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When they arrive at Junkyu’s house, they head straight to his bedroom and Junkyu plops on his bed, signaling for Mashiho to do the same. So he awkwardly sits next to Junkyu, fidgeting with the bottom of the sleeves of his shirt.
“What should we do now that you’re over,” Junkyu asks, scrunching his eyebrows the slightest as he thinks of different things they possibly could do, not knowing which ones sound the most appealing anyway. He knows a few of Mashiho’s hobbies from when he hacked him, but he can’t just read them off and make it obvious that he knows too much from somewhere. Besides, he doesn't like some of them that much either.
Mashiho hums in thought, an idea coming to his mind. “Ah, maybe we could do something fun like dance. I think it’s really fun and it helps improve yourself, too. So it gets double points.” Mashiho giggles as Junkyu nods and sends a thumbs up to affirm that it was a good idea.
“Dancing it is,” Junkyu smiles and opens YouTube on his tv. “What should we dance to, though?” He goes to the search bar before Mashiho could see what was recommended just because it’s embarrassing.
“Let’s just do one of those random K-pop dance challenges,” he smiles as they stand up. Junkyu searches up some of the challenges, and they both agree on one that looks fun.
They open it, and they quickly stretch while the introduction is going. Dance the Night Away is the first choreography they have to dance to, so they quickly scramble from their stretching positions and begin the dance. During the dance, they hold hands during one part which makes both of them blush. Other than that, nothing significant happens while they dance.
After a couple of hours, they finish dancing. They ended up doing three different videos, one an hour and the other two ½ an hour long each.
Junkyu collapses into his bed, panting as he grabs his bottle of water that he prepared beforehand.
Mashiho follows, doing pretty much the same. After Junkyu takes a breather and drinks practically all of his water, he gets up and turns the tv off.
“I think my mom finished making dinner,” Junkyu says, smelling something delicious in the air.
“Yeah, it smells good!” They go into the kitchen, deciding they deserve a snack at least if dinner isn’t done. But luckily it was finished. Junkyu’s mom made everyone’s plate and sat them out cleanly at the table, along with a homemade cheesecake for dessert. Junkyu notices Mashiho lick his lips at the sight of the dinner (and dessert), eyeing him a bit too closely.
They finish dinner rather quickly, heading back to Junkyu’s room after thanking his mom for the amazing meal. Junkyu smiles, complaining about how his legs hurt for a moment before laying down on his bed. “So where do you want to sleep tonight? You can take my bed, if you want.”
“No, it’s okay! You should sleep in your own bed. I can take the floor, then..”
“I mean, you could always sleep up here with me too, you know!” Junkyu laughs at Mashiho when he blushes from his statement. His bed isn’t that small, so he thinks they’ll survive.
Mashiho giggles softly. “Okay, I probably will then..”
They hang out together and play a game on Junkyu’s laptop that he was telling Mashiho about until they’re both tired and it happened to reach midnight. Junkyu gets in the shower while Mashiho plays the long game some more, wishing he could finish before leaving even though he knows he’ll have to come back to complete it. After Junkyu gets out of the shower, he quickly shows Mashiho how to work his shower so he can get in. Once Junkyu leaves the bathroom, he goes and chats with his dad who usually is up around this time.
Mashiho’s out of the shower in fifteen minutes tops, and he catches a glimpse of Junkyu with his dad on his way back to the bedroom. He doesn’t go and get Junkyu, not wanting to interrupt him or anything, so instead he continues on his journey back to Junkyu’s room. He sets his dirty clothes next to his bag that he has placed in the corner of Junkyu’s room that was already messy enough. Then he lays down on the bed and watches his friend’s snapchat stories while he waits for Junkyu.
Junkyu comes back after a few minutes, noticing he doesn’t hear the water running anymore. He spots Mashiho about to fall asleep while on his phone, making him pout. “You didn’t have to wait for me! I just realized you were out of the shower.” He hops onto the bed next to Mashiho, smiling softly at him. “Are you ready to go to sleep now, then?”
“Yeah, whenever you are..” He exits out of Snapchat and shuts his phone off, plugging it in and setting it on Junkyu’s bedside table shortly after.
“Okay,” he replies, leaning over in the bed to reach the light and shut it off before making himself comfortable. He accidentally touches Mashiho’s arm and quickly apologizes, scooting until he’s touching the wall next to his bed and is basically awkwardly glued to it the entire night.
The next morning, Mashiho wakes up first at around eight am. He notices Junkyu still sleeping, making him pout. He’s really hungry but isn’t comfortable with going and getting food here yet, so he just lays in the bed pathetically. His stomach growls a few times, so he tries to distract himself by reading a random blog online. When Junkyu finally wakes up, it’s about ten am. Mashiho feels so relieved that he’s finally awake and immediately begs to go get food, which makes Junkyu laugh and agree.
They go and make two bowls of cereal--one lucky charms, one cheerios--and sit down at the table while they eat.
“Have you taken any more photos recently,” Junkyu asks, “The ones you showed me at lunch before were really beautiful.”
Mashiho blushes, thanking him quietly. “I haven’t yet. I’ve been so busy with the presentation we did, and then we had a bunch of homework from Mrs. Park, so I’ve been too focused on those things. It takes me a while since I’m really bad at math.” He laughs softly, finishing his small bowl of cheerios.
“Oh, I’m not that good either. But I can always help you with it! We could work on things together, and maybe it would be easier!” Junkyu smiles, racing to finish his lucky charms so Mashiho isn’t kept waiting any longer. He rinses their dishes out and lets them sit in the sink for his mom or dad to wash later.
“So, can I play more of that game,” Mashiho laughs, feeling so intrigued with the plot of it.
“Yeah, of course! I’ll watch so I can see what choices you make.” He giggles, leading him to his bedroom happily. Mashiho plays for a couple of hours before Junkyu whines about wanting a snack, so they take a break.
They head back into the kitchen and Junkyu searches through all of the edible things in his kitchen. He finds a half-eaten bag of funyuns chips and settles for those. “Do you want anything? We can share these too, if you want.”
Mashiho fakes a disgusted look, “I would never eat those, no matter how hungry I was!” They both giggle for a moment. “But I’ll just get a glass of milk.” He says as he starts pouring a generous amount into a cup.
“And I would never drink milk by itself,” Junkyu sticks his tongue out at Mashiho playfully while he waits for him to put the milk away.
They find themselves back in Junkyu’s room with the snacks despite knowing he’s not allowed to eat in his room. His parents are at work, so there’s no way they’ll find out, right? Mashiho goes back to playing Life Is Strange, just as intrigued as when he first started, and Junkyu watches YouTube on his phone, secretly glancing up at Mashiho every few moments.
They do this for a while, barely speaking to each other, and instead focusing on whatever each of them are currently doing. It doesn’t feel awkward for either of them, though. But the background music on the game helps with that, even if they don’t acknowledge that fact. Junkyu gets up a couple of times to take the trash and glass they used out of his room, so he didn’t have to rush before his parents got back home, and to use the restroom. But other than that, they’ve been doing practically nothing for the entire day, which went by surprisingly fast for both of them.
They eat dinner, shower and go to sleep in the next couple of hours.
The next day, they acknowledge that Mashiho is going to go home soon, which upsets both of them. His parents didn’t give a time to come back, so he decided to just head home before his curfew of six pm sometime. He woke up at about eight again today, and he of course played the game on Junkyu’s laptop until Junkyu woke up. Since he has to leave sometime today, they decide to actually not play the game and instead go to a coffee shop and hang out, just so it would actually count for doing something while he was there.
Junkyu puts a little bit of makeup on himself and does Mashiho’s makeup too, since Mashiho asked. They both like the way it turned out for both of them, and head out on a walk to the coffee shop with some money Junkyu’s mom gave him. They chat on the walk there, enjoying themselves a lot already. They discuss and figure out what drinks they’ll get once they get there.
“I’d like a hot chocolate, please! A large with cream on top,” Junkyu smiles at the lady behind the counter once they arrive. She smiles back and looks over at Mashiho for his order while grabbing the right cup for Junkyu’s.
“And I want an iced caramel macchiato, medium.” He goes to the other spot with Junkyu while they wait for their drinks patiently, watching the lady make them.
She gives them their drinks a couple of minutes later, and they go to a more isolated seat in the surprisingly not completely full café.
“The game is just so much fun! I’m scared of what’s gonna happen, though. I was so scared in that one scene with the gun…” Mashiho starts talking as soon as they sit down.
“Yeah, it took me forever to finish it! You’ll have to finish it next time you come over, then!” He smiles, assuming Mashiho would want to come over again. “There’s a part two to the game, too. But it has a completely different plot, though. I haven’t played that one yet, actually! I’m gonna ask my dad for it for Christmas soon,” he giggles. “Then once you finish this one, you can play that one, too. Well, if my parents buy it for me, that is.” He chuckles softly, sipping his hot chocolate happily and closing his eyes in satisfaction at the taste. “This is probably the best hot cocoa I’ve ever had.”
Mashiho grins in response. “I’d love to play the second one, I hope you’ll get it!” At Junkyu’s response, he decides to taste his own drink, humming in delight. “Yeah, their drinks are really good! We should come here often.” He smiles softly.
They finish their drinks and stay to chat for a bit longer before they go back to Junkyu’s house. Once there, they eat dinner and Mashiho gets all of his things together. And Junkyu walks him to his house before going back home.
He opens his front door, his mom sitting on the couch and looking up at him with a weird expression on her face. “You like him, don’t you,” she grins, making him blush deeply.
“N-No,” he says before rushing off to his room.
I love him.