Get him not to suck so badly
Title: Get him not to suck so badly
Rating: PG:13
Genre: fluff, comedy
Pairing: Jongin/Jongdae, Kyungsoo/Baekhyun, Tao/Sehun, Luhan/Minseok, plus a thing
Words: -7k
Summary: Jongin has a bit of a problem with singing. Jongdae has a bit of a problem with dancing. Baekhyun wants his Kyungsoo time back, so he volunteers with the idea how those two should help each other.
A/N: For my little lovely theayakochan once again, because birthday, because wonderful in every way, because my sunshine has become legal.
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Baekhyun glances at pouting Jongin. He's sad about his dongsaeng being in such a bad mood and he gets that, yeah, being scolded by their voice teacher sucks, especially that it's not even the first time this month.
But watching Jongin cuddling into Kyungsoo, who's feeding him strawberries (they're Tao's, too, but nobody really cares that much, since he's out with Sehun), and Kyungsoo being all caring and loving. Those things aren't really nice.
Baekhyun narrows his eyes. Kyungsoo is his and if he could not be embracing Jongin so lovingly, Baekhyun would appreciate it.
He knows better than to say anything right now, though. Jongin would only feel more awful and Kyungsoo would get pissed with him.
Baekhyun sighs. His life is so tough.
He turns to the side and notices Joonmyun, who's trying to cheer up Jongdae. The younger got scolded by their dance teacher (which doesn't surprise Baekhyun that much, if he's to be honest).
Baekhyun looks back to Jongin.
That's all sad and stuff, but how about his Kyungsoo time? How to make his cute dongsaeng happy and get his lover to pay attention to him?
Baekhyun blinks at Jongin. Then he looks back to Jongdae and again to Jongin.
"How about," he starts loudly, wanting to get everybody's attention. "How about Jongin and Jongdae help each other? Jongin will help with the dancing stuff and Jongdae will help with the singing. Here. It sounds perfect."
The others look at Baekhyun.
Jongin's eyes widen; Jongdae's brows furrow slightly; Joonmyun is almost smiling; Kyungsoo looks both a bit surprised and awed, as in not sure how it happened that Baekhyun got such a good idea.
"It could work," Joonmyun finally says, looking from Jongin to Jongdae and back.
Kyungsoo nods, still stroking Jongin's hair softly.
But as Jongin and Jongdae look at each other, they don't seem very sure about the idea.
"It's the best," Baekhyun says, as he gets up from the chair to go and jump onto the couch next to Kyungsoo. "You're like the best dancer," he turns to Jongin. "So you totally can help Jongdae and get him not to suck so badly." Baekhyun ignores his friend's offended hey!, as he turns his head to him. "And you're like people's favorite singer. You can totally work with Jongin and help him get better."
Jongdae isn't sure whether to be more offended by the not sucking so badly and then how nicely Baekhyun finished that for Jongin or to be glad at least for the favorite singer thing. It's totally oversaid and makes him want to chuckle awkwardly, but okay.
"It sounds reasonable," Kyungsoo says to Jongin.
"Maybe." The younger glances at Jongdae.
Jongdae himself isn't very sure about that. Jongin is just so amazing and now he's supposed to be teaching him? He knows the boy is just totally nice and he would never laugh at Jongdae’s fails, but still.
Jongdae doesn't mind at all helping Jongin, though, how could he?
"So, what do you think?" Joonmyun turns to Jongdae, grinning at him.
Jongdae sighs.
"I guess."
*
To: Tao-er
what do you think of the website i sent you on your email? you in?
To: Sehunnie
some ideas are more than amazing. looking forward to seeing you in high heels
To: Tao-er
why does it need to be me :|
To: Sehunnie
because
To: Tao-er
you're the one getting handcuffed
To: Sehunnie
...
To: Sehunnie
deal
*
That's how Jongdae ends up with Jongin in their practice room after the actual practice. He's even more spent than he usually is and more tense and in worse shape and just a big fail from the very beginning. Since, well, he might've spent the whole practice focusing mainly on watching Jongin dance. Move. Breath. Exist.
Jongin does those things very, very handsomely. It's simply unfair, Jongdae thinks.
It's even more unfair, since now Jongin is all messy-looking, his shirt is sweaty, his beautiful skin is pretty much glowing, he's panting and he basically looks like after hours of hot sex.
But then Jongin smiles softly at Jongdae and asks him if he's okay and Jongdae sighs, because Jongin is just so cute and lovely and he has no right to be staring at the younger and feeling so tempted to get his hands on him. Nope.
"Y-yeah," Jongdae mumbles, coughing awkwardly.
Abort mission, his mind scream instantly, because that is so not the cool Jongdae that he should be for this cute dongsaeng.
But about an hour later even Jongdae's mind is too tired to scream any kind of bullshit as he flops onto the floor. He glances at Jongin and he looks even more sexy and can he just stop being real.
Jongin sits next to Jongdae.
"You okay?" he asks, smiling innocently, as he hasn't been moving sinfully for the past sixty minutes, like he hasn't had his hands on Jongdae's body to help him show the way to move.
Jongdae hums, too tired to actually speak. He watches Jongin, though, as he tries to breath steady and calm down. He can see the younger moving in a weird way as he's sitting, though, and Jongdae isn't sure why. It takes him a few minutes to catch up that maybe Jongin's back hurts again.
"Do you want a massage or something?" he asks and then almost rolls his eyes at himself, at how smooth that came out.
Jongin only turns to him and blinks. He stares at Jongdae for a moment and then at his hands, and Jongdae feels like Jongin is zoning out.
"Jongin?" he tries, using the rest of his energy to reach out one of his hands and touch the small of Jongin's back.
The younger flinches and shakes his head.
"N-no need, hyung," he mumbles, and takes Jongdae's hand into his own to put it away softly. "I'm okay, really," Jongin adds as he turns his face away.
Jongdae can't help but grin as he notices the light blush on Jongin's face.
*
Kyungsoo glances to the side as he's watching his show on the tv. He decides to ignore the maknae happily skipping through the room with a few pillows in his arms. He really couldn't care less, he thinks distantly as he looks back to the tv.
Except then there's Tao who's running through the room, all excited, also holding lots of pillows in his arms.
Kyungsoo would keep on not giving a crap, except he recognizes one of the pillows.
It looks exactly like his favorite one.
He gets up and runs after Tao.
Kyungsoo isn't fast enough, though, because the door pretty much closes in his face and when he tries opening it, Tao has clearly locked it already.
"Hey!" he yells, hitting the door with his fist.
Then he notices his pillow laying on the floor. Tao seems to have dropped it, fortunately. Kyungsoo picks it up quickly.
There's no answer from the room, though, so he hits the door once again.
"What are you two doing in there with all those pillows?"
Still no answer. But Kyungsoo hears something that sounds like somebody falling onto the bed.
"Guys!"
He waits a moment. He hears a moan and grimaces.
"Will we want the pillows back?" he tries asking, a bit more quietly.
He's not expecting an answer, though. And, good, because he only gets a louder moan.
"I take it as a no," he murmurs to himself.
But at least he's got his own pillow safe.
Kyungsoo sighs and he's ready to turn around and go back to his show, far away from this sinful room, when he feels a slap on his butt.
He forever is going to deny the squeak he makes at that, though.
He hears a very familiar laugh and turns to glare at Baekhyun who's running away.
"You're dead!" he yells as he throws his pillow at the older.
Baekhyun only laughs louder, even when he gets hit in the face with the pillow.
*
Minseok looks sadly at his plate. He's got none of those little, cute cherry tomatoes that he likes. They taste all nice and fresh and he's getting none today and that's sad.
They've been getting this kind of salad along with their breakfast for a few days now and he got used to the cute cherry tomatoes.
And now it seems like it's a bad day for the little tomatoes.
But suddenly two ofthose sneak onto his plate on a spoon.
Minseok looks to the side and grins, when he sees it's Luhan's spoon and it's him, who's being so wonderful.
"Thank you, Lu-ge~" he says cutely. Little aegyo can do no wrong and he knows how much the other likes it.
Except Luhan stops his smile from happening and looks down.
"Hey, you okay?" Minseok asks softly, putting his hand on the younger's arm.
Luhan clears his throat and sits up straight, looking ahead, obviously troubled with something.
"Of course," he answers and Minseok can hear his voice sounds strange.
"Are you sure? You can tell me, if something's wrong, Luhannie." He's worried already. He's never seen the other acting like this and it's confusing.
"Yeah." Luhan looks away to the side.
Minseok doesn't believe him. He's been acting a bit off for the past few days, but this here is just too obvious for him to ignore.
But he doesn't think he should push Luhan. It would only make things worse. He should give him some time to sort out whatever is troubling him. Only then, if Luhan doesn't, Minseok will try again. And he'll succeed. He won't have bad things happening to Luhan, if he can say anything about it.
So he just puts his hand on Luhan's head for a moment, to stroke his hair softly, and then he takes it back, looking back to his food.
"Thank you anyway, Luhannie," he says, smiling slightly.
*
When the breakfast is almost over, Luhan is having more and more difficult time not to look at Minseok. Not to smile at him, not to talk with him, not to laugh with him. Not to be with him.
And it's awful. He wants to do those things so badly.
But no. He's decided. He knows better. No.
So he takes a deep breath and looks around, hoping to find something else to focus on instead of that wonderful being that's sitting next to him.
And, well, nervous Jongin seems like an interesting choice. Because Jongin usually doesn't look this nervous, when they're together and at home.
Luhan keeps observing the younger boy for a while and very soon he can guess where the nervousness is coming from. Jongin keeps glancing at Jongdae and then pretending he's not and talking to Kyungsoo and Sehun and then glancing back to Jongdae.
That's so cute.
Luhan's heard about how they're helping each other. And it's cute and a really good idea with how much they can teach each other. And, well.
There's one more thing they can figure out.
Luhan's wondering whether the members have a bet going on about it already. He'd like to join.
He's smiling softly, amused with the thought, when suddenly there's a hand on his thigh, a very familiar hand that he probably shouldn't just know whose it is so easily and quickly.
But he knows and he tenses and he almost stops breathing as he's trying to keep himself from reacting in any way.
Dammit. Why is it so hard? Why is Minseok so amazing? Can he stop? He can't be real like this, can he?
*
Jongin chuckles as he's watching Kyungsoo trying to pretend he can't see Baekhyun.
Because Kyungsoo is standing in front of the vocal teacher and Baekhyun is behind the guy and he’s making weird faces at Kyungsoo. At times those are even kissy faces.
But through most of this, Kyungsoo seems to be managing, only throwing random glares at the older.
When the song is close to the end, though, Kyungsoo's voice cracks slightly.
Jongin raises his brows at that, because he knows the older is really good at that not happening, especially when it’s only because of Baekhyun. So he looks at the latter and sees him mouth something at Kyungsoo.
Jongin looks back to the one singing and can see his hands turning into fists, as Kyungsoo finally closes his eyes and tries to finish the song properly.
Later, the vocal teacher isn't very happy with Kyungsoo. He tells the boy he mostly did the song okay, he just needs to work on the end and he's supposed to be perfect on the next lesson. Or else.
By the time the teacher finishes talking, Baekhyun is nowhere to be seen. It doesn't stop Kyungsoo from glaring and muttering death threats.
Jongin isn't sure he wants to know what Baekhyun was mouthing to Kyungsoo, though.
"Jonginnie?"
Jongin almost jumps up slightly as the hand suddenly put on his shoulder. He turns his head to the side and sees Jongdae.
"Hyung." He smiles shyly.
"Let's go?" Jongdae asks. Jongin nods quickly.
He knows Jongdae wants only to help and he's amazing and he appreciates how his hyung doesn't mind spending time teaching Jongin better ways to sing properly.
But Jongin still can't help but feel slightly nervous.
*
"Try breathing deeper," Jongdae says.
Jongin tries doing so again. Because he has been breathing deeply.
"No, no- I mean- deeper-" Jongdae sighs. How is he supposed to explain that? He knows how to do this, but explaining it to somebody? Impossible.
He moves closer to Jongin and takes the other’s hand, putting it on his own tummy.
"Breath kind of like this," he says and tries demonstrating it, so the younger can feel it with his hand.
He keeps doing it for a moment and only then Jongdae realizes that the mood is kind of changing.
He blinks.
He glances up at Jongin, who's looking back at him. Jongdae can't really say what is that exactly, but there is that something in his eyes.
He feels the younger's hand squeezing slightly on his stomach, which then makes Jongdae's breathing turn very, very not proper. It gets a bit difficult, too.
"Jongdae-hyung," Jongin whispers quietly, looking down to his hand and then back to the older's face.
Jongdae sighs. Somehow Jongin's voice sounds simply breath-taking like this and now and Jongdae is pretty sure it's so not the goal of this exercise.
Especially when Jongdae notices Jongin's eyes moving slightly lower, to his lips. Jongdae's heartbeat speeds up and he licks his lips nervously. Jongin definitely sees that, though, and it makes him bite down on his lower lip, which distracts Jongdae even more.
Somehow, for some reason, in some way, he's about to move and he can see Jongin is, too, and Jongdae doesn't know, if that's a good idea, but he needs to.
"Whoops."
Both Jongdae and Jongin quickly jump away from each other and try to pretend like nothing was about to happen, absolutely nothing. Then they look to the side to see amused Chanyeol with a laptop in his hand.
"Don't mind me. Keep going. I'll go somewhere else," he says, grinning.
Jongdae wants to flip him off, but he glances at Jongin and the younger is pretty much blushing and it's such a cute sight that he couldn't give less of a crap about Chanyeol, who just leaves the room.
Jongin and Jongdae glance at each other awkwardly.
"Let's continue?" the older finally says after a moment. Jongin nods, smiling shyly.
Jongdae smiles back, because the younger is just so cute.
*
Sehun chuckles, watching the little glances Jongin keeps throwing at Jongdae. He's even more amused by those from the older guy, too.
The hand on his thigh squeezes and Sehun blinks, looking thoughtlessly ahead for a moment. Then he looks to his side, raising his brow at Tao.
The older only smirks at Sehun and keeps talking with Luhan.
Sehun narrows his eyes at the little shit that is his boyfriend. They're about to go and have their shower day, there's really no reason for Tao to grope him.
"Where's Chanyeol?" Joonmyun asks out of nowhere.
The others look at him, having no idea as well.
"In his room, I think?" Minseok answers. He's pretty sure he saw Chanyeol going in there earlier. He looks at Luhan so he can confirm he did, too, since they saw the younger guy together, but the other only stares at Joonmyun stiffly. Minseok rolls his eyes.
"Maybe he's still traumatized after we found the red high heels on Sehun's bed," Baekhyun suggests, grinning at the maknae.
Sehun glares at him and then at Tao, reaching out his hand to hit his lover's head.
"I told you to get rid of them immediately after we were done!"
"They looked like they belonged to a stripper, you should've kept them," Baekhyun adds helpfully.
"Were done doing what?" Kyungsoo asks with a straight, innocent face. Baekhyun chuckles, because by this point he knows better than to believe in that face; Kyungsoo knows exactly what Sehun meant.
And Kyungsoo knew exactly that the two maknaes would get all red and annoyed.
Joonmyun starts coughing loudly, though, hoping to get all the attention back to himself. He'd really rather not hear what Sehun and Tao could need the high heels for.
As he's thought way too often since he joined EXO and got to know his members, the less you know~
*
Joonmyun raises his hand to knock on the door, but he doesn't get to as it opens and he barely stops himself from knocking on Chanyeol's torso.
They both blink at each other.
"Hyung?"
"Um, yeah." Joonmyun smiles at the younger. "I was about to ask, if you want something to eat. You didn't join us before, so you must be hungry."
Chanyeol smiles back, feeling all nice and warm inside, touched with the leader's concern.
"I'm okay, Joonmyunnie-hyung." He raises his hand and puts it on Joonmyun's shoulder.
"Hyung!" Baekhyun appears in that moment, grabbing the leader's hand. "Sehun and Tao have been showering for like thirty minutes now!"
Joonmyun shrugs.
"Go and tell them to hurry up?" he suggests.
"No!" Baekhyun grimaces. "You can... hear things. From the bathroom."
Joonmyun and Chanyeol grimace slightly as well.
"Your turn is next, deal with that yourself." Joonmyun takes his hand from Baekhyun's and takes Chanyeol's. "Let's get you something to eat."
"Hyung! You can't leave me like this."
"I'll ask Kyungsoo to help you," Joonmyun says helpfully as he's walking towards the kitchen with Chanyeol, who's only chuckling at Baekhyun's misery.
"No!" Baekhyun frowns at Joonmyun. Is he crazy? Does he wants Kyungsoo to kill him? In front of the bathroom door is not the place he wouldn't mind a little choking to take place. A bed is a much better option, he'll go with that one.
Then he thinks a bit.
"Actually," he starts, murmuring to himself.
"Okay," he yells happily and passes by the other two, running to the room where he knows Kyungsoo is.
Joonmyun stares after Baekhyun and shakes his head.
"He really should stop teasing Kyungsoo so much."
"It's funny how Baekhyun thinks it'd work on Kyungsoo. And, like, hearing the maknaes' moans? Nah, no way." Chanyeol laughs. "It'll work more on Baekhyun himself."
Joonmyun doesn't answer, because he can only agree. Poor, poor Baekhyun. And he's only going to be poorer the day his teasing becomes too much for Kyungsoo. Joonmyun can only hope he won't be around.
*
"Yes! You're doing good, hyung." Jongin grins at Jongdae. "Great," he says as he keeps watching the older dance.
He's the only one watching and Jongdae is the only one dancing, because it's supposed to be the break for their dance practice, so nobody else cares.
There's Joonmyun, who's smiling and sometimes adding something to Yixing and Chanyeol's more or less excited conversation about songs they were writing lately. Then there's Baekhyun who spends his time pouting at Kyungsoo, who looks like he couldn't care less, since he's busy talking with Minseok, whom Luhan is pretending not to be glancing at.
Then there are Sehun and Tao and they are... Not in the room. They disappeared like twenty minutes ago and nobody's seen them ever since. Nobody feels like searching for them either.
"But, Kyungsoo, it really wasn't me," Baekhyun says softly for what feels like fiftieth time.
And it really wasn't him. He just found the empty bottle of Kyungsoo's favorite almond cream on the floor in the room. He's honestly got no idea how it got there and why.
Kyungsoo doesn't believe him, though. Baekhyun has no idea why. He's been very good lately, so there's no reason for this lack of trust.
Unless...
Baekhyun starts wondering as he sneaks his hand into Kyungsoo's, linking their fingers. He smiles, when the other doesn't make him let go.
... Unless Kyungsoo had some plans with that cream. It's been like two weeks since they had some fun together, so he guesses it'd be pretty awesome of Kyungsoo to think of something special for when they do have that fun. And Kyungsoo is very awesome.
Baekhyun likes the idea of playing with the cream.
"I know why you're angry now," he whispers into Kyungsoo's ear.
The latter finally glances at him, his brow raised. He doesn't think Baekhyun does know, though, if he can go by the expression on his face.
"You wanted the cream for us," Baekhyun continues. Kyungsoo properly turns to look at him, not sure where he's going with that. "You wanted to get it all over me. Or, even better, you'd let me spread the cream all over your naked body and then suck and lick and-"
Kyungsoo puts his hand on Baekhyun's face in panic, trying to look like he's heard nothing. It does make Baekhyun stop speaking, but his voice, his words are still ringing in Kyungsoo's mind.
"You two okay?" Minseok asks, looking confused at his dongsaengs. Why is Kyungsoo holding his hand on Baekhyun's face? Why is Baekhyun grinning?
Kyungsoo coughs.
"Yeah. Very," Kyungsoo answers quickly. "How about Luhannie-hyung?" he adds to have Minseok focusing back on the latter. He succeeds and rolls his eyes at how Luhan looks away instantly.
Either way, the two older guys are back to not focusing on them, so Kyungsoo takes his hand from Baekhyun's face and glares at him.
"Shut up," he says stiffly.
Baekhyun chuckles. But he doesn't say anything, he just squeezes Kyungsoo's hand with his own and sneaks the other one onto the other's thigh, also squeezing softly.
Kyungsoo is content to pretend Baekhyun's doing nothing. He just keeps staring at Jongin who finally goes to sit down and literally flinches, when he hears a phone vibrating and sees that it's Tao's. Kyungsoo's curious, he's seen Jongin sometimes glancing at the guy's phone and grimacing.
On the other hand, maybe he'd rather not know. Especially if it has something to do with the youngest maknae as well. He might just let the youngest three have their own secrets he doesn't need to know about.
That sounds about right.
And it sounds even better as he feels Baekhyun's hand squeezing on his thigh. Anything sounds better than that, really.
*
Joonmyun looks around. It's supposed to be a proper dinner for them all and for them to spend time together and no, he doesn't care some of them even shower together, as right now they should be sitting here as twelve and enjoy each other and that's final.
Except, it's not really final at all.
Especially as one, Chanyeol, is missing again.
(Plus, there’s the thing that nobody speaks of.)
And then there are Tao and Sehun, with Tao making a great Yixing impression with how much he’s zoning out. Joonmyun isn't even sure, if he's not sleeping. Sehun just looks tired as he eats and stares at Baekhyun blankly who's talking at to him excitedly.
Then there's Jongdae and Jongin who are talking about something happily, chuckling and giggling at times. It's something that has to do with their after practice practice, where they're helping each other, but still, they seem to be ignoring everybody else.
Yixing just doesn't seem to care, too focused on his food and thinking about the important matters from his own world.
And then there's Minseok who's talking with Luhan, except the latter keeps acting weird and like he doesn't care. Because, well, Luhan not caring about Minseok in any way? Too weird.
Joonmyun sighs, as it doesn't seem they'll be having their happy family time today. He's done.
He looks to the side and sees that Yixing is done, too, at least with his food. So they might as well be both done and maybe look for Chanyeol. The kid needs to eat something.
So Joonmyun stands up and pokes Yixing's arm, then says 'Let's go' at his confused look. Yixing blinks a few more times, but gets up in the end.
Before he walks out of the kitchen, Joonmyun looks around one more time and shakes his head. Ah, those kids. It's difficult to take care of them, especially since they all sometimes think they know better. (They don't.)
*
With Yixing by his side, Joonmyun stands in front of Chanyeol and his roommates' room. He listens for a moment, trying to hear, if something is happening in inside, but he only hears somebody talking. It's obviously Chanyeol's voice and his laugh.
Joonmyun knocks.
He waits for some reaction from the room, but nothing comes. Chanyeol keeps talking in there as if he hasn't heard anything. And maybe he hasn't.
Joonmyun knocks one more time, louder.
Still nothing.
He looks to Yixing, who shrugs. Joonmyun decides to knock one last time, but Yixing just opens the door and pushes him softly inside, walking in behind him.
Chanyeol doesn't notice the little commotion, of course, as he keeps talking. And as Joonmyun looks at the younger, of course, he's got his headphones on as he's talking on his computer. He steps closer and then freezes, when he sees the screen of the computer. Chanyeol's speaking with-
"Chanyeol," Yixing says loudly enough for the younger to finally hear as Joonmyun just keeps staring.
The figure on the screen notices them first and is obviously badly shocked at their sight, but then Chanyeol turns, his eyes wide and panic clear on his face. He stands up, the cable of the headphones too short, which is how he pulls it out of the computer, and they can hear that voice again.
"Joonmyunnie. Yixingie," Yifan says softly from the screen.
Joonmyun just keeps staring, not sure what to do, as Yixing makes a step closer.
"Hyung, I'm sorry, it's just," Chanyeol starts, with no idea what to actually say, how to explain. "I know we were supposed not to talk to Yifan-hyung and we were all mad, so we didn't, but- But Yifan-hyung- Hyung, I couldn't not to. He's made his choices and maybe those choices hurt us, but- But Yifan-hyung is Yifan-hyung and he feels bad about that enough. I don't want him to feel even worse by having no contact with us." Chanyeol isn't sure, if what he said makes sense, but he hopes it does. He hopes he won't make either Joonmyun nor Yixing mad. Or nobody else. He just missed his Yifan-hyung so much.
"Joonmyun-ah, don't be mad at Chanyeol," Yifan starts. "If anybody, be mad at me. I deserve it. I knew Chanyeol would keep talking with me. I wanted him to. I knew he'd want to, too. I didn't want to be cut off completely."
Yixing comes closer to the computer and sits down on Chanyeol's chair. He looks blankly for a moment and then smiles slightly. They'd been together for so long, with Yifan, and in a way he understands what the older did and why. And he misses him.
Chanyeol feels better, when he sees Yixing smiling softly and as he glances at Yifan, he knows the older does, too. But then he looks back to Joonmyun, who's just standing there and staring with no words, he's feeling worried again.
Because Joonmyun is amazing and nice and just so kind. But he can be like that only for so long. Chanyeol isn't sure what the older will do in the end.
"We miss you."
Chanyeol blinks. He didn't expect hearing that, he didn't expect Joonmyun to just say that and walk closer to the computer, he didn't expect Joonmyun to stand next to Yixing and put his hand on the latter's shoulder as he actually looks like he honestly misses Yifan so, so much.
"I miss you, too," Yifan says softly, smiling shakily. Chanyeol can say his hyung is close to tears and he understands. They've talked a few times how other members could react, if they were to talk with Yifan again, and it feels so amazing just to know that he'd hear those words, especially from those whose reaction they weren't sure of.
(Because Chanyeol mentioned how he was sure of Sehun's reaction for example. Even with the whole rebelliousness the youngest kept showing online, he knows that with Yifan approaching him and looking at him, Sehun would just jump his hyung and embrace so tightly and wouldn't want to let go.)
"How have you been?" Joonmyun finally asks, after a few moments they spend just being there and looking at each other.
"The internet says you've been doing very well," Yixing adds, smiling.
Yifan smiles widely, too, hearing that even after he left, they still cared enough to keep themselves updated about what he does.
Chanyeol can't help but grin as he moves another chair for Joonmyun to sit on it. Then he sits down on the bed closest to the computer, as his heart feels just so happy and warm as he's observing his hyungs talk again.
After a few minutes, Joonmyun glances at him and holds out his hand. Chanyeol smiles as he takes it into his own and sees Joonmyun taking Yixing's hand as well. He squeezes them both.
Yifan doesn't think he's going to stop smiling for a few next days. They'd been through so much together as twelve and now it doesn't seem like he's lost them forever. Slowly he'll get all of his wonderful brothers back. The future doesn't seem so grim anymore, as he'll have them to be happy with again.
*
The breakfast is going smoothly and all, and not everyone are awake yet, but Minseok doesn't mind. He's happily sitting and eating his favorite thing and Tao and Sehun are being cute together and there's Chanyeol with Yixing and Joonmyun and they're happily talking about something while looking at Chanyeol's phone.
And Minseok's tea is so nice, just the perfect way he likes it. He can sense Luhan made it before he sneaked out to take a shower as Minseok was walking into the kitchen.
It's so peaceful like this.
"You're gross!"
Well, not anymore.
Minseok blinks as he looks up at Jongdae who's holding something in his hand. He stares at the thing for a moment. Then he blinks again.
"What do you need the handcuffs for, Jongdae?" Joonmyun asks carefully.
"It's theirs, of course!" he yells, pointing at Tao and Sehun.
Everybody's attention goes to the maknaes, how are trying to look as innocent as they can.
"Were you safe enough? Neither of you got hurt?" Joonmyun asks. He gets that the two maknaes do things and he'd rather know definitely less than more, but either way he hopes they are careful.
They both smile at Joonmyun, appreciating his concern. He's such a caring hyung.
Jongdae snorts.
"It was on my bed!"
It has their attention again, now everyone looking at the two youngest not impressed with that fact.
"Whoops." Tao chuckles.
"It was the only room that was empty," Sehun adds, shrugging.
Jongdae throws the handcuffs at them, but Tao easily catches them and hides into his pocket.
He's waiting for a proper explanation for that; even Joonmyun's waiting for one, too.
"Hello, my dearest friends!" Baekhyun yells the moment he walks into the kitchen. The attention immediately shifts from Tao and Sehun to him, some more amused, some not at all.
Especially when they notice him limping slightly.
Jongdae glares at Baekhyun, because it was his time to whine at the maknaes, not Baekhyun's time to boast about how he finally teased Kyungsoo enough and the other had his way with him.
And then Kyungsoo actually walks into the kitchen as well and he looks plainly tired, but also Jongdae can notice that there's something different about Kyungsoo today, though he's not sure what it is yet.
Kyungsoo says nothing, though. He takes the food and starts eating, barely even glancing at anybody else.
Baekhyun grins and skips to the chair next to Kyungsoo, quickly sitting there.
"Give me some?" he asks cutely and the others look at him in fright. Is he trying to get killed? Is he trying to get stabbed with a chopstick?
Except, as the members keeps staring at the two, Kyungsoo just raises his chopstick and feeds Baekhyun a bit of his meet, a little smile on his face. Then he raises his hand and pats Baekhyun's head.
Baekhyun smiles lovingly at Kyungsoo, who looks back to his food, and leans forward to him to peck his beloved's cheek.
The members can only stare. Such a things doesn't happen often. Or almost never.
Baekhyun really had to tire Kyungsoo out badly for him to be so peaceful.
Tao and Sehun also can notice now what has been off with Kyungsoo this morning: there's no satan vibe, it's gone. Well, for now.
"Should we tell that after we were done we just put the handcuffs into Jongdae's bed just to fuck with him?" Tao whispers to Sehun.
They watch annoyed Jongdae for a moment. Then sleepy Jongin comes into the kitchen and immediately goes to hug Jongdae who's still standing in the doorway. Somehow it clearly makes the older less annoyed.
"Nah." Sehun shakes his head. “He’s good.”
*
When the breakfast is done, all of the members present by now, Minseok is already a bit tired with all the scheming that's been happening. They can't just have a calm morning, the members need to get crazy.
He turns to Luhan and holds out his hands, wanting a hug. Luhan smiles and moves to embrace him, but then there's a panic on his face and he pulls away. He gets up and quickly goes out of the kitchen.
Minseok stares after the other.
He's so done with this. Luhan has been acting weirdly long enough and he's done now. Luhan is so telling him what's going on and he's solving it and that's it.
Minseok gets up and follows Luhan into his room, when he finds the other staring at his phone, seated on his bed.
Minseok sighs and sits on the floor in front of Luhan, putting his hands on the other's knees and looking up at him.
"What's wrong?" he asks.
Luhan only shakes his head, still staring at the phone.
"Tell me what's wrong," Minseok says. It's not a question anymore, Luhan is telling him.
Luhan looks to the side for a moment.
"Nothing," he finally answers.
Minseok isn't impressed.
"Tell me or I'm inviting Sehun and Tao for us three to sleep on your bed."
Luhan finally looks at Minseok, surprised. Then he glares slightly.
"No sleeping on my bed. Unless it's you. Unless we've-" he cuts off and blinks. "Nothing."
Minseok rolls his eyes. He watches Luhan for a moment, watches how he stares at his phone and sighs again. He takes Luhan's phone to see what's so interesting in there.
But what he sees is the fans' comments on the internet. About Luhan, about them.
He looks up at Luhan again, because he's confused. But Luhan looks to the side, like he didn't want Minseok to see.
"What?" he asks.
Luhan says nothing.
Minseok looks back to the other's phone and reads some of the comments. It's about how close they are, how Luhan stares at Minseok sometimes, how he's always near, how he smiles at Minseok, how he's pretty much obsessed-
"Luhan-ah," Minseok starts, because he hopes he's not getting it right. Luhan doesn't answer. "Luhannie, do you mind that much what they're saying?" he tries.
Luhan turns to Minseok and shakes his head.
"What's wrong then? You know they don't mean it in a bad way. They like that you like me and show it," Minseok tries explaining, as he starts moving his hand on Luhan's thigh in what he hopes to be a relaxing motion.
"Do you mind?" Luhan finally says.
Minseok blinks.
"What?" He really, really hopes he's not getting it right.
"Do you mind me being that... obvious?" Luhan asks. "I mean, I've seen pictures and gifs and videos and that's... a lot. I'm not being subtle at all. I look so... obsessed." He grimaces at the word. "Am I too much?"
Minseok sighs, smiling softly at Luhan. He gets up and leans down to kiss his boyfriend's lips.
"Nope," he answers simply. "Not at all too much." He kisses Luhan again. "I like you showing how much you're mine and I’m yours." Minseok grins and kisses again. "I think I should you remind you how much I like it," he adds, sitting on Luhan's laps and embracing him.
Luhan finally smiles. He loves Minseok just so much and he loves showing it, too. He's not good at not showing it, though. And that's just wonderful that Minseok likes him showing it.
*
"We're going to celebrate!" Sehun yells happily, when they're done with the practice for the day, as he grabs Tao's hand, ready to drag him out of the room.
"Celebrate what?" Joonmyun asks. Sehun and Tao look at each other.
"A thing," Tao says slowly.
"Bye!" Sehun drags his boyfriend out of there before anybody can ask more. They don't want need to know what two are finished with.
Soon only Jongdae and Jongin are left in the room, ready for the special practice for Jongdae.
The younger gets worried quickly after they start, though, because out of nowhere Jongdae is suddenly much worse than he ever was before. That's not good, all the falling and tripping and forgetting what he was supposed to do.
"Hyung, focus," Jongin says, because he's very obviously not doing that.
"I can't." Jongdae snorts and sits down, annoyed.
"You can't? Why?" Jongin doesn't understand. He sits down next to the older and looks at him worriedly.
Jongdae looks up from the floor at the other. He looks in his eyes and then at his body.
"Really?"
Jongin blinks.
"You really don't get it?"
Jongdae sighs, because, as Jongin blinks again, it really seems like he is so not getting the way he moves, he looks, he stares at Jongdae sometimes.
It's driving Jongdae crazy. How he's supposed to focus? Especially as then Jongin stops dancing and turns into this cute puppy again and that's not helping at all. Because Jongdae likes both of Jongin's ways too much.
He notices Jongin shifting slightly and, obviously, his back must be hurting again. So with no other word, he quickly moves forward to Jongin, pushing him onto his tummy and sitting on his butt. He quickly sneaks his hands under Jongin's shirt and he starts massaging him slightly.
"H-hyung!" Jongin squeaks and immediately turns and manhandles Jongdae enough, so now it's him sitting on Jongdae's hips, looking down at him. "What was that?" Jongin asks, as he's holding Jongdae's hands.
The older isn't really happy, because he can't move like this, with Jongin sitting on him and pining his hands to the floor.
Except it feels kind of hot, too.
"A little massage for my hurting dongsaeng," Jongdae answers like it was the only, completely innocent reason.
Jongin stares at Jongdae for a moment and suddenly leans down to peck the older's lips, smiling softly.
Now Jongdae stares, shocked.
Jongin's hands loosens up a bit and Jongdae uses it, so he can links their fingers. Then he thinks for a moment and lets go of one of Jongin's hand, because he needs one of his own to put it on the back of the younger's head to bring him closer. Close enough to kiss.
And this kiss looks nothing like a quick peck and when Jongdae lets go, Jongin's expression is a little dazed, but he's still smiling and his eyes are bright with happiness.
"I like you, Jonginnie," Jongdae says softly. He's been thinking of this for quite a while, trying to be subtle (and being told he's not), and since he's kind of more than obvious for even Jongin now, he might as well say it.
"I like you, too, hyung," Jongin answers, smiling both shyly and lovingly at the same time.
Jongdae grins, too. Jongin's just too perfect.
"So can I massage you now?" he asks. Because he really wants to get his hands on Jongin, at least doing a massage since he guesses it wouldn't be right just jump into the younger's pants.
"When we're home," Jongin answers, trying to sound as sure of that as he only can, because he's really not going to change his decision. Jongdae nods, because, well, he's managed to bear it for a while, he can survive another hour or two.
And Jongin really can't agree for now. He likes massages too much and for the first time he'd rather not have Jongdae ravish him in the practice room. Jongdae's bed sounds that much better.
(Or Sehun's bed. A little revenge can't hurt.)
#
sehun's website, btw
Rating: PG:13
Genre: fluff, comedy
Pairing: Jongin/Jongdae, Kyungsoo/Baekhyun, Tao/Sehun, Luhan/Minseok, plus a thing
Words: -7k
Summary: Jongin has a bit of a problem with singing. Jongdae has a bit of a problem with dancing. Baekhyun wants his Kyungsoo time back, so he volunteers with the idea how those two should help each other.
A/N: For my little lovely theayakochan once again, because birthday, because wonderful in every way, because my sunshine has become legal.
#
Baekhyun glances at pouting Jongin. He's sad about his dongsaeng being in such a bad mood and he gets that, yeah, being scolded by their voice teacher sucks, especially that it's not even the first time this month.
But watching Jongin cuddling into Kyungsoo, who's feeding him strawberries (they're Tao's, too, but nobody really cares that much, since he's out with Sehun), and Kyungsoo being all caring and loving. Those things aren't really nice.
Baekhyun narrows his eyes. Kyungsoo is his and if he could not be embracing Jongin so lovingly, Baekhyun would appreciate it.
He knows better than to say anything right now, though. Jongin would only feel more awful and Kyungsoo would get pissed with him.
Baekhyun sighs. His life is so tough.
He turns to the side and notices Joonmyun, who's trying to cheer up Jongdae. The younger got scolded by their dance teacher (which doesn't surprise Baekhyun that much, if he's to be honest).
Baekhyun looks back to Jongin.
That's all sad and stuff, but how about his Kyungsoo time? How to make his cute dongsaeng happy and get his lover to pay attention to him?
Baekhyun blinks at Jongin. Then he looks back to Jongdae and again to Jongin.
"How about," he starts loudly, wanting to get everybody's attention. "How about Jongin and Jongdae help each other? Jongin will help with the dancing stuff and Jongdae will help with the singing. Here. It sounds perfect."
The others look at Baekhyun.
Jongin's eyes widen; Jongdae's brows furrow slightly; Joonmyun is almost smiling; Kyungsoo looks both a bit surprised and awed, as in not sure how it happened that Baekhyun got such a good idea.
"It could work," Joonmyun finally says, looking from Jongin to Jongdae and back.
Kyungsoo nods, still stroking Jongin's hair softly.
But as Jongin and Jongdae look at each other, they don't seem very sure about the idea.
"It's the best," Baekhyun says, as he gets up from the chair to go and jump onto the couch next to Kyungsoo. "You're like the best dancer," he turns to Jongin. "So you totally can help Jongdae and get him not to suck so badly." Baekhyun ignores his friend's offended hey!, as he turns his head to him. "And you're like people's favorite singer. You can totally work with Jongin and help him get better."
Jongdae isn't sure whether to be more offended by the not sucking so badly and then how nicely Baekhyun finished that for Jongin or to be glad at least for the favorite singer thing. It's totally oversaid and makes him want to chuckle awkwardly, but okay.
"It sounds reasonable," Kyungsoo says to Jongin.
"Maybe." The younger glances at Jongdae.
Jongdae himself isn't very sure about that. Jongin is just so amazing and now he's supposed to be teaching him? He knows the boy is just totally nice and he would never laugh at Jongdae’s fails, but still.
Jongdae doesn't mind at all helping Jongin, though, how could he?
"So, what do you think?" Joonmyun turns to Jongdae, grinning at him.
Jongdae sighs.
"I guess."
*
To: Tao-er
what do you think of the website i sent you on your email? you in?
To: Sehunnie
some ideas are more than amazing. looking forward to seeing you in high heels
To: Tao-er
why does it need to be me :|
To: Sehunnie
because
To: Tao-er
you're the one getting handcuffed
To: Sehunnie
...
To: Sehunnie
deal
*
That's how Jongdae ends up with Jongin in their practice room after the actual practice. He's even more spent than he usually is and more tense and in worse shape and just a big fail from the very beginning. Since, well, he might've spent the whole practice focusing mainly on watching Jongin dance. Move. Breath. Exist.
Jongin does those things very, very handsomely. It's simply unfair, Jongdae thinks.
It's even more unfair, since now Jongin is all messy-looking, his shirt is sweaty, his beautiful skin is pretty much glowing, he's panting and he basically looks like after hours of hot sex.
But then Jongin smiles softly at Jongdae and asks him if he's okay and Jongdae sighs, because Jongin is just so cute and lovely and he has no right to be staring at the younger and feeling so tempted to get his hands on him. Nope.
"Y-yeah," Jongdae mumbles, coughing awkwardly.
Abort mission, his mind scream instantly, because that is so not the cool Jongdae that he should be for this cute dongsaeng.
But about an hour later even Jongdae's mind is too tired to scream any kind of bullshit as he flops onto the floor. He glances at Jongin and he looks even more sexy and can he just stop being real.
Jongin sits next to Jongdae.
"You okay?" he asks, smiling innocently, as he hasn't been moving sinfully for the past sixty minutes, like he hasn't had his hands on Jongdae's body to help him show the way to move.
Jongdae hums, too tired to actually speak. He watches Jongin, though, as he tries to breath steady and calm down. He can see the younger moving in a weird way as he's sitting, though, and Jongdae isn't sure why. It takes him a few minutes to catch up that maybe Jongin's back hurts again.
"Do you want a massage or something?" he asks and then almost rolls his eyes at himself, at how smooth that came out.
Jongin only turns to him and blinks. He stares at Jongdae for a moment and then at his hands, and Jongdae feels like Jongin is zoning out.
"Jongin?" he tries, using the rest of his energy to reach out one of his hands and touch the small of Jongin's back.
The younger flinches and shakes his head.
"N-no need, hyung," he mumbles, and takes Jongdae's hand into his own to put it away softly. "I'm okay, really," Jongin adds as he turns his face away.
Jongdae can't help but grin as he notices the light blush on Jongin's face.
*
Kyungsoo glances to the side as he's watching his show on the tv. He decides to ignore the maknae happily skipping through the room with a few pillows in his arms. He really couldn't care less, he thinks distantly as he looks back to the tv.
Except then there's Tao who's running through the room, all excited, also holding lots of pillows in his arms.
Kyungsoo would keep on not giving a crap, except he recognizes one of the pillows.
It looks exactly like his favorite one.
He gets up and runs after Tao.
Kyungsoo isn't fast enough, though, because the door pretty much closes in his face and when he tries opening it, Tao has clearly locked it already.
"Hey!" he yells, hitting the door with his fist.
Then he notices his pillow laying on the floor. Tao seems to have dropped it, fortunately. Kyungsoo picks it up quickly.
There's no answer from the room, though, so he hits the door once again.
"What are you two doing in there with all those pillows?"
Still no answer. But Kyungsoo hears something that sounds like somebody falling onto the bed.
"Guys!"
He waits a moment. He hears a moan and grimaces.
"Will we want the pillows back?" he tries asking, a bit more quietly.
He's not expecting an answer, though. And, good, because he only gets a louder moan.
"I take it as a no," he murmurs to himself.
But at least he's got his own pillow safe.
Kyungsoo sighs and he's ready to turn around and go back to his show, far away from this sinful room, when he feels a slap on his butt.
He forever is going to deny the squeak he makes at that, though.
He hears a very familiar laugh and turns to glare at Baekhyun who's running away.
"You're dead!" he yells as he throws his pillow at the older.
Baekhyun only laughs louder, even when he gets hit in the face with the pillow.
*
Minseok looks sadly at his plate. He's got none of those little, cute cherry tomatoes that he likes. They taste all nice and fresh and he's getting none today and that's sad.
They've been getting this kind of salad along with their breakfast for a few days now and he got used to the cute cherry tomatoes.
And now it seems like it's a bad day for the little tomatoes.
But suddenly two ofthose sneak onto his plate on a spoon.
Minseok looks to the side and grins, when he sees it's Luhan's spoon and it's him, who's being so wonderful.
"Thank you, Lu-ge~" he says cutely. Little aegyo can do no wrong and he knows how much the other likes it.
Except Luhan stops his smile from happening and looks down.
"Hey, you okay?" Minseok asks softly, putting his hand on the younger's arm.
Luhan clears his throat and sits up straight, looking ahead, obviously troubled with something.
"Of course," he answers and Minseok can hear his voice sounds strange.
"Are you sure? You can tell me, if something's wrong, Luhannie." He's worried already. He's never seen the other acting like this and it's confusing.
"Yeah." Luhan looks away to the side.
Minseok doesn't believe him. He's been acting a bit off for the past few days, but this here is just too obvious for him to ignore.
But he doesn't think he should push Luhan. It would only make things worse. He should give him some time to sort out whatever is troubling him. Only then, if Luhan doesn't, Minseok will try again. And he'll succeed. He won't have bad things happening to Luhan, if he can say anything about it.
So he just puts his hand on Luhan's head for a moment, to stroke his hair softly, and then he takes it back, looking back to his food.
"Thank you anyway, Luhannie," he says, smiling slightly.
*
When the breakfast is almost over, Luhan is having more and more difficult time not to look at Minseok. Not to smile at him, not to talk with him, not to laugh with him. Not to be with him.
And it's awful. He wants to do those things so badly.
But no. He's decided. He knows better. No.
So he takes a deep breath and looks around, hoping to find something else to focus on instead of that wonderful being that's sitting next to him.
And, well, nervous Jongin seems like an interesting choice. Because Jongin usually doesn't look this nervous, when they're together and at home.
Luhan keeps observing the younger boy for a while and very soon he can guess where the nervousness is coming from. Jongin keeps glancing at Jongdae and then pretending he's not and talking to Kyungsoo and Sehun and then glancing back to Jongdae.
That's so cute.
Luhan's heard about how they're helping each other. And it's cute and a really good idea with how much they can teach each other. And, well.
There's one more thing they can figure out.
Luhan's wondering whether the members have a bet going on about it already. He'd like to join.
He's smiling softly, amused with the thought, when suddenly there's a hand on his thigh, a very familiar hand that he probably shouldn't just know whose it is so easily and quickly.
But he knows and he tenses and he almost stops breathing as he's trying to keep himself from reacting in any way.
Dammit. Why is it so hard? Why is Minseok so amazing? Can he stop? He can't be real like this, can he?
*
Jongin chuckles as he's watching Kyungsoo trying to pretend he can't see Baekhyun.
Because Kyungsoo is standing in front of the vocal teacher and Baekhyun is behind the guy and he’s making weird faces at Kyungsoo. At times those are even kissy faces.
But through most of this, Kyungsoo seems to be managing, only throwing random glares at the older.
When the song is close to the end, though, Kyungsoo's voice cracks slightly.
Jongin raises his brows at that, because he knows the older is really good at that not happening, especially when it’s only because of Baekhyun. So he looks at the latter and sees him mouth something at Kyungsoo.
Jongin looks back to the one singing and can see his hands turning into fists, as Kyungsoo finally closes his eyes and tries to finish the song properly.
Later, the vocal teacher isn't very happy with Kyungsoo. He tells the boy he mostly did the song okay, he just needs to work on the end and he's supposed to be perfect on the next lesson. Or else.
By the time the teacher finishes talking, Baekhyun is nowhere to be seen. It doesn't stop Kyungsoo from glaring and muttering death threats.
Jongin isn't sure he wants to know what Baekhyun was mouthing to Kyungsoo, though.
"Jonginnie?"
Jongin almost jumps up slightly as the hand suddenly put on his shoulder. He turns his head to the side and sees Jongdae.
"Hyung." He smiles shyly.
"Let's go?" Jongdae asks. Jongin nods quickly.
He knows Jongdae wants only to help and he's amazing and he appreciates how his hyung doesn't mind spending time teaching Jongin better ways to sing properly.
But Jongin still can't help but feel slightly nervous.
*
"Try breathing deeper," Jongdae says.
Jongin tries doing so again. Because he has been breathing deeply.
"No, no- I mean- deeper-" Jongdae sighs. How is he supposed to explain that? He knows how to do this, but explaining it to somebody? Impossible.
He moves closer to Jongin and takes the other’s hand, putting it on his own tummy.
"Breath kind of like this," he says and tries demonstrating it, so the younger can feel it with his hand.
He keeps doing it for a moment and only then Jongdae realizes that the mood is kind of changing.
He blinks.
He glances up at Jongin, who's looking back at him. Jongdae can't really say what is that exactly, but there is that something in his eyes.
He feels the younger's hand squeezing slightly on his stomach, which then makes Jongdae's breathing turn very, very not proper. It gets a bit difficult, too.
"Jongdae-hyung," Jongin whispers quietly, looking down to his hand and then back to the older's face.
Jongdae sighs. Somehow Jongin's voice sounds simply breath-taking like this and now and Jongdae is pretty sure it's so not the goal of this exercise.
Especially when Jongdae notices Jongin's eyes moving slightly lower, to his lips. Jongdae's heartbeat speeds up and he licks his lips nervously. Jongin definitely sees that, though, and it makes him bite down on his lower lip, which distracts Jongdae even more.
Somehow, for some reason, in some way, he's about to move and he can see Jongin is, too, and Jongdae doesn't know, if that's a good idea, but he needs to.
"Whoops."
Both Jongdae and Jongin quickly jump away from each other and try to pretend like nothing was about to happen, absolutely nothing. Then they look to the side to see amused Chanyeol with a laptop in his hand.
"Don't mind me. Keep going. I'll go somewhere else," he says, grinning.
Jongdae wants to flip him off, but he glances at Jongin and the younger is pretty much blushing and it's such a cute sight that he couldn't give less of a crap about Chanyeol, who just leaves the room.
Jongin and Jongdae glance at each other awkwardly.
"Let's continue?" the older finally says after a moment. Jongin nods, smiling shyly.
Jongdae smiles back, because the younger is just so cute.
*
Sehun chuckles, watching the little glances Jongin keeps throwing at Jongdae. He's even more amused by those from the older guy, too.
The hand on his thigh squeezes and Sehun blinks, looking thoughtlessly ahead for a moment. Then he looks to his side, raising his brow at Tao.
The older only smirks at Sehun and keeps talking with Luhan.
Sehun narrows his eyes at the little shit that is his boyfriend. They're about to go and have their shower day, there's really no reason for Tao to grope him.
"Where's Chanyeol?" Joonmyun asks out of nowhere.
The others look at him, having no idea as well.
"In his room, I think?" Minseok answers. He's pretty sure he saw Chanyeol going in there earlier. He looks at Luhan so he can confirm he did, too, since they saw the younger guy together, but the other only stares at Joonmyun stiffly. Minseok rolls his eyes.
"Maybe he's still traumatized after we found the red high heels on Sehun's bed," Baekhyun suggests, grinning at the maknae.
Sehun glares at him and then at Tao, reaching out his hand to hit his lover's head.
"I told you to get rid of them immediately after we were done!"
"They looked like they belonged to a stripper, you should've kept them," Baekhyun adds helpfully.
"Were done doing what?" Kyungsoo asks with a straight, innocent face. Baekhyun chuckles, because by this point he knows better than to believe in that face; Kyungsoo knows exactly what Sehun meant.
And Kyungsoo knew exactly that the two maknaes would get all red and annoyed.
Joonmyun starts coughing loudly, though, hoping to get all the attention back to himself. He'd really rather not hear what Sehun and Tao could need the high heels for.
As he's thought way too often since he joined EXO and got to know his members, the less you know~
*
Joonmyun raises his hand to knock on the door, but he doesn't get to as it opens and he barely stops himself from knocking on Chanyeol's torso.
They both blink at each other.
"Hyung?"
"Um, yeah." Joonmyun smiles at the younger. "I was about to ask, if you want something to eat. You didn't join us before, so you must be hungry."
Chanyeol smiles back, feeling all nice and warm inside, touched with the leader's concern.
"I'm okay, Joonmyunnie-hyung." He raises his hand and puts it on Joonmyun's shoulder.
"Hyung!" Baekhyun appears in that moment, grabbing the leader's hand. "Sehun and Tao have been showering for like thirty minutes now!"
Joonmyun shrugs.
"Go and tell them to hurry up?" he suggests.
"No!" Baekhyun grimaces. "You can... hear things. From the bathroom."
Joonmyun and Chanyeol grimace slightly as well.
"Your turn is next, deal with that yourself." Joonmyun takes his hand from Baekhyun's and takes Chanyeol's. "Let's get you something to eat."
"Hyung! You can't leave me like this."
"I'll ask Kyungsoo to help you," Joonmyun says helpfully as he's walking towards the kitchen with Chanyeol, who's only chuckling at Baekhyun's misery.
"No!" Baekhyun frowns at Joonmyun. Is he crazy? Does he wants Kyungsoo to kill him? In front of the bathroom door is not the place he wouldn't mind a little choking to take place. A bed is a much better option, he'll go with that one.
Then he thinks a bit.
"Actually," he starts, murmuring to himself.
"Okay," he yells happily and passes by the other two, running to the room where he knows Kyungsoo is.
Joonmyun stares after Baekhyun and shakes his head.
"He really should stop teasing Kyungsoo so much."
"It's funny how Baekhyun thinks it'd work on Kyungsoo. And, like, hearing the maknaes' moans? Nah, no way." Chanyeol laughs. "It'll work more on Baekhyun himself."
Joonmyun doesn't answer, because he can only agree. Poor, poor Baekhyun. And he's only going to be poorer the day his teasing becomes too much for Kyungsoo. Joonmyun can only hope he won't be around.
*
"Yes! You're doing good, hyung." Jongin grins at Jongdae. "Great," he says as he keeps watching the older dance.
He's the only one watching and Jongdae is the only one dancing, because it's supposed to be the break for their dance practice, so nobody else cares.
There's Joonmyun, who's smiling and sometimes adding something to Yixing and Chanyeol's more or less excited conversation about songs they were writing lately. Then there's Baekhyun who spends his time pouting at Kyungsoo, who looks like he couldn't care less, since he's busy talking with Minseok, whom Luhan is pretending not to be glancing at.
Then there are Sehun and Tao and they are... Not in the room. They disappeared like twenty minutes ago and nobody's seen them ever since. Nobody feels like searching for them either.
"But, Kyungsoo, it really wasn't me," Baekhyun says softly for what feels like fiftieth time.
And it really wasn't him. He just found the empty bottle of Kyungsoo's favorite almond cream on the floor in the room. He's honestly got no idea how it got there and why.
Kyungsoo doesn't believe him, though. Baekhyun has no idea why. He's been very good lately, so there's no reason for this lack of trust.
Unless...
Baekhyun starts wondering as he sneaks his hand into Kyungsoo's, linking their fingers. He smiles, when the other doesn't make him let go.
... Unless Kyungsoo had some plans with that cream. It's been like two weeks since they had some fun together, so he guesses it'd be pretty awesome of Kyungsoo to think of something special for when they do have that fun. And Kyungsoo is very awesome.
Baekhyun likes the idea of playing with the cream.
"I know why you're angry now," he whispers into Kyungsoo's ear.
The latter finally glances at him, his brow raised. He doesn't think Baekhyun does know, though, if he can go by the expression on his face.
"You wanted the cream for us," Baekhyun continues. Kyungsoo properly turns to look at him, not sure where he's going with that. "You wanted to get it all over me. Or, even better, you'd let me spread the cream all over your naked body and then suck and lick and-"
Kyungsoo puts his hand on Baekhyun's face in panic, trying to look like he's heard nothing. It does make Baekhyun stop speaking, but his voice, his words are still ringing in Kyungsoo's mind.
"You two okay?" Minseok asks, looking confused at his dongsaengs. Why is Kyungsoo holding his hand on Baekhyun's face? Why is Baekhyun grinning?
Kyungsoo coughs.
"Yeah. Very," Kyungsoo answers quickly. "How about Luhannie-hyung?" he adds to have Minseok focusing back on the latter. He succeeds and rolls his eyes at how Luhan looks away instantly.
Either way, the two older guys are back to not focusing on them, so Kyungsoo takes his hand from Baekhyun's face and glares at him.
"Shut up," he says stiffly.
Baekhyun chuckles. But he doesn't say anything, he just squeezes Kyungsoo's hand with his own and sneaks the other one onto the other's thigh, also squeezing softly.
Kyungsoo is content to pretend Baekhyun's doing nothing. He just keeps staring at Jongin who finally goes to sit down and literally flinches, when he hears a phone vibrating and sees that it's Tao's. Kyungsoo's curious, he's seen Jongin sometimes glancing at the guy's phone and grimacing.
On the other hand, maybe he'd rather not know. Especially if it has something to do with the youngest maknae as well. He might just let the youngest three have their own secrets he doesn't need to know about.
That sounds about right.
And it sounds even better as he feels Baekhyun's hand squeezing on his thigh. Anything sounds better than that, really.
*
Joonmyun looks around. It's supposed to be a proper dinner for them all and for them to spend time together and no, he doesn't care some of them even shower together, as right now they should be sitting here as twelve and enjoy each other and that's final.
Except, it's not really final at all.
Especially as one, Chanyeol, is missing again.
(Plus, there’s the thing that nobody speaks of.)
And then there are Tao and Sehun, with Tao making a great Yixing impression with how much he’s zoning out. Joonmyun isn't even sure, if he's not sleeping. Sehun just looks tired as he eats and stares at Baekhyun blankly who's talking at to him excitedly.
Then there's Jongdae and Jongin who are talking about something happily, chuckling and giggling at times. It's something that has to do with their after practice practice, where they're helping each other, but still, they seem to be ignoring everybody else.
Yixing just doesn't seem to care, too focused on his food and thinking about the important matters from his own world.
And then there's Minseok who's talking with Luhan, except the latter keeps acting weird and like he doesn't care. Because, well, Luhan not caring about Minseok in any way? Too weird.
Joonmyun sighs, as it doesn't seem they'll be having their happy family time today. He's done.
He looks to the side and sees that Yixing is done, too, at least with his food. So they might as well be both done and maybe look for Chanyeol. The kid needs to eat something.
So Joonmyun stands up and pokes Yixing's arm, then says 'Let's go' at his confused look. Yixing blinks a few more times, but gets up in the end.
Before he walks out of the kitchen, Joonmyun looks around one more time and shakes his head. Ah, those kids. It's difficult to take care of them, especially since they all sometimes think they know better. (They don't.)
*
With Yixing by his side, Joonmyun stands in front of Chanyeol and his roommates' room. He listens for a moment, trying to hear, if something is happening in inside, but he only hears somebody talking. It's obviously Chanyeol's voice and his laugh.
Joonmyun knocks.
He waits for some reaction from the room, but nothing comes. Chanyeol keeps talking in there as if he hasn't heard anything. And maybe he hasn't.
Joonmyun knocks one more time, louder.
Still nothing.
He looks to Yixing, who shrugs. Joonmyun decides to knock one last time, but Yixing just opens the door and pushes him softly inside, walking in behind him.
Chanyeol doesn't notice the little commotion, of course, as he keeps talking. And as Joonmyun looks at the younger, of course, he's got his headphones on as he's talking on his computer. He steps closer and then freezes, when he sees the screen of the computer. Chanyeol's speaking with-
"Chanyeol," Yixing says loudly enough for the younger to finally hear as Joonmyun just keeps staring.
The figure on the screen notices them first and is obviously badly shocked at their sight, but then Chanyeol turns, his eyes wide and panic clear on his face. He stands up, the cable of the headphones too short, which is how he pulls it out of the computer, and they can hear that voice again.
"Joonmyunnie. Yixingie," Yifan says softly from the screen.
Joonmyun just keeps staring, not sure what to do, as Yixing makes a step closer.
"Hyung, I'm sorry, it's just," Chanyeol starts, with no idea what to actually say, how to explain. "I know we were supposed not to talk to Yifan-hyung and we were all mad, so we didn't, but- But Yifan-hyung- Hyung, I couldn't not to. He's made his choices and maybe those choices hurt us, but- But Yifan-hyung is Yifan-hyung and he feels bad about that enough. I don't want him to feel even worse by having no contact with us." Chanyeol isn't sure, if what he said makes sense, but he hopes it does. He hopes he won't make either Joonmyun nor Yixing mad. Or nobody else. He just missed his Yifan-hyung so much.
"Joonmyun-ah, don't be mad at Chanyeol," Yifan starts. "If anybody, be mad at me. I deserve it. I knew Chanyeol would keep talking with me. I wanted him to. I knew he'd want to, too. I didn't want to be cut off completely."
Yixing comes closer to the computer and sits down on Chanyeol's chair. He looks blankly for a moment and then smiles slightly. They'd been together for so long, with Yifan, and in a way he understands what the older did and why. And he misses him.
Chanyeol feels better, when he sees Yixing smiling softly and as he glances at Yifan, he knows the older does, too. But then he looks back to Joonmyun, who's just standing there and staring with no words, he's feeling worried again.
Because Joonmyun is amazing and nice and just so kind. But he can be like that only for so long. Chanyeol isn't sure what the older will do in the end.
"We miss you."
Chanyeol blinks. He didn't expect hearing that, he didn't expect Joonmyun to just say that and walk closer to the computer, he didn't expect Joonmyun to stand next to Yixing and put his hand on the latter's shoulder as he actually looks like he honestly misses Yifan so, so much.
"I miss you, too," Yifan says softly, smiling shakily. Chanyeol can say his hyung is close to tears and he understands. They've talked a few times how other members could react, if they were to talk with Yifan again, and it feels so amazing just to know that he'd hear those words, especially from those whose reaction they weren't sure of.
(Because Chanyeol mentioned how he was sure of Sehun's reaction for example. Even with the whole rebelliousness the youngest kept showing online, he knows that with Yifan approaching him and looking at him, Sehun would just jump his hyung and embrace so tightly and wouldn't want to let go.)
"How have you been?" Joonmyun finally asks, after a few moments they spend just being there and looking at each other.
"The internet says you've been doing very well," Yixing adds, smiling.
Yifan smiles widely, too, hearing that even after he left, they still cared enough to keep themselves updated about what he does.
Chanyeol can't help but grin as he moves another chair for Joonmyun to sit on it. Then he sits down on the bed closest to the computer, as his heart feels just so happy and warm as he's observing his hyungs talk again.
After a few minutes, Joonmyun glances at him and holds out his hand. Chanyeol smiles as he takes it into his own and sees Joonmyun taking Yixing's hand as well. He squeezes them both.
Yifan doesn't think he's going to stop smiling for a few next days. They'd been through so much together as twelve and now it doesn't seem like he's lost them forever. Slowly he'll get all of his wonderful brothers back. The future doesn't seem so grim anymore, as he'll have them to be happy with again.
*
The breakfast is going smoothly and all, and not everyone are awake yet, but Minseok doesn't mind. He's happily sitting and eating his favorite thing and Tao and Sehun are being cute together and there's Chanyeol with Yixing and Joonmyun and they're happily talking about something while looking at Chanyeol's phone.
And Minseok's tea is so nice, just the perfect way he likes it. He can sense Luhan made it before he sneaked out to take a shower as Minseok was walking into the kitchen.
It's so peaceful like this.
"You're gross!"
Well, not anymore.
Minseok blinks as he looks up at Jongdae who's holding something in his hand. He stares at the thing for a moment. Then he blinks again.
"What do you need the handcuffs for, Jongdae?" Joonmyun asks carefully.
"It's theirs, of course!" he yells, pointing at Tao and Sehun.
Everybody's attention goes to the maknaes, how are trying to look as innocent as they can.
"Were you safe enough? Neither of you got hurt?" Joonmyun asks. He gets that the two maknaes do things and he'd rather know definitely less than more, but either way he hopes they are careful.
They both smile at Joonmyun, appreciating his concern. He's such a caring hyung.
Jongdae snorts.
"It was on my bed!"
It has their attention again, now everyone looking at the two youngest not impressed with that fact.
"Whoops." Tao chuckles.
"It was the only room that was empty," Sehun adds, shrugging.
Jongdae throws the handcuffs at them, but Tao easily catches them and hides into his pocket.
He's waiting for a proper explanation for that; even Joonmyun's waiting for one, too.
"Hello, my dearest friends!" Baekhyun yells the moment he walks into the kitchen. The attention immediately shifts from Tao and Sehun to him, some more amused, some not at all.
Especially when they notice him limping slightly.
Jongdae glares at Baekhyun, because it was his time to whine at the maknaes, not Baekhyun's time to boast about how he finally teased Kyungsoo enough and the other had his way with him.
And then Kyungsoo actually walks into the kitchen as well and he looks plainly tired, but also Jongdae can notice that there's something different about Kyungsoo today, though he's not sure what it is yet.
Kyungsoo says nothing, though. He takes the food and starts eating, barely even glancing at anybody else.
Baekhyun grins and skips to the chair next to Kyungsoo, quickly sitting there.
"Give me some?" he asks cutely and the others look at him in fright. Is he trying to get killed? Is he trying to get stabbed with a chopstick?
Except, as the members keeps staring at the two, Kyungsoo just raises his chopstick and feeds Baekhyun a bit of his meet, a little smile on his face. Then he raises his hand and pats Baekhyun's head.
Baekhyun smiles lovingly at Kyungsoo, who looks back to his food, and leans forward to him to peck his beloved's cheek.
The members can only stare. Such a things doesn't happen often. Or almost never.
Baekhyun really had to tire Kyungsoo out badly for him to be so peaceful.
Tao and Sehun also can notice now what has been off with Kyungsoo this morning: there's no satan vibe, it's gone. Well, for now.
"Should we tell that after we were done we just put the handcuffs into Jongdae's bed just to fuck with him?" Tao whispers to Sehun.
They watch annoyed Jongdae for a moment. Then sleepy Jongin comes into the kitchen and immediately goes to hug Jongdae who's still standing in the doorway. Somehow it clearly makes the older less annoyed.
"Nah." Sehun shakes his head. “He’s good.”
*
When the breakfast is done, all of the members present by now, Minseok is already a bit tired with all the scheming that's been happening. They can't just have a calm morning, the members need to get crazy.
He turns to Luhan and holds out his hands, wanting a hug. Luhan smiles and moves to embrace him, but then there's a panic on his face and he pulls away. He gets up and quickly goes out of the kitchen.
Minseok stares after the other.
He's so done with this. Luhan has been acting weirdly long enough and he's done now. Luhan is so telling him what's going on and he's solving it and that's it.
Minseok gets up and follows Luhan into his room, when he finds the other staring at his phone, seated on his bed.
Minseok sighs and sits on the floor in front of Luhan, putting his hands on the other's knees and looking up at him.
"What's wrong?" he asks.
Luhan only shakes his head, still staring at the phone.
"Tell me what's wrong," Minseok says. It's not a question anymore, Luhan is telling him.
Luhan looks to the side for a moment.
"Nothing," he finally answers.
Minseok isn't impressed.
"Tell me or I'm inviting Sehun and Tao for us three to sleep on your bed."
Luhan finally looks at Minseok, surprised. Then he glares slightly.
"No sleeping on my bed. Unless it's you. Unless we've-" he cuts off and blinks. "Nothing."
Minseok rolls his eyes. He watches Luhan for a moment, watches how he stares at his phone and sighs again. He takes Luhan's phone to see what's so interesting in there.
But what he sees is the fans' comments on the internet. About Luhan, about them.
He looks up at Luhan again, because he's confused. But Luhan looks to the side, like he didn't want Minseok to see.
"What?" he asks.
Luhan says nothing.
Minseok looks back to the other's phone and reads some of the comments. It's about how close they are, how Luhan stares at Minseok sometimes, how he's always near, how he smiles at Minseok, how he's pretty much obsessed-
"Luhan-ah," Minseok starts, because he hopes he's not getting it right. Luhan doesn't answer. "Luhannie, do you mind that much what they're saying?" he tries.
Luhan turns to Minseok and shakes his head.
"What's wrong then? You know they don't mean it in a bad way. They like that you like me and show it," Minseok tries explaining, as he starts moving his hand on Luhan's thigh in what he hopes to be a relaxing motion.
"Do you mind?" Luhan finally says.
Minseok blinks.
"What?" He really, really hopes he's not getting it right.
"Do you mind me being that... obvious?" Luhan asks. "I mean, I've seen pictures and gifs and videos and that's... a lot. I'm not being subtle at all. I look so... obsessed." He grimaces at the word. "Am I too much?"
Minseok sighs, smiling softly at Luhan. He gets up and leans down to kiss his boyfriend's lips.
"Nope," he answers simply. "Not at all too much." He kisses Luhan again. "I like you showing how much you're mine and I’m yours." Minseok grins and kisses again. "I think I should you remind you how much I like it," he adds, sitting on Luhan's laps and embracing him.
Luhan finally smiles. He loves Minseok just so much and he loves showing it, too. He's not good at not showing it, though. And that's just wonderful that Minseok likes him showing it.
*
"We're going to celebrate!" Sehun yells happily, when they're done with the practice for the day, as he grabs Tao's hand, ready to drag him out of the room.
"Celebrate what?" Joonmyun asks. Sehun and Tao look at each other.
"A thing," Tao says slowly.
"Bye!" Sehun drags his boyfriend out of there before anybody can ask more. They don't want need to know what two are finished with.
Soon only Jongdae and Jongin are left in the room, ready for the special practice for Jongdae.
The younger gets worried quickly after they start, though, because out of nowhere Jongdae is suddenly much worse than he ever was before. That's not good, all the falling and tripping and forgetting what he was supposed to do.
"Hyung, focus," Jongin says, because he's very obviously not doing that.
"I can't." Jongdae snorts and sits down, annoyed.
"You can't? Why?" Jongin doesn't understand. He sits down next to the older and looks at him worriedly.
Jongdae looks up from the floor at the other. He looks in his eyes and then at his body.
"Really?"
Jongin blinks.
"You really don't get it?"
Jongdae sighs, because, as Jongin blinks again, it really seems like he is so not getting the way he moves, he looks, he stares at Jongdae sometimes.
It's driving Jongdae crazy. How he's supposed to focus? Especially as then Jongin stops dancing and turns into this cute puppy again and that's not helping at all. Because Jongdae likes both of Jongin's ways too much.
He notices Jongin shifting slightly and, obviously, his back must be hurting again. So with no other word, he quickly moves forward to Jongin, pushing him onto his tummy and sitting on his butt. He quickly sneaks his hands under Jongin's shirt and he starts massaging him slightly.
"H-hyung!" Jongin squeaks and immediately turns and manhandles Jongdae enough, so now it's him sitting on Jongdae's hips, looking down at him. "What was that?" Jongin asks, as he's holding Jongdae's hands.
The older isn't really happy, because he can't move like this, with Jongin sitting on him and pining his hands to the floor.
Except it feels kind of hot, too.
"A little massage for my hurting dongsaeng," Jongdae answers like it was the only, completely innocent reason.
Jongin stares at Jongdae for a moment and suddenly leans down to peck the older's lips, smiling softly.
Now Jongdae stares, shocked.
Jongin's hands loosens up a bit and Jongdae uses it, so he can links their fingers. Then he thinks for a moment and lets go of one of Jongin's hand, because he needs one of his own to put it on the back of the younger's head to bring him closer. Close enough to kiss.
And this kiss looks nothing like a quick peck and when Jongdae lets go, Jongin's expression is a little dazed, but he's still smiling and his eyes are bright with happiness.
"I like you, Jonginnie," Jongdae says softly. He's been thinking of this for quite a while, trying to be subtle (and being told he's not), and since he's kind of more than obvious for even Jongin now, he might as well say it.
"I like you, too, hyung," Jongin answers, smiling both shyly and lovingly at the same time.
Jongdae grins, too. Jongin's just too perfect.
"So can I massage you now?" he asks. Because he really wants to get his hands on Jongin, at least doing a massage since he guesses it wouldn't be right just jump into the younger's pants.
"When we're home," Jongin answers, trying to sound as sure of that as he only can, because he's really not going to change his decision. Jongdae nods, because, well, he's managed to bear it for a while, he can survive another hour or two.
And Jongin really can't agree for now. He likes massages too much and for the first time he'd rather not have Jongdae ravish him in the practice room. Jongdae's bed sounds that much better.
(Or Sehun's bed. A little revenge can't hurt.)
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sehun's website, btw