Newt had been nervous the entire drive over to Minho’s home.They’d received the call placing his family order twenty minutes ago and he’dspent five minutes of that trying to convince his boss to let him take thepizzas too his house, even though it wasn’t his order to run. He’d managed towear him down eventually though and was able to take the run from Thomas, who was morethan happy to use the opportunity to sit around until the next order camethrough.
So now he was sitting in the car outside Minho’s house,freaking out about the chance that he’d be the one to open the door. It wasn’tas if Minho even knew who he was, they’d been at school together for five yearsnow and he’d never so much as said hello to him before; that hadn’t stoppedNewt from developing the world’s biggest crush on him though.
He grabbed the pizzas off the car seat and got out of thecar, pushing the door shut behind him. He opened the gates and made his wayup the driveway towards the house. Newt took a deep breath to calm himself downbefore he pressed the bell next to the door and waited. He could hear movementfrom inside the house and then someone calling ‘I’ve got it!’ before the door was being pulled open.
“Hello!” Newt tried not to let the disappointment show onhis face when it wasn’t Minho that opened the door, but who Newt assumed washis younger brother; he couldn’t have been more than seven but he looked almostexactly like Minho. The boy’s face lit up when he saw the boxes inhis arms and Newt couldn’t help but smile too.
“I’ve got three pizzas here, they all for you?” He asked,the boy nodded and reached up for them, but Newt jokingly lifted them up so hecouldn’t reach, causing the boy to laugh and try jumping for them. “Not sofast, you’ve got to pay for them first!”
The boy stopped trying to jump for them and ran back intothe house. Newt wasn’t sure what to do, so he lowered the pizzas back down andwaited by the door for him to return. It didn’t take him long to come back,dragging Minho along behind him.
“Sorry, I shouldn’t have let him come to the door by himself.”
“It’s fine, you don’t have to apologise.” Minho looked up athim when he spoke, a smile spreading across his face. Newt had to fight to stophimself from blushing as he felt his heart speed up in his chest at the sight.
“Newt, hi. I didn’t know you worked at the pizza place?”
“I urm…” Newt was at loss for words, he didn’t even knowMinho new who he was, let alone know his name. Minho didn’t seem to notice thoughas he just kept on talking.
“Just give me a minute to go get the money, I’ll be rightback.” Minho ran off back into the house, leaving Newt to stare after him andwish he’d been able to act any less stupid. He’d almost forgot that Minho’sbrother was even there until he spoke up again, causing him to jump and lookdown at him.
“He thinks you have pretty eyes.” Newt had no idea what tosay to that, but he figured that he was probably just joking. Kids make stupidjokes all the time.
“Oh, right. Did he tell you that?” Newt decided to playalong, he may as well have some fun until Minho got back. The kid smiled up athim, nodding excitedly.
“Yeah, he talks about you all the time. It’s kind ofannoying actually.” Newt let out a short laugh at that, imagining Minhorambling on to his brother about the annoying British guy that sits behind himin English. “Yesterday he said your hair was all sparkly in the sun but I don’tget that because hair doesn’t sparkle, it’s just hair.” Minho came running overthen, moving round his brother and ushering him back into the house.
“Okay, that’s enough. I’m sure Newt doesn’t want to talk toyou, go tell dad the foods here.” The boy took one last look at Newt beforerunning back into the house to go and find his parents. Minho turned back tohim and handed him the notes, exchanging them for the pizza.
“I’m really sorry about him, if I’d known he was going toannoy you then I would have brought him back in with me.”
“It’s fine,” Newt assured him, “I don’t mind, he was kind offunny actually.” Minho raised an eyebrow, confused. Maybe he hadn’t actually heard anythinghis brother had said.
“Oh, yeah?” Newt nodded, scratching the back of his neck.
“Apparently you said I have pretty eyes or something, he wasjust messing around, it was not big deal.” Newt watched in amazement as Minhoblushed, averting his eyes from Newt’s face.
“He wasn’t… I mean…” Minho cleared his throat, looking backup at him, a shy smile on his face. “He wasn’t messing with you.” Newt’s eyeswidened in shock, he had no idea what to say to that. The longer he didn’t sayanything, the more nervous Minho seemed to get until the smile had fallen fromhis face altogether. “I’m just gonna-”
“Minho?” Someone shouted from inside the house. “Are youcoming?” Minho turned round to shout back to them.
“Yeah, just a second.” He bit the inside of his lip, turningback to look at Newt. “I’ve got to go, I guess I’ll see you around.” Minhoturned to go back into the house, shutting the door behind him. Newt didn’t knowwhy he did it, but he called out to him.
“Minho, wait!” Minho stopped, pulling the door back open,frowning.
“Yeah?” Newt mustered up all the courage he could find andtook the two steps towards him, reaching up to put a hands on Minho’s cheeks andkiss him. He could feel Minho gasp against his lips but soon he was kissing himback, almost dropping his hold on the pizza boxes.
It only lasted a few seconds until someone shouted out toMinho again, telling him to come inside. The two of them pulled away, both ofthem smiling at each other. Newt’s heart was beating hard in his chest, hecouldn’t believe he’d actually just done that.
“I really do need to go now but urm… Thanks. I mean, youknow… I’ll see you tomorrow, right?” Newt nodded, not sure he could get hisvoice to cooperate with him right now. Minho’s smile grew wider and he leantinto kiss him once more. “I’ll see you tomorrow then.” Newt watched as Minhowent back into the house, shutting the door behind him.
As he walked back to the car, Newt couldn’t wipe the smileoff his face. He owed Thomas big time for letting him take this run.
