The Aroma Of You [RamKing]

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"Maybe your favourite scent has nothing to do with plants." His friend, Bohn was still eating while King was doing some research regarding the newest plant he had at home.

King looked up from his phone, "I'm sure it's a plant. Maybe it's a plant I never had before so I don't know it's smell."

Bohn looked slightly confused as well as surprised. "I never even smelled anything different in plants. For flowers, maybe, but I never smelled plants before," he mumbled to himself, hoping that his friend would not hear him, and luck was on his side as King was too focused reading to pay attention to him.

"We're going for drinks tonight!" Boss shouted right into King's ear and the latter was ready to throw hands. However, he quickly noticed a couple of first years following his friends and stopped himself. Boss had a cheeky smile on his lips, considering himself the winner of that situation. It was hard to win anything over King, he was smart and knew how to get away from certain situations quickly. Yet as much as he liked victory knew that King would not give bad example to first years.

"What's the occasion?" Bohn asked. Boss was busy telling the first years to sit down on their table and suddenly the previously quiet space turned into a loud mess.

"When did we ever need an occasion to go drinking?" Tee said. They knew that was a valid enough reason.

King looked around the table. He did not know any of the first years there but he was sure that not all of them were from the engineering course. Tee noticed that both Bohn and Duen were looking at them and he decided to introduce them.

"This is Tang," Tee pointed at one of the people sitting down. King noticed he smelled like fresh ink on an old piece of paper, "this is Ting," she was the only girl in the group and for King, she smelled of cats. King liked cats, mostly because he was afraid of dogs. "This is Duen," and King noticed two things; both how he smelled of the sea and the way Bohn was looking at him. King smiled because he knew that Bohn's favourite scent was that of the sea. "They are all medical students," Tee explained.

"This is Phu," Tee continued, this time pointing to a more familiar face so King figured he was an engineering student. Phu smelled like sugar and he glanced at Tee because he knew Tee liked sweet things. Finally, Tee pointed at the last person, "and this is Ram, my code junior." King looked at him slightly confused because he never saw Ram before.

Ram looked quiet and reserved and that tattoo was conspicuous on his neck. Ram smelled of wet soil.

The whole group started chatting loudly and it confirmed King's thoughts, Ram only opened his mouth once to talk to the person sitting next to him. Ting was quite loud and Tang was trying to keep her under control, he wondered whether the two were a couple or not. Duen spoke a couple of times too but mostly to shrug off his friends.

Throughout the whole time, King was constantly curious about Ram. He did not understand why. Later, when he spoke to Tee about it, Tee told him that it was probably because of his curiosity over anything that was considered strange. That was true, Ram was strange and in a way King wanted to get close to all that strangeness and get to know him.

He wondered how he should approach Ram because each time King tried to talk to him, the male kept his mouth shut and just looked at him. Even during that evening while they were all drinking, Ram spoke to his friends occasionally but nothing else. He seemed the closest to Duen and King was trying to find out why.

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King bumped into Ram many other times after that. One time while Ram was buying ice cream. It surprised King to see the younger male speak to a stranger so he tried to talk to him but once again his only replied where stares. Another time King offered to help tutor him but right at that moment Tee showed up and he figured that Tee would want to mentor him himself. After that, King saw Ram feeding a big dog at school and for once King did not dare to approach him.