@towardspring !
"you're watching, right?" he calls over his shoulder. the bottles are all arranged neatly, gleaming in the light, and while he should be focusing on them, it's mostly on the large stuffed animals that are stacked behind the counter, before he turns and juyoon comes into view. "i'll win the biggest one for you." taking a stance he thinks would help him throw the ball the best to knock the bottles down- bottom lip between his teeth before he sends it sailing- is only for it to thwack ! sadly against the wall and bounce off.
"two more tries!" the attendant tells him, cheery and upbeat, and hyeonju's still staring down the ball on the ground like it's personally offended him. shifts his positioning again, and tries another arc. it barely skirts by the edge of a bottle without dislodging it, but it manages to shift the formation a little. he stares hard at the attendant before she can tell him one more try! and tries to bite his tongue that it's rigged. or the wind, or something, tossing that one last ball in his hand up vertically into the air and catching it. says fuck it and finally sends the last one only for it to hit straight into the middle, knocking the rest of the bottles down. it has hyeonju turning around with a grin stretched across his lips, hip leaning against the table, all casual. "see? i told you."