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“You’re lucky that we are friends.” Sunoo murmurs, stuffing his laptop in his backpack, “Or else I would’ve told you to fuck off.” 

“Friends or not,” Jungwon grabs his backpack from the floor, “You would’ve still told me to fuck off.” 

Sunoo grins, slinging his backpack on his shoulder, “True, but we both know I wouldn’t pick up an extra shift at work for anyone else.” 

And he’s not wrong. Despite Sunoo’s love working as a Dj at his university’s radio show, having to work almost every single day after long draining hours of lectures isn’t something that he wants to spend his free time on. 

To be quite honest, Sunoo was looking forward to his day off from the radio station as it had been a few days since his last break thanks to Ni-ki, who is always calling off of work because he’s too “sick” or he can’t find a ride.

Sunoo calls bullshit on the last point because one, the radio station is right across from his dorm building and two, that boy skates everywhere and anywhere. 

Now his plans of binge watching the new season of his favorite Netflix series and scrolling through Tiktok to send stupid videos to his sister are all ruined.

 Well, it’s not like his sister ever replies to the videos he sends anyway and that damn show hasn’t had a good season since his favorite character got killed off, which was two years ago.

Don’t ask why he’s still watching it. 

“Are you hanging out with that one guy?” Sunoo prompts, once they were out of the studying room.

“Hyung,” Jungwon simply rolls his eyes, “I’ve been dating that guy for three weeks now.” 

“Oh?” Sunoo stops in his tracks, scratching the back of his neck, “Where the hell have I been?” he says with an awkward laugh as he continues to walk. 

The past few weeks was a complete torture for Sunoo with constant assignments piling one after another and having to work extra shifts at his job, (once again, thanks to Ni-ki) that he didn’t realize that his best friend (his only friend) has found himself a boyfriend.

“So, it’s serious?” Sunoo coughs a little to clear the embarrassment that he’s obviously a horrible friend for not knowing such huge information. 

Jungwon scratches his ear, “Well, yeah.”

Sunoo gapes at him for a moment, then breaks into a burst of laughter. 

“Jungwon, why do you sound so unsure about your own relationship?” 

His friend shrugs, “I don’t know, I guess I’m not used to being in a relationship like this .” Jungwon explains, kicking the small rocks once they were outside the building. 

“Like?”

“Like I don’t know!” Jungwon shouts, using his hands to show his frustration. 

Sunoo decides to stay quiet, he knows better than to continue prodding his friend with more questions especially when he’s visibly upset. He shivers at the thought from last year when he made the mistake to ask Jungwon about his insoles. Sunoo still has the scar to remind him every day. 

Jungwon sighs, running a hand through his soft hair, “He’s taking me to the beach for dinner tonight.” he whispers. 

“Oh no, not the beach.” Sunoo says, sarcasm in his tone. 

“But…” Jungwon cuts in, sending him a glare, “I’m so used to cheap fast food dates whenever I was with Sungchan, and now that I’m dating Jay, everything is so different, it’s kinda overwhelming.”

“You deserve something different,” Sunoo adds, “You deserve someone who isn’t afraid to show you how much they like you.”

“Are you saying that Sungchan never liked me?”

“That’s not what I said. But if you were to compare your relationship with him and his current relationship, then yeah there’s a huge difference.” Sunoo points out, as harsh as it may sound, it was unfortunately true.

Jungwon heaves a silent sigh, his head hanging low as he gets reminded of how awful his last relationship with Sungchan was. 

“Hey,” Sunoo bumps shoulders with Jungwon, “You’ve moved on already so go enjoy that nice dinner at the beach.” 

Jungwon finally looks up, cracking a small smile when he sees his friend’s soft features, staring at him with genuine affection. 

“Thanks.” Jungwon blurts out, in a mumble, “For someone that’s never been in a relationship, you’re pretty good at this kind of thing.” 

“Of course I am!” Sunoo gushes in a teasing lilt in his voice as he flips his non-existent hair, “I know my worth and I was dealing with you and your shitty ex!” he jokes before Jungwon sends him a harsh punch on his arm. 

“I was kidding!” he whines, rubbing the pain in his arm. 

But Sunoo and Jungwon both know that he wasn’t kidding. Sungchan was a shitty ex and Sunoo had to deal with Jungwon’s constant tears almost every other night for three years, and maybe just maybe, that’s one of the few reasons why Sunoo has such a hard time finding someone. 

And no, it isn’t because he’s “ugly”— His sister loves to joke and say “Well, maybe you’re just ugly, have you ever thought about that?”— Sunoo knows that his pretty face and banging body (he likes to say) isn’t the issue. 

The issue is that no one seems to fit ‘The Kim Sunoo’s Perfect Ideal Man’, which consists of a long (unrealistic) list of traits his dream boyfriend should have. 

Jungwon still gives him shit for it. 

Number 1 : Must be 6’0 feet tall

“You’re not even 6’0 feet yourself?”

“So just because I’m not 6’0, I don’t deserve a nice, handsome, tall, scrumptious man?”

“Don’t ever use that word again.”

“Got it.”

Numero 2 : Someone that works out

“Do you even know a thing or two about fitness?”

“I literally did hapkido as a child and I’m currently doing pilates.”

“Okay.”

“I’m starting to think you don’t want me to find love.”

Number III : A smile that melts my heart

“You could’ve just said, ‘A nice smile’, why would you say something so cringy?”

“Because I’m not going to fall for just anyone with ‘a nice smile’, I have to be specific.”

“Whatever you say.”

“Jungwon, be honest, do you hate me?”

Number Four : Can fit any hairstyle and hair color

“Why should that be a priority?” 

“Just think about it, what if they have black hair one day and then blonde the next and it looks bad on them? Call me superficial, but you will not catch me walking around with an ugly man.” 

“Practice what you preach.” 

“What the hell is that supposed to mean?”

Number 다섯 : Uncut, slightly curved up, tip is #eb96a7, base is #f2b685, flavor is slightly salty, 7.37343 inches long, and light trimmed with a vein at coordinate (3,6)

“You need to die, that’s all I have to say.”

“I said nothing wrong.”

“It ends now.”

Kim Sunoo is NOT the problem here, clearly it’s the lack of men that won’t step up and fit his standards. Is it really that hard? He’s not asking for much. 

☆

Before his shift, Sunoo had the chance to meet Jungwon’s boyfriend officially. 

By officially he means having a conversation with the man in person rather than just reading the screenshots of the awful, cringy text messages he would send to Jungwon. 

“Stop laughing, he’s just a hopeless romantic.”

“Hopeless I can see that.”

And if Jungwon is into that, then that’s his business and his business only, who is Sunoo to judge?

Oh right, his best fucking friend, he’s totally judging Jungwon’s boyfriend.

But to his surprise, Jungwon’s boyfriend was nothing as he thought he would be. 

Pathetic? Hopeless? Creepy?

No. 

This man, wait, let’s rephrase that. 

Park Jongseong (who likes to be called Jay) is the definition of perfection. Sweet, charismatic, and hot? How the hell did his best friend bag him? Those weird, cringy text messages did him no justice because Sunoo couldn’t believe that the man who stood in front of him holding Jungwon by the waist was the same guy that was pathetically pinning over his best friend for a whole year.

Sunoo made sure to make a mental note to ask Jungwon after his date if Jay has any brothers or friends. He's positive that Jay surrounds himself with people just like him.

Sunoo makes his way to the radio station, pouting his way there as his mind fills him with upsetting thoughts about his boring love life. 

“I’m a nice guy, I’m also pretty and very fun to be around with! Dear universe, why do you hate me so much!” Sunoo looks up to ask the cloudy sky, assuming the universe is looking down at him. Astrology bitches be like. 

“The next stranger I speak to, I promise I’ll make the effort to get to know him, give them a chance, like them for who they are and-”

“Hey, are you Kim Sunoo?” 

Sunoo looks at the guy in front of him, a short, scrawny, freshman kid.

“No, wrong person.”

“But!”

Sunoo literally flew. Ran so fast that smoke came out of his shoes trying to scurry away. 

“What the hell? That doesn’t count, I wasn’t even done talking!”

☆

Sunoo quickly forgets about the little beef he had with the universe the second he walks inside the radio station when he hears Jake’s screeching voice calling for him. 

“Sunoo!” Jake yells as he jumps out of his seat, running to give Sunoo a strong and firm hug, almost picking him up. 

“Let go of me.” Sunoo croaks, using his fingers to pinch Jake’s waist for him to let him go but it was no use, Jake may be shorter than him but he’s a lot stronger. 

Jake laughs nervously and puts his hands up in surrender. “Sorry, it’s just that you’re so freaking cute.” 

Sunoo puts his backpack down on the table as he glares at Jake. “This cute aggression of yours is getting out of hand, it has gotten out of hand, it needs to stop.” He says sitting down, “I’m tired of fearing for my life whenever you are around.”

“What did I do?!” Jake whines, giving Sunoo his best puppy face.

“You texted me last night at 3 a.m that you wanted to kidnap me, skin me, and eat me for breakfast, lunch, and dinner all because you thought my cheeks were so cute to you.” 

Jake gives him a lopsided smile. “I said all of that? Heh, sorry.” he rubs the back of his neck, his eyes looking everywhere but at Sunoo. “By the way, I thought you were off today?” Jake asks to change the topic. 

“Jungwon asked if I could take his shift tonight.” Sunoo responds as he looks over his notes and script. “Hey, do me a favor and bring me the other headphones from the storage closet, these hurt my ears.” 

“Which storage closet? The one over there?” He points at the door behind Sunoo.

Sunoo looks up from where he is sitting, raising an eyebrow at the older male across. “Yes, Jake. The one where we keep everything in.”

“Oh, well there’s someone in there fixing the A.C vent.”

“Jake, we don’t have an A.C vent in there? And Wendy didn’t tell me that someone was coming to fix anything?”

“There’s not?” Jake is taken back, “Well the guy looked legit so I let him go inside.”

Sunoo stands up quickly causing his rolling chair to go backwards, “Is he still in there?

“I think so? He also brought a girl inside to help him… Wait.” His eyes widen at the realization then a pout forming, “Oh, I fucked up Sunoo.”

Sunoo pinches the bridge of his nose as he could feel the oncoming headache forming. “I swear, if I see bare butt cheeks when I open that door, you’re fucking dead.”

Sunoo marches his way to the closet door with Jake following behind him like a lost puppy, holding on to Sunoo’s shoulders. 

A beat of silence follows once the two guys were facing the door, mentally and physically (Sunoo might have to drop kick someone) bracing themselves for either a man working on an imaginary A.C vent or some plain ass cheeks.

The younger male grabs the door handle, gripping onto it like a man holding a Popeye’s chicken sandwich. Then without any more time to waste, Sunoo opens that door with such strength and quickness you would think he’s getting cheated on.

“What the actual fuck is going on here?!” 

The first thing Sunoo sees is a tall guy dressed in a regular outfit, sitting down with a topless blondie on his lap as he fondles her breast and sucks on her neck.

“At least you didn’t see their butt cheeks.” Jake whispers in Sunoo’s ear, chuckling nervously as Sunoo sends him the nastiest scowl he’s ever seen on him. 

The pretty blonde girl shrieks, detaching herself from the guy’s lips and using her arm to cover herself as she quickly picks up her bra and top.

“You could’ve knocked.” The guy says, leaning back on his chair with a smug look on his face.

“Knocked?!” Sunoo says in an incredulous voice, “We don’t even know you and you have the nerve to tell me to knock at my own workplace?!” 

The guy ignores Sunoo, pulling the girl by the wrist to kiss her knuckles, “Call me.” He says lovingly to her before she runs off with a faint blush on her face. Sunoo gags at the sight, letting them both know how disgusted he was.

“You were saying?” The guy says with a smirk, getting himself comfortable on the chair by manspreading. Sunoo almost moans at the view but keeps it cool, Jake on the other hand was drooling but Sunoo doesn’t speak for him. 

“Out.” Sunoo stands his ground, “Get out while I’m being nice right now.” 

“Alright, alright.” He stands while smiling, why the fuck is he smiling for? Sunoo wonders as he watches the man dust his pants off. “Y’all should really get a new chair, this one is too stiff for my liking.” 

Sunoo crosses his arm in disbelief— Jake doing the exact same thing, for reasons he doesn’t know, maybe he just wants to look aggressive next to Sunoo.

“You must have some nerve to act like you’re here to repair an A.C vent.” Sunoo spits out, eyeing the guy from head to toe.

Okay, Sunoo admits, the guy is fucking hot.

Ridiculously hot, stupid hot, foolishly hot-

“Not my fault your friend right here is gullible,” He points to Jake with his chin. “A.C vents weren't the only thing I fixed around here.” The male leans against the door frame as he stares at Sunoo in front of him. Sunoo is going to ignore the fact that the man is currently undressing him with his eyes. 

Sunoo snaps his attention to Jake, “Are you fucking serious Jake? You’ve let him inside multiple times?!” 

Jake raises his hand defensively, “He’s never fucked me!”

Sunoo smacks his head, earning a whine from Jake. “You dumbass, I’m talking about the radio station!” 

Jake rubs his head where Sunoo had smacked him. “Oh, um yeah.” 

Sunoo gives up on him, the best he can do is just roll his eyes at his stupidity. 

“And you,” Sunoo jabs an aggressive finger on the guy’s shoulder. His nice, broad, strong should- Get yourself together Kim Sunoo!

The male stares at the finger getting jabbed onto his shoulder with amusement, lifting his head with interest as Sunoo speaks.

“Don’t you have a dorm or some other place to have sex in?” 

The guy shrugs, “Where’s the fun in that?” He teases, tilting his head to the side with a pout.

Sunoo wants to slap that stupid little grin off his face.

“You’re disgusting, please get out of my face.” Sunoo rubs the temples of his head, “Just get out,” Sunoo demands, moving to the side to give the guy some space to walk out. “I won’t report you, just stop using this place for your nasty quickies.” 

The male steps closer into Sunoo’s bubble, leaning down just slightly to meet his eyes. “I promise.” He gives Sunoo a teasing smile and Sunoo is immediately drawn to the guy’s fangs that were poking out. He straightens up and gives Sunoo one last longing look before walking away (Sunoo can finally fucking breathe).

“Yo,” Jake says after a while. “Was it just me or was that guy sexy?” 

“I hope you get fired.”

☆

Jungwon : Dude

Sunoo : what

Jungwon : We kissed

Sunoo : um, we did?

Jungwon : Boy

Jungwon : I’m talking about jay and I 

Sunoo : holy shit? how was it 😏

Jungwon : Don’t make it weird 

Jungwon : It was just a quick, soft kiss on the lips

Jungwon : We kissed twice though

Sunoo : so 

Sunoo : y’all didn’t makeout :/

Jungwon : 😑

Jungwon : We are taking it slow

Sunoo : boring 🥱

Sunoo : speaking of your boyfriend

Sunoo : he’s actually not that bad

Sunoo : you did good, didn’t know you had it in you

Jungwon : ??

Jungwon : You say that like I can’t find a decent guy

Sunoo : well 

Sunoo : hey.. does he have like a brother lol

Jungwon : He’s an only child

Jungwon : And even if he did, I wouldn’t introduce you to him

Sunoo : and to think we bathed together when we were kids

Sunoo : 😒😒😒

Sunoo : does he at least have some single friends??

Sunoo : i am desperate now i feel lonely

Jungwon : I’ve only met one of his friends and he’s taken

Jungwon : But he does have another best friend 

Jungwon : Let me ask him

☆

Sunghoon fumbles for his keys in his pockets, reaching in deep to look for them and aggressively pulling both of his pockets inside out, but to his luck… 

Nothing. 

He wonders if he had left them on the counter by accident before leaving the apartment; he tends to do that when he’s in a rush— Don’t ever sign up for college classes at the last minute or you’ll end up like him, taking a 7:00 a.m biology class. 

“Fuck, Jay is going to be so mad-”

“You left your keys again, didn’t you?” 

Okay. Alright. 

Let’s get one thing and one thing straight and clear, Sunghoon is afraid of many things.

He’s afraid of the 10 year old boy with the black braces who stares into Sunghoon’s soul each time he visits his mom back at home. 

“I don’t like him.”

“Hun, he’s only 10, be nice to him.”

“No, he smells like hot dog water and he looks at me like he’s got a problem.”

“He looks up to you.” 

“I’m just saying, if he looks at me like that one more time, it’s on sight.” 

“He’s 10, Park Sunghoon.”

He’s afraid of people with nice, round, perky asses! 

“No, listen to me, if I have a baddie with a fat ass, what am I supposed to do with it? I can’t handle that much ass, that’s a blessing!” 

“Yeah, if.” 

“Are you saying I can’t find a baddie with a nice ass, Lee Heeseung?”

“No, I just think you can’t find anyone.” 

He’s afraid of Heeseung’s girlfriend, Yoo Jimin (Karina).

“Just spend the night, dude.” 

“I can’t, Karina wanted me to spend the night at her place.” 

“Bro, who cares? You tell her that she isn’t the boss of you, she can’t fucking tell you what to do? What is she going to do? Cry?”

“I’m going to tell her you said all this.” 

“Please don’t, I beg you. The last time you told on me, she kicked me in the nuts.”

And lastly, he’s afraid of Jay. Especially when he forgets his keys. 

Sunghoon shakes his head. “What?” He laughs, trying his best to play it cool. “Of course, I didn’t.” He turns to face his best friend/roommate who just stares at him, unmoving. 

“Sunghoon.” 

“Jay.” 

Jay sighs, shoving Sunghoon aside as he takes out his own keys to open the door. “You’re lucky that I’m in a good mood right now.” Jay says once the door unlocks for them. 

“That’s you in a good mood?” Sunghoon mutters under his breath as he follows Jay behind. 

Sunghoon spots his keys on the counter, quickly running to grab them before Jay notices (Jay noticed the key long ago). 

“So,” Sunghoon starts off awkwardly, shoving his key inside his backpack. “How was the date?” He asks, swinging his feet as he sits on the stool. 

Jay only hums as he gently folds his cashmere sweater. “It was wonderful, I really like him.” Sunghoon sees the tiniest smile pulling the corner of Jay’s lips and a faint blush on his cheeks. 

“I’m happy for you man, it was about time you made a move on him.” 

“Yeah, it was.” Jay sighs with a content smile. “I’m just thankful he gave me a chance, I’m going to make him the happiest.” 

“I sure hope so, you didn’t spend a whole year pining over him pathetically for nothing!” Sunghoon teases, earning a smack on the back of his head.  

“And to think I was going to help you get with his friend.” Jay says, grabbing a water bottle from the fridge. 

Sunghoon tilts his head, staring at Jay like he was the craziest man alive (He isn’t, Sunghoon is crazier). “Wait, what?” 

“Yeah,” Jay replies with a slight nod, leaning against the counter. “Jungwon was asking if I had any single friends for his best friend.” 

“And?” Sunghoon leans over, impatiently waiting for an answer.

Jay backs up with a look of disgust. “Damn dude, back up.” He says, judging at how desperate his best friend was getting. “I told him I might have a friend and-”

Jay was cut short by Sunghoon’s quick response. “And you told him it was me, right? I’m the single friend, right? Is the friend cute? Hot? Nice ass? You know I love someone with a nice, round-”

“Dude, calm the fuck down.” Jay shoves Sunghoon back to his seat, he didn’t realize that Sunghoon was damn near crawling on the counter. “Acting like you’ve never been with someone.” 

Sunghoon groans in his seat, letting his body loose. “I just want to fall in love, man.” He sits up straight to look at Jay again. “I’ve only been a good fuck, no one ever takes me seriously.” Sunghoon lets his head fall on the counter. 

If Jay had not known Sunghoon, he would’ve honestly felt bad for him. 

The thing is, Jay knows Sunghoon. A little too much for his liking. 

“Sunghoon, be oh so serious for once in your unserious life please.” 

Sunghoon looks up, both pouting and glaring at Jay. “You’re my best friend, why would you say that to me?” 

Jay shrugs, making his way to the living room with Sunghoon following behind because Sunghoon just loves to follow Jay everywhere. Sunghoon once said that Jay was like his childhood blanket, just so small and cuddly. 

Jay ain’t like that one bit. 

“Because you say the most out of pocket things ever!” Jay sits on the couch, shoving Sunghoon to the other side because he was about ready to sit on his lap. 

“Nuh uh! What have I said that was just so vile for you?” The younger asks in disbelief.

“You asked Karina if she’s ever pegged Heeseung.” Jay replies seriously.

“That was one time!”

“Yeah! But it was our first time meeting her!” 

“I still think you’re overreact-”

“Or that time we spent the winter holiday at my grandma’s house and you asked my grandma if-”

“Okay enough!” Sunghoon hushes by throwing a couch pillow at Jay. “You said you would take that to the grave.”

Sunghoon throws his head back, closing his eyes as he rubs his forehead. “Okay, I get it. I might not be the best person there is, but if you help me out I promise I'll be normal.” He begs, rubbing his hands together in pleading motion with a cute pout. 

Jay hates when he does that. 

“Fine,” He groans, Jay doesn’t have the energy to deal with a pouting Sunghoon. “I’ll help you, but only because the guy is really cute and I think he will fix you.”

“Really? I trust your taste.” 

“Then I’ll set up a blind date.

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“Can you stop that?”

“I’m literally not doing anything to you Sunghoon.”

“You keep staring at me and I feel very uncomfortable right now.” 

“Where would you like me to stare at then? The floor? The ceiling? The stain on your shirt that you had for two weeks now?”

“Okay, now you’re just being mean.”

Heeseung appears from behind, holding two small iced americanos and a medium iced caramel macchiato with the other. “Who is being mean?” He asks, placing the sweet drink in front of his girlfriend Karina and the bitter drink towards Sunghoon. 

Heeseung ignores the pout forming on Sunghoon’s face. 

“But I asked for an iced vanilla latte?” Sunghoon whines, slouching in his seat like he’s some six year old child throwing a fit. 

“Do you have iced vanilla latte money? I didn’t think so.” Heeseung replies and Sunghoon shoots him a scowl as he watches his friend take a seat next to Karina, softly returning a chaste kiss on her lips as a form of thank you for the drink. 

“What does she have that I don’t?” Sunghoon asks and Karina rolls her eyes at the question—hearing it three times a week for the last two years gets quite annoying. 

“Here he goes again.” Karina says as she takes a sip out of her drink. 

Heeseung just softly laughs, lazily wrapping an arm over his girlfriend’s shoulder to pull her closer. “Well, she’s my girlfriend.” He replies nonchalantly, but no one can miss that sweet, shy smirk creeping on his face.  

“You’re choosing her over me, you know that right?” Sunghoon argues and turns to look at Karina with an accusing finger pointing towards her. “What about the times we bathed together when we were kids? Or when we graduated pre-school together? Or the time we-”

“Dude,” Heeseung interrupts. “We met in high school.” 

Sunghoon pauses, mid sipping on his bitter coffee. 

“Okay fine, you caught me.” Sunghoon replies, slowly putting his drink down. “I created this fake lore about us, so what? Just go along with it.” 

One thing about Sunghoon is that he’s always lying about something for no reason and it’s not like he’s doing it to be mean, he’s just bored. 

Like there was no scientific explanation as to why Sunghoon had the nerve to lie to the 42 year old corner store worker that he lived in Kentucky for half his life and that his name is Lee Jason. 

Sunghoon has never been to Kentucky and he certainly does not know a single person named Lee Jason. 

“He just says whatever because he’s got a mouth.” Jay once said a while back when they all hung out. Sunghoon has no idea what he was talking about. 

Karina rests her elbow on the table, gently placing her chin on her palm. “Babe, he’s just upset because I don’t believe that he wants to settle down.” 

Heeseung tilts his head as he swallows his drink, his eyes widening in pure shock. “What?! Are you finally taking things seriously?!”

Sunghoon glares at the both of them, he hates how Heeseung quickly asked that question in such disbelief, but he also hates how similar Heeseung and Karina are to each other. 

“Why is this so shocking to you guys?” 

Both Heeseung and Karina turn to each other as if communicating telepathically and with a tight lip, Karina looks away to grab her drink. 

“What? Why are y’all doing that creepy stare off with each other again?”

Heeseung looks at his girlfriend for back up but all he receives is a shrug. 

The older male sighs, “It’s not a bad thing…” Heeseung starts, he is trying his best to find his words, the last thing he wants is to make Sunghoon, his best friend, feel bad. He must say comforting words and he must-

“Oh my gosh,” Karina groans, removing Heeseung’s arm away from her, leaning a little closer over the table to get Sunghoon’s attention. “Listen Sunghoon, we aren’t saying anything bad about it, in fact, we are happy! Right babe?” She looks over at Heeseung and with a firm nod of acknowledgement from her boyfriend, she turns back to Sunghoon. “We’re just confused since you mentioned before that you will never take dating seriously or want to be in a committed relationship.” 

“That’s not true.”

Okay, maybe it is a little, but it isn’t Sunghoon’s fault! How could you blame him when all he’s ever known was just lousy hook ups and wasting his time getting to know someone just for them to ghost him right after sex. 

But he’s at fault, right?

Sunghoon deep down blames himself for allowing people to walk all over him and mess with his feelings when he’s trying to be serious. Now, he’s given up the fact that he will never meet someone that won’t use him. 

Karina senses a sudden shift in Sunghoon’s face, quickly patting Sunghoon’s arm to comfort him. “Hey, what’s wrong?” She asks with worry in her voice. 

“Now that Jay isn’t single, I’ve been feeling lonely, I don’t think I’ll ever go past the first phase of dating.”  

“Hey, but you’re with us though? You know we won’t forget about you.” Heeseung says, slipping out of his seat to sit next to his best friend. “Besides, just because we aren’t single anymore, there’s no need to force yourself into something if you’re not ready.” 

Sunghoon glances to look up at Karina who was giving him a soft reassuring smile and then to Heeseung who kept hugging him tighter. Whether they know it or not, Sunghoon enjoys being babied by the two. 

“I think I’m ready, I trust Jay with who he is setting me up with..” Sunghoon starts slowly, “But…” 

“But?” Heeseung and Karina question in unison. 

“Jay says I need to watch my mouth and act normal.”

“Well..” Heeseung lingers a little.

“He’s not wrong, you don’t know how to act around people most of the time.” 

Sunghoon gasps dramatically with a hand over his chest at Karina’s sudden yet harsh response. “And for a second I thought you were going to be nice to me!” Sunghoon complains before looking at Heeseung who was trying to hide his grin. 

“Say something to her.” Sunghoon cries out, crossing his arms over his chest. 

For the millionth time that hour. 

“All I’m going to say is that you need to be prepared before going to your first serious date, we don’t want you fucking up especially if Jay is the one setting it up.” Heeseung explains, going back to his original seat. 

“When is this date happening? Maybe we can help out-”

“Tomorrow night.” Sunghoon cuts Karina mid sentence.

Heeseung palms himself on the forehead, “This is going to be a long day.” 

☆

“Can I see a picture of him?” 

Sunoo grips onto Jungwon’s arm, begging him to show him a picture of the guy he’s supposedly going on date with. 

“No,” Jungwon says, locking his phone. “It’s a blind date for a reason.” 

“Fine.” Sunoo says seriously, ignoring Jungwon as he scrolls through his Twitter feed. Sunoo won’t show his best friend that he’s desperate to know how this guy looks, no way!

Maybe if Sunoo continues to ignore Jungwon, he will give in and show Sunoo a picture, like why wouldn’t he? Sunoo is his best friend and Jungwon should get on his knees and give Sunoo everything he wants.

Sunoo wonders, has Jungwon ever done that? He looks up, expecting Jungwon to cave in. 

Of course not, he’s currently giggling at whatever message he’s typing on his phone, most likely a message to Jay. 

“You’re being annoying.” Sunoo scoffs. “Can you at least tell me what he looks like or his name?” 

“Uh.” Jungwon says, scratching the back of his neck sheepishly. “I won’t tell you his name, but he’s tall and really handsome, physically he’s your type.”

Sunoo hums, tapping his chin as he goes over what Jungwon had just said.

Tall and handsome? 

“What about his personality?” Sunoo asks with great interest, chin in his hands as he raises an eyebrow. 

“Jay didn’t really say much,” Jungwon pauses for a moment. “Oh!” He sits up, “He did say he is funny, aren’t you into funny guys?” 

“I guess so.” 

Jungwon excuses himself, answering Jay’s call the minute his name flashed on his screen. Sunoo finds it adorable seeing his best friend’s eyes light up each time Jay sends a message or call, it was about damn time his best friend got that kind of treatment.

As Sunoo waits for Jungwon to come back from his call, he scans the cafeteria as he bites into his chocolate chip cookie, noticing how busy the area has gotten since being there. 

He looks at his watch, “It must be lunch time for everyone.” He says to himself. 

Sunoo uses this alone time to grab his book and catch up on his reading, inserting his wired earphones to tune out the loud and scattering noises from the cafeteria. 

However, Sunoo couldn’t help but eavesdrop at the conversation from the table behind him. 

“Dude, do you know what a prolapse is?” 

“Isn’t that when the asshole comes out?” 

What kind of sick and twisted conversation is this? 

Sunoo is still going to tune in though. 

“Yeah, it’s when they push out their butthole.”

“Like, inside out?”

“Yeah.”

Sunoo stands up immediately, making his chair shriek loud enough for the guys behind him to hear. Sunoo didn’t waste a single second from packing his belongings, he had to get the fuck out of there. 

With a twitch in his eye, Sunoo was long gone and away from the cafeteria. 

He would just have to let Jungwon know that he went to work early or something. 

“Do you think he heard us?” Sunghoon wonders, whispering into Heeseung’s ear. 

“I’m not sure.” Heeseung shrugs, “Anyway, why are you asking me if I know about prolapse?”

“I saw a video on Twitter.” Sunghoon replies with a serious tone in his voice as he gets up from his seat, grabbing his backpack. “Walk with me.” He says, signaling Heeseung with his fingers to follow him.

☆

Sunoo drags his feet all the way to the radio station to work another shift, stopping right in front of the glass doors, letting out a long sigh before he reluctantly makes his way inside.  

“Oh?” Sunoo stops in his tracks upon seeing Ni-ki, his coworker, adjusting his headphones— Is he really a coworker if he barely shows up to his shifts?

Ni-ki, how does one even begin to describe that young boy? 

First of all, he’s two years younger than Sunoo, but definitely acts a lot older than him from the way he speaks and thinks. Out of everyone Sunoo has ever met, Ni-ki is hands down the most intimidating one, and that says a lot.

His tall structure and sharp features is something that Sunoo noticed right away when they first met, but now it's that lingering smell of marijuana and the hint of woody cologne that he notices. 

Ni-ki looks over his shoulder to glance at Sunoo, his sharp eyes scanning Sunoo from head to toe before giving him a nod. 

“Sup.” Ni-ki says softly as he sits down. 

Sunoo begins to walk awkwardly as he makes his way over to Ni-ki, avoiding his eyes that continue to linger on him. He can feel Ni-ki’s eyes boring into him and he doesn’t know why it’s making him uncomfortable, it's not like it's the first time Ni-ki has done it.

“Why are you here? Isn’t it my shift?” Sunoo asks, slowly unpacking his belongings. 

“You asked me to take your shift.” He replies coldly, his dark circles isn’t helping him at all. 

“It’s for tomorrow though?” 

Ni-ki clicks his tongue distastefully. “Whatever, I’m already here so I’ll take your shift tonight and tomorrow.” He says as he shakes his head. “It’s the least I can do since you’ve been taking my shifts lately.” 

“Thanks.” Sunoo mutters, he looks around the station contemplating to leave already or stay for a little bit.

The sudden movements catches Ni-ki’s attention, raising a questioning eyebrow at him. “Are you going to stay or what?” The boy asks, pulling his phone out to check his notifications. 

Sunoo looks down at Ni-ki for a moment, taking note of the new tattoo on his neck. He must have gotten it recently since it’s still red. 

“I’ll leave.” Sunoo quips, grabbing his backpack and swinging it over his shoulder. 

It’s then, when Ni-ki stops him to ask him a question, a very personal question. 

“Are you going somewhere tomorrow?” 

Sunoo looks back at Ni-ki’s face. “Why do you ask?” 

“You always show up to your shifts.” 

Sunoo flushes with embarrassment, is he that lame for his coworker that barely shows up to his own shifts and notices how often Sunoo is always at work?

“I’m going on a date.” He states simply. 

Ni-ki looks at him for a second, a small smirk forming on his lips before he looks away. “Have fun.” He says teasingly and for some reason it made Sunoo feel shy, especially under Ni-ki’s dark eyes staring down at him. 

What the fuck, Sunoo.

☆

The Boys 🔥🔥🔥 and karina . 

Jay : I’ve officially given up on him

Jay : I can’t fix him, someone else has to do it

Sunghoon : who are we talking about

Karina 😒 : you

Karina 😒 : who else would he be talking about? 

Sunghoon : why is she still in this gc

Sunghoon : I thought I removed her

Sunghoon removed Karina 😒

Heeseung : dude

Heeseung : stop kicking her out

Sunghoon : jay do me a favor

Sunghoon : and never put me last

Sunghoon : I only have you

Jay added Karina 😒

Sunghoon : wow … 

Karina 😒 : he likes me more than you lol

Heeseung : hey.. I’m still here

Karina 😒 : you’re my favorite boy though ❤️

Sunghoon : can you guys be weird somewhere else

Sunghoon : the focus should be on me

Sunghoon : I have a blind date tomorrow night

Jay : After what you just told me earlier

Jay : I don’t even want to set up this blind date anymore

Heeseung : what did he say 

Jay : I asked him if he was ready for tomorrow 

Jay : He said yes 

Sunghoon : which I am 

Karina 😒 : mm I highly doubt that?

Karina 😒 : you know what, let me not say anything

Karina 😒 : I promised heeseung I would be nice to him

Sunghoon : what the hell

Sunghoon : you don’t need him to be nice to me

Jay : He then asked me which pick up line he should use on the guy

Sunghoon : which I think are pretty good

Heeseung : ok..

Heeseung : I’m not sure if I’m ready to know 

Jay : Too bad because I’m telling you

Jay : “Are you from Japan cus I’m trying to get in japanties.”

Sunghoon : you say it like it was bad

Heeseung : ….

☆

“Jungwon, I literally showed you six outfits already.” Sunoo complains as he buttons his pants. “And you didn’t like any of them!” Sunoo wails for a few seconds until he pauses to admire his ass from the full length mirror. 

Jungwon puts his phone down on his chest, taking a break from texting Jay all day long to stare at his best friend who was currently moving his hips side to side to look at his ass from all angles. 

“Why don’t you wear those pants?” Jungwon suggests, he’d be a fool not to admit that Sunoo’s ass looks fucking amazing in those black tight leather pants. “It makes your ass and legs look good.” 

Sunoo turns to where Jungwon was laying on his bed, eyes furrowing down on him with anger. 

“Are you fucking kidding me, Jungwon?” Sunoo rolls his eyes. 

“What? What did I say?”

Sunoo picks the nearest pillow up from the floor and lunges at Jungwon with ease. “This was the first outfit I showed you!” He reprimands with a hand on his hip. 

“Sorry.” Jungwon says, pouting apologetically. 

“I forgot how annoying you are when you’re in the honeymoon stage.” Sunoo falls onto the bed dramatically, landing on Jungwon’s thighs. 

“I’m not annoying.” This time it was Jungwon’s turn to hit Sunoo with a plushie, a Kuromi plush to be exact. 

Sunoo lifts himself up using his elbow, staring at Jungwon with a smirk on his face.  “Hey, what do you think about Ni-ki?”

Jungwon makes a face, sitting up properly until his entire back rests on Sunoo’s bed frame, allowing Sunoo to get more comfortable. 

“I think he’s alright?” Jungwon replies, but he can tell it wasn’t the answer Sunoo was wanting to hear from the way he clicks his tongue to show his annoyance. “Sunoo, you’re going on a date tomorrow, why are you thinking about Ni-ki all of a sudden?”

Sunoo bites down on his bottom lip to hide his growing smile as he lays back down on his best friend’s thighs. “I kinda want to be his friend, he seems cool.” 

“No.” 

Sunoo frowns immediately at Jungwon. “No, what?”  

Jungwon only shakes his head disapprovingly. “Sun, we don’t even know the guy, he barely shows up to his classes and he barely shows up to work.” Jungwon informs his best friend who just gives him the side eye. “Besides, I heard he’s a drug dealer or that he does some sort of drugs.” 

“Wonnie, relax.” Sunoo says and Jungwon shakes his head at him. “I just thought he would be cool to be friends with since you’re the only friend I have.” He shrugs as he plays with his fingers. 

“I’m sorry,” Jungwon apologizes, bending over to hold Sunoo’s face. “I just don't want to lose you, that’s all.” He says, “You know what happened with Ningning.”

“Yeah, I do.” Sunoo trails off, deep in thought once Jungwon lets go of him.

Ningning was their best friend since they were kids and even though she was a year older than them, she still played with them and hung out with them up until high school. She met a different crowd of people and would leave Sunoo and Jungwon to go smoke weed behind the school building with her new friends. 

Sunoo used to defend Ningning whenever Jungwon would talk mess about her, Sunoo never wanted to turn his back against their friend because at the end of the day, she was someone special in his life. 

Until she straight up ghosted both of them the second she graduated high school and left their hometown without a word. 

Sunoo would never call a woman a bitch, but that was just a bitchy thing to do! 

“I know you’re sad about her leaving, Sunoo.” 

“No! I don’t care if she left, she owes me fucking money!!” 

Sunoo was in such deep thought that he didn’t even realize that Jungwon was already out of the bed and going through his collection of perfumes in his closet. 

“You don’t mind if I spray some of this, right?” Jungwon holds up his favorite Dior perfume bottle as he juts out his bottom lip to ask for permission. 

“Now where the fuck are you going?” Sunoo sits quickly.

Jungwon didn’t even bother waiting on Sunoo’s response, already spraying the perfume on his neck. “Jay invited me to dinner at his place.” 

“Can I come?” 

“Nice try, but no.” 

Sunoo throws his head back, falling back again on his bed sheets. 

“Don’t forget to eat.” Jungwon reminds Sunoo, using the mirror to fix his hair before he leaves. 

“I won’t, I’ll pick something up after you leave.” 

Jungwon turns to look at him, raising an eyebrow. “You get food and you come right back.” He points at him like some school teacher.

Sunoo has a creepy habit of just hanging out at car shops acting like he needs something for his non-existent car so he could meet hot middle aged men. 

Sunoo opens his mouth to say something, most likely to argue, but opts not to as he watches Jungwon apply vaseline on his lips. 

“Whatever.” 

☆

Sunghoon saunters inside the 7 Eleven like he owns the place, greeting his 42 year old best friend Mr. Shin with a handshake like he’s one of his friends in college. 

“Yurrrrr! Daddy long dick has arrived.” Sunghoon shouts, not giving a single fuck if there was any one in there, he came here to see his best friend Mr. Shin.

And also because he got kicked out of his own apartment a while ago because Jay invited his boyfriend over. Do they even care about friendships anymore? 

“Good evening, Jason.” Mr. Shin greets from behind the counter, fixing his glasses. 

“Who?” Sunghoon asks, mid grabbing a coke from the fridge.

“You, I’m talking to you?” Poor Mr. Shin, he’s been working a good 12 hour shift with no break, he doesn’t need some lying ass college student making his night worse. 

“Right.” Sunghoon answers with a chuckle, he almost forgot that he told Mr.Shin that his name is Jason and he lived on some farm back in Idaho… Or was it Kentucky? Alabama? 

He shrugs, walking around to look for an evening snack to munch on while he waits for Jay to be done getting his dick wet. 

Who is he kidding, Jay not getting any action until a year into their relationship. 

“Was it slow today, Mr. Shin?” Sunghoon asks, unwrapping his tuna mayo onigiri that he didn’t pay for. 

Mr. Shin sighs, shaking his head. “Very slow, no one ever comes to this store ever since the bigger one opened last month.” 

Sunghoon looks around, a mouth full of rice. “It’s because you need to hire someone cute, maybe a cute college student.” He advises, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. “That will get you more customers. 

“Okay, you start tomorrow at noon.” 

Sunghoon leans back, furrowing his brows at Mr. Shin who was giving him a wide smile. “Uh no, you misunderstood me.” He says, taking a drink out of his coke that he also did not pay for. “I said cute, not sexy.” He winks and it gets Mr. Shin laughing. 

Sunghoon was just about to say something when the soft jingle from the front door interrupted his thoughts.

A small looking college student wearing a black cap, a white long sleeve turtleneck tucked inside his blue washed denim jeans emphasizing his body’s natural curves.  Mr. Shin grins when he sees Sunghoon’s mouth wide open in awe, pieces of rice falling out of his bottom lip. 

“Good evening!” Sunghoon greets the customer, but all he receives is silence. 

Sunghoon must’ve look like a creep from the way he watches this strange man walk around the store minding his own business. His heart beating out of his chest like a 1950’s cartoon, tongue all the way out as he creepily fawns over the way this man sways his hips without knowing. 

Sunghoon immediately straightens up, pushing away his half eaten onigiri and coke to make room for the guy to check out his items. 

Mr. Shin tried to shoo him away, but Sunghoon stood his ground, shaking his head no. 

“What's up, beautiful?” Sunghoon grins stupidly as he tries to flex his arms.

The guy only scoffs, handing Mr. Shin his items. 

“Dumplings for dinner, huh?” Sunghoon asks, but he already knows he won’t receive a verbal answer so he just stands there, studying the boy’s features. 

His long lashes that hid underneath the hat, his small nose, his cute cheeks, and those damn glossy plump lips. 

Sunghoon tilts his head in deep thought, he recognizes those lips from somewhere. 

“Thank you.” The boy says, grabbing his bag. 

“Hey, do I know you from somewhere?” Sunghoon starts following the guy behind. 

“Not interested.” He continues to walk away, exiting the store. 

“No, no I really think-” Sunghoon stops in his tracks, “Wait? Not interested? You didn’t even look at me-”

The guy swiftly turns around to look at Sunghoon, even though he’s hiding half of his face with a hat, anyone can tell he’s annoyed.

“I don’t need to look at you to be intere…” The boy’s voice falters the second he looks up at Sunghoon. “..sted.” He ends. 

Oh?

“Oh?” Sunghoon’s smirk grows even bigger as it finally clicks in his head. “I didn’t think I’d see you again, pretty boy.”

Chapter Text

“I didn’t think I’d see you again, pretty boy.” 

“Yeah, well neither did I.” Sunoo deadpans, hoping his face would be enough to let the older male know that he was not happy to see him again. 

“Stop it, you’re making me blush.” Sunghoon says with a dopey smile as he punches Sunoo’s arm softly like a schoolgirl around their crush. 

Sunoo doesn’t say a word when he gets hit, he just looks down at his arm and slowly lifts his head up to send Sunghoon a glare. “What do you want?” Sunoo grits, he feels his right eye twitch. 

When Sunoo’s left eye twitches, it’s usually out of nervousness or when he can’t come up with a lie on the spot— like the one time in high school where he mentioned that his mother was at the hospital so he didn’t have time to finish his school project… He forgot his mother worked in the same high school as him. 

But whenever his right eye twitches, it always meant he was uncomfortable, annoyed, or was ready to beat someone’s ass. 

Just ask Jake.

Jake may or may have not accidentally shared Sunoo’s old fanfictions that he wrote back in 2017 to his crush at the time. Let’s just say that Sunoo’s crush had no business knowing what a knot could do to an omega in heat.

“Just trying to make conversation, can’t a guy say hey?” Sunghoon asks with a little smile, rubbing the back of his neck.

Sunoo stares up at him blankly. 

“Hey and goodbye.” Sunoo says, crossing his arms as he walks aways from Sunghoon as if their whole interaction never happened. 

As much as Sunghoon wanted to stay put and watch Sunoo walk off (because ass is so fat!) He needed to get his name first. 

“Wait,” Sunghoon shouts. “Can I get your name at least?” 

Sunoo stops in his tracks, sighing in annoyance. “Let me make this easy for you,” Sunoo starts off as he turns to face Sunghoon. “I don’t give my name out unless I am interested…” Sunoo scans Sunghoon from head to toe then back to his face.

He stays quiet.

“Well?” Sunghoon extends his arms out, checking himself out. “Are you interested?” He says with a goofy smile. 

Sunoo wants to laugh but keeps it in by biting his tongue. “Eh, not really.” He bats his lashes up at him before sending him a wave goodbye. 

“Well, how about I get your name if I see you again?” 

Sunoo finally lets himself laugh while Sunghoon blinks at him with a serious expression. 

“Don’t get your hopes up, we will probably never meet again.” Sunoo says after a moment of him just laughing right in front of Sunghoon’s face. “But sure, if we ever meet again, I’ll give you my name.” 

Sunghoon couldn’t help but smirk. “I’ll just call you pretty boy until that day comes.” 

Sunoo rolls his eyes at him, but deep down Sunoo feels great knowing he’s still got it. “Whatever.” He says quietly. 

Sunghoon felt like he just got hit by a big arrow from cupid from the way he foolishly and fondly looks after Sunoo as the male walks off with his stupid 7 Eleven dumplings and his fruity iced drink. 

He clutches his chest and whispers to himself. “I think I’m in love.”

“I was in love once.” 

Sunghoon turns to his right where the strange voice came from. “Who the hell are you?” Sunghoon asks the stranger, just a middle aged man that looks like he just clocked out from his office job. 

The guy cracks open his beer and chugs it one go, crushing the can in his hand. “Bang Si-Hyuk, you?” He wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. 

Sunghoon smiles at the man, extending his arm to shake hands with him. “My name is Mark Lee, I’m from Canada.” He introduces. 

Park Sunghoon will never learn, will he?

“Whatever you do,” Bang Si-Hyuk starts, his voice raspy and out of breath. “Don’t make the same mistakes as I did, go after the guy.” He advises, and who would Mark Lee from Canada be if he doesn’t listen to this strange man he just met five minutes ago?

“Thank you, sir.” Sunghoon smiles. “I hope you have a better evening.” 

“Yeah, me too.” The man grumbles as he walks off. 

What a sweet man Sunghoon wonders!

☆

Sunghoon : i am here to say

Sunghoon : that i am in love

Heeseung : Proud of you

Heeseung : Kinda busy though

Heeseung : Karina and I got into an argument

Sunghoon : you’re really stressing over a girl with no bed frame 

Sunghoon : 😂😂😂

Heeseung : says the one roaming the streets right now 🤷🏻♀️

Heeseung : who got kicked out of their own apartment? hm?

Heeseung : That wasn’t me, Karina got my phone and saw your text sorry

Sunghoon : i beg you to break up with her please

Sunghoon : a fucking demon i swear

☆

The very next day, Sunoo was getting ready for his blind date, applying his cherry lip gloss to finish his cute but very minimal makeup look. He smacks his lips together as he gives himself a last look in the mirror. “I look way too good right now.” Sunoo gushes, posing in every angle in front of the mirror with his puckered lips after the gloss has been neatly applied. 

Sunoo twists his body to look at his ass (when is he not?) and damn, it will always look good, but wearing the black leather tight pants just emphasizes the size of his ass. Sunoo’s white button up shirt matches the silver necklace he’s wearing and of course, Sunoo had to make sure his waist was also the main star of the night by tucking in the shirt, making his waist look smaller. 

This guy better be the sexiest fucking guy ever because Sunoo didn’t take his time on himself for nothing. 

Sunoo looks down for a moment to check the time on his phone, 6:05 p.m. 

With traffic, it should take him about 20 minutes to get to the restaurant where Jay had made reservations for his blind date. 

He grabs his keys, ID, and credit card from his bed and stuffs them inside his pockets. “Relax, it’s just a date.” He takes a deep breath, unlocking his door. 

“Just try to enjoy the evening.” Sunoo says to himself but also to remind himself to not judge the guy so quickly. Jungwon had called him earlier to remind him, telling him to not nitpick every little thing his date does because that is why he is single. 

Sunoo does NOT nitpick, he just has very high standards. 

[ An hour ago]

“Trust me, Jungwon.” 

“No, I need you to promise me.” 

“Fine, I promise I won’t nitpick or judge the guy.” 

“I’m serious or we won’t help you ever again.” 

“I don’t understand why you have to call me though? I am not that picky.”

“You ghosted your last date because he smelled like your grandpa.”

“What was I supposed to do?! I wasn’t going to kiss a guy who reminds me of my grandpa’s scent!!” 

☆

Sunoo made it to the restaurant a little earlier, deciding he would just wait for his date outside the place so they could walk in together. 

The restaurant was surrounded by couples and it made Sunoo smile, just the thought of dining in a fancy restaurant with one of Jay’s best friends was making him feel nervous yet thrilled. 

Sunoo goes back to his messages with Jay as he sits on a bench, smiling at the good looking (rich) men that walk by him. 

Jay : He’s wearing all black

Jay : You can’t miss him, he’s tall, dark brown hair, thick eyebrows

Sunoo : but what exactly is he wearing? 

Sunoo : i’m sure there’s going to be a lot of men wearing black

Jay : Black blazer, black shirt underneath, black fitted slacks, black boots?

Jay : Ah, he said he’ll be wearing a silver cross necklace if that helps

Sunoo scans the area, eyeing every man that walks by without a partner.

‘Too old.’

‘Too short.’

‘Not wearing all black.’

‘Isn’t wearing a silver cross necklace.’ 

 Sunoo looks in every direction to locate his blind date, wondering where this guy could be at. Sunoo stares as the time goes by quickly with only five minutes left until his dinner reservation starts.

“I think I got stood up.” He slouches, trying his best not to pout. Well, if this guy won’t show up then he can try to snag a rich doctor while he’s at it, right?

Sunoo decides to go inside, maybe he’s running late, besides they don’t have each other's numbers. Just as he was getting up, he felt two heavy hands on his shoulders and a deep voice from behind trying to scare him by shouting “Boo!” right in his ear.

Whoever this person was, they successfully scared Sunoo by making the poor boy shriek loudly enough for everyone to hear. Yeah, he’s definitely not going to snag a doctor with the shriek he let out.  

“What is wrong with you?!” Sunoo pushes the man away from him, clutching his chest as he feels it accelerate. “You’re so lucky I didn’t have my taser with me!” He yells, looking down at his feet as he tries to calm himself down. 

The man continues to laugh, wiping away the tears that were forming in his eyes. “You must be Kim Sunoo, right? I’m Park Sunghoon, your blind date.” The male asks. 

“Yes,” Sunoo croaks, visibly out of breath. “Nice to meet-” Wait, he recognizes this voice. 

“Wait a fucking minute!” Sunoo shoots right up, earning stares from others. “This has got to be some sick joke!” Sunoo whines as he looks at the guy in front of him.

Tall, dark brown hair, insanely handsome, annoying, and fucking insufferable.

“Pretty boy?!” Sunghoon exclaims in disbelief, both of his eyebrows shoot so high up, it almost reaches his hairline. “I must’ve saved a country in my past life if I’m going on a date with you!” He squeals happily and Sunoo swears he sees heart emojis floating around his head. 

Sunoo stares at Sunghoon with a frown, stomping his feet childishly. There’s no way that a guy like Jay is best friends with a guy like him! Sunoo stops his childish stomping to take another look at Sunghoon…

Sunghoon stands there with that same dopey grin and it irritates Sunoo all over again, stomping his feet again. “This is a mistake.” He whines again. 

Sunoo was expecting someone sophisticated, someone charming, someone that would sweep him up his feet and call him beautiful, someone that would look at him like he hung the stars. 

Someone like Jay. 

Curse you Jungwon for making a guy like him fall for you. 

Now, Sunoo is stuck having dinner with a guy that stares at him with drool coming out of the corner of his mouth and has that damn dazed grin on his face. 

Maybe he’s rich, Sunoo wonders very optimistically.

“Are you rich?” Sunoo asks, straight to the point. 

“God, I wish.” Sunghoon chuckles. “Jay is paying for this dinner.” Sunghoon flashes Jay’s black sleek credit card. “You really think I’d be able to afford dining here? I can’t even get water from here.” 

Sunoo wants to cry.

☆

During dinner, Sunoo (unfortunately) learns that Sunghoon is a year older than him and is majoring in kinesiology to become a physical therapist, he remembers that detail only because Sunghoon had the nerve to ask him if he could be his first patient. If it weren’t for Sunoo sitting in a five star restaurant, he would’ve splashed his delicious red wine at him. 

He also learns that Sunghoon likes to play around a lot. 

Like, a lot.

When asked what his love language is, Sunoo replied with physical touch, not knowing a punch on his arm was coming his way. 

“What the fuck was that for?” 

“What? You said your love language is physical touch.” 

The only nice thing he learned about Sunghoon is that he used to be a figure skater since he was five years old, but a little after he turned eighteen he fractured his ankle, making it very hard for him to skate like he used to. 

Which is why he wants to treat athletes. 

For a second, Sunoo almost felt bad for him. But then Sunghoon opened his mouth again and said the most outrageous thing ever. 

“I’m going to destroy every chair on earth so the only place you have to sit on is my face.” 

“I think it’s time we get our check.” 

“But we still haven’t ordered dessert!”

“I said, it’s time we get our check.”

So overall, Sunoo learned a whole lot of nothing. 

☆

“Let me give you a ride.” Sunghoon asks as they step out of the restaurant. 

Sunoo contemplates the offer for a minute. He already spent two hours alone with Sunghoon, what’s another twenty minutes going to do? So, he takes up on the offer, following Sunghoon to his car, ignoring the fact that the older male has his hand on his back to guide him. 

A black, shiny, and luxurious 2023 BMW 7 Series right in front of Sunoo’s very own eyes. “Are you borrowing Jay’s car too?” Sunoo asks in disbelief, looking over his shoulder to look at the older male. 

“What? No.” Sunghoon responds with a frown, clicking a button to unlock his car. 

“You said you weren’t rich?” 

“I’m not.” Sunghoon opens the car door for him because there was no way Sunoo could’ve figured out how to open that door with its advanced technology. “I saved up from working. And do you have a thing for rich people or something?” He asks, raising an eyebrow.

“No.” He mumbles under his breath, settling inside Sunghoon’s expensive car. “Where do you even work?” Sunoo asks, not because he’s genuinely interested in what Sunghoon does, but if he could afford a car like this, then he needs to start applying.

“I teach kids how to skate, majority of them are from wealthy families so they pay well.” Sunghoon smiles, shutting the door softly.

Sunoo sighs defeatedly, of course he does. 

“Welcome to my crib,” Sunghoon says coolly as he sits in the driver seat. “This is where the magic happens.” Nodding his head with a smug look.

“Sunghoon, we are inside of your car.” 

“Right.” Sunghoon presses the button to ignite the engine. “Magic still happens around here though.” He points out. “Just not too much because have you seen the gas prices lately? Insane.” 

“Whatever you say.” Sunoo fastens his seat belt. “Just don’t expect magic to happen tonight or ever.”

Sunghoon was in the middle of reversing when suddenly, he stops mid street. “Be honest, do you hate me?” Sunghoon asks, his eyes glued on Sunoo. 

Sunoo pressed his lips together tightly, sending Sunghoon a look. 

Sunghoon quickly turns away. “You know what? Don’t answer that.” 

“Can you just drive? You’re making me anxious.” 

“I make you nervous?” Sunghoon smirks as he waits for an answer, but his smirk quickly fades off when Sunoo doesn't reply. “Actually don’t answer that either.” 

Sunghoon continues to reverse out of the parking lot, his hand behind Sunoo’s headrest to help him out. 

“So..” Sunghoon started once he was out of the parking lot. “What’s the color of your nipples?” 

“DRIVE.”

☆

Sunoo has never felt so ecstatic to see his apartment complex until tonight. He didn’t think it could get worse than dinner, but having to sit in Sunghoon’s car for 20-30 minutes with the older male asking ridiculous questions every five minutes was complete torture and he wouldn’t wish it upon his worst enemy. 

Okay, maybe he would with Jake. 

After what seemed like hours of listening to the same song over and over again (cue Move Your Feet by Junior Senior) because it somehow gets Sunghoon in a good mood, he’s finally parked in front of his apartment building. 

Sunoo was ready to dash out and never look back, but Sunghoon stops him to ask a question (again…)

“What.” Sunoo deadpans, twisting his head slowly like the little girl from the movie The Exorcist. 

“I was wondering if I could get your number?-” 

“Well, stop wondering.” Sunoo cuts off rapidly. 

Sunghoon had his mouth wide open and a finger mid-air, he was just about to say something else if it weren’t for Sunoo cutting him off. 

“Geez, you’re feisty.” Sunghoon says, scratching his head. “I like it.” 

And there he goes with that dopey grin like he’s high on Sunoo’s beauty. 

“Give me your phone.” Sunoo says, stretching his palm out so Sunghoon could hand him his device. 

“You don’t gotta tell me twice!” Sunghoon quickly looks for his phone in his pockets, patting all over until he feels it in his back pocket. “Here!” He hands his phone to Sunoo. 

Sunoo begins to put his number in Sunghoon’s contacts while also sending himself a text message so he could save it. “There you go, I texted myself so you know it went through.” He forces a smile. 

☆

“Everyone, listen up!” Sunghoon shouts from the hallway, closing the bedroom door right after. “I am getting a boyfriend very soon!” 

“Sunghoon, how the hell did you get inside?” Jay asks from the living room, having a bowl of fresh watermelon that Karina had cut up for him. 

Heeseung pokes his head out from the kitchen when he hears Sunghoon’s voice coming from the living room, his eyes bulging out. “What the fuck, dude?” 

It’s not a surprise that Sunghoon knew his way to Karina’s apartment since the guys usually like to hang out there— it’s small, cozy, and it smells like peaches!

What’s surprising is how the hell did Sunghoon get inside Karina’s apartment without using the front door?

“From the bedroom patio?” Sunghoon explains as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, using his thumb to point behind him. “It was unlocked, so I just entered.” Flopping down onto Karina’s pink couch.

“You did WHAT.” Karina emerges into the living room holding the hot metal spatula that she was using to fry up some eggs. 

“Calm down, I made sure to lock it.” Sunghoon says, making a hand gesture to calm Karin down. Despite Karina wearing her kitten pj’s and kitty slippers, she still looks scary. “You need to make sure you lock it next time,” Sunghoon advises Karina. “There’s so many creeps ‘round here.” He shakes his head, stealing a watermelon piece from Jay. 

“I- I can’t.” Karina shakes her head, losing all hope for Sunghoon. “You better talk to him before I do.” Karina points at her boyfriend before going back to the kitchen. 

“So, what’s this thing about a boyfriend?” Heeseung asks, taking off his cooking apron he had on when he was helping Karina cook. 

“He went on a blind date just now.” Jay reminds Heeseung. “I assume the date went well?” 

Sunghoon lays on the couch, sighing dreamily as he looks back on his date. “He’s so perfect for me.” Sunghoon begins, flashing back to the memory of Sunoo yelling at him. 

“I’m surprised he didn’t run away.” Karina blurts out, walking into the living room with two bowls. She places the hot bowl of fried rice and egg in front of Jay and the other bowl of peeled oranges for Sunghoon. “Here.” Karina says to Sunghoon, patting the top of his head before sitting on top of Heeseung who welcomes her with open arms. 

“Thank you, mommy.”

“Don’t call me that.” She responds with a scowl. 

“So, tell us more about your date?” Jay asks, his mouth full of tasty rice. 

Sunghoon nods, swallowing the oranges. “I think it went great, he asked for my phone so he can put his number in.” 

“My man!” Heeseung whistles, reaching over to dap him up. Karina rolls her eyes at the two. “Let me see the contact?” She asks. 

Sunghoon gently tosses his phone at her after entering his passcode. Both Karina and Heeseung stare at the name on the phone, Jay joins in right after to peek as well. 

“Kim Sunoo? He sounds familiar.” Karina tilts her head, handing Sunghoon his phone back. 

“Jay did great.” Sunghoon smiles, twisting his loose strand of hair around his finger. “He’s really cute and smart.”

“Wow,” Jay claps. “I didn’t think this day would ever come where he actually focuses on something that isn’t their body-”

“And he has such a nice ass, DAMN.” 

Karina could’ve sworn she heard Sunghoon growl.

“You should text him, tell him you had a great time.” Heeseung suggests. 

“You think so?” 

“Yeah, I texted Karina the same night we went on our first date.” Heeseung squeezes her thigh, giving her a soft peck on her lips. 

“Okay, I’ll text him right now!” Sunghoon says, excitement in his tone as he quickly types a message on his phone. 

“I can’t believe our boy is finally maturing-” Jay says, wiping away fake tears. 

“Um.. Guys..” Sunghoon chuckles awkwardly.

“Yeah?” 

 “I think he blocked my number.”

Chapter Text

“Guys, I think I have a problem.” Sunghoon stands in the middle of Karina’s living room, blocking the Netflix show that played on the flat screen tv, interrupting Karina and Heeseung’s date night. 

“How old are you again?” Karina asks.

“Twenty-one.”

“It took him twenty-one years to realize that he has a problem.”

Sunghoon let out an offended gasp, furrowing his brows at Karina. “I told you that you had about two days to break up with her.” Sunghoon says with a hand on his hip and a finger pointing at Heeseung like he was some disappointed mother. “Why is she still here?”

“First of all, this is my apartment.” Karina points out.

“And second of all, I’m way too in love with her to break up.” Heeseung finishes, receiving a soft kiss on the cheek. Karina rolls her eyes when she hears Sunghoon gag. 

“Sunghoon, can you please tell us why you are here?” Heeseung sighs, putting pause on the k-drama that the couple was watching. 

Sunghoon sighs loudly, letting his shoulders drop as he makes his way to the couch, squeezing himself in between Heeseung and Karina. “I don’t think the cute guy I went on a date with wants to talk to me.” He pouts, leaning his head on Heeseung’s shoulder. 

“Yeah, who wouldn’t-” Karina mumbles under her breath, but was quickly cut off by Heeseung’s “Be nice right now.” look.

Karina rolls her eyes at her boyfriend. “Why do you say that?” She asks sweetly, grabbing the gray kitty plushie for Sunghoon to hold— Sunghoon once said the kitty plushie looked like her because of its angry eyes and the little mole under its lip.

Sunghoon holds the plushie to his chest, it's his venting plushie he likes to call it. “Jungwon came over to visit Jay earlier today...” Sunghoon sniffs, and both Heeseung and Karina look over at each other, shaking their heads over Sunghoon’s over dramatic self. 

“I asked Jungwon why Sunoo would block me..”

“Yeah?” Heeseung says, holding Sunghoon around his shoulders and rubbing his arm to comfort him. 

“He said that Sunoo isn’t comfortable with meeting again.” 

Heeseung purses his lips tightly and Karina bites down on her bottom lip as she tries to stop herself from either laughing or saying anything mean. 

“Why would he say that? Did you say or do anything that would make him feel that way about you?” Heeseung asks with genuine concern. 

Sunghoon freezes up at the question, looking down at the plushie without saying a word. The room was in complete silence as Sunghoon fiddles with the ears of the plushie, Karina mouthing “What the hell?” at Heeseung, he only shrugs. 

“Well?” Heeseung says carefully. 

Sunghoon jolts up, surprising both Heeseung and Karina at his strange antics. Sunghoon stares at the wall like he is some robot. “I’m not sure, I don’t remember.” He answers rather quickly and Karina looks at Sunghoon with suspicion. 

The thing is, Sunghoon does remember. Jungwon made sure he wouldn’t forget by reading out Sunoo’s text messages out to him a few hours ago when he went to visit Jay. 

[ Three hours ago ]

“I’m just going to read what he sent me. He said and in bold letters that you are a disgusting, perverted, and cocky asshole who only thinks with their dick, that there is no chance that he would ever talk to you again because the whole time he felt objectified and that you barely tried to get to know him because all you thought about was the color of his nipples-”

“I said no such thing!”

“Don’t interrupt me.”

“Sorry.”

“Anyway, that you are not his type at all and that it’s a shame because you were hot to him, but now he thinks about you and gets the ick all over again.” 

“Wait, he thinks about me?”

“Oh my gosh, Sunoo was right, you are hopeless.”

“Maybe you need to talk to him in person, I know he doesn’t want to see you, but make the attempt to apologize?” Heeseung offers. “Ask Jay for some help, I’m sure Jay will help if you tell him you want to apologize.” 

Sunghoon nods his head as he listens to the advice his best friend gives him because one thing about Heeseung, he gives the best advice. Sunghoon would never admit it, but ever since Heeseung met Karina, Heeseung has changed for the better and maybe Karina was the reason why Heeseung is turning his life around and becoming more mature. 

Kudos to Karina! At least she’s being nice to someone! 

“And if you ever bump into him, respect his boundaries.” Karina chimes in. “Don’t be weird or creepy around him.” She says, jabbing a finger (more like her new jeweled finger nail.) on his arm. 

Sunghoon rubs his arm where the pointy, almond shaped, acrylic nail stabbed him. “Define weird and creepy...”

[Two hours ago]

After getting scolded by both Jay and Jungwon for his impulsive thoughts throughout his blind date, Sunghoon ran to Karina’s apartment knowing Heeseung would be there to comfort him.

But not before making his way to the radio station.

Sunghoon’s excuse is that his feet just blindly led him to the school’s radio station where Sunoo works at, and that Sunghoon had no control in what his feet did. 

Sunghoon somehow also didn’t have control that his body was just waiting outside the station’s window where he had a clear view of the pretty boy inside fixing his hair.  

“All I did was blink and boom! I was outside Sunoo’s work of place!” Sunghoon tried to convince himself that it was not his doing at all.

Kim Sunoo looked so beautiful reading his script onto the microphone, his smile was so radiant that Sunghoon needed his shades. If Sunghoon could, he would bring out a lawn chair just outside the window to stare at the beautiful boy like he was in some movie. 

“What the fuck are you doing outside my job with that fucking chair?!” 

Sunghoon was so transfixed that he didn’t realize that Sunoo had caught him red handed right outside the window, staring at him with drool coming out of the corner of his mouth. 

“Sunoo?” Sunghoon stood up, acting baffled when he saw Sunoo right in front of him. “What are you doing here?” He asked, knowing damn well he had his eyes glued on Sunoo, eyeing his every move like some creep. 

Sunoo crossed his arm, glaring at the tall male. “I work here.” He answered, his right eye twitching already and Sunoo doesn’t know if he should say fuck it and fight Sunghoon or put a restraining order on him. Maybe both.

“Oh, really?” Sunghoon scratched the back of his and that lopsided grin of his made Sunoo even more irritated. “I had no idea you worked here.” 

There was a minute of silence just Sunoo and Sunghoon looking at each other. Sunoo then looked away as if he was staring into a camera like an episode of The Office and then back at Sunghoon. 

“You have one minute to explain yourself why you are outside of my job.” Sunoo said in a serious voice, tapping his foot on the pavement impatiently. 

“I am in love with you.”

“That’s it, I am calling the police!” Sunoo was in the middle of grabbing his phone when Sunghoon practically flinged himself onto Sunoo to stop him. 

“I’m sorry, that slipped out of my mouth!” Sunghoon apologized, his eyes begging Sunoo to give him another chance to explain. “I say things out of impulse when I’m nervous!” 

Sunoo pushed him off, dusting his shirt off. “Then why are you here? And don’t say anything stupid or else I’m really calling.”

“Okay.” Sunghoon said, sucking in a deep breath before turning to Sunoo. Face serious and determined. “Why did you block me?”

“Really, Sunghoon?” Sunoo closed his eyes, pinching the bridge of his nose before looking up at Sunghoon again. “You came all the way to my job to ask me this?” 

Sunghoon nodded innocently. 

“I just don’t think we are a match, that’s all.” He said honestly. “And I’d appreciate it if we just pretend like nothing happened, okay? We will most likely see each other more often since our best friends are dating so I don’t want things to be awkward between us for the sake of our friends.”

Sunghoon nodded, rubbing his chin in deep thought as he took in everything Sunoo had said. “So,” Sunghoon started before trailing off for a bit. “What you’re trying to say is that we will never be together romantically, kiss and fuck, meet our parents, live in a cozy house with two dogs and two cats, get married, have five kids, and grow old together?”

Sunoo kept his face neutral, wondering how the hell is this man real, and not in a good way. 

“Fortunately, yes.” Sunoo replied. “That’s exactly what I am trying to say.” 

Sunghoon frowned, a pout forming on his face. “Well, what can I do to change that?” 

Sunoo almost thought he looked cute like that. Almost. 

“Nothing, besides I like someone else.” Sunoo answered and even though he doesn’t necessarily have a crush on someone, a certain person does pop up in his mind. 

Sunghoon crossed his arms over his chest as he looked away, blowing a puff of air out in annoyance like a little child. “Can he fight though?” He asked, grumbling so childishly. 

Sunghoon’s pride and ego was hurt a little getting rejected like that so easily but he was more hurt by the fact that someone like Sunoo, a guy he instantly fell for did not want anything to do with him. 

And Sunoo meant what he said, acting like Sunghoon was just a mere stranger everytime he walked past him. It had been days since Sunghoon had confronted Sunoo and it was driving Sunghoon insane, he was itching to talk to Sunoo again. 

Literally itching. 

“Dude, are you sure you don’t have lice?”

Sunghoon was scratching behind his right ear while the other hand was scratching his left collarbone, leaving red marks of his nails digging deep into his skin. “What do you mean bro?” 

Jay narrows his eyes at him, taking a step back when Sunghoon begins to scratch wildly on his head with both of his hands. “You’ve been itching for the last nine days, are you allergic to something?” 

Sunghoon stares down at his phone as he refreshes an instagram page every ten seconds. “Not itchy.” Sunghoon says as he scratches his left ass cheek. 

Jay grabs Sunghoon’s phone out of his lap. “Why are you so glued to your phone? What are you looking at-” 

Jay didn’t even get to finish his sentence as he was being tackled on the floor by a 6 '1 flea named Park Sunghoon. 

“Sunghoon?! What the fuck dude!” Jay shouts, throwing Sunghoon’s phone across the room so Sunghoon could fetch, which he did. 

“Sorry man, I just don’t want you to see what I am doing.” 

“I already saw!” Jay yells, dusting himself off aggressively. “You’re refreshing Sunoo’s Instagram page to see if his page would go off private, you fucking weirdo!” 

“No, I am not!” Sunghoon said, shaking his head like a puppy. Sunghoon then looks down guiltily when he meets Jay’s serious eyes. “Okay, fine I was…” He mumbles, fidgeting with his phone. 

Jay stares at his best friend blankly, he did not feel sorry, not even a little. 

“Why can’t you be normal?”

“I’m trying!” Sunghoon flops to the floor.

“This is not looking good.” Jay says worriedly. “I am going to need backup.” Jay says after a minute of just staring at his pathetic friend crying over a boy who probably forgot what his name is.

Jay then grabs his own phone from the charging station, calling the one person who can get Sunghoon to suck it up. 

After waiting a few minutes, Jay and Sunghoon heard a bang on the door and Jay instantly knew who that was. 

Jay went to get the door, leaving Sunghoon alone in his helpless state. Seconds have gone by and Sunghoon hears loud footsteps coming from the hallway and for some odd reason, he can tell who it might be. 

“Get up!” 

Sunghoon sits up horrified, blinking up at the tall girl in front of him. Black heels, a short pleated gray skirt that goes with her cropped blazer, and a black Miu Miu purse. 

“What the- Wonyoung?!” Sunghoon asks in disbelief. “You called my little sister?!” 

“He sure did, now get up! You look absolutely ridiculous!” 

Neither did Sunghoon and Jay knew how long it took for Sunghoon to get up from the floor, all they remember was a lot of yelling, scratching, Wonyoung throwing her heels across the room, and getting dragged out from his room with Wonyoung taking his left leg while Jay took the other. 

Now, he’s sitting on one of the kitchen bar stools with a hot cup of green tea in his hand that Jay made for him, a blanket wrapped around him, and Wonyoung glaring at him as she puts her heels back on right next to him. 

Just like the good old days. 

“I can’t believe you are acting like this over a guy you went on one date with.” Wonyoung exclaims, slamming her hand on the counter. 

“Please don’t yell at me, I am very vulnerable right now.” 

Jay shakes his head. “If I had known about this, I would’ve helped you out!” 

Sunghoon had told Jay and Wonyoung about the last interaction he had with Sunoo and how it ended very badly on his end. 

“Even if you did, there’s nothing you can do now.” Sunghoon says sadly as he plays with the green tea bag in his mug. “He ignores me everytime he sees me, the other day we bumped into each other at the vending machines and all he said was sorry and walked off.” 

“What did you expect him to say then?” Wonyoung looks at her brother weirdly. 

“I don’t know?” Sunghoon shrugs. “Maybe beg to have me back and kiss me?” 

“He wasn’t yours to begin with.” Jay points out and Sunghoon slams his forehead on the counter. 

“I need to see what he looks like,” Wonyoung asks. “Especially if he’s making my brother act like this.” 

Sunghoon jolts up, grabbing his phone from his back pocket to find a picture of Sunoo to show his little sister. 

“Here you go.” Sunghoon hands his sister the phone, showing her a picture of Sunoo. 

“Oh? He’s actually really pretty- Wait a minute?!” Wonyoung looks closely, squinting her eyes. “Park Benjamin Sunghoon, is this a zoomed in picture that you took of him while he was in class?!”

Sunghoon takes his phone back quickly, locking it before stuffing it back inside his back pocket. “No?” 

He was most definitely lying. 

Wonyoung sighs defeatedly. “I have to go, I’m going to be late for my photoshoot.” She says, looking down at her phone. “The only thing I can tell you is to find someone else, he clearly doesn't want anything to do with you.”

Sunghoon sighs when he looks up at Jay who was nodding in agreement. 

Maybe everyone was right. 

“Oh! Before I forget, mom said to visit grandma today before she goes on vacation.”

Even Sunghoon’s grandmother is having the time of her life. 

“Fine.” 

Sunoo spent the whole afternoon reorganizing his closet, replacing his old clothes with the new items he bought online. Sunoo was dying to wear his new clothes, it's been months since he had bought himself something new. 

While Sunoo was folding his old jeans into a basket to donate, his mind kept drifting off to Sunghoon. Everytime Sunoo would bump into Sunghoon on campus, he would catch the older male trying to approach him but Sunoo would run off each time.

Maybe Sunoo was being harsh with the guy, Jay did tell him that Sunghoon is honestly the nicest guy he’s ever met but is often perceived as something he isn’t which deep down made Sunoo feel bad for judging him. 

But could you blame him? Who the hell asks someone on their first date the color of their nipples or to sit on their face?

Sunoo shakes his thoughts away, it's been already days and Sunghoon will soon find someone else to bother and Sunoo will find someone that matches him better. 

It’ll work out in the end!

Right as Sunoo was getting up from the floor, he hears his phone ding, a text notification popping up on his screen. 

Sunoo looks at the number then at the text message that reads 

(a/n, please don’t text the number or open the link, it’s all fake!!)

+1 (127) 119 - 1227 

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😍 Save Up To 80% Off SITE WIDE 

on ALL Toys!!! To Receive 80% Off

Coupon Reply YES & Shop ASAP!!

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And how could Sunoo say no to 80% off at one of his favorite shops! 

Sunoo 

YES

+1 (127) 119 - 1227

cool, now unblock my number. 

Sunoo

Sunghoon???

Whose number are you using???

+1 (127) 119 - 1227

it’s my grandma’s phone

please unblock my number 

I have to tell you something important

HURRY my grandma wants to play candy crush…

Chapter Text

“To be completely honest with you, he sounds pathetic.” 

‘Thank you! That’s what I’ve been telling everyone!”

“He’s just the perfect match for you.” 

Sunoo looks up from his phone, face twisting into a scowl directed at his twin sister who was sitting on Sunoo’s green bean bag chair. “I thought you were here to visit me, not make fun of me.” 

“I am,” She says, barely looking up from her phone where she mindlessly scrolls through countless Tiktok videos. “But I’m also here to make fun of you.” She giggles to herself, poking the tip of her tongue out from the corner of her lips teasingly. 

“You’re so annoying.” Sunoo grumbles, rolling his eyes as he gets up from his bed. 

“You still love me though.” She sings cutely, kicking her slippers off to jump on Sunoo’s bed. 

And she’s right, how could Sunoo hate his sister? Kim Minjeong was his other half and even though they bicker all the time, they still had each other’s back no matter what. 

Throwback to the time when they were twelve and Minjeong got suspended for fighting a group of girls who were making fun of Sunoo for wearing makeup.

Sunoo thought a little shimmer on his eyelids and red tint on his lips wouldn’t hurt anybody, right? Wrong, those girls went into the clinic with a bloody nose and a bald spot on their scalp. 

Or the many times when Sunoo would speak up for his sister whenever she was feeling upset and didn’t know how to express her feelings to anyone. Sunoo was always there for Minjeong whenever she was having those days and as a twin, he feels every emotion his other half feels. 

So yes, he loves his sister so much even when she has to mention the fact that she is five minutes older than him every chance she gets. 

“He looks like your type though?” Minjeong asks, as she scrolls through Sunghoon’s Instagram page from Sunoo’s phone. “The last guy you dated looks just like him.” 

“No he doesn’t.” Sunoo frowns as he looks over his shoulder. “And yeah, he’s hot, but he’s also really… weird.” He says, turning his back on Minjeong as he goes back to applying his face mask. 

“Well, y’all can be like friends with benefits? He’s already obsessed with you.” 

“No.” Sunoo says in a serious voice. “That’s exactly why I wouldn’t, he’s already obsessed with me even without sex,” Sunoo starts, wiping the excess wet mask residue from his fingers on a towel. “Just imagine if we did..” Sunoo shivers at the thought of Sunghoon following him like a lost puppy after sex. 

“I guess you’re right.” Minjeong shrugs, pressing her lips together. “I just think you need someone new in your life.”

Sunoo freezes up, mid organizing his makeup drawer. He slowly turns his head to look at his sister, sending her a glare. “I don’t need someone new in my life,” He says seriously. “What I need is someone who can fit my standards, I am not going to lower them just because they are hot.” 

Sunoo was getting annoyed, he already heard it from his best friend Jungwon, he doesn’t need to hear it from his twin sister either. 

“Okay, whatever you say Sunoo.” Minjeong rolls her eyes, deciding it was best to just drop the topic. 

After a few minutes of silence, Minjeong speaks up. 

“Hey, I’m bored.” She announces, interrupting Sunoo’s concentration as he fixes up his cosmetic drawer. “Want to do something different?”

Sunoo looks back, his dried up green clay mask all over his T-zone. “Like what?” He questions. 

“Let’s dye our hair

[3 hours later]

Sunoo

you’re unblocked

BUT THIS DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

wow look who decided to unblock me…

I was definitely not waiting for three hours…

Sunoo

I got… busy

and you give me a headaches

so I needed to mentally prepare myself

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

I must be running through your mind all day 😂

Sunoo

I don’t have time for this

you said you needed to tell me something important

so what do you want

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

you… 💯

Sunoo

i’m going to block you

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

I say I want you

and all of a sudden I’m the bad guy here

Sunoo

I’m really going to block you

I’ll fucking do it

don’t test me

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

WAIT HOLD UP

I was just kidding

I came here to apologize

Sunoo

apologize?

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

yes..

sunoo, I’m sorry I made you feel uncomfortable

during our date. it was my first time going on

a serious date and I really had no idea what I 

was doing. I was also really nervous, I make

a fool out of myself everytime I get nervous

I’m sorry, you deserved better 

Sunoo

um

I don’t know what to say

but thank you sunghoon, really

I really appreciate it 

I’m also sorry for treating you the way I did

I should’ve worded things a bit nicer to you

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

I also feel sorry for you

Sunoo

huh?

sorry for me?

what do you mean?

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

I feel sorry for you because you must have

horrible taste in guys if you don’t think

I’m your type

because I’m everyone’s type

Sunoo

are you serious

please tell me you are kidding

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

I’m not though

I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t want 

to sleep with me

Sunoo

being sexually attracted to someone is

completely different from being

romantically attracted to them

I can’t believe you went to my job,

stalked me everywhere I went, and

used your grandma’s phone to text me..

just for you to say this bullshit?

I really hate people like you

you’re so entitled and so cocky

I don’t know what person you’ve fucked

that’s been feeding your ego this whole entire time

but not me

 I am not going to be your little flings

that will praise you just because you’re hot 

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

what do you mean

Sunoo

oh my fucking god

I’m not even going to start with you

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

what did I do

Sunoo

you’re wasting your time on me

don’t you have a blondie to fuck???

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

which one of them?

Sunoo

you’re literally disgusting

please leave me alone

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

so does this mean I can’t get another

date with you?

Sunoo

absolutely NOT

I am not going on another date with you!

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

ok ok I get it

what if we just start fresh

become friends and get to 

know each other

how does that sound?

Sunoo

that sounds nice

the thing is its coming from you

I can’t be friends with someone

who wants to fuck me

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

what if I told you that I don’t 

want to fuck you…

Sunoo

really?

and what if I told you that I

was feeling lonely right now and needed

you to fuck me?

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

I’D BE OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR IN 0.2 SECONDS 

WITH A RAGING BONER READY

TO FUCKING COMBUST

I mean…

I would tell you I can’t fuck you

because we are just STRICTLY friends

(unfortunately)…

and then cry about it for weeks…

Sunoo

…

I guess we can be friends

it’s not like you were going 

to leave me alone even if I had said no

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

NICE

now that we are officially best friends 

come to this party this weekend

I’ll be there… 

Sunoo

as if that’s going to make me go lol

I don’t even like parties

so no

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

please?

your friend jungwon is going too

it’ll be fun

Sunoo

he is?

hmm idk 

i need to sleep

so bye

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

ok ok night sunoo

thank you for giving me a second chance :D 

you will not be disappointed!!!

☆

“I need an explanation on why my best friend has been listening to sad boy music?” 

When Sunghoon woke up that morning (2:37 p.m to be exact), he heard the speakers blasting from across the hallway where Jay’s room is at and Sunghoon thought it was strange for his best friend to be having his speakers piercing throughout the apartment with music. 

One, because Jay is sensitive to loud and obnoxious sounds— Sunghoon would know this fact better than anyone else because he gets told to shut up every five minutes.

And two, the only time Jay ever brings out his good speakers is when they are hosting a small get together and last time Sunghoon checked, there wasn’t anything planned. 

If there was then that’s one thing coming for Jay.

So when Sunghoon walked out of his room to check what was going on, he instantly knew there was something wrong the second he stood in front of Jay’s closed door.

Sunghoon covers his mouth in shock, “This can’t be true..”

HE’S LISTENING TO FRANK OCEAN.

All week long Sunghoon was way too busy “trying” to persuade (more like beg) Sunoo to come to the party that was happening in a few hours, that he failed to notice his best friend Jay was going through it. 

“He’s been blasting The Weeknd all day long!” Sunghoon exclaims, pointing towards the room behind him. “There’s something wrong with him.” 

Sunghoon explains to Heeseung the second his friend walks inside the apartment. Earlier, the younger male had ran to get his phone and dialed the second person in mind (Sunoo is first) because he needed someone to help him with Jay.

“You called me over for that?” Heeseung responds, crossing his arms against his chest. “He probably just wants to listen to his music through his speakers, Sunghoon.”

Sunghoon shakes his head. “No, I know there’s something wrong with him.” He whispers, looking back at Jay’s door as if Jay could hear them talking. “He’s singing like he just caught his partner mid 69’ing his second cousin,” Sunghoon pokes Heeseung’s chest with his finger. “The same second cousin that told them they were a cute couple at the last family reunion.” 

Heeseung furrows his brows together. “Well, that was oddly specific.” 

Just as Heeseung was about to say something else, Jay’s loud and broken singing startled them. 

“I HOPE YOU KNOW THIS DICK IS STILL AN OPTION, ‘CAUSE I’LL BEAT IT UP.” Jay sings from inside his room and anyone with ears can tell that he was singing because he was hurt. (The Weeknd - Wasted Times)

“See!” Sunghoon points out again. 

“You’re right.” Heeseung stares at Jay’s door where he was still singing and crying out for Jungwon’s name with a broken voice. “This is very serious.”

“Yeah! He’s singing about his dick being an option! What does he know? He’s still a virgin!” 

Heeseung sends him an unimpressed look. 

“What?” 

The older male just shakes his head, deciding that it’s not worth his time entertaining his friend’s foolishness. 

“I’m calling Karina, she’s the only one that can get him to talk.” 

Both Sunghoon and Heeseung wait impatiently in the living room. It has been almost thirty minutes since Karina has entered Jay’s bedroom and now the boys are anxiously waiting to hear about Jay’s diagnosis from Dr. Karina. 

Heeseung sits on one of the couches, bouncing his leg out of nervousness as he stares down Jay’s bedroom while Sunghoon paces back and forth around the living room with a worried look on his face. 

Suddenly, the door to Jay’s room opens and only Karina walks out cautiously, telling Jay that she will check in on him a little bit before closing the door softly. 

Sunghoon and Heeseung immediately crowd Karina with worrying expressions.

“So, what does he have?” Sunghoon asks, tears almost spilling out of his eyes. If y’all didn’t know that Sunghoon is dramatic as hell, then you do now. 

“Jungwon broke up with him-” 

“HE’S DYING?!” Sunghoon interrupts, falling down to his knees. 

“I swear if you don’t get up from the floor! So annoying!” Karina scolds, grabbing Sunghoon from his ear. “He’s not dying, he’s just heartbroken because Jungwon broke up with him.” 

“Oh okay, you almost had me there,” Sunghoon wipes his tears. “Wait, what! Jungwon broke up with him?!” He falls to his knees again, hitting the carpet floor with his fists. 

Karina rolls her eyes, she faces her boyfriend instead to explain. “Jay showed me the text messages and basically Jungwon feels like he’s not ready for another committed relationship.” 

“But I thought Jay said that Jungwon was over his ex?” Heeseung asks, ignoring Sunghoon’s cries as he asks God to show mercy on his “dying” best friend. 

“He is, but Jungwon saw his ex on a date and it just made him feel shitty… I think Jungwon just needs time to heal from his last relationship.” 

Heeseung sighs, he feels for Jay. Heeseung has seen the way his friend was pinning hopelessly over the younger boy for years, seen the way his face lit up each time Jungwon would interact with him, or when Jungwon agreed to go on a date with him. Just for it to be snatched away all so quickly. 

“So what is he going to do?” Heeseung asks carefully.

“I’m about to make him soup, he said he’s staying in tonight.”

“Oh no he’s not!” Sunghoon gets up quickly. “He’s not going to miss this party, I am not going without him.” Sunghoon was making his way down the hall, he will get Jay out of that room dressed and ready for this party no matter what. 

Karina grabs Sunghoon’s arm, stopping him from opening Jay’s door. “Are you insane!?” She whispers loudly. “He’s sad, give him some time to himself.” 

Sunghoon looks at Karina then to Heeseung then back at Karina. 

“Mmm, no.” 

He opens the bedroom door with force and sees a shirtless Jay with puffy red eyes laying on his bed, hugging a small cat plushie against his chest. 

“I tried to stop him!” Karina says, Heeseung follows behind as he tries to poke his head inside Jay’s room.

“It’s fine.” Jay says with a raspy voice. “He bothers me every day.” He sits up, putting the plushie down carefully.

“Yeah and I’m going to bother you again because what the fuck do you mean you’re not coming to the party tonight?!” 

Jay sighs, grabbing the half empty water bottle he has on his night stand. “It means I’m not going.” 

“What if Heeseung comes too?”

Heeseung makes a sound, moving Karina to the side to confront Sunghoon. “I never said I was going? I don’t go to parties anymore, those days are over for me.” He tells Sunghoon, but Sunghoon just blinks at him before turning to face Jay again. 

“You promised that you would go with me.” Sunghoon frowns.

“That was before Jungwon ripped my heart out of my chest and stepped on it.” 

“That little fucker.” Sunghoon mumbles. “I can’t go alone, Sunoo is going to be there and I need you to help me talk to him.” 

Jay shakes his head. “No, if Sunoo is going then Jungwon will be there too.”

Sunghoon jumps on Jay’s bed, grabbing Jay from the shoulders. “Please! Just for an hour and then you can leave!” 

Jay ponders for a little, he looks at Sunghoon’s big puppy eyes as the younger rubs his hands together, pleading Jay to go. “Fine, I’ll go but only if he goes.” Jay says, pointing at Heeseung with his chin. 

“No, I can’t go.” Heeseung says quickly. “I’m not allowed to go.” He points at Karina, indicating that she’s the reason why he can’t go to parties anymore.

“Why are you pointing at me?” Karina snaps. “You can go to parties, I just hate when you go out drinking when I’m not around.” 

Drunk Heeseung is on another level.

All three friends hum in agreement, reminiscing back at the times when Jay had to carry Heeseung on his back because his ass didn't know how to say no to tequila shots when pretty girls offer. 

Or the time they lost Heeseung and they found him sleeping on top of someone’s car. A car that was getting towed.

Jay cringes when he remembers the time Heeseung fought a tree and lost. When Karina asked the guys why Heeseung fought a tree, Sunghoon responded by saying the tree was looking at him funny, and according to Heeseung, the tree kept talking mess. 

So yeah, Karina has a valid reason why Heeseung isn’t allowed to drink without her. 

“We will make sure he’s okay! He won’t drink I promise!” Sunghoon tells Karina, but only a fool would believe his promises. 

“Last time you said that, I had to bail him out of jail.” Karina crosses her arms and Heeseung looks away in embarrassment. “I’ll go to the party, I might as well do something different tonight.” 

“Are you sure?” Jay asks.

“Yeah, what could go wrong?” 

☆

“Oh my gosh, Lee Heeseung! Put your shirt back on and get off that table!”

The second Sunoo arrives at the party, the very first thing he witnesses is a pretty girl with long, silky, black hair running towards a drunk guy standing on a table who was in the middle of taking his shirt off.

Sunoo didn’t need to guess to figure out that the drunk guy was her boyfriend making a fool out of himself. From the way he was clinging on to her attempting to kiss her cheeks and the way she was scolding him, Sunoo knew that the girl was over it already. 

Sunoo walks in further into the overcrowded party, feeling overwhelmed by the amount of people dressed in all different sorts of outfits and Sunoo wonders what exactly is the theme. 

He sees a few girls wearing tight revealing dresses and skirts then a few were sporting baggy yet very stylish outfits, but what confused Sunoo the most were the guys. 

Some guys wore tank tops to show off their toned muscles, some were even shirtless, then the rest wore their nice t-shirt and jean combo. 

Sunoo looks down at his own outfit— a cropped jean jacket, his white Prada t-shirt tucked inside his blue denim jeans that matched his jean jacket, something nice and simple. 

He manages to maneuver around the room, trying to locate where the drinks were. Sunoo could feel eyes on him, both guys and girls staring him up and down as he poured himself a drink. 

“I like your hair.” A girl compliments him with a smile and Sunoo thanks her with a smile. 

‘Right, I dyed my hair red.’

Sunoo grabs his phone, looking over the messages that Sunghoon had sent him an hour ago. 

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

hey

are you coming

will you come

please come

I will ask ONCE and that’s all

are you coming

…

let me ask ONE more time in case you 

didn’t see the first few messages…

you should come to the party

it’s going to be 🔥🔥🔥

Sunoo rolls his eyes at the ridiculous messages that Sunghoon had bombarded him with, but nonetheless it still made Sunoo smile just a little. 

(Just don’t tell Sunghoon)

Sunoo takes a sip of his alcoholic drink as he types a text message to Sunghoon. 

Sunoo

hey I’m here

where are you

sunghoon

answer or I’m leaving

Sunoo waits and waits for a response, his first cup already empty and Sunghoon has yet to respond. Sunoo was growing impatient as he looked around the area for the millionth time and still no sign of the tall, annoying, perverted, handsome guy appeared. 

You would think with a loud voice like his it would be easy to spot him. 

Sunoo felt dumb just standing in one place for almost 40 minutes, watching others dance and mingle around. Why did he even show up? Sunoo wonders, it’s not like he’s expecting anything. 

After a few minutes, Sunoo ultimately just gives up on waiting and starts walking away towards the exit door. 

When suddenly, a voice so loud shouts over the blaring music, taking Sunoo by surprise. 

And just as Sunoo turns around, the song Super Freak by Rick James (so fitting) starts playing the second Sunoo makes eye contact with the freak that’s staring right into his soul from all the way upstairs.

The owner of that damn stupid dopey smile that makes his right eye twitch was shouting after him from upstairs, leaning half his body on the railings that it almost looks like he was about to fall off. 

“Is that my sexy fox?! Kim Sunoo?! Is that youuu?!” A drunk Sunghoon slurs from upstairs with eyes of disbelief. 

“Oh…my… God.” Sunoo whispers as he looks up at Sunghoon in horror. 

“Kim Sunoo is here?? At the party I invited him to?!” He shouts, pushing people away with faltering steps and beer spilling from his cup that he was holding for dear life. 

“Nope!” Sunoo shakes his head. “I’m out!” He says when he realizes that a drunk Sunghoon was running towards him with open arms. 

Sunoo took no time to waste, running away as if Michael Myers was out to chase him, but instead of Micheal Myers, it was someone worse. 

Despite being intoxicated, Sunghoon still made his way through the crowd (he may or may not shoved a few people along the way) while incoherently calling out for Sunoo. 

Now that Sunghoon was downstairs, everyone’s attention was on both guys. 

Sunghoon grabs Sunoo’s wrist before the younger male could escape. “Why are you leaving?” Sunghoon pouts, his bottom lip wobbling as if he was about to start crying. 

Sunoo was about to answer, but he was pulled further into the crowd again and pushed to a couch nearby by Sunghoon’s strong hands. Sunoo was too stunned to react, looking up at the male that hovers over him with a dazed look. 

“Sunghoon what the actual fuck are you doing!?” Sunoo shouts over the loud song that was controlling Sunghoon’s body. 

Sunghoon was dancing in front of Sunoo with such sensual moves, matching the rhythm of the song. “I’m giving you the Park Sunghoon lap dance special!” Sunghoon says proudly, pushing Sunoo further back into the couch. 

All Sunoo could do was sink into the couch in embarrassment as the whole party watches and cheers for Sunghoon. 

“Woo-hoo! Yeah!” Sunoo hears someone shout. “You’re wearing too many clothes, Sunghoon! Take it all off!” Sunoo looks beside him as he instantly recognizes the voice. 

Of course, it had to be Jake. Sunoo sends him a glare. 

He then feels Sunghoon’s hand on his chin, turning it back to face Sunghoon again. Sunoo’s eyes blew wide and his mouth dropped as he stared at the scene in front of him. 

Sunghoon had taken his shirt off and was now using it to swing it in the air in circles like a cowboy with a lasso. 

“Ride it cowboy!” Sunghoon shouts and everyone cheers right after. 

“Sunghoon, put your fucking shirt back on!” Sunoo’s pleas went unheard as the drunk male continued to dance around shirtless. 

Sunoo watches as Sunghoon thrusts into nothing but the funky tune and Sunoo stares in shock when Sunghoon was totally feeling himself as he bites into his bottom lip. 

“Sunghoon?!” 

Finally, Jay arrives at the horrying, ridiculous, embarrassing scene. He runs towards his best friend to stop his friend from embarrassing himself even more.

“Sunghoon!” Sunoo shouts. “You’re embarrassing me!” He yells when Sunghoon bent down to twerk horribly on Sunoo. 

Suddenly, Sunghoon stands up straight with a sour look on his face. 

“Sunghoon?” Sunoo says softly yet confused. “Are you okay?”

Sunghoon covers his mouth as he holds his stomach. 

“Oh, no..” Sunoo says because he knew what was coming for him. 

Vomit. 

Sunghoon vomits all over the floor, luckily missing Sunoo’s shoes. 

The tall male groans in pain as he holds his head, probably from all the dizziness he’s feeling. Sunoo quickly gets up from the couch and grabs Sunghoon, taking him to the nearest restroom to wash his face. Sunoo ignores the disgusted stares he was getting from everyone. 

☆

Jay

Hey, where are you?

Sunoo

I think I’m in your apartment?

Jay

What? 

How do you know where we live?

Sunoo

I couldn’t find you

so I asked jungwon

Jay

Oh ok

You don’t have to stay with him btw

Sunoo

it’s fine

after what happened

I don’t trust him by himself

I’ll wait until you get here

Jay

About that…

I won’t be back 

Sunoo

don’t tell me you’re going to jungwon’s dorm

…

I should’ve known better

Jay

He called me first!

Anyway, it’s late so just sleep in my room

Sunoo

I’m only sleeping over because it’s late

THAT’S IT

Jay

Also

Sunghoon likes being tucked in when he’s drunk

Oh and give him some medicine too

he tends to get really sick if he doesn’t

Sunoo

I am not doing any of that .

☆

“You fucking baby.” Sunoo says, rolling his eyes as he holds a glass of cold water up to Sunghoon’s mouth. 

“Where am I?” Sunghoon groans, rubbing his temples due to the massive headache. 

“In your room. I had to basically carry you to get here.” Sunoo replies, dabbing the water that spilled from Sunghoon’s mouth. 

“But why are you here?” 

“I wasn’t going to leave a drunk person unattended. Who knows what you would do if you were alone.” Sunoo got up to get the medicine from his bag.

“Take this.” He holds the medicine for Sunghoon which he took without hesitation. 

Sunghoon looks over at the clock, it was 2 am. “Aren’t you tired?” 

“A little, but I’ll be fine.” Sunoo replies, throwing the medicine packet away. 

“I can take you home!” Sunghoon says quickly as he sits up, he then winces when he feels dizzier. 

“No, you are staying in your bed until you feel better.” 

Sunoo carefully pushes Sunghoon back into bed, tucking him inside his covers and fluffing his pillow to make it more comfortable for the male to sleep in. 

Sunghoon closes his eyes peacefully with a smile on his face, smacking his lips as he feels himself getting sleepier. Sunoo sits back to look at the male, a soft smile creeping in when he sees Sunghoon’s nose twitch. 

Sunoo leans in, pushing Sunghoon’s sweaty fringe off his face, his fingers carding through the soft hair as he stares at him slowly drifting to sleep. 

(IU - Peach)

“How can you be so pretty, baby? How can I explain this feeling? When I see you, my heart becomes numb and sore. Oh, with what word can I explain you? All the words in the world are probably not enough.”

Sunoo sings softly as he continues to brush his fingers on Sunghoon’s hair, letting his fingers linger a little longer on the older male’s skin. 

As he sings, he notices the pretty moles that decorate his soft skin, cheeks pink from the alcohol, and his beautiful thick eyebrows.

Slowly, Sunoo lets his eyes fall down on Sunghoon’s slightly chapped lips. His heart begins to thump, he feels it increasing the more he stares. 

Sunoo’s singing falters once he hears Sunghoon snore softly, he swallows the lump in his throat, and sits back. 

“I don’t like this feeling.” He whispers to himself, putting a hand over his heart to feel it beating.

Chapter Text

Heeseung

@leeheeseung

Last night was one for the books .

Sunghoon

@hoonsung

last night was definitely a movie !!

Yoo Jimin

@katarinabluu

It was more like a powerpoint but ok

☆

When Sunoo was slowly waking up from his slumber, he felt like something or someone was breathing down his neck and it was making him feel uncomfortable at how close the presence was. 

He gradually flutters his eyes open, a foggy figure inches away from his face and Sunoo is confused as he begins to gain consciousness of his surroundings. 

“Good morning, little fox.” 

Sunoo immediately sits up once he recognizes the voice, pushing himself away from Sunghoon who was sitting on a chair right next to the bed with a wide grin. “How did you sleep?” Sunghoon asks, leaning forward. 

Even though Sunoo was fully dressed from the clothes he was wearing the night before, he still uses the blankets to cover his upper body— a way to protect himself from Sunghoon.

“I slept fine.” Sunoo replies bitterly, realizing that he’s not in the comfort of his own apartment and that it wasn’t just a nightmare, he’s really stranded under the same roof as Sunghoon. 

Sunoo coughs awkwardly at the sudden silence and Sunghoon’s weird staring. “What about you? How do you feel?” He asks, moving further back each time Sunghoon looks at him with those fucking eyes. 

(The eyes in question being Sunghoon staring at him with heart eyes.)

“I feel..” Sunghoon trails off, sighing blissfully as he looks at Sunoo like he was a fallen angel. “Amazing.” He says dreamily, his chin resting on his palm as he blinks up at Sunoo. “You’re really here, it wasn’t a dream.”

“Weirdo.” Sunoo mumbles, avoiding Sunghoon’s googly eyes. 

“Would you like some breakfast?” Sunghoon asks as he gets up and that’s when Sunoo notices the apron that he’s wearing. ‘Caution Extremely Hot Chef’ and Sunoo mentally rolls his eyes at it. 

“You don’t seem like the type of guy to cook.” Sunoo responds and Sunghoon gasps in offense, his hand on his chest. 

“That’s so rude! But you’re cute so I’m going to let that one slide.” 

Sunoo shrugs, Sunghoon is full of surprises and him being a cook was not something that he expected the older to know, maybe Sunghoon isn’t so bad. 

“I am a little hungry and from the looks of it, it seems like you did your best.” Sunoo sends him a small smile. “I’ll just wash up quickly and I’ll meet you in the kitchen.” 

Sunghoon’s smile grows, his little fangs poking and Sunoo catches himself smiling from Sunghoon’s cuteness. 

“You won’t be disappointed!” Sunghoon says. “Also there’s a new toothbrush in one of the drawers, you can have it.” He tells Sunoo before skipping away to the kitchen with a huge smile on his face. 

After washing up, Sunoo makes his way to the kitchen. He stares at the bowl in front of him and it took every little restraint he had in him to not smack Sunghoon’s head. 

“Sunghoon, this is a bowl of cereal.” 

“No, no, no.” Sunghoon moves his finger left and right as he clicks his tongue against the roof of his mouth disapprovingly. “This, my little fox, is cereál.” He says with the worst whatever accent he was trying to achieve. 

Sunghoon moves closer and adds a little something on top of his bowl. 

“What is that?” Sunoo asks, eyeing the green leaf on his fruity bowl of cereal. 

“Mint.” Sunghoon says proudly, both hands on his hips.

Sunoo glares up at him. “Are you serious?” He deadpans, throwing Sunghoon a disbelieving look. “Mint, on a bowl of Lucky Charms.” 

Sunghoon nods, feeling satisfied with his work and Sunoo just shakes his head as he notices the beads of sweat on Sunghoon’s forehead. Sunoo wonders if Sunghoon fought with the box of cereal or something because the man is acting like he just cheffed up a five course meal. 

At that point, Sunoo didn’t care if it was just a bowl of cereal, he was hungry to the point that his stomach was making noises he’s never heard before, for a second, it made him think his stomach was speaking Latin to him.

“Can you not do that while I’m eating?” 

“What do you mean? I’m not doing anything.”

Sunoo slowly turns to his right. Sunghoon was sitting right next to him, breathing down his neck as he stared at Sunoo with eyes that were almost bulging out. He was literally acting like he’s never seen a human being eat a bowl of cereal before. 

“I can hear you breathing, Sunghoon.” Sunoo uses his spoon to smack Sunghoon’s head. “It’s making me uncomfortable.” 

Sunghoon winces, rubbing his forehead where the spoon had smacked him. “I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t dreaming,” He pouts. 

“Would you like me to smack you again just so you’re sure that you’re not dreaming?” 

Sunghoon raises his hands in defeat. “No! I know it’s not a dream, no need to smack me again.” 

Sunoo takes another spoonful of cereal, munching on it as he speaks. “You told me you weren’t going to be weird around me if you wanted to be friends.” 

“Give me like five business days, I promise I’m going to act right.” 

Sunoo sends him a worried look then laughs sadly. “You worry me Sunghoon, it’s like, you need to be watched at all times.” 

Sunghoon nods enthusiastically. “Yes, yes! I need to be watched at all times, especially when I shower! I don’t mind if you’re watching either!” 

The younger male sighs, shaking his head as he regrets even saying anything to him. “Can you take me home?” He asks. 

“Sure, but let me shower first.” 

☆

Sunoo stares at the time on his phone, anxiously tapping his foot against the carpeted floor. “What the fuck is taking him so long?” Sunoo had been waiting for Sunghoon to get out of the shower for almost forty-five minutes and Sunoo was growing impatient. 

Within seconds, the shower finally turns off and Sunoo lets out a deep breath. “Finally!” He says to himself, throwing his back further into the couch. Now, it should only take Sunghoon just a few more minutes and he should be right out. 

Wrong. 

Sunghoon was still in the restroom for another twenty minutes, singing and attempting to rap whatever song was playing on his loudspeakers.

(Lil Wayne - Lollipop)

“She-she-she licks me like a lollipop, she-she licks me like a lollipop!” 

Sunoo hears Sunghoon screaming out the lyrics over the speakers and Sunoo has had enough. He stands up and marches his way down the hall where the restroom was at, his fists ready to be used. 

“Sunghoon!” Sunoo shouts. “What are you doing in there?!” 

Sunghoon must have not heard him from the way he continues singing the lyrics and it irritates Sunoo. The young male bangs on the door as he shouts at Sunghoon, but nothing. 

Sunoo stares at the door for a few minutes, contemplating if he should bust the door open or cry because he’s stuck inside Sunghoon’s apartment forever. 

He chooses to bust down the door.

Well, not literally, because Sunghoon is a dumbass (a/n I repeat, this is just fiction and Sunghoon is NOT a dumbass in real life!!) and left the door unlocked. 

“Sunghoon! I’m going to beat-”

No one, and I mean no one could’ve prepared Sunoo for what he witnessed. 

Sunoo screams, yells, shouts, all of the above! He ran off, shutting his eyes closed, he didn’t care if he ran into the walls, he was going to run! Run far away from Sunghoon and his gigantic-

Sunoo leaves Sunghoon alone in his restroom, butt ass naked with his dick all out for anyone that passes by to see. 

After a few minutes of silence, Sunghoon looks down at his half hard dick. “Did he scream because it’s ugly looking or did he scream because he knows he wouldn’t be able to handle all this in the future?” Sunghoon wonders out loud, holding his cock in his hand, he then smirks. “Well, at least he knows I’m not built like the rest.” 

Sunoo

YOU NEED TO PICK ME UP

NOW

Jungwon

But I’m with Jay though

Sunoo

I DON’T CARE

TAKE ME WITH YOU GUYS

I NEED TO BE AWAY

Jungwon

What happened??

Sunoo

I MMUST PUT SUNGHOON

ON A FUCKING LEASH

Jungwon

Stop yelling!

What happened, Sunoo?

Jay and I are worried

Sunoo

I saw…

SUNGHON’S DICK

Jungwon

WHAT

WHAT DO YOU MEAN 

Sunoo

EXACTLY WHAT I MEANT

HE WAS TAKING A LONG TIME IN THE SHOWER

SO I WENT TO CHECK ON HIM

jungwon….

I saw….. everything

HIS DICK WAS FLOPPING EVERYWHERE

EVERYTHING WAS SO WET

HIS ABS

HIS BUTT

EVERYTHING….WET

and so bigg.. so so big…

Jungwon

Okay calm down please

Where are you?

Jay and I are on our way

Sunoo

so fucking big…

huge…

big…

Jungwon

SUNOO STAY WITH ME

WHERE ARE YOU

Sunoo

near the hot dog place

hot dogs…

big… juicy…. hot dogs…

Jungwon

Sunoo, stay with me! 

I’m losing you

Sunoo

big .

☆

Jay and Jungwon arrive at Coney Island, the hot dog place that Sunoo was at and when both males first see Sunoo, sitting in the back corner of the restaurant, moving back and forth, it scares them. 

Jungwon takes slow steps as he makes his way to Sunoo, Jay following behind with careful steps as well. As they get near, they see Sunoo stare at nothing while he chants “Big.. big.. big..” 

“Um,” Jungwon starts off, waving a hand in front of Sunoo. “Sunoo?” He says softly, but no reaction. 

Jungwon turns to look at Jay. “I have never seen him this way.” He informs Jay and Jay looks equally worried. “He keeps saying big.” He bites his bottom lip nervously. 

“You said that he saw Sunghoon’s dick, right?” 

Jungwon nods, turning to face Sunoo who keeps rocking back and forth, his eyes twitching too. “You don’t think..” Jungwon’s voice falters, but Jay finishes it off for him. 

“He’s dickmatized.” Jay puts his hand on Jungwon’s shoulder, a way to comfort the boy. 

Jungwon gasps, covering his mouth dramatically as he stares at his best friend go crazy over some cock. 

☆

“Where have you been?” 

Sunghoon was in the middle of watching a Netflix show when Jay showed up to their apartment, his face dull and tired when he walked inside. 

“I spent the night at Jungwon’s place.” He answers, putting on his slippers. “Why are you showing your dick to Sunoo?” Jay asks, frowning at his friend. 

Sunghoon groans, throwing his head back. “It was an accident, I didn’t know he was trying to get inside the restroom when he caught me.” 

Jay raises an eyebrow at him as he grabs a water bottle from the fridge. “Caught you doing what exactly?” He questions immediately. 

“Don’t think dirty!” Sunghoon sits up abruptly. “I was just… dancing…” He says the last party in a whisper. 

Jay leans closer. “You were what? I didn’t hear-”

“I was dancing!” Sunghoon looks down hopelessly, his shoulders slumped, and his lips form a pout. “I always feel like I’m always embarrassing myself in front of him,” Sunghoon sulks before looking up at Jay. “I didn’t do anything weird last night, right?!” He says, grabbing Jay’s hand. 

Jay coughs awkwardly. “Um, I’m not sure, I don’t remember.” Jay answers, but the images of drunk Sunghoon twerking and stripping haunt him, he shakes his head.

“I’ll take that as a no.” Sunghoon says, wiping his forehead with a “Phew!” 

Jay stays quiet, he will just have to let his friend figure it out by himself. “I’m going to be in my room, so don’t bother me.” 

Sunghoon nods, but before Jay could walk off, he stops him. “Is everything okay with Jungwon?” 

And Jay couldn’t answer him. He shrugs and sends him a pitiful smile. “Yeah, don’t worry about it.” He says, walking away. 

“I’m not fully ready to commit, Jay.” 

“We don’t have to rush anything though, you know I’m not that kind of person.”

“It has nothing to do with you, you’ve been so patient with me, but I don’t think it’s fair that you’re giving me your all and I’m not because I’m still scared.” 

“So, what do you want us to do?”

“I need space, I still really like you… I just feel like I never had the chance to really heal because the minute I broke up with Sungchan, I was getting courted by you.”

“I understand, can we still be friends though?” 

“Of course.” 

☆

Sunoo

we need to talk

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

fox!

I knew you’d come back to me 

Sunoo

sunghoon..

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

you just can’t resist me huh?

Sunoo

stop typing 

and please let me speak

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

who wouldn’t want me after seeing how huge I am!

by the way

between us

what you saw earlier

that was me in soft so just imagine when its 🍆

Sunoo

OMG

SUNGHOON

YOU’RE SO EMBARRASSING

I WAS GOING TO LET IT SLIDE

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT

NAW

NOT ONLY DID I SEE YOU NAKED

BUT YOU GAVE ME A DRUNK LAP DANCE

AND YOU THREW UP ON ME

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

what .

say it ain’t so…

Sunoo

yeah!

Sunghoon looks down at his messages with Sunoo, his face completely red from embarrassment and Sunghoon feels like either throwing up again or going outside to throw himself off the patio. (He lives on the first floor.) 

“PARK JONGSEONG!” Sunghoon yells as he makes his way to Jay’s room. “YOU FUCKING LIAR.”

When Sunghoon opens the door, Jay is curled up on his bed while he scrolls through his camera roll with all the pictures he took with Jungwon. 

“I want you to know that I will be kicking you out of my Netflix account.” 

Jay turns to face Sunghoon who was standing in the middle of his room with his hands on his hips. “It’s my account, Sunghoon.” 

Sunghoon pauses, his brows knit together as he scratches his chin to think. “Ah!” He says, lifting his index finger like he’s about to make a point. “I’ll kick you out of my Spotify account.” 

“You share an account with Heeseung and Karina.” Jay deadpans. “Correction, you stole their information and now you’re sharing an account with them.”

Sunghoon crosses his arms against his chest. “I do not like this attitude of yours.” 

Jay faces the other way, showing his back to Sunghoon. “Dude, I am not in the mood to entertain you, can’t you bother Heeseung or Karina?” He groans into his pillow. 

Sunghoon stays quiet and Jay is hoping that his friend has the mind to leave him alone, but it’s Sunghoon he’s talking about, he doesn’t have a mind. 

The younger male jumps on Jay’s bed, landing right on top of Jay’s groin, causing Jay to groan from the heavy weight on him. “Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you?!”

Now Jay is forced to look up at Sunghoon who was hovering on top of him. 

“You!” Sunghoon stabs Jay’s chest. “You let your childhood best friend, your best fucking bro embarrass himself!” Sunghoon cries out frantically. 

Jay sends him an unimpressed look. 

“Karina and I told you and Heeseung not to drink together,” Jay explains. “And both of you guys disappeared to probably get shit faced and when I finally found you,” He corrects him before jabbing a finger to Sunghoon’s forehead. “You were already making a fool out of yourself.”

Sunghoon blinks for a minute, scratching the back of his head awkwardly. “Oh, right.” He shoots Jay a crooked smile. 

“Now get off of me!” He shoves Sunghoon to the floor. 

☆

“You have a lot of explaining to do.” 

Sunoo looks at Jungwon through the mirror as he was putting on his skin care, making sure he didn’t miss a step since he didn’t have the chance to do it the night before. 

“Me?” Jungwon points at himself. “You’re the one that acted like you saw a ghost earlier.” He reminds Sunoo and the older male stays silent for a second. 

“I already told you that it just surprised me, ok?” Sunoo responds, rolling his eyes at his best friend. “I’ve never seen someone with a dick that big.” Sunoo shivers, feeling a bit hot as the image of Sunghoon’s lean body crosses his mind— tall, lean, wet hair dripping down his abs-

Sunoo slaps his cheeks to forget. 

“Listen, this isn’t about me anymore.” Sunoo says afterwards, his cheeks tinged pink go unnoticed by Jungwon. “You let Jay spend the night at your place, what was that all about?” 

Jungwon fidgets around with the Nintendo Switch he was playing with a few moments ago. “We didn’t do anything, we just talked.” 

“And? Are you guys back together?”

“No.” Jungwon answers quickly, lifting his head to look at his friend. “I’m not ready, he’s a good guy, but I just can’t give him what he wants yet.”

Sunoo gets up, spraying a mist all over his face before making his way to Jungwon. “Just don’t make a mistake, he’s a good guy.” Sunoo says, hugging his friend.

“I know.” Jungwon says softly. “I won’t.”

“Because if you take a long time, I’ll steal him away.” Sunoo teases, pulling away from the hug. “Kidding!” He says as Jungwon sends him a deadly glare. 

“I would kill you actually.” Jungwon hisses. 

“I was kidding!” Sunoo laughs, he then lays on his bed comfortably, letting out a deep sigh. “I would never do that to you, I’m just upset that I’m stuck with this weird friend.” 

Jungwon laughs, laying right next to him. Sunoo scoots in closer to lay his head on Jungwon’s chest. “He’s a good guy, just… strange.” 

Sunoo snorts, out of all the words to explain Sunghoon, strange was just the right one. Sunoo can’t seem to understand him, but he also can’t seem to understand why all of a sudden, Sunoo is starting to feel somewhat fond of Sunghoon. 

It’s almost comical, really. 

How a few days ago, Sunoo couldn’t stand just hearing the boy’s name, but now, he catches himself smiling whenever he thinks of Sunghoon. Not because he’s starting to like him, but Sunghoon is a bit silly, like a puppy. 

“I just wish he was a bit more serious, that’s all.” 

“But at least you know that he likes you though?” 

Sunoo laughs at that, he’s sure that Sunghoon only drools for him because he wants to have sex with him. “He just wants to fuck, I don’t think he really likes me.” 

“I think he likes you.”

Sunoo rolls his eyes, there’s a reason why he said yes to Sunghoon’s proposal, he wants to make sure if Sunghoon actually wants to be his friend or not. Sunoo knows that being friends with a guy that wants to fuck never lasts, he’s learned that the hard way. 

“I’ll give him a week,” Sunoo whispers. “If he stops talking to me after a week then I’ll know that he found someone else to play with.” 

☆

A week has gone by and Sunghoon is still around. 

Bothering him, but he is still around. 

Every morning, Sunghoon doesn’t miss the chance to send Sunoo a good morning text, letting the boy know that he hopes he has a good day and Sunoo can’t help but smile at the silly texts everyday. 

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

GOOD MORNING LITTLE FOX

I hope you have a great day

if not

let me know to make it better

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

THIS IS A STICK UP!

little fox

you have 30 seconds to say good morning to me❗️

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

little fox

it’s not a good morning for me 

because jay ate the last waffle

but I hope you have a better morning than me

It’s been a week since Sunoo has last seen Sunghoon, but whenever he has time, he will send a few texts to Sunghoon which always leads to Sunghoon saying something insane, ending the conversation quickly.

Sunoo doesn’t mind it though, he’s glad that he doesn’t see Sunghoon in school or else he’d be stressed and distracted. 

As Sunoo is making his way to the radio station, he sees Ni-ki skating by himself on the sidewalk as he scrolls through his phone. Sunoo runs to catch up with the boy, tapping his shoulder to get his attention. 

Ni-ki turns to his side with a scowl, but once he realizes it was Sunoo, his face softens, removing the black headphones he was wearing. “Hey.” Ni-ki greets, slowing down on his skateboard. 

Sunoo swallows the lump on his throat nervously, he’s always seen Ni-ki skate around before, but this time Sunoo feels small, intimidated a little. Ni-ki wears his oversized gray hoodie and baggy gray sweatpants and Sunoo still thinks he looks good in this simple outfit. 

“What are you doing?” 

“Just skating around.” He shrugs and Sunoo feels more nervous than he did earlier, Sunoo is usually really good at making conversation with anyone, but with Ni-ki, it’s a bit hard for him.

“How was the date?” Ni-ki asks suddenly, unwrapping a lollipop. 

Sunoo scratches the back of his neck. “It was okay, nothing much happened.” 

Ni-ki hums around the cherry lollipop that’s in his mouth before pulling out another one. “Want one?” Sunoo nods, accepting the lollipop. 

“You went on a date with Park Sunghoon, right?” Ni-ki asks in a low voice. 

Sunoo stares at him in shock, hesitating whether he wants to admit to it or not, but before he could, Ni-ki speaks up again. 

“I saw him dropping you off that night.” He turns his face slightly to look at Sunoo, a smirk decorating his face. 

“What are you? A stalker now?” Sunoo asks in a teasing voice, but there was a bit of seriousness in his question. 

Ni-ki laughs and Sunoo’s heart skips a beat when he hears how deep his laughter is. 

“Nah,” Ni-ki responds nonchalantly. “I was on my way to my place that night after work.” He explains, shoving both hands in the pockets of his sweatpants. “And I don’t need to stalk you to get your attention.” He smirks. “I’ll see you later.” He waves goodbye before skating away, not bothering to look back at Sunoo. 

That’s when Sunoo realizes that Ni-ki had accompanied him all the way to the radio station. 

All Sunoo could do was watch Ni-ki skate away, his cheeks burning pink as he thought about what Ni-ki said to him. 

“I don’t need to stalk you to get your attention.”

Does he mean that Ni-ki already has Sunoo’s attention or what? Sunoo shakes his thoughts away, he doesn’t need his mind to be somewhere else before work. Sunoo feels his phone vibrate as he’s walking inside the radio, he looks at the text and snorts. 

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

want to get food?

Chapter Text

“Sunghoon?” 

Sunghoon was sitting on the floor right outside the radio station when Sunoo got off, his arms wrapped around his legs as he kept both of them against his chest. Sunoo was so occupied thinking about his interaction with Ni-ki that he had forgotten to reply back to Sunghoon’s invitation to get food. 

Sunoo crouches down next to Sunghoon who had his head resting on his knees, realizing that the male had fallen asleep. “Hey, wake up.” Sunoo whispers, shaking Sunghoon’s shoulder to get him to wake up.

Sunghoon flutters his eyes open, a small smirk appearing on his face once he meets Sunoo’s gaze on him. “Hey, little fox.” He says with a yawn. 

Sunoo gets up, rolling his eyes at the male. “Why are you here?” He asks, a hand on his hip as he looks down at Sunghoon. 

“I was waiting for you.” 

Sunoo feels a slight sting in his chest, feeling guilty that Sunghoon would go out of his way to come to his job and wait for him even though he never responded back to him. 

“Why would you do that?” Sunoo frowns at him. “If I didn’t respond, then you didn’t have to come and wait for me.” 

Sunghoon gets up from the floor, dusting off his denim jeans. “So, you did see my message.” He says with a soft smile, slinging his backpack over his shoulder. 

“I did.” Sunoo admits, looking down at his feet guiltily. “But I got busy with work.”

The older male carefully takes Sunoo’s bag from his hand, causing Sunoo to look at Sunghoon. “I figured you got busy.” Sunghoon smiles and seeing Sunghoon act so nonchalant and calm about it is confusing Sunoo. “I still wanted to see you.”

Sunoo meets Sunghoon’s eyes for a moment. “Why?” He asks softly, Sunoo also ignores how handsome Sunghoon looks under the street light.

“Because I haven’t seen my fox in a while.” Sunghoon replies with a shrug as if it was the most obvious thing (it was).

Sunoo turns around to walk away, attempting to hide the blush that was decorating his cheeks. “Well, next time don’t wait outside my job unless I respond back.” Sunoo says, biting down on his bottom lip out of nervousness. 

“Yes, sir!” Sunghoon says with a military salute before jogging to catch up with Sunoo. “Wait, there’s going to be a next time?” Sunghoon asked once as he was walking side by side with the shorter male. 

“We are friends, right?” Sunoo says casually, kicking the small rocks that’s in his path. 

“Y-yes! Yes we are!” He responds rather quickly, a hint of excitement in his tone. 

“Then,” Sunoo starts off, looking to his right to look at Sunghoon. “There will be plenty next times.” Sunoo continues to walk, leaving Sunghoon in the same spot, frozen.

Sunoo didn’t need to turn around to know that Sunghoon was doing some sort of funky dance move as a celebration for their official friendship. 

“Well, aren’t you coming?” Sunoo turns to face Sunghoon behind him, catching Sunghoon mid dancing with his hands up in the air and his hips twisted. 

Sunghoon goes back to his normal stance, trying to act cool with his hands in his pockets as he clears his throat to speak. “Yeah, whatever, I guess.” He says nonchalantly, shrugging his shoulders as he walks up to meet with Sunoo.again. 

Sunoo giggles at his ridiculousness when he can clearly see the tips of Sunghoon’s ears bright red and his cheeks dusted pink. 

“You are so ridiculous.” Sunoo scoffs, rolling his eyes at Sunghoon. 

☆

“Sunghoon, why the hell are we under this table?!” Sunoo grits his teeth as he whispers. 

Both males were having a peaceful dinner at the nearby Mexican restaurant by their campus, enjoying their enchilada and quesadilla plate when suddenly, Sunghoon pulled Sunoo down with him to hide under their table. 

“Shhh!” Sunghoon shushes Sunoo with a finger on his mouth, “They will hear us.” 

“Who?! Who the fuck is going to hear us?” Sunoo asks, his eyes darting around the half empty restaurant. “This is so stupid! I want to eat my quesadilla.” Sunoo complains, crossing his arms against his chest. 

Sunghoon peaks his head out then quickly goes back underneath the table. “Them.” Sunghoon points at the two people that were sitting at a booth that was nowhere near their table. 

The two people looked like they were around their age, a girl and a guy just chatting as they shared their chips and salsa together. Sunoo glances towards Sunghoon who keeps his eyes glued on to the couple, mostly on the pretty girl. 

For some odd reason, Sunoo felt a tad bit jealous that Sunghoon was more focused on the pretty girl and her date than on him. Sunoo rolls his eyes at that, he had no business feeling this way when he doesn’t like Sunghoon in that way. 

“Why are you so interested in them?” Sunoo asks and if Sunghoon wasn’t so oblivious, he would notice the hint of jealousy in that question. “Was she your ex-girlfriend or something?”

Sunghoon turns his head slowly at Sunoo, his face twisted in disgust. “Never say that again, I almost puked.” 

“What? You say that like she’s ugly.” 

Sunghoon shakes his head, rubbing the back of his neck. “It’s not that she’s ugly,” He starts off with a sigh. “She’s my best friend’s girlfriend.” 

“Oh.” Yeah, Sunoo felt stupid for even feeling jealous. “So, you’re spying on your best friend’s date with her?”

“That’s the thing!” Sunghoon blurts out, receiving a few more looks from others. “I don't know who that man is! She’s cheating on my best friend!” 

“Oh that’s not good.” Sunoo says, scooting closely next to Sunghoon until their shoulders touch to spy on the girl and her supposed affair. “But Sunghoon, what if it’s just a friend? Or a family relative?” He tilts his head curiously up at Sunghoon.

“Karina has no friends, we are her only friends.” Sunghoon informs, he then looks beside him to meet Sunoo’s eyes. “And I think she’s an only child.” 

If it weren’t for the fact that they were crouched down under the table spying on some random people, Sunoo would find this moment cute— staring deep into Sunghoon’s eyes, their breaths hitting each other’s skin, and their fingers brushing with one another.  

“So, what are you going to do?”

“I am going to confront her!” Sunghoon was about to get out from under the table but Sunoo grabs him from the back of his hair, holding him back from confronting Karina. 

“Are you insane?!” Sunoo whispers, his fingers still tangled in Sunghoon’s hair. “Do you want- Wait, why are you making that face?” Sunoo asks when he notices Sunghoon making a weird face. 

“Your hand, it’s pulling my hair...” Sunghoon breathes out heavily. “It’s kinda making me horny...” He says and Sunoo swears he almost hears him moan. 

Sunoo lets go immediately. “You’re disgusting.” 

“Sorry..” Sunghoon laughs awkwardly. “So, why can’t I confront her again?”

“Because you’re going to make a scene, it’s best if you just call your best friend and ask him if he knows what she’s doing, maybe he knows that she’s having dinner with a guy friend, who knows?”

“So you want me to call him?” Sunghoon deadpans and Sunoo nods in response, sending Sunghoon a sweet smile. 

“Don’t smile at me like that.” Sunghoon says, looking away. “Or else I’m going to think you’re in love with me and want to raise three cats and two dogs with me.”

Sunoo face palms himself, shaking his head in disbelief. “Just call him, but don’t start off strong and say that she’s cheating-”

“Heeseung! Karina is fucking cheating on you dude!”

Sunoo snaps his head up to look at Sunghoon, glaring at the older male as he speaks to his friend over the phone. 

“Yeah, I see them right now.. Uh-huh, I'm positive it’s her… Some random guy with bigger muscles than you and better taste in clothes… My bad, to be honest, he isn’t that good looking!… Okay then, let me know if you need me to do- alright alright, I’ll stay still, bye.”

Sunghoon hangs up, stuffing his phone in his pocket. 

“So?” Sunoo asks softly. “What did your friend say?”

“He said to go over there and make a scene.” 

“I don’t think that’s what he said- Wait, Sunghoon!” Sunoo shouts after Sunghoon who was fast to get out from under the table, leaving Sunoo by himself. 

Sunoo had no choice but to follow Sunghoon. 

Sunghoon makes his way towards Karina, his brows knit together in fury as he marches to the booth. Karina finally notices him. 

“Sunghoon? What, what are you doing here?” She asks, her eyes widen with shock. 

The taller male crosses his arms against his chest, eyeing Karina then at the guy who was sitting in front of her. A good looking guy with blonde hair and a nice fucking smile that reached his eyes creating half moons. 

“I should be asking YOU that question.” He wails as he goes back to look at Karina. 

“Who is he, Jimin?” The guy asks cautiously. 

“He knows your first name?!” Sunghoon slams his hands on the table. “I am about to faint.” He holds his head as he acts dizzy, Sunoo was right behind him sending both Karina and the guy apologies. 

Karina rolls her eyes. “Jeno, this is Sunghoon, he is Heeseung’s best friend.” Karina sighs, pinching the bridge of her nose. “Sunghoon, this is Jeno, my cousin.” 

“Righttttt.” Sunghoon says sarcastically. “And that’s my brother who I want to marry.” He uses his thumb to point behind him where Sunoo is at. 

Sunoo waves awkwardly behind Sunghoon. “Just to clarify, I am not his brother.”

Jeno laughs, using his hand to cover his shy smile. “You’re funny dude.”

“Really?” Sunghoon happily asks, flashing his best smile at Jeno. “Thank you!”

Karina slams her head on the table. “Don’t compliment him!” She then shoots her head up to glare at Sunghoon. “Wait, did you think I was cheating on Heeseung? Is that why you came up to me?” She asks Sunghoon, who was mid-stealing a chip. 

“What?” Sunghoon chuckles nervously. “No, never! You know I trust that you wouldn’t do that to my best friend.” 

Sunoo grabs Sunghoon’s arm softly, pulling him away from the table as he flashes both Karina and Jeno an apologetic smile. “I’m really sorry that he interrupted your dinner, we are leaving now, right Sunghoon?” He asks Sunghoon, fluttering his lashes up at him. 

“R-right..” 

Once they paid and were out of the restaurant, Sunoo slapped Sunghoon on the back of his head. “I told you not to do that!” He shouts at the boy. 

Sunghoons rubs his head where Sunoo had slapped. “The demons in my head were telling me to do it.” 

“Well, tell those demons to leave you alone because nothing good ever happens when you listen to them.” Sunoo argues, but then shuts his eyes to breathe in and out slowly. “You always manage to stress me out.” 

“Is that a good thing?” Sunghoon smiles, his eyes twinkling expectantly. 

“No.” 

Sunoo sees Sunghoon sulking, his pout making him look so adorable that Sunoo can’t help but smile. “Come on,” Sunoo says, reaching his arm out. “Let’s go home now.” 

Sunghoon stares at the hand in front of him then up at Sunoo. “Is that hand for me?” He points to himself and when Sunoo nods in agreement, Sunghoon’s eyes light up, taking Sunoo’s hand happily. 

And if Sunghoon’s palm started to form sweat a few seconds after, then that’s his business only (and Sunoo). 

☆

The next few days were fine, Sunghoon wasn’t making careless decisions and Sunoo wasn’t getting a headache from it, so all was good for him. Sunoo did bump into Ni-ki a few times around campus, nothing much happened with that since Ni-ki was too busy with his group of friends. 

Sunoo sighs tiredly when he rests his head on the library table, having to study all day long for exams and going to work afterwards has been catching up to him, making him feel a lot more tired than usual.

He was about to take a quick little nap when a tap on his shoulder startled him. Sunoo looks over his shoulder and sees Jay with Sunghoon, who had his eyes glued to the floor like a puppy who did wrong. 

“Sunoo, I need a favor.” 

“What’s going on?” Sunoo asks, staring at both males in confusion. 

“I need you to babysit Sunghoon for me.” 

Sunoo frowns. “That’s a grown man, Jay.” Sunoo points out. “You’re telling me to babysit this 6’0 foot man.” 

“I thought so too.” Jay says, glaring at Sunghoon who only whimpers under Jay’s deadly gaze. “Until he decided to burn my clothes.” 

“It was an accident.” Sunghoon grumbles, but he quickly shuts up when Jay looks at him again. 

“How did you- You know what, it’s best if I don’t ask.” Sunoo shakes his head. “Why can’t you ask your other friends to do it?”

“Because Sunghoon insisted I asked you.” 

“You promised you wouldn’t tell him!” 

Sunoo looks at the time, trying to compose himself when he notices that he only has less than fifteen minutes until his shift at the radio station starts. “Fine, but I’m dropping him right after work.” 

“Deal.” 

☆

“And whatever you do, stay quiet.” Sunoo tells Sunghoon once they are inside the station, he pulls out an extra rolling chair for Sunghoon to sit on. “And please don’t touch anything.” 

Sunghoon sits on the cushioned chair, leaning back to make himself comfortable. “I promise not to touch anything or say a word.” He sighs in delight when he smells the hot cocoa brewing that Sunoo started to make in the back. “I’ll be so quiet that you won’t even know I’m here.” 

Sunoo glares at him, being on Sunghoon duty is not for the weak. Sunoo ignores Sunghoon as he pulls out the work tablet, reading the anonymous questions the station had received. 

“God, some of these questions are fucking ridiculous.” He says out loud, causing Sughoon to raise an eyebrow. 

“What questions?” He leans over, trying to read over Sunoo’s shoulder but the younger male shoves him back down. 

“Shush, I’m starting right now.” He says, pressing a few buttons to end the song that was playing. 

“Ah, welcome back to everyone who is tuning in for Dj Sunny’s special segment, shall we get started?” Sunoo smiles into the recording mic, but is quickly gone when he hears Sunghoon snickering next to him. 

Sunoo glares at Sunghoon, who was trying his best to hold in his laugh. 

“Oh wow, we are starting off like this already?” Sunoo giggles sweetly. 

“Dj Sunny, will you go out with me?” 

Sunghoon whips his head so fast, furrowing his eyebrows the second he hears the question. “Loser.” He scoffs, rolling his eyes. 

Sunoo tunes him out though, not realizing that Sunghoon was doing his signature pout right next to him. 

“I’d love to go out with anyone who is willing to treat me right.” Sunoo answers and Sunoo wishes he didn’t take a glance towards Sunghoon because the male was trying to flex his arms to impress Sunoo. 

“Dj Sunny, have you ever experienced unrequited love before and how did you deal with it?” 

“I’ve experienced it a few times, believe it or not. I think of it as a lesson, these people show up to your life to teach you a lesson, that’s how I view it, you just have to stay positive until you meet the right one.”

Sunoo then bites his bottom lip, he wasn’t sure why the image of Ni-ki pops in his mind. He then turns to look at Sunghoon and the image of Ni-ki is gone, he unconsciously smiles when he stares at the male next to him who was playing with the rubix cube that Jake had left behind. 

“Dj Sunny, I like this girl, but I don’t know how soon is too soon to ask her out? I really like her and I think we could go somewhere, any advice?”

“Personally, too soon is better than too late. If you like this person and have a strong desire to see her in your future, then I think it’s best to ask her out on dates and show her the kind of person you are. You’ll feel it in your heart when you know when’s the best time to ask her, best wishes for you.”

Sunghoon suddenly leans in to whisper in Sunoo’s ear. “Would you like hot chocolate?” He smiles. 

Sunoo swallows nervously, turning to face Sunghoon, his lips inches away from Sunghoon’s lips. 

“Yes, please..”

The older male nods, getting up to go to the back.

“Dj Sunny, is there a chance that your first impression about a person could change? From not liking them to liking them?”

“In the beginning, I was stubborn to give anyone a chance, I was very picky, but I’ve learned to not judge someone by the first impression. So I think it’s possible.”

“Dj Sunny, what’s your type?”

“My best friend thinks I’m very picky when it comes to my ideal type, but honestly I’m just looking out for myself. I want to meet someone who I know could make me laugh on a bad day, that is willing to go out of their way to help me, and to just like me for who I am.”

The second Sunoo had ended his answer, Sunghoon stumbles inside, tripping over nothing and spilling a bit of their hot chocolate. “Sorry, the air pushed me.” Sunghoon whispers, making Sunoo laugh. 

“Dj Sunny, I have a little crush on someone and I’m trying to impress him, but you see, I’m not good at expressing myself and it always seems that people misunderstand whenever I talk, how do I impress him?”

“Just suck his dick.” Sunghoon answers a little too loud, quickly covering his mouth in complete shock. “I’m so sorry, it just slipped.” He whispers.

Sunoo pinches his thigh, making him yelp before answering. 

“Hm, that’s a hard one. Maybe through a nice action? You know, some people say actions speak louder than words, so I think by doing small acts of kindness to show him you would have him wondering why you did it, and little by little you can express that it’s because you like him.”

Sunoo then stretches out his arms. “Alright, I’ll be right back for more, but for right now, let’s play a song that I recommend for those who just took their exams.”

He removes his headphones, setting them down on the table.

“Are you done?” Sunghoon asks softly. 

“No.” He stands up. “I’m going to the restroom.”

“Can I play a song after this? I promise it’s good.” Sunghoon pleads, giving Sunoo his best puppy eyes.

“Ugh, fine.”

Sunoo was finishing up using the restroom when he gets a text message from Jungwon. 

Jungwon: 

What are you playing?

Sunoo

what are you talking about

Jungwon

Who is with you right now?

Sunoo

sunghoon? why?

wait . 

When Sunoo runs back to the area, the song “Milkshake by Kelis” is playing with Sunghoon dancing along. Sunoo clenches his fists, breathing heavily. 

“Park Sunghoon, you better fucking run.” 

Chapter Text

“Faster Sunghoon! Faster!”

“I am going faster!”

“Then go harder! I’m not feeling anything Sunghoon!”

“Sunoo, I’m putting all of my strength into this! You should… Mmm… You should be able to feel something!”

“Well, I am not!” Sunoo spits out, throwing his head back on the headrest of Sunghoon’s car with a loud grunt of annoyance. “This piece of garbage won’t accelerate!” 

Just thirty minutes ago, both Sunghoon and Sunoo were bickering in Sunghoon’s car after dinner whether Sunoo had kissed him or not at the radio station. 

“You literally launched yourself on top of me and kissed me!”

“Park Sunghoon, I did not fucking kiss you!”

“Oh yeah? So why did I feel your lips on mine earlier?”

“Because I was hitting you and I tripped over your feet and our heads bumped!”

“Oh.. Well, if Jay happens to ask you if we kissed, can you just go along with it?”

“You told him we kissed?? Sunghoon, why are you telling others about things that never happened?!”

“I got too excited…”

Now, Sunoo is spending his lovely evening helping Sunghoon out by pressing down on the accelerator of Sunghoon’s car while the older male pushes the car to an empty parking lot. 

“I’m done, I’m done helping you!” Sunoo got out of the car, slamming the door right after which startled Sunghoon in the process. 

 It was almost 10:30 p.m and Sunoo was just exhausted. Studying for his exams all day, having to deal with a headache because of Park Sunghoon at his job (Sunoo nearly ended the boy’s life), and helping Sunghoon with his car issue late at night, but on top of all that, he’s a few miles away from his apartment! 

Sunoo just wanted to go home and get away from Park Sunghoon as soon as possible. 

But when was the universe ever nice to him? 

“You’re not even doing any of the hard work, I’m the one pushing the car.” Sunghoon retorts back, leaning against the trunk of his car with a towel hung around his right shoulder.

Sunoo shrugs, not bothered enough to argue back because he knows that Sunghoon was the one doing all the work. He then takes a glance at Sunghoon’s body taking notice of Sunghoon having rolled his arm sleeves all the way up to reveal his toned arm muscles. He absolutely hates how hot it makes Sunghoon look right now. 

He crosses his arms against his chest, rolling his eyes with a loud scoff to hide the fact that he’s obviously drawn by Sunghoon’s stupid, good looking face and his ridiculous, hot muscles.  

Why must this man look so hot yet have a brain that’s the size of an ant. 

“It’s your car, not mine.” Sunoo says, walking towards Sunghoon, he stops to stand in front of the male. “So, what do we do now?” Sunoo asks, his arms are still crossed against his chest and Sunghoon can’t help but smile at how cute Sunoo looks when he’s annoyed.

Sunghoon once told Jay that Sunoo looks like a cute angry kitten when the younger male is mad, resulting in Sunghoon sending Jay multiple clips of skrunkly kittens on Instagram and Twitter every day saying “It’s me.”

Sunghoon’s new found obsession is Sunoo and wobbly looking kittens that look like they don’t have any thoughts behind those cute eyes. 

“Well…” Sunghoon trails off as he looks around the empty parking lot, a smirk appearing on his face slowly. Sunoo hates this already. “There’s no one around and the car is pretty spacious…” 

“And?”

Sunghoon stays silent for a few seconds, rubbing his hands together as he ponders over what he wants to say next. 

At least he’s thinking before he speaks! Good job, Sunghoon!

“Would you like to-?” 

Sunoo smacks Sunghoon’s arms without hesitation. “You’re disgusting.” He blurts out, crossing his arms over his chest again with a huff. 

Sunghoon winces as he rubs his arm. “I didn’t even say anything though!” He cries out and Sunoo turns to him with a raised eyebrow. 

“You are just like any other guy,” Sunoo begins to explain. “You just want me to give you a blowjob and call it a night.” 

“W-what? No! That’s not what I had in mind.” Sunghoon says incredulously. “I wanted to just talk and maybe look at the stars or something until Jay arrives…” Sunghoon explains softly as he fidgets with the hem of his shirt.

Sunoo’s heart swells at the sight of Sunghoon’s nervousness, his smile begins to grow as he listens to Sunghoon’s explanation. 

 “But, if you want to give me a blowjob, I wouldn’t mind that at all!” He snaps his head up brightly, sending Sunoo the biggest grin and Sunoo hates how Sunghoon’s eyes are twinkling in anticipation. 

Sunoo’s smile quickly fades. 

“I’m walking away now.” 

“Jay should be arriving at any time!” Sunghoon shouts, but Sunoo was far into the parking lot to change his mind even though for a moment there, Sunoo almost entertained the idea. 

☆

Sunoo is glad that he chose to walk rather than to wait because he was much closer to his apartment than he was a few minutes ago and thankfully, the street lights were bright enough for Sunoo to see his path, feeling a lot less nervous that he’s walking alone at night. 

On his way there Sunoo notices a black gated skate park that he's never seen before. Sunoo took a minute to look around and was fascinated by the group of skaters skating around a deep cement bowl where a few would dip inside with their boards while others did their tricks on rails or ramps. 

Sunoo gets closer to the gate to get a better look inside, everyone skating had their shirts drenched with sweat and Sunoo assumes that they must’ve been skating for a while now just by how tired they looked. 

The skaters look cool in their outfits, outfits that Sunoo would only see a few wearing on campus (example: Ni-ki). Baggy jeans and dark pants that gave them more room to do tricks on their boards, oversized graphic t-shirts or hoodies making them look stylish, and beat up Vans or Converse that helped grip on their boards better.  

Just as Sunoo was ready to leave, his gaze quickly zeros in on a particular male, a familiar tall skater that’s been running through his mind lately.

‘Ni-ki?’

Sunoo was drawn to the boy and his smooth tricks on the board, skating around the park with a smile that Sunoo had never seen before. Ni-ki’s skin glistens under the moonlight, his zip up hoodie doing nothing to cover the expanse of his chest that Sunoo can appreciate from afar, and of course, that cherry lollipop that’s in between his lips couldn’t be missed. 

Sunoo is unable to take his eyes off of Ni-ki, his lips curl into a small smile as he watches Ni-ki fully focused on his skating, laughing and talking to the group of boys around him doing the same.

Ni-ki ends up noticing Sunoo from across the park, he meets Ni-ki’s dark gaze, one that he’s become accustomed to and his breath hitches as he’s been caught staring. 

The younger male’s frown quickly softens once he realizes it’s Sunoo and not some weird stranger stalking them. Sunoo watches how Ni-ki talks to his friends before skating towards Sunoo, slowing down on the speed of his skateboard as he gets closer to Sunoo. 

Ni-ki runs his hand through his damp hair, pushing it back to reveal his flawless forehead for a second, licking his own lips as he eyes Sunoo with a growing smirk. 

“You were calling me a stalker the other day, but it looks like it’s the other way around.” Ni-ki makes a full stop with his skateboard to face Sunoo, letting his board lean against the black gate that’s in between Ni-ki and Sunoo. 

Sunoo’s cheeks gradually turn into a shade of pink out of embarrassment, rushing to shake his head no. “I was not stalking you.” Sunoo speaks up, reassuring Ni-ki that he was not stalking him and that it was just a coincidence. “I was on my way to my place and decided to check this place out since I’ve never seen it before.” 

“Yeah?” Ni-ki breathes out softly, leaning against the gate and it makes Sunoo feel nervous when Ni-ki is staring attentively at him.

 Sunoo steps back just a little, brushing his hair behind his ears nervously.

“It’s new, it’s been under construction for months and they just opened the park a few weeks ago.” Ni-ki explains as he unzips his jacket a bit more to fan himself with it. 

“I see.” Sunoo hums, taking a moment to soak in Ni-ki's presence up close— his dark fringe falling over his dark eyes, the dainty gold chains around his neck, and the small glimpses of his abs each time Ni-ki fans himself. Sunoo gulps nervously, his ears burning and his cheeks only get warmer and warmer by the second. 

“You like what you see?” 

Sunoo flinches, snapping his head back up to meet Ni-ki’s playful smirk. “I didn’t- I wasn’t trying to-”

“I’m teasing you.” Ni-ki lets out a breathless laugh, his deep voice sending Sunoo chills. Ni-ki licks his lips again as he checks Sunoo out, the boy only shys away from the gaze. “You just got off of work?” He asks in a soft, low whisper. 

Sunoo nods in response, fidgeting with his fingers. “Yeah, I just decided to walk home tonight.” He answers softly, blinking up at Ni-ki. “Tried to do something new, ‘ya know?” 

“I’m glad you did.” He answers, sending Sunoo a small smile and Sunoo can’t help but swoon over it. “It’s getting late.” Ni-ki pauses for a moment, avoiding Sunoo’s eyes as he coughs awkwardly. “Want me to walk you home?” Ni-ki ends up asking and Sunoo giggles at the boy’s awkwardness.

Sunoo then bites down on his bottom lip nervously as he scans around the park, a few skaters watching them both from afar and it makes Sunoo feel uneasy. 

“I don’t want you to leave your friends though.” 

“Them?” Ni-ki points behind, looking over his shoulder to look at his friends who suddenly skated away to not get caught by the younger male. “They won’t mind, I skate with them everyday.” He answers honestly. 

Ni-ki then turns back to look at Sunoo fully, despite the black gate in between he can still see the boy’s beauty. “Besides, they’ll understand once they see you.” He smiles, but Sunoo looks at him with a confused expression.

“What?” Sunoo laughs awkwardly. “Once they see me?”

Ni-ki hesitates for a moment before reaching in between the black gate, softly brushing Sunoo’s silky hair behind his ear, revealing the tip of his ear, red and bright. Ni-ki’s eyes studies Sunoo’s face, his flawless skin, pink cheeks, plump lips, and then up to his eyes, holding their gazes. 

“Once they see that I’m ditching them to walk someone pretty, they’ll understand.” He whispers, and they keep their eye contact for a few more seconds until Ni-ki pulls back and Sunoo is finally able to breathe.

Sunoo feels his heart beating rapidly, his palm sweaty from all the clenching he was doing, and there’s no doubt that his cheeks match his hair at that point. Sunoo grins, he wouldn’t let the chance pass up, of course he wants Ni-ki to walk with him. He opens his mouth, ready to give Ni-ki his answer when a loud honk from behind him interrupts him. 

“Sunoo!! Is that you?!”

And just like that, Sunoo deflates.

Ni-ki tilts his head at the guy behind him, raising an eyebrow as he stares at the guy. “Is that… Sunghoon?” Ni-ki asks, using his finger to point behind Sunoo but he doesn't turn around to know that it was Sunghoon calling him.

Sunoo clenches his fist beside him, shutting his eyes to take a long, deep breath before having to face Sunghoon and his stupid, goofy grin. 

“Sunoo!! It’s me, Sunghoon, Park Sunghoon!!” 

“I know that!” Sunoo yells back.

“My car works now.” Sunghoon informs the younger male as he clumsily hops out of the car. “I was on my way to your place because you left your wallet.” He explains, holding Sunoo’s Kuromi wallet. 

Sunoo can’t help but force his smile as he looks up at Sunghoon who was now standing in front of him with a grin, his hand extended to hand Sunoo his wallet. “Thanks.” Sunoo mumbles, taking his wallet back.

Sunghoon's smile then slowly fades when he notices Ni-ki still standing there, watching them both. “Was I..” Sunghoon speaks, his eyes darting from Ni-ki to Sunoo. “Was I interrupting something?” He asks in a hushed voice.

‘Yes, you did interrupt us.’ Sunoo wants to say, but as he finally takes a good look at Sunghoon and how hurt he looks, he decides not to.

Sunoo shakes his head, letting out a sigh. “No, you didn’t, I was just saying hi to a friend.” Sunoo answers with a nonchalant shrug, but the second Sunoo turns to look at Ni-ki, he regrets even saying anything. 

Ni-ki nods and it was evident from his face that he was upset with Sunoo’s response. The younger male grabs his skateboard as he purposely avoids Sunoo’s eyes. “See ya.” He says before stepping on his skateboard to skate off, not bothered to look back at Sunoo. 

The silence lingers around while Sunoo sadly watches Ni-ki skate back to his friends who welcome him. Sunoo ignores the way Ni-ki’s friends look at him, clearly talking about him with Ni-ki and his throat feels like closing when he sees Ni-ki take a glance behind him then back to his friends with a shrug as if he wasn’t anyone to him. 

“Earth to fox?” Sunghoon snaps his fingers in front of his face, bringing his attention back to the older male. 

Sunoo shoves Sunghoon’s hand away before walking away. Sunghoon carefully trails behind him, but not before taking a good look at Ni-ki. 

 “Want me to drop you off?” Sunghoon asks after a second, shoving his hands into his pockets guiltily.

The smaller boy scoffs, rolling his eyes at Sunghoon. “Whatever, I don’t care.” He spits out, annoyance evident in his tone. 

Sunghoon nods in compliance, keeping his gaze on his feet as he walks to his car in silence.

The ride back to Sunoo’s apartment, Sunghoon kept taking quick glances at the boy who just kept to himself as he stared out the window. 

☆

“What’s going on?” Karina asks as she walks inside Jay and Sunghoon’s apartment, taking a seat next to her boyfriend who greets her with a kiss on the cheek. “And why is Jeno, my cousin, here too?” 

Jeno was sitting on one of the bar stools having a delicious sandwich made by Jay, Jeno shrugs at Karina’s question. “I’m not sure why either, but all I know is that Jay makes a very good sandwich!” He smiles brightly. 

Wonyoung rolls her eyes at the whole situation as she stands in the corner because she refuses to ruin her all white Miu Miu dress. “You’re asking the wrong questions here, I’m still trying to figure out who that guy is!” She points towards one of the couches where a middle aged man sat uncomfortably. 

All eyes were on the middle aged man. 

“Isn’t that Mr. Shin? The man that works at 7-Eleven?” Heeseung points out and the room falls silent as everyone looks around the room. 

“Mr. Shin, do you remember who let you in?” Jungwon asks, approaching the middle aged man carefully. 

“I was just told by Jason to stop by because there was an emergency, he was the one that let me in.” Mr. Shin explains, looking around the room and feeling uncomfortable with the way Wonyoung and Karina stare at him. 

“Who the hell is Jason?!” Karina snaps and Heeseung quickly gets up to calm her down. 

Jay closes his eyes with a sigh, he knew exactly who Mr. Shin was referring to. Jay walks behind Jungwon, patting his back to let him deal with Mr. Shin, Jungwon moves to the side to let Jay handle it. 

“Mr. Shin, I’m really sorry that Jason told you to come, but you don’t have to be here.” Jay speaks to him nicely, ignoring Karina in the back who keeps asking who the hell is Jason. “We don’t want to waste any of your time, I know you’re a hard working man.” 

Mr. Shin stands up, thanking Jay for being so kind. “I’ll be on my way out then, let Jason know that I left early.” He says before leaving. 

Once the door is shut, Karina speaks again. “Can someone please tell me who Jason is?” She asks while Heeseung holds her hand. 

“Jason is-”

“Me… I’m Jason.” 

Lo and behold, Park Sunghoon in the flesh, wearing a suit and tie as he holds on to his laptop. “I’ve gathered everyone here for a reason.” Sunghoon says as he walks from the hallway, making his way to the living room where everyone is at. 

“Are those my glasses?” Jay interrupts Sunghoon’s dramatic entrance. 

“And isn’t that my watch?” Wonyoung points out too.

Sunghoon whines as he stomps on the floor like a child. “Really? You guys just totally ruined my speech!”

Jeno claps by himself. “I still think you did a pretty good job.” Jeno compliments with a bright, genuine smile.

“Thank you, Jeno!” Sunghoon thanks Jeno, putting the laptop down on the coffee table so he could connect it to the T.V.

“Need some help?” Heeseung asks as they all watch Sunghoon struggle with connecting his powerpoint to the big screen. 

“Yes, please.” 

“This better be good, Sunghoon.” Wonyoung says, crossing her arms. “I canceled my shoot because of this.”

“Trust me.” Sunghoon replies, patting his chest softly. “It’ll be worth it.” He reassures his little sister with a small pat on the head. 

“Which powerpoint dude?” Heeseung asks as he scrolls through Sunghoon’s laptop.

“Third one.” Sunghoon answers before facing everyone else, clasping his hands together with a huff. “Now, is everyone ready for my meeting?” 

“No, not really.” 

“No.”

“Whatever, we are already here.”

Sunghoon pauses, this wasn’t what he expected. “Anyway, I’ve gathered everyone here because…” Sunghoon takes a dramatic pause before turning to face the T.V. “Ta-dah!” He says, creating some sort of jazz hands to present his powerpoint. 

Everyone stares at Sunghoon with a deadpan look without saying a word, Sunghoon looks around the room awkwardly, jazz hands and all. “Soooo? Any thoughts?”

“Um,” Jungwon starts off. “Your meeting is about… Kittens?”

“Wait- No?” Sunghoon takes a look at his powerpoint, he stares at the big picture of a skrunkly kitten with heart emojis all over on display. “That’s the wrong powerpoint, click on powerpoint four.” Sunghoon tells Heeseung. 

Once the correct powerpoint was on, a series of “Ohh.” and “Ahh.” were said. 

How To Make Kim Sunoo Jealous.

By: Park Sunghoon 

(Insert a picture of Kim Sunoo looking pretty as fuck, a photoshopped picture of Park Sunghoon with a 12-pack washboard abs and huge ass arm muscles, and Ni-ki with a big red X over his face.)

“Now, is everyone on board with me?” 

Chapter Text

It was a Thursday afternoon when one of Heeseung’s lectures had been canceled, leaving him with some free time before going to his next lecture. 

Usually on Thursdays, Heeseung would go to his favorite hiding place for a smoke break after all his lectures were done for the day, but because exam week was nearing, he needed to smoke as soon as he could. 

Smoking was the only way that could release the stress and tension that’s been building up over the years— from his grandma passing away, his mom overworking herself to pay rent, and having to deal with a deadbeat dad, he’s lucky that he has the luxury to attend a nice university despite his behavior records back in high school. 

Heeseung was on his way to the last building of the University, his hide out spot being on the rooftop where he had the nicest view of outside, watching students walking to and from their class as he smoked his cigarettes. 

The only thing that was stopping him from reaching the rooftop was the girl blocking the staircase with her long legs. 

“Excuse me.” 

A heavy sigh escapes from the girl, removing her headphones as she glances up at Heeseung through her long lashes. “What?” She responds when their eyes meet. 

‘Pretty girl with an attitude, how lovely.’

“Could you move out of the way?” Heeseung responds back with the same attitude she gave to him.

Her cheeks reddened out of embarrassment when she realized that she was blocking the staircase, slowly moving her legs out of the way to let Heeseung pass by. “Sorry.” She mumbles, looking down at her feet. 

Heeseung pauses for a moment, noticing the crumpled tissues scattered beside her, he scrunches his nose. “Thanks.” He says before walking by carefully, not wanting to step on her dirty tissues and belongings. 

Maybe Heeseung wasn’t the only one who uses this side of the building as an escape. 

˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

During the week of exams, Heeseung and his two best friends all made an agreement to meet up for a late lunch since they rarely ever had time to meet the last few weeks. 

“I’m so glad this semester is almost over, I hate my biology class.” Sunghoon mentions as he tries to steal a fry out of Jay’s plate. 

“Is it that girl again?” Jay responds with a small chuckle, dipping his fries in ketchup. “I’m starting to think you like her.”

Sunghoon sends a glare to Jay then successfully steals a fry afterwards. “I would rather suck Heeseung’s toes before having the audacity to like her.” He trembles as he shakes the nasty idea out of his mind. 

“Dude, that’s fucking gay.” Heeseung says, taking a sip of his coke. 

“Are you being homophobic right now?” 

“No, I just don’t like you.” Heeseungs chuckles. “Jay is the only guy I’d ever turn gay for.”  He says, patting Sunghoon’s shoulder. 

“Jay?! I would much rather you admit that you are homophobic than admitting that.”

Both friends laugh at Sunghoon, ignoring the pout he was showing. 

“So, why do you even hate the girl in your class?” Jay asks once he was done laughing.

“Who even is she?” Heeseungs asks as well.

Sunghoon groans, throwing his head back in frustration. “Her name is Yoo Jimin, but everyone calls her Karina or whatever.” He explains. “She’s just constantly on my ass about everything, one time she told me to stop breathing because it was so loud,” He slams his hands on the table. “What was I supposed to do? I was recovering from a cold!”

Both Heeseung and Jay had their lips pressed in a thin line as they try to conceal their laughter, finding Sunghoon’s situation hilarious. 

“You probably did something to piss her off.” Jay mentions, using his index finger to point at him accusingly. 

Sunghoon stares at the ceiling as he taps on his chin to ponder. “Okay fine, I may or may not have dated her best friend for a few weeks and dumped her through text.” 

Heeseung shakes his head, sighing in disappointment at his best friend, but what’s new? Sunghoon is known for that. “Which ex was it?” He asks.

“Uh.. I think it was Minju..” He says slowly, knitting his brows in thought. “Or was it Chaewon?” He shrugs nonchalantly. “Who knows, but she hates me for that reason.” 

“This is why you’ll never find anyone.” Heeseungs says, crossing his arms against his chest as he stares at Sunghoon. 

“He’s right, with the way you treat your past lovers, you’ll never be in a committed relationship.” Jay butts in, agreeing with Heeseung. 

Sunghoon gasps, offended that his two best friends would gang up on him. “I will find someone, maybe not now, but soon!” He then looks around the cafeteria before perking up. “Someone like him!” Sunghoon says as he points at some random guy with pink fluffy hair and a black, long sleeve Adidas shirt. 

Heeseung rolls his eyes while Sunghoon and Jay continue talking, Jay trying his best to give Sunghoon some advice on love and relationships. Heeseung quickly tunes them out when he notices a figure from his peripheral vision. 

The pretty girl from the staircase. 

His eyes entirely focused on her, everyone was a blur except for her. Heeseung couldn’t miss the way her long dark brown hair bounces when she walks, black crop top paired with a black skirt and boots that make her legs even longer. 

Heeseung can’t help but admit that her presence is one of a kind, the kind where all eyes are on her whenever she steps in a room. 

Heeseung forces himself to look away, but it is hard to do so when he notices the sad look on her face as she walks with her lunch. Heeseung looks down at his phone, it was Thursday and it was almost around the same time when he first saw her that one day. 

“I’ll be leaving first.” Heeseung tells the guys as he stands up the second he sees the girl walk out of the cafeteria. “I forgot my notes in my room and I need them for my exam.” He lies quickly before his friends (Mostly Sunghoon) could complain about it. 

˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

When Heeseung arrives, he sees the girl sitting on the staircase as expected. She had her knees close to her chest as she watched some show on her phone while she ate, too focused on whatever is on the screen to notice Heeseung. 

“You know, it’s not sanitary to be eating on the floor.” Heeseung informs as he leans against the wall, a small smirk on his face. 

“And smoking isn’t really the healthiest option.” She retorts back without looking up, putting a pause on her show before turning to face Heeseung with a blank look. 

Heeseung scoffs, stuffing both of his hands in his black hoodie. “What? Did you come up to watch me smoke the other day?”  

She frowns, her gaze on Heeseung hardens. “As if, you reek of cigarettes.” She states, rolling her eyes right after. “Besides, no one goes up to the rooftop to just look at the sky.” The girl mutters out as she packs her stuff in her bag, ready to leave. 

“They should, it’s a pretty view.” 

The girl stops what she was doing to look up at Heeseung, his half smirk turning into a smile when their eyes meet. “What is it that you want? Is this your way of flirting with me?”

Heeseung shrugs, glancing down at his feet. “I was going to ask if you wanted to smoke with me,” He says, taking a second to look at her face. “But from what you’ve told me already, I don’t think you smoke.”

“I don’t even know you.” 

“Maybe that was my way of wanting to get to know you.” 

The corner of her lips curl up slowly, she tilts her head as she keeps her gaze on Heeseung. “By sharing a smoke with you?” She scoffs sassily. “You’re going to try a little harder than that.” She stands up, slinging her tote bag onto her shoulder. 

“Why? Do a lot of guys hit on you?” Heeseung teases as he watches the girl fix herself to leave.  

She glances over her shoulder to look at Heeseung, hesitating for a moment. “They do.” She says in a sad whisper before she scans Heeseung’s figure from head to toe. “Enjoy your smoke.” She says, walking away. 

The whole day, Heeseung is left wondering about the girl, zoning out everyone as his mind could only focus on their exchange from earlier. 

˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

Heeseung walks to the rooftop the following week, expecting to see her again sitting on the staircase, but oddly, she wasn’t there. 

Feeling a bit disappointed, Heeseung still walks up the staircase to get to the rooftop. When walking outside, Heeseung is met by a figure with their back facing him. 

The familiar long, wavy dark hair flowing through the air and legs that Heeseung grew to like, he instantly knew who it was. 

“Are you just going to stand there?” She asks, glancing over her shoulder. 

Heeseung’s heart flutters at the sight, it was just a simple black dress, but she made it look so nice in his eyes. He smiles as he walks up to her, standing beside her as they both lean their bodies against the rails, Heeseung looks to his side and watches in awe as she looks up at the sky. 

“Why weren’t you at your usual spot?” Heeseung breaks the silence, he turns so his back is the one leaning against the rail. 

She lets out a deep sigh, looking down at all the students walking below. “I’ve never smoked before, but I’m having a really tough time and I thought it could help.” She glances up at Heeseung shyly. 

And something twists in his stomach now that he’s up close, looking deep into her doll-like eyes. “Well, that offer expired a long time ago, so I don't know who is willing to give you a free cigarette.” He teases, but the scowl forming on her face has him apologizing immediately. “I was kidding, of course I’ll smoke with you.” 

She mumbles a soft thank you as she receives the cigarette from Heeseung. 

“You said you’re having a rough time, I know you don’t know me that well, but do you want to talk about it?” He asks, fishing out his lighter from his pocket. 

She shrugs and it was clear from her expressions that something was bothering her. “Remember when you asked me if guys hit on me?” She slips the cigarette in between her lips, leaning closely to let Heeseung light it up. 

Heeseung hums in response as he watches her inhale slowly, his smile widening when she begins coughing in disgust. “You’ll get used to it, want water?” He chuckles, handing her his own water bottle. 

She removes the cigarette from her lips, holding it away for Heeseung to take. “I don’t want to smoke anymore.” She informs Heeseung in between her fits of coughing. 

The male laughs, taking the cigarette from her and placing it in between his own lips, ignoring the fact that it was slightly covered in her lipstick. He didn’t mind one bit. “Back to what we were talking about,” He starts, exhaling the smoke slowly, away from her face. “Did my question bother you?” 

“It wasn’t really your question that bothered me..” She interjects, and then looks at Heeseung expectantly. “When you first saw me, was your first thought that you wanted to get to know me or that you just wanted to fuck?” 

Heeseung backs away, holding up his hands defensively. “Woah, where did this all come from?” He stammers nervously. 

The girl covers her face with her hands, feeling embarrassed for asking that question. “I’m sorry, it’s just-” She slides down to sit on the concrete floor. “I’m so stupid, I keep finding myself in the same situation each time I meet a guy.” She begins to tear up. 

Fuck

Heeseung watches her sob so he lets out the last smoke, flicking his cigarette on the floor to step on it before kneeling down to her level. “Is this guy just using you for sex?” 

She nods sadly and Heeseung hums in response, taking his jacket off to lay it over her shoulders. “Well, I don’t know if this would make you feel any better, but I genuinely wanted to get to know you, you seem pretty cool.” 

The girl scoffs. “Yeah right, you’re probably only saying that to make me feel better.” 

Heeseung is appalled, opening his mouth to argue. “I’m serious! I only come up to women if I see myself having a future with them.” 

Her face softens and despite the mascara staining her cheeks, Heeseung still thinks she looks gorgeous. “Are you saying that you see us dating in the future?” She laughs, putting her knees up to her chest so she could wrap her arms around them. 

“Maybe, who knows?” Heeseung answers nonchalantly. “Maybe we could be the greatest friends, maybe we will just be strangers again after today, life is full of surprises.” He says, fidgeting with his shoelaces. “I try not to question the things that happen in my life anymore.”

They sit in silence as they study each other’s face. 

“What’s your name?” She whispers softly after a while.

“Hm? Oh, it’s Heeseung. What’s yours?” He asks curiously. 

“Karina.” She smiles as she lays her cheek on her knee.

 “Heeseung?”

“Yeah?”

“I hope you still see me in your future.” 

Chapter Text

“So, let me get this straight.” Jay was the first one to speak once Sunghoon’s unnecessary thirty minute presentation was over. “You want to make Sunoo jealous by acting like you don’t care about him anymore?”

“I don’t think that’s going to make him jealous.” Jungwon adds. “If anything, that’s what Sunoo wants, for you to leave him alone.”

Sunghoon looks deeply offended, putting a hand over his chest as he feels upset at the remark. “Was anyone even listening?” Sunghoon asks, putting both of his hands on hips. 

“We heard you loud and clear, Sunghoon.” Wonyoung answers, clearly annoyed at the whole thing. “We just don’t understand the logic of it.” She says, flipping her hair back. 

Sunghoon removes the glasses off his face, shaking his head in frustration as he pinches the bridge of nose, pacing back and forth in front of the living room. “Do you guys want me to start the presentation all over and explain it again-”

A burst of groans and “No!” erupted the second Sunghoon suggested to start all over, everyone on their knees as they beg Sunghoon not to. 

“As much as I would love to stay another thirty minutes with you, I’m a busy guy.” Jeno smiles apologetically, a sweet crescent eye smile on his handsome face.

“What he means is that he doesn’t care.” Wonyoung butts in, raising an eyebrow. 

Sunghoon gasps loudly. “You take that back you nefarious woman!”

“Okay okay, everyone calm down…” Heeseung starts off slowly, getting everyone’s attention. “What Sunghoon is trying to explain here,” He stands up, wrapping an arm over Sunghoon’s shoulder. “Is that he’s not really trying to make Sunoo jealous-”

“No, I do want to make him jealous.” Sunghoon turns to Heeseung with the most serious look on his face. “I want him begging and asking for my forgiveness, I want him to kiss my hand and-”

“I’m trying to help you out here!” 

Karina throws her head back with a loud groan. “Heeseung, babe,” She sits up to look at her boyfriend. “Just give me two minutes with him, I swear I’ll knock some sense into him.” She pleads, rubbing both her hands together. 

Sunghoon hides behind Heeseung’s body, clutching his jacket as he avoids Karina’s deadly stare. “You wouldn’t let her kill me, right?” Sunghoon asks in a low whisper.

“So what’s your plan?” Jay asks tiredly. 

‘I thought no one would ask!” Sunghoon perks up with a smile. 

“We weren’t planning to.” Wonyoung mumbles and Sunghoon sends her a nasty side eye. 

“Sunoo likes getting chocolate cake after his Wednesday class-”

“How do you know this?” Jungwon questions Sunghoon warily. 

Sunghoon looks around the room nervously. “That’s not important right now.” He clears his throat, looking away from Jungwon as he eyes him suspiciously. “What’s important is that I need to find someone to fake a date with so that he can see and get jealous!” Sunghoon explains eagerly. “It’ll make him wonder why I've moved on so fast.”

Everyone turns to look at him, all sharing the same look on their faces. 

He’s gone absolutely crazy.

 “Fine, let’s say this is a good plan,” Karina breaks the silence. “What crazy person would agree to go on this fake date with you?” 

☆

“I hope you die from a very painful death.” 

“Oh you’re so funny and sweet, babe.” Sunghoon says dreamily as he tries to feed Karina a chocolate covered strawberry. 

Sunghoon winces when Karina swats his hand away. “I don’t know why you think I would be suitable for this fake date when all we do is argue.” Karina explains, stealing Sunghoon’s plate of chocolate covered strawberries. 

“Because he doesn’t know you.” Sunghoon points out, taking the strawberry out of her hand. 

“He literally saw me that day when you thought I was cheating on Heeseung.” 

“Okay but he doesn’t know that you broke up with him to date me.” He says with the most dead serious look. 

Karina deadpans. “You really think I would ever break up with Heeseung for you?!”

Sunghoon nods with certainty. 

“Oh my gosh,” Karina backs away a little as she realizes something. “Sunoo is going to think I’m a cheater AND a homie hopper!” Karina cries out, slamming her head on the table. 

Sunghoon rests his chin on his palm, looking out at the window as he impatiently waits for Sunoo’s arrival. After a while, Sunghoon notices the familiar redhead walking towards the cafe with his earbuds on, Sunghoon quickly sits up straight and slaps Karina’s arm. 

“Hey it’s showtime! He’s here!” Sunghoon whispers as he continuously slaps Karina’s arm to get her attention, who was most likely texting Heeseung. 

“Hit me one more time and I promise I will blow your cover up.” 

“Oh my God, he’s coming this way.” Sunghoon whispers, looking around the table frantically to look busy. “I don’t know what to do- I didn’t- Oh God, just kiss me.” 

“What?!” Karina shouts and Sunghoon practically leaps over the table to cover her mouth. 

“Can you be quiet?!” Sunghoon whispers as he peeks around the corner to see if Sunoo heard, which fortunately he didn’t because he was too busy ordering his usual. 

“Why the hell would I kiss you?!” Karina asks, scrunching her nose in disgust. 

“I panicked! I didn’t think this through, I don’t know what to do-”

“Sunghoon?” 

Both Karina and Sunghoon turned their heads slowly and were met by Sunoo, who was standing next to their booth, eyeing them suspiciously. “I didn’t know you liked this cafe?” Sunoo asks as he removes one of his earbuds.

Sunghoon turns to look at Karina then up at Sunoo with a sheepish smile. “Uh, yeah! Decided to come here with Karina.” He says, quickly grabbing Karina’s hand. 

Sunoo’s brow furrows at the sight of Sunghoon holding Karina’s hand, he then looks up at Karina, who was biting down on her bottom lip and her other hand clenching against the table. 

“Ah, I see..” Sunoo smiles. “You’re the one that’s dating Sunghoon’s best friend, right? We didn’t properly meet-”

“They broke up.” Sunghoon interrupts as he interlocks his fingers with her. “Now we are dating, right babe?” Sunghoon eyes Karina, silently telling her to go along with it, but her face of disgust was very telling. 

Sunoo wants to laugh, he couldn’t believe that Sunghoon was trying to make him jealous by dragging poor Karina into this when she was clearly seconds away from gagging. 

If Sunghoon wants to make him jealous for whatever reason, then it’s only fair if Sunoo plays along with it. 

Sunoo stares blankly before doing a small frown. “Then I’ll be out of your way.” He says coolly. 

Sunghoon watches Sunoo walk away, his eyes going straight to Sunoo’s ass because Goddamn does he know how to walk in those fucking jeans. 

“I feel sick.” Karina says, her voice trembling as she speaks. Sunghoon snaps out of it, wiping away the drool that was coming out of his mouth. “Why do you feel sick? We didn’t even do anything.” 

Karina looks down at her hands, shaking her head as tears start to form in her eyes. 

“Wait, are you about to cry?!”

“I just miss Heeseung,” Karina whispers. “I know this is all fake and Heeseung knows about it, but I don’t like this…” She says, looking up at Sunghoon and it was the first time Sunghoon has seen her look vulnerable. 

“It’s fake! I don’t like you! We aren’t dating!” Sunghoon reassures Karina, grabbing napkins to hand her. “Don’t start crying because I don’t know how to handle all of that.”

“I- I’m going to call Heeseung.” She says, grabbing her phone to run to the nearest restroom. Sunghoon tried to stop her, but she was long gone. 

Sunghoon groans, he slumps in his seat. “They really can’t stay apart for more than a few minutes.” 

☆

Sunoo

I just saw sunghoon 

at the same cafe as me…. 

with someone else….

he can’t fool me

I know he’s doing this to make me jealous

Jungwon

We told him it was a bad idea

Sunoo

you knew about this?!

Jungwon

Unfortunately

But yes, he’s doing this to make you jealous

Good luck!

☆

The Boys 🔥🔥🔥 and karina . 

Sunghoon: karina where the hell are you

Sunghoon: you been in the restroom for 15 minutes

Heeseung: she’s on the phone with me

Sunghoon: tell her to hurry up!!

Sunghoon: wait i think i see someone that i know

Jay: Who?

Sunghoon: FUCK THIS ISN’T GOOD

Sunghoon: WE HAVE A PROBLEM

Jay: What’s happening???

Sunghoon: DO Y’ALL REMEMBER CHANHEE??

Heeseung: chanhee???

Heeseung: THE ONE WHO IS OBSESSED WITH YOU?

Jay: Oh shit…. 

Jay: You need to leave right now, Sunghoon!

Sunghoon: uhhhhhh

☆

Sunoo sneers at the scene in front of him, munching on his chocolate cake as he watches a petite, pretty boy with pink hair approach Sunghoon with a big smile. His outfit is cute and stylish that everyone is turning their heads to look at him and Sunoo doesn’t want to admit it, but he does feel a bit jealous that a pretty boy like him has a better wardrobe than him!

“He’s doing the most just to make me jealous.” Sunoo says to himself, angrily forking the cake. 

Sunoo was sure that the whole thing he’s witnessing was all apart of Sunghoon’s pathetic plan, but Sunoo can’t help but feel a bit good knowing that Sunghoon is doing all of this to get his attention.

The pretty boy sits beside Sunghoon and Sunoo wonders if the boy takes acting lessons or something because the act he’s putting up is damn near believable! Especially with the way the boy is holding Sunghoon’s arms and brushing Sunghoon’s hair back. 

Sunoo rolls his eyes, because seriously! Sunoo gets the point now, no need for the guy to run his fingers all over Sunghoon’s chest and pull him closer just to make Sunoo jealous. 

Sunoo gets up after a while, getting fed up with the amount of touching and grabbing the guy was doing. When Sunoo gets up, he sees Karina walking out of the restroom, he stops her. 

“I know this was all an act.” Sunoo says with a smile. “Though I do want to give him props, Sunghoon sure did put a lot of thought into this!” 

“Huh? You know already?” Karina asks, feeling all confused. 

“Of course! But did he really need to bring someone else to make me jealous?” Sunoo points behind him where the boy was practically sitting on Sunghoon’s lap. 

Karina squints to see who the new person is, but she immediately gasps when she realizes who it was. “N-no! Wait, you misunderstood-”

Sunoo sends her a playful wink. “You don’t need to explain, if he wants to see me get jealous, then I’ll show him jealousy.” He says before walking off, ignoring Karina who was telling him to not go over there.

Sunoo struts his way to Sunghoon, feeling confident in his steps for some reason. Probably because one of the hottest guys in his campus is trying to get Sunoo’s attention, so naturally, Sunoo feels unstoppable!

But before Sunoo could tap on Sunghoon’s shoulder, a sudden kiss stops him from doing so. 

The strange boy lunges himself onto Sunghoon and gives him a kiss on the lips, wrapping his arms around his neck. 

Sunoo stands there frozen, blinking his eyes profoundly at Sunghoon and the boy sharing a kiss. 

Everything happened so fast, Sunoo wasn’t even sure if Sunghoon had reciprocated the kiss or not. 

“What the fuck, Sunghoon?” Sunoo says out loud, startling the both guys. 

Sunghoon shoves the boy away from him. “Sunoo! W-what, I can explain-” 

“Sunghoon, really? You ghosted me for a guy like him?” The boy eyes Sunoo from head to toe, crossing his arms against his chest. “I knew you couldn’t do better.”

Sunoo scoffs, his laugh laced with annoyance. “What did you just say?” Sunoo turns to face the guy. 

Sunghoon quickly gets up, standing in front of Sunoo to stop him from whatever he was thinking of doing. “Sunoo, calm down, I promise it’s not worth it, let’s go.” But Sunoo only shoves him away. 

“Aw, you must think you’re special, huh?” The guy says, his smirk mocking Sunoo. “Sunghoon probably follows you around and tells you sweet things all the time, right?” He stands to meet Sunoo’s height. “But once he gets a taste of you,” He leans to whisper into Sunoo’s ear. “He’s just going to ghost you and move on to the next pretty thing he could get his hands on.”

The boy pulls back, smirking evilly down at Sunoo. 

Sunghoon holds Sunoo’s arm, trying to calm him down when he notices him getting visibly angry. “Sunoo, let’s go, I’ll explain everything, please.” Sunghoon whispers, pulling Sunoo away, but the redhead male wouldn’t budge. 

“Sunghoon wouldn’t do that to me.” Sunoo grits his teeth, clenching his hands together. “I’m not like you.”

The pink headed boy laughs, getting everyone’s attention now. “Ha! Don’t make me laugh, you really think Sunghoon would drop everyone for a guy like you?” He takes a piece of Sunoo’s hair, looking at it in disgust before letting go and walking off. 

See, the real Sunoo would’ve just let it go and move on with his day, but this is Kim Sunoo from “He’s A Super Freak, Super Freak!” he’s not letting this shit go. 

Sunoo followed him until he was close enough to turn the boy’s body around, landing a punch right on his pretty face. 

Now, you have two boys scattered on the floor throwing punches, scratches, people gathering around to record, and a lot of hair pulling. 

Oh, and a Park Sunghoon yelling “Get his ass!” in the background, hyping Sunoo up throughout the fight. 

☆

Jake

YOOO! I didn’t know you could fight!!

S unoo

jake not right now

my lip is busted and my head hurts

Jake

I’m still sending the video

-video attachment-

Sunoo

WTF

WHO WAS THAT CHEERING

I SWEAR IF THAT WAS SUNGHOON CHEERING…

☆

Jungwon

I can’t believe my best friend is going viral

Tik-tok, Twitter, Facebook???

Even my own grandma sent me the video

Sunoo

YOUR GRANDMA??

I need to move.

this is so embarrassing

Jungwon

You really let your jealousy get to you

Sunoo

omg 

how many times do I have to say this

I WAS NOT JEALOUS

Jungwon

Don’t lie to me

Why else would you fight over someone?

Sunoo

please shut up

☆

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

psst

hey hey

Sunoo

wtf do you want now.

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

I think my dick just stopped breathing…

you know cpr?

Sunoo

is this really how you are going to text me

after I got into a fight 

with one of your ex flings?????

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

I’m sorry! I didn’t know what to say

and that was the first thing that came to mind

Sunoo

…

DO NOT ANSWER (sunghoon)

I bet I made you smile 🔥

Chapter Text

“That’s the third call this week, Sunghoon.” Sunghoon’s mom says dejectedly, sitting on the edge of her mattress with her head low. “Can’t you go a day without causing problems in school?” 

Seven year old Sunghoon stays still in the middle of his parent’s room without uttering a word. He stares at his mom who sits on her bed looking defeated, it’s a routine at this point. 

“I can’t even go to work peacefully because I’m always getting a call from your school, aren’t you embarrassed?” 

Sunghoon shrugs. 

His mother looks at Sunghoon with weary eyes, she swallows the lump in her throat as she looks away, wiping away her watery eyes. “Go get dressed, we are going to be late for your sister’s dance recital.” 

“But I don’t want to go..” Sunghoon says meekly, fidgeting with his school uniform. “I want to stay and play basket-”

“Do you think you’re in any position to tell me what you want to do or not?” His mom stands up angrily. “I told you to get dressed and that’s final.” She looks down at Sunghoon with a stern expression, making him look down at his feet. “Once you start acting like you have some sense, then you can do whatever you want.”

As soon as his mother was out of the room, Sunghoon let his tears fall as the hurtful words kept ringing in his ears. “What’s wrong with me?” He whispers quietly to himself.

Ever since Sunghoon was young, he would always be compared to his two sisters and that was the only thing people ever knew him as— well, that, and Park's troublemaker son, but Sunghoon took that as a compliment once he got older. 

It was quite annoying having an older sister who was almost like a second mom to him. And because of that, he felt like he was always being watched whenever his actual mom was not around. 

Chaeyeon was only five years older than him, but that was enough for her to boss him around and nag on him whenever she was put to babysit him. 

“Goodness Sunghoon, I try really hard not to be the annoying older sister, but you just like to do things without thinking, right?” 

Sunghoon was sitting in the backseat of his sister’s car after getting picked up from the party he was at; Wonyoung sat next to him without a care in the world as she texts her friends. Sunghoon rolls his eyes, he hears these exact words almost every day now. 

“I didn’t even do anything.” He mumbles, but it was loud enough for Chaeyeon to hear. 

“Really, Hoon?” His sister asks, her eyes staring at Sunghoon from her rearview mirror. “You kidnapped grandma so she can buy you alcohol.” Chaeyeon reminds his brother, she then sends Wonyoung a glare when she hears her snort at that. 

Sunghoon doesn’t say anything after that, tuning his sister out as she continues to nag him and that he needs to be more responsible now that he’s almost turning eighteen in a few months. 

Eighteen.

Sunghoon will finally be off to University and he won’t be able to hear his parents compare him to his sisters, he won’t hear his older sister Chaeyeon nag at him, and most importantly, he won’t be forced to be his little sister’s puppet. 

If there’s anything Sunghoon hates the most in the world, it is being stuck to the hip with his younger sister Wonyoung. 

Pretty, innocent, cute little Wonyoung. 

He hates it. 

Whatever Wonyoung wants, she gets it and it irritates Sunghoon his whole life because all he ever wanted was to be his own person, not to be Wonyoung’s brother. 

Whenever they were kids, his mom would always buy them matching clothes, taking pictures of the both of them with their cute outfits and although the idea was cute, Sunghoon never liked it. 

If Sunghoon wanted to play basketball with his friends, he couldn’t because Wonyoung had dance practice. If Sunghoon wanted to join the Soccer team, he wasn’t allowed because his mom had already signed him up for ice skating lessons with his sister. 

And as stupid as it sounds, the only way to get his parent’s attention or just anyone in general, is by causing issues and doing dumb stuff. 

Now that he’s a bit older than eighteen and everyone's gotten used to him, Sunghoon enjoys it. It’s a win-win type of situation, his friends and family don’t expect him to change anytime soon and he gets all the attention he wants!

Sunghoon mentally thanks six year old him for coming up with such a brilliant idea. 

But now, he needs to think of a better plan to get Sunoo’s attention to be on him only. The other day, he suggested that he should fake his death to get Sunoo’s attention, but he only received a slap on the back of his head from Jay. 

☆

“If all I needed to do was to just be your friend so I can stare at your ass, then I would’ve been your friend a long time ago!” Sunghoon comments, as he sits on one of Sunoo’s bean bag chairs. 

“You’re not just staring at my ass, I’m trying on my new clothes and getting your opinion on them since Jungwon isn’t here, you pervert.” Sunoo responds casually, folding his new clothes. “And it was pointless because all you did was just look at my butt.”

Sunghoon flashes Sunoo his dopey smile. “It wasn’t pointless for me.” He leans back with his arms crossed behind his head. “I liked every part of it.”

Sunoo sends him a dirty look, throwing a pillow at him. 

Over the past few days, Sunoo and Sunghoon have made it into a routine to hang out after work or class now that Jungwon is too busy dealing with his own shit with Jay. 

They would have lunch together after class and Sunoo learns that Sunghoon’s eyes twinkle whenever he takes the first bite out of his meal and Sunghoon would learn that Sunoo can only eat his sandwich if he’s got chips on the side. 

After lunch, they would walk together to class, bumping shoulders until Sunoo got tired of it and bumps Sunghoon harshly to a wall. Sometimes, Sunghoon would purposely walk behind Sunoo whenever the younger male is wearing his nice black pants, Sunghoon would use the excuse that he’s just looking out for him because there’s a lot of perverts in the world.

Does he not not know that he’s one of them?

Anyway, Sunoo is slowly enjoying having Sunghoon’s presence around him and it’s gotten to the point where it feels weird if Sunghoon isn’t texting him every five minutes with something stupid. 

It took a lot for Sunoo to finally let Sunghoon in his life, maybe it happened after he got into a fight with one of Sunghoon’s ex flings? Who knows, but Sunoo wanted to prove what that guy said, wrong. 

Sunoo wasn’t going to be just another name in Sunghoon’s hit it and quit it list, that’s for sure. 

“You never told me why you bought so many clothes today.” Sunghoon says, watching Sunoo walk towards his bed. 

“It’s for a dinner that my parents invited me to next week.” Sunoo answers as he lays on the bed, throwing his head back on his pillow. “Come lay down with me.” Sunoo turns to look at Sunghoon, patting the empty spot next to him. 

“Wait, are we going to have sex?” 

Sunoo sits up, blinking up at Sunghoon unimpressed. “Stop asking that or else I’ll push you out the window.” He clears his throat. “Now, as a friend, come lay down with me.” 

Sunghoon nods, quickly jumping up to his feet. “Don’t mind if I do.” He says, throwing his whole body onto the bed to lay next to Sunoo. 

Sunghoon takes the opportunity to snuggle up on Sunoo, but the younger one just pushes him off, creating a small distance between them. “Alright, you’re doing too much.” 

“Ya’ know, we never really talked about that day.” Sunghoon speaks, fluffing the pillow behind him before laying on it.

“What are you talking about?” Sunoo turns his head to look at Sunghoon properly. 

Sunghoon smiles, his cute fangs poking out. “That day you got jealous and fought Chanhee.” He lets out a low chuckle. 

Sunoo scoffs, crossing his arms against his chest as he stares up at the ceiling. “I wasn’t jealous, I just didn’t like the way he talked about me.” He mumbles. “And speaking of him, you have shitty taste in men.” 

Sunghoon laughs in disbelief, he uses one of his elbows to sit up, his body slightly turned towards Sunoo. “I’m the one with the shittiest taste? You’re the one that has a crush on that weird skater.” 

Sunoo sits up as well, using his elbow for support. “You’re one to speak and I don’t have a crush on him…” Sunoo replies. “He’s just a friend.” 

Sunghoon hums, his eyes scanning Sunoo’s face. “Yeah, right.” Sunghoon lays back down. “I’ve seen the way you talk to him, especially on Tuesday.” 

“What happened on Tuesday?” 

“Oh, Ni-Ki!” Sunghoon tries to explain by mimicking Sunoo’s voice by using a high pitch tone. “Thank you for helping me out today, you are soooo fun to work with.” 

“I do not sound like that!” Sunoo slaps Sunghoon’s chest playfully, his lips curling into a small smile. “And I don’t have a crush on him, you’re ridiculous.” 

Sunghoon looks amused, a growing smile paints his face as he gazes at Sunoo adoringly before attacking Sunoo with a tight hug. “Good, because I saw you first.” He says, his voice muffled against Sunoo’s chest. 

“Hey!” Sunoo squeaks, using his strength to shove Sunghoon away as he grabs his shoulders to get him off, but that only made Sunghoon hug him tighter. “Get off of me! I don’t know why you are so-” He grunts as he continues to remove Sunghoon’s arms that are wrapped around his torso. “Why are you happy? I don’t like you either.”

Sunghoon pulls back with a dopey grin on his face, his arms still wrapped around Sunoo. “That’s fine with me, it still gives me time to make you fall in love with me.”

Sunoo stares back at him, his lips pursed into a thin line, but his cheeks turn bright, bright red. “You’re so stupid, we are just friends.” Sunoo whispers.

“Can’t help it, I like you too much to give up.” 

☆

Sunoo and Jungwon stare at their coworker turned friend, Jake, blankly. Jake stares back with an expectant look, the room silent as he waits for his friends to say something, anything!

“Well?” Jake speaks up again, waving a hand to get their attention again. “Aren’t y’all going to say anything?” He repeats.

It was one of those rare times where the three of them meet up and have a quick lunch together before one of them leaves to go to work or class. Usually when they meet up, it always ends with Jake telling them the most outrageous story ever and then leaving them both speechless. 

Jake once told them that when he was in high school, his friends and him decided it would be funny to collect crickets and any kind of creepy insects to throw in the main hallway of their school as their senior prank. Jake supposedly was banned from walking the stage at graduation, but he still got his diploma though!

Today, he’s telling them how he met Hyunjin from the boy group Stray Kids at a grocery store and managed to get his number. 

“Hyunjin. From Stray Kids.” Jungwon presses further, his arms crossed with an unimpressed look.

“Yes.” 

“And you didn’t know that he’s in a group?” Sunoo asks, he doesn’t look impressed either because out of all of his stories, this one didn’t sound believable.

Jake nods, looking far too happy. “I had no idea, I just saw someone attractive and I went for it.” He smiles, taking a bite out of his burger. “And guess who scored a date with him this weekend?” He points at himself proudly.

“For some reason, I don’t believe you.” Jungwon squints his eyes. 

“You-” Jake snaps. “Hey! Why is it so hard to believe that I can score a date with a baddie like him?” He says with his mouth full. 

Sunoo throws a napkin at Jake with a disgusted look on his face. “Don’t eat with your mouth full.” Sunoo reminds him because everytime Jake is eating, he’s always talking. 

Jungwon sighs, staring at the time on his watch. “I have to go now, Jay is waiting for me.” He says as he stands up, grabbing his bag and taking a last sip of his lemonade that he ordered. 

“But I thought you guys weren’t dating anymore?” Jake mentions, once again with his mouth full and he quickly flinches when Sunoo glares at him. 

“We aren’t dating, we are just friends right now.” 

Jake stares at him for a moment, shaking his head. “That’s exactly what Sunoo told me about that guy, but now, he’s inviting him over to his place.” 

“What?!” Sunoo gapes at him with wide eyes. “We are friends, we aren’t doing anything?!” 

Jungwon stands there rolling his eyes as he watches his two friends go back and forth with each other. “For God’s sake, can y’all be quiet?” Jungwon interrupts with a snap. “I’m leaving, okay?” He turns to face Jake. “And Jake, I’m not dating Jay right now, I’m trying to take it slow.” He then whips his head to face Sunoo. “And you, you and I have a lot to catch up with.” 

Sunoo watches Jungwon walk off before turning around to glare at Jake again, who was nonchalantly dipping his fries in ketchup as if he didn’t just cause an argument between the two friends. 

“Why would you say that?” Sunoo whines. “And how do you know that Sunghoon comes over to my place?”

Jake shrugs. “I didn’t know to be honest, it was just the first thing that came to mind.” Jake explains calmly, eyeing the curly fries that Jungwon left behind. 

Sunoo leans back. “You and Sunghoon would make great friends.” He mutters to himself, Jake was too busy devouring Jungwon’s curly fries. 

“Hey, I was meaning to ask you this..” Jake says, swallowing his food. “Do you talk to Ni-ki? The one that kinda works with us?” 

Sunoo eyes him suspiciously, leaning forward. “Well, kinda? Only when I see him, why?”

Jake takes a sip of his water. “I was working with him the other day and he kept asking me about you.” 

Sunoo doesn’t answer, what could Ni-ki possibly be asking Jake about him?

Just when Sunoo wanted to ask him more about that, Jake gets up in a hurry, he realizes that he is late for class and that he needs to get there before all the good seats are taken. 

And by good seats, seats that are easy to hide when he takes a nap. 

“Jake! You can’t just say that and leave?!” 

“Sorry, I’ll explain next time.” 

Sunoo sighs in frustration, now he’s left alone with thoughts of Ni-ki again. 

Great. 

☆

Later that night, Sunoo receives a call from Sunghoon informing him that he wasn’t able to walk him back to his apartment after work because he was dying his hair since Karina was using him to practice on before she dyed her own hair. 

Sunoo laughs over the phone as he hears Karina telling him to stay still and Sunghoon whining that it burns his scalp. Once he ended the call, Sunoo rolls his eyes at Sunghoon’s cuteness, he wonders how the male would look with blonde hair. 

He’ll have to find out later on tomorrow. 

Sunoo was closing up the radio station when he heard something from behind. 

“Are you closing up already?” 

Sunoo freezes in his spot before turning around slowly, Ni-ki was standing in front of him in a simple gray hoodie and baggy denim jeans with his skateboard. 

“Yeah, I decided to close earlier tonight.” Sunoo fixes the straps of his backpack before walking up to Ni-ki. “What are you doing here?”

Ni-ki shrugs. “I was just skating around.”

Sunoo nods. 

Ni-ki looks him up and down. “I was going to smoke, you want to come with me?” He asks, hands in his pockets as he stares at Sunoo. 

Sunoo bites down on his bottom as he glances around outside, he sees just a few students walking out of the library building and couples holding hands as they walk around the fountain. 

Sunoo then looks at Ni-ki. “Sure, let’s go.”

☆

Ni-ki holds the perfectly rolled blunt in between his lips, the sound of the lighter’s spark fills the room where they sat inside an abandoned treehouse from a park nearby. 

Sunoo hesitated at first when they reached the quiet park, finding it very sketchy since he’s seen a lot of crime shows, but Ni-ki reassured him that there was nothing to worry about. 

Ni-ki deeply inhales, letting it sit inside for a moment before he smoothly exhales the smoke. 

“I thought you were just smoking a cigarette?” Sunoo asks, fidgeting with his fingers as he watches Ni-ki take another hit.

Ni-ki throws his head back against the wall, glancing over at Sunoo with dazed eyes. “I smoke that too.” He chuckles slowly. “But I smoke this too whenever I’m bored.” He brings the blunt up to his mouth again. 

The smoke is slowly filling the room, bringing a slight haze to it and Sunoo’s nose starts to tingle from the unpleasant smell of it. “I’ve never smoked before.” Sunoo feels his heart beating rapidly across his chest as Ni-ki stares at him with a smirk. 

“Wanna try?”

“Sure.”

Ni-ki scoots closer, bringing the blunt up to his mouth and Sunoo slowly opens his lips to allow the foreign object in between his lips. While Sunoo holds it in between, Ni-ki uses his lighter again to spark the blunt, he stares into Sunoo’s eyes letting him know that he can inhale. 

“Slow, inhale slowly.” Ni-ki whispers, holding the back of Sunoo’s head and the blunt. Sunoo wearily inhales before Ni-ki removes the blunt out of his mouth. Sunoo tries to let it linger a bit just like how he saw Ni-ki do earlier, but the burning in his throat was unpleasant for him to stay still. 

Sunoo coughs and coughs, but the sensation in his throat was burning him too much. 

“It’s normal to cough.” Ni-ki says, opening a water bottle he saw in Sunoo’s bag. “Drink this, it’ll soothe your throat.” 

Sunoo takes the water bottle, gulping down the liquid until he doesn't feel that nasty tingle in his throat. 

“Does it not burn your throat?” Sunoo asks Ni-ki in between fits of his coughing. 

Ni-ki takes a small hit before speaking. “It did when I first smoked, but I’m used to it so it doesn’t burn too much.” He says, blowing the smoke into Sunoo’s face and Sunoo unconsciously inhales the smoke through his nose. 

“Let me do it again.” 

☆

The next morning, Sunoo wakes up with a headache and a very dry throat from all the smoking he did the night before— even though he only took three long hits, the weed hit his system within seconds. 

Sunoo remembers bits and pieces from last night with Ni-ki, he remembers laughing a lot at the randomest things and attempting to ride the boy’s skateboard on their way back home; his ass still hurts from the many times he fell.  

How did he manage to get inside his apartment? Don’t even bother asking because he wouldn’t know the answer to that question either, all he knows is that he made it inside without any harm.

Fuck, I smoked with Ni-ki. 

Once the realization hits him, Sunoo becomes a giggling mess, throwing his arms and legs around his bed as the slight blush creeps up to his cheeks. “I can’t believe I did that.” He smiles, holding his cheeks with both hands. 

“So, what is it that you usually do?” 

“What do you mean?”

“You’re always requesting off from work and you ask others to take your shift.”

“Oh, well.. I’m actually in a band.” 

“Really? How come you never told me about this?”

“I didn’t know you’d been into it, it’s a Japanese rock band with some friends.”

“Are you guys always performing?”

“Yeah, we are still pretty unknown, but we are slowly making our name.”

“Next time you are performing, let me know.”

“Sure, I’ll invite you.” 

The first thing Sunoo does is grab his phone from the bedside table, sighing when he sees the time on his phone— 1:35 p.m, he slept the whole morning, missing two of his classes, Sunoo curses under his breath. 

He then sees the multiple calls and messages from Jungwon and Jay, but what alarmed Sunoo the most is the lack of messages and calls from Sunghoon. Usually Sunghoon is the first to text or call Sunoo in the morning, always sending him funny kitty memes or flirty good morning texts, but this time he hasn’t.

Sunoo calls Jungwon back. 

[Sunoo] “Hello-”

[Jungwon] “Why haven’t you been answering our calls?”

[Sunoo] “I was studying last night and I just overslept.”

[Jungwon] “Okay, well, Jay needs you to go to his apartment.”

[Sunoo] “Why? What’s going on?”

Sunoo sits up from his bed, removing the crust in his eyes as he listens to Jungwon over the phone. 

[Jungwon] “I’m not sure, he just said that Sunghoon isn’t feeling well.”

[Sunoo] “What?! What happened to him? I just talked to him yesterday.”

[Jungwon] “I don’t know Sunoo, he just asked if you could stop by.”

[Sunoo] “Okay fine, I’m on my way.”

Sunoo ends the call right away, jumping out of his bed to quickly get dressed and wash his face. He finds it odd that Sunghoon wasn’t feeling well, he was just on the phone with him last night? Maybe the bleach seeped inside his brain. 

☆

When Sunoo walks inside Jay’s apartment, everything seems… normal?

Jay opens the door with a smile, greeting him warmly and offering him fresh baked cookies. Sunoo, of course, takes the chocolate chip cookies, walking into the living room and seeing Karina laying on Heeseung’s lap as she watches her boyfriend play mario kart on the t.v.

“Hi?” Sunoo greets awkwardly, he’s met Karina a few times, but he’s never met Heeseung before, but the second the couple look up, Sunoo gets chills. 

Sunoo thinks the couple compliment each other because of how intimidating they both look. 

Karina suddenly sits up with a smile, her hair is now blonde and Sunoo wonders how one can look so effortlessly cool. “Sunoo! I didn’t know you were coming?” She says and Sunoo watches the way Heeseung snakes an arm around her waist. 

“Babe, this is Sunoo.” Karina turns to face Heeseung. “The one Sunghoon is obsessed with.” And just from that, Heeseung’s face softens, releasing his hold from Karina’s waist. 

“Oh! What’s up dude?” Heeseung stretches out his arm to shake Sunoo’s hand. 

Is everyone just going to ignore the fact that Karina mentioned that Sunghoon is obsessed with him? 

“Hey, it’s nice meeting you.” Sunoo smiles, shaking Heeseung’s hand. “And it’s nice seeing you again, Karina.” 

“What brings you here?” Heeseung asks, putting pause on his game. “Are you here to visit Hoon?” He wiggles his eyebrows and Karina giggles at that. 

Sunoo makes a face. “I was told that Sunghoon wasn’t feeling well?” 

At that moment, Jay reappears in the living room from cleaning the kitchen. “He’s perfectly fine, but he refuses to come out of his room because he thinks he looks ugly.” 

Sunoo deadpans. 

Karina rolls her eyes. “Seriously? Is he still crying over his hair? It doesn’t even look bad.” She frowns. 

“No wonder it’s been quiet…” Heeseung says to himself. 

Sunoo stares at Jay for a second. “So, why did I get called?” Sunoo finally asks. 

“Karina and I already told him that he looks good with his blonde hair, but he thinks that you’ll find him ugly.” Jay tries to explain, walking towards his couch to sit on. “Maybe you can reassure him that he looks good so he can finally come out and eat? Your opinion is the only one that matters to him.” 

Sunoo blinks, not believing what he was hearing. 

“Fine, I’ll go talk to him.” Sunoo sighs. “I don’t know how much that will help because if I don’t like his hair, I’m going to straight up tell him.”

☆

Sunoo waits impatiently outside of Sunghoon’s room, after what seemed like a long time, Sunoo was finally able to convince Sunghoon to open the door. 

The whole time he was waiting, Sunoo was wondering how bad could the hair be for him to be acting this way? Perhaps there’s a bald spot or maybe the blonde didn’t fit Sunghoon’s style. 

“Don’t laugh.” Sunoo hears Sunghoon say from the other side of the door and Sunoo can’t help but roll his eyes at how dramatic Sunghoon is being. 

“Just open the damn door, Sunghoon.” Sunoo responds. “How bad can it…be.”

Sunoo’s voice falters the second Sunghoon opens the door, his eyes quickly narrowing onto Sunghoon’s blonde hair, toned and slightly messy. The white muscle tank top, showing off his arms muscles and the damn slutty gray sweatpants. 

Sunoo doesn’t know what to say, Sunghoon’s got him dumbstruck and to be quite honest, Sunoo is internally panicking as his eyes finally meets Sunghoon’s eyes. 

“Sunoo?” Sunghoon snaps his fingers in front of him. “Does it really look that bad?” Sunghoon asks as he tries to cover his hair with both his hands, but that only makes his muscles flex even more and Sunoo was two seconds from screaming.

(and maybe creaming in his pants.)

Sunoo hates to admit it, but Sunghoon looks good. 

Too fucking good and it’s fucking with his head and possibly somewhere else.

“You aren’t saying anything!” Sunghoon freaks out, holding Sunoo’s shoulders and shaking his body just a bit, but Sunoo only blinks up at him. “Do I really look ugly?!”

Sunoo eyes the hairless armpit, he gulps nervously, now is not the time to think about his newfound kink on hairless pits. 

“It’s um..” Sunoo whispers and Sunghoon looks at him expectantly. “You look..” It was starting to get hard for Sunoo to breathe, he couldn't believe it took Sunghoon to turn blonde to become a stupid mess. “Ugly.” 

He panicked.

Sunghoon lets go of his shoulders carefully as he walks backwards slowly, his eyes still on Sunoo before he drops to the floor. 

“I am fucking ugly!” Sunghoon shouts up to the ceiling, his hands in a tight fist as he curses at whoever he is talking to. “My crush thinks I’m ugly!” He cries.

“Yes..” Sunoo continues, walking inside the room before closing the door behind him. “Very fucking ugly.” He repeats, trying his best to convince himself that he is not attracted to Sunghoon, but it only makes Sunghoon cry even more when he hears Sunoo confirm that he’s ugly again.

Sunoo walks back and forth across Sunghoon’s room, a finger on his chin as he’s in deep thought while Sunghoon was still on the floor crying, cursing Karina for touching his hair. 

“This is bad..” Sunoo says to himself, but Sunghoon thinks he’s talking to him. 

“I know it’s bad, you don’t need to repeat it again.” Sunghoon whines like a baby. “I heard you the first, second, and third time!” Sunghoon yanks at his hair. 

“A paper bag…” Sunoo mumbles then he turns to face Sunghoon. “Why don’t you wear a paper bag until you dye your hair back! Yes, paper bag!” Sunoo suggests frantically. 

Sunghoon wipes his tears, his eyes swollen. “A paper bag?” Sunghoon falls completely to the floor, pretending to faint. “How am I supposed to win you over when I have a paper bag over my head!” 

Okay, maybe it was a ridiculous idea, but Sunoo can’t be attracted to him!

“What about a hat? A beanie?” Sunoo searches around the room and spots a black baseball cap that says ‘MILF HUNTER’ .

“Here,” Sunoo takes the hat, ignoring the words on it as he kneels down in front of Sunghoon.  “Put this on quickly.” He says, adjusting the cap on Sunghoon’s head softly. 

Sunoo then scoots back with a loud sigh once the blonde hair was messily tucked inside the cap. “Better.” Sunoo clutches his chest where his heart wouldn’t stop beating rapidly. 

“I must have looked really bad with blonde hair because you were acting like it was the worst thing you have ever seen.” Sunghoon sniffles, adjusting his hat a bit better. 

Sunoo avoids Sunghoon’s gaze, clearing his throat awkwardly. 

“So what now?” Sunghoon asks, rubbing the back of his neck.

“I don’t know.” 

Sunoo is just going to ignore the sudden shift he feels now.

Chapter Text

“Has Sunoo left already?” Jay asks once the movie he was watching was over. “I don’t think I saw him leave.”

Heeseung shrugs, trying his best to stretch without waking up Karina. “Nah, he’s probably still in the room with Sunghoon.” He smirks and Karina slowly stirs herself awake. “Either Sunghoon finally scored or Sunoo killed him.” 

“Don’t say that, babe.” Karina mumbles. 

“Why?” Heeseung wipes the drool coming from the corner of her lips. “Does my baby finally have a soft heart for Sunghoon?” He teases, pinching her cheek. 

“No, I want to be the only person that kills him first.” 

“Okay…” Jay clasps his hands together as he gets up from the couch. “I’m going to get ready because my parents are in town and want to have dinner with me.” He explains, turning the t.v off. 

“I want to go, I haven’t seen your parents in a long time.” Heeseung says. “And it’s free dinner.” 

“Me too!” Karina beams, fluttering her long lashes up at Jay. “Your parents love me.” 

Jay turns to look at his friends with a frown. “I would say yes, but then my parents are going to ask why I’m still single after seeing you guys again.” 

Both Heeseung and Karina stay quiet, a smile on their faces as they continue to look at Jay with their huge bambi eyes, begging Jay to say yes. 

“Fine!” Jay finally gives in. “But don’t mention Jungwon or Sunghoon.” 

“Why can’t we mention Sunghoon?” Heeseung asks cautiously. 

“Let’s just say that Sunghoon called my parents at 2:00 a.m to vent about Sunoo the other day and it went on for hours.” Jay explains with a sudden shudder. “My mom is very concerned.” 

“Who isn’t?”

☆

“You never told me that you had two sisters?” Sunoo asks as he sits crisscrossed on the carpet floor looking at all the pictures that Sunghoon had of himself when he was younger. 

“I thought I did.” Sunghoon replies, folding his clean clothes in his drawer. 

“Well, I know about your little sister- which still shocks me because it’s the Wonyoung, she has so many followers on Instagram.” Sunoo says in disbelief, flipping through more pictures of Sunghoon and his family. “But your older sister?”

“What about her?” Sunghoon asks nonchalant, folding the last piece of clothing. 

“What about her?!” Sunoo holds up a picture of Sunghoon in his high school graduation outfit with his older sister hugging him. “Your older sister is Jung Chaeyeon, she’s one of the best wedding planners in the country.” 

Sunghoon sits across from him, smiling at the pile of pictures that Sunoo saved to the side (perhaps to laugh at them later). “She’s actually my half sister, but yeah, she can be cool sometimes when she’s not on my ass about everything.” 

Sunghoon then grabs the pile of pictures that Sunoo kept to the side, going through each one of them with a frown. “Hey, why would you save these pictures? These are embarrassing.” Sunghoon whines when he stares at the picture of himself dressed as a penguin and Jay dressed as Spiderman. 

He remembers crying that day because he wanted to dress up as something cool like his best friend, but instead his mom had got him a blue penguin costume to match with Wonyoung’s ice fairy princess costume. 

“Aw, don’t pout.” Sunoo coos as he scratches underneath Sunghoon’s chin. “It’s a cute picture, I wanted to keep it.” Sunoo says, patting Sunghoon’s cheek before taking the picture out of his hand. 

“Can’t believe six year old me has more game than twenty-one year old me.”

Sunoo shrugs. “Can’t help it, you were much cuter back then.” He teases as he flips another picture to show Sunghoon. 

Sunghoon’s face turns completely red, snatching the picture out of Sunoo’s hold. A picture of Sunghoon sitting on the toilet, completely naked with a sign next to him that read : “Hoonie’s first dump in the toilet!” 

“I don’t care how in love I am with you,” Sunghoon says as he stands up. “You’re not keeping this picture, ever.” 

Sunoo rolls his eyes. “Stop being ridiculous, Sunghoon.” He gets up from the floor too, dusting himself off as he stares at Sunghoon’s back. “And stop saying that…” He mutters under his breath, feeling a bit embarrassed at Sunghoon’s confession. 

“Stop saying what?” Sunghoon asks obliviously, scrolling through his playlist to choose a song from. “That I’m in love with you?” He smirks, wiggling his eyebrows up at Sunoo. 

Sunoo shows his disinterest by fake gagging. “I feel sick now.” 

[Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction]

“What are you doing now?” Sunoo asks when he sees Sunghoon removing his hat.

“I’d rather look ugly than to have this headache by wearing this tight hat.” Sunghoon explains, throwing his hat across the room and running his fingers through his blonde hair. 

Sunoo freezes, barely registering anything that’s going through his mind, the only thing that’s making sense to him right now is the fact that Sunghoon looks too damn sexy in his blonde hair with that fucking song playing in the background. 

Before Sunoo can even process the dirty thoughts running through his mind, Sunghoon is suddenly gliding against the carpet floor groovily, snapping his fingers to the beat of the song as he makes his way towards Sunoo. 

‘Cause we done got a sensual seduction

Sensual seduction (whoa, whoa)

Sensual seduction 

Sensual seduction (whoa)

I’m gonna take my time~’

Sunoo turns bright red, he couldn’t suppress the blush that flushed to his cheeks when he hears Sunghoon singing and dancing around him with that goofy (sexy) smirk of his. 

“Wanna dance?” Sunghoon asks as he continues to sway his hips and Sunoo briefly remembers that awful lap dance he received from him a few weeks ago. 

“I don’t know how to dance.” Sunoo manages to speak quickly. “Actually, I don’t even know how to use my own legs.” Sunoo spews out nonsense excuses, trying his best to avoid the way Sunghoon’s tank top rolled up a little that showed  a bit of his lower abdomen. 

Sunoo gulps nervously. ‘Was that a fucking happy trail?!’

Sunghoon smiles, holding out his hand for Sunoo to take. “I don’t know how to dance either, but we can learn together.” Sunghoon suggests, Sunoo stares at the big hand, biting down on his bottom lip before taking it, allowing Sunghoon to pull him closer. 

The taller male takes the chance to wrap Sunoo’s dainty arms around his neck, drawing the younger male closer to him by holding his hips gently. 

“I can’t believe a guy like you is dancing with me, sheesh!” Sunghoon whistles, his eyes scanning over Sunoo and the outfit that clung around his perfectly tight body.

Sunoo slaps Sunghoon’s shoulder. “Pervert.” He comments when he watches the way Sunghoon stares at him. 

Sunghoon’s minty breath fans over Sunoo’s glossy lips, their foreheads naturally touch each other as they dance slowly. Sunoo gets irritated at the fact that Sunghoon can clearly dance! 

He hates how Sunghoon sways their bodies together so sensually to the song, he hates that Sunghoon’s fingers were ghosting right above the curvature of his ass, and it annoys him even more that Sunghoon looks too damn good right now. 

How dare he look at Sunoo with those fucking eyes of hunger right now, but then look at him like he’s about to say something stupid the very next minute. 

How dare he lick his lips like he’s ready to devour Sunoo right now, but then say the most ridiculous thing he’s ever said in his life. 

None of this is making sense to him. 

“Let loose and feel the song.” Sunghoon’s low raspy voice makes Sunoo shudder. “You’re stiff, move your hips for me.” 

“I can’t.” Sunoo mumbles, he was awkwardly moving his hips side to side offbeat and it was making him self conscious. “I’m not a dancer.” 

“Nonsense.” Sunghoon laughs. “I’ve seen you dance before.” 

The song changes to something more upbeat, making it easier for Sunoo to follow. “I only dance to songs that I like.” Sunoo says. “This song is good.” 

[Snoop Dogg - I Knew That]

Sunoo lets his hands drop, sliding down from Sunghoon’s neck to his chest, feeling the beat of Sunghoon’s heart. He locks eyes with Sunghoon as they continue to groove to the song, Sunoo’s teasing fingers slide further down to Sunghoon’s torso and even Sunoo is surprised by the sudden burst of confidence. 

Sunghoon just watches as Sunoo unconsciously swipes his tongue over his bottom lip as he takes in Sunghoon’s body, of course, fueling his ego. 

“You like what you see?” Sunghoon gives Sunoo’s waist a squeeze, making Sunoo yelp in surprise. 

“No, not really.” Sunoo responds cockily. “I’ve seen better.” 

Sunghoon didn't waste a second to turn Sunoo around until his back was touching his chest, feeling Sunoo’s cute bum on his crotch. 

Sunoo’s breath hitches at the sudden contact, he could feel Sunghoon pressed up against his ass and if he was being honest, Sunoo likes the feeling. 

“You know how to break my heart, Sunoo.” Sunghoon whispers in his ear, letting his lips linger around the outer shell of his ear.

Sunoo closes his eyes, allowing the song to move him freely as Sunghoon’s big arms wrap around his waist and sway their hips together again. As the music continues to play, Sunoo begins to feel Sunghoon’s lips on his neck, leaving him soft butterfly kisses. 

His hands were securely placed on top of Sunghoon’s hands and slowly, but surely, Sunoo started to move on his own, the song traveling throughout his body and making him sway his hips side to side over Sunghoon’s crotch. 

Sunghoon relaxes when Sunoo decides to rest his head onto Sunghoon’s shoulder, giving Sunghoon access to dip his head lower to plant feathery kisses on Sunoo’s neck. 

Sunghoon turns Sunoo around again, he caresses Sunoo’s cheek softly as his eyes dart from his eyes to his lips. 

“Don’t…” Sunoo whispers, but his eyes fall on Sunghoon’s lips as well. “Don’t kiss me…” Sunoo repeats softly, shaking his head as he feels Sunghoon’s fingers trace his plump lips. 

“I won’t.” 

Sunoo plays with the back of Sunghoon’s hair, slightly massaging Sunghoon’s scalp. “We are friends.” Sunoo says, but he couldn’t even fool himself from saying that. “I don’t kiss my friends…” Sunoo says softly, leaning forward as Sunghoon holds him from the waist. 

“But do you want to?” 

“Shut up.” Sunoo rolls his eyes, grabbing Sunghoon’s face. “We are still friends after this.” Sunoo tells Sunghoon just before launching forward to press their lips together.  

Chapter Text

“We are still friends after this”

Friends. 

Yeah, right. 

Not when Kim Sunoo has his glistening lips pressing against Sunghoon’s slightly chapped lips. Sunoo wants to laugh at how ridiculous he is being, how could he let a man with freshly dyed blonde hair get to him this easily? 

Especially Park Sunghoon at that! The same guy who waited outside the restroom stall last week while Sunoo was trying to peacefully use it after having tacos, saying that he felt lonely without Sunoo by his side.  

The same guy that had “accidentally” sent Sunoo a picture of himself shirtless on a sunny, unprovoked Tuesday afternoon, using the excuse that he meant to send it to someone else (he’s a horrible liar). 

The same fucking guy that cried hours ago because he thought Sunoo, out of all people, was going to find him disgusting and ugly after his new hair change, thinking that Sunoo would never give him a chance after that.

“We are still friends after this.”

It repeats in Sunoo’s head even when he lets his hands rest on Sunghoon’s broad shoulders as Sunghoon’s big hand reaches the back of Sunoo’s head, his fingers gently tugging the soft strands. 

Sunoo sighs in content when he feels Sunghoon pulling him closer with his other hand on his lower back, causing their chests to touch. Sunoo wasn’t sure whose chest was beating erratically, he’s just going to assume it’s Sunghoon because there’s no way Sunoo would feel this excited over a simple kiss. 

The thing is, it wasn’t just a simple kiss. 

It was slow and steady, Sunoo could tell that Sunghoon was trying to savor every second of the kiss from how quickly he captured Sunoo’s bottom lip in between his teeth to softly nibble on them before giving it a tug and then going back in to kiss Sunoo properly. 

Sunoo takes a mental note that Park Sunghoon is a bottom lip enjoyer when it comes to kissing. 

Sunghoon then tilts his head slightly, poking Sunoo’s lip with his tongue, asking the younger male for permission and when Sunoo grants him access by parting his lips, Sunghoon’s tongue eagerly greets him. 

Everything was all blur to Sunoo, he was so focused on how fucking great of a kisser Sunghoon was that whenever Sunoo caught himself moan into the kiss, he instantly wakes up from his daze. 

Of course he would moan, Sunghoon’s sneaky and perverted hand reached down to his ass and squeezed it! 

Sunoo pulls back, shoving Sunghoon away before narrowing his eyes up at Sunghoon. “Just because I kissed you, doesn’t mean you can just touch my ass.” Sunoo scolds the taller male, but it seemed that it went over his head because his lips grew into that same dopey grin. 

“Stop smiling like that, it creeps me out—”

And then Sunghoon falls to his knees. 

“I am never washing this hand ever again…” Sunghoon says as he holds up the very same hand that took a squeeze out of Sunoo’s ass, he stares at his hand as if it’s God himself. 

“Okay, let’s not do that—”

“I am never going to brush my teeth ever again!” Sunghoon lets himself drop completely to the floor as he carefully cradles his hand to his chest, Sunoo swears he sees pink floating hearts going around Sunghoon’s head. 

“We are most definitely not doing that either!” Sunoo scrunches his nose in disgust and then shakes his head in disappointment as realization hits him. 

He just kissed Park Sunghoon, the weirdest guy on campus. 

☆

The next day, Sunoo felt like the universe was out to get him everywhere he walked on campus— no matter where he went, Sunoo’s mind went straight to Sunghoon and his damn blonde hair that made him look so good.

Not only was the universe playing tricks on him, Sunoo was going absolutely insane. Half of his body was telling him to grab Sunghoon by the collar and make out with him again (and maybe more?) but the other half was mentally slapping him for allowing a guy like Sunghoon sweep him off his feet over one kiss. 

And it’s not like Sunoo could just shrug it off and pretend the kiss never happened when everything reminded him of Sunghoon and that is why Sunoo walked around campus looking like a mad man.

It hasn’t been an hour since Sunoo stepped inside the university building and he’s already getting bombarded in the hallways by the health club. Out of all days, the health club would set up their tables to pass around condoms and safe sex pamphlets at 9:00 a.m. 

“Good morning, we are the health club and we are trying to raise awareness on safe sex,” A freshman girl says enthusiastically as she hands Sunoo a brochure. “If you could take a minute to read over our pamphlets..”

Sunoo takes the pamphlet from her hand, carefully reading over the title “ SAFE SEX OR DIE”— Sunoo wonders how that title even got approved, but nonetheless it caught everyone’s attention. 

As Sunoo read through the section of the various STDs, his dirty mind went straight to Sunghoon. 

‘I wonder if we fucked so nasty, we could create a new strain of STD..’

Sunoo giggles to himself until he notices the same girl watching him with a look of disbelief. He quickly shakes his very messed up head as he cringes at the fact that he day dreaming of getting raw fucked by Sunghoon. 

Sunoo clears his throat with the most serious expression as he looks at the girl in front of him. “This was very informative.” He lets the girl know. 

“Yes, it is and—”

“I’ll take five large condoms, thank you.” 

The freshman girl had no choice, but to listen, giving Sunoo ten condom packets out of generosity. 

And if Sunoo caught Jake stealing two bowls of condoms into his backpack while the health club were too busy talking to other students, then Sunoo is just going to continue walking and mind his own damn business, prices are going up these days!

Later on that day, Sunoo met with Jungwon in the cafeteria for lunch and Sunoo couldn’t help, but salivate at the sight of Jungwon’s cucumber. 

Tall, girthy, a slight curve to the tip, and the ridges of the cucumber that Jungwon was currently cutting up in pieces kept reminding him of Sung-

“Why are you making that face?” Jungwon asks Sunoo, interrupting him from his thoughts. 

“Huh? What face?” Sunoo asks innocently, wiping away the saliva that was coming out of his mouth. 

Jungwon continues to slice up his cucumbers to add to his salad and Sunoo tries his best to not have the mental image of him holding Sunghoon’s dick. 

“You keep looking at my cucumber and it’s creeping me out.” Jungwon states, finishing up as he wipes his knife with a napkin.  

“You’re the one bringing a whole cucumber to school when you could’ve cut that up at your place.” Sunoo scoffs as he tries to change the subject. 

“But then it gets all nasty and soggy if I do that.” Jungwon reasons, adding his special dressing on top of his salad. 

Sunoo leaves it at that, his mind was too preoccupied with Sunghoon and at that point Sunoo was starting to realize what the universe was trying to do and he wasn’t going to let it happen. 

He won’t let the universe tie him up with Sunghoon! It doesn’t matter if Sunghoon is tall, sexy, pretty big hands, toned arms, long legs, a good kisser, funny, and-

Sunoo has completely lost the original plot of this fic. 

After lunch, Sunoo decides to get some fresh air, hoping it’ll distract him from his mind trying to convince him that Sunghoon could be a potential boyfriend, lover, perhaps husband. 

He walks outside the campus as he makes his way to the water fountain where other students found comfort and relaxation as they studied or ate their lunch while they viewed the beautiful scenery of the university. 

Sunoo thinks it’ll help him out, all he needs to do is take out his book and read a few pages or write in his journal and manifest that new car he’s always wanted. There was nothing that could possibly distract him and manipulate his mind into thinking he should have creamy and nasty sexy with Sunghoon. 

Absolutely nothing. 

Except for the two squirrels that are either fighting or mating on the grass, Sunoo can’t tell because his mind instantly drifts to the thought of having hate sex with Sunghoon and how hot that sounds to him. 

“Leave me the hell alone!” Sunoo yells at the two squirrels, earning a few stares from students around him. 

It was no use because the two squirrels kept going at it and Sunoo can’t blame them because they're getting that nut one way or another. 

Thankfully, Sunoo was back at his apartment, fresh out of the shower and in his clean Patrick pajamas as he lay on his bed watching the new episode of his favorite Korean drama.

Everything was going great— even after being traumatized from watching two squirrels mating earlier. 

Until his phone was running out of battery, the 10% notification popping up in the middle of his k-drama. Sunoo reluctantly grabs the wire of his charger to plug in his phone, but sure enough, it wouldn’t go in. 

No matter how many times Sunoo was trying to get his charger to plug in his phone, it wouldn’t budge. 

“It keeps slipping out.” Sunoo says out loud and then it clicks in his brain. For some sick and twisted reason, Sunoo makes a comparison of his charger slipping out of his phone’s charging hole to his own hole. 

Sunoo gives up, dropping his phone somewhere and not caring enough to charge his phone.

He stares up at the ceiling wondering what went wrong, why is he thinking about Sunghoon and when will it stop. 

☆

While Sunoo was going through it all day long and having issues with coming to terms that there’s a slight possibility that he’s attracted to Sunghoon, Sunghoon was having a blast. 

That morning Sunghoon woke up in a great mood and Jay even noticed it when he watched his best friend showered and dressed before he got up. 

“Uh, morning?” Jay greets as he walks into the kitchen where Sunghoon was flipping some heart shaped pancakes.

“Good morning my dear best friend.” Sunghoon replies with a sweet toothy smile and although cute, it puts Jay in an uneasy mood. 

“What’s wrong with you?” Jay asks, grabbing a clean glass to pour his orange juice in.

“There’s nothing wrong when you’re in love.” Sunghoon says dreamily, placing two pancakes on Jay’s plate. “You should try it,” Sunghoon freezes for a second. “Oh wait, you did try, maybe next time?” 

Jay scowls at his friend, grabbing the bowl of fresh fruit with a sour look. “I probably have a better love life than you.” Jay responds harshly, adding honey to his plate. 

Sunghoon boops his nose teasingly, causing Jay to scrunch his nose. “I wouldn’t say that now.” He says with a wink.

“What do you mean?” 

“Sunoo and I kissed.” Sunghoon says with a shy smile. 

“You what?!” 

And that’s how it went all day long, Sunghoon made sure everyone knew that he kissed Kim Sunoo. 

By everyone, he means every single person he’s ever interacted with. 

With Wonyoung, his little sister. 

“I made out with Sunoo.” 

“If this is one of your weird dreams you had last night, I really don’t care to know.” Wonyoung says over the phone, she tried ignoring her brother’s calls, but it got to the point where he called more than ten times and she decided to just answer the call.

“I really did! And he was the one that initiated it!” 

There was a long silent pause before Wonyoung spoke again. 

“Was he drunk?” 

With grandma, the one who needs her medicine pills every three hours. 

“I kissed Sunoo, grandma.” 

“Oh, that’s sweet baby,” Grandma pats his cheek with a tender smile. “Pumpkin, go pass me my medicine, it’s on the counter.” 

Sunghoon grabs her medicine and hands it to her with a glass of water. “Did you hear what I said? I said I kissed Sunoo, the boy that I like.” He pouts as he watches his grandma swallow her pill. 

“I did honey,” She pats his head sweetly. “I’m very happy for you, but you already told me since you got here” She laughs. 

With Jeno, Karina’s cousin. 

“I had sex with Sunoo.” 

“Ahh, I see…” Jeno rubs the back of his neck as he smiles awkwardly, his eye smile still radiant and cute as ever. “Do you think we can finish this conversation later? I’m kinda studying.” 

Sunghoon had caught Jeno studying in the library after he got done telling the poor old librarian that he kissed Sunoo. 

“Sure, good luck on whatever you’re studying!” Sunghoon says out loud and Jeno had to silently apologize to everyone for Sunghoon’s loudmouth.  

With Karina, Heeseung’s evil little girlfriend. 

“I made out with Sunoo.” Sunghoon whispers, they were in class and their professor was very strict when it came to talking while he taught. “With tongue.” He explains seconds after.

Karina turns to glare at him. “Can you be quiet?” She whispers with a scowl before going back to her notes, Karina then turns back to look at him once she realizes what he had just said. “Wait, what did you just say?” 

“I kissed Sunoo yesterday.” He smiles. 

“Wow,” Karina says. “Are you serious?” 

Sunghoon nods happily and for the first time in his life, Sunghoon actually feels butterflies in his stomach at just the mere mention of Sunoo.

Karina smiles and Sunghoon was shockingly surprised at her genuine and fond expression. 

“I’m really proud of you, Sunghoon.” She says sweetly, patting Sunghoon’s hand softly. 

And if Sunghoon started to tear up after Karina looked away to pay attention in class again, then that’s his business only. 

And lastly, Mr. Shin, the 7-eleven employee. 

“I finally kissed Sunoo.” Sunghoon informs his middle aged best friend as he opens up a bag of unpaid cheetos. 

“Good job, Jason.” The man says, patting Sunghoon’s back before going behind the register to ring up the customer waiting in line. “I hope you treat him well.” 

“Of course I will.” Sunghoon says as he jumps on the counter once the customer has left. “I really think he’s the one for me.” He explains, stuffing five cheesy cheetos in his mouth. 

☆

Sunoo wakes up to a call around 2:00 am, his eyes could barely make sense of whose name was on the caller ID, so when he answers the call and hears that same obnoxious voice that’s been flooding his brain the whole day, he groans loudly. 

He puts his phone on speaker, laying right back down with his shut as he unwillingly listens to whatever Sunghoon had to say at 2:00 am.

[Sunoo] “Hello?” 

[Sunghoon] “Since we are officially dating-”

[Sunoo] “Dating?! When did that ever happen?”

[Sunghoon] “Baby, let me finish talking.”

[Sunoo] “Sunghoon, what the hell are you on about? I hope you know it's past midnight.”

[Sunghoon] “So, I’ve been thinking ever since you confessed to me-”

[Sunoo] “Are you crazy?! I didn’t confess, we just kissed a little and that’s it-”

[Sunghoon] “I think we should have cute contact names, ‘ya know, for our phones.”

[Sunoo] “Sunghoon.”

[Sunghoon] “Yeah?”

[Sunoo] “Nevermind, what did you have in mind?”

[Sunghoon] “Well, I already have you as something…”

[Sunoo] “What is it?…”

[Sunghoon] “The love of my fucking life.” 

[Sunoo] “Why did I even ask..”

[Sunghoon] “So, what are you going to put me as?” 

[Sunoo] “If I tell you, would you let me go to sleep afterwards?”

[Sunghoon] “Yes!”

[Sunoo] “Mmm, maybe… Puppy?”

[Sunghoon] “P-puppy?”

[Sunoo] “You don’t like it?”

[Sunghoon] “No, I love it… I’m your puppy.” 

[Sunoo] “That was very cringy… Can I go to sleep now?”

[Sunghoon] “Sure- Wait! Actually, I was wondering if I can take you to get ice cream after you are done with your job?” 

[Sunoo] “Okay, sure, that’s fine, I’ll see you later.”

[Sunghoon] “Goodnight, Sunoo!” 

☆

“You are wearing a suit.” Heeseung deadpans as he stares at Sunghoon sporting a black fitted suit. “To get ice cream…I don’t get it.”

“We are not just getting ice cream, we are going on a date.” Sunghoon announces with a wide grin, but Heeseung just stares at him blankly, looking nowhere near impressed.  

“The question is,” Heeseung finally starts. “Does he know about this date?” 

“Of course he knows, why wouldn’t he?” 

[An hour later] 

“Why are you wearing a suit?” Sunoo asks, eyeing Sunghoon from head to toe, he looks handsome, but wearing a suit and tie at a small ice cream shop near campus wasn’t the right time for it. 

“You don’t like it?” Sunghoon asks after paying for their ice cream cones. 

“No, you look great..” Sunoo takes his cone, making their way outside. “But isn't it weird that you’re wearing a suit while I’m just wearing this?” Sunoo gestures at his own outfit, a simple green sweater and black slacks. 

“Not weird, I just wanted to look good on our date.” Sunghoon smiles and Sunoo’s face turns instantly pink. 

“You never said it was a date.” Sunoo mumbles as he takes the first lick of his ice cream. 

They both sat in silence at a nearby bench where they had a beautiful view of the park across the ice cream parlor, their shoulders occasionally brushing against each other, and their feet would kick the small rocks on the floor. 

“I look pretty ridiculous, don’t I?” Sunghoon asks out of curiosity, breaking the silence.

 “Yeah, you kinda do.” Sunoo giggles as he turns to face Sunghoon. “It looks like you just got off of your nine to five job and now you’re having an ice cream date with your ridiculously young boyfriend.” Sunoo then shakes his head as he realizes what he had just said.”Not that I’m your boyfriend, it just looks like it to others.” Sunoo clarifies once he sees the small glint of joy in Sunghoon’s eyes. 

Sunghoon casts him a knowing look, one that Sunoo seems to know so well already. 

“You could be my boyfriend.” Sunghoon wiggles his thick eyebrows and Sunoo couldn’t help but laugh, slapping Sunghoon’s arm teasingly. 

“Not even in your dreams, babe.” Sunoo pats his cheek softly.

And without a second thought, Sunoo let his hand caress Sunghoon’s cheek until it was holding his chin in place. The corners of Sunghoon’s lips curl into a sweet smile and Sunoo couldn’t take his eyes off Sunghoon’s pretty face, especially when it was that close to his face. 

Sunoo hesitates for a moment before he speaks, he might as well let his mind do the talking now. “Aren’t you just the cutest?” Sunoo whispers and it surprises him for a second, but when he catches a glimpse of Sunghoon’s little fangs,  Sunoo doesn't seem to care anymore. 

“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you.” Sunghoon responds with a flirty wink and Sunoo was unable to meet his eyes so instead he scans Sunghoon’s pretty face, from his cute mole on the side of his nose, his thick eyebrows, and the stubble on his chin. 

Sunoo wonders how Sunghoon would look down there if he’s got that much body hair—

Sunoo swallows when he finally meets Sunghoon’s eyes and his heart skips a beat when Sunghoon meets his gaze too. “You’re a messy eater.” Sunoo mutters, biting his bottom lip right after as he uses his thumb to wipe away the chocolate ice cream off of the corner of Sunghoon’s lips. 

“See?” Sunoo shows his thumb to Sunghoon before he takes his thumb to his lips, licking the ice cream off of it. 

Sunoo went back to his own ice cream, looking away in embarrassment as he tried his very best to ignore the rapid beating of his heart. Sunoo can clearly still see Sunghoon staring at him from his peripheral vision, making it worse for Sunoo to face him again. 

Sunghoon finally looks away, the tips of ear red and his cheeks flushed in pink from the sudden interaction he just had with Sunoo. 

He decides to break the awkward tension that was filling the air once again. 

“So…” Sunghoon speaks up, kicking the little pebbles from the pavement. “When you walk, does it clap?”

“What?” Sunoo asks, confusion paints his face suddenly. “Does it clap? What’s supposed to clap?”

“Uh..” 

Sunoo immediately frowns and the attraction he had of Sunghoon for two minutes was all gone, just like that. Sunoo sits with his arms crossed across his chest as he waits for the stupid response Sunghoon was about to give him. 

“You know, does it clap,” Sunghoon uses his eyes to gesture at Sunoo’s butt. “When you’re walking?” 

“If I could, I would literally murder you in front of these people right now.”

☆

Since the kiss, it’s taken Sunoo almost a week to go back to Sunghoon’s apartment, taking every little courage he had in him to knock on their door, already hearing Jay and Karina yelling from the other side of the door— most likely towards Sunghoon, 

Just two days ago Sunoo was invited by Ni-ki to attend one of his shows, Sunoo could tell that the invite was only for him, but because he had Sunghoon right next to him, the invite went for both of them. 

Sunoo cringes when he thinks back at their interaction, feeling awkward between both guys staring each other down. Sunoo laughs when he remembers how Sunghoon tried to flex in front of Ni-ki, hoping he would back off, but it’s Ni-ki, he’s not scared of anything. 

Ni-ki just stood there as he watched Sunghoon make a fool out of himself and Sunoo wanted to die a little right there and then. 

“How am I supposed to compete with him?! He’s good looking, mysterious, tall, and he’s in a band?!” 

“Don’t be ridiculous, he’s just a good friend, there’s no competition.” 

“He has piercings, Sunoo.. Piercings!” 

Sunoo snaps out of his thoughts when the door swings right open, almost knocking him out. He sees Karina holding the door open, wearing a stylish oversized t-shirt that barely covered the black shorts underneath, black knee high socks with her chunky black boots, and her blonde hair perfectly curled, there’s no doubt why Heeseung wouldn’t be overprotective of her, she’s gorgeous. 

“You look amazing, Sunoo!” Karina compliments with a smile, moving to the side to let Sunoo inside. 

“Thank you,” Sunoo thanked shyly. “You look nice too.” 

Sunoo wears his favorite crop top with an oversized black denim jacket and a belly chain that pulls the outfit together. He wanted to make sure he fit in if he was going to see Ni-ki at his show. 

“I’m glad y’all are going too, I don’t know if I would be able to handle Sunghoon by myself at the show.” Sunoo says as he makes his way to the living room, Karina follows behind. 

Heeseung was sitting on the couch with Jay on the other side, apparently they’ve been waiting on Sunghoon to get ready. 

“I’m excited, it’s been a while since I’ve gone to a rock show.” Heeseung mentions as he opens his arms to let Karina sit on his lap, and that’s when Sunoo notices how great of a pair the couple makes, they complimented each other very well. 

“Sunghoon told us it was a rock show and to dress in dark clothes..” Jay speaks up, gesturing at his outfit, blank tank top, black leather jacket, and black jeans that were ripped from the knees. 

“And I think Sunghoon took it seriously..” Heeseung points towards the hallway with his chin, making everyone turn in that direction. 

“What the actual fuck is on your face, Sunghoon.” Karina blurts out and Sunoo looks up with his mouth wide open.

“What do y’all think?” Sunghoon asks, arms wide open as he presents his look before he takes a whole 360 spin. “I look good, huh?” 

Sunghoon never fails to embarrass himself, making sure he takes it to another level each day. Tall boy dressed in a decent black outfit, making him look stylish, but the second you make eye contact with his face, you wonder what went wrong. 

Pretty eyes now covered in black eyeshadow and eyeliner, almost like a teenage girl who is starting to learn how to apply makeup for the first time. Fake tattoos were also applied on his face and Sunoo was starting to regret ever meeting him. 

“I swear if you used my makeup…” 

Sunghoon’s lips turn into a thin line, he ignores Karina. 

“Sunghoon, you did not have to do… all of that.” Sunoo says, trying his best to sound calm. 

Sunghoon raises his eyebrows. “What do you mean? It’s a rock show, they dress like this!” 

And Sunghoon wasn’t wrong exactly, because the moment they walked inside the warehouse they were met with others wearing the exact makeup look as Sunghoon. 

Even Jake, who was invited by Ni-ki, had the same idea as Sunghoon.

“You look good, man!” Sunghoon compliments Jake. 

“You too!” Jake compliments back. 

Of course these two would coincidentally match. 

All six of them were lucky enough to make it in front of the stage, holding on to the rails as more people kept coming and were pushing through to get to the front. Thankfully they had Heeseung with them because each time anybody tried to push or shove them (especially Karina) to get closer, Heeseung would shove them back or send them threatening glares that would scare them off. 

Sunoo watches the way Heeseung’s arms wrap around Karina in a tight back hug, swaying their bodies together to the beat of the song that was playing before the show started. Sunoo smiles when he sees Heeseung kiss her on the cheek, making her giggle and in that moment, Sunoo wishes he could experience love like that once. 

“Yo, I thought Jungwon was coming too?” Jake shouts from where he was standing in between Sunghoon and Jay.

Jay perks up at the mention of his ex boyfriend. “He said he had plans already.” Sunoo answers and for a second he could see the hurt in Jay’s face. 

“There’s your answer, buddy!” Sunghoon says, patting Jay’s back as if that were any comfort. 

Jay shoves his hand away. “Dude, I said I didn’t care.” Jay snaps, sounding a bit irritated and Sunoo feels bad for him, he knows that his best friend is purposely avoiding him because Jungwon hates being in the middle of confrontation. 

Sunoo just sends him a sympathetic smile and thankfully Jake had the brain to read the room and change the topic quickly by asking Jay questions about whatever weird shit he had in mind. 

“I think he’s mad.” Sunghoon leans down to whisper into Sunoo’s ear and the look Sunoo sends to him had Sunghoon backing up slowly to not piss him off. 

“I just think you shouldn’t bother Jay about that.” Sunoo shrugs, not saying anything else once the lights started to dim indicating that the show was about to start. 

“Wow,” Sunoo breathes in awe as he looks around the packed warehouse. “His band must be really good to bring in this many people.” Sunoo says and Sunghoon turns to look as well. 

“That good looking fucker,” Sunghoon shakes his head in disappointment. “He’s got all these girls and guys to choose from, but he wants you instead, damn he’s perfect.” 

Sunoo rolls his eyes with fake annoyance, slapping Sunghoon’s arm playfully. “Can you stop comparing yourself with him?” Sunoo stares up at Sunghoon’s pouting face and usually it looks cute on him, but in that moment he looks hilarious with all that heavy makeup on him. 

“I can’t take you seriously like this.” Sunoo giggles, reaching a hand to move Sunghoon’s fringe away from his eyes. 

The look in Sunghoon’s eyes (behind all that dark eyeshadow and eyeliner) was way too soft for him that it was starting to melt Sunoo’s heart, he needed to look away fast.

Thankfully, Ni-ki and his band were already walking on stage, causing the audience to scream and shout, hyping everyone up. Sunoo immediately turns his focus on the stage, spotting Ni-ki in less than a second. 

“Is that your friend?” Karina asks in a shout, pointing in the direction towards Ni-ki who was adjusting his guitar and mic. “I love his hair!” 

Sunoo smiles at the compliment, that’s one thing about Ni-ki that he likes, no matter what the boy is doing or wearing, he will always have eyes on him because he gravitates all the attention on him, 

This is the first time Sunoo sees Ni-ki’s friends up close, the last time he saw them was at the skatepark, but from afar. 

Everyone looks equally cool and attractive in their matching dark outfits— It’s really no surprise, attractive people hang around with other attractive people. 

Ni-ki doesn’t say anything to his band mates, he just gives them a look and everyone gives him a nod and that’s when Sunoo notices the girl on the drums and he wonders if they could get any cooler than this. 

[The Novembers - 1000] 

And before Sunoo could register anything else, the bassist began to play his instrument and everyone in the audience started to move. Everything was happening way too fast, everyone kept pushing and shoving, but nonetheless he was enjoying it the second he heard Ni-ki’s voice on the mic. 

Sunoo was way too focused on the way Ni-ki played the guitar that he failed to realize that both Sunghoon and Jake were pushed towards a mosh pit. 

“Where’s Sunghoon?!” Jay shouts and Sunoo scans around the sweaty crowd until he finally spotted Sunghoon and his friend Jake inside a circle full of people bumping into each other harshly.

“Holy fuck!” Sunoo shouts, panicking when he sees his two friends getting shoved around with everyone else and just when he was about to go get him, Heeseung stops him. 

“It’s a mosh pit, they do that in concerts.” He explains. “He’s fine, it’s Sunghoon.” 

And when Sunoo looks back at Sunghoon one more time and sees him laughing, he smiles. 

It’s Sunghoon, he reassures himself. 

[Fuji Kaze - Lonely Rhapsody] 

After a while, Sunoo lost track of time when more songs were played, he jumped, he shouted, and he danced to every song not missing a beat, Sunoo was immersed, he felt free. 

Dripping in sweat, Sunghoon finally comes back to Sunoo once they were starting to play slower songs, his wet fringe falls over his eyes and his messy makeup looks even messier, but Sunghoon looked like he had fun and that’s all that matters. 

“You’re back.” Sunoo says in a serious tone, pretending to be upset. 

“Sorry,” Sunghoon wraps an arm around Sunoo’s shoulder lazily. “We got pushed over there and we just decided to stay there longer.” He explains tiredly. “I can’t lie, but he's really good.” He points towards Ni-ki using his chin.

Sunoo turns to look at Ni-ki and right on cue, he meets Ni-ki’s gaze that was already on him. Sunoo’s breath hitches, freezing in his spot when Ni-ki sends him a lazy smirk. 

“Yeah..” Sunoo whispers, not sure if Sunghoon could hear him. “He’s really good.” 

The thing is, Sunghoon didn’t need to hear Sunoo’s response to know what Sunoo was thinking, it’s the way Sunoo’s eyes light up when he stares at Ni-ki and Sunghoon can’t compete with that. 

Sunghoon continues to stare at Sunoo, his arms still wrapped around his shoulders as he admires Sunoo’s beautiful face and his bright eyes, even though they weren’t directed towards him, Sunghoon can’t help but to still admire his beauty. 

It was all new to him, these feelings weren't something that was easy to swallow. He knew that he liked Sunoo, but never did he think that it was going to go this far and now he feels pathetic as he watches the boy he’s in love with stare at another guy. 

Sunghoon refuses to accept it, he was selfish, but he knows better. 

He turns to face the stage and a mix of jealousy and hurt builds inside when he catches Ni-ki singing while staring deeply into Sunoo’s eyes. 

He wonders how and when did it get this far? 

Maybe if he continued figure skating would Sunoo find him interesting? Or if he was smart like Jay? Successful like his sisters? Maybe if he loved the same way that Heeseung does, would Sunoo finally look at him differently?

Sunghoon slowly removes his arms off of Sunoo. 

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“Damn, I can’t see shit.” Jay yells over the music, swatting away the smoke in front of him as he makes his way inside the party with the rest of the group following right behind.

“It’s a party, what do you expect?” Heeseung says as he holds Karina from behind to guide her inside. “People smoke at a party.” And he was right because everywhere they looked, there was at least someone smoking something. 

“Are you sure we're allowed to be here?” Jay asks, his eyes wandering around the dim house. “Everyone’s looking at us like we just trespassed.” 

“Of course.” Sunoo says as he takes a sip out of his alcoholic canned drink. “Ni-ki invited us, duh.” He explains, linking his arms around Sunghoon and snuggling his face to his arms. 

Sunoo being slightly tipsy was a sight to see, he was much clingier, nicer, and each time he spoke, his pretty lips would form into a pout and seeing him in that way made Sunghoon go absolutely insane. 

But Sunghoon needed to keep his cool.

 It didn't matter how fucking cute tipsy Sunoo was, even especially when he’s clinging onto him like a koala, Sunghoon needed to stay strong… 

One, because Sunghoon has this thing where he needs to act and look upset and mysterious so the people around him could ask him what’s wrong.

Two, because as far as he knows, Sunoo likes Ni-ki and he pretty much made it very clear at the concert and on their way to the party.

Ever since the show ended, Sunghoon remained quiet throughout the whole car ride as he just listened to Sunoo and everyone else rave about how cool and talented Ni-ki is, with only Sunghoon chiming in here and there.

No one seemed to notice how quiet he was until Sunoo, Heeeseung, and Jake got out of the car to get something to pregame before they made their way to the party. 

“Why are you so quiet all of a sudden?” Karina asks as she twists her body to look at Sunghoon with a raised eyebrow. 

“Am I?” Sunghoon asks as he looks at both Karina and Jay who kept staring at him. 

“Something’s wrong, what is it?” Jay questions from behind from where he was sitting.

“Nothings wrong.” Sunghoon responds in a sad voice, looking out of the window as he stares at Sunoo from the inside of the corner store. “I’m just tired, that’s all.” 

“It’s about Sunoo and Ni-ki, right-”

“Yes!” Sunghoon shouts before Karina could even finish her sentence. “It’s about that stupid good looking fucking guy who happens to be in a fucking band and knows how to fucking use a stupid guitar and sing and look hot and make Sunoo weak just by being him and…” Sunghoon takes a moment to speak, trying to collect himself and catch his breath. “and I’ll never be good enough for Sunoo, he just sees me as a friend.” 

Sunghoon looks down at his lap as he picks on the skin of his fingers. “I thought he would look at me differently since we kissed, but he still treats me like a friend.” 

Karina immediately frowns once she hears Sunghoon vent and just as she was about to say something to comfort him, everyone else came back from the store. 

“Sunghoon! I got you something.” Sunoo happily says, jumping inside of the vehicle with two plastic bags in his hand. “Two sandwiches for the both of us, water, and a drink.” He says as he shows Sunghoon the inside of the bag with a soft smile. 

“Which one do you want?” Sunoo asks, holding up two canned alcoholic drinks. “Fruit punch or lime margarita flavored?” 

Sunghoon carefully takes the lime margarita flavored one. “Thanks.” He smiles and usually his dimple would show when he smiles, but this time it didn’t. 

Sunoo was too preoccupied to notice that though because the second Sunghoon thanked him, Sunoo was quick to speak of his excitement about Ni-ki’s party. 

“I’m so excited, I’ve never been to a party after a show.” He exclaims, cracking open the cold can before taking a long sip of it. 

Sunghoon looks down at his drink. “Yeah, me too.” 

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“Why are you being so boring tonight?” Sunoo frowns as he looks down at Sunghoon from where he was sitting alone on the couch. “I thought you like these kinds of things.” Sunoo sits right next to the older male, leaving just a small space in between them. 

“What do you mean? I’m enjoying the party.” Sunghoon replies back without sparing the younger boy a glance and instead chugs his drink before dropping it on the table in front of them. 

“Bullshit.” Sunoo says with a pout, scooting in closer to Sunghoon until their knees brushed. “You haven’t made a single stupid joke since the show ended.” 

Sunghoon turns to look at Sunoo finally. “Stupid? My jokes aren’t stupid.” He frowns, leaning back further on the couch with his arms crossed. 

Sunoo laughs as he pats Sunghoon’s head softly, scooting in closer to him so that Sunghoon can practically feel Sunoo’s breath in his ear. “Your jokes are pretty stupid.” And Sunghoon can tell that Sunoo was far from tipsy now. 

“Are you drunk?” Sunghoon asks Sunoo.

Sunoo rolls his eyes, scooting slightly away from Sunghoon. “I’m not drunk.” He says as he gets up from the couch. 

“Where are you going?” Sunghoon asks, sounding a bit desperate, but it really didn’t matter because Sunoo was too drunk to make note of it. 

“I’ll be back, I’m just going to get another drink-”

“Hey, you made it!” 

Both Sunghoon and Sunoo turn to where they see Ni-ki making his way towards them, a red solo cup in his hand and a lit cigarette in between his fingers. Ni-ki will always make anything look good and Sunghoon wishes he hadn’t turned to look at Sunoo.

“Of course I did.” Sunoo’s eyes light up. 

Ni-ki then wraps his free arm around Sunoo’s shoulders, pulling him close before glancing back at Sunghoon, yet they both don’t say anything to each other. Instead, Sunghoon looks away and Ni-ki leans into Sunoo’s ear. 

“I was waiting for you to come.” Ni-ki whispers into Sunoo’s ear. “Can we go outside to talk?” 

Sunoo wasn’t sure why he looked at Sunghoon first and he isn’t sure why he feels a bit hurt when he notices him on his phone instead. Sunoo turns to look at Ni-ki, sending him a smile before answering. “Sure, let’s go.” 

Sunoo doesn’t bother to say bye to Sunghoon, leaving him alone as Sunoo takes Ni-ki’s hand and lets the boy lead him through the crowd. 

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Sunghoon waits and waits.

He continues to wait by himself on the couch, hoping that Sunoo would turn back around and keep him company again, but Sunoo never does. Instead, Sunoo’s walking hand in hand with Ni-ki, making their way outside where the pretty lights decorated the backyard.

Sunghoon wasn’t someone who gets upset easily over little things like that, the most he would do is “shrug it off” because life is too short to be upset over someone. 

This is Park Sunghoon we are talking about, the one who can get with anyone if he wants to. 

Anyone, but Kim Sunoo. 

Sunghoon sits there for a moment, eyeing Sunoo from a distance as the boy giggles behind his stupid sweater paws at whatever Ni-ki had just whispered in his ear, pulling Sunoo closer by the waist. 

He was uncertain at how he felt at that moment, but he knew that sadness was an understatement. 

Perhaps frustrated? disappointed? annoyed?  

Definitely all three the second he sees Ni-ki’s hand on Sunoo’s thigh once they were seated on one of the chairs outside. Sunghoon frowns at that, trying his best to keep his cool because he had no reason to be jealous, Sunoo was never his to begin with and Sunoo has made it clear before that they were just “friends.” 

“Friends my ass.” Sunghoon scoffs, rolling his eyes at the two despite the strange stinging pain in his chest. 

Sunghoon gets up from the couch, ignoring the girl who sat beside him to try and make conversation with him. Sunghoon wasn’t in the mood for any of that, he just knew that he needed a fucking drink and fast. 

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“You’re the most gorgeous girl ever, I would literally fight a kangaroo just to have a glimpse of your face every second, I'm serious.” 

“I know that already.” Karina giggles as Heeseung attacks her with small kisses on her cheek. “You remind me every five minutes, babe.” 

Karina was sitting on a counter with Heeseung in between her legs, hugging her waist as he continued to sloppily give her soft pecks on her face. Drunk Heeseung whenever Karina was around is a sight to see, he’s just so foolishly in love with her, clinging on to her like a small puppy and all she could really do is play with his hair and indulge in his corny compliments. 

Jay on the other hand, ignored the couple next to him as he leaned on the counter and watched everyone’s Instagram stories— More like trying to see what Jungwon was doing. 

With Heeseung’s attention on Karina and Jay on his phone looking up sad quotes to put on his story, Karina notices Sunghoon marching his way into the kitchen with clenched fists. Without a second thought, Karina shoves Heeseung away and jumps off from the counter, ignoring the cute whines coming out of Heeseung. 

“What’s up?” Jay asks once he notices Karina on her feet. 

“I found Sunghoon.” She says before walking towards Sunghoon. 

“What do you want?” Sunghoon says with annoyance in his voice, not sparing Karina a glance as he pours tequila in a shot glass. 

Karina crosses her arms against her chest as she watches Sunghoon down the shot in one go with no chaser, she sighs when she sees him pouring more in his glass clumsily. “We were looking for you all night.” 

Sunghoon laughs drily. “Okay? You found me, good job.” He takes the shot again, making a face as the tequila stings the inside of his throat. 

“We were worried for you, Sunghoon.” 

“Dude, you’re not my fucking mom.” He snaps at Karina, grabbing the bottle with him as he walks away from her. 

Heeseung sobers up upon hearing that, following Sunghoon with angry steps. “Watch who you are talking to like that, what’s your fucking issue?” Heeseung shouts as he grabs Sunghoon’s arm to stop him from walking. 

“Tell your fucking girlfriend to mind her business!” 

“Asshole, she fucking cares about you.” 

“Cares?!” Sunghoon was on the verge of tears, his breathing getting heavier by the second. “I was sitting on that damn couch by myself this whole time while all of y’all left me, no one fucking cares about me!” 

Karina and Jay came to stand next to Heeseung. 

“Hey hey, calm down dude.” Jay steps in, standing right in between Heeseung and Sunghoon. “How much did you drink tonight, Hoon?”  He turns to look at his best friend calmly, it was rare to see Sunghoon pissed off that even Jay wasn’t sure on how to approach him. 

Sunghoon shrugs. “I don’t know, maybe two or three beer bottles and like five shots.” 

“Okay, well I think you should stop because you’re only getting angrier the more you drink.” Jay says as calmly as he could, something was upsetting Sunghoon and it was worrying him. 

“Maybe we should call Sunoo, so we can leave.” Karina says softly, gesturing to Jay to call Sunoo, but Sunghoon lets out an irritated groan. 

“Don’t call him, he’s probably fucking making out with that guy, I don’t fucking know.” Sunghoon says as he takes a sip out of the tequila bottle. “Can you guys just leave me alone? I just want to drink so I can… forget about him.” He says the last part with so much sadness, throwing his head back so tears wouldn’t fall because Park Sunghoon doesn’t cry over stupid shit like this. 

“Sunghoon..” Karina whispers softly. 

Suddenly, a laugh escapes Sunghoon’s lips, so heavy with sarcasm that it was almost palpable. “You know what’s funny?” Sunghoon starts off after taking another long sip of alcohol. “He kisses me first, but he tells me that we are just friends, but he’s probably kissing that Ni-ki guy and not telling him a fucking thing like he did to me.”

Sunghoon shoves past his friends right after.

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Sunoo is thankful that the soft music playing outside is somewhat a distraction of his dwelling thoughts about Sunghoon, he shakes his head whenever his mind drifts to Sunghoon again and how the older male is acting strange tonight. 

He looks down at his lap as he plays with the half empty cup that Ni-ki had gotten for him earlier and tunes out the conversation that Ni-ki’s friends were having as they passed the blunt around. 

“Are you okay?” Ni-ki turns his body around to face Sunoo, leaning just enough for their knees to bump. 

Sunoo shakes his head with a soft smile. “Yeah, I’m just thinking.” 

Ni-ki nods at that, leaning back into his chair as he takes another sip of his canned beer. “Are you thinking about your little boyfriend?” Ni-ki asks, ignoring his friends who were still on the same boring topic that they were on twenty minutes ago. 

Ni-ki would much rather pay attention to the pretty boy sitting on his left. 

“What?” Sunoo laughs awkwardly as he holds his red cup up to his lips. “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” He mumbles over the rim of his cup as he avoids Ni-ki’s burning gaze on him. 

“Sunghoon, aren’t you guys dating?” Ni-ki smirks once he sees Sunoo tense up. 

“We aren’t dating,” Sunoo says simply as he turns to face Ni-ki. “He’s just a close friend, why would I be sitting with you if I was dating Sunghoon?” 

Ni-ki raises an eyebrow, he leans close and that’s how Ni-ki notices the pretty flushed cheeks on Sunoo’s face and the big pouty lips that keeps Ni-ki wondering how soft they must feel.