drabbles / a door is not a door when it's ajar iii
#005
lay + kai / pg / 376 words
mermaid!au: yixing and jongin's first meeting
Yixing met Jongin for the first time when Jongin’s best friend Zitao pushed him into his home, almost knocking him over.
“Oh, hello there,” he had greeted him, surprised but genial.
“GLUBGLUBGLUB,” Jongin had replied.
It had taken a bit of fumbling, but he’d managed to get the strange boy back to the edge of the lake. He was quite far out and a bit of a handful, but before long the two of them were flopped on the narrow pebbled beach of sorts, gasping for breath.
“GAH. I’m going to kill Tao, that crazy bastard!”
“Indeed. Who’s Tao?”
Yixing watched the boy lying next to him turn over, eye him up and down and turn a very pretty shade of pink. “Um…” he mumbled, screwing his eyes shut, “Tao is my friend. He pushed me overboard because a bug landed on my shoulder, or something. I can only guess but that’s the only thing that makes him scream that high.”
Humming, Yixing had studied him with curious eyes. The boy had overgrown brown hair plastered onto his forehead and down the bridge of his nose, his skin a golden hue. It had been so warm against his - Yixing hadn’t been out of the lake for long in many months, and he’d almost forgotten the feeling of bodies that weren’t as cold as his in his tailed form.
“Were you headed to the docks? You were really off course from pretty much...everything,” he informed him, sitting up. “They’re about a ten minute walk from here. I’ll take you, if you want.”
“Oh, yeah. Thank you…?”
“Yixing.”
The boy blinked. His cheeks were still rosy, and he stared with frightening intensity at his toes. “I’m Jongin. Listen, Yixing, can you do me favour?”
Yixing stood up and looked toward the trees in the general direction of the road. “Yeah?”
“You’re kind of...do you have any clothes to put on?”
For a second, Yixing was confused. Then he looked down at his very, very naked body. This time, it was him blushing.
“Right.”
(“So...I really want to thank you for helping me back to shore. I really can’t swim. Can I...take you for lunch, or…”
“Sure!”
Yixing really did think that Jongin’s red face was very cute.)
#006
baekhyun + chen / g / 697 words
mermaid!au: baekhyun and jongdae's first impression of university life
Jongdae’s first impression of university was best represented by the first conversation he had when he arrived on campus.
He’d just gotten off the bus, and was on the lookout for the neighbourhood brat from his suburb - that being his childhood friend, Oh Sehun. It had been easy enough to locate the boy, swamped in his long thin limbs on his low perch by the bus stop.
“Hey, Sehu-”
“Do you think Naruto or Bleach is better, Jongdae? Marvel or DC?” Sehun looked up from his phone, face scrunched up like he was ready to blow a fuse. Alarmed, Jongdae took a few steps back. For a brief moment, wasn’t sure if he was supposed to know what that meant - perhaps he shouldn’t have started in second semester, if he was that out of the loop. Then he remembered that he was basing that off talking to Sehun, of all people
“Uh…”
“Nevermind.” The younger boy stuffed his phone in his pocket and gave Jongdae a bright smile like nothing had happened. “It’s good to see you. Let’s get your stuff to the car.”
“It’s good to see you too, Sehunnie.”
They’d taken off, Jongdae feeling happy but utterly confused.
It was a first impression he’d always maintained was more or less correct.
☆ ☆ ☆
Baekhyun’s first impression of university was of finding himself lying flat on his back, staring up at a pair of beautiful brown eyes, with absolutely no recollection of how he got there.
“Oh my god, I’m such a walking hazard. I’m so sorry. Hey, are you okay?”
The eyes looked over him, checking for injuries, and he opened his mouth but no words came out. Not that he really noticed. He was too distracted by the eyelashes fanning out before him. Normal people’s eyelashes weren’t that long, were they? A new voice came through the daze he was caught in, barely breaking through.
“Hey, Sehun, have you seen Baekhyun? He was just - wait, nevermind, there he is.”
Two strong hands wound themselves under his arms and hauled him upright. He didn’t pay them much attention - mermaids had to help each other out when they were learning to move around on land, and even if it had been a long time since then, the feeling was familiar. The eyes became part of a face, eye level to him - a strong jaw and delicately curled thin lips, straight eyebrows pulled together into a frown of concern. A very HANDSOME face.
It took Baekhyun a while to register that Yixing was pulling away from him now that he seemed somewhat capable of standing up. “Heading up to the dorms?”
“Yeah,” a tall boy who had been standing off to the side replied. “I was just going to get Jongdae settled in and then take him to meet everybody. Jongdae, this is Yixing. We do dance together. Yixing, will you be there?”
“Yeah. I’ll see you then!”
With a hand on his back, Yixing steered Baekhyun away. Belatedly, he turned his head to follow the movement of the two they left behind, feeling almost overwhelmed by the view he received of a very pert bottom. He groaned.
“You’ve been here, what? Ten minutes? And you’re already having major troubles keeping on your feet. Really, Baek, I can’t take you anywh-”
“Who is that guy? He’s perfect, Xing, I feel like God has personally blessed my eyes with the sight of him. Did you see those cheekbones? They could cut me in half and I’d die happy from the honour. Nobody should be allowed to be that good looking, I swear, I can’t feel my legs. JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL.”
Yixing, laughing, had listened to him rant all the way up to his room.
Months later, Baekhyun would whine that getting swept off his feet by handsome men was a misleading first impression of university and he wanted a refund.
(He still thinks that it was an accurate first impression of Jongdae, though, and Jongdae doesn’t tell him how much he harassed Sehun to properly introduce him to ‘the cute guy I flattened’.
Sehun does instead, and gets hit many times.)