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Juyeon has been pacing mindlessly inside his own room for a while now, waiting for Changmin ever since the younger boy said he just arrived in Seoul, and that he’ll be coming down to Juyeon’s dorm after dropping off his things in his own room.
(if Changmin could hear his thoughts, he’d scoff and say, “we were born in the same year, Juyo,” and Juyeon would say with a teasing smile, “yeah, but you’re 11 months younger, you should call me hyung you know,” and Changmin would reply by biting him on the closest part he could reach, which would be Juyeon’s neck since Juyeon imagines they’d both be cuddling on his bed, and then—)
Juyeon shakes his head. He doesn’t have to imagine anymore anyway since Changmin will be here soon.
God, long-distance relationships are hard, how do people do it?
Juyeon knows he’s acting up, they were only separated for a month because of the break but it feels longer than that. He can’t wait to have his ( cute, tiny, lovely, feisty ) boyfriend within arm’s length again.
Currently, besides Juyeon, only Hyunjae and Haknyeon are in the dorm. The two have also arrived back today and have been hanging out in the living room for the past hour, catching up on what they were both doing during the break. Juyeon would’ve joined them if not for Changmin saying he’ll arrive soon.
From his room, Juyeon hears Haknyeon says Hyunjae and Younghoon were sneaky for coming to Jeju without telling him. Hyunjae responded by saying Haknyeon didn’t even open the group chats the whole time they were there, which, granted, if Juyeon also lives on a farm he doubts he will have time to open his phone. Even without it, Juyeon barely opened his phone, preferring to read books and watch documentaries on Netflix.
(Well, except he did open his phone frequently to text and call Changmin. But he won’t tell anyone that. Although maybe everyone would already know given how he’s so gone for the smaller guy.)
Suddenly, he could hear Haknyeon and Hyunjae greet Changmin in the living room. Juyeon feels himself smiling, feeling warmth settle in his chest, thrumming with excitement and contentment at the same time. He stays in his room though, he knows he wouldn’t be able to contain jumping on his boyfriend the moment he sees him. He’ll spare Haknyeon and Hyunjae’s eyes from their PDA.
Juyeon hears them chat, hearing muffled conversations between the three members in the living room. Changmin even asks Hyunjae about his visit to Younghoon’s house.
(Juyeon won’t tell anyone this either, but he envies how Hyunjae and Younghoon practically live in the same district and could visit each other’s houses whenever they want. If that was him and Changmin, he would visit his house every day. They would have dog-walking dates, lunch dates, dinner-dates-that-would-turn-into-sleepover dates which, without anyone noticing, Juyeon would practically be living in Changmin’s house or even vice versa. He wouldn’t have to face the agony of being apart for one whole month .)
After another minute, Juyeon hears Changmin excuse himself by saying he needs to give Juyeon something, in which Hyunjae replies yeah, I bet you need to give Juyeon some thing, if you catch my drift, followed by an indignant hyung! from Changmin, then a resounding smack and an immediate ouch! from Hyunjae. ‘Serves hyung right,’ Juyeon thinks, scrunching his face. He’s so nasty, the wink and wiggly eyebrows are evident in his tone even though Juyeon can’t see it.
The lanky man then realized his room is still a mess after unpacking his things, especially how he dumped the contents of his baggage on his bed, so he tries to tidy it up a bit in a few short seconds of Changmin walking to his room. Juyeon makes quick work of cleaning by dumping the clothes on his wardrobe now. To no surprise, while he’s shoving the clothes in, there comes a knock he knows too well.
(“Juyo, we should make our own code so you’d know it’s me coming to your room and vice versa! Let’s do it like this,”
—- tap, tap-tap, tap )
Juyeon could barely contain his grin.
“Come in!” Juyeon says while closing the wardrobe. He turns around just in time as Changmin comes into the room, leaning his back on Juyeon’s closed bedroom door right away.
“Hi,” Changmin says, smiling sweetly, his eyes scrunched up and cheeks so full.
Juyeon blinks.
The thing is, Juyeon forgot about one crucial thing: Changmin has permed hair now.
Juyeon knows , of course, since Changmin told him about his plan at the end of last year, how excited he was for the break because it served as the perfect opportunity to get his hair done. How he told Juyeon when he finally booked a reservation at the salon, how sent him pics during the process, after the process, the onslaught of pictures he sent every day, and when they had time to facetime each other. Every single moment Juyeon sees Changmin with his permed hair is not good for his heart at all since seeing him always, always , makes his heart skip a few beats.
Changmin has always been cute and adorable, that’s why Juyeon can’t shut up about him every day and every night, everyone knows how whipped he is, but he didn’t know his boyfriend could get even cuter and more adorable to this extent.
Truth be told, Juyeon never saw him differently when his hair got permed during schedules. Maybe because he knows it’s only temporary and for work, and that after every time they came back to the dorms Changmin showers so his hair comes back to its usual straight state.
But now, there’s something about it when he sees his boyfriend waking up with his curls sticking up, or when he doesn’t style his hair and it fluffs up into a thick cloud of curls, and that every time they facetimed or when Changmin sent him pics, Juyeon always has the urge to ruffle his hair, pat his head, or even stroke his hair while kissing him which was hard to do when they’re in different cities.
So yeah, Juyeon knows Changmin has permed hair now and is frankly a tad bit obsessed with it, but somehow he forgot about it due to the overwhelming feeling of seeing Changmin in the flesh. Now he’s freezing stupidly in front of his boyfriend because it’s taking him a while to process this real new look in front of him.
Several seconds must have passed without Juyeon saying anything, longer than Juyeon’s slow self usually let on, because Changmin’s smile drops a bit.
“Juyeon? Are you okay?” Changmin says worriedly.
Juyeon snaps out of his trance. He can’t believe he zoned out for a second there and made his boyfriend worried. To be honest, there has been one thing on his mind ever since the break started, since they were apart and could only see Changmin in pixels, since he packed his things and was on his way back to Seoul.
He walks to Changmin, cups his face, and kisses him.
Juyeon poured all of his feelings, his longing, into the kiss. He could feel Changmin’s breath hitched, before he kissed Juyeon back, putting his arms around his shoulders and pulling him closer. They kiss slowly, deeply, until he feels Changmin smiling into the kiss. Turns out smiles are contagious because Juyeon is smiling too, which makes Changmin giggle and makes them break from the kiss. Juyeon leans his forehead to Changmin’s, looking at him directly in the eyes, and feels so full of love.
“Hi baby,” Juyeon says, peppering kisses into Changmin’s full cheeks, his forehead, his fluffy hair, his closed eyes, and lastly, Juyeon’s favorite part: the constellation on Changmin’s face. Juyeon made a route from his right cheek, to the one near the top of his nose, to the one below his eye, and lastly his heart-shaped mole, before capturing Changmin’s lips once more.
Changmin giggles throughout Juyeon smothering him with kisses, even up until Juyeon kisses him on the lips. Juyeon can’t help but giggle too.
“Stop giggling! I’m trying to kiss you!” Juyeon says, trying to scold his boyfriend but even he can’t contain the joy in his tone.
Changmin pulls Juyeon closer with the arms still around his neck and burrows himself into Juyeon while laughing.
“Okay, okay, I’ll stop,” Changmin says, trying to control his giggles while hiding his face on Juyeon’s neck.
Juyeon shakes his head, but even he can’t believe how his boyfriend makes him so happy after just a few minutes of meeting him. He burrows his face into Changmin’s hair, “I missed you,” he says, muffled by the curls.
Changmin pulls himself closer to Juyeon, or he tries to, since they’re already as close as they could be. “I missed you too,” he whispers to Juyeon’s neck, “so so much, Juyo.”
Oh, Changmin is going to kill him one day.
Juyeon can’t help it, he pulls Changmin into another kiss. What started as a slow, deep kiss, turned into harried, heated ones. Juyeon could feel Changmin getting weak in the knees, so he put one of his hands on the back of Changmin’s head, carding his hand into his curls, and let the smaller boy lean on the door more comfortably, all the while putting his other hand on Changmin’s waist.
He feels more than heard Changmin mewls and he knows they have to stop now before they do it any further in the back of Juyeon’s dorm room, with Haknyeon and Hyunjae still in the living room nonetheless.
(It’s not like that hasn’t happened before, they did do it once like this before and they did do it once when the members were in the living room, but never at the same time. Juyeon thought for a split second the door would make too much noise and the members would protest if it happens.)
Pause. Speaking about the two in the living room.
Juyeon pulls away first. Changmin didn’t realize it right away, still leaning forward to chase the taller man’s lips. “Huh? Why’d you stop?” Changmin asks in a daze.
“I heard you wanted to give me something?” Juyeon raises his eyebrows, “unless Hyunjae-hyung was right,” he adds teasingly.
Changmin’s cheeks were already flushed due to the kissing, but it got significantly darker when Juyeon mentioned the interaction with Hyunjae.
“No! I actually do have something to give you,” Changmin says, pushing Juyeon away a little. Juyeon misses his warmth instantly.
Changmin picks up a plastic bag near his feet (which Juyeon didn’t notice at all) and gives it to Juyeon. “Here you go! I heard you wanted this, right?” Changmin says excitedly. Juyeon opens the plastic bag and inside it was a couple of… pokémon bread?
It took Juyeon a couple more seconds to process this, when he finally realized what this meant. Honestly, while it’s true he wanted to eat it, he mostly said it for the fans. But his sweet, sweet Changmin is so considerate that he even bought a plastic bag full of it for Juyeon.
But before he could say anything, Changmin already talked first.
He talks about seeing Juyeon’s message on Universe, how Juyeon wanted to eat the pokémon bread but he couldn’t find it, and, “I saw you wanted the Ghastly ones and it’s been sold out everywhere, right? Well, luckily, the store near my house still has a lot of this one, so I bought a lot just in case you want to eat more than once! Or maybe if it’s too much you can give it to the others here, and I saw you said you didn’t want the stickers, so maybe you could give those to Hyunjae-hyung!” and at this point, Changmin will continue to babble on if Juyeon doesn't intervene, so Juyeon kisses him again to shut him up.
It’s a short one, but Juyeon hopes it conveys how thankful he is. Juyeon pulls away but then leans in again to give small pecks which makes Changmin giggle.
“Love you, baby. More than you’ll ever know.”
Changmin gasps, “All because I bought you these breads? I should’ve done this a long time ago.” Juyeon was about to open his mouth and protest against that statement but Changmin quickly kissed him on the lips.
“I’m kidding! I know what you mean,” he said while smiling, “Love you too, Juyo.”
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“Okay, but did you freeze earlier because you forgot I have permed hair now?”
“Um. No?”
“It’s all over your face! You looked so shocked, I actually thought for a split second you forgot that I’m your boyfriend.”
“No way!!! It’s just, it looks so cute on you I got distracted! Seeing it in real life is different, it makes me want to pet your hair even more.”
“You said that as if you’ve never done that before, which, on the contrary, you’ve petted my hair many times...”
“But the urge is stronger now! The curls fit you so well, look at how it sticks out!”
“Okay, Juyeon, we get it, you absolutely adore my new hair. Can we continue making out now? You could even pull my hair if you want.”
“Changmin!”