THE TRAIN (1/1)

It was a fine and crispy morning for Heungsoo who was getting ready for school.  He usually takes the train to school and would get up at the appointed time in time to have a good breakfast before heading out of the house for school. “Bye eomma!” He belted out before he left the house. He looked up at the sky and sighed a little. The weather is rather cold as South Korea is now in the middle of autumn. Normally, his usual gang consisting of Jung Ho, the creepy dimpled guy, Yi Kyung, the follower and Ji Hoon, trying to be good at his studies but not quite making it there guy always wait for him at the train station which was about 10 mins walk from his home.This day was no different from other school days when Heungsoo showed up at the usual spot where his gang always gathered together waiting for each other to show up to go to school together. “Hey, fartface,” Jung Ho greeted Heungsoo warmly, flashing his creepy dimpled smile. “Hey,” Yi Kung mumbled while his eyes are still glued to the game on his handphone and Ji Hoon sort of nodded in acknowledgement of Heungsoo’s presence while looking dazed like he had just been listening to some shocking news.“Well good morning,” Heungsoo gave his own greeting wondering how he was so lucky to have such “good” friends.Together the 4 friends waited at the platform for the train to come. Heungsoo was chatting with his friends for sometime, his eyes did the usual roaming around when they landed on a very good looking boy on the opposite side of the platform. To say Heungsoo’s breath was taken away was the understatement of the year. His voice trailed off as he took in the young guy’s handsome features. Doe eyes, lush plump reddish lips that curled into a slight smile, fair skin that put snow white’s fair complexion to shame and topped with a mass of dark reddish brown hair, the fringe barely teasing the thick eyebrows. All in all, the guy looked like he came out of some ethereal fairy tale book instead of being right here in the 21st century looking unreal amongst the rushing crowd of students and office workers. He had on a pair of earphones and was looking down at his handphone not noticing anyone at all. Needless to say, he was totally unaware of a pair of eyes looking at him intently from the other side of the platform.Heungsoo was still dazedly staring across the wide expanse of platform when his train pulled into their station and all visions were cut off with the crowd of students and workers pushing into the trains. “Honestly man, what the hell are you staring at?” Jung Ho, the first one to notice that Heungsoo had since long ago abandoned their conversation by spacing out suddenly and remaining silent for what seemed like an unnaturally long time. “Sorry, I was looking at something,” Heungsoo said to cover up his earlier embarrassing act of being caught staring at a guy instead of girls or something more neutral. “Something or someone?” Yi Kyung muttered nonchalantly smirking. One thing about Yi Kyung was he may look like a follower, hardly talk or contribute anything useful in class but he’s got the sharpest mind around and he’s super observant like how he was earlier when he saw Heungsoo staring at the handsome guy on the opposite platform of the train station.Heungsoo could barely contain his surprised look that his friends are aware of his sexuality or his interest in the same gender. He hardly looked at girls since forever. Jung Ho narrowed his eyes a little at Heungsoo when he heard Yi Kyung’s words and wondered, “Well, I knew you swing that way Heungsoo. So who were you staring at really?” Jung Ho thought he could help his clueless friend here since Jung Ho was the sort of guy who knows things. He has a wide network of friends even from other schools. He would know who the guy is of course. “You know who I was looking at?” Heungsoo questioned in disbelief still amazed at Jung Ho’s connection and his friends’ observation of him. Ji Hoon who finally came out of his daze shocked them all by suddenly saying, “Well he must be really gorgeous for our handsome stud Heungsoo to even take a glance.” “Well excuse you..” Heungsoo started indignantly. “OK, fine,” Jung Ho cut in. “I will find out where that mysterious stranger comes from. Did you see what school uniform, he’s in? He couldn’t be from the same school as us if he’s on the opposite platform probably taking the train to God knows where.”“Ah, school uniform..?” Heungsoo sweatdropped.Jung Ho rolled his eyes exasperated, “Oh you pervert. Did you only undress him with your eyes?? My goodness, you claim you are so observant but you didn’t see what he was wearing?”“Well, I was too mesmerised by his face, Jung Ho, come on,” Heungsoo seemed put out and internally berated himself for not noticing his uniform. Or was he even wearing a uniform.  “Well, we will just have to find out tomorrow morning then,” Jung Ho said as the train pulled into the station where their school was. They all exited the station, getting ready for a long day in school. The end of the day arrived at last, Heungsoo and his gang couldn’t wait to leave school to go to their usual haunts before finally going home for dinner and starting on their endless piles of homework.Back at the train station for the train bound towards home, Heungsoo entered the train and stood since most of the seats were taken and it was not more than 6 stops to his home, he couldn’t be bothered with the seats. He had on his music and started swaying his hips a little to the rhythmic beats coming from his earphones. He did not pay any mind to his surroundings not noticing who got on or off the train. The train reached its third station when Woobin happened to look up in case he missed his stop, he saw the guy he was staring at this morning, standing next to him. He was so surprised at the close proximity of the gorgeous guy, he forgot to breathe almost. So surprised was Heungsoo that his mouth worked faster than his brain, “Hi. I saw you this morning.” The gorgeous boy turned to look at Heungsoo with a slight frown on his pretty face. “Do I know you?” His voice totally soft and yet firm and wavering just the way Heungsoo imagined that it would. Oh Christ help me, I think I am starting to fall in love, Heungsoo was thinking as he gazed upon the handsome pretty face.It was some moments that Heungsoo suddenly realised the guy was seriously waiting for him to answer. He mentally slapped himself for spacing out. “Oh er..no I don’t think so. But I saw you this morning on the opposite platform,” Heungsoo finally let out with a tiny sigh of relief. Thank God he didn’t stutter. That would have ended very embarrassingly for his cool dude image. But the boy did give him a strange look and he’s wondering maybe he didn’t escape the embarrassing part after all and any time now, the boy is going to think he’s a total nutcase and will move further away from him. “Oh OK. So you saw me this morning,” the gorgeous boy smirked in amusement. “And?”Heungsoo frowned, “And..?” Not quite understanding what the boy was driving at. “You said you saw this morning and I assumed you wanted to talk to me or say something?” The boy was honestly looking kind of confused with the Heungsoo’s statement. Heungsoo wished he could just melt away right there out of total embarrassment when he realised the statement he made was rather vague and weird.“Ah, sorry. Sorry I didn’t mean to sound weird or anything. I just saw you and er..wanted to talk to you. Well sort of…,” Heungsoo mumbles trailed off a little unsure of how to face the rather bemused boy without sounding more weird than he already was.“My name is Namsoon,” the boy offered with a smiling face. Heungsoo stared at his smile and nearly fainted from the beauty of his full red lips dimpled beautifully at the corners. He nearly lost his faculty to react in the face of such a beauty. He mentally slapped himself for being such a bungling weirdo and snapped out of it.“I am Heungsoo,” Heungsoo readily offered to Namsoon. He has never seen such a achingly beautiful boy in his life. “So you study at Victory High huh?” Namsoon observed his outfit. “Yeah, I do. And you are oh, it’s a private school.” Finally got to see what Namsoon was wearing. It’s a private school for boys situated not too far from Victory High School. From his uniform, Heungsoo deduced that this guy must come from quite a well to do family or maybe even super rich. He wondered suddenly if it was worth it to talk to him after all and would Namsoon even consider him as friend from a not too rich background. “You are thinking again,” Namsoon looked at Heungsoo curiously. “Do you always think so much?” Heungsoo felt himself blushed, “No. Of course not. I just thought of something that’s all. Well I will be stopping at the next station. What about you?” Heungsoo felt that he wanted to know this boy even if he’s from the upper class rich society. If he was, Heungsoo wondered which family in their rich arrogant mind will allow their handsome son to travel on the train to go to a prestigious school. Wouldn’t they want to show off their affluence by dropping their sons or daughters off at the school in their big rich expensive cars?“Must be a coincidence. I drop off at the same station too.” Namsoon smiled widely again apparently glad that he’s not the only one living in this district apparently. Heungsoo was again puzzled, “You stay here?” Namsoon looked puzzled at the question. “Yeah, why? You sound shocked that I would be staying around here.” He saw Heungsoo’s fierce look and was a little shocked and began to back up abit. Just in case.Heungsoo realised that he must look a little intimidating and quickly schooled his face to a more decent look. “Oh, please of course not,” Heungsoo quickly assured Namsoon. “Please I was just thinking ridiculous thoughts. You must be a mind reader. I really do think a lot at times and most times very unnecessarily too. Sorry about that.”Namsoon looked carefully at Heungsoo’s handsome face became relaxed and after a few seconds deducing that the Heungsoo will not turn mental and attack him, he came back to the spot where he stood and smiled cautiously at him.Just when both were about to say something, the train pulled to into the station and the announcement announced the name of their station which they are to stop at. Both exited the train with smiles gracing their lips and slightly flushed cheeks.“Er, so, Namsoon, will I get to see you again?” Heungsoo asked tentatively and looking at Namsoon with a shyness he never knew he possessed.Namsoon stared down at his shoes with an unreadable expression on his face. He looked up smiling that gorgeous smile of his, “Maybe. I really got to go.” He gestured in the general direction where he was suppose to be headed. Heungsoo smiled widely, “I will see you tomorrow morning.” He stood where he was as Namsoon nodded and started to walk away towards the direction he was pointing earlier.Heungsoo didn’t know how long he stood there until he realised that he couldn’t see Namsoon anymore. A happy smile formed on his lips as he finally made his way home. This could be a friendly start to a beautiful relationship.

~~FIN~~A/N: Sorry, I am really a very lazy writer but thought of this story. I always dreamed of meeting someone on the train like this. Of course, I have no such luck. So I am writing this little fantasy of mine to share. Please don't think too badly of me.