pairing: ken/leo
rating: g
wordcount: 2380w
summary: jaehwan wants mistletoe kissing; taekwoon is oblivious (or maybe not).
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“what happens under the mistletoe,” jaehwan repeats under his breath like a mantra, his voice just a singsong whisper in his dimly lit bedroom, “stays under the mistletoe.”
that’s what all the chick flicks he’s been binge watching promised and what the teen advice forums he’s been reading with no rest guaranteed; if you get him under the mistletoe, he will never be able to resist.
so he gets bold and opens his laptop, his fingers impatiently tapping on the keys at the speed of light; and before he can fully think this through he’s already paid for two sprigs of mistletoe.
it takes a while for them to get there (he’s made sure to order them straight from the us, so that they’re the same as in hollywood movies); almost two weeks of fidgeting and anxiety and “i paid for express shipping!” complains to the manufacturer - but they eventually do get there.
they come in a luxuriously glossy red box and once they’re in his hands he feels a bit better about it - a little bit bolder.
“what’s in there?” hongbin asks, giggly. “i bet it’s a vibrator.”
“it’s none of your fucking business,” jaehwan cuts him off with an exaggerated frown, soundly slamming the door behind him. maybe he should’ve just ordered one of those - it promised a more immediate reward and didn’t involve embarrassing yourself by making googly eyes to your fellow main vocal - but he’d made up his mind.
this christmas, he would finally get a taste of taekwoon’s lips.
he giggles and shakes his head, embarrassed by having caught himself mid-daydream. no time for silly stuff like this, he tries to coach himself; i need to think of a plan.
he puts the mistletoe back in its box, then stows the box under his desk.
he then gets up, dragging his tired legs behind him, and opens the door to his room - or tries to. it won’t open fully and jaehwan doesn’t understand why.
well, it comes free with a little pull - and so does hongbin, falling butt-first on the floor to his surprise, all wide-eyed and red in the face.
“you have three seconds to explain what you were doing behind my bedroom door,” jaehwan says, as threatening as he can manage to sound.
“well…” hongbin says as he gets up from the floor, making a show out of massaging his butt, pained face and all. “i thought there was some dirty business going on in there.”
“hmph,” jaehwan frowns, pretending to be offended. “you’re a fucking pervert for thinking that and trying to eavesdrop!”
“i just wanna know what’s in that box,” hongbin whines, his pretty lips shaping into a pout.
jaehwan just shrugs and smiles, teasing. “you’ll see.”
the few following weeks fly by fast between practice, schedules and lots of late night snacking - but for jaehwan? for jaehwan, they’re nothing but hell.
he counts the days left until christmas, drawing a tiny x next to the glossy numbers on his calendar.
he sighs, heart beating faster at the mere thought of what could happen.
hang on just a little more, jaehwanie, he tells himself, you’re gonna make it worth the wait.
it’s just a week before christmas when they finally get the chance to decorate the dorm, christmas lights and garlands and little plastic santas piling up everywhere.
jaehwan fiddles nervously with the garland he’s hanging, thinking about the sprigs of mistletoe he’s hidden in his room and all the ways he could put them on without the others noticing.
he decides to tell hakyeon about it - out of all of them, he’s the least likely to make fun of him, or at least that’s what he hopes - he’ll probably tease him a little bit, but he does it out of love, and jaehwan can deal with that.
“so… mistletoe, huh?” hakyeon says, trying to keep his giggles in without succeeding.
“i… yeah. i’ve read about it on the internet,” jaehwan chews on his lip, embarrassed. “if you get your crush under it, he’ll kiss you for sure.”
hakyeon’s grin softens, turning into a sweet, understanding smile. “i’m gonna pray it works!”
jaehwan smiles back, a bit embarrassed but grateful.
“i mean, i would never be able to resist if i were him.” hakyeon adds, smirking in that cheeky way that would have jaehwan at his feet had he not been completely infatuated with taekwoon already.
jaehwan laughs nervously, feeling all of his blood rush to his stupidly red cheeks.
“thanks, hyung.”
christmas eve starts with taekwoon quietly humming a carol under his breath, intent on spreading a generous dose of peanut butter on his toast.
he gives jaehwan a little, tight-lipped smile when he sees him enter the kitchen, and that’s enough to make jaehwan’s heart flutter stupidly.
“stop doing that, hyung!” hongbin yells from the hallway, sounding as upset and grossed out as one can be.
“what even happened?” sanghyuk asks, his voice muffled by the piece of bread he’s shoved down his throat.
“he just kissed me!” hongbin says, trying to wipe any trace of hakyeon off his face as energetically as he can. “he just did it!”
hakyeon just dashes into the kitchen behind hongbin, happily cackling.
“you were under the mistletoe,” he singsongs in a sultry yet mocking tone. “you know how that works.”
“eugh,” hongbin goes, still busy rubbing his cheek. “who even put up that dumb american thing anyway! i’d really like to have a chat.”
“i wonder who,” hakyeon smiles, sending a little wink in jaehwan’s direction.
jaehwan freezes into his seat, hoping that no one saw the way his face fired up for a second.
the day goes by faster than jaehwan wishes it to, time slipping between his sweaty fingers every time he steals a glance at taekwoon.
he sulks in front of the tv (they're showing love actually, and he dreads how happy everyone looks), tired of going up and down the hallway all day, waiting for taekwoon to come by and realize that hey, they’re under the mistletoe and jaehwan’s lips look pretty inviting.
"why are you in such a bad mood?" a voice comes from behind him, quickly followed by the feeling of a familiar hand on his shoulder.
"you know why." he replies, pouting.
"i've already kissed 4/6 of the group today, jaehwanie." hakyeon says, stroking the back of jaehwan's head. "i promise it's not that hard."
"that's different!" jaehwan retorts, reacting so violently it makes hakyeon jump in his stop.
"i'm sorry," he bites his lips, embarrassed. "but it's different. those are friend kisses - i get those all the time."
"then just try harder, dummy!" he hits jaehwan's head with his little balled up fist, firmly but gently. "i'm rooting for you."
jaehwan's shoulders relax under his touch, and he manages to crack a little, grateful smile.
"i'm gonna do my best."
"does anyone wanna play games?" sanghyuk shouts from the kitchen, his voice higher than usual after gulping down a few drinks.
jaehwan rolls his eyes, locking the bathroom door behind him.
he feels the alcohol dull down his senses, making it hard for him to think clearly.
he reaches the sink, letting the water flow until it gets cold enough to wake him up, splashing his flushed face with it until he feels a little sharper.
all the memories from today come rushing back to him, and he feels dread engulf him.
he thinks of taekwoon's pink lips glistening after taking shot of alcohol, looking soft and sweet and too inviting.
he lets out a sigh of defeat. clearly hoping for taekwoon to make the first move isn't working out, so he needs to do something; to maybe drop some hints at him.
he almost gets a heart attack when he bumps into taekwoon outside the bathroom, their faces so close he can almost feel taekwoon's nose with the tip of his.
taekwoon cracks a shy smile and all jaehwan can think about is how they're standing just a few steps away from the mistletoe, how close their faces are and how little it'd take for him to just lean in and kiss him.
but he doesn't - his body moves just a little too late, senses still slowed down by the alcohol; and before he notices, taekwoon is already past him, his hand on the bathroom handle.
it happens again, just a little after midnight, all of them sitting in a circle and toasting to baby jesus and all that; it's then that jaehwan happens to lock eyes with taekwoon's tired ones, and what he sees in them is a reflection of his own desire.
it only lasts a couple seconds, though, taekwoon's gaze quickly caught by something else, probably by a wonshik drunkenly trying to juggle cupcakes with both his eyes closed.
it's enough to give jaehwan a little bit of hope though, and when he passes out he has a peaceful, dreamless sleep.
"hyung, wake up," sanghyuk's voice echoes in jaehwan's ears as he shakes him by the shoulders, trying to wake him up.
"mmm," jaehwan's mouth feels dry and pasty, his head achey and confused.
"is it still christmas?" he asks, causing sanghyuk to cackle loudly.
"just how much did you drink, you dumbass?"
"i'm tired," jaehwan says, sighing. "i swear i caught him under the mistletoe like 30 times. it's just not meant to happen."
"come on, jaehwan," hakyeon puts his signature hand on jaehwan's shoulder, rubbing it gently. "you just have to do the first move."
"i'm not gonna jump on him!" he yells, loud enough for wonshik to come and check out the source of the noise, retreating when all he finds is his two hyungs confabulating.
“i’m not saying you have to jump on him, silly,” hakyeon chuckles, his voice just a whisper. “just try sending him signals.”
“signals?” jaehwan blinks, trying his best to look confused. he doesn’t like where this is going, not one bit.
“yeah. like googly eyes and that kind of body language, you know.”
“no, i don’t.”
hakyeon rolls his eyes, visibly exasperated.
“don’t be like that, jaehwan. i can’t be the only one who sees the way he looks at you, right?”
jaehwan could swear that he felt his heart stop for a moment.
“the way he… what…”
hakyeon rolls his eyes theatrically for what feels like the hundredth time.
“come on, jaehwan! he’s clearly into you!”
jaehwan’s body has stopped responding at this point, heart thumping loudly and ears buzzing.
he can feel his cheeks flush and his throat get dry, and he finds himself running to the hallway before he realizes what he’s doing.
all hakyeon does is chuckle.
“hyung?” jaehwan says, voice almost dying in his throat, and he regrets speaking right away.
“mmm?”
taekwoon is standing in front of him, right under the mistletoe. he looks so tired yet so beautiful, strands of his black hair falling into his eyes, long fingers darting to move them away.
"are you okay, jaehwanie?" he asks, his eyes filled with what looks like genuine concern.
he hesitates, then reaches to jaehwan's face, stroking it.
“you don't look too well."
"i'm okay!" jaehwan yelps, shuddering at the feeling of taekwoon's hand on his skin.
taekwoon exhales deeply, like in relief. his hand is still cupping jaehwan's cheek, his hold gentle but firm.
"are you sure?"
jaehwan nods, keeping his eyes low.
it takes a couple seconds to register what's happening - taekwoon's hand still stroking his face and his lips on his forehead, soft and warm and making jaehwan's heart beat like a set of drums.
he just freezes, back against the wall, waiting for taekwoon's lips to leave his skin, for taekwoon's voice to just say something, to explain what's going on.
he just takes his hand away, then looks into jaehwan's eyes; the way he's chewing on his lips revealing just how nervous he is.
"um," he starts, fumbling on his words.
"isn't this what you wanted?" he asks, eyes down. "or have i been reading too much into it?"
jaehwan has to bite his lips to keep himself from smiling too hard.
he drapes his hands around taekwoon's neck, giggling. "please kiss me."
he can see taekwoon's cheek grow pink before he closes his eyes, finally feeling taekwoon's soft lips against his own.
it's sweet and warm and everything he's ever wished for, and as taekwoon's fingers start lacing with his own, he feels like this is the best christmas present he could ever receive.
"i can't believe you like me," taekwoon sighs, playing with jaehwan's fingers.
he strokes his cracked knuckles, his touch sweet and gentle like the way he kissed him before.
"you like me... out of all people."
jaehwan grabs his hands, flustered.
"it's the other way around, actually..." he mouths, embarrassed. "you know, that whole mistletoe ordeal. that was about you."
taekwoon chuckles, that tiny smile jaehwan loves so much gracing his lips, his eyes shining.
"i thought so... that was cute."
jaehwan tugs on taekwoon's sleeve, pouting. "so you knew all along? couldn't you just kiss me earlier and put an end to my misery?"
taekwoon smiles, leaving a trail of light kisses on jaehwan's cheeks.
"but it was more fun this way, wasn't it?"
"if almost dying of heartache is your idea of fun," jaehwan rolls his eyes when taekwoon kisses the back of his ear, trying to hide the way it actually makes him blush. "then i had the most delightful time of my life!"
taekwoon shuts him up when he leans for another kiss, sweet and hot in a way that makes his legs tremble; his big hands wrap around jaehwan's waist, pulling him in closer as they deepen their kiss.
jaehwan almost forgets to open his eyes when taekwoon pulls back, and when he does he's greeted by taekwoon's toothy smile, so sweet and genuine it almost brings him to tears.
"can i kiss you again?" jaehwan asks, nearly breathless.
"sure, but that's all you get from me this christmas!"
jaehwan elbows him, faking a fit of anger. "you stingy loser."
he feels his heart skip a beat when taekwoon smiles again, wider this time.
if that's all he'd get for christmas, then he feels that he could deal.
I cant stop thinking about this idea of cisgirl jaehwan getting a strap on and coaxing his reluctantly willing boyfriend wonshik into it... wonshik is so whipped for her anyway hed do anything with the right convincing ahsbdhsjb this prompt is so nasty im sorry
hi!! first of all thank you for liking my stuff enough to send me a prompt, it means a lot ;; sadly i’m not really comfortable about writing genderbend fic so i can’t write this for you - i’m sorry! i hope you have a good day ♡
pairing: ken/hyuk/hongbin
rating: nc-17
wordcount: 1125w
summary: a rated movie gets hongbin a little too hot; sanghyuk wants to do something about it.
notes: based on a fanaccount of hyukenbin watching the movie "the treacherous" (trailer here) with gongchan at the theather~
for nabs! ♡
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sanghyuk is the first to notice - the first to see the flush on hongbin's cheeks and the way his little hand is balled into a fist on their shared armrest.
it's quite a sight to see, his pretty eyes darting nervously from the screen to his crotch, biting his lips in what looks like a mix between anxiety and excitement.
it doesn't take long for jaehwan to notice, too - just a little eager elbowing from sanghyuk and a malicious look between the two of them - and he squeezes sanghyuk's hand, like in a tacit agreement.
sanghyuk lets his long fingers ghost on hongbin's thigh, just a little tapping at first, so delicate it almost feels unintentional; then he starts tracing the lines of his thigh, his fingernails digging into the fabric of hongbin's jeans.
it's when he starts massaging the inside of hongbin's thigh that he feels the other tense up under his touch, shivering just a little - and he can't help but grin in excitement.
his hand slides right off of hongbin when he suddenly gets up, muttering an "i'm going to the bathroom" to a gongchan way too immersed in the movie in front of him to care.
sanghyuk bites his lips, feeling a rush of excitement run through his body.
it's not the first time he's tried to make a move on hongbin - more like the fourth or the tenth, actually - and the feeling of hongbin's plush lips under his own is still new enough to make him a little harder in his pants.
"you going?" jaehwan asks, singsong. he's stroking sanghyuk's thigh with his thumb, probably by habit, and the look in his eyes is that of pure, undoubted desire.
that makes sanghyuk shiver.
"yeah," he says, getting up. "you too?"
jaehwan's eyes twinkle, his mouth curving into a smile.
“there’s no way i’d miss that.”
sanghyuk is the first to sneak into the restroom - he walks in on his tiptoes, making sure that no one’s around before knocking on the only occupied stall.
“occupied!” hongbin’s shaky voice chimes, and sanghyuk can’t help but giggle.
“it’s me, dumbass hyung.”
he hears hongbin’s raspy breath as he fiddles with what seems to be his zip.
“let me in.”
once hongbin opens the door sanghyuk just leaps on him, kissing and licking every inch of his face with a voracity he didn’t know he was capable of.
“t-the bathroom door is open, sanghyuk, wait-”
hongbin’s neck tenses up under his lips when he hears shuffling coming from the restroom door, and he tries to quickly pull sanghyuk into the stall with him.
“shh, no need to worry,” sanghyuk mouths against his jaw, teasing. “it’s just jaehwanie hyung.”
jaehwan’s body presses against the both of them, rushing them into the bathroom stall fully and locking the door behind him.
“i really wanna kiss…” he says, a lascivious, needy whine.
sanghyuk doesn’t let him repeat himself - he backs him against the door, hands cupped around his face, then kisses him full on the mouth, two, three, five times.
they’re basically making out now, all open mouthed and obscene, sanghyuk’s knee between jaehwan’s legs, jaehwan recklessly rutting against it.
hongbin’s mouth feels dry and painfully empty, jaehwan’s muffled moans echoing in his ears only making him eager for more.
it’s like jaehwan read his mind, breaking away from sanghyuk’s needy kisses to kiss hongbin instead.
“i’m so hungry,” jaehwan moans through kisses, giggly.
he takes hongbin’s bottom lip between his teeth, nibbling on it lightly. “i might just eat you up.”
hongbin trembles under sanghyuk’s trained hands, his long fingers trailing under the band of hongbin’s oversized hoodie.
hongbin’s head feels like spinning, his face more and more flush with each of jaehwan’s kisses, the tightness in his pants almost unbearable.
“did our baby get horny by watching a movie?” jaehwan whispers into his neck, teasing.
he places a kiss to his jaw, then licks the spot. “do you want hyung to suck you off?”
hongbin huffs, teary-eyed from sanghyuk fiddling with his nipples.
“no way,” he says with eyes half-lidded, voice cracking. “i’m not whipping out my dick in a dirty bathroom stall.”
“how typical,” sanghyuk kisses him, chuckling. “you’re really no fun.”
no fun is not how hongbin would describe this, his nipples hard and aching between sanghyuk’s teeth, jaehwan’s tongue pushing further into his mouth with each passing moment.
“mmm,” he whines when sanghyuk grabs his crotch fully, mercilessly stroking it with his thumb through the fabric.
it doesn’t take too long for him to give into the pressure, hips rutting against sanghyuk’s hand, his eyes closed in a mix between bliss and shame.
“you’re so cute, hongbinnie,” jaehwan sings into his ear before taking the cartilage into his mouth, biting on it.
“so, so cute,” sanghyuk echoes, his grip firm on hongbin’s crotch as he leaves a trail of kisses on his abdomen.
“shut up,” hongbin hisses, biting his lips bloody when he takes one final thrust, coming undone against sanghyuk’s hand.
“that was the definition of cute,” jaehwan giggles, kissing hongbin’s cheeks full.
“he came into his pants!” sanghyuk points at him and laughs, so loud and clear and beautiful hongbin almost forgets that he’s the reason why he’s literally bending in two from laughing.
“i’m gonna kick you,” he whines, sounding way less threatening than he hoped to be, like a tiny kitten trying to learn how to hiss.
“as i was saying, cute,” jaehwan says with a sweet smile.
“really cute,” sanghyuk repeats, grinning.
“now get out of here before gongchan comes look for us,” he goes, ushering hongbin to the door.
“what about you guys?” hongbin asks, feeling a little pang of jealousy in his chest. “still got things to do?”
“well,” sanghyuk says, all but sheepish. “unlike you, i’m not afraid to whip my dick out in public.”
hongbin rolls his eyes, opening the door to the one face he never hoped to see right there.
“uh… hey…” he blurts out, trying his best not to look at gongchan’s face.
“what have y’all been doing in the toilet for so long? i swear you missed the best part!” gongchan says excitedly, seemingly oblivious to the dirty business going on under his nose.
“uh…” hongbin mentally goes through a bunch of various excuses, before deciding to go for the worst one. “i swear i had the worst case of diarrhea. what kind of luck, right?”
“man, for real,” gongchan pats him on the shoulders, loud enough to drown out the sound of the stall door closing up behind them.
“good thing i’m willing to give you a roundup!”
hongbin chuckles, fond and grateful of gongchan’s ingenuity.
“gee, thanks bud! i really don’t know what i’d do without you!”
#1, ken/ravi, g, ~150w. prompt: touchy
jaehwan wonders what it means. he wonders what it means when wonshik takes his hand into his own, tracing the irregular life line with his index. wonders what wonshik really wants to say when he lets his head fall on jaehwan's shoulder in the van, pretending he's fast asleep (jaehwan knows very well that he isn't). he asks himself if there's a meaning to wonshik's thumb gently stroking his skin whenever they're too close, if there's something more than just a need for contact in the way he plays with his hair sometimes. he wonders if the little kisses to his neck (it doesn't happen all that much, but they're there) could mean something, something alike to that warm feeling that wonshik gives him whenever they touch. he hopes that wonshik tells him with words one day, but it's okay for now -- for now, those little touches are all that he needs.
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#2, n/jisoo, pg, ~160w. prompt: late night comforts
"we broke up" hakyeon cries into the receiver, and jisoo can tell from the tone that he must be trembling. it takes less than half an hour for him to reach hakyeon's little rented room in the suburbs, palms sweaty and still wearing his pajama bottoms; only a few seconds is what it takes for hakyeon's arms to wrap around his neck, for hakyeon's mouth to find his own in a desperate, wordless pleading. "please," he whines, warm fingers snaking under jisoo's shirt, and jisoo feels the pits of his stomach burn, his head dizzying up, knowing too well that this is the only comfort that he can really give him. and as hakyeon lets himself fall down on the little, cheap motel bed he knows that he isn't doing this just for hakyeon -- knows that these hungry kisses and choked moans are as much of him as he can get, and hates himself for taking it.
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#3, n/ken, pg, ~240w. prompt: i wish i could hate you
he's drowning into another drink when he sees him make his way into the crowd, the sight of that unmistakable profile that he had grown to adore feeling like a punch straight to his gut. he fills another glass to the rim and gulps it down, the feeling of the rosy liquid running down his throat dulling his senses a little bit more. it's the first time he sees jaehwan since they broke up and it feels terrifying, that cheerful, somewhat flirty expression painted on his face making him want to puke. i must be the only one who cared, he tells himself as he downs another glass of that weirdly sweet cocktail he's been drinking for the last hour. and before he's able to realize -- it must be the alcohol -- jaehwan is in front of him, offering him a glass of water. "you shouldn't drink too much," he says, a knowing but sad smile, "you get sad when you drink, remember?" he leaves the glass in hakyeon's hand and leans in to kiss him on the cheek -- the feeling of his soft mouth, of his warm breath, still familiar in ways that hurt him. "please look after yourself," he caresses his head and then goes, not looking behind. he looks at his figure growing farther and farther and feels a sense of loss bigger than he's ever known. and he wishes he could hate him -- but he can't.
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#4, leo/hyuk, pg-13, ~190w. prompt: you're so pretty when you're mad
"stop calling me old", taekwoon hisses, fixing his eyes on hyuk as menacingly as he can. "it's point one: disrespectful," he says, his feeble voice making his words sound nowhere as threatening as he wishes they were. "point two: completely untrue, as i am barely in my mid-twentie-" his speech is interrupted by sanghyuk's lips on his own, still open in a mid-sentence 'o' shape. he lets sanghyuk work his tongue into his mouth, lets him sit on his lap, voluptuous thighs straddling his sides. he feels himself melt into sanghyuk's kiss, into sanghyuk's arms wrapped around his neck, warm and safe enough to almost make him forget about his petty anger. "what was this for?" he asks when sanghyuk breaks away, voice nothing but a whisper. "it's just," sanghyuk bites his lower lip, looking down. "you just look so pretty when you're mad." taekwoon feels the embarrassment rush to his cheeks, and wishes he could hide somewhere, anywhere, but sanghyuk won't allow any of it. he mouths against his neck and whispers a sultry "let's go to bed," and taekwoon feels himself get hot down to the tip of his hair.
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#5, n/wongeun, g, ~150w. prompt: first times
wongeun was there to hold his hand through his first rollercoaster ride, hands slightly bigger than his own and so comforting, fingers intertwining with his whenever he felt hakyeon tremble. he saw him get drunk for the first time -- at home, because wongeun couldn't go to bars yet, and led him to the bathroom when he was too intoxicated to walk straight. he was there for his first breakup, with booze and warm, comforting words that somehow left a sour taste in his mouth. it was then that he kissed a man for the first time, when he kissed his best friend of years -- and everything seemed to fall into place, like pieces of an old puzzle he thought he'd lost. it was soft and warm and all kinds of right, and for the first time -- for the first time hakyeon felt like he truly belonged with someone.
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#6, leo/hyuk, g, ~210w. prompt: sore loser
"you're so cheating," taekwoon says spiteful, that one vein in his forehead visibly bulging out. "relax, grandpa," sanghyuk doesn't even need to tear his eyes away from the monitor for his words to hit taekwoon like daggers, the ones used by his video game character, sharp and jeering. "you can't even cheat at this game." "whatever," taekwoon tries to drop it, face red as a tomato and eyebrows furrowed in what seems to be extreme concentration. "i'm gonna kick your ass this time." sanghyuk chuckles, hands fiddling with the controller and a grin on his face. "we'll see." three hours and a dozen re-matches later ("just another one, sanghyuk! i'm gonna win, i can feel it in my fucking bones!"), taekwoon is splayed on the armchair, head between his hands and little feet stomping on the ground. "just another one!" he whines, words dripping with an exasperation so deep that it almost feels ridiculous. "fine, gramps," sanghyuk sighs, adjusting himself into a more comfortable position on the floor. "just promise you will stop throwing the controller on the floor," he whines, resigned. "or else i'll make you pay for it." "yeah, yeah. i told you," taekwoon says, getting his controller back from the floor. "i'm gonna win this time." (sanghyuk lets him.)
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#7, n-centric, g, ~120w. prompt: xxxholic au
"what is it that you wish for?" hakyeon asks dryly, his figure majestic despite his average height. his body is clad in a multitude of colored robes that make him look much more menacing than he really is, an average height, skinny builded man. "and will you be able to pay the price?" he muses, more to himself than to his interlocutor, voice sweet as honey yet weirdly unnerving. "it's a deal then," he says, then walks to a cloth bag slumped in a corner, checking its contents; he lets his long nails painted in a crimson shade tap rhythmically on the hardwood floor. he gets up, so elegant it looks like a ballet move, and walks towards his client. "let your wish be granted."
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#8, ken/ravi, g, ~430w. prompt: one of them is a spirit (and the other can see them)
jaehwan has been able to see spirits since he was six. faeries, ghosts, kelpies, rain spirits — thousands of them, going about their daily life in the middle of unknowing humans — and he learned to keep his mouth shut about it before he even learned how to read. it’s a lot harder to act like he can’t see them when they come to him, some asking him for favors, others for his soul (those are a little harder to deal with, but jaehwan has learned with time). his outgoing temperament would have made him a people person if it wasn’t for his gift, and he had learned to accept it bit by bit, preferring the company of little pixies to the one of bigoted and wary humans. it’s on a day in spring that he first sees him, a day in the last spring of his teens; he’s silent, sitting by a little pond, not seeming to acknowledge jaehwan at all. he sees him again a few weeks later, sat significantly closer to him, playing with a little leaf. “hi,” jaehwan tries, bright and hopeful, but to no avail. he doesn’t speak back to him the next few times either, but jaehwan knows better than to quit. “what do you want from me?” is the first thing that he — wonshik — tells him on a summer day, voice rougher than he thought it’d be. “i just wanted to talk to you,” jaehwan says, all smiles and no signs of fear, and places his hand on top of wonshik’s. it’s warm just like his own, and if jaehwan didn’t know better, he’d think that he was human. wonshik doesn't move so jaehwan stays, talking to him without a reply until wonshik’s head falls on his shoulder, his eyes closed. they stay like that every day, summer to autumn to winter, for years and years; wonshik talks back now — talks a lot, actually — and jaehwan finds solace in his company, in his gaze, in the way his eyes crinkle a little bit when he laughs. it’s in the last winter of his twenties that jaehwan realizes that he loves him, loves wonshik in a burning, absolute way that he’d never felt with humans. “i love you too” is what wonshik replies with, eyes full of warmth and mouth full of wonders, kissing him for what feel like years. and as the winter breeze runs through his hair just like wonshik’s fingers, jaehwan thinks that he wouldn’t change his life for anyone else’s — not now that he has wonshik. not anymore.
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#9, n/hongbin, g, ~120w. prompt: snapshots his hands run through the countless rolls of film, the faded negatives, some messy snap-shots that didn't turn out the way hongbin wanted. even what hongbin thought of as imperfect works are beautiful to hakyeon, so beautiful he feels tears pile up at the corner of his eyes. he's the model of most of these photographs -- him on the beach, his face half blacked out because of bad lightning; a close up of his hands while he's playing the piano, a little out of focus yet so moving it makes hakyeon cry. it's those little snap-shots, those faded photographs that he's left with; the only witnesses of hongbin's love for him, the only thing that's left now that he's gone.
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#10, ken/hyuk, pg, ~60w. prompt: member a tying a necklace made of thorns around member b's neck "isn't this gonna hurt?" jaehwan asks, his big doe eyes wide with concern. he ties the thorns into yet another knot around sanghyuk's neck, a little droplet of blood forming on his index finger without him even realizing. sanghyuk just chuckles. "it might," he smiles with a hint of malice, taking jaehwan's finger to his lips, "but i like it when it does."
#1, g, ~260w. prompt: hakyeon likes giving dance tips to sanghyuk
it isn't until hakyeon's hands are settled on his sides, guiding him through a particularly difficult dance routine, that sanghyuk realizes that he's fallen. hard. and that might be why - maybe, a little bit - his eyes always fall on hakyeon when they're rehearsing, why he seems to magically trip on his own feet whenever hakyeon is around, why he can't even memorize the most simple of routines anymore. it's because his mind is too occupied by hakyeon - and he hates it. he hates the concerned looks he gets from taekwoon, the snide remarks hongbin throws at him whenever he's around, the little pats on his back wonshik gives him to remind him that he's not doing the right thing. he hates the way hakyeon looks at him during breaks, the soft voice he approaches him with, the "do you want me to practice with you later?" he hates that, but he can't say no. can't say no to the hands on his hips, on his sides; to the warm breaths on his neck that make his head buzz. he wonders if hakyeon knows. he's sure he doesn't, but he's still angry at him. "did you get this?" "uh?" hakyeon's face softens, a warm smile curving his lips. "can you do this by yourself?" "yeah, i..." "let's meet again tomorrow," he says, placing a hand on sanghyuk's shoulder. his palms are warm and sweaty, but it feels comforting. sanghyuk nods, the anger pooled in his stomach slowly melting away, giving place to something that feels more like uncertainty. tomorrow. it'll be okay tomorrow.
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#2, g, ~130w. prompt: hakyeon as hyuk's fansite master
"he really did that," hakyeon yells, wiping the sweat on his forehead with jaehwan's handkerchief (the pink one with a lee hongbin fan art embroidered, his favorite). "he looked right into my camera and fucking smiled! i got it all on tape!" he neck chops an unresponsive jaehwan, too busy uploading preview shots of hongbin on his fansite twitter to pay attention to his dying friend. "do you think he remembers me?" hakyeon frets, his voice a panicked yell. "from the mention party?" "of course," jaehwan says, "you are like, his only fan." that earns jaehwan a massive blow to the head, and a year-long ban from the festival venue for the both of them, but hakyeon doesn't regret it. "no one makes fun of my baby like that."
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#3, g, ~280w. prompt: cheek kisses
it's not that sanghyuk dislikes physical affection - he doesn't mind it when his fingers brush with someone else's, nor when he's pulled into a strong embrace, bodies close enough that he can feel both heartbeats. it's not that he dislikes hakyeon - it's quite the opposite, really; he loves the way his body moves to the music, something elegant and almost catlike to his movements. likes the way his ears go red when he gets a little bit shy, hands going to his face to try and cool it down like a makeshift fan. he likes it when they're at the dorm alone and hakyeon doesn't have to tiptoe before knocking at his door, jumping onto him as soon as he's inside. it's not that he's ashamed of him, not at all - he's just not used to it yet, not used to hakyeon's feet nudging his under the table, not used to the little pet names hakyeon would use for him in public. he's not used to the feeling of hakyeon's lips agains his skin, warm and soft and with a faint scent of strawberries. they make his face heat up and his stomach churn in the sweetest of ways, and he feels small and stupid, like hakyeon is too much for him and he doesn't know what to do. it's worse when he does it in front of others - those shy, sweet little kisses almost feeling like a punishment. sanghyuk tries to take the lead when they're alone, takes hakyeon's face into his hands and peppers it with kisses, the way he wants to do in front of others but is too scared to just yet.
pairing: ken/leo, side ravi/hongbin
rating: pg
wordcount: 5641w
summary: jaehwan has the biggest crush of his life. taekwoon is oblivious. hongbin and wonshik? well, they're here to help.
also on ao3!
"he's so hot," jaehwan whispers with a sigh, eyes loaded with the same amount of dreamy that's oozing from his words.
"you said that at least ten times in the past thirty minutes," wonshik slumps his back against the bench, visibly exhausted. "we get it, he's hot. now what?"
"he's not even that hot, if you ask me," hongbin chimes in, and both jaehwan and wonshik roll their eyes in unison.
hongbin's the kind of friend who's always on your case with his unhelpful opinions and snide remarks, not to mention an exceptionally sharp tongue to boot.
jaehwan loves him.
"shut up, hongbin. you have shit taste anyway."
wonshik's the one that comes to the rescue, always trying to lift jaehwan up (albeit his manners can be debatable at times) and to tear hongbin apart.
they're always bickering, those two, and jaehwan is sure that he'll see them fall in love one day.
and get married, probably. they look like they're into that kind of heterosexual shit.
"fuck off."
"you fuck off, lee hongbin!"
"can you two stop flirting and just talk about how hot he is?" jaehwan scoffs, accompanying hongbin's outraged "flirting? i would never flirt with this caveman!" with an exaggerated eyeroll.
"he's like, the hottest guy i've ever seen," jaehwan says, determined to ignore his best friends' lame bickering to focus on dying over his crush.
"he's sooo dreamy. and sweet. and perfect." he sighs yet another time, hands cupped around his face, looking at the boys running about in the soccer field until he's singled one of them out.
the most unique, the most handsome, the best player.
"you don't even know him!"
"i bumped into him in the hallway one time," jaehwan can tell by the way hongbin is elbowing wonsik that they're making fun of him, but he doesn't care. he's gonna pay them back tenfold when they'll finally start dating.
"he was so nice! he asked me if i was okay and his voice was like," he pauses for a second, cursing at the other team's lineman who just sneaked them a goal.
"what was it like," wonshik asks, voice deep with concern. it's as if he's talking to some small, weird animal that could bite his nose off at any moment instead of his best friend.
"it was like a flock of birds singing for my ears only," jaehwan finally says, accompanying his words with the umpteenth hummed sigh.
"oh my god. oh my god. oh my god." wonshik rattles the words off like a mantra, looking dead in the eyes.
he'd make a shitty actor, jaehwan thinks, but a rather charming boyfriend. hongbin's gonna be so lucky.
"he's gone, wonshik, let him be."
"i can't believe we lost our best friend to a dumb football player." wonshik brings a hand to his face, shaking his head off as if he'd been crying.
"you mean exceptionally handsome."
"yeah, whatever."
when taekwoon scores a goal, jaehwan almost bites his whole hand off so he doesn't shout too loud.
he runs towards his teammates, holding his hands up in sign of victory, tongue hanging out from the side of his mouth.
he's so cute jaehwan has to muffle another scream in the back of his throat.
"oh my god, he's so hot" he says, frantic, eyes batting in the slowest of ways so he doesn't miss a single movement, basking in the perfect side view of his calves and toned legs.
"he looks like a wet dog," hongbin shrugs, as tactless as ever; jaehwan doesn't even bother acknowledging it.
"shut up hongbin," wonshik retorts, "he really is kinda cute."
"see?" jaehwan kisses wonshik on the cheek, something that makes wonshik laugh in glee and lightly elbow him in the ribs.
hongbin scoffs and looks away; jaehwan knows the reason all too well.
then taekwoon's eyes fall on the bleachers, scanning through the crowd of first and second years; that's when he smiles, a warm, knowing smile that has some kind of natural shyness to it.
and jaehwan forgets to breathe for what feels like a hundred seconds.
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jaehwan's woken up by the distant sound of the school bell and a slap to his ear.
"ouch!"
"you fucking deserve it, loser," he can hear the affection in hongbin's voice, see it behind his curled lips. he's grateful to have a friend like him, really.
"i put your stuff into the backpack already, let's go."
jaehwan really does love him.
"what about wonshik?"
"he must be chasing around some sophomore girl," hongbin says, rolling his eyes. "or guy. that horny loser."
jaehwan puts his arm around him and pats his back, laughing.
"it's gonna be okay, lee hongbin! i promise he'll notice you one day!"
"fuck off." hongbin says, but doesn't deny it; he just blushes a little harder.
"i love you."
"i love you too, asshole."
hongbin's house has been jaehwan's second home since high school started.
hongbin keeps a box full of jaehwan's stuff beside the drawer - a couple changes of underwear, a spare toothbrush, two plain t-shirts. also a few comics, for emergencies.
he comes in and takes his shoes off, yelling "i'm here, mrs. lee!" before rushing to hug hongbin's mom as her actual son watches to the side, annoyed.
"i love your mom," jaehwan says as he happily pounces onto the bed, his body feeling pleasantly tired.
"don't you even dare," hongbin shoots him a sideways look. if looks could roast you alive, jaehwan would be the day's main meal at the lee household by now.
"i didn't mean that," jaehwan barely misses the slipper flying at him, ducking with a pro move. "i love your mom in a, i'm grateful that she gave birth to my best friend and lets my sorry ass in her house all the time way."
"that's way better."
they're deep into a dragonball rewatch when hongbin's phone buzzes, and they both know who it is from the ringtone.
"don't fucking laugh," hongbin points at jaehwan menacingly, his cheeks growing redder with shame by the second.
"it's just so funny," jaehwan rolls on the floor, mimicking the words of the song with emphasis.
near, faaaaaar, wherever you are...
"he fucking set it himself," hongbin sends a ball of paper flying at jaehwan before he decides that it's time to answer.
"i think that's his confession," jaehwan winks and gets hit by another piece of paper right in his face.
apparently wonshik ditched them to hang with this junior he sort of knows, hakyeon.
("he totally has a crush on him," hongbin announces dimly, crouching with his head between his arms.
"hakyeon is way too hot to pay attention to him tho-" hongbin doesn't even let jaehwan finish before he tackles him to the ground, tickling him in all the spots he knows too well.
"what are you trying to imply, asshole?")
well, turns out that hakyeon and his friends are also friends with taekwoon.
and wonshik snitched on them so that jaehwan can casually run into him.
he puts a hand to his heart; it's racing.
he truly has the best friends in the whole world.
"hey guys! what are you doing here?" wonshik announces them with the loudest voice, waving energetically.
(he makes sure no one's watching before he sends them an oddly shaped wink, and hongbin pretends to gag.)
"hi," jaehwan says, eyes scanning the little crowd until he finds taekwoon, smoking with his back leaning against a wall.
jaehwan's eyes light up in excitement. not because he's smoking, well, not entirely; he's not even into smoking himself. it's just that this is the first time he really sees him outside of school, outside of the soccer field, and it feels like he's finally fit a piece into the puzzle called jung taekwoon.
"these are my friends," wonshik introduces them to the little group of boys hanging outside the stadium.
it takes jaehwan this to notice how much different wonshik is from him and hongbin.
not just because he looks older, and fits well with the crowd of third years; but because he's charming, a natural talker. he looks at the way his hands move as he talks, the way the other boys seem captured by what he's saying, nothing but mere introductions and formalities.
he steals a look at hongbin next to him. he's pouting; he must've noticed too.
"so you guys are freshmen?" hakyeon beams at them, tilting his head to the side.
it makes jaehwan's heart speed up a bit, his tongue dry out in his mouth.
he doesn't know if wonshik really has a crush on him, but he would definitely understand him if he did.
"y-yeah, me and hongbin are in the same class," he babbles. he feels hot and stuffy, and he wants to get away from this hakyeon guy as fast as possible. "wonshik transferred classes a while ago, but we hang out all the time."
hakyeon laughs and pats him on the shoulder.
"it's a pleasure to meet you guys."
wonshik is gone in a matter of a few minutes, probably disappeared in some allway to kiss hakyeon's pretty lips swollen.
jaehwan doesn't have the heart to voice his thoughts out loud, a moping hongbin slumped on the stairs beside him.
"this fucking sucks. i feel like a candle."
"what the hell does that mean?" jaehwan pats him on the knee, laughing.
he probably says it way too much, but he really does love hongbin a lot.
he wishes he knew how to make him feel better.
"you know, a candle." hongbin looks at him, dead serious. "a candle is lonely. everyone around it is having fun with each other except for the poor candle."
"makes sense."
"i'm a candle." hongbin announces, slumping his back even further down the step.
"can't believe i'm talking to a candle right now," jaehwan laughs, looking at the group of people chatting a few steps beneath them.
"really makes you think, huh?"
"truly."
jaehwan is too absorbed into his talks with hongbin to notice what's going on next to him; he notices hongbin's gaping eyes first, his head nodding to the side, telling him to turn around.
next to him, taekwoon is checking his phone, sitting with his legs spread out; so long they occupy several steps.
jaehwan swallows, heart drumming loud in his chest.
then taekwoon puts his phone away, looks right at him. he smiles.
"hi."
"ah... hi."
"i always see you guys at the games," he says, chewing on his bottom lip a little.
jaehwan is about to die. he looks so cute like that, casual clothes that fit him better than any uniform could do, his cute, full lips just a few inches away from jaehwan's reach.
he mentally shakes his head. he really needs to collect himself.
"you see... us?" not the other way around?
"you guys are always so enthusiastic," he says, laughing. his laugh is so beautiful, changes up his features completely; he looks younger than his 19 years, young and soft and jaehwan wants to wrap his arms around him.
"my eyes naturally fall on you when i look to the bleachers."
"wow," hongbin says, filling in the gap when jaehwan should've replied.
"you know, this guy is really into soccer," hongbin continues, pushing jaehwan a bit closer to taekwoon. "you should probably teach him, you know, some stuff."
"w-what... no..." jaehwan is sure that his cheeks and ears and whole body are on fire by now, and all he wants is to disappear. also kiss taekwoon, but that doesn't seem like a good idea.
"sure," taekwoon chuckles, and jaehwan thinks that this is the luckiest day of his whole life.
"i actually think i know you?" taekwoon says, voice humming low and tentative. "aren't you from class 1-B?"
"y-yeah..."
"jae... um... jaehwan?" he says, biting his bottom lip.
"r-right..." jaehwan would've died on the spot if it wasn't for hongbin sternly elbowing him in the back. it feels like a "you fucking sly fox, leaving me to be a candle again!"
"good." taekwoon smiles, a little lick of lips that could be read as nervousness.
"shall we go?"
jaehwan soon learns that taekwoon's laughter is the most beautiful sound he's ever heard.
he laughs way more than he'd ever imagined - chuckles when jaehwan kicks the ball the wrong way, bursts into the loudest laugh when jaehwan calls him "the most pretentious coach i've ever met".
"you're really cute," taekwoon says in passing, barely a whisper against his ear, making jaehwan's hair stand up.
he's too dizzy to realize that taekwoon used his distraction to get the ball from him, snatching him a goal.
"that was sly!" jaehwan protests, loud and pouting, face still flushed deep red from the compliment.
"sorry," taekwoon says, chewing on his lip again. it's a very cute habit of his, jaehwan notes, and then he curses his mind for thinking about how he'd like to nibble on it himself.
they're heading back when taekwoon breaks the silence, his voice soft and mellow like the setting sky above them.
"you know... i really meant that,"
"mmh?" jaehwan comes down from his thoughts, heart beating fast and ears buzzing.
"that you're cute," he says, looking away from jaehwan. "i really think you are."
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"so, what happened?" hongbin interrogates him later, and jaehwan doesn't even know where to begin.
did anything even happen? didn't he just imagine everything?
how could taekwoon even tell him... that. that surely couldn't be real life.
"i don't wanna tell!" jaehwan sticks his tongue out, trying to break away from the chokehold hongbin is keeping him in.
"you gotta."
"so he's in love with you," hongbin says very seriously, stuffing another cookie in his still chewing mouth.
"that's the conclusion you got to?" jaehwan shouts, ears all red.
"that, and that he wants to make out with you,"
"shut up," jaehwan hides his head into the pillow, muffling a thousand nervous screams.
"and stick his gross wet dog tongue inside your mouth..." hongbin finishes the sentence by sticking his tongue out, flicking it repeatedly in a telling way that makes jaehwan blush.
"i fucking hate you," he says, burying his face into the pillow even further.
"i love you too, jock fucker."
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"so about that hakyeon guy..." hongbin says at lunch, nibbling on his lip.
"what about him?" wonshik asks, cheeks puffed while he chews on a mouthful of sandwich.
hongbin coughs, trying to look as calm and disinterested as possible.
"he... he's pretty hot," he finally blurts out.
it probably costed him an internal struggle to say that. jaehwan is pretty proud of him.
"oh wow, tell me something i don't know!"
"asshole."
wonshik puts his sandwich down, wiping the corners of his mouth with a finger.
"if you think you have a chance with him, forget it," he says, turning serious all of a sudden.
"why, are you screwing him already?" hongbin looks like he could bite his head off, and jaehwan wishes he could just tell him to slow down.
"what, me? i fucking wish," wonshik laughs bitterly, eyes down.
"you do?"
"i mean," he pauses, shifting so he sits in a more comfortable position, "i would probably sell my liver to kiss someone so pretty, let alone fuck."
hongbin rolls his eyes, and jaehwan can already tell he's gonna have to cheer him up with pizza and games later. not that he minds.
"good thing there's no chance of it happening," wonshik laughs, "my liver is safe."
"i really thought you two had something going on," jaehwan decides to say, just to make sure. "you know, you disappearing together for hours and all."
"that's none of your business," wonshik retorts, earning a incredulous wow from hongbin. "also, i heard that you and ronaldo are basically dating."
jaehwan is pretty sure that his ears and his whole body are catching fire.
"shut up, we're not!"
"also," he lowers his voice, "don't make fun of taekwoon."
"he's gone," wonshik says with a giggle.
"he's gone," hongbin repeats. "let him be."
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the next time he sees taekwoon it's a few days later, a chilly friday with too many hours of math and way too few bathroom breaks.
he's sitting on the staircase that fronts onto the courtyard when taekwoon walks past; he wants to call him but feels too shy to.
but taekwoon sees him, smiles that pretty, gentle smile that makes jaehwan's heart race.
"come with me?" he says, waving at him.
jaehwan doesn't even give him the time to ask again.
they walk past the courtyard, through the soccer field and past the gym building until taekwoon decides to sit down, slumping his back against the wall.
"why here?" jaehwan asks, looking around. there's just grass and more grass, and the old, abandoned junior high building.
"no one ever comes here," taekwoon says, a little smirk on his lips. it makes him look like a kid, and it makes jaehwan's heart thump faster than ever.
"want a smoke?" he offers jaehwan a cigarette (which he politely refuses) before lighting one for himself, smoking it silently.
they just sit side by side for a while, not talking - something that feels odd to jaehwan, but he gets used to it soon enough.
there's no need to talk with the breeze lingering so sweetly against his cheeks, making his skin tickle just like the leaves swaying by on the apple tree in front of him.
it's just him, the sun reflecting off of taekwoon's ear piercings - and taekwoon.
his eyes fall on taekwoon's fingers, linger on his pretty, white knuckles, silently studying the way he holds his cigarette, the movements he does to bring it to his lips.
he hopes that taekwoon won't notice; hopes that he won't hear the drowning sound his heart makes every time his lips curl the littlest bit, every time his hand lightly brushes against jaehwan's own.
he hopes that if he does, he won't mind - and there's something in his heart telling him that taekwoon doesn't mind at all.
"so he invited you over," hongbin says from the receiver, and there's enough malice in his voice for jaehwan to guess what he's trying to imply.
"shut up, it's not like that!" he yells, hongbin's swift hey letting him know that he was a bit too eager to fire back.
"that scream of yours almost got my hearing, you idiot!" hongbin says with a look of disapproval that jaehwan can just feel on him, even through the phone.
"the fact that you got so up in arms over a simple fact says so much..."
"shut up," jaehwan says embarrassed, more than likely red from head to toe.
"are you gonna jump on him, you little slut?"
"fuck you."
"i love you too, stupid."
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it's 5 in the afternoon and the air in the room feels tense ("it's from all the pent up sexual tension!" hongbin's voice yells loud and jarring in his head, and jaehwan sighs at the thought of having to deal with hongbin's inappropriate remarks even when he's not physically there.), jaehwan sitting on the floor just a few inches from taekwoon, seemingly unable to move or initiate conversation.
"so," taekwoon goes, tentative. "what do you want to do?"
the afternoon sun filtrating from the shutters reflects on taekwoon's cheekbones, giving his skin an ethereal glow.
“what i want to do?” jaehwan thinks, senses too dulled by taekwoon's beauty to form a coherent thought and put it into words.
i want to kiss you, i want to kiss you, i want to kiss you.
his lips on taekwoon's bow-shaped ones are all he can think about and damn, hongbin was right, all he wants is to jump on him and make out til his teeth fall off.
("ew," his inner hongbin voice comments, and he has to agree with it. he's really hit rock bottom this time.)
"um," taekwoon clears his throat, and jaehwan feels like he's missed something.
"i said, mario kart or smash bros?"
"ah!" jaehwan mentally curses himself, wondering just how dumb he looks and if taekwoon can tell that he's been staring at him and he's never gonna invite me over again, dammit.
"smash bros will be fine."
taekwoon pushes the compact disk into his console, giving him a mischievous smile.
"that was a wrong choice, i'm gonna kick your ass."
"i told you i was gonna kick your ass!"
"come on!" jaehwan whines in the most theatrical way, flailing his controller around and pouting.
"it's not fair, i don't have this game home and you're more trained than i am and i-"
the words die in his throat the moment he registers just how close taekwoon's face is to his own, so close he can feel his breath on him for a moment.
he's staring at him - why is he staring at him? - and jaehwan just can't take his eyes off of taekwoon's face, off of those perfectly long lashes that flutter right back at him.
he can hear his heartbeat drum loud and clear in his ears and he wonders if for taekwoon is the same, if he can hear it too and if he'll make fun of him for it.
taekwoon's hand is on his shoulder (he's touching him! why is he touching him?) and before he realizes what's going on their lips meet in a sweet, chaste kiss that sends tingles through his whole body.
taekwoon's giddy smile after they part quickly fades away, a little frown taking its place.
"i... i'm sorry," he says, voice so soft jaehwan thinks he's imagining it.
"was that too fast? maybe i misunderstood everything, ah, i'm so stupid..."
jaehwan can't believe that this is happening, can't believe that taekwoon is apologizing to him for real, that he kissed him and that his lips felt so cool and soft on his own and-
"no," he says, tugging at taekwoon's sleeve. he chews on his lower lip, a wave of embarrassment hitting him at full speed.
"you didn't misunderstand," he starts, looking anywhere but at taekwoon's face. "i was just surprised."
he gives himself some courage (his inner hongbin voice is pretty much fed up with him at this point, spitting out curse words that jaehwan didn't even know existed) and looks up at taekwoon only to see him smile; a shy, content smile that makes his heart skip a beat.
"does that mean that you like me too?" he asks, fiddling nervously with the fabric of his shirt.
he looks so cute like that, shy and vulnerable in ways that jaehwan never thought taekwoon could be, and all jaehwan wants to do is eat him up like a serving of ice cream.
"what do you mean i like you too?" jaehwan laughs - it's really all he can do now - and elbows taekwoon in the knee.
"of course i like you. i've been liking you from afar for ages."
taekwoon's face is several shades of red at this point, and it makes jaehwan giggle and blush in return.
"my best friends are tired of me gushing over you all the time! they're gonna be so happy to know that-" he bites his lips, overwhelmed by a sudden rush of emotions. "you... you like me. because you do, right?"
taekwoon's expression softens, the edges of his mouth curving into a sweet, fond smile. "i do. like... a lot."
"how much is a lot?" jaehwan asks jokingly, feeling silly yet high from whatever's happening - from taekwoon's fingers threading into his hair, from his mouth so close to his he can almost taste it.
"a lot is a lot." taekwoon says when they part, licking his lips in what jaehwan knows it's an habit, yet still manages to make him blush.
"a lot is not enough if you don't let me win at mario kart!"
"hmm," taekwoon says with a grin, "i'm gonna save that for when we're married."
✯
"so you're basically married now." hongbin says flatly, not even taking the time to look up from his phone.
"shut up!" jaehwan's face is in flames, voice high pitched and annoying more than he thought it was physically possible.
"you're just jealous anyway!"
he regrets saying that almost immediately, hongbin's scornful gaze piercing him like a rain of glass shards.
"jealous of what, exactly?" he says, biting.
jaehwan opens his mouth to speak, leaving it agape when the familiar melody starts playing.
near, faaaaaar, wherever you are...
"don't you fucking try!" hongbin barks, voice so shrill it might as well be an ultrasound.
"you're just jealous because you and wonshikkie are not making o-"
it only takes a moment for hongbin's fist to land on his head, not hitting hard enough to hurt but still enough to get the message through.
"just let me live for a second, jock fucker."
✯
"i'm gonna kick your ass again!" taekwoon says, settling into a blue kart next to jaehwan's pink one.
"i wouldn't bet on it!" jaehwan sticks his tongue out at him, feigning offense.
it's a sunny may afternoon and jaehwan's heart is beating louder than ever as he crashes his kart against the rail, taekwoon speeding past him with a grin.
"told you i was gonna destroy you!"
"you're a cheat," jaehwan says as he gets off his kart, sporting the most ridiculously angry pout that a guy can manage. "it's just not human. it's not normal for someone to win a race five times in a row."
"it actually is, when your boyfriend's a dweeb."
jaehwan doesn't even try to protest, too stunned by the fact that taekwoon! called me! his boyfriend! to do anything about the offense.
"what is it?" taekwoon asks meekly, pink lips slightly parted and pretty eyes set on jaehwan - jaehwan who's full-on panicking now, hands shaky and heart leaping out of his chest.
"b-b-b-" he stutters, a bony little finger pointing towards himself. "boyfriend?"
taekwoon's gaze falters; he looks so much younger now, pitch black bangs getting in the way of his eyes and thin lips cracked. he chews a little bit on his lower lip, and jaehwan makes a mental note of buying him a chapstick.
"aren't we... i mean," he hesitates, voice low and insecure. "am i going too fast again?"
the hurt he sees in taekwoon's eyes makes jaehwan's heart break a little bit and he feels guilty, even though he wants that as much as taekwoon does - if not more.
"no, i..." he can't help but smile, smile so hard his lips hurt like hell ("when will you drop that gross habit of yours," hongbin tells him every other day, "no one's gonna want to kiss a guy who rips his own lips open!") but he doesn't care.
taekwoon is here right now, with him - and that's all that matters.
"i want to be your," he hesitates, the mere thought of that word setting his stomach aflame. "i want to be your boyfriend."
he keeps his eyes low, too embarrassed to face taekwoon just yet.
"i was just overwhelmed. i like you so much..."
he's not prepared to the feeling of taekwoon's arms wrapping around his middle, nor to the way his soft cheeks feel against his own, but he can't complain.
so he lets taekwoon cup his face between his hands and his eyes fall shut, their lips meeting in the sweetest of ways.
"i like you more."
jaehwan doesn't think that's possible, but he decides to let his cute boyfriend ("stop giggling, you stupid!", that's what hongbin would say) win this one time.
jaehwan comes stomping into his first morning class, so giddy and euphoric he lets his books fall on the desk with a thud.
"he called me the b word!" he yells with way too much enthusiasm into hongbin's ear. "hongbin! wake up!"
"the b word?" hongbin takes his eyes off his math homework with a knowing grin. "you mean bitch?"
"no, lee hongbin," jaehwan patiently corrects him, his voice ecstatic. "not bitch. boyfriend!"
hongbin scoffs and goes back to his homework, deadpan.
"this is so disgusting."
✯
jaehwan looks at his phone for the hundredth time, his sweaty hands leaving finger marks on the screen.
he doesn't even know why he keeps doing that: taekwoon's last text was clear, "i'm gonna be a little late so don't panic", followed by a bunch of xs and an i love you that made jaehwan's heart do a somersault.
"i just wish he was here already!" he whines, pouting like a little kid whose promises of toys and treats have been broken.
it only takes five more minutes for taekwoon to be there, cracking an apologetic smile and taking jaehwan's hands in his with promises of treating him to the best ice cream in the whole country.
the ice cream is pretty good, but it doesn't even remotely compare to how the wind lightly caresses taekwoon's hair, nor to the way the early afternoon sun paints a glow on his cheekbones.
and jaehwan soon finds out that ice cream tastes a lot better on taekwoon's tongue, anyway - just like ramyun, coffee, and pretty much anything he's ever had the pleasure of eating.
"we're having a good time, hm?" taekwoon says with a smile so genuine and happy it makes jaehwan's heart wrench.
"the best time," he giggles, taking taekwoon's hands in his, their fingers threaded together.
he really is so happy he could die.
he feels so happy he could die, but he's not going to - he has a lot of things to do, like kissing taekwoon a thousand times more, sleeping in the same bed as him (the mere thought of that making him blush furiously) and make out with him in front of his jealous best friends (because he's that kind of dude).
"buy me cotton candy, hyung?" he says, pointing to a pretty pink stand on the side of the road.
taekwoon is pretty much already there by the time jaehwan finishes the sentence, long legs stretched into the biggest stride jaehwan's ever seen.
"there you go." their fingers brush a little when he hands him the cotton candy, and jaehwan's cheeks burn at the still unfamiliar feeling of taekwoon's skin against his own.
cotton candy kisses are even better than he thought they would be, the sugary taste on his tongue perfectly mixing with the little pinch of salty on taekwoon's; there's little sticky pieces of it left on the corners of his mouth and taekwoon wipes them away with his tongue before nibbling on his bottom lip.
"you're so pretty," taekwoon says, his words just a little whisper against jaehwan's skin and jaehwan shivers, leaning in for another kiss.
✯
"he's so hot," jaehwan whispers with a sigh, his big dreamy eyes set on the crowded field.
"oh god, jaehwan, we know," hongbin sighs, accompanying his words with an eyeroll way more dramatic than needed. "it's been months now, it's time to drop it."
"leave him alone, lee hongrinch!"
"hongrinch! that's a new one!" jaehwan bursts into a fit of laughter, clapping his hands together and against his legs alternately.
"this calls for a high five," wonshik gives him a high five then a fistbump, followed by a routine of ridiculous gestures that only makes hongbin's eyes roll even further to the back of his head.
"i hate you both."
"sure you do, princess," wonshik gives a little affectionate ruffle to hongbin's hair and hongbin finally stops talking, his cheeks tinted with streaks of purple.
jaehwan smiles and hongbin looks at him with a very telling glare, one of those that could murder if only looks had that kind of power.
"why are you looking at me? your jung taekwoon is in the game!"
"you don't wanna miss his strong leg like ronaldo scoring a goal, do you?"
jaehwan throws a ball of paper at his laughing friends, scoffing. as much as he wants to shut them up, he really doesn't want to miss a second of taekwoon's playing.
he eyes him from afar, those long legs and pitch black mane that he would recognize anywhere, and still can't believe that he's dating that guy.
he looks perfect from up there, his slender frame running about in the field, and when he gets a pass from his teammate jaehwan just starts yelling.
"that's my boyfriend! that guy!" he yells to the second year girls next to him, both seeming shocked by his yelling but rather unimpressed with the news.
"oh my god, he's gonna score!"
and he does, boy if he does! he kicks the ball with the heel of his foot - jaehwan holds his breath in because he doesn't think he can make it - and it's a goal!
he stands up with a jump, clapping furiously and yelling "i'm dating that guy!" to everyone in sight, his best friends staring at him with concern.
"he's gone," hongbin says with an eyeroll.
"he's gone," wonshik repeats. "let him be."
jaehwan waits for taekwoon after the game, sitting cross-legged on the empty bleachers.
he perks up like a little puppy whose owner just came back when he sees taekwoon, literally jumping into his arms.
"don't do that, i'm sweaty and smell like shit." taekwoon huffs, breath heavy, his clothes still damp with sweat.
"no you don't."
"mmm," taekwoon whines when jaehwan pulls him closer by his shirt, stealing a little kiss. "don't say i didn't warn you."
"i can't make promises."
it's five in the afternoon when taekwoon leads him behind the old junior high building, their fingers intertwined and lips searching for the other’s in the damp midsummer afternoon.
"i never want this to end," is what jaehwan says breathless, between a kiss and another.
taekwoon leaves a little kiss to his forehead, his hand stroking jaehwan's face like in a daze.
"it doesn't have to."
pairing: n/hyuk
rating: g
wordcount: 549w
summary: or "cha hakyeon's desperate marriage proposals"
written for the vixx three sentence ficathon round 2
the first time hakyeon tries is more of a joke than anything, words echoing loud and clear into the room void of furniture.
"what will it take to get you to marry me?", he wishes he could bite his words back when he sees a playful glint in sanghyuk's eyes, his face so close that he can feel the breath on his neck.
"you just have to try," he says, letting the large storage box in his arms fall to the floor with a thud. he laces his arms around hakyeon's neck, leaning in for a cheeky kiss.
the second time is in a public park, rain pouring down in buckets on hakyeon - he forgot his umbrella at home but doesn't really care about getting drenched; all he cares about are those little soaked flyers he taped to the bench, the ink flowing down, letters pretty much unreadable.
"what was that supposed to say?" sanghyuk asks with a chuckle, inviting hakyeon under his large umbrella.
"marry me sanghyuk," he sighs, defeated. "in all caps."
sanghyuk's reply is just a loud, loud laugh.
"you should've used spray paint."
"that would've been illegal."
the third time is in a little family restaurant in hongdae, table set up just the way hakyeon asked them to and the perfect music on.
they kept playing footsie and holding hands the whole night, and hakyeon feels like it's the right time, that sanghyuk will say yes this time.
when the waiter finally takes the cake to their table hakyeon's heart is pounding so hard he's afraid that it might leap out of his chest and fly away, out of sight.
"what the hell is this," sanghyuk asks with a note of annoyance, and hakyeon couldn't be any more confused.
"the cake says marry me donghyuk. that's not my fucking name."
their night didn't end quite as planned, sanghyuk running away in a cab while shouting who the fuck is donghyuk, you asshole? and hakyeon knocking on his door until a tipsy sanghyuk invites him in at 3am.
the fourth time is under sanghyuk's house at 1am, a little makeshift amplifier and a mic and the risk of getting arrested for nightly racket.
L is for the way you look at me ♬♪, hakyeon starts singing awkwardly. a bunch of windows open before he's even halfway into the song, a dozen heads curiously peeking from their balconies.
"what the hell are you doing, dumbass!" he hears sanghyuk shout on top of him, his voice louder into the quiet of the night, and he chuckles.
"please marry me! i love you!" he finishes off by making an heart over his head and before sanghyuk could reply, someone commands him to follow them to the police station.
the fifth time is on hakyeon's couch, them huddled together under a blanket, limbs tangled and faces close enough to kiss.
"marry me," hakyeon says under his breath between one kiss and another, eyes closed and head too dizzy to really pay attention to what he's saying.
"okay," sanghyuk replies, biting his lips and pulling hakyeon in for another kiss, then two, then three more.
"i said i'm marrying you, you idiot," sanghyuk goes, blushing to the tip of his hair when hakyeon realizes that it's happened, that he's finally said yes.
jaehwan huffs, sending another blow of hot air into the stuffy kitchen cubicle.
it's hot, so hot that he has to wipe the sweat (or is that condensed water?) from his forehead every other minute or so.
"i hate cooking", he whined the night before, pouting and stomping his feet like a little kid.
that usually let him off the hook, but not with sanghyuk, not with his boyfriend - that word still felt weird on his tongue, almost foreign, but jaehwan liked the taste of it.
"come on, it's your turn today," sanghyuk chimed, letting his hands fall on jaehwan's sides, hands too big for jaehwan's liking.
that always got jaehwan weak somehow, that and sanghyuk's cheeky smile and his mouth on his neck and-
lean, familiar arms swung around his middle. jaehwan shuffles a bit, embarrassed at the sudden contact.
"i'm cooking." he puts on his serious, collected voice. sanghyuk chuckles in return, and he's pretty sure that didn't work.
"you know i hate back hugs," jaehwan says, sporting a graceful pout, while fiddling with the stuff in the pan.
he reaches to touch it with his finger; it burns.
"ouch."
he feels sanghyuk's body shift a little against him, head hovering above his shoulders.
"that's what you get for being a liar," he says, and jaehwan can feel sanghyuk's breath tickle his neck, "liars go to hell."
that's when he sees sanghyuk taking the injured finger into his mouth, and he freezes.
it feels hot, sanghyuk's tongue and the steam from the pot and his sweaty palms, hotter when sanghyuk starts circling his tongue around his digit.
"this is how i want to suck your dick," jaehwan squirms, damp bangs sticking to his face, "hyung."
"shut up," jaehwan laughs, trying to think about the expected cooking time of those steamed buns. it's a little hard to focus with sanghyuk's soft, warm mouth on his neck, leaving wet and impatient kisses - but jaehwan tries.
or does he? whose are those little moans ringing in his ears? and when did his shirt come off? he rolls his eyes, sighs, then breaks himself from sanghyuk's arms, facing him.
"i'm not letting you fuck me on the kichen counter," it's hard not to laugh, as soaked and hard and light-headed as he is.
"and you're gonna have to wait wait til dinner's ready," he says, and sanghyuk's unhappy groan has him chuckling.
"fine."
"can i still hug you while you cook?" sanghyuk's voice is whiny as he tucks his chin into jaehwan's shoulder.
"you're already doing that," jaehwan laughs, trying to escape from sanghyuk's tickling claws.
maybe he should start cooking a little more often from now on.
♡
#2, pg, ~100w. prompt: call me hyung.
warm - that's how he feels the first time jaehwan does that, grinning like a kid in a packed waiting room.
his cheeks are scorching hot and he can't figure out why, so he just laughs it out.
the second time it's between sheets, sanghyuk's voice barely a whisper, his head pulsating from shame and a billion other things.
"you want me to call you... hyung?" jaehwan raises an eyebrow at that last word, cheeky like only he can be. "i can do that. hyung~"
sanghyuk buries his head into the pillow, chuckling.
"now you're gonna have to call me that when you're begging."
♡
#3, ~190w, g. prompt: jaehwanie nosie.
"i told you to stop calling me that," jaehwan says but doesn't move, his little frown getting softer by the second.
sanghyuk's looking into his eyes, a long, bony finger pressed onto the tip of jaehwan's nose in what sanghyuk calls "his favorite display of affection".
he chuckles, nose scrunched in that unmatched, adorable way that, even after years of knowing him, makes jaehwan's heart beat all the same.
"jaehwanie," he says again, voice sweet, a playful glint in his crinkled eyes. "you're so cute when you play shy."
jaehwan knows his ears are burning, that his face is probably pinker than his lips by now.
"i hate you."
sanghyuk swirls his finger around, letting it drop and fall onto jaehwan's skin every now and then, subtly, as if by accident.
"you don't."
"i don't," he admits reluctantly, eyes lazily following the imaginary trail left in front of him by sanghyuk's fingertips.
"but if you do that one more time, i'm gonna bite your finger off."
sanghyuk stops his finger mid-air, curls his lips in thought, then smiles.
"now you just make me want to do it more."
♡
#4, ~110w, g. prompt: first kiss.
wet.
wet is how sanghyuk would describe it, wet and weird and not really all that pleasant.
their noses kept bumping and they clashed teeth once or twice, and sanghyuk is sure his breath smelt bad and that jaehwan noticed.
warm, that's what jaehwan would say if you'd ask him about their first kiss.
he'd say that sanghyuk's hands were trembling on his shoulders, but he didn't know how to stop it; he'd tell them about how timid the touch of sanghyuk's tongue was against his bottom lip, unsure about what to do next.
it was the first, shy and messy and unprepared; but first of many, better ones.
♡
#5, w, ~190pg. prompt: “you make me uncomfortable” “In a sexual tension kind of way?” “in a ‘stop mentioning threesomes’ kind of way.”
"say," sanghyuk goes, chewing on piece of gum, "if you had to pick two guys from our floor to have a spicy threesome with," he continues, proceeding to chew on his nail instead, "would i be a choice?"
"i would not have a spicy threesome with anybody in this whole dorm, sanghyuk," jaehwan retorts, slamming his mickey coffee mug on the desk. "stop trying to make me uncomfortable."
sanghyuk looks lost in thought for a bit, eyes vacuous like the ones of a goldfish.
"why do i make you uncomfortable?" he asks, a mischievous grin on his boyish face. "is it because of all this sexual tension in the air?"
jaehwan takes his eyes off his chemistry book, only to theatrically roll them.
"it's not the sexual tension," he takes his glasses off, massaging the bridge of his nose with a thumb. "i got used to that a while ago."
sanghyuk blushes to the tip of his ears, feeling the grin on his face go out, his throat suddenly too dry to say a word.
"just stop mentioning threesomes and ask me out already!"
pairing: ken/hyuk
rating: nc-17
wordcount: 809w
summary: sanghyuk makes a weird request in his pizza delivery order - but his delivery guy doesn't seem to mind.
send your cutest pizza guy to suck my dick, sanghyuk typed, more as a joke than anything else, giggling like a middle school student who just found out about porn.
around thirty minutes later someone rings the door - wait a sec!, sanghyuk goes, trying to put his jeans on before opening the door - and woah, they really did send their cutest guy.
big eyes, blonde hair, a banging body - yes, he registered all of that in 10 seconds - and an adorable smile to boot.
“sir, where do i put your pizza?” the guy asks, much to sanghyuk's confusion.
“what do you mean where? you can give it to me,” he says, getting the crinkly money from his pocket and handing it to him.
“ah, but,” he asks, biting his lower lip in a way that makes him look so much cuter and hotter all at once, “"i thought you asked for” he lowers his voice to a whisper, leaning in closer to sanghyuk's face, "a blowjob with your order, am i right?”
sanghyuk just opens his eyes wide in response. is the guy just fucking with him or is he being serious?
“yes, i did but that was a jo-” his words are muffled by the feeling of lips on his own, a gentle, subtle touch.
“you didn't think of it as a joke?” sanghyuk asks, eyes open so wide he looks like a madman.
“oh, totally,” the guy laughs, still on the doorstep. “but now that i saw you i just can't stop thinking about your dick in my mouth.”
they started making out at the door and somehow stumbled into a half-empty can of cola on their way to the living room, spilling it on the floor.
jaehwan - the delivery guy - left the pizza on the microwave (“you're gonna need to heat it up later, trust me”) and then literally jumped him, making him land on the couch.
he kisses like a beast, urgent and fiery and somewhat hungry, like sanghyuk's mouth is delicious and he hasn’t eaten in days.
his hands are just as urgent as his kisses, sliding under sanghyuk’s shirt to play with his nipples, and he chuckles when he feels sanghyuk moan a little into his mouth.
he lets his hips grind against his crotch every now and then, the feeling of sanghyuk’s hardening cock against him making him moan in anticipation.
his hands are quick to find sanghyuk’s zipper, even quicker to wrap around his thick cock, freeing it from way too many layers of clothing.
he starts pumping it with his right hand, other hand playing with his balls, and gives a tentative lick at the slit, making sanghyuk’s thighs visibly tremble.
he helps sanghyuk take his pants and boxers off, then settles on the floor, in between his legs, leaving little kisses to the tip of sanghyuk’s cock.
sanghyuk lets out a choked moan when jaehwan takes the head inside his mouth, flicking his tongue against the slit every other second.
he starts stroking it with his hands while sucking on sanghyuk’s balls, licking them and then taking them inside, one at the time.
sanghyuk’s eyes are closed in a haze, fingers lightly wrapped into jaehwan’s hair while jaehwan works his mouth around him, making him twitch and moan.
jaehwan takes sanghyuk’s cock out, teasing it with his fingers, just to take it in deeper, smiling at the feeling of sanghyuk’s thighs trembling beside him.
he lets sanghyuk's cock slide out of his mouth with an obscene pop and takes it into his hand, rubbing the slit with his thumb.
he looks up at sanghyuk with half-lidded eyes, lips glistening with spit and sticky with precum.
his cheeks are red and he looks straight out of a porno, still in his pizza hut shirt and all that.
“i’m gonna take it all in,” jaehwan says, voice but a cheeky whisper, deep throating his cock without breaking eye contact.
“fuck, i’m gonna come!” sanghyuk shudders, letting out a grunt whenever his cock hits the back of jaehwan’s throat, moaning whenever jaehwan’s tongue flicks against the slit oh so perfectly.
it's then that sanghyuk starts thrusting into jaehwan’s mouth, desperate and relentless, the grip on jaehwan’s hair so tight it starts to hurt.
he comes with a moan so delicious it completely fills jaehwan’s ears, ass barely on the couch, jaehwan’s fingernails dug into it.
jaehwan is a swallow kind of guy so he takes it in, then crawls into sanghyuk’s lap to let him have a taste, slow kisses that are both sweet and sour.
“pizza really does taste the best after having your dick sucked,” sanghyuk says with a sigh, taking a big mouthful of pepperoni pizza.
“you know what tastes even better after pizza?” jaehwan puts down his slice of pizza, a big mischievous smile on his face.
“dick.”
pairing: n/everyone
rating: pg
wordcount: 863w
summary: cuddling, for #HAPPYNDAY
"i'm tired," hakyeon whines, rubbing his sleepy eyes with the back of his sleeve, a tired smile tugging at the corner of his lips.
that's enough for taekwoon to set the duvet aside, making a little bit of space in his bed for hakyeon to squeeze in.
he doesn't say much, but his arms around hakyeon's frame are enough to ease the tiredness away.
he lets hakyeon stay like this for hours, back against his chest, nuzzled into his embrace like a cocoon.
he runs his fingers through hakyeon's hair when he thinks hakyeon is asleep, lets his lips linger against his fruity scented hair, the feeling of his accelerated heartbeat against hakyeon's back.
he never talks about it when hakyeon is awake, and hakyeon never asks.
♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
jaehwan is usually the one that initiates things, scooting a little closer while they’re watching a movie on the couch; he slides his arm around hakyeon’s waist and looks at him with those big, pleading eyes.
he asks for kisses, wet and open-mouthed, asks for hakyeon to come to bed with him, and hakyeon does say yes sometimes, the crushing weight of loneliness getting the best of him.
jaehwan gets even more touchy after he comes, nuzzling into hakyeon’s side and pressing shy kisses to his temple.
“can we sleep like this?” he giggles, biting his lips in a way that hakyeon has learned to attribute to shyness with time.
hakyeon wishes they could, and he flashes jaehwan a knowing smile.
“five more minutes, then,” jaehwan says, nestling against hakyeon’s naked body.
hakyeon wraps his arms around jaehwan’s back, letting his hands gently fall down his spine, fingertips teasing jaehwan’s ticklish skin.
he caresses the little cavity of his venus dimples, making jaehwan giggle a little into his neck.
“let’s make that 10.”
♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
wonshik comes to him sometimes, knocking at his door late at night (he always makes sure it’s not too late, because he doesn’t want to be too bothersome.)
he comes in without waiting for a reply - because that’s what hakyeon tells him to do - and tiptoes through the room, the air inside still reeking of fresh paint.
hakyeon is smiling up at him by the time he reaches the bed, warm and comforting just like wonshik’s arms are, and hakyeon lets himself melt against him, drowning into his strong scent.
it feels almost unfamiliar to him, the thought of wonshik willingly seeking for the comfort of his arms, the warmth of his bed, the feeling of his fingers tangled in his hair.
but he doesn’t mind - he’s more than happy about it, really. he takes wonshik’s hand into his own, lets him nestle against his side and hums a little melody sometimes, right into his ears, for him only.
and wonshik falls asleep to it, sometimes.
♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
hongbin isn’t a touchy person. hakyeon has learned to accept that in the long years he’s known him for, his muscles tensing the slightest bit every time hakyeon would try to initiate contact.
there are exceptions though, sleepless nights in which hongbin stands outside on the balcony, arms resting on the railing and eyes lost into the sky.
“what are you doing here?” hakyeon asks, more to himself than to hongbin, because he knows that he’s not gonna get a reply.
he settles next to him, elbows so close they brush together whenever one of them breathes, and hakyeon bites his lips, trying not to sneak a look at hongbin’s silhouette beside him.
it’s a vain effort, his eyes soon mesmerized by hongbin’s ethereal profile; then, he realizes with a shiver, it’s no longer hongbin’s profile that he’s looking at - it’s hongbin’s eyes, staring right into his own.
“hyung,” he says, voice so low hakyeon might as well be imagining it. “can you hug me, please?”
hakyeon never asks him what’s wrong, what that melancholic look in his eyes is for, why he isn’t able to sleep once again.
he just takes him into his arms, and knows that to hongbin it’s worth more than a thousand words.
♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
“hey,” sanghyuk says, a half smile on his heart-shaped lips. “let’s have a match.”
they play games together sometimes, both of them huddled on the couch, legs brushing against one another’s.
“i’m gonna fucking end you,” is what sanghyuk says every time (and he’s never once been wrong about that), tackling hakyeon to the couch with a little more force than needed.
it doesn’t take them that much to close their distance, lips clashing together and limbs tangled, the scent of sanghyuk’s shampoo so sharp it makes hakyeon dizzy.
but the part of their matches that hakyeon likes the most is what he calls the aftermath, sweet kisses and sanghyuk’s face buried into his chest, hakyeon’s hands running through his soft hair.
“i wanna stay like this forever,” sanghyuk goes, voice muffled against hakyeon’s chest.
“i’ll tell everybody you said that,” hakyeon grins, a smile so wide his cheeks hurt. “they’ll never stop making fun of you, i guarantee that.”
“don’t you even dare,” sanghyuk hisses, pulling himself up so he’s straddling hakyeon, pinning his hands down with his own. “im gonna fucking end you.”
pairing: ken/ravi
rating: pg
wordcount: 798w
summary: there's someone following wonshik to his house...
written for the vixx three sentence ficathon round 2
it isn't until he's a few blocks away from his house that wonshik realizes that he's being followed.
it makes the little thin hairs at the back of his neck stand straight, his stride get more urgent.
hell, he even tries to run at some point -- but the stranger doesn't seem to care, limping behind him at a weirdly swift pace.
by the time he reaches his neighborhood, he's scared shitless, trembling fingers fiddling with the keys in the front pocket of his jeans. he doesn't even have the heart to take a peek at the man - the thing? - behind his shoulders, too scared of the possibility of it having caught up to his pace.
the sight of the chromed front door of his apartment building makes his heart speed up, and he jumps inside belly first, like a little kid leaping into the water.
he closes the door with a thud (mentally curses himself, knowing that the landlord - a harsh, childless old lady - would attribute that 2am racket to him, the only young man in the palace) and takes a deep breath, heading towards the stairs.
it's then that he sees him -- a young man around his age standing next to the front door, warm eyes looking right into his own.
he didn't see or hear him get inside, and that's when he speaks that wonshik realizes, his whole body freezing up in place.
"i'm sorry if i scared you," the man says, affable. "i first followed you because i was bored and lonely and," he fiddles with his sleeves, looking a mix between shy and nervous, "when i realized that you could see me, well, i felt bad."
"w-what do you mean i could see you?" wonshik stutters, confused. his hair is still standing up and he has a cold sweat. "anyone would've seen a man following them so closely. i was scared shitless! i thought you wanted to murder me."
the man - "jaehwan," he said, "that's kind of my name." - smiles fondly, like you would to a little kid, as if wonshik just said the most endearingly stupid thing that he could think of.
"see, wonshik," he says, clearly amused, (and how the hell does he know his name?) "you couldn't be any more wrong about that."
"i'm actually kind of dead, you know," he chuckles, "hit by a truck while i was doing my pizza deliveries."
wonshik stands petrified, incapable of speaking a word more.
"aw, it's okay, it's okay," jaehwan makes some eloquent let it go gestures and goes on. "it was like 20 years ago anyway. i'm over it."
jaehwan talks a lot for a dead guy, and without even realizing wonshik's goosebumps ease down, his heart rate goes back to normal, and he even lets jaehwan into his house, into his room.
he would've been his type if he wasn't dead, wonshik thinks with a pang of regret just as jaehwan takes his hand into his own -- it's warm and feels too real, and all wonshik wants to do is kiss him.
the clock on his nightstand reminds him that it's 4am; it's 4am and he's kissing a dead boy, a boy whose dead lips still feel like toothpaste and a little bit of sugar.
his hands are warm under wonshik's shirt, so alive, and wonshik thinks that maybe - just maybe - he can forget about it for the night.
it's past noon when he wakes up, the smell of pancakes and warm coffee coming from the kitchen and jaehwan nowhere to be seen.
there's no trace of him around wonshik’s little apartment but the smell of his skin lingering in the bedsheets, and wonshik wonders if he will ever see him again.
he recalls what happened with jaehwan the night before and his cheeks burn from embarrassment and a need for more.
jaehwan’s warm, sweaty palms on his neck, his sticky lips on his jaw, his weight on him; everything far too real and vivid to have been a dream.
all the things that jaehwan told him the night before seem so silly in the light of the day, and he wonders if it was all a lie, all a sick prank that he played just to get in his pants.
he lets out a tired sigh. maybe he will ask him if he ever sees him again.
it’s only when he comes back from groceries, in the evening, that he notices the tiny strip of paper balled up on the floor next to his bed.
it looks like it has been tossed there on purpose, probably hoping that it would go unnoticed.
wonshik’s hands are trembling as he unrolls the little note, the messily scribbled words piercing him like knives.
pairing: ken/ravi
rating: nc-17
wordcount: 1760w
summary: it always starts as a game.
it always starts as a game, wonshik taking jaehwan’s bony hands into his, pressing one of the fingers to his mouth.
“what are you trying to do?” jaehwan flashes him a playful, mischievous smile, and wonshik can already feel his blood rush in anticipation.
he lightly parts his lips, taking the finger into his mouth, and it’s soon followed by another one - jaehwan is licking his lips, free hand cupped around wonshik’s back, bringing him closer.
the first kiss is always gentle, jaehwan’s hand around wonshik’s neck, almost impatient. then it’s messier, sloppy, all teeth and tongue and spit and jaehwan’s pretty lips all swollen.
“do you wanna do it?” he asks, breathless, and all wonshik can do is nod.
he can’t remember how he ended up kneeling on jaehwan’s bed, arms tied behind his back, but it must’ve been somewhere between their 30th kiss and him slurring out a lustful “fuck me, hyung”.
he feels his skin burn with every touch of jaehwan's fingers, finely manicured nails dragging along the small of his back, leaving a aching red mark as a reminder.
"you can't move, wonshikie," he says, voice dripping with honey, and presses a kiss against his neck, teeth lightly grazing the skin.
he couldn't move even if he wanted - his hands are tied behind his back and he's on his knees, jaehwan's weight pressing against him.
jaehwan's legs shift uncomfortably against his clothed crotch, and wonshik is sure that it's on purpose. jaehwan loves to tease him and make him beg, not touching him until he's on the verge of tears, not until his boxers are wet with precum and his cheeks are red with shame.
"please," he whines, leaning into the touch of jaehwan's lips against his jaw, "please untie me."
jaehwan chuckles, leaving a little bite into wonshik's neck.
"say it again," he traces his fingers down his torso, stopping right before his crotch. "and i might consider."
“please, hyung, please,” he pleads, voice almost cracking, eyes dewy.
hearing himself like that only makes him tear up, wanting to to curl up and cry in a mix of frustration and shame.
“it’s too early for that,” jaehwan smiles and gives a little pet to wonshik’s head, “but i will give you a little treat.”
he starts unzipping his pants and wonshik can feel his cock throbbing, begging for attention, and there’s nothing he wants more than to touch himself.
the sight of jaehwan’s cock gives him a rush of adrenaline and he wishes he could touch him, put his hands around those pretty hips and buck them forward, taking it all into his mouth.
“here it comes, baby,” jaehwan baby talks like they’re fucking playing dolls but wonshik doesn’t mind, parts his lips as jaehwan’s thick cock touches his skin, warm and slick with precum.
it feels like all is right with the world, jaehwan’s hands into his hair and his cock down his throat, hips bucking the slightest bit whenever wonshik flicks his tongue against the slit.
jaehwan’s breath is quicker by the second, the grip in wonshik’s hair tighter as he bobs his head along the length of jaehwan’s cock, wet sounds leaving his reddened lips.
wonshik knows that jaehwan’s close by the way his moans sound, shallow and needy every time he takes him in a little deeper, jaehwan’s hips bucking forward in attempt to fuck his mouth.
“can i come inside?” jaehwan slurs, bangs sticking messily to his forehead and breath cut short.
it makes the bulge inside wonshik’s boxers throb in an urgent, painful way, and all wonshik does is nod.
he starts thrusting inside wonshik’s mouth, his pace quick and erratic, almost desperate, and it’s hard for wonshik not to gag on his cock.
he comes with a low moan, limbs tense and fingers tugging at wonshik’s hair so hard wonshik thinks that it’s gonna rip his scalp.
it feels painful yet it makes his cock twitch, and he whines, swallowing jaehwan’s cum.
it takes a while for jaehwan to get down from his high, his breathing slowly becoming more regular and his eyes focused.
there’s a gleam of mischief in jaehwan’s pretty, big eyes, and wonshik takes a deep breath, knowing well that their game is all but over.
jaehwan crawls to him on all fours, placing his palm on wonshik’s clothed erection.
that causes wonshik to whimper, and he can feel jaehwan’s delighted giggle echo in his ears.
“what do you want me to do, baby?” jaehwan asks, breath ghosting on wonshik’s neck, voice soothing.
wonshik shivers.
“please untie me,” he whines, eyes getting teary due to the pressure on his crotch.
he almost loses it when jaehwan starts thumbing at his cock through the fabric, instinctively grinding against him.
it feels so good after being neglected for so long, and all wonshik wants is to come - though he knows he’s gonna have to wait for that.
“okay,” jaehwan mouths against his neck, giggling.
his hands reach for wonshik’s back, fingers lingering a little on the curve of his spine before he decides to undo the knots around his wrists.
it feels a little weird even though he’s used to it by now, the light stinging around his wrists and the sensation of his fingers not quite responding.
jaehwan kisses his fingers one by one, then traces his tongue down his palm; wonshik closes his eyes and holds his breath.
it takes a while for things to start going the way he wants, boxers down all the way to his ankles and jaehwan’s hands on his sides, lips leaving little pecks down his waistline.
jaehwan chuckles before pressing his lips back on wonshik’s skin, and god, why does he keep doing that - he leaves soft kisses on his cock, just at the tip at first, then along the length.
it makes wonshik shiver and whine for more, for those lips to wrap around him, for his fingers to tangle into that soft ball of hair.
he lets out a muffled curse when jaehwan licks the slit, and jaehwan has to take a break to laugh.
“come on,” he whines, lying on his back and with a painful hard-on, “jaehwan! it’s not funny!”
jaehwan is literally bent in half from laughing, butt naked, and wonshik has to try really hard not to cry out of embarrassment.
“i hate you,” he says, cheeks rosy from both embarrassment and arousal, “i really do.”
“yeah, i bet you do,” jaehwan whispers, crawling his way back to wonshik. “because i’m not doing you yet.”
as he looks at him on all fours, lashes batting oh so slowly, wonshik can’t say that he’s wrong.
“please,” he whines, “please.”
“mmm?” jaehwan hums, “what are you asking me exactly? i want the details.”
wonshik takes a deep breath, closes his eyes, then speaks.
“i want you to shove your fingers in me and fuck me the way i like it, twist them inside me until i’m crying and begging for your dick.”
he can literally feel his cheeks burning up from shame, and he knows that jaehwan isn’t satisfied yet.
“and then?” he licks his lips, then starts licking at wonshik’s jaw. “what do you want me to do after that?”
“i want you to flip me around and fuck me into the mattress,” wonshik feels himself get hard from his own words and it’s both hot and embarrassing. “fuck me so hard that i forget how to breathe”.
jaehwan starts touching himself to his words and it’s really a sight to see, nimble fingers wrapped around the base of his cock and full mouth slightly parted in ecstasy.
“i want you inside me,” wonshik whispers, more to himself than for jaehwan to hear - but jaehwan does.
he’s never gonna get used to the feeling of cold, lubed fingers entering him, nor to the way jaehwan kisses while his fingers are in him, the stroke of his tongue and his fingers taking on the same rhythm.
it doesn’t take too long for wonshik to want more, the feeling of jaehwan’s fingers not enough to give him the release he needs.
“hyung,” wonshik’s voice comes out as a moan and it startles him, the tone of it so obscene it gives him goosebumps. “please fuck me.”
jaehwan presses a kiss to his forehead, then thrusts his fingers in a slower rhythm.
“i’m fucking you right now.”
he’s smirking, and all wonshik wants is to for that stupid, smug smile to get the hell out of his face - and for his cock to get in him as soon as possible.
“please, hyung,” he says, eyes closed so he doesn’t have to see the look on jaehwan’s face, “i need your big, thick cock in me.”
jaehwan lets out a little satisfied hum.
“i need to feel it inside me,” he says, eyes open. “please.”
it always feels so empty when jaehwan’s fingers slide out of him, so uncomfortable it makes him want to cry.
jaehwan kisses him with an open mouth and plays with his hair, gently flipping him over so that he’s lying on his stomach.
“are you ready?” he whispers into wonshik’s ear, gentle and mellow, and for a second their game is forgotten, just the two of them and their beating hearts.
“please,” wonshik says, low and needy, and jaehwan doesn’t have to ask again.
there’s nothing wonshik likes better than the feeling of jaehwan’s weight on him as he fucks him from behind.
he can feel his quickened heartbeat against his back, feel his warm hands on his sides as he keeps him in place. his fingers tangled in his hair as he snaps his hips into him, harder this time.
“hyung,” wonshik whines, “faster, please.”
jaehwan obliges - thrusts faster, harder, leaving little kisses on wonshik’s nape, just the way he likes it.
it takes just a little of stroking in time with jaehwan’s thrusts for wonshik to come with a groan, spilling into jaehwan’s hand.
jaehwan comes soon after, fingers tangled into wonshik’s hair once again as he climaxes inside of him.
they just stay still for a few seconds, their shallow breathing almost synced, jaehwan still inside of him.
it feels empty when they part, but wonshik doesn’t mind; he feels jaehwan’s arms wrap around his sides and lets himself be pulled into his warm embrace.
this is the part wonshik likes the most - not the teasing, not the fucking, not even the bruises around his wrists - it’s jaehwan as he knows him, pulling him into the sweetest, most sincere kiss.
pairing: n/ken
rating: g
wordcount: 772w
summary: they always say that the first spring of your twenties is the sweetest.
it's hot. may has yet to come to an end but the air feels suffocating, and it's hard to just sit there and breathe.
it's as if his clothes have glued themselves to his skin, football shorts damp and molded into the shape of his thighs.
he shifts tentatively in his seat, just to see if he would be stuck there or be able to move, and - much to his surprise - he manages to slide a little bit to the left.
it's so silent up there, all the noises from football practice down in the field coming out dulled, like they’re being heard through earmuffs.
that’s why jaehwan likes sitting outside the old science building - no noise, a great view (trees and birds and some cute passerbys every now and then), like being in your own room with your favorite pair of headphones and white noise on.
and sometimes - sometimes hakyeon comes sit with him.
“hey,” hakyeon says, patting jaehwan’s shoulder from behind, and to jaehwan it feels like a hard-earned shower in the middle of the hottest august.
he sits down next to him, and he’s so radiant yet so refreshing, eyes shining like drops of dew. jaehwan can’t help but sneak a look at him whenever hakyeon is too lost in his thoughts to notice, and his heart starts beating a little bit faster every time.
they spend their free time like that almost every day, sometimes talking so much that they can barely take a breath, others just sitting there and letting the breeze run through their hair, caressing their faces.
it’s the latter today, chins resting on folded knees and little droplets of sweat lazily rolling on their cheeks.
it feels like it’s been hours - or maybe just five minutes - when hakyeon scoots a little bit closer, cold fingers barely grazing jaehwan’s sweaty hands.
he sighs, then bites his lower lip. “you know,” he says, voice low and tentative, so different from the way he usually speaks, “i see you watching me.”
jaehwan can feel his ears burn up to the very tip.
“i mean,” he lowers his eyes, like looking at his dirty running shoes. “i see you watching me because,” he bites his lips again, voice cracking.
“because i’m looking at you too.”
jaehwan’s pretty sure his heart must’ve stopped beating or exploded because there’s no way it could handle something like that, no way that loud drumming in his ears isn’t a sign of his impending death.
hakyeon takes jaehwan’s hands in his, threading their fingers together, and jaehwan is sure he’s gonna die.
“the reason i sit here, talking to you. skipping lunch and class meetings.” he smiles, a smile so warm and shy, and all jaehwan wants is to kiss him, just perk up and kiss him.
“it’s because i like you.”
they sit a few seconds like that, in silence, just the sound of their breaths and accellerated hearbeats.
“you like me too, right?”
when hakyeon’s face comes dangerously close to his, jaehwan doesn’t really know what to do.
he hasn’t kissed, not since a long time ago, never seriously, but he’s too shy to say something like that. to tell something like that to the beautiful, cool senior that he’s liked for a long time.
to the boy that likes him back, whose soft lips he’s kissing right now - woah, when did that happen? - the boy whose eyes are closed as he angles his face to kiss him better.
he smells like fruity perfume and aftershave, and his hands are cool on his, soft yet firm.
he kisses like he means it, tongue timidly brushing against jaehwan’s upper lip until he lets his mouth part.
it’s sweet and dreamy and everything jaehwan ever wanted - even though their noses bumped together more than once, even though he’s sure that it sucked on his part.
and if it did, hakyeon doesn’t say it - he lets his head fall on jaehwan’s chest and giggles, softly but genuinely.
“i think my break time is over,” he says, laughing.
“we should catch up later.”
“let’s do that!” jaehwan says, louder than he had intended.
he bites his lips, then decides to be a little braver.
“see you later,” he says, placing a little kiss to hakyeon’s cheek. “and i like you.”
a little chuckle.
“i like you too.”
it’s hot. may has yet to come to an end and jaehwan doesn’t want it to, hakyeon’s hand in his and a smile on his lips.
they always say that the first spring of your twenties is the sweetest, and jaehwan knows now that it wasn’t a lie.
pairing: n/ravi
rating: g
wordcount: 3063w
summary: in which hakyeon falls in love with wonshik at second sight, and wonshik messes things up - one step at a time.
happy (belated) birthday to my sweetest friend @softcha! i love you so much ♡♡♡ // crossposted to ao3~
saying that his first impression of wonshik wasn't the best would be reductive.
he met him at a minor dance competition a few months back, just as he was stepping down from stage after his group's performance.
he was tired and sweaty and angry at himself, tears pooling up at the corner of his eyes, all because of a stupid mistake he'd made.
then someone patted him on the shoulder, a familiar, reassuring touch.
"i wanted to introduce you to someone," jaehwan smiled, gesturing towards a boy in bagged clothing sitting on the steps behind him.
"hakyeon, meet wonshik," he said, "he's from seonam high."
hakyeon remembered their performance from the semi-finals, stupid hip hop dancers with their boring, rehashed hip hop number. he didn't even stand there for their whole performance, that's just how uninterested he was.
"ah, yes," he smiled as he politely shook hands with a smiling wonshik, "i remember you."
the guy himself did look a bit silly, with that backwards snapback and untied shoelaces - he probably didn't even know what the swan lake was.
"it's really nice to meet you, wonshik," hakyeon beamed, voice sweet like dripping honey, "let's both do our best and win!"
as if those wannabe b-boys would win, he mentally scoffed.
back then, he really did think that non-classically trained dancers weren't worth a shit.
seeing wonshik on stage for the first time made hakyeon want to dig a hole for himself and his fucking pride.
he was nothing like he imagined, his movements fluid yet sharp, his facial expressions already like those of a pro.
he became entranced by wonshik's dancing, eyes following him all the way to the back when the positions shuffled, getting impatient whenever the spotlight was on someone else.
and by the time the performance ended, he already knew that he had a crush.
before the final results came out, he had made up a thousand and more ways to subtly ask for wonshik's number - and when his team ranked higher than hakyeon's, he decided that he'd found the perfect one.
"dance lessons," he said, shyly leaving a badly folded piece of paper in wonshik's hand.
"this is a phone number," wonshik gave him a puzzled look.
"that's right, it's my number," hakyeon bit his lip. "we should see each other sometime, share tips and stuff."
he could see a glint of happiness in wonshik's eyes, a little smile he wasn't really doing much to hide.
"i think we could learn a lot from each other. especially me," he laughed, lightly elbowing wonshik, "mr. number 4."
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it's 4 in the evening when hakyeon gets to the dusty practice room they've been using as of late.
he and wonshik have been practicing together for a few months now, one to several days a week, depending on their schedules.
they started with the basics, hakyeon somehow convincing wonshik that there was no way he was a complete dancer if he couldn't do the splits.
it was an hilarious sight to see - wonshik was pretty stiff at the beginning, but hakyeon was a good, patient teacher, and wonshik could master a perfect 180 degree split in the matter of a few weeks.
then it was hakyeon's turn - you could tell that his body was made for learning, fluid and flexible and graceful no matter what he was dancing to.
well, most of the time.
"you need to be stiffer when popping," wonshik told him the last time they practiced together, "so the moves come out sharp. watch me," he said, following his words with a series of quick contractions.
"i don't get it," hakyeon sulked, arms awkwardly flopping around. "you're a real shitty coach."
hakyeon's reminiscing is interrupted by the sound of wonshik's heavy footsteps.
"hey," he says, unceremoniously flopping on the floor next to hakyeon, fumbling with his backpack.
"long school day again?" hakyeon asks, mostly just to try and do some conversation; not like he doesn't already know all of wonshik's schedule by heart.
wonshik lets out a sigh. "yeah."
he takes off his snapback, lightly combing his hair back with his own fingers.
"should we get started?"
hakyeon feels like he's starting to get the hang of it this time, his body following the music and wonshik's instructions almost perfectly.
"do it like this," wonshik demostrates a chest pop, a single, sharp move that has hakyeon gaping in awe.
hakyeon tries and tries until he gets wonshik's approval, but even then, he doesn't feel satisfied.
he's not as good as he wants to be.
wonshik suggested they take a break, so they're now sitting on the dirty floor again, their chests heaving from exhaustion.
"do you think they even clean this place sometimes?" wonshik giggles, hand squeezing hakyeon's shoulder just a little bit.
hakyeon shrugs.
"i really don't think they do," he chugs a bit of water, trying to sit up a little more straight. "i mean, for that measly rent price i would expect to have to clean it myself."
when wonshik finally answers, he looks like a kid that just got the first praise from their favorite teacher.
"how about we clean it up ourselves? you could use to build some muscle anyway."
hakyeon scoffs, midly offended. "i would like to kindly remind you that i am a dancer. i have dancer muscles."
"right, right. how could i forget," wonshik giggles, taking a sip from his energy drink.
"ah," he says after a pause, his tone heavier and different from the playful wonshik hakyeon's used to; he sounds almost anxious.
"are you gonna sign up for that new competition? the national one," he's biting his nails, hakyeon observes. it's the first time he's seen him do that.
"i heard that there's a really great prize."
"i think i might ask my teammates if they're planning to, yeah," hakyeon says, a little taken aback from the sudden question. "what about you?"
"same here," wonshik replies, and they don't speak again until the break is over.
it's not too long before wonshik suggests they call it a day.
"you're beating yourself up too much," he says, "your body needs time to learn. it's a process."
he gives him a reassuring pat on the shoulder, and hakyeon feels like burning.
the next time they meet is on an early saturday evening, the april sun timidly peeking out of cotton-like clouds.
hakyeon arrives there early, the way he's used to.
he likes to have some time to himself, do some stretching, maybe try a new routine.
this time he's looking straight into the mirror, eyes focused. he gives his chest a sharp pop.
it's a lot of improvement, but he's still not satisfied.
he really wants to impress wonshik.
wonshik gets there late, sun already halfway down.
"sorry, i had a setback," he says, an apologetic smile on his face, and hakyeon can't even pretend to be mad.
"let's get down to business."
wonshik seems really happy with hakyeon's progress, not failing to praise him at every step, every move he gets right.
"at this point you might as well become the teacher," he chuckles, and hakyeon can't help but blush.
"i told you," he says with the cockiest tone he can manage, "classical training really makes the difference."
"mmm, is that so? then how do you explain this," wonshik touches his left shoulder, applying some pressure on it with his index finger.
"you have really bad posture sometimes," he says, inching a little closer, face to face with hakyeon. "should i teach you how to fix it?"
hakyeon doesn't reply, just looks at him instead.
he feels short of breath, short of words, wonshik occupying his whole field of vision and his scent dizzying him up.
he's a few centimeters taller than hakyeon - he didn't really notice it before this - and that somehow makes his heart beat ridiculously faster.
then wonshik's pressure on his shoulders becomes a grip, face close enough to breathe into him, eyes half lidded.
hakyeon knows what is about to happen, yet it doesn't feel real. he closes his eyes, curls his palms into a fist.
wonshik's lips are soft against his own, fresh and colder than he had imagined.
he isn't really sure what to do. the only time he kissed somebody was in middle school, and that didn't really count.
he just parts his lips a little bit, and by the time he does, wonshik pulls away.
he looks shocked, wide-eyed like he's seen something awful happen, breathing heavily the way he does after a long practice.
"uh... i..." he mutters, nervously tapping his foot on the ground. "i really gotta go."
he sprints to get his backpack, then runs out of the practice room without even looking back.
hakyeon doesn't know how to feel.
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hakyeon shift to his side with a sigh.
his fingers fumble in the dark until they find his phone, sitting just a few inches away from the edge of the bed.
it's 3 in the morning, and he hasn't heard from wonshik in three days.
memories from saturday come rushing to his barely awake mind, making his face flush a little.
wonshik's hands on his shoulders, the awkward silence, then a kiss he would have never thought it'd come.
wonshik's lips were a little chapped yet soft, like he'd tried to moisturize them before practice just to kiss him.
that thought has hakyeon blush like a middle schooler, lulling him back into a quiet, dreamless sleep.
no matter how many calls, how many texts he sends, wonshik never answers.
he considers calling jaehwan to ask if he's heard from him, then remembers that he hasn't talked to him in a few months himself.
it would be awkward to call just to ask about wonshik, he thinks, so he decides not to.
he has midterms and weeks worth of piled up homework to worry about, so he tells himself to forget about wonshik for a little bit.
it doesn't really work out, his fingers always hovering over the call button whenever he's lost in thought, and it's so hard to hold back.
he sighs, counting the pages he has left until he's done with this chemistry reading.
he wonders if wonshik's gonna pick up tonight.
or maybe he'll go for a text - it's more informal, less commitment, he tells himself, chewing on his nails, then realizes that the last 20-something messages in the conversation with wonshik are his own.
he tosses the phone away, sighing.
the same old questions are running through his mind, wearing him down.
did wonshik stop showing up because he was tired of him? was he not answering his calls because he hated him? was that kiss just an excuse to run away and leave him hanging?
he brings his hands to his face, rubbing at his eyes as if to ease those thoughts along with his tiredness.
this is gonna be a long night.
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he's visited the practice room a few times, on wednesdays and tuedays and the sunday before that, but wonshik was nowhere to be seen, groups of young girls and boys alternating themselves in the little dirty room.
he's off from school early, so he decides to try his luck again today.
he puts on his training shoes, worn out and dirty, and gets on that familiar bus.
it's been 10 days since he's last seen wonshik.
the door of the practice room is half-open, a little bit of sunlight peering up through the crack.
he slowly pushes the door open and it creaks a little, the way it always did.
inside there's wonshik, looking like he's frozen. hakyeon doesn't know what to say.
"hi." wonshik mumbles, eyes down, looking at the tip of his shoes like it's the most interesting thing in the room.
"where have you been?" hakyeon didn't mean to sound angry, or accusing for that matter, but it's like all of the pain and anxiety he's kept inside for the last few weeks have finally weighed him down.
he sighs, tearing up a bit. he really didn't want for this to happen.
"hakyeon..." wonshik starts, uncertain. the air in the practice room is awkward, heavy, so different from the warm spring day outside.
"i'm sorry, i... really didn't mean to drag it out like this."
he sounds and looks apologetic, but that does nothing for hakyeon's anger - almost fuels it instead.
he doesn't understand what the hell wonshik is talking about, and that makes him mad.
"listen, i... i wanted to ask you. i've really been wanting to but," he takes a pause to sigh heavily, "i was afraid you wouldn't want to do it if i didn't have everything set up."
"i have no fucking idea what you're talking about, wonshik."
wonshik bites his lips, eyes low. he looks like he's about to cry, and that makes hakyeon regret his outburst.
"you know... that dance competition i told you about, yeah?" his voice is cracking, and he's biting his nails again. he's definitely gonna scold him about it next time, hakyeon decides.
"i wanted to ask you do be my teammate."
he takes a deep breath, looking at hakyeon expectantly.
hakyeon is more confused than ever - what did that have to do with completely being off the radar for over a week?
so he asks him, and it takes a while to force the words out of wonshik, but it's worth the time.
"you were choreographing our team dance all this time?" hakyeon doesn't know whether he should be impressed or upset.
"because i thought you wouldn't consider leaving your old teammates for me," wonshik explains, still not looking up from the ground, "not unless i had a really mindblowing piece." he looks at him, chewing on his bottom lip. "and here i am."
wonshik looks incredibly mortified when hakyeon starts laughing. it's loud and genuine, and he can't stop until there's tears in his eyes.
"i'm sorry, i..." he says, voice shaken from laughing so much, "i think that what you did is really remarkable. choreographing on your own, i mean."
wonshik lets out a deep sigh, visibly relieved.
"i just wish you'd told me beforehand, you know? without leaving me in the dark for days."
he thinks about how terrible it was to not hear from wonshik for so long, of all the many sleepless nights and the pointless trips to the practice room, and his voice just cracks on its own.
"you have no idea how worried i was."
the way wonshik gapes at his words is almost annoying, "you, worried about me?", the surprise in his tone, but hakyeon won't get mad.
he's going to tell him that he likes him, and that not seeing him after what happened that day was killing him inside.
that he thought he hated him, even though it made little to no sense.
and he hopes that wonshik will say he likes him back.
"i just ran away because i didn't know what to do," wonshik whines, back leaning against the dusty mirror, hakyeon's head in his lap.
"you told me like three times now," hakyeon reaches a hand to wonshik's cheek, playing with a little strand of hair peeking out of his snapback.
"give me a kiss, a kiss," he whines, puckering his lips and closing his eyes and wonshik blushes, but not without complying.
"this is like the tenth kiss in a row," wonshik says, trying to sound annoyed. "if we're going at this rate, by the time of the competition we'll have no lips left!"
they both laugh, loud and wheezy and happy, and they don't move until it's time to go home.
there's a clammy feeling in hakyeon's stomach, but it's not a bad one - he's happy, happy and relieved, and feels like nothing in the world could wipe that grin out of his face right now.
he's sure that he's gonna feel that way for a long time.
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he was blown away when wonshik showed him the choreography for the first time.
it was a perfect mix of their styles, fluidity and sharpness blending together with nearly flawless transitions, the main role equally divided between the two of them.
"i love it so much," he said, giving wonshik a few claps of encouragement, "i feel like we could really go far with this."
and there they are, waiting for their turn backstage while the audience cheers thunderously for whoever's on right now.
"it's okay if we don't win, wonshikie," hakyeon says as reassuringly as he can, wonshik's sweaty hand clasped tightly with his own.
"did you really think that we could make it to the finals?"
wonshik shakes his head, trying to control his breathing. "but here we are."
he seems to have calmed down, his breathing more normal. hakyeon squeezes his shoulders, and tells him that it'll be okay.
the speaker outside calls their names, and they quietly make their way to the stage.
wonshik holds hakyeon's hand before they step out, and says something in the smallest of whispers.
hakyeon can't remember his life without dancing in it.
it's always been a part of it, even before he started taking classes - he'd stand in front of his parent's full body mirror and move, in what he thought was the best way to pass his time.
he didn't stop when he got into trouble for breaking said mirror, his untrained limbs still prone to mistakes.
he didn't stop when they told him that dancing would hinder his academic performance, long nights catching up on homework a reasonable sacrifice to not give up on his dreams.
and as he watches wonshik dance, he knows that it's the same for him.
knows that no matter how hard or how hopeless it gets, they have the same dreams and can count on each other.
"i can do it," wonshik whispered to him before going up on stage, hands still linked together. "i can do it, because i love you."
he keeps those words close to him as he follows their couple routine for the last time, smiling wide as he catches a glimpse of wonshik's movements with the corner of his eye.
he pirouettes, then lets his body slowly glide to the ground, breathless.
he knows they did their best, and he knows that they can do it.
because they're in love.
pairing: ravi/hongbin
rating: g
wordcount: 1086w
summary: hongbin misses wonshik, and he's missed just as much.
written for ravi's birthday, crossposted to ao3 ♡
it’s long after 3am when hongbin fumbles back into the dorm, trying his best to take his coat and shoes off without making too much noise.
all the lights are off already, and he doesn’t switch them on, using his phone’s flashlight to avoid the others’ shoes scattered through the main hallway as best as he can.
they must’ve come back in a rush, already tired, and he doesn’t want to wake anyone up.
he leans against the wall for a moment, lets the tiredness wash through his body.
it all feels nice in the dark, quiet, softer.
the silhouette of the sofa, of the tv remind him of scenes of domestic peace he feels like he hasn’t seen in forever.
"give me back my remote!", hakyeon yells, voice breaking into a chuckle as he pulls hard onto sanghyuk’s arm.
wonshik laughs just as hard, his laughter so rich and loud and genuine, eyes beaming, making hongbin’s heart swell up every time.
in the silence of the night, hongbin realizes that it’s what he misses most.
he tiptoes through the living room to the hallway that leads to the bedrooms until he reaches the door he’s looking for.
he bites his lower lip. it’s closed.
he lightly pushes it open, hoping it won’t creak. it doesn’t.
the room is dimly lit by the moonlight filtering through the open shutters, and he can feel the faint smell of wonshik’s cologne lingering in it.
sanghyuk is fast asleep, arm bent behind his head and the duvet all the way up to his nose, a light snoring coming from under the covers.
he fell asleep holding his phone, hongbin notices, arm hanging off the bed, and he can’t help but crack a smile.
he takes the phone from sanghyuk’s hand and places it on the night stand beside his bed, fixes his covers a little, because he knows that sanghyuk won’t find out. he misses him, too.
wonshik’s sleeping on his side, arms peeking from beneath the covers, and hongbin can see that he crashed into bed without undressing first.
he sighs, lips slightly curving into a smile, and nestles next to wonshik, pulling the covers all the way up.
“i miss you,” he whispers against wonshik’s back, chin tucked in the curve of his neck.
he knows that wonshik is asleep, but he doesn’t mind.
it’s better this way, words never come out easy when wonshik is in front of him, looking at him like he’s expecting something.
hongbin knows what he expects, but doesn’t know how to say it.
“i really, really miss you,” he repeats, voice cracking just a little bit. “i’m sorry i couldn’t make it to the party.”
he twitches a little bit when a hand reaches for his own, wonshik’s warm, soft hand.
“you’re awake,” he murmurs, a familiar warmth spreading to his cheeks.
“mmm”, wonshik says, shifting to his other side so he can face hongbin.
he looks tired, eyes sticky with sleep, words slurred and slowed down.
“what were you saying about missing me?” he says, a little mischievous smile on his face.
he’s so cute, hongbin thinks, so cute with the way his cheeks plump up when he smiles, his eyes crinkling into those familiar half-moon shapes.
he sighs, letting his eyes fall shut for a little bit.
“you know what i said,” it’s embarrassing, so embarrassing, but he knows he has to say it. he needs wonshik to know. “but i’ll say it again. i miss you so much lately.”
he’s soon wrapped by the familiar warmth of wonshik’s arms, and lets himself melt into it.
“i miss you too.”
being with wonshik like this feels comforting and natural and not at all awkward, and hongbin wants to cherish every moment of it, to relish every single one of wonshik’s breaths, all of his little sighs.
maybe it’s because it’s dark, or because it’s quiet, but the words don’t die on the tip of his tongue before he’s able to say them, and he’s glad for that.
“happy birthday,” he says, “i’m so sorry i couldn’t make it, i-”
he really wanted to go through with it, but wonshik won’t let him say it, fingers pressed against hongbin’s lips.
“what are you sorry for,” he says, voice as soft as his eyes, and places a little kiss to hongbin’s forehead.
“you don’t have to be sorry for anything.”
he says it like he means it, and that eases the turmoil in hongbin’s heart.
the anxiety, the insecurities, his tiredness all melt against the touch of wonshik’s lips.
the way their lips meet feels so natural, like they’ve been doing this for years.
(they haven’t, but it’s not the first time either. he can’t remember when it started, but they do it from time to time, when no one’s in sight and they’re both sad and tired. they never say a thing, just look at each other for a while. wonshik nods a little bit before leaning in, and hongbin’s eyes fall closed.)
“what was that for?” hongbin’s voice is a whisper, so feeble he fears that wonshik won’t be able to hear it over the drumming of his own heartbeat.
wonshik smiles, one of those full, eye crinkling smiles that hongbin loves so much.
“that was my way of saying that i missed you.” he bites his lips. “i’m glad you’re here.”
hongbin’s heart takes a leap, skips one, two, three beats.
wonshik is playing with the hair at the back of his nape, and every time he feels his warm fingers touch the skin hongbin shivers a little.
he kisses him again, hands cupping his face, and when he pulls away he’s blushing.
“your presence is the best birthday gift i could hope for.”
it’s very hard to hold the tears back, but hongbin can’t afford to cry right now. there’s a lump in his throat when he kisses wonshik again, this time initiating it.
it’s sweet and mellow and wonshik tastes like beer and toothpaste and sleep, and he’s clinging to hongbin for dear life, pulling him close, closer, as much as he can.
wonshik falls asleep like that, legs tangled with hongbin’s, his face buried into his shoulder. one of his arms is clutched tightly around hongbin’s waist, as if he’s scared that he’ll be gone again, that he won’t find him once he wakes up.
he doesn’t know about the day that’ll come, or the ones after that - but for this night, hongbin will stay.
taekwoon might look rough on the outside but he's very different behind closed doors, warm and safe under the weight of his comforter.
he asks for another kiss, legs tangled with hakyeon's, face buried into his shoulder.
"why can't you take the initiative sometimes, for a change?" hakyeon laughs, pressing a kiss to his forehead.
taekwoon's face fires up as he tries to bite back an embarrassed smile.
and right now, there's no one else in the world that hakyeon wants to kiss more.
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with jaehwan it's always soft, hushed kisses sneaked in the practice room when no one's watching, tired lips touching for what always feels like the first time.
at night, it's hakyeon who searches for jaehwan, knocking at his door with a sheepish smile and eyes fluttering.
it's hakyeon who reaches for jaehwan's hands, those hands that always seem to fit so seamlessly around his waist; for his soft lips that still smell of rose chapstick, even in the ams.
and when they part - soft, content smiles on their lips and hands still linked together - jaehwan just leans in for another kiss, then one more.
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there's no such thing as enough kisses with wonshik.
in the shower, in the car, on the couch - he's always there, just like that, lips puckered up and eyes closed.
"kiss me, hyung" he says, flopping next to him on the couch, face all up in his field of vision and hands tugging at his shirt. "pretty please."
and hakyeon does - sweet, giggly, messy kisses that become something more with wonshik sitting in his lap, all quickened heartbeats and shallow breaths.
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hongbin's kisses are urgent, his hands needy, and all hakyeon wants is for him to be enough, to somehow bring relief to hongbin's restless heart.
so he lets hongbin lay him down, lets him run his cold hands down his shirt and do all the work.
he closes his eyes when hongbin trails his fingers down his chest, leaving warm kisses down his hipbone, and shudders.
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"did you know," sanghyuk says, chuckling at the feeling of hakyeon's lips on his neck, "that when you kiss you exchange around 80 million microbes?"
hakyeon just replies with a kiss, one of those big, bacteria spreading ones, full of the mouth, and sanghyuk makes a disgruntled sound.
"kissing is so gross," he says, pulling hakyeon in closer. "all of that spit and teeth and microbes."
"right." hakyeon beams as sanghyuk pulls him closer, eyes half-lidded and mouth open.
"good thing we're both gross then."