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Jake doesn’t mean to stare. He really doesn’t mean to. He makes sure to avert his eyes every single time they voluntarily start peering sideways on their own. He tries his best to focus his attention back to the pullup bars in front of him and remind himself he is here in the gym to work out on his posture and not shamelessly stare at his fellow teammate.
But Jake is a very weak gay man. And when the object of his infatuation is standing right beside him with heavy dumbbells in both his hands, looking like the hottest man alive on earth, who in their fucking right mind would expect Jake to focus on working out? Yeah, nah .
“So black hair and eyebrow piercings keep you going, huh?”
Jake mentally screeches and turns his head around to find Riki all into his personal space, a cheeky smile on his face.
“I wasn’t staring at Sunoo.”
Riki cackles and drapes his arm over Jake, easily pulling the tinier boy closer to him, “Yeah your mom was.” But flinches it away when Jake eyes daggers at him.
“No, seriously hyung. I will let you know that you are not very subtle.”
Jake moves away to grab his water bottle from the ground, of course all while stealing another glance at Sunoo who is now shifting towards the bench press instead. Jake watches as Sunoo picks up his towel and wipes the sweat away from his face. The blank tank top he is wearing is making his biceps stand out even more and holy cow, when did Sunoo get so buff. He will be the end of Jake.
With one last good look, Jake returns his attention back to Riki, “I just think he hit the slay button with this.”
“Real hard.” Riki replies, amused, “but you’re the only one here shamelessly ogling him like this is the last day of your life you’re gonna see your starboy.”
“What are you guys talking about?”
A few seconds pass and once Jake’s (currently pea sized) brain registers who that voice belongs to, he jumps on his spot, almost making Riki trip in the process.
“Sunoo — ”
The said boy looks at them confusedly, his eyebrows raised in a manner that causes the piercing to reflect light in the gym room and god bless Jake because why is everything that Kim Sunoo does so fucking attractive.
Riki, for all the little fuckery he does at every chance, decides to help Jake for once, “Oh nothing Sunoo-hyung. Jake hyung and I were just talking about the harmful consequences of global warming.”
Hell . Jake coughs to get his attention, “Did you need something, Sunoo?” He asks in the sweetest voice he can manage.
Sunoo’s eyes turn into two little crescent moons as he smiles at the other and Jake almost feels his soul leaving his body. Sunoo leans over, “Just wanted to know if you wanted to work out together someday, hyung.”
Jake gulps, feeling a little insane at how close Sunoo is right now. If he were to turn his head he is sure he’d be met with a very sly looking Riki with devil’s horns growing out of his head.
“Why are you asking?”
Sunoo scans his face, his smile turning into something more akin to a grin. Jake has never seen Sunoo like this before.
“You just looked really interested in what I was doing the whole time.”
Jake’s heart drops to the ground. Apparently the bottle in his hand does as well. Because Sunoo is now leaning down and picking it up for him. He gets up and presses it against Jake’s cheeks. The cold sensation, mixed with Sunoo’s firm gaze sends a shiver down his spine.
But before he could reply, the usual sunny smile returns back to Sunoo’s face and frankly, Jake doesn’t know if he should be scared or relieved.
“Just kidding.” Sunoo says and waves his hands, “1 hour more then we will return back to the dorm, okay?”
Once the boy is no longer facing them, Jake finally lets his (now semi-dysfunctional) brain process what just happened.
Sunoo knows Jake has been staring. He wonders if Sunoo also knows Jake’s obsession with his new look or just with him in general. He fucked up.
He looks sideways to meet Riki’s eyes for answers only to find him grinning like he is having the time of his life, “Hyung, you’re done, you’re done.”
***
Later the night Jake frantically wakes up in the middle of his sleep, sweat dripping down his forehead. Sorry to god but he has to be one sick motherfucker for making Jake dream about a herd of ostriches chasing him down the desert. He sighs at the absurdity of it and pulls over his blankets, attempting to fall asleep again.
From the other side of his room he hears Jay snoring loudly and Jake wishes the same hellish nightmare upon the other boy.
He gets out of his own bed and tiptoes his way into their shared kitchen. Maybe a bowl of ramen will help him. He walks past the common area and finds the TV turned on, some random murder mystery playing on it.
He swiftly walks past the table to turn it off only to find a mop of black hair lying down on the couch.
“Sunoo?”
He brings two bowls of ramen to the table and finds Sunoo already sitting in one of the chairs, hands under his chin and observing Jake with keen interest. Jake smiles back and pulls the chair in front of him only to be stopped in motion by Sunoo’s next words, “Sit beside me, hyung.” He says with a quiet voice, different from his usual cheerful tone and it does make Jake feel a little nervous and excited at the same time.
Once he sits next to Sunoo, the black-haired boy turns around to face him, resting his face on top of his hand.
“Feed me.”
What .
Sunoo points his finger in front of his mouth, “You fed Heeseung-hyung the other day. Feed me too.”
Well everyone in the dorm knows he fed Heeseung that day because he injured his hand during practice and Jake is damn sure that’s not the case for Sunoo.
Unless?
“You didn’t hurt your hand or anything, right?” Jake asks almost frantically, leaning forward and taking Sunoo’s hand in his own to search for any possible unknown injury.
But Sunoo merely laughs at him as he frees his own hand from Jake’s hold.
“You like to baby me a lot, hyung.” he places his hand on top of Jake’s thighs, “but no — I’m just jealous of Heeseung-hyung. No injuries for you to worry about.”
Jake opens his mouth to ask what that means because what the fuck. But Sunoo interrupts him before he could, “Now feed me. No more questions. I’m your beloved dongsaeng, aren’t I?”
Jake sighs and just decides to go with it. Sunoo can be stubborn after all. And most importantly, of course Jake will be more than delighted to feed Sunoo. All he wants to do is take care of Sunoo the whole day.
What completely slipps Jake’s mind though comes crashing down on him all at once when Sunoo fully turns around this time, facing Jake to make it easier for him to feed him.
His eyebrow piercing.
Jake’s breath hitches the moment it catches the dim lighting of the kitchen reflecting on the silver metal. He shakily brings the chopsticks towards Sunoo as the younger boy eagerly takes them in his mouth with a slurp, he looks straight at Jake as he chews on the noodles. Jake suddenly feels small under his scrutinizing gaze, he looks away, only for his eyes to settle on his piercing back again. Now that they’re close, Jake takes a better look at the metal, the point of it was rounded and still shining. He wonders if it hurt when they pushed the needle through Sunoo’s skin.
“You seem to like my piercing a lot, hyung.”
Well, it’s no secret that Jake loves it, he has been fawning, drooling over it ever since Sunoo came back to the dorm screaming “Guess what?”. He decided there is no point in lying to Sunoo of all people, “I do.”
Sunoo hums in reply, “Do you wanna touch it?”
And he doesn’t give Jake time to reply because he is already holding Jake’s hand in his own and guiding it to his eyebrow, “Touch it.”
The first thing Jake notices is the stark difference between the cold, hard metal and Sunoo’s warm, soft skin surrounding it. The skin under is still a little swollen. He rubs a little hard, but not too hard that it may hurt the other in the slightest. He could almost feel the bridge of the metal underneath it.
“Do you wanna get one someday, hyung?”
Jake lets out a dry laugh. Sadly getting a piercing is not on his list of top things to do as a gay person. Reason, well he is a scaredy cat. Just the thought of a needle coming in contact with his skin is enough to make him pee his pants spot, let alone get his eyebrow pierced.
“Nah. Not for me.”
Sunoo fakes a frown that Jake finds a little too attractive for his own good.
“You’d look so pretty tho hyung. Not that you aren’t already.”
Jake didn’t know before this that it’s actually possible to choke on his own spit like this. But the laugh that follows makes him think maybe he won’t mind being a fool in front of Sunoo like this for a few more times. Jake brings a hand over his mouth in embarrassment only for Sunoo to click his tongue and pry it away with his own, “Don’t. I just called you pretty and you’re gonna hide your face from me now?”
All Jake lets out in a reply is a surprised whimper.
And he thanks the stars that he doesn’t end up passing away right on the spot as Sunoo keeps teasing him throughout the rest of their time together.
***
Jake thinks about Sunoo a good chunk of his day. He wonders if it was selfish of him to act like this around the other simply because men with piercings always made his toes wiggle unintentionally. Not that Jake hasn’t found Sunoo attractive before. He had always found himself staring at Sunoo a little longer than he did at other members. And if that was any sign before, the recent incidents completely proved his doubts. Sunoo with his black hair and hot eyebrow piercing was feeding his teenage gay fantasies a little too much than he’d like to admit and Jake doesn’t think he’s be able to stop it anytime soon.
“How does my new hair look, Jake?” Sunghoon asks apprehensively as he sits beside Jake on the couch.
Jake raises his eyebrows, Sunghoon had his hair bleached the same day as Sunoo got his piercing and the members haven’t stopped gushing about it since then, Jake being no exception either. But he finds it endearing how the other boy still specifically asks him for validation like this.
“We have been over this already Hoon, you swept everybody off their feets at mubank.”
Sunghoon smiles shyly as he leans onto Jake, bashful, a habit he has caught from none other than Jake himself.
He feels Sunoo shuffling on the other side of him.
“I heard they’re gonna dye your hair blonde too, Jake.” Sunghoon beams, “We’re gonna be matching.”
Jake nods and smiles at him, “Yeah. We should totally take selcas of it together.” Jake says as he runs his finger through Sunghoon’s hair, making him smile from ear to ear. But at the same time Jake freezes up as he senses the boy on the other side of him abruptly standing up.
“Get up.”
Jake gets almost startled at how annoyed the other sounds and looks, “Sunoo?”
Said boy twitches his eyebrows and grabs Jake’s wrist, pulling him, “Follow me.”
Jake follows Sunoo, lost and a little scared because if he were to be honest he has never seen Sunoo this pissed before in the last almost two years he has known him.
Sunoo brings Jake to the small common room and halts in his movements.
“What’s wrong, Sunoo?” Jake asks. Sunoo was still standing still with his back facing Jake, not uttering a word and it only made him more nervous as a result.
“Nothing.” he mutters after a long pause then turns around to approach Jake.
Jake doesn’t know why his stupid brain tells him to step back but he just follows its order and soon finds his back hitting the wall with Sunoo towering over him.
Sunoo’s peachy cheeks are slightly dusted pink and Jake almost feels the need to coo at how adorably it contradicts the chic leather jacket and (god yes, it’s him again) the eyebrow piercing he had on.
“Won’t you take selcas with me too even if we aren’t matching?”
Jake blinks a few times, “Y-Yes?”
Sunoo’s gaze falters as he sighs and moves away. “Good. That’s all I had to ask.”
The tip of his ears turn bright red as he takes a last look at Jake and leaves him all alone with at least a hundred questions popping inside his head one after another.
***
“We’re having a party with our seniors in 3 hours. Get ready.” Jungwon announces as he enters through the front door, a paper bag Jake assumes to be full of party poppers in his hand.
“A what?” Jay is a little slow on the intake as he just emerges out of their bathroom.
Jungwon rolls his eyes, “Party. Seniors. 3 hours. Now, get ready.”
Jake hastily chews on the sandwich he was previously eating as his late lunch food and gulps it down in one go, “Fuck. I can’t go.”
Jay eyes him weirdly, “Are you PMSing?”
“Shut up.” Jake shoves him away, almost making the other fall, “Layla destroyed all my favorite makeup when she came over yesterday.”
Jay sighs as if that’s not even worth considering a problem, “Dude, just use my spare ones for today.”
“You barely even use the singular mint flavored chapstick you have, Park Jongseong. I need my twenty step lip care kit. They’re the main event here.” He says as he points to his lips, puffing them out so they look even more plump than they already are.
Jay looks at him with a look of disgust, “Excuse me for not having dick sucking lips like you, I guess.”
Jake widens his eyes before shoving the rest of his half eaten sandwich into Jay’s mouth, “Eww, dude, you’re so weird.”
He stands up and almost bumps against somebody if not for the two hands coming up to hold him by his arms, “Do you need my help, Jake-hyung?” A soft voice asks behind his back.
Jake turns his head and comes face to face with none other than — “Sunoo?”
Sunoo releases his hold on him and lets him turn around to face him.
“I heard about your uh — makeup. You can use my spare lip products. I don’t have the twenty step ones though.”
Jake lights up at his words. “Really?”
Sunoo laughs sweetly, “Yes. Why not.” He grabs his hand, “C’mon now.”
Once they reach Sunoo’s shared room, for some reason he almost feels relieved at how nobody else is in the room. Sunoo locks the door behind them.
“Do you mind if I do your makeup too, hyung?”
Jake vibrates in excitement because what the fuck. Sunoo is asking him if he can do his makeup? He must have saved some wounded angel in his last life to have the honor of having the Kim Sunoo do his makeup. He rapidly nods his head and rushes to the washroom to clean his face.
He takes a deep breath as the cold water splashes against his cheek. He wonders if he can sit through the whole thing without having a breakdown every two minutes because remind you, he is a very weak gay man. And letting his crush do his makeup has never been on his ‘things to prepare for mentally’ list. It’s simply something completely out of his prediction.
Once he comes out of the bathroom, he spots Sunoo sitting on the corner of his bed with several makeup products scattered around on the bed sheet.
He sits in front of him as Sunoo looks up and smiles in his direction, “Your face is so clean hyung. I don’t think you’d even need foundation.”
He softly places his hand on Jake’s left cheek and and runs his thumb under his eye, “Just a little eye-makeup and it’s perfect.” He grabs the eyeshadow palette from the sheet and clicks it open, “Not that you weren’t already.”
Jake blushes at his remark. Once again, Sunoo is gonna be the end of him.
“What color are you wearing to the party, hyung?”
Jake thinks for a while. He wants to try something bold tonight, “Uh, red maybe?”
“Excellent!” Sunoo exclaims as he runs the brush over a light velvet reddish shade of the palette, “red suits you so well.”
He then asks Jake to close his eyes as he starts applying the powder over his left one.
Jake keeps his right eye open and intently watches the younger focus on his task. His gaze once again falls on the eyebrow piercing and he almost drools on spot. Fuck .
Once Sunoo is done with his left eye, he moves to do his other eye and instantly catches Jake staring. Jake closes both his eyes this time in embarrassment and faintly hears the other muttering a small ‘cute’.
As Sunoo presses the brush on his other eye and Jake has nothing to look at anymore, his sense of smell and sound almost doubles in intensity. He can particularly hear, feel Sunoo’s breath on his face, can smell the sweet, tangy strawberry flavored shampoo he uses and it almost makes him let out an embarrassing noise at that.
“It’s done.” Sunoo’s face is still close when he says that and Jake opens his eyes only to find the other only a few centimeters away.
“Nuh-uh keep your eyes closed, we still have the eyeliner left.” Sunoo instructs him as he starts looking for his eyeliner among all the other products spread around them.
Jake always knew Sunoo is great at doing makeup. He has seen him doing his own makeup on personal routines and to say Sunoo looked beautiful would be a total understatement.
Jake hasn’t even taken a look in the mirror yet but he already knows he looks good. Sunoo has the hands of a god.
“Okay!” Sunoo clasps his hands together, “You can open your eyes now.”
Jake mumbles a soft ‘thank you’ earning a giggle from the other.
“We still have your lips left, hyung.” He holds Jake’s chin and runs his thumb over his plush bottom lip, “they’re the main event, remember?”
Jake is pretty sure his brain short circuits at that moment. It is so bad for him. But Sunoo doesn’t even give him a single second to recover because it gets worse.
He chooses a coffee brown shade among at least twenty other shades and brings it closer to Jake’s mouth, “Open.”
As soon as Jake opens his mouth in an ‘o’ shape Sunoo’s grip on his chin tightens as if to hold him in place. Jake doesn’t know why he closes his eyes again. Sunoo moves the lipstick in gentle, careful swipes, from center to the corner of his lips. Jake’s heart beats loudly inside his chest.
Sunoo sets the lipstick aside and then brings his index finger and starts spreading the color on his lips. “Your lips are the prettiest.” Sunoo presses a little harder on the center, “So soft and plump. You’re like a doll .”
Hearing Sunoo of everyone, who is literally a human embodiment of a fairy makes Jake squirm.
“Stop.” He can’t help the hands that come up immediately to cover his face.
Sunoo frowns and pulls them away, “Don’t.” He inched closer, “Didn’t I tell you to not hide your pretty face, puppy.”
Jake is almost sure he looks like the reddest tomato in the world right now and Sunoo proves him right. His lips curve upwards, “Oh I forgot about the blush but seems like we won’t be needing it at all.” He guides Jake’s hands on his shoulder, “do you like being called puppy, hyung?”
Jake shakes his head, “Don’t do this, Sunoo.”
Jake wants to bury himself alive. This is too much. His heart can’t handle this anymore. He wonders if he has been that obvious for Sunoo to tease him like this.
“Do that?”
“Teasing me like this. Don’t. Please.”
But Sunoo looks genuinely confused, “I’m not teasing you though?”
“Then why Sunoo…” Jake looks down, his hands now clutching onto the shirt Sunoo is wearing, “I know this is embarrassing but please don’t play with my feelings like this.”
“Hyung.” Sunoo pushes his hands away and sulks at him, “you think I’d do that?”
Jake looks up and finds Sunoo making a sullen face. Oh, how bad he wants to lay down on the rail tracks because apparently he has the audacity to make Sunoo upset, “No — no, Sunoo, no, that’s not it — ” He cups Sunoo’s face in his hands, “I’m sorry I didn’t mean to hurt you. I’m really sorry.” He apologizes once, twice, five times before Sunoo puts his index finger over his mouth, shushing him, “Stop now.” Jake feels the most relieved he felt in years after the smile comes back to Sunoo’s features, “You didn’t hurt me. I’m just — I thought I made it pretty obvious I like you.”
“What.” In another situation Jake would laugh at how that came out more as a statement rather than a question. But Sunoo doesn’t give him time to spare, “What about you though?” He looks back into Jake’s eyes, “Do you like me the same way I do, hyung?”
Does Jake like Sunoo? What a stupid question.
“Of course I do. Is it even possible to make it more obvious?” Jake answers in an instant and it catches Sunoo off guard as he barks a laugh at that.
“Well, didn’t think you of all people would take the ‘gonna stare at you until you marry me’ thing so seriously but it was pretty cute if I’m being honest.”
“Sunoo!” Jake whines, trying to move away but Sunoo grabs his waist and fuck , when did Sunoo get so strong.
“But you only started doing that after I, you know” Sunoo points to his eyebrow, “got this piercing. I was afraid you were only into me because of this and not because you actually like me.”
And Jake wants to scream. He straightens himself up in a defensive pose, “It’s true I have hots for men with piercings but — ” Sunoo raises his eyebrow, “ but , I have liked you for a long time Sunoo. I was just… better at hiding it.”
Sunoo chuckles, “But my new look made your gay out of the roof now?”
Jake doesn’t reply and merely groans.
“You’re so cute, hyung” Sunoo cups his cheeks and makes him look straight into his eyes.
He asks after a pause, “Can I kiss you?”
It takes a few seconds for him to process but once he does, Jake has never nodded harder in his life before.
Sunoo smiles before pulling Jake closer, hands still on his cheeks. The tension in the room is eating Jake alive and his heart almost threatens to burst out of his ribcage.
The press of Sunoo’s lips on his own are soft and delicate, just how he has envisioned for all these months.
Kissing someone with lipstick on is different and Jake loves it way too much for his own good. Sunoo seems to notice it as well. So he starts kissing Jake with more passion and Jake feels his cheeks heat up.
Once Sunoo pulls back, the first thing Jake notices is the smeared brown lipstick on the other lips. They must have kissed hard . But Sunoo doesn’t end it there. He picks up the lipstick tube and re-applies it on Jake’s lips. Jake shudders at the touch but Sunoo clashes their lips together again. They kiss open-mouthed and Jake almost sinks into the bed sheet.
And he doesn’t know how many more times Sunoo re-applies the color and pulls him into a kiss repeatedly, the party long forgotten. All Jake wanted to do is kiss the younger for hours straight.
“Do you wanna — ” Sunoo speaks once he parts, his lips now completely colored as the same shade as Jake, “say fuck it to the party and just let me kiss you for the rest of the night?”
Jake moves forward and pecks Sunoo on his cheek, “Be honest, can you read my mind?”
Sunoo chuckles as he pushes Jake on the mattress and lets their lips meet for the nth time in a row. And he knows this will be far from being the last time.