[fic: one-shot] Good night, sleep tight
Title: Good night, sleep tight
Type: One-shot
Word count: 2,107
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Yesung/Ryeowook (Super Junior)
Summary: One Super Junior member says he saw Ryeowook and Yesung sleeping together. The others are not so sure.
When Yesung got back to the dorm late that night Ryeowook thought he looked like shit, but he refrained from telling him so.
Yesung hadn’t returned with the others after their schedule wrapped up earlier in the evening, having had to make a stop at Handel and Gretel. He said he only needed to take care of some stuff at the café for a while. But a while turned into several hours, and it was only when Ryeowook was going to tuck in that Yesung showed up at the door of their room.
“Business is good?” asked Ryeowook.
Yesung nodded absently and slumped on his bed. Ryeowook knew Yesung had a huge sense of responsibility and made sure to check on his family’s café in the midst of his hectic timetable.
“Hyung,” Ryeowook said gently.
“Hm?”
“Your make up is still on.”
Yesung stared at Ryeowook blankly before turning to look at the mirror over his dresser. “Ah,” he muttered as his reflection looked back at him, dark eyeliner still framing his eyes. He got up and went to the bathroom.
Only the nightstand lights were still on when Yesung returned after a quick shower. Ryeowook yawned and said, “G’night,” turned off the lamp next to his bed and slipped under the covers. Yesung changed into an old t-shirt and boxers, but then he just sat on his bed without lying down.
“Hey, Ryeowook?” he called out after a moment.
Ryeowook opened his eyes. “Yes?”
Yesung got up and walked over, stopping next to Ryeowook’s bed. “Can I...” he paused, hesitant, “is it OK if I sleep here tonight?”
It took Ryeowook a while to process that “here” meant together in his bed. Yesung was known to be touchy-feely toward his group mates, but in all the years he and Ryeowook spent as roommates they had never slept in the same bed. Why he suddenly wanted to do so now, Ryeowook had no idea. He looked up at the older man standing there, looking haggard and pale in the dim light, but also almost childlike.
Yesung’s voice was soft when he added, “Please?”
Slowly, wordlessly, Ryeowook shifted a bit to make room for Yesung. The latter stayed still for a second, like he almost didn’t believe Ryeowook would grant his request, and he climbed into bed next to Ryeowook. There wasn’t much space for two grown men on the bed, so Yesung lay sideways.
“Thanks,” he mumbled. Ryeowook could feel his warm breath on his cheek.
Right before Ryeowook fell asleep he thought he felt Yesung’s arm across his waist. He remembered feeling remarkably comfortable.
***
Kyuhyun usually didn’t go up early, but he had awoken at 4 AM and couldn’t go back to sleep. He decided to pick up where he left off in his favorite online game, and three straight hours later he was still not sleepy at all. He did feel rather hungry, though.
He thought Ryeowook might have some food stashed in his room. If not, it wouldn’t be so hard to persuade the fellow to whip up a nice breakfast. With that reassuring thought, Kyuhyun sauntered over to Ryeowook’s room.
He knocked on the door lightly a few times but there was no answer. He tried turning the doorknob and couldn’t believe his luck; either Ryeowook or Yesung forgot to lock up last night. Kyuhyun pushed the door open and tiptoed inside, thinking that if Ryeowook was still asleep he could just grab whatever food he found and leave again quietly. Which was totally not stealing, because didn’t Leeteuk once say sharing among the group is caring?
What he saw in the room, however, made him stop dead in his tracks. Yesung’s bed that was nearer the door was empty. The guy that was supposed to be in it was in Ryeowook’s bed. With Ryeowook. With their arms around each other.
Kyuhyun tried to wrap his head around this concept. Yesung and Ryeowook, apparently much more intimate than he thought they were. His K.R.Y. partners, sleeping together. So all this time the three of them were singing love ballads, Yesung and Ryeowook actually took the lyrics to heart and were probably canoodling behind his back...
All this was too much for young, innocent Kyuhyun to handle that he decided he had to share the knowledge. He slipped out of the room, forgetting what he initially came there for.
***
"What do you mean they're sleeping together?" Sungmin said groggily, wiping his eyes.
"I mean they're sleeping together." Kyuhyun pulled the covers off Sungmin's bed. "Come on, see for yourself!"
A reluctant Sungmin was thus hauled by Kyuhyun to the scene of the incident, where they peeked in and found Ryeowook asleep in his bed, alone. Yesung's bed was empty, but the sound of running water can be heard from the bathroom.
Sungmin glared at Kyuhyun, who could only stammer, "But I saw it... they were there..."
"Whatever. I'm going back to sleep." Sungmin spun around and left a baffled Kyuhyun scratching his head.
***
"...so I woke up this morning to Kyuhyun shouting that Ryeowook and Yesung slept together," Sungmin said over lunch with Eunhyuk and Shindong.
Shindong choked on his fruit salad while Eunhyuk burst out laughing. "Seriously?" the latter asked.
Sungmin shrugged. "That's what he said."
After swallowing a particularly large slice of melon, Shindong said, "Sleeping together as in having sex?"
"I suppose."
Eunhyuk shook his head in awe. "They sure don't miss an opportunity, huh? Wait, I gotta tell Donghae about this." He flipped his phone open and typed a message.
***
"Did you hear?" Donghae asked Leeteuk when they met at the SM office.
"Hear what?"
"Yesung had sex with Ryeowook," Donghae said with an uncharacteristically dirty leer on his face.
Leeteuk's eyes nearly bulged out from their sockets. "What?! But, but... Ryeowook is just a kid!"
"He's over 21. Has been for a few years, actually."
"But it's impossible!" Leeteuk immediately dragged Donghae to the nearest unoccupied meeting room, demanding to know every detail about this secret liaison that allegedly occurred under his watch.
***
"Dude, no way," Siwon said.
"Way," Eunhyuk replied from the other end of the line.
"No way!" Speaking louder this time, Siwon surprised a few crew members standing near him on the set of Poseidon.
"Well, you know Yesung. He probably started by touching Ryeowook's lips and it went downhill from there." Eunhyuk chuckled at his own wit. "That was a pun, by the way."
***
[Excerpt from text messages]
How are things at camp?
It’s a lot of work, but I can manage. Any dorm gossip? I miss you rascals.
Well, it seems Yesung and Ryeowook had sex.
Man, why do all the exciting things happen when I’m gone?
***
The next time the group gathered for dance rehearsals, the members made sure to watch Ryeowook and Yesung surreptitiously, looking for signs of anything different from the norm. Some of them, like Leeteuk, were still a bit skeptical, while others, like Eunhyuk, were ready to witness in case Yesung and Ryeowook suddenly started making out in front of everyone. No such thing happened, though.
As several days passed the members did observe a few moments, but to be completely honest there weren't anything very extraordinary in them that the boys wondered whether they could be categorized as signs at all.
They saw, for example, how Ryeowook cooked a huge meal for everyone, which was nothing unusual in itself, but then he furtively slipped the largest pieces of meat to Yesung's plate.
They also watched the way Yesung very naturally placed an arm around Ryeowook's shoulder when they were sitting side by side. Nothing odd with that, really, but Ryeowook then leaned back, as if wanting to sink further into Yesung's embrace. Yesung's reaction was to softly rub Ryeowook's shoulder with his thumb.
They also saw how Yesung spent extra hours going through new sheet music with Ryeowook, which he would've gladly done for anyone in the group who wished to have more singing practice (he had said this while glancing pointedly at certain members who shall remain unnamed). The members watched how Yesung's face assumed a gentler expression during these sessions.
Eyebrows were raised collectively at these developments, but the members still had no solid proof.
That was because there were some things they didn't have the chance to see.
They didn't witness, for example, how Ryeowook and Yesung calmly went on with their little arrangement, Yesung instinctively going to Ryeowook's bed at night, and Ryeowook letting him.
The members also didn't see how Ryeowook arrived back at the dorm late one evening and saw Yesung already lying in his bed, reading a book. Ryeowook's face fell and he slunk quietly to his own bed, which suddenly seemed much too big for one person. But when Yesung closed his book and looked up expectantly, smiling as he said, "Come here," Ryeowook didn't spare a moment to think.
The members also weren't there to see when one night, Ryeowook propped his upper body with an elbow and faced Yesung, his gaze full of questions. "Hyung," he began, "are we..."
He paused, Yesung's hand on his waist going rigid, and the air around them frozen with anticipation. They exchanged uncertain glances, and Ryeowook mumbled, "Never mind." He lay down again, back into the comfort of Yesung's arms, despite the proverbial elephant still running in circles around the room.
Not being privy to these moments, the rest of Super Junior had little to go on aside from Kyuhyun’s testimony (“He’d probably been gaming too much and ended up hallucinating or something,” suggested Eunhyuk). So they decided they had to find concrete evidence.
***
“Watch it, Donghae- ow, that’s my foot!”
“Can you guys be quiet?”
“Sssshh!”
The members fell silent as they crowded at Ryeowook and Yesung’s door. Leeteuk, standing in front, very gently opened the door using a spare key he swiped from their manager (“Hm, locking the door this time... wonder what that means?” Shindong said before he was shushed by Sungmin). Leeteuk poked his head into the dim room, the others behind him following suit.
Once they got used to seeing with the help of the faint light from outside the window, it was clear that only one of the two beds in the room was occupied. On that bed lay Yesung and Ryeowook, fast asleep with their limbs tangled.
The boys stared at the two slumbering figures.
“...they’re just sleeping,” Donghae whispered.
“With their clothes on, too,” added Sungmin.
“They’re like babies,” Leeteuk gushed.
“So I left the drama set just for this?” Siwon said, disappointed.
“Sorry, but we had an unreliable source,” replied Eunhyuk.
“Hey!” Kyuhyun interjected. “I only said they were sleeping together. You guys were the ones who assumed the sex part.”
“All right, everyone, it’s enough. Let’s go before we wake them up,” said Leeteuk.
The members kept talking even as they left the room, wondering aloud whether sharing a bed with his roommate was just another one of Yesung’s bizarre habits.
***
The members were lucky, though, because they weren’t left in the dark for long. During costume fitting a few days later, Yesung had just put on a three-piece suit when Ryeowook went up to him saying, “Yesungie-hyung, your tie is crooked. Here, let me...”
He started fixing Yesung’s tie. The others watched as Yesung stood there with an odd look on his face, one that he usually had whenever he was going to say something totally out there. But this time he said nothing and instead bent forward and kissed Ryeowook’s lips.
Ryeowook was stunned at first, but it didn’t take long before he eased himself into the kiss and even started kissing Yesung back. The group went completely silent as they looked on - some even admired Ryeowook’s technique, never knowing he had it in him.
When they pulled apart Ryeowook said, “Does this mean...”
“We are,” Yesung said. “Well, at least I am.”
Ryeowook smiled and interlocked his fingers with Yesung’s. “Me too.”
“Goodness, they’re speaking in code,” said Eunhyuk.
Donghae cleared his throat. “So, um, guys, I don’t mean to pry, but you really have been sleeping together, haven’t you?”
Ryeowook’s face turned beet red and he murmured vague and half-hearted denials, but Yesung simply nodded, his embarrassed smile tinged with a hint of pride. Their nosy group mates proceeded to badger them with questions about the differences between spooning and having sex, and all the while the two just stood there holding hands.
One thing was for sure: they were going to sleep well tonight.
Type: One-shot
Word count: 2,107
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Yesung/Ryeowook (Super Junior)
Summary: One Super Junior member says he saw Ryeowook and Yesung sleeping together. The others are not so sure.
When Yesung got back to the dorm late that night Ryeowook thought he looked like shit, but he refrained from telling him so.
Yesung hadn’t returned with the others after their schedule wrapped up earlier in the evening, having had to make a stop at Handel and Gretel. He said he only needed to take care of some stuff at the café for a while. But a while turned into several hours, and it was only when Ryeowook was going to tuck in that Yesung showed up at the door of their room.
“Business is good?” asked Ryeowook.
Yesung nodded absently and slumped on his bed. Ryeowook knew Yesung had a huge sense of responsibility and made sure to check on his family’s café in the midst of his hectic timetable.
“Hyung,” Ryeowook said gently.
“Hm?”
“Your make up is still on.”
Yesung stared at Ryeowook blankly before turning to look at the mirror over his dresser. “Ah,” he muttered as his reflection looked back at him, dark eyeliner still framing his eyes. He got up and went to the bathroom.
Only the nightstand lights were still on when Yesung returned after a quick shower. Ryeowook yawned and said, “G’night,” turned off the lamp next to his bed and slipped under the covers. Yesung changed into an old t-shirt and boxers, but then he just sat on his bed without lying down.
“Hey, Ryeowook?” he called out after a moment.
Ryeowook opened his eyes. “Yes?”
Yesung got up and walked over, stopping next to Ryeowook’s bed. “Can I...” he paused, hesitant, “is it OK if I sleep here tonight?”
It took Ryeowook a while to process that “here” meant together in his bed. Yesung was known to be touchy-feely toward his group mates, but in all the years he and Ryeowook spent as roommates they had never slept in the same bed. Why he suddenly wanted to do so now, Ryeowook had no idea. He looked up at the older man standing there, looking haggard and pale in the dim light, but also almost childlike.
Yesung’s voice was soft when he added, “Please?”
Slowly, wordlessly, Ryeowook shifted a bit to make room for Yesung. The latter stayed still for a second, like he almost didn’t believe Ryeowook would grant his request, and he climbed into bed next to Ryeowook. There wasn’t much space for two grown men on the bed, so Yesung lay sideways.
“Thanks,” he mumbled. Ryeowook could feel his warm breath on his cheek.
Right before Ryeowook fell asleep he thought he felt Yesung’s arm across his waist. He remembered feeling remarkably comfortable.
***
Kyuhyun usually didn’t go up early, but he had awoken at 4 AM and couldn’t go back to sleep. He decided to pick up where he left off in his favorite online game, and three straight hours later he was still not sleepy at all. He did feel rather hungry, though.
He thought Ryeowook might have some food stashed in his room. If not, it wouldn’t be so hard to persuade the fellow to whip up a nice breakfast. With that reassuring thought, Kyuhyun sauntered over to Ryeowook’s room.
He knocked on the door lightly a few times but there was no answer. He tried turning the doorknob and couldn’t believe his luck; either Ryeowook or Yesung forgot to lock up last night. Kyuhyun pushed the door open and tiptoed inside, thinking that if Ryeowook was still asleep he could just grab whatever food he found and leave again quietly. Which was totally not stealing, because didn’t Leeteuk once say sharing among the group is caring?
What he saw in the room, however, made him stop dead in his tracks. Yesung’s bed that was nearer the door was empty. The guy that was supposed to be in it was in Ryeowook’s bed. With Ryeowook. With their arms around each other.
Kyuhyun tried to wrap his head around this concept. Yesung and Ryeowook, apparently much more intimate than he thought they were. His K.R.Y. partners, sleeping together. So all this time the three of them were singing love ballads, Yesung and Ryeowook actually took the lyrics to heart and were probably canoodling behind his back...
All this was too much for young, innocent Kyuhyun to handle that he decided he had to share the knowledge. He slipped out of the room, forgetting what he initially came there for.
***
"What do you mean they're sleeping together?" Sungmin said groggily, wiping his eyes.
"I mean they're sleeping together." Kyuhyun pulled the covers off Sungmin's bed. "Come on, see for yourself!"
A reluctant Sungmin was thus hauled by Kyuhyun to the scene of the incident, where they peeked in and found Ryeowook asleep in his bed, alone. Yesung's bed was empty, but the sound of running water can be heard from the bathroom.
Sungmin glared at Kyuhyun, who could only stammer, "But I saw it... they were there..."
"Whatever. I'm going back to sleep." Sungmin spun around and left a baffled Kyuhyun scratching his head.
***
"...so I woke up this morning to Kyuhyun shouting that Ryeowook and Yesung slept together," Sungmin said over lunch with Eunhyuk and Shindong.
Shindong choked on his fruit salad while Eunhyuk burst out laughing. "Seriously?" the latter asked.
Sungmin shrugged. "That's what he said."
After swallowing a particularly large slice of melon, Shindong said, "Sleeping together as in having sex?"
"I suppose."
Eunhyuk shook his head in awe. "They sure don't miss an opportunity, huh? Wait, I gotta tell Donghae about this." He flipped his phone open and typed a message.
***
"Did you hear?" Donghae asked Leeteuk when they met at the SM office.
"Hear what?"
"Yesung had sex with Ryeowook," Donghae said with an uncharacteristically dirty leer on his face.
Leeteuk's eyes nearly bulged out from their sockets. "What?! But, but... Ryeowook is just a kid!"
"He's over 21. Has been for a few years, actually."
"But it's impossible!" Leeteuk immediately dragged Donghae to the nearest unoccupied meeting room, demanding to know every detail about this secret liaison that allegedly occurred under his watch.
***
"Dude, no way," Siwon said.
"Way," Eunhyuk replied from the other end of the line.
"No way!" Speaking louder this time, Siwon surprised a few crew members standing near him on the set of Poseidon.
"Well, you know Yesung. He probably started by touching Ryeowook's lips and it went downhill from there." Eunhyuk chuckled at his own wit. "That was a pun, by the way."
***
[Excerpt from text messages]
How are things at camp?
It’s a lot of work, but I can manage. Any dorm gossip? I miss you rascals.
Well, it seems Yesung and Ryeowook had sex.
Man, why do all the exciting things happen when I’m gone?
***
The next time the group gathered for dance rehearsals, the members made sure to watch Ryeowook and Yesung surreptitiously, looking for signs of anything different from the norm. Some of them, like Leeteuk, were still a bit skeptical, while others, like Eunhyuk, were ready to witness in case Yesung and Ryeowook suddenly started making out in front of everyone. No such thing happened, though.
As several days passed the members did observe a few moments, but to be completely honest there weren't anything very extraordinary in them that the boys wondered whether they could be categorized as signs at all.
They saw, for example, how Ryeowook cooked a huge meal for everyone, which was nothing unusual in itself, but then he furtively slipped the largest pieces of meat to Yesung's plate.
They also watched the way Yesung very naturally placed an arm around Ryeowook's shoulder when they were sitting side by side. Nothing odd with that, really, but Ryeowook then leaned back, as if wanting to sink further into Yesung's embrace. Yesung's reaction was to softly rub Ryeowook's shoulder with his thumb.
They also saw how Yesung spent extra hours going through new sheet music with Ryeowook, which he would've gladly done for anyone in the group who wished to have more singing practice (he had said this while glancing pointedly at certain members who shall remain unnamed). The members watched how Yesung's face assumed a gentler expression during these sessions.
Eyebrows were raised collectively at these developments, but the members still had no solid proof.
That was because there were some things they didn't have the chance to see.
They didn't witness, for example, how Ryeowook and Yesung calmly went on with their little arrangement, Yesung instinctively going to Ryeowook's bed at night, and Ryeowook letting him.
The members also didn't see how Ryeowook arrived back at the dorm late one evening and saw Yesung already lying in his bed, reading a book. Ryeowook's face fell and he slunk quietly to his own bed, which suddenly seemed much too big for one person. But when Yesung closed his book and looked up expectantly, smiling as he said, "Come here," Ryeowook didn't spare a moment to think.
The members also weren't there to see when one night, Ryeowook propped his upper body with an elbow and faced Yesung, his gaze full of questions. "Hyung," he began, "are we..."
He paused, Yesung's hand on his waist going rigid, and the air around them frozen with anticipation. They exchanged uncertain glances, and Ryeowook mumbled, "Never mind." He lay down again, back into the comfort of Yesung's arms, despite the proverbial elephant still running in circles around the room.
Not being privy to these moments, the rest of Super Junior had little to go on aside from Kyuhyun’s testimony (“He’d probably been gaming too much and ended up hallucinating or something,” suggested Eunhyuk). So they decided they had to find concrete evidence.
***
“Watch it, Donghae- ow, that’s my foot!”
“Can you guys be quiet?”
“Sssshh!”
The members fell silent as they crowded at Ryeowook and Yesung’s door. Leeteuk, standing in front, very gently opened the door using a spare key he swiped from their manager (“Hm, locking the door this time... wonder what that means?” Shindong said before he was shushed by Sungmin). Leeteuk poked his head into the dim room, the others behind him following suit.
Once they got used to seeing with the help of the faint light from outside the window, it was clear that only one of the two beds in the room was occupied. On that bed lay Yesung and Ryeowook, fast asleep with their limbs tangled.
The boys stared at the two slumbering figures.
“...they’re just sleeping,” Donghae whispered.
“With their clothes on, too,” added Sungmin.
“They’re like babies,” Leeteuk gushed.
“So I left the drama set just for this?” Siwon said, disappointed.
“Sorry, but we had an unreliable source,” replied Eunhyuk.
“Hey!” Kyuhyun interjected. “I only said they were sleeping together. You guys were the ones who assumed the sex part.”
“All right, everyone, it’s enough. Let’s go before we wake them up,” said Leeteuk.
The members kept talking even as they left the room, wondering aloud whether sharing a bed with his roommate was just another one of Yesung’s bizarre habits.
***
The members were lucky, though, because they weren’t left in the dark for long. During costume fitting a few days later, Yesung had just put on a three-piece suit when Ryeowook went up to him saying, “Yesungie-hyung, your tie is crooked. Here, let me...”
He started fixing Yesung’s tie. The others watched as Yesung stood there with an odd look on his face, one that he usually had whenever he was going to say something totally out there. But this time he said nothing and instead bent forward and kissed Ryeowook’s lips.
Ryeowook was stunned at first, but it didn’t take long before he eased himself into the kiss and even started kissing Yesung back. The group went completely silent as they looked on - some even admired Ryeowook’s technique, never knowing he had it in him.
When they pulled apart Ryeowook said, “Does this mean...”
“We are,” Yesung said. “Well, at least I am.”
Ryeowook smiled and interlocked his fingers with Yesung’s. “Me too.”
“Goodness, they’re speaking in code,” said Eunhyuk.
Donghae cleared his throat. “So, um, guys, I don’t mean to pry, but you really have been sleeping together, haven’t you?”
Ryeowook’s face turned beet red and he murmured vague and half-hearted denials, but Yesung simply nodded, his embarrassed smile tinged with a hint of pride. Their nosy group mates proceeded to badger them with questions about the differences between spooning and having sex, and all the while the two just stood there holding hands.
One thing was for sure: they were going to sleep well tonight.