NO BED OF ROSES || JAEYONG

➸TWENTY-FOUR

"Why do you have so much flowers around the house? Does you mom like?" Taeyong asked, looking out the window, bored to death. There was all kinds of flowerpots and flowers on the window ledge. Not that he minded, he liked flowers and all kinds of other plants too.

Two days and nights had passed which they had spent in the house in boredom while Jaehyun's parents were at work. They had watched a couple of movies, talked a little about things that didn't matter and waited that something would happen. Now Taeyong couldn't take the silence anymore.

"Yeah, she does. She actually works at a garden nearby. She takes care of it. That's why we moved some time ago so you don't remember this house. You should see our backyard, it's like a jungle in the summer." Jaehyun explained, having stopped reading at some book. Taeyong turned to him with curious eyes.

"What?" Jaehyun raised his brow.

"Can I s-see it?" Taeyong asked. Maybe he had wanted to be a gardener at some point in his life.

"You're...interested?" Jaehyun was confused. Taeyong nodded eagerly. "Maybe we could visit at mom's work place too. It's kinda beautiful place. Our backyard is just a mess."

"Yes! Can we go?!" He stood up. Jaehyun was confused of his enthusiastic reaction.

"Now?"

"We got nothing better to do, right?"

"We could always watch-"

"No more movies! They're boring. I wanna do something else. Like which includes going out of this house. Not that I don't like your house. It's pretty and cozy-" Taeyong blabbered, enthusiastic.

"O-okay. But at least wear a hat. Just in case." Jaehyun got up from the sofa.

"You need to wear a hat too."

They went outside and walked for five minutes, Jaehyun leading them somewhere. It was chilly even if the sky was clear. Taeyong kept walking in safe distance from Jaehyun, afraid of his shoulder accidentally brushing to Jaehyun's if he walked any closer.

"Here." Jaehyun stopped in front of a big glass building. "There's a lot of plants on the inside but at the backyard too."

They went inside the garden house and they were right away greeted with warm and humid air.

"Yuno, how are you here? Did you come to show Taeyongie around?" Jaehyun's mom spotted them first and walked towards them.

"Yeah, decided to stop by." Jaehyun laughed awkwardly.

"Well, I can show you two around." They agreed.

"I'd like to." Taeyong replied.

They made a tour around the house. There was a cactus room, a lot of rooms with different kinds of flowers and rooms with green plants neither of them had ever heard of. There was even palm trees and a water fountain inside the house. It was amazing. Taeyong seemed to enjoy much.

They spent half an hour walking around the maze like house. They had discarded their jackets as the air was too warm.

"Oh I need to go back to work now. See you around." Mrs. Jung left the two of them alone.

"So what do you think?" Jaehyun asked.

"I was just wondering why we never came here sooner?" Taeyong was looking around. He studied the tag reading: 'ipomoea alba' in front of a long vine.

"I didn't know you were into these kind of things."

"Right. Fair enough." They continued walking next to the little pond. "Ohh fish!"