Flavor ⚣ 「 p.sh + k.ys 」

sour apple; p.sh

seonghwa sat further back into his seat and arched his back slightly, stretching it. he's been sitting in the chair behind the stores counter for a couple hours now, reviewing for his geography class.

he's had a couple customers walk in, one being a drunk man and another being a small group of teenage boys. it was nearing half past two in the morning and he doubted that yeosang would show up after yesterday's events, but he could hope.

all day he's been worrying if yeosang was okay, he was scared that they had hurt him in some way (seonghwa spent a lot of time racking through his brain to try to figure out if he could see what they did wong- but nothing came out of it). seonghwa thought maybe the younger has social anxiety or something like that and he felt embarrassed by him and san, but he wouldn't know if he didn't talk to the boy.

he shakes his head, clearing his mind of thoughts before leaning back down and looking at his book again.

seonghwa hears the bells on the door jingle while he's in the middle of a sentence, so he continues until finishing before looking up to see who entered.

his eyes fall upon the cute brown haired boy who ran out of the store the previous night, and he swears he could feel a weight being lifted off his shoulders.

they lock eye contact like they do often and seonghwa sits up in his seat, giving a small smile to yeosang while bringing his hand up and waving it a bit.

seonghwa feels happy as yeosang returns the smile and he watches as the shorter makes his way towards the candy aisle.

after yeosang gets what he came for, he walks to the counter with a bounce in his step, which seonghwa finds absolutely adorable (but if you were to ask him, he would deny it). seonghwa wishes that he could just scoop yeosang up, stick him in his pocket, and take him home.

yeosang sets the item on the counter and looks up at seonghwa. they meet eyes and yeosang smiles at him, causing seonghwa to break out into a smile. the yeosang that seonghwa is seeing tonight seems completely different from the one thats been at the store the past few nights. this yeosang is bubbly and happy and seonghwa loves it (but he also loves the shy, stuttering yeosang too).

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

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

seonghwa laughs slightly at his answer, looking at the candy before looking at the boy. man this boy was going to kill him.

"may i ask why?" seonghwa asks, wondering if there was a reason why yeosang was this happy.

"sour apple," yeosang answers and seonghwa notices the tip of his ears burning. cute.

"ah, the candy makes you happy?" seonghwa says, tilting his head and earning a nod from yeosang. he quickly scans it and hands it to yeosang before remembering about yeosang's outburst yesterday. "are you feeling better? you seemed upset yesterday,"

seonghwa doesn't fail to notice how his words cause yeosang's smile to fall, and how he looks away, biting his lip. he gets slightly worried at Yeosang's changed behavior.

"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, trying to apologise "also, don't worry about paying tonight. it's on me,"

seonghwa smiles softly down at yeosang who looks up at him before smiling and putting his wallet away.

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

"you too," seonghwa says as he watches yeosang walk towards the door, then he quickly adds "see you tomorrow?"

seonghwa watches yeosang as he turns around and flashes him a big smile.

"see you tomorrow," the shorter says.

and with that, seonghwa watches yeosang exit the store, feeling happier than ever.