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And why they are playing high school games like this on Jookyun's housewarming party has been beyond Hyungwon's comprehension this entire evening, and now night, anyway.
Well everything about this party has been beyond his comprehension. The dress code for the party is night time clothes like literal pajamas, the welcoming gift was some honey flavored cereal boxes. So about twenty something people for house warming party are drinking in pajamas and night suits, playing random children games. And now they are down to play spin the bottle.
"Ok Minhyuk has to kiss Hoseok." Changkyun says loudly laughing, falling back on Jooheon, his exhilarated laughter floating in the room when Minhyuk beams up.
For a few moments Hyungwon thinks he is hallucinating. He is positive he is down many many drinks that he is buzzed but that one sentence followed by the evil laughter brings him back to reality very quickly.
One moment he is hallucinating, second he is processing the words that fell on his ears, third he is snapping his eyes open, and the next thing he knows he is watching Minhyuk go on his hands and knees. Move on all fours, to breach the distance between him and Hoseok. On hands and knees! Hyungwon thinks that's a bit absurd.
Hoseok doing his stupid all teeth showing smile and panickingly backs away, screaming at the way Minhyuk is approaching him stealthily with "upto no good" grin itched on his face.
If Hyungwon is a better judge of a situation. It is almost clear as day that Minhyuk is too pleased with the course of events, as if he has dreamed and has been waiting for kissing Hoseok all his life. Well if Hyungwon were to think logically who wouldn't want to kiss Hoseok.
"God just take me." He hears tipsy Kihyun passing an exasperated comment beside him. A bit dramatic, but like, right now? As the things are unfolding way too quickly for his drunk mind to grasp, he could swear he feels the same.
Now that Hyungwon has seen Minhyuk crawling across the floor to Hoseok, his blood might be boiling but on the other note he doesn't mind the image of that, perhaps, if he was the one on the receiving end instead of Hoseok.
Minhyuk moves his head and bam they are touching their lips. Hyungwon feels like screaming, crying and throwing up. But he is doing none of that. He is just stunned.
And the irony is Minhyuk and Hoseok are the only two people who aren't drunk in this room? And for two sober people who are forced into this, mind you, both have boyfriends, the kiss lasts for quite some time. It's not just a simple peck but there is lip lock? Hyungwon is baffled and utterly offended. 6 seconds of hell if Hyungwon were to count.
Kihyun brings his hand to his face to block the view, his other hand flapping in front of Hoseok and Minhyuk dismissively. He is closing his eyes and shaking his head chanting a traumatized no no.
They must be hilarious to look at because drunk Changkyun pathetically lying on Jooheon's lap is pointing at them and throwing his head back in rather delightful laughter.
Hyungwon blinks his eyes for the first time after he saw Minhyuk crawling. He sees the hint of red dusted over his boyfriend's face from kissing Kihyun's boyfriend, backing away in a sheepish look. The expression on Minhyuk's face that can only be described as preening.
Hyungwon only quirks his brow, despite all the feelings he is feeling inwardly his expression remains placid. Minhyuk catches Hyungwon's gaze and shrugs with a smile of his that makes him look cute. But Minhyuk knows, he knows in one long look he casts at his boyfriend that he is upset.
The curve of his lips then turns down and Minhyuk rolls his eyes at him. Unexpectedly, disapproval appearing on his face. The gall??? Hyungwon thinks, When it should be the other way around.
"He's sulking all night, and it's not even my fault?" Kihyun tsks angrily. The gang has moved on to scrabble, and Kihyun, unexpectedly, has opted out. Rather than whine to Hyungwon when Hoseok is on a restroom break.
"At least someone's boyfriend is sorry, Minhyuk's been, well, Minhyuk and unrepentant the entire night after that, and I'm not sure how to feel about it."
Kihyun turns his head to Hyungwon, then back over his shoulder at Minhyuk, and scoffs.
At some point when the game stops being interesting to him, Minhyuk miraculously remembers he has a boyfriend and when he spots the two by the kitchen counter sipping their drinks, he jogs over to them. Something melts inside Hyungwon when Minhyuk stands so close to him. Attaching himself on Hyungwon's side like nothing has happened.
Hyungwon's incapability of staying mad at Minhyuk must be a toxic thing and he thinks that it needs some serious emotional reconstructing, some ground rules for his system that's so soft on Minhyuk.
The party eventually comes to an end after Hyunwoo has danced enough of rainism and Jooheon exhausts himself by shouting too much into the karaoke mic, to his favourite girl group song and embarrassing Changkyun, with Minhyuk saying sorry a few times by the end and trying to jolly up by snuggling by Hyungwon's side.
"What are you murmuring about?" Minhyuk asks on the taxi ride back home.
Hyungwon leaned on Minhyuk's shoulder on the backseat stirs, realizing he is still drunk, shakes his head and says, "Nothing, just some introspection."
Minhyuk sighs, "Please let me know how many times I have to say sorry to appease you my lord."
Hyungwon clutches the sickeningly sweet honey cereal box close to his body and smiles. In the nighttime pajamas, exhausted and one of them drunk, and cereal box in hand. Hyungwon thinks they must be looking a little silly.
They are back at home and Minhyuk had an urge to eat cereal they received today at this ungodly hour in the night. So he saunters to the kitchen after freshening up. He calls Hyungwon into the kitchen and Hyungwon walks in after washing his face because no change of clothes was needed.
Hyungwon was aware of Minhyuk's plans of eating the cereal as he had said so in the cab ride, and had purposefully slid the box on the upper most shelf.
"Can you help me with that?" Minhyuk crosses his arms and leans against the counter. Minhyuk almost can reach it with a struggle but it's much easier for Hyungwon to help with 4 centimeters of extra height.
"I'm just useful for reaching things on the top shelf for you now, apparently." Hyungwon spits humourly getting the box down, supressing his smile, he puts the box on the counter.
"Is it about what happened today?"
Hyungwon's face instantly does a 180 he gives Minhyuk a look. Minhyuk bursts into laughter instantly as if it isn't the highlight of the day, producing the milk carton out the refrigerator, "What? it was just an innocuous kiss." he scoffs.
Hyungwon just looks at him struggling to keep his expression indifferent and wonders that he can't even get properly mad at Minhyuk, because it's true that it was silly and nothing serious, but it didn't stop him from feeling jealous.
"Were you jealous?" Minhyuk says in a lower tone, raising his brows bemused, hitting the nail as if he knows what Hyungwon is thinking.
"He works out alot. Has good pecks.'' Hyungwon rolls his eyes because he is kinda embarrassed.
"Yea he has a jock body and great, great pecks to grab at but i did not touch any of that while our lips were touching briefly."
"Must you remind me of the kiss when I'm trying to forget it?" Hyungwon hoists himself up to sit on the counter close to where Minhyuk is standing, who is pouring milk in the cereal. Cereal before the milk. He is dating the right guy.
"You trying to forget?" Minhyuk squints, "And that's going very well for you?"
"Lips touching briefly?" he croaks out in derisive tone, "Love, Care to explain why you are experiencing memory loss, because I witnessed a lip lock?"
Minhyuk chortles, "You are being so extra right now."
"Yes," Hyungwon smiles and circles his hand around Minhyuk's waist pulling him closer. Minhyuk comes to accommodate himself in between Hyungwon's legs.
Hyungwon knits his brows, shooing away the smile, attempting a serious face but failing miserably. "I'm so mad and upset."
"Hmm? ok my dramatic boyfriend, so what can i do to make you less mad and upset?"
"You know, make it up to me." Minhyuk scrunches his face and Hyungwon continues, "For starters, you could kiss me."
Minhyuk grins, biting down on his lip and mutters, cradling Hyungwon's face,"You are so cute when you are needy and that doesn't happen often."
Minhyuk is always loud and always silently is taking care of him in more ways than one. So he doesn't really spare a chance for Hyungwon to be needy.
There's always the affectionate presence of Minhyuk around him, noticing him and accommodating himself with Hyungwon and learning his ways, knowing every small detail of Hyungwon's personality, and everything else about him. Leaving Hyungwon to sometimes wonders how much Minhyuk really pays attention to him to know all of it. So the rare moments like these when Hyungwon gets the chance to be needy and demand attention, he isn't going to not make the most of it.
And because Hyungwon just knows if it was him kissing someone else, even jokingly, Minhyuk wouldn't have hesitated, even for a second, to shove a knife through him.
Hyungwon hums, "I just conceal it better, often." breaking into a smile of his own.
Minhyuk leans in to meet their lips. It's a chaste kiss. Before he is parting and speaking again, "You smell so much of liquor and usually you know I wouldn't kiss you like this."
"Umm hmm. I'll taste so much like liquor too. But it's you, who is the one making up to me, remember?" he rasps. Hyungwon is benevolent and forgiving so he scoops the cereal snack Minhyuk has prepared for himself to his mouth and munches on it, though it's hardly going to help with the smell, before they are kissing again.
And Minhyuk doesn't really mind because he is already forgiven.
Minhyuk chirps after the kiss, "No, really on a scale of 1 to 10 how jealous are you though?" lips curling in an annoying sort of way.
"Maybe," Hyungwon makes a faux musing face, drumming his fingers on his chin. He looks at Minhyuk, quirking one brow, and lips turning into a small pout, that Hyungwon only reserves for Minhyuk to see, "Never do that again.'' His voice, though soft, is characteristically serious. "Even as a joke." Hyungwon is sure it's fine if it's just meant as a joke but a little honest confession from his side wouldn't hurt.
"I guess I can work with that." Minhyuk boops Hyungwon's nose before he pads to the living room with his cereal in hand.
"Are you not planning to sleep or what?" Hyungwon yells after him.
"Later, after finishing the cereal and that last episode of mindhunter."
"I see." Hyungwon sighs dramatically and pads to the bedroom door, he fake sniffles, "You won't even sleep with me now."
"Cut it out!" he says plopping on the couch and turning on the tv. Hyungwon smiles and turns the doorknob to go greet the bed.
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"You really are not mad at me?" Hoseok asks Kihyun as they are lying in bed.
He has a headache because of the events that happened today. "You and Minhyuk kissing? Honestly I knew someday it was going to happen. I'm just glad it happened as a joke."
"Why did you think it was going to happen?"
Kihyun sighs and pulls down the eye mask and finds Hoseok hovering on his side with a pout.
He is making a disappointed but not surprised face, "Just because it's you and Minhyuk?" does he really need more reasons than that "It's not that deep Hoseok, it's fine really. I still do love you no matter what, so just go to sleep." his head will explode if he stays awake now after all those drinks. But Hoseok is still a depressed ball beside him.
Kihyun pushes the eye mask and lets it rest over his head like a headband. "Honestly, now do you want me and Hyungwon to kiss for you to realize it's nothing."
Hoseok instantly makes a disgusting face, "Why would you do that?"
"Yea, on second thought i would never kiss that frogface even if somebody offers me million dollars."
"Gee, now I have the mental image of you and Hyungwon kissing." Hoseok plants himself back on the sheets with a palm on his forehead. Peering up at the ceiling. "And it's not nice."
Kihyun bubbles up with laughter. "Told you to let it go." he says pulling down the eye patch and letting Hoseok be in horror for whatever he is picturing, because honestly, he deserves that much pain after kissing Minhyuk in front of his salad today. A smile curves on his lips with Hoseok making incoherent dismissive noises beside him before he drifts to dreamland and forgets about today for the rest of his life.