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Saturdays were, to Minghao, the day to finally relax and indulge in himself, which is why he is currently sunbathing in his pool and nodding off every couple seconds. He had hooked up his speakers to his phone and left his playlist playing quietly a while ago.
The sun was hitting his skin just right and his shades were just the right tint to block out the sun rays. There wasn't any traffic or annoying birds to distract him from his daydreaming, his roommates, Jun and Wonwoo were out doing whoever knows what. They had left while he was still asleep, leaving a sticky note on the countertop telling him that they'll be back a little after 5.
These are the days he lives for, he finally has some peace and quiet, being away from college, his job, and his rowdy group of 7 friends. Don't get him wrong, he loves his friends and sometimes even his job but social activities get tiring after a while. He's been in the pool for only an hour and honestly he doesn't feel like getting out any time soon but the thought of Jun or Wonwoo dragging him out to make fun of him makes him want to get out sometime soon....but maybe in another hour or two.
He's in a light sleep, knowing full well if he didn't wake up any time soon he'd turn into some kind of red lobster and have the birds eat him alive or something. He moans quietly and turns over, the floaty underneath him almost giving out and he freaks out....until it does. The next thing he knows is that he's drowning and he just may have let out the most ugliest yell before he fell, all he can think now is,
'wow.....so this is my fate'
Grabbing onto his floaty he gasps loudly and just groans in agony and utter horror at the fact that he really just almost died and Jun and Wonwoo weren't even around, like seriously, how unreliable is that! He's almost out of the pool when he hears someone's voice.
"Woah, hey are you alright over there? Do you need help?"
Freaking out he slips and skids his bare knees across the patio, not thinking that someone would actually hear him and his near death experience.
"Umm, yeah...i'm okay! I just slipped a little." he says out of breath and winces.
The other person laughs and he can't help but feel a little embarrassed as he says, "It sounds like you almost died, dude! Are you hurt?"
He sits down on one of the lawn chairs and looks down at his knee and sighs, because yeah, there's a big scratch on his knee that's slightly bleeding, he bites his lip.
"Ummm...yeah, it's just a scratch though, it'll be healed in no time!" He says.
"I can come over there and fix it up for you! I have a first aid-kit right over here." The guy says genuinely.
He pauses, because why is this person so nice? It's weird, like who offers something like that. Besides, he's 21, he's a grown independent man!
"Like I said, it's okay! It'll be healed in no time...and anyway it's weird of you to even offer, I don't even know you." He laughs.
"Well, my name is Mingyu, i'm your neighbor!" He says enthusiastically.
"My name's Minghao. Yeah, I live here with two other people...hope you aren't a serial killer or something." He adds as a second thought.
"Hey! I've lived here since the past summer! If I were one I would've done it already!" He says sounding a bit undignified.
Minghao smiles and laughs, "Yeah true, thanks for not killing us."
Mingyu laughs, "So how old are you, Minghao? you sound pretty young. Let me guess, 18?"
Minghao gasps in mock hurt, "Hey! I'm 21 how dare you insult my voice like that! How old are you? 30 or something?"
"Excuse me i'm 21 as well! I do not sound like an old man!" He proclaims loudly, sounding a bit childish.
"You could've fooled me! Why haven't we ever run into each other since we're like all neighbors and everything? Are you a shut in?" Minghao teases.
"I spend most of my days at college, I even study there most of the time since my roommates are loud as fuck." Mingyu laughs.
"Oh cool, what college? We might even go to the same one!" Minghao asks in surprise interest.
"I go to Pledis Uni. Yeah, I'm a culinary major and I minor in photography, what about you?"
Minghao smiles in surprise. "I go there too! I study dance though and I minor in literature but culinary sounds fun!"
"It is fun, I like cooking, baking is my specialty. By the way, those sound like they could both be majors! Shouldn't you be like, super busy?"
"I am busy, half the time, but I always make sure to spend time with my friends and have time to myself though, self care is the key you know?" He smiles.
Mingyu barks out a laugh. "You seem like, super chill, I wish I were more like you! College is so stressful!" He moans at the end.
Mingao smiles and stretches his legs and laughs a little. "Yeah, it can be stressful but if you just stop saying that so much your experience will get better, trust me."
"Hey Mingyu! get in here and make us something to eat! we're starving, mama!" a childish voice bellows out.
Mingyu bites out a loud "I'M NOT YOUR MOTHER STOP CALLING ME THAT YOU IDIOTS!"
Minghao raises his eyebrows in mirth as he hears something fly and hit its target and a loud boisterous laugh.
"Hey, Minghao?" Mingyu calls.
"Yeah, leaving?" Minghao looks at the sky that's been fading into hues.
"Yeah, I have to feed these sad excuses of roommates, it was nice talking to you though! Let's talk again, bye!" Mingyu says with something that sounds like a smile and then a door closes.
Suddenly a door opens back up and Mingyu asks, "Hey, by the way what song is playing? It's really nice!" in excitement.
He perks up, "It's called Butterflies, It's by Michael Jackson, it's like, my favorite song by him. You should totally check out the album as well."
"Thanks! I'll be sure to listen to that song again, it's super soothing."
When the door closes again Minghao smiles to himself, unknowingly developing a small liking for his neighbor.
Seeing as there's nothing else to do he get's up and walks into his house to takes a shower and waits for Jun and Wonwoo to come home.
When he gets out he walks into his room and dresses in a pair of dark green sweatshorts and black hoodie. Flopping onto his made bed he pulls out his phone and decides to text Wonwoo.
Haohao: Where are you guys? 5:13 pm
Wonie: Hey Hao, we're at a pizza place right now. What do you want to eat? 5:14
Haohao: I want an all cheese pizza if you guys are at Tornio's. (◕‿◕✿) 5:14
Wonie: We are. You monster. We'll be there soon. Junnie says he loves you. 5:16 pm
Haohao: Thank you luv you!!! (✿´‿`) 5:17 pm
Wonie: omg hao I get it stop with the weird faces u weirdo 5:18 pm
Haohao: >:c 5:19 pm
It's a quarter till' 6 when they get home and Minghao jumps out of bed to help them with the food. Jun laughs as he sees him.
"Hey sleepy head, how was your day?" Jun gathers him in his arms.
Minghao grunts against his chest, "Food. I want food."
"We got one whole cheese and one whole pep. I was going to get half and half but I knew you'd be too hungry. We also stopped by the grocery store since we were running out of junk food." Wonwoo says as he takes everything out of the bags.
Jun ruffles his hair. "We went to the animal shelter, we were going to take you but I knew today was your off day and you needed sleep, I saw some of the cutest dogs, I just wanted to take them all home!" He sighs.
"Really? Ah seriously, guys! You should have woken me up." He pouts a little.
"We can always go anther day. Stop pouting and come eat, Haohao." Wonwoo says and sits down to eat.
"Yeah I know, thanks for letting me sleep in. Did you guys do anything else today?
"Yeah, we also went to Jisoo's and Visited Channie and his parents. Gotta keep up with the peeps. Oh and they told us to tell you that they missed you and love you. We should visit them soon again. What have you done?" Jun says as he sits across from Wonwoo and starts eating.
"Well, I woke up. Then a laid around watching movies for a while, decided it was too hot and then I spent the rest of the day in the pool. Did you guys know we had a neighbor?" Minghao asks in confusion as he sits down with them.
"Welcome back dumb dumb, of course we have a neighbor, I never talked to him though. I think there's like a group of guys who live next to us. Moved here last summer."
"Well I was talking to one of them for like hours while I was in the pool. Sounded like some old man but he's probably cute."
Jun gasps, "Are you really thirsting over a voice, Minghao? Is this what it has come to?"
"What! It's possible! You haven't heard his voice, it's like deep but at the same time smooth."
Wonwoo laughs, "That's like...every voice ever Haohao."
He glares at Wonwoo and flips him off. "Fuck you, he has a nice voice."
"Yeah fuck off and let the man get his dick wet from a voice in peace!" Jun cackles.
"Yeah well, I've had a long day and I have an even longer one tomorrow so i'll talk to you haters later." Minghao mock sneers and walks down the hallway hearing a "But you've slept all day you idiot!" Minghao shuts his door and flops right back onto his bed.
The thoughts of Mingyu floats through his head. He wonders what he looks like. Even more he liked talking to him, which was rare for him to hit it off with someone he's never even met. Would it be weird if he waited out for him everyday for late night pool talks? He has a feeling Mingyu would probably do the same until one of his roommates dragged him inside.
He smiles to himself. He wants to talk to him again.