bully | JAEYONG

15 | DATE (part 1)

after the two finished their breakfast, they bid goodbye to baekhyun, who, once again, wished them to enjoy their date. the two boys left boom cafe and taeyong followed jaehyun to the second location of the day ahead.

the two students walked in silence side by side, taeyong looking everywhere but jaehyun and jaehyun looking everywhere but taeyong. the silence between them was comfortable, not awkward, and though the two were familiar with the feeling of being awkward, nothing between them ever got to that point due to the fact that they knew how to get rid of it before the awkwardness arrived.

nevertheless, the two enjoyed their small walk around the town before arriving to their next location: cherry bomb arcade. the red haired boy was beyond excited for this particular location because he had always wanted to go to cherry bomb arcade, but was never given the chance since his house is too far away and he didn't have enough money to buy more than three tokens.

remembering about his youth and how he wasn't able to afford tokens, he began to think that he was taking advantage of jaehyun because the brown haired boy paid for both their tokens. the boy got nervous because he didn't want jaehyun to think he was a gold digger or that he was taking advantage of him.

"you don't have to buy me tokens. i can watch you play," taeyong whispered to jaehyun as he retrieved the tokens from the guy at the counter.

"how come?"

"i don't want you to think i'm taking advantage of you or your money..." taeyong looked to the ground and whispered softly, which was barely audible to jaehyun, but he still managed to catch what the red haired boy said and shook his head.

"you're not taking advantage of me. i wanted to pay for you, not cause you don't have money or anything, but because i just want to," jaehyun explained the best he could to taeyong. the red haired boy looked up at jaehyun, and the two locked eyes for a minute before jaheyun broken it by saying, "and plus, it's too late now."

the brown haired boy handed taeyong half of the tokens he bought and ran off into the arcade, the red haired boy following him into it.

cherry bomb arcade was filled with many popular games, like wreck-it-ralph, sugar rush, pac-man, and space invaders, just to name a few. coming across a game that both boys liked, they stopped at the game called 'call of duty' and inserted the required amount of tokens to play. picking up their guns, taeyong and jaehyun helped fight the aliens that were going to invade earth and saved the day (i have never played call of duty).

when the two finished their first game, they went to other games all around the arcade. spending so much time playing almost all the games and eating lunch there, the duo didn't keep track of the time, and sooner than they knew it, after using up all their tokens, it had become 4:00.

dinner was on the line for their next stop. taking another small walk to a restaurant, taeyong and jaehyun made their way inside. it wasn't anything fancy or expensive, but the red haired boy loved how he was taken to a small, casual restaurant rather than an extremely expensive one, like others usually do on their first date. jaehyun must've known that taeyong loved things that were simple yet meaningful because he took taeyong on a classic date that felt like they were hanging out as friends and wasn't forced to make it feel like it was a date. you could say it was... comfortable, and taeyong liked it very much.

when the waiter came to the duo's table, jaehyun ordered a mixed rice tray, which consisted of either white or fired rice with some meat side dish and some veggie side dish, to which jaehyun chose the white rice with orange chicken and celery and carrots. taeyong had also ordered the mixed rice tray, but ordered with fried rice and boiled broccoli instead of white rice with celery and carrots.