Jongin finds Kyungsoo in a mall. Or maybe it's vice versa, because it's the smaller man who addresses him first.
"Um, excuse me, Mister," pipes a quiet voice. "I need to get something, but your foot is in the way."
Jongin, lanky and graceless, shuffles to the side, and watches how the unfamiliar boy dives behind a garbage can and seconds later triumphantly emerges with a blue marble clenched in his small fist.
"Did you lose your marbles?" Jongin awkwardly jokes as he watches the orb disappear into a jar full of those identical to it, and the boy's already large eyes grow wider.
"Wait..." He whispers, "you can see them?"