3 hours.

"we've known each other for 3 hours and you already want to go out with me. why?" wonwoo asks curiously.

"cause i think you're interesting." mingyu tells him nonchalantly. mingyu doesn't even think twice about the question thrown at him. he just wants to get to know wonwoo. he felt like there was more to him. he wants to know what makes him laugh, he wants to know what he thinks about at 3 am, he wants to know about the things that bother him the most, he wants to see every aspect of who he was.

mingyu feels like wonwoo was so much more. he doesn't even feel it, honestly, he knew it.

"how can you tell?" wonwoo raises an eyebrow, looking at mingyu.

"i just know." mingyu shrugs and smiles. he states it as simple as it is.

"sounds fake but....okay." wonwoo rolls his eyes and leans back farther away from mingyu.

"why? d-do you not want to go out with me?" mingyu questions. he feels a sudden rush of worry. "it's okay if you don't want to." mingyu looks down to his fingers which he fumbled with. this was probably all a mistake.

"no.. no its not that. its just- i'm not exactly interesting or funny or cool. i don't want to disappoint you." wonwoo glances at his hands. he tugs on his sweater again. mingyu notices it was something he constantly did whenever he was nervous.

mingyu sighs in relief. "hey, i am literally stuck inside an elevator. and i'd rather have you with me than anyone else. i think that says something." mingyu grabs wonwoo's nervous hands. he holds them gently, not too hard but not too light, just enough to reassure him that he was fine.

mingyu stares at wonwoo. he could finally see him up close. he looked at his eyes, his nose, his lips. he looked at his pale skin and he thought of how much he wanted to touch them even for a second.

"i've known you for a while now, you know?" wonwoo mumbles as he clenches his jaw.

"what do you mean?" mingyu suddenly lets go of wonwoo's hands and stares at him in anticipation.

"not personally of course but, i always see you around. especially in that little convenience store across the road. you sit at the corner of the store while you ate ramen and drank cola at ungodly hours at night. it's not that i follow you or anything, but i just happen to pass by sometimes and i've always thought about how much i've wanted to talk to you, just once. because you are so beautiful and your smile is gorgeous and everything about you is almost so, well, unreal."

mingyu could not believe that words that escaped wonwoo's mouth. unreal. gorgeous. weren't these words to describe someone you were attracted to? unreal. gorgeous. those were the words mingyu uses to describe wonwoo too.

"i-i don't know what to say." mingyu gulps nervously. he sits there with his mouth slightly agape.

"y-you don't have to say anything. ugh, i feel so creepy. im sorry." wonwoo covers his face with his palm in embarassment.

"it's not. don't worry." mingyu grabs wonwoo's hands like before and removes it from his face. once again, he could see wonwoo's face up close. it was still beautiful.

i think you're unreal too, wonwoo. i think you're beautiful too. mingyu thinks to himself.

"i've always wanted to talk to you and now that you're finally here, man, am i a wreck. you're even better looking up close." mingyu notices wonwoo's cheeks and his ears which were both tinted slightly red.

"see, i knew you were interesting." mingyu says. and with that wonwoo smiles weakly, his nose scrunching up just a teensy bit.