Hanging By a Moment - 4 of 4
Jongdae moans low in his throat as he is awakened by sensuous wet heat wrapped around his hard cock. His hands reach up to grip the vertical slats of the headboard as his hips involuntarily thrust, pushing more of his length between the swollen, pink lips of his mate. “Oh God, yesssss!” he hisses, lowering his hands to slide his fingers through soft blond hair.
Releasing his cock with a lewd pop, Sehun looks up at him through long, dark lashes with a wicked smile on his lips. “Actually, it's Oh Sehun, not Oh God, but I'll answer to both.” He slides one hand down Jongdae's saliva-slicked length, followed by the other hand, alternating them over and over, giving his mate the sensation of fucking through a hot, never-ending tunnel. As his knot begins to swell, the younger boy concentrates his attention on the enlarging base, massaging it with both hands as he sucks just the head of Jongdae's cock back through the tight circle of his puckered lips. His cheeks hollow, and he swirls his tongue around the slit, as his mate tosses his head against the pillow and groans an unintelligible litany of just how amazing it feels.
“Gonna come,” he warns just before he explodes into his mate's mouth. Sehun sucks at the head, drinking down every drop of fluid, then licking his lips as he crawls up Jongdae's panting body.
“You have my permission to wake me like that every morning for the rest of our lives,” Jongdae exhales, his grin stretching across his face as he covers his eyes with the back of his right hand.
“You taste good,” Sehun smiles, grabbing Jongdae's hand with his own and pulling it away from his eyes to intertwine their fingers and hold both of their hands against his chest. “You smell good, too. Hell, I even like your morning breath, how fucked up is that?”
Jongdae laughs breathlessly, his eyes sparkling as they look into the younger boy's dark brown eyes. “Must be the mate thing. I'm pretty much addicted to everything about you.” He squeezes Sehun's hand before releasing it to wrap his arms around shoulders, pulling him closer to nuzzle the bruised, but healed skin of his mark.
“Yeah, I guess so,” Sehun chuckles, pressing light kisses to his own mark on Jongdae's shoulder. “I always thought it was all a bunch of bullshit, really.”
“Yeah?” Jongdae pulls back to look at his mate's face. “I've been there when my friends found their mates, so I knew it was real, but I didn't know it was this...I don't know, powerful? I knew there'd be some instant connection and shit, but it's like I don't even know you, but I know you. And I want to keep knowing you forever!”
The smile that spreads across Sehun's face is nearly blinding, and he feels like he could burst with happiness at any moment. “I feel the same way, so you're stuck with me.” He closes the short distance between them and kisses Jongdae, smiling into the kiss. When he pulls back, the brown-haired boy is grinning back at him.
“I can't believe I didn't want to come to the party last night,” he chuckles. “If my friends hadn't dragged me here, how much longer would we have had to wait for this?”
“Wow, I don't know,” Sehun breathes, his eyebrows raising in surprise. “You didn't want to be here?”
“No, actually,” Jongdae says quietly. “I kind of fought them tooth and nail, but Kris and Chanyeol forced me. I've been really depressed the past few weeks, thinking I'd never find you. They accused me of being a hermit, and said I needed to get laid.”
Sehun chuckles, “I'm kinda in the same boat. You know the guy I was dancing with? Jongin?”
“Yeah.”
“I should tell you now, upfront,” he sighs, looking anywhere but at Jongdae. “I've been in love with him for as long as I can remember. We've always been together, we're home pack, not uni. Thought we'd grow up to be mates, but then nothing happened when we both came of age,” the blond boy shrugs one shoulder. “We thought everyone had exaggerated the whole finding your mate thing, that we'd just been together so long that it didn't affect us the same or something. Then he met Kyungsoo and moved out of our dorm room. Any TKE brother that mates automatically gets to move their mate in with them. So I've been pretty pathetic ever since he left.”
“How long has it been?” Jongdae asks, softly stroking blond hair from his mate's forehead.
“Almost a year. Kyungsoo came to a dance thing we were in, and when the whole “call of the wild” hit him, he rushed the stage and jumped on Jongin. It's pretty funny, now,” he smiles. “But I'd been pretty down, lately, too. Lonely. Jongin persuaded me to pledge this year so we can see each other more. We're still best friends, ya know? I was planning to move in here, but now what?”
“Guess that's something we need to figure out, where we're gonna live,” Jongdae sighs. “I don't want to be away from you. And honestly, I'm not sure I'm all that excited about you living with Jongin. I'm usually not the jealous type at all, but I don't want to share you. I hope that's okay.”
“That's totally okay,” Sehun smiles, leaning in to press his lips to Jongdae's once again. The brown-haired boy opens his mouth to allow Sehun's tongue inside, and he rolls them so that he is on top of his mate. They jump apart when someone pounds at the door.
“I'm coming in whether you're decent or not!” a voice yells as a key is inserted into the lock. The door swings open, and Jongin is standing there with a huge grin on his face.
“Oh my God, who are you, Beetlejuice? Did I say your name one too many times?” Sehun shouts, pulling the sheets up to their shoulders. “Go away!”
“Shut up, it's my room!” Jongin walks into the room and reaches up to grab the errant sock still dangling from the ceiling fan, and throws it at the blond boy.
“Yeah, but we aren't done with it!” Sehun whines, wrapping his arms possessively around Jongdae and shielding him with his larger body.
Jongin strides across the room to stand by the side of the bed, and laughs as he looks down at the two boys. “Oh my god, you doofus, I'm not going to take him from you! Could you at least introduce us?”
Sehun rolls his eyes at his best friend, but moves away from Jongdae just enough to let him breathe, but still close enough to keep his arms wrapped loosely around him. “This is Jongin,” he says to Jongdae. “He's a dance major, minoring in education, he's a sophomore just like me, and he works at a burger joint.” Looking up at Jongin he continues, “This is my mate, Jongdae, and he's fucking awesome in bed. That's about all I know about him.”
Jongin frowns at the blushing Jongdae, who takes his cue to fill in some of the blanks. “I'm a double major in music and mass comm, and I'll graduate in the spring.”
“And what do you plan to do after grad?” Jongin grills him, crossing his arms across his chest. “Do you have a job lined up yet? Will you be able to take care of Sehunnie? Are you staying around here, or moving away? I won't let you take him away, you know,” he growls menacingly, looming over the boys in the bed.
“Oh my God, stop!” Sehun whines and slaps at Jongin's knee repeatedly. “We haven't even talked all that stuff out!”
“Should I be afraid of him?” Jongdae asks Sehun with wide eyes, pulling the sheet up just a little farther under his chin.
“Of Jongin?” the blond boy snorts. “No way! He wouldn't hurt a fly! His idea of going on a hunt is the meat department at Wal-Mart.”
“Hey!” Jongin pouts, “just 'cause I don't want to kill cute, fuzzy animals doesn't mean I can't protect my bro!”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah,” Sehun waves his hand dismissively, looking pointedly at Jongdae. “Be mean to me, and he'll throw a plushie at you.”
Jongin smiles, his countenance changing immediately from scary adult wolf to that of an enthusiastic puppy. “Okay, yeah. Whatever,” he smiles, showing all of his perfect white teeth, and his eyes disappearing into happy crescents. “Just get up and come out for breakfast. It should be here in about half an hour.” He turns and wags his fingers in a friendly wave over his shoulder before shutting the door behind him.
“Well, that was a first,” Sehun says with a small smile, pulling Jongdae back into his arms and kissing him softly.
“What was?” the older boy purrs into the kiss.
“Jongin was here, and I felt nothing for him. My heart didn't flip once. Not one butterfly in my stomach.” His smile spreads across his face. “I thought I was in love with him for like my whole life, but I guess I'm finally over him. It's all you, now. This is real, isn't it?”
“Yeah,” Jongdae responds, emotions shining in his eyes. “Yeah, it is real. And we've got half an hour before we have to go out there. Let me show you again how fucking awesome I am in bed.”
~*~
“I think I'm the lucky bastard, here,” Sehun pants as he comes down from his orgasmic high, his arms flung wide against the mattress as Jongdae climbs slowly up his body, licking semen off of his belly and chest with the most erotic noises the blond has ever heard.
“Let's just agree that we're both lucky,” Jongdae whispers, tracing his tongue around the curves of Sehun's ear, making him shiver. He mouths kisses across the younger boy's cheek, who groans and turns his head away.
“I love you and everything,” he says as Jongdae pulls back to look at him with a slightly hurt expression, “but your tongue was just in my ass, so don't even think about putting it in my mouth until you've brushed your teeth!”
Jongdae laughs and rolls off of Sehun, and stands at the side of the bed offering his hand to pull him to his feet. “Okay, we should be getting ready to face whoever is out there, anyway. I think our half hour is up.”
After cleaning up and rinsing with mouthwash - because ew, not going to use someone else's toothbrush! - the mates dress slowly, spending as much time kissing and caressing one another as they can before someone else comes to drag them out of the room.
They approach the pit with their arms wrapped around one another like a four-legged, two-headed creature, to find the area that was empty the night before full of snuggling wolf hybrids. It's hard to tell where one person ends and another begins in the mass of legs and arms and pillows.
Yifan and Jongin are both lying on their sides facing one another, Yifan's large hand scratching at the top of the younger boy's head, running his fingers through his dark hair as they talk, with their legs tangled together. Kyungsoo is draped over his mate's hip, joining in the conversation with a lazy smile. Behind Yifan, Chanyeol is sandwiched between Tao and Minseok, sitting with his back propped up on a pile of pillows. His arms are wrapped around Tao, whose right arm is coiled around Chanyeol's waist, and his left hand holding Minseok's right hand, both resting on Chanyeol's belly. The oldest wolf in the pile is lying with his head on Chanyeol's shoulder, gazing up at Tao who is telling his two cuddle buddies a story. Joonmyun listens quietly to Tao's story as his own mate, Baekhyun, lies on his chest, sound asleep.
“It's a wolf pile!” Jongdae gasps. “Can we cuddle, too?”
The mass of bodies erupts into laughter as they notice the two mates, and they all begin to stand up to pull the boys into their midst. Jongin is the first to get to his feet, dragging both Sehun and Jongdae into the pit with a hug that quickly grows as each of the other wolves pile onto it. Bouncing together on the futon-style mattress, all wrapped up in a ten-way hug, someone loses his footing and they all tumble down to the soft floor of the hexagon together.
“Cuddle puddle!” Chanyeol yells, as they all shift into comfortable spots on top of one another.
The smell of coffee and sausage suddenly fills the noses of the hungry wolves, and they look up to see newcomers bearing large bags of breakfast sandwiches and totes of take-out coffee.
“Yixing! Luhan!” Jongdae shouts, struggling out of the pile to greet his friends. “What are you doing here?” He leans back toward the pile of bodies to pull his mate up with him.
“Yifan texted us, and demanded that we bring breakfast to celebrate two new sets of mates,” Yixing responds, setting the coffee totes on a nearby table to take Jongdae into his arms in a bear hug. “Congratulations! It's about time!”
Luhan puts down the bags of food on another table, and similarly grabs Sehun in a hug. “You must be Sehun, welcome to the family! Yifan told us nothing about you!”
The boys trade hug partners as the rest of the wolves file up from the pit to welcome Yixing and Luhan. Jongdae finds the paper plates and Styrofoam cups that had been set up earlier, and begins pouring coffee. “Wait!” he says, putting down the cup he had just filled. “What do you mean two new sets of mates?”
He looks around all the faces in the crowd, and his eyes land on Tao. The blond boy raises one fist to his cheek, and tilts it forward and back. “Buing, buing?” he says, pulling the oldest wolf to his side.
Minseok wraps his arms around his taller mate. “Apparently, all the pheromones in the room last night triggered Taozi to come of age. He hadn't, yet.”
“You should have seen it!” Chanyeol bounces on his toes. “These two were just standing there talking about you guys, and all of a sudden Tao's eyes turned bright green! The next thing we knew, they were making out, and then they ran up the stairs and we didn't see them again until just a little while ago!”
“Oh my God, that's so amazing!” Jongdae smiles, pulling both of his uni-pack mates in for a hug. “This was the best night, ever!”
~*~
The 12 boys finally gather around the tables, settling down to eat and catch up with each other, when Joonmyun clears his throat. “The six of us who were here in the pit last night have something we want to discuss with the six of you who weren't,” he begins. “The 12 of us have been divided into two packs of six up until this point, but we'd like to change that. From now on, unless any of you object, we are one.”
Cheers go up all around the room, with everyone agreeing with raised coffee cups. Yifan stands up, raising his large hand to silence the rowdy bunch. “Wait! There's more!” he says with his gummy smile spread across his face. “Go on, Joonmyun!”
“Yes, thank you, Yifan,” Joonmyun grins. He takes Baekhyun's hand and pulls him to his feet beside him. “As most of you know, this is my mate, Baekhyun. Our family is in real estate and construction. Our company built this house, and we are also in the process of building the new luxury apartment complex, EXO Suites, about a mile down the forest line.”
Baekhyun continues enthusiastically, “The first building is almost done, and we'll be moving into our apartment next week! The buildings are hexagonal, and have three apartments and a common area almost identical to this one on each floor. And the apartments are awesome! Huge kitchens, walk in closets, two big bedrooms, you wouldn't believe the bathrooms!”
Joonmyun laughs at his mate, squeezing his hand to calm him down. “What we mean to say is, we'd like to have everyone move into the building with us. We own the building, and won't charge any of you rent, you'll just have to pay utilities. The six of us,” he gestures to himself and his mate, Yifan, Chanyeol, Jongin, and Kyungsoo, “have all talked this out, and we all agree that we'd like to do this. What do you guys think?”
Jongdae looks at Sehun, “What do you think? It would be the perfect solution to our living arrangements. We'd still be with our friends, but have our own space.”
“Yeah,” Sehun grins, “It sounds perfect!” He turns to Joonmyun and asks, “But what do we do about getting out of our dorms and apartments?”
“My dad works in residential life at uni, and I've already talked to him about it this morning,” Kyungsoo offers. “He'll take care of you guys getting out of the dorms.”
“And the complex that we live in and the complex that you two live in,” Yifan motions toward Yixing and Luhan, “are both owned by KimCo, too, so we don't have to worry about getting out of our leases.”
“What about you guys who live here, though?” Jongdae asks, looking from Kyungsoo to Jongin to Minseok. “Can you move out of the TKE house?”
“Sure,” Jongin smiles. “We can be Tekes without living in the house. And we've got a ton of pledges this year - more than we actually have room for - so if the three of us leave, that will free up two extra rooms.”
“Yixing? Luhan? What about you guys? You weren't here last night for all the bonding that we've done, but I promise you'll love the new guys,” Yifan says, looking at the two newcomers.
The mates look at one another and grin. “Sure, why not?” Luhan answers.
“Sounds like fun!” Yixing agrees.
“Ok, that leaves Minseok and Taozi,” Chanyeol grins, batting his eyelashes in their direction. “Come on, you know you wanna live with us!”
Tao bounces up and down in his seat, before flinging himself onto his mate. “Please, Seokkie? Can we?”
Chanyeol drops onto his knees on the floor, and shuffles to Minseok with his hands clasped under his chin. “Pleeeeease, Seokkie?”
The oldest boy rolls his eyes. “Is this what I'm going to have to live with for the rest of my life?” He ruffles his hand in his mate's blond hair, before laying that hand on Chanyeol's shoulder and pushing him over to the floor with an “oof!”
“Yes, but you love me, right?” Tao says, this time putting both fists next to his cheeks in adorable aegyo.
Minseok sighs, “Of course I do, and yes, we can move in with everyone. I think it will be fun, too.”
“Then it's settled!” Baekhyun crows. “We are one!”
“We are one!” shouts the rest of the room.
Sehun pulls Jongdae onto his lap, and wraps him up in a hug, sighing against the mark on his mate's neck. “Well, that's solved. We can start our lives together soon. But what about until we can move in?”
“I've lived with Yifan and Chanyeol fucking in every room, on every surface for the past year. They can deal with us doing it for a week,” Jongdae replies with a smirk. “I think we should go start christening the apartment, now. What do you say?”
Sehun looks back at him with a wicked grin. “Yehet!”
~*~
A/N It's done! Thank you for reading!! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
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Releasing his cock with a lewd pop, Sehun looks up at him through long, dark lashes with a wicked smile on his lips. “Actually, it's Oh Sehun, not Oh God, but I'll answer to both.” He slides one hand down Jongdae's saliva-slicked length, followed by the other hand, alternating them over and over, giving his mate the sensation of fucking through a hot, never-ending tunnel. As his knot begins to swell, the younger boy concentrates his attention on the enlarging base, massaging it with both hands as he sucks just the head of Jongdae's cock back through the tight circle of his puckered lips. His cheeks hollow, and he swirls his tongue around the slit, as his mate tosses his head against the pillow and groans an unintelligible litany of just how amazing it feels.
“Gonna come,” he warns just before he explodes into his mate's mouth. Sehun sucks at the head, drinking down every drop of fluid, then licking his lips as he crawls up Jongdae's panting body.
“You have my permission to wake me like that every morning for the rest of our lives,” Jongdae exhales, his grin stretching across his face as he covers his eyes with the back of his right hand.
“You taste good,” Sehun smiles, grabbing Jongdae's hand with his own and pulling it away from his eyes to intertwine their fingers and hold both of their hands against his chest. “You smell good, too. Hell, I even like your morning breath, how fucked up is that?”
Jongdae laughs breathlessly, his eyes sparkling as they look into the younger boy's dark brown eyes. “Must be the mate thing. I'm pretty much addicted to everything about you.” He squeezes Sehun's hand before releasing it to wrap his arms around shoulders, pulling him closer to nuzzle the bruised, but healed skin of his mark.
“Yeah, I guess so,” Sehun chuckles, pressing light kisses to his own mark on Jongdae's shoulder. “I always thought it was all a bunch of bullshit, really.”
“Yeah?” Jongdae pulls back to look at his mate's face. “I've been there when my friends found their mates, so I knew it was real, but I didn't know it was this...I don't know, powerful? I knew there'd be some instant connection and shit, but it's like I don't even know you, but I know you. And I want to keep knowing you forever!”
The smile that spreads across Sehun's face is nearly blinding, and he feels like he could burst with happiness at any moment. “I feel the same way, so you're stuck with me.” He closes the short distance between them and kisses Jongdae, smiling into the kiss. When he pulls back, the brown-haired boy is grinning back at him.
“I can't believe I didn't want to come to the party last night,” he chuckles. “If my friends hadn't dragged me here, how much longer would we have had to wait for this?”
“Wow, I don't know,” Sehun breathes, his eyebrows raising in surprise. “You didn't want to be here?”
“No, actually,” Jongdae says quietly. “I kind of fought them tooth and nail, but Kris and Chanyeol forced me. I've been really depressed the past few weeks, thinking I'd never find you. They accused me of being a hermit, and said I needed to get laid.”
Sehun chuckles, “I'm kinda in the same boat. You know the guy I was dancing with? Jongin?”
“Yeah.”
“I should tell you now, upfront,” he sighs, looking anywhere but at Jongdae. “I've been in love with him for as long as I can remember. We've always been together, we're home pack, not uni. Thought we'd grow up to be mates, but then nothing happened when we both came of age,” the blond boy shrugs one shoulder. “We thought everyone had exaggerated the whole finding your mate thing, that we'd just been together so long that it didn't affect us the same or something. Then he met Kyungsoo and moved out of our dorm room. Any TKE brother that mates automatically gets to move their mate in with them. So I've been pretty pathetic ever since he left.”
“How long has it been?” Jongdae asks, softly stroking blond hair from his mate's forehead.
“Almost a year. Kyungsoo came to a dance thing we were in, and when the whole “call of the wild” hit him, he rushed the stage and jumped on Jongin. It's pretty funny, now,” he smiles. “But I'd been pretty down, lately, too. Lonely. Jongin persuaded me to pledge this year so we can see each other more. We're still best friends, ya know? I was planning to move in here, but now what?”
“Guess that's something we need to figure out, where we're gonna live,” Jongdae sighs. “I don't want to be away from you. And honestly, I'm not sure I'm all that excited about you living with Jongin. I'm usually not the jealous type at all, but I don't want to share you. I hope that's okay.”
“That's totally okay,” Sehun smiles, leaning in to press his lips to Jongdae's once again. The brown-haired boy opens his mouth to allow Sehun's tongue inside, and he rolls them so that he is on top of his mate. They jump apart when someone pounds at the door.
“I'm coming in whether you're decent or not!” a voice yells as a key is inserted into the lock. The door swings open, and Jongin is standing there with a huge grin on his face.
“Oh my God, who are you, Beetlejuice? Did I say your name one too many times?” Sehun shouts, pulling the sheets up to their shoulders. “Go away!”
“Shut up, it's my room!” Jongin walks into the room and reaches up to grab the errant sock still dangling from the ceiling fan, and throws it at the blond boy.
“Yeah, but we aren't done with it!” Sehun whines, wrapping his arms possessively around Jongdae and shielding him with his larger body.
Jongin strides across the room to stand by the side of the bed, and laughs as he looks down at the two boys. “Oh my god, you doofus, I'm not going to take him from you! Could you at least introduce us?”
Sehun rolls his eyes at his best friend, but moves away from Jongdae just enough to let him breathe, but still close enough to keep his arms wrapped loosely around him. “This is Jongin,” he says to Jongdae. “He's a dance major, minoring in education, he's a sophomore just like me, and he works at a burger joint.” Looking up at Jongin he continues, “This is my mate, Jongdae, and he's fucking awesome in bed. That's about all I know about him.”
Jongin frowns at the blushing Jongdae, who takes his cue to fill in some of the blanks. “I'm a double major in music and mass comm, and I'll graduate in the spring.”
“And what do you plan to do after grad?” Jongin grills him, crossing his arms across his chest. “Do you have a job lined up yet? Will you be able to take care of Sehunnie? Are you staying around here, or moving away? I won't let you take him away, you know,” he growls menacingly, looming over the boys in the bed.
“Oh my God, stop!” Sehun whines and slaps at Jongin's knee repeatedly. “We haven't even talked all that stuff out!”
“Should I be afraid of him?” Jongdae asks Sehun with wide eyes, pulling the sheet up just a little farther under his chin.
“Of Jongin?” the blond boy snorts. “No way! He wouldn't hurt a fly! His idea of going on a hunt is the meat department at Wal-Mart.”
“Hey!” Jongin pouts, “just 'cause I don't want to kill cute, fuzzy animals doesn't mean I can't protect my bro!”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah,” Sehun waves his hand dismissively, looking pointedly at Jongdae. “Be mean to me, and he'll throw a plushie at you.”
Jongin smiles, his countenance changing immediately from scary adult wolf to that of an enthusiastic puppy. “Okay, yeah. Whatever,” he smiles, showing all of his perfect white teeth, and his eyes disappearing into happy crescents. “Just get up and come out for breakfast. It should be here in about half an hour.” He turns and wags his fingers in a friendly wave over his shoulder before shutting the door behind him.
“Well, that was a first,” Sehun says with a small smile, pulling Jongdae back into his arms and kissing him softly.
“What was?” the older boy purrs into the kiss.
“Jongin was here, and I felt nothing for him. My heart didn't flip once. Not one butterfly in my stomach.” His smile spreads across his face. “I thought I was in love with him for like my whole life, but I guess I'm finally over him. It's all you, now. This is real, isn't it?”
“Yeah,” Jongdae responds, emotions shining in his eyes. “Yeah, it is real. And we've got half an hour before we have to go out there. Let me show you again how fucking awesome I am in bed.”
~*~
“I think I'm the lucky bastard, here,” Sehun pants as he comes down from his orgasmic high, his arms flung wide against the mattress as Jongdae climbs slowly up his body, licking semen off of his belly and chest with the most erotic noises the blond has ever heard.
“Let's just agree that we're both lucky,” Jongdae whispers, tracing his tongue around the curves of Sehun's ear, making him shiver. He mouths kisses across the younger boy's cheek, who groans and turns his head away.
“I love you and everything,” he says as Jongdae pulls back to look at him with a slightly hurt expression, “but your tongue was just in my ass, so don't even think about putting it in my mouth until you've brushed your teeth!”
Jongdae laughs and rolls off of Sehun, and stands at the side of the bed offering his hand to pull him to his feet. “Okay, we should be getting ready to face whoever is out there, anyway. I think our half hour is up.”
After cleaning up and rinsing with mouthwash - because ew, not going to use someone else's toothbrush! - the mates dress slowly, spending as much time kissing and caressing one another as they can before someone else comes to drag them out of the room.
They approach the pit with their arms wrapped around one another like a four-legged, two-headed creature, to find the area that was empty the night before full of snuggling wolf hybrids. It's hard to tell where one person ends and another begins in the mass of legs and arms and pillows.
Yifan and Jongin are both lying on their sides facing one another, Yifan's large hand scratching at the top of the younger boy's head, running his fingers through his dark hair as they talk, with their legs tangled together. Kyungsoo is draped over his mate's hip, joining in the conversation with a lazy smile. Behind Yifan, Chanyeol is sandwiched between Tao and Minseok, sitting with his back propped up on a pile of pillows. His arms are wrapped around Tao, whose right arm is coiled around Chanyeol's waist, and his left hand holding Minseok's right hand, both resting on Chanyeol's belly. The oldest wolf in the pile is lying with his head on Chanyeol's shoulder, gazing up at Tao who is telling his two cuddle buddies a story. Joonmyun listens quietly to Tao's story as his own mate, Baekhyun, lies on his chest, sound asleep.
“It's a wolf pile!” Jongdae gasps. “Can we cuddle, too?”
The mass of bodies erupts into laughter as they notice the two mates, and they all begin to stand up to pull the boys into their midst. Jongin is the first to get to his feet, dragging both Sehun and Jongdae into the pit with a hug that quickly grows as each of the other wolves pile onto it. Bouncing together on the futon-style mattress, all wrapped up in a ten-way hug, someone loses his footing and they all tumble down to the soft floor of the hexagon together.
“Cuddle puddle!” Chanyeol yells, as they all shift into comfortable spots on top of one another.
The smell of coffee and sausage suddenly fills the noses of the hungry wolves, and they look up to see newcomers bearing large bags of breakfast sandwiches and totes of take-out coffee.
“Yixing! Luhan!” Jongdae shouts, struggling out of the pile to greet his friends. “What are you doing here?” He leans back toward the pile of bodies to pull his mate up with him.
“Yifan texted us, and demanded that we bring breakfast to celebrate two new sets of mates,” Yixing responds, setting the coffee totes on a nearby table to take Jongdae into his arms in a bear hug. “Congratulations! It's about time!”
Luhan puts down the bags of food on another table, and similarly grabs Sehun in a hug. “You must be Sehun, welcome to the family! Yifan told us nothing about you!”
The boys trade hug partners as the rest of the wolves file up from the pit to welcome Yixing and Luhan. Jongdae finds the paper plates and Styrofoam cups that had been set up earlier, and begins pouring coffee. “Wait!” he says, putting down the cup he had just filled. “What do you mean two new sets of mates?”
He looks around all the faces in the crowd, and his eyes land on Tao. The blond boy raises one fist to his cheek, and tilts it forward and back. “Buing, buing?” he says, pulling the oldest wolf to his side.
Minseok wraps his arms around his taller mate. “Apparently, all the pheromones in the room last night triggered Taozi to come of age. He hadn't, yet.”
“You should have seen it!” Chanyeol bounces on his toes. “These two were just standing there talking about you guys, and all of a sudden Tao's eyes turned bright green! The next thing we knew, they were making out, and then they ran up the stairs and we didn't see them again until just a little while ago!”
“Oh my God, that's so amazing!” Jongdae smiles, pulling both of his uni-pack mates in for a hug. “This was the best night, ever!”
~*~
The 12 boys finally gather around the tables, settling down to eat and catch up with each other, when Joonmyun clears his throat. “The six of us who were here in the pit last night have something we want to discuss with the six of you who weren't,” he begins. “The 12 of us have been divided into two packs of six up until this point, but we'd like to change that. From now on, unless any of you object, we are one.”
Cheers go up all around the room, with everyone agreeing with raised coffee cups. Yifan stands up, raising his large hand to silence the rowdy bunch. “Wait! There's more!” he says with his gummy smile spread across his face. “Go on, Joonmyun!”
“Yes, thank you, Yifan,” Joonmyun grins. He takes Baekhyun's hand and pulls him to his feet beside him. “As most of you know, this is my mate, Baekhyun. Our family is in real estate and construction. Our company built this house, and we are also in the process of building the new luxury apartment complex, EXO Suites, about a mile down the forest line.”
Baekhyun continues enthusiastically, “The first building is almost done, and we'll be moving into our apartment next week! The buildings are hexagonal, and have three apartments and a common area almost identical to this one on each floor. And the apartments are awesome! Huge kitchens, walk in closets, two big bedrooms, you wouldn't believe the bathrooms!”
Joonmyun laughs at his mate, squeezing his hand to calm him down. “What we mean to say is, we'd like to have everyone move into the building with us. We own the building, and won't charge any of you rent, you'll just have to pay utilities. The six of us,” he gestures to himself and his mate, Yifan, Chanyeol, Jongin, and Kyungsoo, “have all talked this out, and we all agree that we'd like to do this. What do you guys think?”
Jongdae looks at Sehun, “What do you think? It would be the perfect solution to our living arrangements. We'd still be with our friends, but have our own space.”
“Yeah,” Sehun grins, “It sounds perfect!” He turns to Joonmyun and asks, “But what do we do about getting out of our dorms and apartments?”
“My dad works in residential life at uni, and I've already talked to him about it this morning,” Kyungsoo offers. “He'll take care of you guys getting out of the dorms.”
“And the complex that we live in and the complex that you two live in,” Yifan motions toward Yixing and Luhan, “are both owned by KimCo, too, so we don't have to worry about getting out of our leases.”
“What about you guys who live here, though?” Jongdae asks, looking from Kyungsoo to Jongin to Minseok. “Can you move out of the TKE house?”
“Sure,” Jongin smiles. “We can be Tekes without living in the house. And we've got a ton of pledges this year - more than we actually have room for - so if the three of us leave, that will free up two extra rooms.”
“Yixing? Luhan? What about you guys? You weren't here last night for all the bonding that we've done, but I promise you'll love the new guys,” Yifan says, looking at the two newcomers.
The mates look at one another and grin. “Sure, why not?” Luhan answers.
“Sounds like fun!” Yixing agrees.
“Ok, that leaves Minseok and Taozi,” Chanyeol grins, batting his eyelashes in their direction. “Come on, you know you wanna live with us!”
Tao bounces up and down in his seat, before flinging himself onto his mate. “Please, Seokkie? Can we?”
Chanyeol drops onto his knees on the floor, and shuffles to Minseok with his hands clasped under his chin. “Pleeeeease, Seokkie?”
The oldest boy rolls his eyes. “Is this what I'm going to have to live with for the rest of my life?” He ruffles his hand in his mate's blond hair, before laying that hand on Chanyeol's shoulder and pushing him over to the floor with an “oof!”
“Yes, but you love me, right?” Tao says, this time putting both fists next to his cheeks in adorable aegyo.
Minseok sighs, “Of course I do, and yes, we can move in with everyone. I think it will be fun, too.”
“Then it's settled!” Baekhyun crows. “We are one!”
“We are one!” shouts the rest of the room.
Sehun pulls Jongdae onto his lap, and wraps him up in a hug, sighing against the mark on his mate's neck. “Well, that's solved. We can start our lives together soon. But what about until we can move in?”
“I've lived with Yifan and Chanyeol fucking in every room, on every surface for the past year. They can deal with us doing it for a week,” Jongdae replies with a smirk. “I think we should go start christening the apartment, now. What do you say?”
Sehun looks back at him with a wicked grin. “Yehet!”
~*~
A/N It's done! Thank you for reading!! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
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