"You shouldn't accept help from just anybody. You have to be more careful, you'll never know what you'll get yourself into."

I wish I had taken his advice..

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The harsh November winds raced through the streets of Ebonwell, reminding those that remained outside winter was no more than a month away. Despite the biting wind chilling the world it raced through, people were still out walking the darkened night streets. Some were finding ways to enjoy the chilled night life while others sought refuge from the cold in their cars or nearby businesses that were open late within the evening. 

One such establishment was getting quite a few customers trying to stay out of the cold. Jin's Late Night, a local bar located on the south side of Ebonwell. Most of the cities citizens often had drinks there when off work while others went for the pool tournaments and late night reruns of the previous weeks football games. However, that night for one person, it was a place to relieve some of the days hardships and temporarily drink away unwanted emotions and feelings. A temporary fix to forgetting for the night. 

"What does Hoseok have that I don't?" 

Kihyun whined, slowly bringing his glass to his lips, taking yet another drink from the ever growing collection of liquor bottles beside him. He could see them from out of the corner of his eyes, but he didn't care how many were there so long as they did what they were supposed to. Make him forget that the man who had his full attention, his heart without knowing it, had found interest in another person. A person that he couldn't begin to comprehend as to why. 

All his thinking was beginning to give him quite the headache, causing a soft whimper to escape from his lips. All he wanted to do was to forget for the night and move on come morning, no matter how impossible that seemed in that second. 

What did Hoseok have that he didn't? What was he lacking that this. . . person had?

He could cook and do every day household chores, he was clean and an organized person. Sure, he wasn't as built or muscular as Hoseok was, but he was a decent weight and he was handsome as well. Lord knew that he wasn't a virgin, knowing his way around how to please someone in bed. He felt he had everything that someone needed to be happy, which was why he didn't understand why someone else was chosen over him. 

With his depressing thoughts racing through his mind, Kihyun raised his glass once more to his lips and tilted it back to take a drink of what was left inside his glass. However, to his sudden surprise, nothing had come out. He pulled back the glass from his mouth and glanced inside and stared. Maybe if he stared long enough the glass would end up refilling itself, but that was not the case. 

"See, even the drinks leave me." 

A pout had formed upon his moist plump lips, setting the glass down upon the bar he sat it. His feet dangling off the ground due to his shorter stature. His head lowered slowly, resting gently upon the bar as one hand continued to hold the now empty glass as if it was the only thing keeping him from falling completely. 

Kihyun hadn't put his head down longer than two seconds when a cold gust of wind blew right over his small frame. Involuntary shivers raced through his entire body, the sudden chill of the air snagging the warmth from his body. He, however, thought nothing of it, pretty sure it was another patron to come wallow within their own self pity. The bar itself had been rather warm with the heaters blasting fully, so it wouldn't have been surprising if a stray gust of wind had come from outside, sneaking in as someone entered the establishment. 

"A bar is no place to lay your head. Do you even care about what filthy animals could be stalking you this very moment?" 

The pout that had been on Kihyun's face quickly turned into a full on frown when his self loathing was interrupted by the most ignorant of voices. 

Slowly, Kihyun lifted his head up off the bar, his jet black bangs slipping into his eyes to obscure his vision ever so slightly. As he turned to face the creep behind him, the plan, give him a piece of his mind and tell him to go away. The guy was probably a stalker himself, but Kihyun was still going to see what the man wanted despite having it set to tell him to go away. 

"The only filthy animal I see is-" 

The words had stopped the moment that Kihyun's bright blue orbs landed upon the man behind him. His eyes were drinking in the stranger, one amazingly gorgeous detail at a time. The man's black hair was the color of ravens, only made to glisten against the rays of the bar's ceiling lights. Not in a slicked back greasy way that the style was meant to give, but in a stunning wet, just out of the shower kind of way. His right eyebrow had a piercing in it that only drew him to the beautiful brown eyes that were staring back at him. They were so unreal yet so inviting, Kihyun had trouble turning away from them. The clearness of his pale skin, he had never met anyone with such perfect skin before. 

He would have been lying if he said he wasn't jealous of the man standing before him. 

How could anyone be so sexy? Even HIS looks were put to shame. That's when Kihyun noticed the devilish smirk that tugged upon those luscious lips as the stranger spoke. 

"Excuse me, were you talking to me? Last time I checked," 

The deep masculine tone within his voice resulted in a trillion little hair raising goosebumps to race across Kihyun's entire body. He would have given anything to listen to that voice every second of every day. Even just to hear it once more, right in that very moment, that alone would have been enough for him. 

It appeared as if he was getting his wish. 

"Who am I kidding, I know, I look more satisfying than these low excuses for human beings." 

"Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?" 

He had no idea where the sudden rush of bravery had come from, but he had no intentions of apologizing for it. Not when it seemed to tug at the stranger's attention and the sudden thrill it gave Kihyun, he wasn't going to let go of it any time soon.