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San, the cat was finding his comfort in his new home. He had been Yeosang’s (and Wooyoung’s by extension) pet cat for a few weeks now and he liked to lay on the sofa where the sun hit perfectly for him to sunbathe in. He loved it and he especially loved it knowing Wooyoung, the cat hater glared at him because he was sleeping on his favourite spot on the sofa. If San was in his human form he would most definitely laugh at Wooyoung’s face so instead, San, the cat looked like the happiest cat in the world and the smuggest.
“Aw, isn’t kitty cute?”
“Piss off”
“Stop being mean”
“I’m not being mean! I swear the fur ball has something against me. Look at how smug he looks laying on MY spot, and it’s rubbing all it’ss awful hair all over it too!” Wooyoung whines as he grabs Yeosang’s arm and shakes it a bit.
“Just stop being a dick” Yeosang says with a roll of his eyes and Wooyoung glares at San, the cat and for a split second Wooyoung swears that the damn fur ball stuck his tongue out at him.
“Yeosang! That fur ball just stuck his tongue out at me!”
“Sure and pigs are flying outside” Yeosang says as he rolls his eyes again.
If San could he would snicker but he just carries on looking like the happiest cat in the world.
Yeosang shakes Wooyoung off his arm before joining San, the cat on the sofa. San, the cat curls up against Yeosang and does a happy purr making Yeosang aw again and he scratches San’s ear.
“Blegh!” Wooyoung pretends to gag and Yeosang glares at him.
San makes a mental note to push something else off the table that belonged to Wooyoung.
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“He is just so sweet, kitty” Yeosang says as he rubs San, the cat’s belly.
San purrs.
Yeosang had just come home from work and was telling San, the cat about his day before the topic changed to his secret crush.
“He just has to smile and my heart will literally burst out of my chest” he says and San listens carefully. He is trying to figure out who this person could possibly be.
San, as his human self has started to hang out more with Yeosang and Wooyoung. They were getting closer and San often found himself spending a lot of time with Yeosang. Wooyoung always seem to find an excuse to disappear for a bit leaving the two alone. San has to wonder if maybe Yeosang had a crush on Wooyoung as they were clearly very close.
San thought Yeosang could do better than Wooyoung, but love is love as the old lady who fed him, often told him. So who was he to judge if Yeosang had a crush on Wooyoung. His heart feels a little tight at the thought though and he doesn’t know why.
Yeosang was wonderful and friendly. He was funny, his smile was beautiful, his eyes were mesmerising and everything about him was just so perfect. San could not understand why Yeosang’s secret crush didn’t take notice of him.
Oh well, their loss.
San thinks before cuddling closer into Yeosang and falling asleep. He can feel Yeosang’s presence and he feels comfortable. He dreams of his human self laughing and talking to Yeosang.
When he wakes up Yeosang is gone. He is probably getting ready to go to their night classes. San gets out of bed and makes his way to the kitchen. Yeosang sees him and greets him with a smile.
“Going out for the night, kitty?”
San meows.
“I hope you have a good night” Yeosang says as he picks San, the cat up and kisses his nose.
San repays the favour with a lick and Yeosang giggles before setting San by the window which had turned into his door.
“Bye, kitty”
San looks back and tries his best to smile in his cat form and Yeosang smiles back with a wave. San can feel hist small cat heart beating faster than normal. San pushes that growing feeling inside him away and makes his way back to his own flat he shared with Yunho and Mingi.
“Hey lover boy!” Mingi greets from his spot on the sofa when San bounces into their shared flat.
San just rolls his eyes. Mingi and Yunho had started to tease him about his so called “crush” on Yeosang. He did not have a crush on Yeosang. Not at all, not even a little. San has no idea what they are talking about.
“How is the love of your life?” Yunho asks as he pokes his head out of his bedroom.
“I don’t know, I don’t have one” San says and his two best friend laugh at him.
“Sure and Yunho totally doesn’t have a crush on Honjoong” Mingi laughs.
Yunho glares at Mingi and then turns to San before saying, “And Mingi totally doesn’t spend all his free time day dreaming about Jongho”
“Hey!”
San rolls his eyes and walks away into the safety of his room. His friends were all idiots. They all had crushes and mutual feelings for each other but they were all too blind to see it. San sighs as he gets his things ready for his night class. He takes a shower before getting dressed and then heads out, making sure to ignore the teasing from both Mingi and Yunho.
When he reaches campus he sees the best friend duo waiting for him. This was their normal thing now. San jogs a little to reach his two friends. Yes, they had become friends quickly after he approached the two with what he assumed was Yeosang’s pen. He got along really well with Wooyoung. They found out that they were both loud, energetic, clingy and they both were members of their secret (but not so secret since they were both too loud) “Yeosang Appreciation” club.
Yeosang rolls his eyes at this but he cannot hide his small smile. San loves to see Yeosang smile so despite his dislike for Wooyoung when he is in his cat form, San gets close to Wooyoung and learn many things about Yeosang. Like how Yeosang used to be a very shy and quiet child, not much has changed really now but Wooyoung had pictures of cute baby Yeosang and San lived for those. San also learned that Yeosang, despite looking like he didn’t care about anything or anyone in the world was secretly a sweetheart. Okay so San already knew this because of his double life as a cat but Wooyoung had stories that San, the cat would never know of.
San loves all of this.
As they walk to their lecture, Wooyoung being the popular and social student he was gets called over by one of his many best friends, Changbin. Wooyoung tells the two of them that he will catch up with them later and bounces away to Changbin leaving San and Yeosang alone.
“So what have you been up to?” San asks knowing Yeosang wouldn’t speak if not spoken to .
“Oh you know, just studying and working. Normal student stuff” Yeosang says as he pulls his backpack closer to him by the strap.
San had learned that that usually meant Yeosang was nervous. They did have a test tonight so that’s probably why Yeosang was nervous. San doesn’t understand why though because Yeosang always aced all the tests, essays and exams.
“Cool. I have basically just slept all day instead of studying for this test tonight” San says with a laugh.
Yeosang laughs with him.
“You’ll be fine. You always say you haven’t studied and you still do really good” Yeosang says with a smile and pats San’s shoulder.
San’s shoulder burns where Yeosang touched him and he feels a shiver run down his spine. He doesn’t know why this is happening. Yeosang touched San all the time when he is a cat but this was different. Yeosang wasn’t someone who liked touching people nor did he like being touched by other people. Wooyoung seems to be the only exception.
San manages to smile despite feeling nervous all of a sudden.
“If anyone needs to worry about this test it’s probably Wooyoung” Yeosang says with a laugh and San laugh too. “I tried to help him study but it’s like talking to the wall”
“Yeah, he is bit of a… er… he’s not the sharpest tool in the box” San says trying to put it nicely.
Yeosang laughs out loud and San feels his heart skip a beat. That was new too.
“You can just call him an idiot you know” Yeosang says as he is still laughing a little.
“Oi!” Wooyoung yells as he runs to them and slings each arm over San and Yeosang. “Who are you calling an idiot?!”
“You, duh” Yeosang deadpans.
“Offf, you really have no mercy at all” Wooyoung says dramatically before dragging the two of them into their lecture hall.
San tries his best, he really does. He tries to focus on what their lecturer was saying and trying his best to follow along and write down detailed notes, but his head is just full of Yeosang, his smile, his laugh, his voices, his eyes and how soft his lips looks.
What was happening to San?
Thankfully, he manages to score well above the average score on their test while Wooyoung proudly shows off his just passing mark. Yeosang obviously aced his test and San applauds Yeosang making him blush in embarrassment and great, San now has another cute image of Yeosang haunting his mind.
And he still can’t forget how soft his lips looks.
As they start packing up to leave, San still feeling a little dazed and he is shook out of it by Yeosang himself.
“Are you ok? You look a little out of it” Yeosang asks, clearly worried.
“Ah, yeah. Just feeling a little tired, sorry for making you worry” San says in a rush as he starts to shove his things into his bag.
“You sure? You like, didn’t stop staring at one spot towards the end of Mr What’s his face’s lecture” Wooyoung says, he also looks a little worried.
“Yeah, like I said, just tired” San says as he avoids eye contact with the best friends.
“If you say so, but do me a favour and walk Sang-ie home for me, I’m meeting some other friends for drinks now” Wooyoung says.
“I’m not a child! I can go home on my own. San needs to go home and rest” Yeosang protests but San jumps in before Wooyoung can say anything.
“I’ll do it!”
“I knew you would! Anyway bye!” Wooyoung runs out.
“Wo— ”
But Wooyoung just winks at Yeosang before running faster.
Yeosang sighs before turning to San.
“You really don’t have to” Yeosang starts but San jumps in once again.
“I want to!” San claims and Yeosang laughs.
“Alright, come on” Yeosang says and hooks his hand over San’s own hand. San’s heart skips another beat.
It’s a bit cold outside since it’s night, obviously so Yeosang snuggles up closer to San. San stiffens up and Yeosang looks up at him.
“Oh sorry, I was a bit cold” he says, a little sadly making San’s heart drop to his stomach. Yeosang tries to pull away from San but San pulls him closer.
“It’s fine, don’t worry about it. I was just surprised, that’s all” San says softly with a smile and Yeosang nods with a smile and stays snuggled up with San.
They make small talk as they walk together and Yeosang seems to smile more, giggle at San’s stupid jokes more and San just can’t help but let his heart race. His brain having more Yeosang content saved, ready to haunt him for the rest of his life.
“Thanks for walking me, San” Yeosang says with a small smile as they pull away (to San’s disappointment).
“You’re welcome, I enjoyed it” San says, retuning his smile.
Was it just San or is Yeosang blushing? It’s a bit too dark to tell.
“I will see you tomorrow?”
“Of course, good night Yeosang-ie” San says softly.
“Good night, San-ah”
If it was possible, San would have melted on the spot at the (loving) nickname. Instead he smiles, dimple and all (making Yeosang blush even more which San doesn’t notice because of the dark). San stays until Yeosang has entered his flat building before turning away, smile still plastered on his face.
He was in love.
He had to admit it finally and yes he is jealous of whoever Yeosang’s secret crush is. He secretly prays to win his heart over with a smile on his face.
And yes, he was going to go home and swoon over Yeosang and tell Mingi and Yunho all about it, and when the night turned to day and he had to be a cat again, he would go to Yeosang and Wooyoung’s flat and give Yeosang all the love he could possibly give as a cat.