The words that came from Jie’s mouth caused Rue’s heart to skip a beat suddenly. Somehow, Jie outright asking or reminding him to tell him about his feelings for him flustered him some. He responded with a nod though, swallowing down his embarrassment. “I’ll tell you later today,” he assured the younger, “I’m happy that you agreed to come, too.” He was still somewhat amazed that someone like Jie would give him the time of day. Jie was, after all, attractive, innocent, pure, and talented. He’d be more and more famous after his debut as well. And yet he had let Rue become close to him.
Rue led the younger student to a park not far from campus, though he went past the playground and toward a little hill with a couple of trees on it. Once there, he set the things he was carrying down and released Jie’s hand as well. He then pulled out a blanket and set it on the ground, setting the bag and cooler on top of it to keep it from blowing away. Once he took a seat too, he patted a spot next to him to motion for Jie to settle down too.
Once settled, he began pulling out the drinks, followed by a container of food too. He turned to Jie then, opening it to show him what he’d brought with him. “You said you liked seaweed and egg soup, right? I can’t make it like your mom probably can, but I tried it anyways too. I also made tamagoyaki, since when I was really young my mother used to make it for my brother and I. I made a dessert too.” He glanced at Jie shyly, hoping that the food would be okay since he’d made it all from scratch basically. He’d tried each thing as well, but he was still unsure of his own cooking skills.
jie felt embarrassed reminding the elder that he had to tell him about his feelings later, but he’d meant it more as a teasing, easing the atmosphere way honestly, and the reply that he got made the younger smile happily. “i.. i didn’t expect you to ask.” he admitted shyly then, because he hadn’t. jie was so used to falling for people and not having anyone else give back to him in the same way honestly, so to have that now? it made the fame chaser happy. it made him happy just to have rue there honestly, allowing himself to want to be close to him like this.
he was quick to take up the seat next to the elder then on the blanket as he watched him open up the container of food. hearing that rue had made his favourite dish though? it made his eyes widen a little, warmth spreading over him because that wasn’t something he’d expected. “i didn’t think you’d remembered that,” he mumbled shyly, but there was a fond smile appearing on his lips. “thank you..” he didn’t care if rue couldn’t made it like his mother, only cared that he’d even tried really. “i’ve never had that before, so i’m excited to try it.”
the shy look jie recieved after rue was done showing him and telling him what he’d made had jie’s own shyness appearing again, as well as the small blush coming back because he was.. a little speechless maybe, that rue had done all of this-- made all of this. ”you should teach me how to cook one day..” he mumbled out then after a moment, laughing softly under his breath, “i’m really bad at it.. so you’re probably really good in comparison to me.” he bit his lip then a little, admitting shyly again, “and i like it when you teach me things.”
