✈️ + 💋 // seeing your muse in somewhere they didn’t expect to see + your muse kissing mine on cheek
“ it’s just tonight. next one isn’t till next month ”
he’s tired, always tired; ji yong doesn’t understand. doesn’t get the cheong ryong’s constant need to work for something as unforeseeable as the future. he’ll sit there in homeroom with the evaluation sheet on his desk, pen dancing over the career box; hovering. he always leaves it blank, but he reckons that jaebum’s been filling in stock broker since middle school. he gives the boy an exasperated sigh as he pushes his arm lazily, bottom lip turned down in a frown (the other doesn’t succumb to his whining, he never does). “fine” he stands from his perch on jaebum’s bed, giving him a pointed look from where he was seated at his desk, textbooks covering the table top. “wait. where are you going?” jaebum cranes his neck to look at ji yong, setting his school work down. “live club night. it’s just you and your hand tonight,” he says with a smirk, a joke to cover up his disappointment. he gives his shoulders a squeeze before turning to leave the cheong ryong dorm room.
he’s really only going for 라이프 앤 타임, but can’t help the thought of jaebum hunched over his desk all night creep over him as he grips the rails descending into the basement club. he situates himself near the back, watching the crowd murmur and sway to the opening act, nursing the plastic cup in his hand filled with whatever he could get his hands on. he can’t help but check his screen surreptitiously after every other song, expecting a good night text (is he really gonna pull an all-nighter agai— 아, 됐어). come starts and ji yong leans against the back wall, foot tapping slowly to bass rift, when he feels a swift breeze beside him; the slightest of fingers touching arm and warm presence radiating.
he doesn’t need to turn his neck to know it’s him– he feels the familiar broad shoulders brushing his. ji yong looks at the other anyway, coy smile curling at the edge of his lips. he can’t believe there are actual goddamn butterflies in his stomach right now, but he didn’t expect him to be there, and he’s grinning ear-to-ear, face practically glowing (well, shit). jaebum doesn’t say anything, merely nods in acknowledgement, facing the stage and the band playing. his smile is etched to his lips, staring at the other’s silhouette– the bridge of his nose, his jaw– and he turns his head again to look at the stage, gnawing on the rim of the plastic cup with that grin. he’s too enamored enthralled to notice the shift in jaebum’s weight, and the quick space between their arms touching before jaebum’s craning his neck to place his lips quickly on ji yong’s cheek.
his eyes widen for the split second it takes to register jaebum’s lips on his skin– eyes quickly scanning the room habitually before steadying his beating heart. the crowd was swaying in front of them to the music, unaware of the grinning nam jaebum and kang ji yong leaned up against the back wall behind them. ji yong doesn’t look at him, though (he’s slightly embarrassed by his random act of skinship– normally it was ji yong being the spontaneous one). he simply drops his hand beside the other, brushing their pinkies together in tender, fleeting touch. they stay like this for a moment before pinkies finally hook together, dragging their hands back to touch the wall; out of sight. and goddamn ji yong can’t stop that grin from spreading, along with the fluttering in his chest.