Flavor ⚣ 「 p.sh + k.ys 」

sour apple; k.ys

twenty hours after he ran out of the store and he hasn't gotten a wink of sleep. after getting up after his breakdown he laid in bed for a few hours, soft music playing in the background.

he replayed the scene in his head a lot, analyzing every bit of it as he usually did.

yeosang knew that it probably wasn't that big of a deal, he probably didn't embarrass them or make them hate him for walking in while they were messing around, but he couldn't help but overthink about it. what if they hated him for walking in? would san be embarrassed that he heard him singing? do they think he's weird now that he ran out without buying anything? did seonghwa actually care about him? why did seonghwa ask him if he was okay?

yeosang sighs as all these thoughts fill his brain, it's been bothering him all day.

he's been wondering if either of them were working tonight as he needed to go buy something again, but he didn't want to face them either.

he checks the time on his phone, biting his lip before getting dressed. he's been in his room all day and hasn't eaten anything, but he's not hungry so it's okay. he has other things to worry about than eating.

he (finally) decides that he'll go to the store. he's craving sour apple really bad right now and figured that maybe if he pretends like yesterday didn't happen then it'll be okay, maybe they won't remember?

he slides out of the house and pockets his phone, walking to the store with his hands in his pockets.

halfway there he stops in the middle of the road, becoming anxious again. maybe it's better for him to just go back, it's not too late to turn around.

he bites his lip again, i mean he's already out here and he already got dressed so what's the point of turning back? and he really wants sour apple right now.

he knows he could always just buy a bag of the candy and not have to go out, but then he can't always choose which flavor he wants and with this being one of the only times he leaves the house he figures it's doing him a little good.

he decides that there's more pros than cons (and decides that he will pretend that last night's occurrence never happened), and with a deep breath he continues walking towards the direction of the store.

a few minutes later he finds himself pushing the glass door open, entering the store.

he sees seonghwa sitting behind the counter, reading a book. yeosang bites his lip once again, his eyes tracing over seonghwa's features and he ignores how his heart rate speeds up.

seonghwa looks up, locking eye contact with yeosang. he sits up and gives a small smile to yeosang, bringing his hand up and waving it a bit.

yeosang returns the smile and makes his way towards the candy aisle. he looks through the items, furrowing his eyebrows in concentration until he finds the item with green wrapping. he smiles as soon as he spots it, picking up the item and holding it up like it's a piece of gold.

he walks to the counter with a slight bounce in his step, completely forgetting about all of his previous worries as he's now focused on the small item and imagining how good it'll taste. it's funny how such a simple thing can bring such joy to him.

he walks up to the counter and sets it down, looking up at seonghwa. they meet eyes and yeosang smiles at him, causing seonghwa to break out into a smile.

"someone's happy," seonghwa says, picking up the sour apple flavored item.

"yes," yeosang says, "very happy,"

seonghwa laughs slightly at his answer, looking at the candy before looking at the boy.

"may i ask why?" seonghwa asks and yeosang's face heats up as he remembers that the candy is the reason why he's so happy, which would probably seem childish. he felt his stomach drop and the tips of his lips turned down, scared that seonghwa would judge him.

"sour apple," yeosang says, the tip of his ears burning as he looks away from the other male, suddenly finding the counter interesting.

"ah, the candy makes you happy?" seonghwa says, tilting his head, earning a small nod from yeosang. yeosang cautiously turns back to face seonghwa, smiling slightly as he finds no trace of judgement on the elders face. seonghwa quickly scans the candy and hands it to yeosang. "are you feeling better? you seemed upset yesterday,"

and with those words yeosang's smile falls and he looks away, biting his lip. his plan of pretending like it never happened going out the window.

"uh, yeah, i'm okay," yeosang says, taking the candy and pulling out his wallet.

"sorry if we upset you yesterday, we didn't mean to," seonghwa says, "also, don't worry about paying tonight. it's on me,"

yeosang looks back up and seonghwa who is smiling softly at him. yeosang returns the smile and puts his wallet away.

"thank you," yeosang says, "i'll be leaving now, have a good night,"

"you too," seonghwa says and yeosang walks towards the door, "see you tomorrow?"

yeosang turns around and flashes a big smile at seonghwa.

"see you tomorrow,"

and with that yeosang exits the store, happily unwrapping the candy and popping it in his mouth as he makes his way back home.