Braveness

[kumo_is_kumo]

Title: Braveness

Pairing: Lay/Suho

Genre: Romance, Fluff

Warning: -

Length: Oneshot

Summary: There are three things in love: forgiveness, patience, and braveness.

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The bell above the door rings. Yixing smiles as he greets the same customer.

“Hello, Joonmyeon! The kids want more cake?” He chirps out in pure happiness.

“Err, yes.” The customer says, a bit hesitant and looking nervous, while walking closer to the counter. Yixing grins up and goes to retrieve an empty box of cake. He starts filling up the box with cupcakes and cookies.

“I hope the kids like my cakes!” He says brightly.

Joonmyeon nods, paying with some amount of money. “Yes, of course! They like it a lot!”

Yixing’s smile brightens up again.

“I’m so happy to hear that! Here, take more!” He says, scooping more cookies than the normal amount.

“Eh, no! I will just pay you—”

Yixing holds onto Joonmyeon’s hands. The touch is warm. “No need to! I want to gift the kids for Christmas!”

Joonmyeon sighs. “The kids will start calling you Santa the next time.” He smiles. Yixing shrugs, “I don’t mind! I love being a Santa! I’m Santa Xing! Ho! Ho! Ho!”

Then he laughs like a real Santa.

Joonmyeon sighs. Why does he have to fall for a weird man?







Being a teacher for kids in the school makes him unable to find the right date, considering the amount of time he spends being with the kids. But being a sweets lover makes him able to meet this weird but cute baker in the bakery.

The first time he met Yixing was when he stumbled into the bakery while it was raining. He was kind of expecting that the place owner would be mad at him for wetting the mat and all, but he didn’t expect to be welcomed with worry gaze.

Yixing wrapped him up with thick blankets layers by layers and even offered him a cup of hot chocolate that was so damn delicious. Joonmyeon was thankful that it was raining so heavily at that time because then he could spend more time with Yixing and he could hide the quick heartbeats of his.

He spends his time buying cakes and cookies, almost sending his students to the dentist from the amount of them eating cookies, but well. He needs a reason to visit the guy again and again.

They have been friends for a month or so, maybe? He doesn’t remember. But he just likes the guy so much he is not kidding. Yixing is not the most normal people you would meet in this world, but he is one of the kindest people that ever exist.

Joonmyeon has never met someone as perfect as him, how weird must that sound.







It’s Christmas Eve soon and Joonmyeon has only one wish for this year.

Making Yixing his boyfriend.

If possible, he will get to achieve it. If not, then maybe he has to wait for another Christmas.

It’s going to be so difficult. Considering that he doesn’t know whether Yixing likes him back or not, then he can’t predict his plan would be successful just yet. Yixing is one weird man but that’s what making him unique.

The plan is to bring flowers to Yixing and tell his feeling. That’s it. He just hopes it works.







Well, shit.

The florist closes. Joonmyeon hisses in annoyance. How could he forget that everyone’s closing as it’s nearing the holiday? Could it work without any flower?

He walks along the side road and oh my gosh, someone bumps onto him and spills the warm tea all over his shirt. He yelps, feeling his skin burning and everything is wet. The person is furiously apologizing to him but what could an apology do? Make him dry again? Hell no.

As he thinks about it feels so cold, he forgets that he doesn’t have his scarf. Slapping a hand over his head, he remembers that he left it at home because he was in hurry earlier.

“Shit,” he breathes lowly.







As he pushes into the warmth of Yixing’s bakery, the guy greets him gently.

“What happened with you?” Yixing asks, gasping as he rounds over the counter to approach him.

Joonmyeon bends his head down. He is covered with thick snow from head to toe, white shirt wet and blotched with tea mark, and whole face flushed from the cold. Such a mess, why would Yixing find him attractive when he is like this?

“Yixing, I...” He starts, stuttering and a nervous wreck. So far, his day is so bad and it’s Christmas Eve and he doesn’t have the flowers ready and he dirtied his shirt, and he forgot his scarf.

What’s worse than those? Nothing. Well, maybe Yixing rejecting him but he wouldn’t know before trying.

“Yes? Joonmyeon? Are you there?” The baker flicks his fingers in front of his face to snap him back to reality. Joonmyeon blinks his eyes, his head tilting up.

“Yixing, I... like you?” He meekly whispers.

The baker blinks. And blinks. And blinks again.

“Yes? I like you too?”

“No,” Joonmyeon shakes his head, “not this like like, but that like like.”

“I know,” Yixing nods, “it’s that like like.”

“No, Yixing, it’s- wait, what?” Joonmyeon asks with his eyes, nose, and mouth hanging round.

The baker laughs softly and goes to the door of the bakery to flip the open to close and also locks the door completely, pulling the blind down. Then he comes back closer to Joonmyeon and reaches for his elbow, gently tangling their arms together in an innocent but intimate gesture.

“How about you join me upstairs and we can enjoy the meal I just prepared?”

“Uh?”

Yixing drags him upstairs, “But first, you should change into dry clothes. You can borrow mine, I won’t mind. Hey, it rhymes!”

Joonmyeon blinks, “Uh,”

“And then we can cuddle in the couch while watching some sappy Christmas movies and then maybe you can elaborate your ‘that like like’ again? And then maybe you can kiss me?”

Joonmyeon squeaks.

“Uuuhh???”

Yixing laughs and flicks the light upstairs on, flicking the downstairs light off which indicates that the bakery has closed for the night. It’s time to celebrate Christmas anyway.









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A/N: Merry Christmas! Enjoy your day with a smile.