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Hyunjin wasn’t exactly sure quite how he ended up at his university’s baseball game, but yet here he is. Felix had insisted they go together, claiming it was a great opportunity for him to try and get out more, see the sun as he said.
In reality Felix just needed and excuse to ogle at Jisung. Correction, Jisung’s ass in those tight baseball pants. The younger of the two had barged into Hyunjin’s dorm at the asscrack of dawn (it was 7am not that early) demanding Hyunjin come down to the pitch with him to watch the first game of the season. The young blonde had convinced Hyunjin with the promise of coffee, which in the end he never got.
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“Lix, shut your mouth you’re drooling” he chides, Felix snaps his head towards the other, a scandalised look on his face.
“I am not! He just looks very… strong right now” Felix grumbles, turning his head back towards his boyfriend on the field who had turned to start waving at him, a massive grin plastered on his face as he blows a kiss towards the blond, celebrating their first victory of the season. Hyunjin faux gags at the sight, earning a slap to the arm in response from the boy next to him.
“See! Isn’t he so cute!” Felix smiles back, waving like a mad man and cheering loud enough Hyunjin is convinced his ears may be bleeding.
“You have a strange definition of cute my friend, very strange” Hyunjin responds, watching as a familiar face saunters up to Jisung, giving him a playful thwack to the neck and sending him off on his way.
Kim Seungmin, the team captain. The boy is pretty popular around campus, always smiling, happy to help anyone who asks. There isn’t a single negative thing Hyunjin can pinpoint about him, even the way he bullies Jisung is endearing in a sense.
Hyunjin is enamoured with him, his soft puppy dog eyes, wide smile and fluffy mop of hair. Seungmin is everything Hyunjin could want.
“Wow and you say I’m down bad Hyun. Try not to burn a hole into the back of Seungmin’s head please dude.” Felix interrupts Hyunjin’s daydream, nudging the older boy with his elbow to gain his attention. Seungmin had already walked off with Jisung, oblivious to Hyunjin’s mindless staring, he elbows Felix back.
“What are you on about Lix, I wasn’t looking at Seungmin,” he pouts, glancing around the field unable to spot the mop of soft pink hair.
“Sure, you weren’t buddy, look you scared him off the field!” Felix points across towards where the entry to the locker room is, Hyunjin catches the flash of pink as it disappears through the doors.
“Did not! What the fuck dude”
“Oh, you absolutely did you loser” Felix giggles, watching as the rest of team follow behind Seungmin, into the lockers.
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“And would you believe Hyunjin had his eyes on Seungmin the whole time!” Felix giggles cuddling up to Jisung who had come to meet up with the two after he had showered. The three had made their way to a café down the road and Felix would not leave Hyunjin alone.
“Felix, babe, I think he’s gonna die of embarrassment soon if you keep talking about it,” Jisung gives Hyunjin a sorry look before laughing himself.
“Respectfully you guys both suck,” Hyunjin pouts at the teasing.
“You’re just snotty because Seungmin won’t look at you,” Felix continues, before taking a huge bite out of his sandwich,
“Plus Isn’t he seeing that Chan guy, y’know the buff catcher” He asks through the food in his mouth.
“Babe don’t talk with your mouth full, that’s gross, also no I’ve heard nothing about them together?” Jisung butts in, grimacing at the crumbs littering his lovers face, brushing them away carefully to avoid touching any spit.
“It doesn’t matter who Seungmin’s with, it’s not like that… I wasn’t staring” Hyunjin mutters, starting to get a bit bothered.
He wasn’t kidding, it wasn’t like that at all, Seungmin was just another guy, right? Yea he had a crush on him, but who didn’t. The Kim Seungmin was a heart throb, it would take a blindman to not see that. The young Captain didn’t even know who he was, anyway, it’s not like he had a chance. Hyunjin was more than happy to observe from the sidelines, plus Seungmin has plenty of options, why would he settle for the nervous art student in the first place? Right?
The three keep chatting and bantering for a few more hours before Hyunjin has to take off, He had promised Minho he would help him unpack and move into his new flat. Ideally Hyunjin had hoped he would get a few more hours sleep beforehand but it’s a bit late for that now.
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He drags his feet up the stairs to the new flat, knocking on the door and waited for Minho to open the door. Instead, he is greeted with the last person he would expect.
“Oh hi? Are you here for Minho-Hyung?” The boy in front of him asks, quirking up an eyebrow. Hyunjin almost physically jumps at the sight, never able to miss that damn pink hair.
“Hi, yea, I’m Hyunjin. Hyung invited me over to help him unpack.” He manages, “Did he ask you to help too?”
Seungmin laughs at the question, obviously not expecting it.
“What? No, Hyung’s my roommate. My roommate graduated so he’s taking their spot. I’d rather die than deal with all of his stuff” The younger boy smiles, moving to the side and ushers a very embarrassed Hyunjin in. Great, now Seungmin is in his personal life too.
Previously Hyunjin had only seen Seungmin in passing, whether it be walking past the boy in the hall, or when he would hunt down Jisung when he was late for practice. But this, this was getting ridiculous, it’s been less than a day and he’s already convinced Seungmin is everywhere he looks.
“He’s in his room, down the hall on the left” Seungmin point towards the hallway. Hyunjin shuffles past with a quick thanks and makes his way to Minho’s room. The older is making his bed when he walks in, attention fully focused on it and entirely missing Hyunjin’s entrance.
Minho jumps when he turns around to see he was no longer alone, cussing as he tumbles, barely catching himself.
“Jesus Hyunjin, warn a guy, won’t you?” Minho scolds, straightening himself up in the process. Minho continues smoothing out his bedsheets before looking back at Hyunjin.
“There’s a couple boxes over the that need emptying” He points to the corner of the room by his desk, there are three boxes labelled figurines, Books and misc., Hyunjin cruises over, sitting down in front of them and making a start.
“Any particular homes for this stuff?” He asks, not looking at Minho as he pulls the tape off the first box.
“Nah just, wherever it fits, I’m not bothered.” Minho replies, moving over to the boxes by his bedside table and making a start on opening them up.
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The two work almost in silence, chatting here and there, but too committed to getting everything over and done with so they can relax. Weaving around each other, finding different homes for each item. At one point Hyunjin pulls out a few photos of Minho when he was younger. He sets them aside next to him, holding onto them until he can get a proper look at them.
Hyunjin and Minho only met through their dance lessons a couple years back. Hyunjin was a freshman at the time, Minho a sophomore. Hyunjin was the youngest in their class at the time; Felix didn’t join until a few months after him. Minho had felt bad for him, Freshman Hyunjin was even shyer than he is now, he wouldn’t talk to anyone, kept to himself during their lessons.
After the first few weeks Minho noticed Hyunjin had started to fall behind a bit and decided to take him under his wing from there, bothering him every day until eventually Hyunjin started to gain some confidence and bother him back. The two grew close very quickly, constantly bickering like siblings. Minho was ecstatic that he had managed to get Hyunjin out of his shell a little. Obviously, things aren’t perfect, Hyunjin is still a pretty big hermit, opting to spend most of his time alone, too anxious to try meeting new people. But even then, Minho is proud of the progress his Dongsaeng has made.
Hyunjin grabs the photo frame closest to him, it’s a Picture of Minho and another boy, they both look pretty young, probably no more than 10 or 11. He examines the scenery, the other boy looks familiar, but he can’t quite put his finger on it. He decides to ask.
“Hey Hyung, who’s this kid in the photo with you, he looks familiar,” Hyunjin holds the photo up to his Hyung to give him a better look.
“Oh! Would you believe that’s Minnie, wow I forgot I had that one of us,” Minho walks over and takes the photo from Hyunjin, taking a good look at it.
“Wait really? Damn Hyung how long have you two known each other?” He pries further, curiosity peaking about this little unknown fact about his Hyung.
“Hmm, good question, honestly probably a good fifteen years now I reckon. Our mums were best friends at work, so we got to hang out a lot when they did.” Minho responds before yelling across the house.
“YAH! Seungmin! How many years have we known each other now?!”
Hyunjin flinches at the loudness, as Seungmin peeks his head through the door quirking an eyebrow at Minho,
“Uhm good fifteen years now, I think? Why?” The younger boy slides a little further into the room and gets a glimpse of the photo Minho’s holding. He saunters over and grabs it.
“Woah holy shit where’d you get this? We were so little” He chuckles, handing the photo back to Minho.
“Hyunjinnie found it in one of my boxes, pretty cute right?” He responds, poking Seungmin in the stomach a couple times, earning a grumble from the latter at the abuse.
“Actually, there’s a couple, here” Hyunjin grabs the other framed photos and stands up, bringing them to the other two, there’s multiple photos of the two.
“Damn, I didn’t even know I had these, thanks Hyune! They’ll look nice in the living room I bet.’ Minho smiles before sliding past Seungmin and disappearing out the door, likely heading to the living room to lay out the photos.
Seungmin stands awkwardly, unsure of what to say. Hyunjin moves back to his boxes to continue unpacking, hoping to avoid the pair of eyes burning into the back of his head.
“you’re friends with Jisung’s boyfriend, right? Felix?” Seungmin asks, moving to sit down next to Hyunjin.
“I saw you at the game this morning, do you normally watch? I feel like I haven’t seen you at a match before.” He continues, plonking himself down next to Hyunjin, who is self admittedly starting to sweat a little.
“U-uh yea, Felix, Hyung and I are in the same dance class. Felix dragged me along this morning, so he didn’t look like a lonely loser when he started drooling all over his boyfriend.” Hyunjin chuckles awkwardly, still avoiding eye contact. Seungmin hums in response, picking up bits and pieces, organising them into piles to make the job easier for Hyunjin.
“You know, I’ve seen you around campus before, you’re quite the sight Hyunjin-ssi,” Seungmin mutters, not looking at Hyunjin as he continues to Organise. Hyunjin blushes at the comment, not really sure how to respond. He mumbles a soft thanks and joins in with organising Minho’s things.
“I saw you staring at me during the game by the way, what was that about?” Seungmin asks, Hyunjin drops the book he’s holding and starts to stutter in a panic, ears going bright red.
“I-I wasn’t staring, I zoned out mid game, sports aren’t really my thing” He responds, hoping it will be enough for Seungmin to drop the topic. He doesn’t.
“Really? you were pretty far away but I’m sure I saw your head following me around,” he teases, Hyunjin is a nervous wreck. Sure, Felix and Jisung’s teasing was a pain, but this? This is a conversation of Hyunjin’s nightmares.
“I swear I wasn’t staring! Like I said, sports are super boring, and it was stupid o’clock in the morning, it was way too early to be conscious,” He grumbles back, ears burning.
“Whatever you say cutie,” Seungmin responds, winking at Hyunjin who goes silent, busying himself with whatever is in front of him again, trying to ignore the boy next to him.
The two continue work in awkward silence until Minho returns, the tension between the two is obviously felt because Minho instantly tells them to take a break. Seungmin left, presumably going back to whatever he was originally doing and never returned.
“Hyung, is Seungmin always so nosy?” Hyunjin asks, giving Minho a stank face at the memory of Seungmin’s teasing.
“Nosy? What do you mean by that? Is that why you seemed ready to strangle each other?” Minho responds, obvious confusion on his face.
“We were not wanting to strangle each other, he was picking on me, teasing me because for some reason the whole world thinks I was staring at him during the game this morning” Hyunjin grumbles, getting frustrated that this is now the third person to tease him.
“I mean were you not?” Minho chuckles,
“Ugh I hate this fucking family.” Great, Felix had gotten to Minho too.
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It’s been a week since the incident at the Minho’s. Hyunjin is once again begrudgingly woken up by Felix wanting to go with him, again. Hyunjin initially says no, not wanting to have to confront Seungmin again, especially after their awkward encounter.
Conveniently enough, after the whole situation went down Hyunjin didn’t see Seungmin again. The younger boy must’ve left the apartment at some point because Hyunjin didn’t spot him when leaving. He also hasn’t seen Seungmin around the campus between campus. It’s been weird not seeing a puff of pink scurrying past him everywhere he looked, it’s not exactly easy to miss someone with that colour hair.
Hyunjin won’t deny it, he’s a little bummed about the sudden lack of appearances. Seungmin may have been pushy, but something about him calling Hyunjin a cutie had him kicking his feet like a schoolgirl.
After a lot of persuasion, and possibly a body slam Hyunjin was convinced to go. He didn’t put in any effort today, not really feeling the vibes. The idea of Seungmin being there, gets him excited, but also anxious.
They find their seats, front row courtesy of Jisung. Great, Hyunjin thinks to himself, now he’s going to have to keep an eye on his wandering gaze. Felix gives Hyunjin a nudge to the should and uses his head to point towards the subject of his interest. Seungmin is smiling at Hyunjin, he waves when he realises Hyunjin is looking back.
Hyunjin blushes and gives a shy wave before turning to Felix,
“What the fuck dude?” Hyunjin asks, face and ears still burning.
“What the fuck dude yourself Hyunjin, since when was Seungmin waving at you like a crazed boyfriend” Felix jabs his pointer finger into Hyunjin’s stomach expectantly, waiting for an answer.
“He is not my boyfriend Jesus, I don’t know what he’s up to either,” He Scolds jabbing Felix back and scowling at him.
“Hey! Your words not mine! I never said he was boyfriend” Felix responds, giving a solid laugh, his soft blonde hair bounces as he does.
“Even then, when did you two even meet each other? I thought you were strangers.”
“We are strangers! But he lives with Minho-Hyung now, so I ran into him on Saturday,” Hyunjin replies, before adding.
“He called me Cutie too.”
That comment alone sends Felix into hysterics, demanding more details. Hyunjin explains the situation about his unexpected encounter with Seungmin. He notes that Seungmin had noticed his ‘Staring’ and that was the last straw for Felix.
“Oh, dude he absolutely thinks you’re hot.” Felix says; however his attention is very quickly stolen when Jisung yells out to him from the field. Felix waves back, yelling about how much he loves the latter, Hyunjin decides to redirect his attention to Seungmin, who is currently doing his warmup stretches.
Hyunjin can’t avoid his gaze slowly but surely moving down to Seungmin’s ass. His uniform is incredibly tight, Hyunjin can’t imagine anyone running in them. They outline Seungmin’s butt well, tight around the edges framing his cheeks and thighs nicely. Okay, he’ll admit it, he’s staring.
Hyunjin brings his attention back up to a more PG area, getting a good look at Seungmin’s features, the pink hair on his head is being held back by a flimsy head band at the moment, light fluffy strands stick out in different directions underneath it. The boy is already sweating a little too from their warmup laps.
He is very pretty, Hyunjin can’t deny that the younger boy just has something about him that makes Hyunjin heart flutter a little. His eyes flit back down to the pants that are straining under the pure strength behind Seungmin’s ass.
Things aren’t that easy though, Hyunjin is caught almost instantly. Seungmin sends a wink his way before starting to do a couple squats in place of his original stretches. Hyunjin knows he’s been caught, face going bright red again.
Felix catches him too, of course.
“Dude, he saw you staring this time, don’t you dare try denying it.” Felix starts, grabbing Hyunjin by the shoulders and shaking him, the blonde cackles at him until there’s tears forming in his eyes, chanting some mantra about someone in a tree kissing? Hyunjin’s not one hundred percent sure seeing as the statements in English, but he still resorts to a solid slap on the arm.
“Look he has a nice ass, okay?” Hyunjin tries to defend himself, in turn setting off Felix more.
“Dude! Oh my god I knew it!” Felix huffs out, struggling to breath from laughing at Hyunjin.
“Holy shit I cannot wait until Jisung finds out” He continues, now draping himself over Hyunjin in a half hug, still laughing.
“A word to Jisung and you die Felix” Hyunjin threatens.
“Then we go out like men!” Felix replies.
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Hyunjin finds himself waking up early every Saturday to go watch Jisung (Seungmin) play. It’s become clockwork for him over the last month and a bit. Him and Seungmin haven’t really interacted with each other outside of Hyunjin going to his games, staring at him and cheering him on, usually get a wink or a wave in return or when they chat in passing whenever Hyunjin goes over to their place to hang out with Minho.
They don’t have each other’s numbers, socials or anything really other than Seungmin’s weekly baseball games.
It’s funny really, Hyunjin is had started to develop a crush on the other, they sometimes chat with each other after the games for a little bit and part ways. Seungmin always thanks Hyunjin for coming to his games and call him his cutie.
Felix has been trying to persuade Hyunjin for weeks now to invite Seungmin to their little café dates, adamant that it could be a double date and a perfect opportunity for Hyunjin to make a move. Hyunjin has declined every week, not having the confidence in himself to take that step.
Today is a tournament. Seungmin hasn’t looked his way once, hyper focused on the matches. Which is surprising to Hyunjin seeing as Felix had managed to get them seats right behind their team’s bench, wanting to make sure he could give Jisung a kiss every time the boy came past.
Their team is currently neck in neck with the other. The last inning has around 5 Minutes left and Seungmin is the last batter to run. The last 2 players had been caught out; all of the bases are currently empty. Seungmin is pretty much the last resort now to win this match.
The tension is high, Seungmin needs to make it back to home base as fast as possible otherwise the match will tie. It seems almost impossible considering the time remaining.
The rest of the team are on their feet, entirely silent, some even have their fists in their mouths, hands covering their eyes. Hyunjin is quite literally on the edge of his seat.
The pitched reels back and throws as hard as he can, Seungmin doesn’t swing.
“Strike one!” The Umpire shouts, Jisung grumbles about it being a poor throw, a couple of the other team members muttering in agreement.
The pitcher reels back and throws again, Seungmin swings, Hard. As soon as the ball makes contact, he drops the bat and sends it. Hyunjin loses track of the ball immediately, eyes focussing in on Seungmin who is sprinting to first base. Hyunjin leg is shaking in anticipation.
“C’mon Seungmin! You can do it” He shouts watching as Seungmin makes it to first base, then second and third. The ball is still nowhere to be seen. Seungmin stamps his foot down on third base and picks up his speed as hard as he can, sprinting his way to home base.
The timer has 10 seconds to spare, time feels like its slowing. Five, Four, Three, Seungmin throws his body onto the final homebase, securing a home run and the timer his Zero. The final Horn blows and the game is over. Everyone from their teams erupts into cheers, the crowd following after.
Seungmin had won the game, and there he was face down on the dirt, huffing and puffing before the realisation they had won settles in. Chan and Jisung sprint over pulling him up off the ground and hoisting him up onto their shoulders, cheering and yelling, all three of them and grinning from ear to ear.
Hyunjin doesn’t even realise he’s cheering too. Yelling out Seungmin’s name as he does. He stands up next to Felix who is waving over Jisung, his boyfriend still had their captain on his shoulders, bringing both Seungmin and Chan over with him.
The two put Seungmin down so that Jisung can pull Felix into a big hug, kissing him senseless. Hyunjin turns to Seungmin to congratulate him and instead is greeted with the Younger boy right in front of him, grabbing his face and pulling him in for a kiss.
Hyunjin freezes. The Kim Seungmin is kissing him? He closes his eyes and melts into the kiss, both boys’ lips melding together, Seungmin’s hand slides down gripping the bac of Hyunjin’s neck holding him in place. Hyunjin indulges for another couple of seconds before Seungmin pulls away.
There is now a shit scared look on his face as he realises what he just did.
“Holy fuck Hyunjin Hyung I’m so sorry,” he says, eyes darting around, checking to see if anyone saw what had just happened, however no one is focused on them, too busy celebrating their win. Seungmin looks at Hyunjin who is silent, eyes wide, unsure what to do.
He’s conflicted, the two have barely spent time with each other, but that kiss, it felt so right. Hyunjin mentally contemplates for another seconds, he’s okay with this, Seungmin seems okay with this.
Alright full send.
Instead of responding Hyunjin pulls the latter back in for another kiss, this time he pushes it out a little more. Seungmin sighs into Hyunjin’s mouth, seemingly understanding what Hyunjin wants to say. The two push and pull, nothing more than lips melding into one. Hyunjin’s hand finds its way into that soft light pink hair, and he runs his hand through it. It’s incredible, like holding a cloud.
The two pull away again, foreheads against each other, Seungmin’s breathing is heavy, a mix of running the fastest he probably every has and being kissed into another dimension. He chuckles and presses another soft kiss to Hyunjin’s lips before speaking.
“I meant it when I call you my cutie, Hyunjin-Ah” he says, bringing his hand up to hold Hyunjin’s shoulder, Hyunjin blushes at the compliment.
“I- wow- you were incredible” Hyunjin responds, still starstruck that their universities hotshot is here with him, and just kissed him in front of majority of the school. He’s also still trying to catch his breath. Seungmin huffs out a chuckle.
“Thanks Cutie. Does this mean you’ll be at all of my games now then?” He asks, pulling away slightly to usher his hands back and forth between the two of them, referring to the kiss they just shared.
“If you want me to, I’d be more than happy to watch, plus I can’t lie, your ass looks incredible in those pants so it’s a win win” Hyunjin giggles, bringing his hand around to give a gentle pat to Seungmin’s butt before pulling his hand up to rest on Seungmin’s waist. Seungmin pulls him into a hug, resting his chin on Hyunjin’s shoulder/
“I’d love for you to come watch me play, but surely let me take you on a date first?” he mumbles into the space between Hyunjin’s neck and shoulder.
“I’d love to go on a date with you” Hyunjin replies, blushing even harder. He wraps his arms around Seungmin holding him close.
However good things always come to an end.
Felix’s voice can be heard from across the field.
“HWANG HYUNJIN WHAT WAS THAT?” He yells, running over with Jisung high on his tail. Hyunjin hadn’t even noticed the two had migrated to the other side of the field, by the looks of it they had been chatting away with Chan and a couple of the other members of the team.
Hyunjin pulls away form Seungmin with a sigh. As the two other boys catch up to them, Felix is a babbling mess.
“DID YOU KISS HIM??? DID HE KISS YOU??? Oh my god Jisung it happened, and we missed it.” Felix rambles, letting out a fake cry as he does.
Seungmin and Jisung bicker back and forth about what happened, whilst Felix throws himself onto Hyunjin. The Blonde Moans about how unfair it is that Hyunjin didn’t tell him the two were dating to which Hyunjin had to remind Felix that this wasn’t exactly a planned attack.
That day Seungmin joined their café date, Felix wouldn’t let him go anywhere else. Not that Hyunjin was complaining about his presence.