When I Can Tell You

Two

"Pleeeeeaaaase...." the older boy begged tugging on B-Joo's arm. "You don't understand how good you look in that jacket."

Hansol had persuaded Byungjoo to spend their Saturday gallivanting the shops, because Hansol insisted he spend his birthday money immediately. With one look at Hansol's puppy dog face, B-Joo obliged... and agreed to go into every store they saw... and agreed to let Hansol pick out stuff for him to try. Byungjoo just couldn't say no if Hansol was the one asking.

"You've said that about everything you've put me in," B-Joo chuckled at his overzealous friend.

Hansol bit his lip and turned the purple haired boy in the sleek, black, leather jacket to face him. He looked the other right in the eyes before pulling him close and whispering in his ear, "Yeah, but that jacket makes you look sexy... really sexy, Joo."

It would be an understatement to say B-Joo merely turned as red as a tomato, because Hansol's words had a much bigger effect on the embarrassed boy trying to nonchalantly cross his legs.

When Hansol pulled away, B-Joo almost saw a dark fire burning in Hansol's eyes that only made him desire the other more. Byungjoo had too look away or his body would continue its strand of betrayal. "You should buy it." Hansol's tone seemed much more sultry than usual. "Buy it... for me," his voice purred as he ran his pointer finger down Byungjoo's arm sending chills throughout the other's body.

Hansol just kept making things worse for Byungjoo, and he was suddenly greatful for his choice in dark, loose pants. "I want to," B-Joo's voice slightely faltered as he glanced down at the price tag reading 180,000 won, "but it's um... kind of... well I already spent my allowance." He pulled his lip in between his teeth quite sad he couldn't purchase the jacket Hansol found so attractive on him.

"How much is it?" Hansol asked while taking the price tag in his own hands. His mouth twitched into a rather mischievous smirk upon seeing the price. "B-Joo-ah?"

"Ne?" The other boy once again made eye contact with his hyung.

"Did you by any chance spend your allowance on my birthday gift?"

B-Joo avoided Hansol's gaze and bit his lip even harder. The truth was that B-Joo had saved up a portion of his allowance for 4 months to buy the blue, purple, and white shoes.

Hansol knew the answer immediately by the shy reaction he recieved, and reached over to place a kiss on the younger boy's cheek. "Well you're in luck, because my grandparents are extremely well-off and gave me a shit ton of money for my birthday."

Byungjoo felt a shock through his body stemming from place where Hansol's lips had been. "Why would I be in luck?" He asked rather confused and unstable.
"Because," Hansol laced his fingers into the other's. "I am going to buy it for you."

"But, hyung..."

"No but's!" Hansol shot down Byungjoo's protest. "I am spending my birthday money on something I want... you... in that jacket." He sent a wink towards the flustered boy before draging him to the register.

B-Joo had a lot of confusing emotions and thoughts running through his head. He felt that Hansol was almost... flirting with him, and this thought worried the flustered boy as much as it excited him. The truth is that he was scared of rejection, and scared what that rejection would do to him.

For the rest of the day, B-Joo didn't dare take off the jacket Hansol had purchased for him, and he followed Hansol into many other shops and rather enjoyed the older boy modeling various articles of clothing for him. But even Hansol had his shopping limits. They ended their day at a cafe with the sexy leather jacket and eight shopping bags full of the stuff Hansol deemed worthy of his birthday money.

"Can you sleep over tonight?" Hansol asked before bringing a bite of kimchi to his lips.

"I don't see why not? I'll ask Xero if he has made..."

"B-Joo," Hansol cut the concerned boy off with a sigh. "I know you don't want to leave your brother home alone at night, but Xero has tons of friends he can invite over and I was hoping... that just this once... only you would stay the night." Hansol looked down at his twiddling thumbs disturbed by how shy he had become.

"You mean... ju-just me and you?" The other stumbled on his words with a hint of red creeping to his cheeks.

"If you don't want to, it's fine! It was kind of a weird question, I don't know why I... Xero is welcome to come as usual! I just thought.... well I've never stayed the night with you without Xero and I thought it would be fun but ummm.... I know your mom works late and you don't like him to be alone and we are all totally good friends, but you know you and I are more than just good friends... best friends is what I meant by that. You're my best friend is what I was trying to say... am trying to say? Wow okay i've done enough talking. Ask xero if you and him wanna sleep over tonight. I'm gonna go use the restroom." Hansol was beyond embarassed, he had never been so tongue-tied in his life. With anyone else he would have simply used one sentence to ask if they would want to spend the night without anyone else, but for some reason, the thought of him with Byungjoo alone in his bed shocked all the sense out of him.

Just as Hansol stood to go to the bathroom so he could regroup and snap out of whatever was happening to him, the timid, purple-haired boy placed his hand on the other's.

"That does sound like fun, Hansol. And Seogoong can't ever say no to Xero."

It wasn't a confident or flirty response like Hansol might have done, but it was definitely out of B-Joo's comfort zone, and he hoped his hyung would accept it.

Hansol smiled at the blushing boy and sat back in his seat thinking of how amazing his birthday weekend had been.