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"I mean the sexual tension has been off the charts! I dunno what to do. Hyung?? Why are you not talking?" Mino asked Jiho who's on the other line on the phone. He had to call him to explain what happened about the blind date situation and he ended up telling everything to him. He needed to talk to someone and he was a dam who's about to burst and he sucks at lying anyway.
Jiho sighs from the other line. "You realize you've been rambling straight for the last 10 mins. How was I supposed to say anything?"
"I dunno what to do with Yoon hyung!!! What would you do?" Mino panics. He was lying in bed, he barely had any sleep last night.
"Honestly, I'd probably do him too. Yoon is hot." Jiho says nonchalantly.
"Don't even fucking think about it hyung."
"What? Technically I kissed him first." Jiho laughs at that realization.
"Hyung, I'm serious."
Jiho stopped laughing when he realized that Mino was indeed serious about this. "Wait, so this thing with Yoon is real? You actual like him? It's not a one time itch that you wanna scratch?"
"I don't know hyung. I've been weirdly attracted to him for the longest time and I thought it was nothing but it never went away. I'm not sure how this can affect our work relationship though."
"Mino-ya. Life is short. Stop worrying about what ifs. You gotta do things. You should ask him out on a date."
Mino sat up. "A date?? But what if that's not what he wants? What if he-"
"Just stop second guessing and do it. Be confident okay? I gotta go-"
"Wait, how do I.. do I just ask him or-"
"Just ask him! Be clear about it! I gotta go now! Bye!!" Jiho hung up and Mino threw his phone away and burried his face on his pillows. Maybe he should just sleep the day off. Or lock himself in the studio. Work on music and paint. He was contemplating what to do when he heard some movement in the living room. He peered outside and saw Seunghoon who was already dressed to go out. It was one of their rare free days
"Hey hyung, where are you going?" Mino asked.
"Out." Seunghoon simply said while putting on his shoes. "You?"
"I dunno, I think I wanna stay at home and just relax in here." Mino said as he flops down on the sofa.
"Get your ass off that sofa Mino, who knows when we'll get another free day." Seunghoon looks at Mino disapprovingly as Jinwoo goes out of his room, dressed to go out as well.
"You're staying home Mino?" Jinwoo is the one who usually stays at home so for him to be the one asking Mino that question is really strange.
"You're going out too hyung?"
"Yeah I'm hitting the gym then going to the derma. Wanna come?" Jinwoo asks as he and Seunghoon lingers in the doorway waiting for Mino to change his mind.
"Naah, I'm good here." Mino turns on the tv and puts both arms behind his head.
"Well suit yourself." Seunghoon and Jinwoo were about to leave when a fresh out of shower Yoon went out of his room, surprising everyone because he never wakes up before lunch time.
"Wow you're up early?" Jinwoo commented.
"Yeah, I didn't want to waste the day away just sleeping." Yoon said as he dries his hair with a towel. "You're leaving?"
"Yeah, but Mino's going to stay at home-" Seunghoon wasn't even able to finish his sentence when Mino jumps out of the sofa and grabs a towel from the nearby cabinet.
"I change my mind, I'm going out as well."
Seunghoon and Jinwoo looks at each other and rolls their eyes. "Oh okay I get it now." Seunghoon says as Jinwoo laughs.
"Get what?" Yoon looks at his hyungs with a questioning look.
"Oh stop acting dumb you two. Let's go hyung." Seunghoon goes out the door.
"Have fun guys!" Jinwoo follows him.
Seungyoon looks from the door to Mino. "What was that all about?"
Mino shrugged as he walks towards Yoon. "I have no idea."
It was suddenly too quiet after the two hyungs left and Mino was standing too close for casual conversation.
"Well, here we are by ourselves." Mino said.
Seungyoon's eyes travelled from Mino's eyes to his lips. "What should we do..?"
"Definitely not make out."
"Definitely not."
Mino laughed and Yoon laughed with him awkwardly. The laughter didn't last very long because Mino was slowly leaning in to Yoon's face.
"Can I ask you a question...?" Yoon asked as Mino stops inches away from his face.
"Sure." Mino says his eyes on Yoon's mouth.
"What's.. going on here?" Yoon laughs awkardly again as Mino leans back. "What are we...? What are we doing?"
Mino sheepishly smiles and scratches his head as he tries to think of an answer. "We are...housemates...' Yoon raises his eyebrows. "..we are good friends.." Yoon nods "..and we've made out a couple of times..and our attracted to each other..."
"Uhuh." Yoon agrees.
"And sometimes we, genuinely hate each other.."
"That's true.."
"Especially when you talk too much when we could be doing other things.." Mino whispered as he closes in again, this time successfully into Yoon's unresisting mouth. Seungyoon's skin is so soft and warm from his shower and Mino knows he can do this all day. He wonders when the novelty of kissing Seungyoon would end. He has to get used to this somehow or else he won't be able to other things. All he would want to do is kiss Seungyoon, touch Seungyoon, hug Seungyoon. But no, today he has a mission. Be confident and be clear, Jiho-hyung said. Seungyoon pulled back to get some air and Mino just blurted it out.
"Do you wanna go food maybe like out or something?" Mino stuttered. Great. So much for confident and clear.
"....What?" Seungyoon's face was somewhere between weirded out and wanting to laugh.
Mino sighed and took a deep breath. "Do you want to get food?"
"Oh you wanna eat? Totally. I'm starving."
"Great." Mino smiled and nodded. "I'mma go take a shower now."
"Okay..?"
"Okay." That didn't exactly go according to his plan but they were going out on a date and that's all that matters.
Mino chose a fine dining restaurant which they won't normally choose especially if it's just the two of them. They'd usually go to a burger joint, or grill some meat.
"Oh fancy." Seungyoon looks around and sits at a table by the window that Mino specifically requested for them. Mino even ordered a bottle of wine as soon as they sat down.
"Don't worry tonight is my treat." Mino tells him.
"Hey Mino, can I ask you a question?"
"Sure."
"Well, I'm just asking if..this is a date?" Seungyoon shrugged.
Mino froze for a few seconds. "Wha.. what do you mean if this is a date?"
"I'm just asking you if this is a date..it seems like a date." Seungyoon looks around.
Mino's brain short circuited again. "You've been thinking this is a date the whole time?"
"I'm just asking-"
"How embarassing for you! No, for me it's just.. hanging out..having wine with my friend." Mino laughs fakely while he silently curses his mouth for blurting out stupid shit.
Seungyoon slowly nods and looks at him weirdly.
Mino clears his throat and calls the waiter. "I think we're ready to order."
They spent dinner just casually talking about their lives and work. Nothing about whatever their relationship is. They finished their bottle of wine and they moved to the bar to get more drinks.
"Seunghoon-hyung has been pestering me all night asking where we are." Seungyoon says as he types in a reply.
"Our hyungs are ridiculously clingy aren't they?" Mino laughs.
"Well to their credit, at least they don't randomly make out when they meet each other in the hallway..." Seungyoon casually says while still typing.
"That we know of." Mino finishes making Yoon laugh and Mino loves it when he laughs without abandon. So cute.
"Maybe if you didn't walk around naked all the time, we wouldn't be making out randomly." Mino must've had a lot of drinks for him to go in that topic.
"I don't walk around naked."
"You practically are. Those tiny boxers barely cover anything. And then you ask me to open this jar-"
"I have a weak grip-"
"-with your pouty lips looking like a puppy"
"That wasn't intentional!"
"Well you have to stop because it's ridiculously hot..okay?"
Seungyoon didn't have anything to say at that so he just nods while trying to hide the smile forming in his face.
"It's hard for me to deal with because it's too hot."
"Alright fine..then you have to stop playing with your lip piercing." Seungyoon says.
Mino laughs. "That's a turn on?"
Seungyoon shrugs. "It's hot." Seungyoon plays with his lower lip mimicking Mino when he plays with his piercing.
"It's so weird that that's a turn on!"
"Your piercings and tattoos are hot. I'm sure you know it." Seungyoon rolls his eyes at him.
"I absolutely had no idea." Mino pretends to be shocked and Seungyoon lightly smacks his chest as they both laugh.
This is how it should be. Easy. With Seungyoon everything is easy. "This date is going really well."
"I thought this wasn't a date?" Seungyoon asks, an eyebrow raised.
Mino bumps his shoulder to Yoon and smiles. "Of course this is a date."
When they got home, the hyungs were in the living room watching tv. Mino and Yoon both joined them in the sofa.
"Welcome back lovebirds. How was your date?" Seunghoon asked.
"It was.. actually pretty good." Seungyoon says as he highfives Mino.
Seunghoon and Jinu looked at each other, confused at their dongsaengs actions more than ever.
"So are you guys like together..or?" Jinu asked. They both spoke at the same time.
"Well we're-"
"We're just-"
Seunghoon and Jinu both has eyebrows raised at them. "You live together and you go on dates.. what's that?" Seunghoon asked and was met with silence.
Seunghoon sighed and looked at Jinu who nodded at him urging him on. Mino knows they've been talking about this. "I think you guys..don't really know what you are to each other.."
"No we know-"
"Well you're wrong."
"We know-"
"Yeah we know-"
"Okay tell you what, this will be fun." Seunghoon says to shut Mino and Yoon's rambling. He grabbed two pens and two pieces of paper from a nearby table and gave Mino and Yoon one of each. "Why don't you guys write what you think you are to each other. Seriously, write down what you think this is. Is this a..relationship? Friends? One night stand? Above the waist only? No wrong answers."
"Seriously hyung?" Yoon asked.
"You said you both knew right?" Jinu said.
Mino sighed and looked at the paper. He absolutely had no idea what Yoon will write on it. They took an awfully long time thinking about what to write and when they finally gave Hoon the paper he looked at it once then he tore it all up saying. "Okay maybe this wasn't such a good idea."
"Hey, what did he write?" Seungyoon protested.
"What did YOU write?" Mino asked Seungyoon as the hyungs not so sublty left to let them talk. When they were completely alone again. Seungyoon asked Mino.
"Mino, I need to know how you feel. What did you write on your paper?"
"Wel what did you write on your paper?"
They both just looked at each other without saying anything. Mino is not sure if Seungyoon just doesn't know how to be with him or if he's second guessing his feelings. Does he even like Mino the way Mino likes him?
Seungyoon sighed and broke the eye contact. "Fine, from now on. No more funny business. No more making out in the hallway."
"Is that really what you want?" Mino looks at him, he knows Seungyoon and he knows when he means what he says. This isn't one of them.
"Yeah."
"You sure?"
"Yeah, let's call it."
"Alright, let's call it. If that's what you want." Mino says as he pretends to absentmindedly play with his lip ring with the tip of his tongue.
Seungyoon watched him mesmerized before he realized what Mino was doing. "You are such a cheater." Seungyoon looks away and shakes his head, laughing a bit.
"What? What did I do?" Mino feigns innocence.
Seungyoon stands up and turns to leave. "This conversation isn't going anywhere. I'm going to bed."
Mino watched him walk to his room as if in slow mo. Can he really live through another night of not telling Seungyoon how he feels? Before Mino can even think about it, he was running over to Seungyoon just in time to put a hand on the door before he completely closed it.
"What the-"
Mino squeezed his way in and then closed the door, gently pushing a surprised Seungyoon's back to it. "Let's not call it." Mino whispers.
"What?" Seungyoon barely heard him.
"I know you wanna call it but.. I don't want to give up on this. Even if we don't know what this is. So please, can we uncall it? And before you say no, please..don't say no." Mino watched as Seungyoon looked into his eyes. He wasn't able to say anything for a while which scared Mino until he held on the back of Mino's neck and kissed him hard. Mino sighed in relief in his mouth as he wrapped his arms on Seungyoon's waist.
Seungyoon pulled back for a bit and smiled at him. "Let's uncall it."