6

Joshua smiled softly once he saw Seokmin finally coming out of the cottage. “How was it?” Joshua asked Seokmin, who pouted in response.

“Awkward. Sooo awkward.” Seokmin answered, cringing at the unbearable tension between him and his ex-boyfriend earlier.

“Do you wanna rest now? You told me earlier you're still jet-lagged.” Joshua asked the latter. Seokmin shook his head, “Remember that you wanted to talk to me earlier? Let's do that instead.”

Joshua looked at Seokmin with a surprised face, “Really? Wow, that conversation with the couple must be too awkward for you to not immediately go to bed.”

Seokmin laughed and Joshua swore to himself that it was the prettiest laugh he had ever heard, promising himself to make Seokmin laugh more often.

It was already sunset, the view was incredibly beautiful. Seokmin stared in awe as he looked at the sun setting over the horizon. Without noticing, Joshua's eyes were completely glued to Seokmin and blushed at how beautiful the latter looked.

Seokmin finally took notice and blushed as well when he saw Joshua looking softly at him in awe. “You should be looking at the sun. Look! It's pretty.” Seokmin tried to change Joshua's focus.

“I am looking at my sunshine and he's the prettiest in my eyes. . .” Joshua replied which made both of them blush intently.

If only you can see how red these two look, they can even compliment with the reddish-orange sky.

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After the very flirtatious line from Joshua, who, by the way, just blurted that out. No one spoke about it while they were on a walk to the restaurant. All the blushing made them hungry so they decided to just head towards the restaurant.

The two were still blushing as they thought about what Joshua said earlier. Even Joshua himself could not believe what he just said. He rarely flirted with anyone before, so he had no idea how he even blurted out that line.

They arrived at the restaurant, which is an eat-all-you-can buffet. Seokmin was hungry, but he had no concentration of what food he put on his plate. He ended up having pasta, steak, fries, side salad and 3 pieces of pizza.

Seokmin awkwardly sat down his chair, trying to avoid Joshua's eyes. He doesn't really dislike the man though. Seokmin is just flustered.

“Hey uh. . . I’m really sorry if I made you uncomfortable earlier. I know we just met and I also had no idea why I said that.” Joshua said softly, hoping the younger wouldn't get freaked out by him.

“Don’t worry about it. I was just flustered. No one's flirted with me for a while so I really don't know how to react.” Seokmin replied, finally looking at Joshua's direction.

“Do you want to get to know each other?” Joshua asked as he took a bite of his mozarella stick.

“Sure! You start.” Seokmin stated.

“Okay! I’m Hong Jisoo but I like to be called Joshua. I’m from LA and I study literature. I’m born on December 25th of 1995.”

“Hi hyung! I'm Lee Seokmin and I like pizza. You can also call me Dokyeom or DK. My birthday's on February 18. I have the same birthday as my friend, Hansol!”

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