When we heard Chan yelling it was time for breakfast from downstairs, Felix had already been searching around in his bag for a while, looking for something. His face lit up when he pulled up the shirts he bought yesterday.
"Here, put this on" he said and handed me one of them.
"Now?" I asked. So that's why he needed two.
"You don't have to, but..." he said but I just took the shirt out of his hands.
"Look away" I said, making Felix chuckle.
"Okay" he said and turned around, finding it amusing I didn't want him to see me get changed.
I turned around too and didn't turn back around again until I had the new shirt on. When I did I saw Felix was wearing the other one too. "You can turn around again" I told him and he turned so we were looking at each other again.
I saw a smile growing on Felix's face, and I couldn't help but to smile too.
"Now all the others will know" I said, just warning him we were exposing everything by showing up like this.
"So?" He asked with a shrug"
"No I don't care" I said and we left the room to go down the stairs and eat breakfast.
The others looked at our shirts, then at us, then didn't say anything. That was except for Jeongin.
"Did you two do it tonight?" He asked us after a few minutes and I almost chocked on my rice.
"Yah, Jeongin" I said and looked at him with a forced smile.
"Let the couple be, they're still awkward" Hyunjin said to Jeongin.
"Yeah I'm not blind" Jeongin answered him making the boys laugh.
Then it was silent again before the others started talking normally as if nothing had happened. Me and Felix looked at each other and he was smiling.
"I'm pretty sure they saw it coming a long time ago" I said with low voice to him.
"Yeah, they were probably just waiting" he agreed.
"So have anything fun planned for today?" I asked him, even if I knew he didn't, since I asked him yesterday, but it felt like the right thing to say.
"I was thinking about making fun plans" he said.
"Cinema maybe?" I asked him.
"We were watching so much TV yesterday, can't we do something else?"
"You can't watch too much kdrama though" I argued.
"You can't only watch kdramas all the time" he said.
"You have no idea how fast I can finish a whole kdrama" I said and looked at him like 'try me'
"Do I want to know?"
"No"
"What about amusement park?" Felix asked.
"Are you guys making plans for the day? Because that's cute but completely useless, we're finishing the monopoly game today, no getting out of that" Jeongin said who had overheard our conversation.
Right, the monopoly game. "But that won't take all day right?" I asked.
"You never know, so better clear your schedule"
The game continued right after breakfast, which was around like 12 because we were up late yesterday meaning we were up late this morning too, but it took way too long. I won in the end, team tinker bell were the last ones standing and I'll make sure to remind Felix of that whenever I feel like. But the day was almost over and we hadn't done anything other than play and talk and eat.
"Now, were you planning on going to the amusement park?" Jeongin asked me after we'd packed the game down.
I looked outside and saw it was already dark. "Not anymore" I said. I had stuff to do, like study and shit.
"Why not? Amusement parks are best enjoyed when it's dark so you can see all the pretty lights" he said.
"I don't have time for that today" I said.
"What a pity" he said and shrugged before walking away to go talk to Hyunjin and Seungmin.
Felix came up benhind me and had obviously heard what I'd said. "We could grab dinner together, because you'll have to eat either way" he suggested.
"Sure, but nothing too expensive" I said. I'm a student, I'm not rich.
"I'm fine with anything" he said and looked at me to decide something.
"Can we eat tteokbokki?" I asked him.
"Tteokbokki is perfect" he answered.
We stayed at Chan's a while longer before leaving. When we left, the others left too, but we were all heading different ways.
Me and Felix took the bus towards a tteokbokki place near my parent's house where I used to go a lot when I was in high school. I hadn't been there now for so long, quite some time before the game even.
The bus was rather empty, so we took a seat in the back.
"So what are you doing after dinner?" Felix asked me.
"I need to study, I've already procrastinated enough now" I answered him.
"Ahh, that's the part I don't miss from school" he said with a light chuckle.
"I mean, I do think it's interesting and all, but there are still other things I want to do more" I complained.
"Things such as...?" He asked.
"Watch kdramas, play on my phone, spend time with you, I can come up with loads of things I'd rather do" I said and when I looked over at Felix I saw he was smiling from my comment.
"We're spending time together right now though" he said.
"I know and I'm making sure to enjoy this while I can" I said with a pout as I leaned my head to rest on his shoulder.
I'd thought it would be awkward, because yes, I have imagined what it would be like if me and Felix were together, more than once, but it really wasn't awkward. It had been worse before when I didn't know what we were to each other. Now it was like hanging out with a very good friend, who happened to make my heart go crazy all the time, and I knew he liked me back too.
***
"Here it is" I said as we came up outside it.
"Looks cozy" he said and opened the door for us to enter.
"Nora!" The voice of a happy woman was heard when she saw us entering. "I haven't seen you in ages" she said and approached us. "When I saw on the news you'd gone missing I'd been so devastated"
"I'm just fine aunty, don't worry" I said but let her hug me anyway.
First after that she noticed the boy standing awkwardly next to me. "And who may this boy be?" She asked and looked at Felix.
I smiled. "This is my boyfriend, Felix" I introduced him. I really liked introducing him as my boyfriend, felt great.
"You've gotten yourself a boyfriend! How wonderful" she said with a little snicker at the end.
I smiled at her and put an arm around Felix's waist.
"Now go take a seat, today's meal is on me" she said and hurried off to the kitchen.
Me and Felix looked at each other and both couldn't help but smile.
"Come on, let's sit down" I then said and pulled him with me to my favorite table, a table in the back but right by a window with a view out over the Han river.
"You come here often?" Felix asked as he sat down on the other side of the table, facing me.
"I came here all the time during high school" I told him. "They have great tteokbokki"
He nodded.
"It's a bit spicy though so I hope you can handle spicy food" I then said.
"All tteokbokki is a bit spicy, but I can handle that" he said and seemed quite confident.
I chuckled, "okay, great" I said before aunty came with the food.
"Could you give us some milk too?" I then asked aunty and looked at Felix.
She smiled and looked at Felix too. "I'll be right out" she said and disappeared to get us some milk.
"Are you seriously ordering milk for me? I don't need any milk" he said and seemed rather offended.
I just shrugged as aunty returned with the milk. "Thank you" I thanked her.
I dug straight in and put a rice cake in my mouth.
Felix looked at the tteokbokki. "I really love rice cakes" he said.
"You do?" I asked as I had swallowed. "I love rice cakes too!" I then said with a smile.
I noticed soon that Felix was staring at my mouth. Before I knew it he'd taken a napkin and bended forward to wipe something at the corner of my mouth.
It was so cliché but it sure made me blush.
"Yah, eat" I said and tried hiding my red cheeks. "We're not in a kdrama" I then pointed out and looked down.
Felix chuckled before taking a piece of rice cake too. He started chewing it and at first he looked to be enjoying it, then the spice hit him. I saw his eyes grew a bit larger and he stopped chewing for a second.
"Here have some milk" I said and poured up some milk for him to drink.
He managed to swallow. "No it's not that bad, I can handle it" he said and took another rice cake.
Halfway in Felix's face was tomato red and he was sweating, but he was still refusing to admit it was a bit too spicy for him. He was drinking the milk though.
"You don't need to eat more, I can eat it all up" I said as I sat there, completely unbothered by the spiciness. I was very good with spicy food, I enjoyed spicy food. Felix wasn't particularly bad, it was just a very spicy tteokbokki. I also knew aunt Kang who owned this place had put in extra chili in it because she knows I like it extra spicy.
"I'm just going to the bathrooms, I'll be back soon" Felix said and stood up to leave.
I continued eating while he was away and aunty came by. "Was the tteokbokki too hot?" He asked me.
"Not for me, it's really good, but I guess it was a little too spicy for my boyfriend" I said with a smile.
"He seems like a good boy though, you should stay with him" she said and gave me a warm smile before she ran off to help some customers.
I smiled for myself when Felix came back out again. "What are you smiling for?" He asked me and started smiling because I was smiling.
"Nothing" I said.
"You almost finished all the tteokbokki without me?" He asked and tried to sound sad about it.
"Lucky you" I said with a chuckle.
Soon we were out of the restaurant in the winds of the cold winter evening. It was bellow freezing and some snowflakes were slowly falling down towards the ground.
"The forecast didn't say anything about snow" Felix said and looked up at the dark sky.
"I'm not complaining thought, it's pretty" I said and looked up too with a smile.
Felix turned to look at me, opening his mouth as if he was about to say something.
"Don't say something like, 'so are you or anything similar to that, it's too cliché" I stopped him before he could say anything.
He just looked at me and didn't say anything. We started walking and first after almost a minute he spoke. "I thought you liked your cliché kdramas" he said.
"Even I know kdramas do not show how things work in real life, it's all for the screen" I said.
Felix smiled for himself and took my hand in his as we walked down the street.