with all the cats around us until Changkyun handed me the paper and the pen on top of it. I started reading.

"What do you want to tell me? Do you really like my graffiti?"

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"Yeah I really like it! And I wanted to ask if you're interested in doing some graffitis together? But this time legal on a wall at my place. I'm sure  I can learn a lot."

He looked at me in disbelief but somehow excited too.

"You know I'm no professional graffiti sprayer, right? This graffiti happened because of an accident. Tbh I didn't even remember."

I laughed and shake my head to signalize him that he don't have to be a pro.

"That's no problem! I really would like to be friends with you and do some graffitis together. What do you think about it?"

When he read the words on the paper his eyes got teary. Oh fuck. Did I wrote something wrong? He turned around to face me and took both of my hands, looked into my eyes and nodded in so much excitement. His eyes were shining bright and his look said so much things. I looked at him with my brightest smile.

Almost 3 hours were over. It's already dark outside and Changkyun seemed to be tired since he almost fell asleep multiple times while stroking the cats as he waited for me to write something.

"You seem to be tired. Hard day of work? Do you want to meet this Saturday? I want to pick you up. Is 9 a.m. ok with you? I need your address."

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"Yeah sure! Here's my address:

Yeomchang-dong 101
Gangseo-gu
Apartment 126
Im Changkyun

Thank you for this evening. It's the first time in years to meet someone outside of work. :)"

He ripped the sheet out of his college-block and handed it to me. I patted his shoulder and get up from my chair. Damn my ass was almost numb from sitting for 3 hours straight. But I don't care at all. It was way too much fun with Changkyun and I really wanted to meet him again. Outside the coffee shop we stared at each other and it was this awkward moment like every time you meet someone new. Should I hug him? Or is it too much? Without thinking further i stretched out my arms for him. He looked at me in disbelief but he realized that I really want to hug him after I tilted my head and lifted my eyebrows.

He smiled and placed his head on my shoulder for a few seconds. I patted his back. His breath was unstable, I could hear it since his face was next to my ear. His proximity gave me goosebumps. What is this feeling?  I released our embrace because I never felt something like this before and was a bit shocked. "Goodbye" he said with a bright smile while waving his hand. I smiled back and waved at him. Only when you can't talk to someone, you realize how much you're used to.

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