CHAN
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though once yideun throws the straw on the table, chan finally catches up. kind of. “ah– you’re right! climate change is so important! it’s happening everyday!” he replies, almost choking on his words at first from how out of the blue it all is. but well, though chan might not be someone in drama or theater, but he does know his dramatics. “and here i am! in air conditioning! using straws!”
“i am part of the problem!” he stands up abruptly. his date looking at them both with wide eyes as chan reaches out and grabs hold of yideun’s wrist. “come on, kiddo! we gotta get back to it, and pronto!”
chan’s a little slow on the uptake, but he catches up and that’s all that matters. yideun steels his expression, only nodding his head gravely when chan finally musters up the nerve to speak—something something climate change.
it’s legit though. climate change is for reals happening and yideun spites the human race every day for it. he’d chuck his amazon rainforest killing iphone in the trash if the act wasn’t performative because society demands he’s accessible. fucking stupid, if anyone asks him. he can’t wait to retire to an idyllic and isolated life in the mountainside as soon as he drops out of university.
oh, wait. what was happening? oh, right—operation save chan hyung’s ass.
“you’re party of the problem too,” he adds, pointing at the girl (no offense to the girl, but plastic straws in this day and age? clearly she doesn’t watch enough youtube to give in to the influencers who think metal straws are not only environmentally conscious but also super sexy, which simply isn’t what straws are made to be—sexy, that is), proceeding with an ‘i’ve got my eyes on you’ gesture before chan’s yanking him out of the cafe. “THINK ABOUT THE FUCKING TURTLES,” he manages, before he’s officially not within appropriately audible proximity.
and now they’re outside and probably trying to get away from the cafe, where the poor girl’s wondering what sort of deep, irreversible harm she’s inflicted on the environment (answer? many).
“okay, let go now,” yideun says, shaking his wrist. it’s hot as fuck outside and he doesn’t even like human contact when it’s cold, aside from when he's inflicting physical harm on joowon when jousting for the last of the instant noodles—at which point, it’s not a matter of don’t like or like (which would probably make it a kink), but a matter of survival. “you can transfer the 50k whenever.” he pauses. “make it 60k, actually. adding a fat manwon as emotional reparations for hating the environment. just say you hate sea turtles and go.”

















