WHILE SOWING A PLANT..

"Wait this color definitely does not look good on you!", Soobin pointed out.

"How about you try something like..yellow?", Soobin suggested. Beomgyu chuckled awkwardly, "let me-"
"Beomgyu, you know what, this is my first office trip, I have to be a trendsetter so that I could take over the business quickly"

Beomgyu kept nodding while Soobin kept on explaining his stories. Beomgyu couldn't really do shopping but he enjoyed his time with Soobin.

They walked towards the food court to have some food and Beomgyu found Soobin waving in another direction. Beomgyu followed the sight to see Yeonjun and JeongEui. Beomgyu followed Soobin who rushed towards them.

Soobin asked, "what are you doing with this, you hag?"

Yeonjun looked clearly offended at that comment but didn't say anything. Eui chuckled and replied, "shut up soobin. He called me to help him buy stuff for the office trip"
"Ah, I see. He is still a little kid"
"What are you doing with this feisty kid though?"
"Feisty? Are you for real? Beomgyu is the nicest kid ever"

"Should we eat together?", Soobin suggested.

All of them sat together, Beomgyu tried to look busy on his phone as he swiped up and down on random tabs.

"Are you guys done with the shopping?", Yeonjun asked. Soobin nodded. Beomgyu didn't reply.

Yeonjun stared at Beomgyu, waiting for an answer. Beomgyu looked up and glanced at his bag which only had a single piece of cloth, he said, "maybe I'll have to buy some more stuff".

Soobin pouted, "you should've done that while I was choosing, I have to go home early and attend my dad"
"It's alright, I'll shop on my own", Beomgyu answered.

After eating up, Soobin left for home. Beomgyu was roaming around when he saw Yeonjun searching for something at the other side of the mall. Eui looked confused as she was helping Yeonjun.

Beomgyu was worried, he ran towards the both of them. He found Yeonjun out of breath when he reached there, Beomgyu offered him his hand and helped him get up.

Beomgyu sighed and whispered, "do you need more of it?"
Yeonjun didn't answer, he didn't understand.

"More of physical touch?", Beomgyu asked as he hugged Yeonjun.

Jeong Eui stood there, confused. In a minute, when Yeonjun's breath rate got normal, Beomgyu pulled away.
"You can go home eui, I need to talk to him"

She just nodded and walked away, taking care of Yeonjun's stuff. "I'll drop them at your house". Yeonjun nodded.

Beomgyu stepped away from Yeonjun. "You lied to me"

Yeonjun sighed and nodded.

"That's so selfish of you sir!"
"Selfish? I was only thinking of you when I did that!"
"Did you think it was easy for me to understand the fact that you only stayed around me because I helped you with all of this transformation stuff and went away because everything became normal!?"

"That alone made me think how selfish you are. Your letter didn't tell me the fact that you were lying about this, neither did I dream about it-"
Yeonjun held Beomgyu close up to him, "I didn't mean to hurt you. I just didn't want to burden you-"
"Burden what!? I liked yo-"
Beomgyu sighed and continued, lowering his tone, "I liked your company. You were my first friend"

Yeonjun pulled away, "I know beomgyu. I know all of that. I am so sorry I had to do it"
"I don't know why you would think that you were a burden to me", there was abrupt silence within the two of them.

"Anyways, I need to complete my shopping. Stick around if you don't want to turn into a cat"

Yeonjun chuckled and boldly held Beomgyu's hand. "Physical touch". He stated.

Beomgyu walked into the stores and picked everything he liked while Yeonjun just observed him and nodded with a smile whenever Beomgyu looked at him. "Soobin said yellow color would look good on me"
"Any color would look good on you"
"Stop being so nice"
"Oh? I'm just being honest"

"Beomgyu, can I drop you home?"
"Yeah, thanks. I'll take it as a payment for helping you out today"
"Oh come on!"
"Just kidding. Do you need anything else? Like, you can take my shirt or something?"
"The necklace doesn't work sometimes as well"
"Try fresh stuff. Give me the necklace, I'll wear it for some time and then give it to you"

Yeonjun took out the necklace from his pocket and gave it to Beomgyu. Yeonjun drove Beomgyu to his house, it was dark already. Yeonjun got off when they reached and so did Beomgyu. The both boys were about to enter the house when they felt another presence around them. Beomgyu looked back to see an old man standing there, Yeonjun said, "priest!"
Beomgyu looked at Yeonjun in confusion.

The priest chuckled, "I like this day"

"Priest, can you be more specific about what you said the other day?"
"No, but I would like to say something else"

"Flowers will blossom but only when you remember to give water to the plant"

The priest didn't disappear suddenly this time. He walked closer to Beomgyu and petted his head before disappearing.

Both boys stood there. Confused as ever.

..CARE IS AN IMPORTANT INGREDIENT