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Day -3

Jisung was currently sitting in a cafe stirring the straw of his ice americano and he listened to Hyunjin rattle on about the date he and Changbin had gone on recently, it had been their first year anniversary and the shorter boy had wanted to make it a special occasion.

“And then we went to this drive-in cinema! I think we were watching something like Grease?” Hyunjin frowned and moved his eyes upwards trying to think back to what the film was. “Either way we didn’t really watch it, we were too busy getting–”

“Okayy that’s enough of that thanks Hyunjin” Chan butted in before Hyunjin would expose his and Changbin’s sex life.

Felix sniggered as he watched Changbin glow a light red from Hyunjin’s extravagant explanations. Hyunjin gave the rosy cheeks a short peck and whispered a small ‘sorry’ to his boyfriend.

“Anyways, can we actually discuss what we came here to do?” Seungmin leant back on his chair, crossing his arms. They had already been there for almost an hour and hadn’t even begun to talk about the trip they were supposed to plan.

“Should’ve just done it over the group chat” Jeongin muttered beside Seungmin as he picked at his chocolate chip muffin, only half invested in the conversations taking place.

“Okay” Chan started taking the lead and leaning forward placing his hands linked together on the table.

“Finally” responded Jisung, he didn’t need to listen to how amazing the other’s relationships were whilst he sat there all alone.

“Okay, so the beach cabin we are in has four rooms so I’m guessing we all want to be with our boyfriends.” Chan looked to Felix to see if his own boyfriend was happy with that. Instead of seeing a smile, Felix was pouting and looking at Jisung who was fiddling with the straw of his drink.
“You wanna room with Sung?” Chan nudged his boyfriend getting his attention.

Felix shrugged and bit his lip,” I feel bad, Ji will be so lonely especially if we are all in couples for sleeping arrangements”
Jisung looked up and scoffed, “Who says I don’t have a boyfriend huh?”

Hyunjin burst out in laughter after Jisung’s response, “Sung if you have a boyfriend you would be screaming about it everywhere, and you were literally complaining about being single just the other day”

Jisung huffed and frowned, “I- well… he just doesn’t want to be open about it at the moment”

Hyunjin rolled his eyes, “Well I guess cause he’s imaginary you can bring him with you, we have the room”

“You actually have a boyfriend hyung?!” Jeongin sounded ecstatic.

“Mhmm” Jisung nodded quickly, “ I’m sure he will come if I ask him”

“Jisung if you do actually have a boyfriend then he is more than invited, but please don’t find a random guy to come if you are lying. We don’t need a replay of the new year party” Chan gave Jisung a warning.

Ah yes, the New Years Eve party, when Jisung’s alleged boyfriend was found making out with some girl instead of him during the countdown.

“He’s real hyung!” Jisung gave a firm nod.

“Okay, well I guess if Ji’s boyfriend does come then I don’t mind being with you Channie” Felix smiled and bounced happily in his seat.

“Perfect” Chan smiled and smiled back at Felix.

“Okay let’s discuss travel and expenses” Chan announced, the group groaned loudly at that.

–
Day 0

Jisung paced his room, suitcase half packed as he stared at his phone waiting for a response from his friend.
“Why did I have to say I had a boyfriend?” Jisung whined lightly to himself as paced once more before sitting down on his bed.
“Ah yes I, Han Jisung, finally found a boyfriend” Jisung scoffed at his ridiculous self. It wasn’t that Jisung was really lying- well, he was- but Minho had been his friend for a few years and the younger had a very large crush on the boy. If said boy responded to his message then he would possibly have a chance to confess to him on the trip.

Instead of wearing a path into his carpet Jisung decided to continue packing up his suitcase. The group was only going for a week and so he wouldn’t have to pack too much. Jisung knew he would need a couple of swimming trunks as the group had planned to go surfing one of the days. He also made sure to stuff in all his shorts and a fair amount of shirts to go with it. As he was deciding what cap he would pack to finish it off, his phone buzzed.

Minho Hyungie

What’s in it for me?

Jisung took a second to read over the message before breaking out into a smile and quickly sending back a response.

Jisungie

A free holiday and you’ll finally meet my other friends :)

After double-checking he had everything packed, Jisung zipped up his suitcase and rolled it to his front door all ready for tomorrow. It was a very early start to get to the beach cabin and the group had all planned to get there before midday.

Minho Hyungie

I guess I can keep you company, can’t believe I'm agreeing to this… what time do I need to be at yours?

Jisung jumped up and down buzzing with excitement, Minho was going to hate him for telling him to get to his flat at 6 am but if they wanted to get there on time they also needed to go before the rush hour was in full swing.

Day 1

5:45 am was when Jisung had set his alarm, so why was he abruptly woken up by the loud banging of his front door? Groaning and rolling in his bed, Jisung grabbed his blanket and dragged himself to the front door. Peaking through the peephole he saw Minho standing looking wide awake, suitcase beside him and two coffees in his hand. At the sight of coffee, Jisung swung open the door.

“You’re here way too early” Jisung rolled his eyes and grabbed a coffee out of the older boy’s hand before motioning him into the flat. Minho chuckled as Jisung rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.

“I woke up earlier than my alarm and Dori decided he wanted food so I fed him and then just left and slipped a key under my neighbour's door so they could go feed him for the week,” Minho explained as he sipped on his own coffee and collapsed onto the sofa.

Jisung heard his phone alarm ringing from his bedroom reminding him he was still in his PJs.
“Gimme like ten minutes to get ready and then we can go, I want a Mcdonald’s breakfast because now I don’t have time to have cereal” Jisung mumbled half to himself half to his hyung who just hummed in agreement.

The sleepy boy wasted no time in turning off his alarm and putting on the clothes he had set out last night so he wouldn’t have to think about what to wear so early in the morning. He put on some light ripped denim jeans and his much-beloved supreme t-shirt. Rushing over to the bathroom Jisung gave his hair a brush through and cleaned his teeth, which he immediately regretted after remembering he still had a cup of coffee and now couldn’t drink for a few minutes otherwise it would taste disgusting with clean teeth.

Making his way back to the front room, Minho was now raiding his cupboards.

“Yah, why are you stealing my food” Jisung playfully argued.

“I would steal food if you had any Sung” Minho answered back as he shut the cupboard he was sorting through.

“Well considering I’m not here for a week I made sure to eat everything that was going out of date before we came back” Jisung smiled proud of himself for actually thinking of doing it himself without Chan reminding him to do it.

“I guess we will be stopping at Mcdonald's then” Minho collected the few things he had dumped on the sofa and stood by the door as he waited for the younger to pull on his shoes.

“Which car are we taking?” Jisung asked as he struggled to tie up the long laces so he wouldn’t trip over them.

“We can take your car and take it in turns driving, I’ll drive the first couple of hours before we stop at McDonald” Minho planned.

—----

“Oh! Apparently, Hyunjin and Changbin hyung are at Mcdonald’s right now so we’ll catch them there” Jisung looked at the group chat messages.

“I guess I’ll meet those two first then” Minho smiled as he checked the GPS to make sure he was turning off at the right time.

The pair pulled into the car park and Jisung pointed out Changbin’s car so that they could park beside them.
“I’m sorry in advance if they bug you with questions” Jisung apologised as he took off his seat belt and double-checked he had his wallet.

“Ji it’s fine, I don’t mind it, I'm sure they are nice” Minho smiled before climbing out of the driver's seat.

Jisung followed behind Minho as they made their way into the fast-food chain. Changbin was sat up on one of the tall breakfast tables scrolling on his phone with Hyunjin half asleep on his shoulder.

“You sure look wide awake” Jisung joked as he pulled himself up onto the seat opposite Hyunjin.

“Oh hey,” Changbin looked up from his phone and smiled at Jisung before turning to look at Minho who had just pulled himself up onto the seat beside Jisung.

“Oh right, Minho this is Changbin hyung and Hyunjin, you’re older than both of them” Jisung pointed to each of them.

“Hi! It’s nice to meet you and Hyunjin.. didn’t realise you knew Jisungie?” Minho gave a smile. Jisung’s eyes widened slightly when he remembered that Minho was supposed to be his boyfriend...but Minho didn’t know this.

“Neither did I Minho hyung” Hyunjin sat up properly and rubbed his eyes to try and wake up.

“You know each other?” Jisung asked slightly confused, looking between the two.

“Yeah, we both go to the same dance studio, the one I also work at” Minho grinned.

“O-oh.. that’s cool!” Jisung stuttered, “Have you guys ordered?

“Yeah, just waiting for it to come” Changbin nodded.

“Let’s go order Min” Jisung hopped off the seat and motioned for his hyung to follow, luckily not thinking anything of it and quickly trailed behind the boy.

“You think they are actually dating?” Hyunjin turned to Changbin questioning how Jisung wasn’t acting all touchy with his supposed boyfriend.

“Well, he didn’t introduce Minho as his boyfriend, and we all know Jisung is touchy with people he likes, so it's plausible, let’s just keep an eye out for them, but then we literally met him five seconds ago so stop overthinking Jinnie” Changbin agreed just as their meals arrived.

“Yeah but Minho hyung has never mentioned to me about him dating anyone, it seems weird that he would’ve kept it a secret.” Hyunjin thought aloud.

“What do you want Ji? I’ll pay” Minho asked as he flicked through the menu and tapped in his own order on the board.

“Umm, the sausage Mcmuffin, two hash browns and an iced americano please” Jisung sifted through the menu and tapped in his order.

Minho scanned his card and the pair waited for their receipt so that they could collect their food, unlike the other couple who were both clearly too tired to consider standing up and waiting for their own food.

“Oh..um so this probably isn’t the best time to mention it…” Jisung stood beside his hyung looking down at his shoelaces.

“Mention what? Please don’t tell me you’ve spent all your money on cheesecake again?”

Jisung let out a gasp,” You know full well it wasn’t all my money”

“What is it then?” Minho raised an eyebrow. Jisung looked away and mumbled something under his breath.

“What was that Sung?” Minho tilted his head slightly confused why the boy was now avoiding eye contact.

Minho watched as the younger took a deep breath and turned towards him, “I’ll explain more in the car..but.. I may have told my friends I brought my boyfriend… which we know is a lie.”

Before the older could think of a response their number was called and Jisung scurried over to the counter to pick it up. Minho nudged him as they walked back to the others and smiled lightly at the boy who was still looking on the edge of a nervous breakdown, “Relax Sung”.

Hopping back up onto the high raised seats, Hyunjin and Changbin were now scoffing down their own respective Mcdonald’s breakfasts.

“Thank the lord of Coffee” Hyunjin let out a sigh as he gulped down his latte.

“So have you guys been to this beach house before?” Minho asked as he took a bite into one of his hashbrowns.

“A couple of years ago 3racha went and we didn’t stay in a beach house but we stayed in a tent, which was a disaster. After that, we swore we would never stay in a tent again.” Changbin explained.

“All the bugs traumatized me” Jisung laughed as he tried to not choke on his americano.

“Aww, a few little bugs scared you huh?” Minho turned to the boy beside him and pinched his cheek, “How cute”

Jisung felt himself blush and swatted away his hand, “Shut up, Just cause Dori eats all the bugs in your flat”

“More of a reason for you to come round more” Minho added in a wink and kissed Jisung’s cheek to at least make Hyunjin and Changbin see them act coupley, although Jisung has a lot of explaining to do.

“So how long have you guys been together? Just cause Minho hyung you never mentioned Jisungie before and Jisung you always complained about being single” Hyunjin tilted his head confused at this sudden relationship.

“Oh..um” Minho looked to Jisung who immediately stepped in, after all, it wasn’t his mess, it was Jisung’s.

“We’ve been dating a couple of months, but Min didn’t want anyone to know for a bit just so that we both knew it wouldn’t be like a few weeks and then we split kinda thing” Jisung managed to produce from the top of his head. Which not only surprised himself but Minho as well, who luckily didn’t show it on his face.

“Makes sense, but Ji you could’ve said something, we wouldn’t have bugged you to reveal your boyfriend if he was uncomfortable, you know that” Changbin explained just as a group chat pinged.

Hyunjin looked down at the message,” We should probably get a move on if Lix and Chan are only like two hours from the house.” Hyunjin noted.

The four of them were nearly four hours away still.

“Let’s move then” Changbin agreed and the couple hopped off their stools and grabbed their remaining drinks and food.

“See you there!” Jisung called as the pair were left on the table.

—------

For the next thirty minutes into their journey, both Minho and Jisung stayed quiet. Only the humming of the car’s engine and the other cars passing by them was heard, and on certain occasions, Jisung muttered to himself as he steered.

“So.. do you want to explain..” Minho broke the silence. It was probably for the best, he couldn’t bear the stillness between them, it was very clear that jisung didn’t want to explain.

Han just out a sigh and glanced over to Minho who was already looking his way.
“I guess I’ll explain, but don’t interrupt” Jisung pointed a finger at the boy who in turn held up his hands in surrender.

“I’ll try not to Sung, but I’m interested in how this came about.”

Jisung let out a huff,” I’ll just get right to the point and say, all my other friends are together, there are three couples among them. You already met Hyunjin and Changbin, they won’t be very PDA because Changbin hyung doesn’t really like it. Then there’s Seungmin and Jeongin. The two youngest in the group, at first they may seem like brothers or close friends but you do not want to walk in on them when they are alone.. Trust me.” This earned a chuckled from Minho as he continued to listen on.

“Finally, there’s Chan and Felix, the two Aussies, they love flirting in English and Felix especially is touchy like no other. And then... There’s me” Jisung paused as he concentrated on the roundabout to make sure he got safely round.

“Basically when we were discussing the trip, Chan suggested we all roomed with our partners, so obviously that left me to be on my own, Felix spoke up and wanted to share with me but I felt bad from keeping him from Chan and sort of blurted out that I had a boyfriend.” Jisung winced as he recalled his idiotic moment.

“Of course, you did” Minho chuckled as he sipped on his drink.

“Look Hyunjin didn’t believe me and so I had to find someone” Jisung rolled his eyes.

“Please tell me I was your first choice, otherwise that would be awkward” Minho leaned forward slightly in his seat to gauge Jisung’s reaction.

“Pfft, as if I have any other friends, of course, you were the first choice Min.” Jisung rolled his eyes.

“Thank god for that.”
–

It was silent for the rest of the journey apart from Minho helping Jisung navigate down a few winding roads after pulling off the main road.

“Do you want any rules then?” Minho questioned as he checked to see how far away they were in their journey. 30 minutes away. According to the group chat everyone else had arrived.

“Rules?” Jisung raised an eyebrow,” Why rules?”

“Look I will happily go along with the whole boyfriend thing, but we need rules. I don’t want to do something you don’t consent to Sung. It will make it awkward between us and less realistic” Minho explained as he pulled up his notes on his phone labelling it.

Ji’s guide to a fake BF

“Fine, we should at least have a ‘thing’ that we always do, everyone coming has one. Felix always cuddles Chan no matter what, Jeongin and Seungmin give each other a hug and a kiss each time they see each other. And Hyunjin and Changbin hold hands a lot, mainly for Hyunjin’s benefit cause it’s one of the only things Changbin will do in public” Jisung briefly explained as he checked where he should turn on his phone.

“Okay.. how about kisses?” Minho suggested as he held down his own blush.

“Seems logical... I mean you did kiss my cheek at McDonald’s so it flows nicely. But to what extent?” Jisung asked slightly unsure about where this was going. He’d rather not have to make out with his crush in front of everyone whilst acting as if they were actually dating.

“Personally I’m fine with whatever, so what you deem fit works with me... Although if we are going to kiss properly at any point.. we may need to practice” Minho trailed off at the end so it was barely audible to the younger boy.

Ji’s guide to a fake BF
Kisses

“R-right” Jisung failed to hide the redness appearing on his face, “What about pet names? You can’t call me Sungie or Jisungie cause my friends call me that often”

“How cheesy am I allowed to go?” Minho hummed as he began thinking of a cute nickname.

“Nothing past Brie” Jisung scoffed as he also began thinking of a suitable nickname for the older.

“How about honeysuckle dewdrop” Minho cackled as he hunched over in laughed.

“Never! Oh lord please no, I’m going to turn around” Jisung pretended to look behind him so he could turn the car.

“O-okay how about Jagi?” Minho asked as he tried to contain his laughter.

“Cute, let’s go with that” Jisung smiled.

Ji’s guide to a fake BF
Kisses
Honey

—-------

“You ready?” Jisung asked unsure as the pair collected their respective suitcases from the trunk of the car. Minho snatched Jisung’s up from his hands.

“Gotta make a good first impression huh?” Minho motioned towards his full hands.

“Wow a whole thirty steps, you’re such a gentleman” Jisung joked as he shut up his car and locked it before motioning to his fake boyfriend to follow.

The pair hadn’t even made it towards the front door before it swung open and Felix rushed out to give Jisung a big hug.

“My twin! It’s been so long” Felix whined into the hug.

Jisung chuckled as he pulled away,” It’s been 4 days Lix, you’re acting like it’s a month”

“That’s too long.” Felix grinned before turning towards Minho.

“You must be Ji’s boyfriend! Hi, I’m Felix” Felix let out his normal sunshine smile and gave a small wave.

“Yeah hi, I’d wave back but someone forced me to carry his suitcase” Minho chuckled.

“Yah! I did not!” Jisung pouted and pushed Minho slightly.

Considering it was midday the sun was up high and far too hot for the small trio to be out for too long, especially in the clothes they were adorning.

“Come on inside, Channie actually just finished setting up your room” Felix bounce up the steps and held open the door to let the couple through.

The cabin was fairly large, you immediately walk into an open space filled with the big kitchen on the right and towards the left was a leather sofa that could easily fit ten people. Just behind that is a table with ten seats spaced around it. It looked well lived in and clearly Jisung’s friends had already made themselves at home, a laptop, probably Chan’s, was set up at the table.
Two people were playing on a switch and the kitchen already looked like a mess with food scattered about.

“Oh, Sung you’re here!” Chan smiled as he was walking down the wooden stairs at the far end of the room. There was a corridor beside the stairs clearly leading to some other rooms.

“Why don’t you drop off your bags and then everyone can introduce themselves to you hyung.” Felix showed them the way to their rooms.

Up the stairs and down a fairly long corridor passing by another room, and a bathroom as well as a laundry room. “It’s kind of far away from everyone, but Chan and my room are on the same floor, the room we passed actually.”

“O-oh that’s fine” Jisung smiled as they approached the room.

It was spacious and airy, not to mention they had a great view of the sea in the distance. There was a double bed along with one of those hanging seats. A bookcase in the corner had a decent amount of books as well as an ensuite.

“It’s quite big actually” Minho hummed as he pulled in both suitcases placing them beside the wardrobe.

“I’ll let you guys unpack, Chan said that he was going to start a late lunch in around thirty minutes so feel free to chill up here for now” Felix winked before rushing out the room.

Once again Jisung pushed down the blush that was forming from Felix’s wink and he turned to look at the sleeping situation. A double bed, not bad, although it definitely seemed on the smaller size.

“Which side did you want?” Minho asked coming up beside Jisung as he tossed his phone and charger onto the bed.

“Well considering I like sleeping on my left side, I’ll take the left side” Jisung shrugged and plopped himself down on the bed.

Minho nodded and took it upon himself to actually start unpacking his stuff. He already knew that he had forgotten something, Jisung hadn’t given him much of an idea of what he would need. Mostly he packed t-shirts and shorts, along with some thin sweaters and jeans to wear in the evening if it got colder. Along with his favourite cream cardigan, Jisung told him he always looked like a librarian whenever he wore it with his glasses.

“Damn..” Minho mumbled as he got to the bottom of his suitcase and realised he hadn’t packed something.

“What’s up?” Jisung sat up as he watched Minho shift through all the pockets and zippers of his suitcase. Totally not getting distracted by his shirt lifting up occasionally.

“I may have forgotten swimming trunks…to a beach cabin holiday”

—--

The late lunch ended up becoming dinner as Chan hadn’t brought everything needed and so forced Jeongin, himself and Hyunjin to go to the store with him to buy the necessary food, along with a food shop to last the week.

As the eight sat down for their meal Minho finally had a chance to meet everyone. Chan sat at the head of the table with Felix beside him on his right and Changbin on his left. Jisung sat beside Changbin along with Minho whilst Hyunjin, Seungmin and Jeongin sat beside Felix.

“Dig In!” Chan announced and allowed everyone to start eating.

“So Minho hyung, how did you two actually meet? I’m surprised Jisung hasn’t ever dragged you along to one of our outings before” Seungmin asked as he grabbed a piece of bread.

The meal was mainly consisting of picky foods and salad. The group decided it was too hot for anything big and they were sure to have a barbecue later on in the week and so decided to hold off on having one just yet, not to mention they were all tired after the drives so it was perfect.

“Oh, well we met each other at university actually.” Minho started to explain.

Luckily Minho had thought about the fact they’d need to come up with a story before he met the rest of Jisung’s friends and so whilst Jisung finally unpacked, they plotted out their story.

“Hyung was just finishing up with one of your dance classes right? And we bumped into each other at the uni cafe” Jisung added whilst his mouth was full of bread.

Minho smiled at the sight of his squirrel cheeks appearing slightly.

“You mean you bumped into me and made me drop my drink and you told me you’d pay me back and I told you to pay me back by giving me your number” Minho smirked as he retold the story as planned.

“Ahh hyung of course you do that” Hyunjin laughed as he grabbed some grapes from the bowl in the middle of the table.

“The rest is history, We didn’t make it official until a couple of months ago, Minho got someone to decorate a cheesecake on it saying ‘will you be my boyfriend’” Jisung laughed whilst also blushing at the fact that he would love someone to confess that way.

Minho swung an arm around Jisung’s shoulder and pulled him closer acting as natural as possible, “You ate that cake in one sitting isn’t that right Jagi” Minho smirked, making sure to empathise on the Jagi.

“Okayy enough chat about me and Min, what’s everyone else been up to the last few days” Jisung’s face heated up at the closer proximity.

As the conversation drifted over to Seungmin and Jeongin chatting about their trip to the Hongdae markets, and how Jeongin’s scrapbook for the summer was coming along, Minho leaned forward slightly to whisper to Jisung so no one could hear what he said.

“This is okay right?” Minho whispered softly.

They still hadn’t fully discussed how they would act around the others and if they would be as touchy as Felix is to Chan but for the most part Jisung was comfortable with it, just a bit awkward cause he wasn’t used to having someone in such close proximity all the time. It was a bit daunting, especially trying to convince his own friends he was dating someone.

“Mhm... it’s okay Min... I promise” Jisung turned to look at Minho not realising how close their faces were. Jisung nodded and smiled lightly, he also kissed Minho’s cheek when he noticed Hyunjin glancing over at them.

They would convince them all.

Day 2

“It’s way too hot for this” Jeongin whined as the group stood at the bottom of a hiking trail.

Changbin was already regretting his poor choice of clothing, black jeans were definitely looking like the wrong idea when the trail is apparently two hours long.
“We have tons of water, and there’s a lot of shaded areas” Chan replied full of knowledge as he had walked up this trail just last year with his family. He motioned for the group to follow his lead as he entered under the small archway signalling the start of the hike.

“This is going to be the end of me” Hyunjin sighed dramatically as he linked hands with Changbin and pulled him closer whilst they walked.

As Chan mentioned a lot of the hike was in the shade, it seemed as though a lot of the trees had grown a lot since he last visited and acted as a shaded tunnel whilst the group hiked. Most of the way up were steps which helped greatly.

“So Hyung! I heard you are teaching the choreo to the teen group who are going to be entering a contest right?” Hyunjin asked Minho as the pair trailed slightly behind Jisung and Felix who were chatting away.

“Hmm yeah, still have a far way to go with getting it perfect but they’ve already picked up the spacing and timing for most of it” Minho nodded as he opened up his bottle of water to chug down some of the liquid. It may not be ice cold anymore but it was refreshing nevertheless.

“Oh, that’s good! I heard that there’s an opening for another choreographer in the kid's section, Do you think I should apply?” Hyunjin asked. Hopefully considering he already trained there himself and knew Minho, someone who was really respected among the staff he could get a step up if he could get referred by the boy.

“Oh yeah! Woosung left because he found another dance studio where he could also teach teenagers, but of course, there wasn’t space at our one. You’ll probably get it, but you may need to apply soon, I heard it’s pretty competitive” Minho mentioned as he turned to Hyunjin who was practically sweating buckets.

“Ah damn, that’s going to be hard to get” Hyunjin muttered, luckily he had a portfolio so could apply straight away.

“I can refer you, but I don’t know how much help it will be, a lot of other people who have applied also got referred,” Minho added.

“I guess I can try anyway! Thanks for referring me hyung, it will definitely help” Hyunjin grinned.

—-

“So close” Seungmin sighed as he pointed out to the end archway in the distance.

It had taken them just over two hours, mainly because Chan was making sure they rested constantly so they wouldn’t get a heat stroke and stay well hydrated.
“Apparently there’s a hot spring at the end!” Jisung bounced beside Minho as they walked up the final stretch.

“Oh nice, although hot spring and hot weather seems like a bad mix” Minho chuckled.

“I think it’s probably going to be more lukewarm than anything” Chan commented from just in front of the pair.

“I guess that’s good then” Jisung smiled. He turned to Minho and grinned at him and the older boy smiled back but that quickly changed as he slipped up the hill.
Jisung quickly tried to grab his arm to stop him which helped but Minho still managed to scratch his knee on a rock that he tripped on. He hissed out in pain.

“You okay?!” Jisung asked worriedly. Minho pulled himself up to look at the damage of it.

It wasn’t too bad, but it would definitely gain a scab and be painful to at least bend for a while.

“Are you fine to make it up to the top? I have some plasters in my bag” Chan asked concerned as he helped Minho steady himself.

“Yeah” Minho hissed lightly and hobbled up the rest of the walk to the hot spring.

Once they reached the hot spring, Hyunjin, Felix, Seungmin and Jeongin wasted no time in jumping in fully clothed.
Minho chuckled when Jeongin came up choking after clearly swallowing some from jumping in with his mouth open. Seungmin was quick to help him swim to the side and help settle him down.

Changbin took the chance to snap some photos of Hyunjin, whilst Jisung stayed beside the older’s side whilst Chan sorted out a plaster.

“Here Ji, can you wipe the wound please” Chan passed the squirrel boy a disinfectant wipe.

“This is gonna sting” Jisung commented as he gently wiped Minho’s knee as he was perched on a large boulder beside the hot spring. Out of reflex his leg swung out from the pressure point Jisung had pressed down on.

“S-sorry” Jisung stumbled out as he quickly finished up to let Chan secure a plaster. Luckily it wasn’t bleeding much and so should heal fairly quickly.

—

“You sure you’re fine with not coming in?” Jisung asked as he swam over to Minho who was dipping his feet in the hot spring, making sure it only went halfway up his calves.

“Sure Jagi” Minho smiled as he squinted slightly to see his so-called boyfriend.

Jisung rested his arms on Minho’s lap whilst looking up at the older boy, “I feel bad that you can’t come in though” Jisung pouted.

They had hiked all of this way and Minho wasn’t even able to go in.

“Ji, I can’t really swim anyway so it’s fine” Minho pushed the wet hair from Jisung’s forehead and eyes.

“God you two are gross, stop being so lovey-dovey” Seungmin called from where he was underneath the small waterfall into the springs.

The fake couple looked at the others before smiling back at each other.

—---

“Is your knee okay?” Jisung asked as he came out of the bathroom now dressed in some loose joggers and a t-shirt. It had gotten a lot cooler than it was since the hike.
“Yeah I’m fine, I reckon it will just be annoying to bend my knee for a little while” Minho let out a soft sigh as he pressed on the edge of the plaster, it was already beginning to peel off, a sign that tomorrow he’d have to replace it.

Jisung crawled up to his side of the bed, everyone had already retreated to their own rooms, it was a tiring day and no one wanted to watch a movie.

“Do you want to go and watch a movie? I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep considering I chugged a coke right before my shower” Jisung suggested as Minho pulled down his joggers to cover the scratch.

“Sure! What film did you have in mind?” Minho asked as he shifted off the bed and lead the two down to the sofa.

“Pirates of the Caribbean? I’m kinda in the mood to binge the series but definitely not all tonight” Jisung chuckled at the end as he grabbed a blanket from the basket by the TV and turned on the TV itself so that Minho could set it up.

“Did we want any popcorn? I think chan brought some” Jisung asked as he went to get the pair of them some water. He really didn’t need more caffeine at the moment.

“Sure!” Minho called softly so that it wasn’t loud enough to wake up anyone who was sleeping downstairs.

Jisung grabbed two glasses of water and did a quick search for some bowls and the bag of sweet popcorn that he remembered Chan stored away yesterday.
Setting them on the coffee table just in front of Minho, Jisung made himself comfortable beside his friend. Minho started the film and happily got into a comfortable position to watch.

The couple made a few funny comments here and there about the film and antics Jack got up to but for the most part, didn’t talk. It wasn’t unlike them to end up cuddling whilst watching a movie and so Jisung was currently curled up beside Minho who had an arm wrapped around the shoulders of the younger. The blanket covered them both.

“Hey... Ji..” Minho spoke softly to not spook the boy.

Jisung hummed to confirm he was listening as he watched Will bandage up Elizabeth’s hand.

“Should we..um..practice... You know kissing?” Minho stumbled out awkwardly. He felt Jisung tense slightly.

“Oh, right yeah, I guess so” Jisung shifted himself to sit up more.

“We don’t have to if you don’t want to” Minho added quickly to the conversation, he really didn’t want to force Jisung to do anything.

“I-I just think, we’d be more believable if we did kiss on the lips occasionally.” Minho squeaked out.

Jisung nodded lightly, “Makes sense, how do we want to do this then?”

Minho looked up to meet the younger’s eyes, “Well how much do you know about kissing? I know you had a boyfriend in your first year of uni but I didn’t know you then” Minho asked.

Sure he had experience himself, given that not all of them were with boys, but regardless, kissing was kissing right?

“I suppose we never really made out, it was more like a kiss goodnight or a kiss hello. He was never really fond of PDA which didn’t help” Jisung shrugged, “besides... We won’t need to make out in front of my friends will we?” Jisung turned in his seat so he was facing Minho more.

“I guess not, but then again, to make it seem realistic having them walk in on us making out would make it look legit” Minho let out a small chuckle, he smiled gently at Jisung.

Just from the small frown on his face, he could tell the younger was having second thoughts about the whole fake boyfriend thing. Minho gently raised an arm and stroked some of the fallen hair out of his eyes and cupped his jaw lightly making the younger look at him.

“If you don’t want to make out then we don’t have to Sung, I told you I won’t force you,” Minho said softly to reassure the boy.

“I-it’s fine, it’s just embarrassing to think of someone walking in on us” Jisung bit his lip and looked down at his lap again. Sure he would have a great time making out with his crush, but having his friends walk in whilst it’s happening. Jisung shuddered slightly at the thought. They would make things awkward and probably tease Jisung about it, they did it to Seungmin and Jeongin all the time.

“Okay, well we don’t have to rush into that, we can start slowly yeah?” Minho nudged Jisung’s chin with one of the fingers that was still resting on his cheek stroking it softly.

Jisung nodded and Minho slowly approached him, instinctively the younger shut his eyes. Seconds later Minho’s lips touched his own and just like the older had said it was slow. They practically barely touched before the older pulled away slowly. Jisung chased his lips not even realising.

“Someone’s eager” Minho joked as he leant forward towards the younger’s lips and kissed him softly this time. Jisung shifted closer and grasped Minho’s shirt. Before Jisung could attempt to deepen it, he reminded himself that Minho wasn’t actually his boyfriend and pulled back.

“Was that okay?” Minho smiled shyly as he noticed Jisung’s hand clutching his shirt

“Mhmm” Jisung nodded and hid his face in Minho’s chest, the older boy grinned and kissed the crown of Jisung’s head.

Both were unaware of the presence of a certain person who watched the interaction.

—--
Day 3

When Jisung woke up the next morning he wasn’t expecting to find himself lying on top of Minho on the sofa, covered in a blanket. He could feel the older boy’s arm wrapped around his waist clearly to stop him from falling off the sofa. As he came to his senses, Jisung could hear some of the others up and clearly eating breakfast already, from the smell of it Felix had made waffles and pancakes for the group. Just before Jisung made an attempt to move, the older shifted underneath him, the hand on his waist tightening before loosening again.

Jisung had never seen Minho’s face so close up, especially fresh from sleep. It was slightly puffy and his hair was a mess but Jisung couldn’t deny how handsome he looked, he let out a small sigh remembering that after this week he wouldn’t be this close to Minho again unless, of course, the older happens to stay round his house.

“Morning Jagi” Minho’s raspy voice voiced out as he slowly opened his eyes to see Jisung peering at him.

“Hey” Jisung smiled softly through his own sleepy eyes. He was slightly surprised when Minho leaned forward and kissed him softly.

“Oh Ji and hyung you’re awake! I made some pancakes and waffles for breakfast if you want something before we head to the beach” Felix announced as he walked towards the sofa just as the two disconnected from their kiss. Sly Minho.

“Oh morning Lix, sure will be there in a min, just going to get dressed” Jisung ruffled his hair and sat up with Minho.

The older let the boy pull him up to their room so they could freshen up and change into a new pair of clothes for the beach trip.

—-

“I wonder why Ji never mentioned anything about Minho hyung before” Jeongin questioned as he picked up another pancake and began smothering it with syrup.

“Yeah, like even before they began dating I didn’t realise they knew each other and I know both of them” Hyunjin agreed as he went for some more coffee from the pot that would soon need re-filling.

“I doubt they are actually dating” Felix commented not really thinking about it as he cooked up some more pancakes ready for the mentioned couple.

“Right?!” Hyunjin expressed happily, “Glad I’m not the only one”

“I don’t know, Ji does seem happier around Minho, there could be a reason for them hiding it, especially with you guys refusing to believe they are actually dating” Chan rolled his eyes at the two boys who clearly didn’t believe.

“But babe have you seen them? They barely act like a couple! I think they are putting it on” Felix turned to his boyfriend talking in english, spatula in hand waving it about.

“Lixie, just cause they aren’t as PDA as us doesn’t mean they aren’t together. Besides Changbin isn’t a fan of PDA. Also, we know that some people prefer to be more intimate when they are alone.” Chan kissed Felix’s temple to calm him down before he blew up from the conversation.

“Fine, who thinks they are a couple?” Seungmin sighed as he poured some lemon onto his own pancakes as well as Innie’s.

Chan, Seungmin, and Changbin all raised their own hands.

“And not?” Hyunjin, Felix and Jeongin raised their hands this time.

“Well that was pointless Minnie, it’s literally a draw” Jeongin tutted and went back to his food.

“What are you guys voting on?” Jisung asked as he hopped down the last step of the stairs before making his way to the kitchen to grab some coffee and ice.

“Oh just deciding what to do when we get to the beach, but it was a tie.” Hyunjin shrugged nonchalantly.

Jisung hummed in understanding and began making a cup of coffee for Minho as well as serving up to them both a plateful of pancakes and waffles before they were all gone. Situating himself at the end of the table with a spare seat beside him he began munching on the food.

“What ideas did you have?” Jisung asked through a mouthful of pancakes and strawberries.

“Surfing or volleyball” Felix mentioned.

It wasn’t a lie after all, whilst planning for the trip Chan had found out there were volleyball courts as well as a surfboard hire so they could do both, neither or either.

“Well I’d prefer surfing, we all remember the time we played that football and volleyball combination, I will not be making a fool of myself again” Jisung made his opinion clear.

“You always look like a fool Jagi” Minho spoke up as he reached the table after changing his clothes and putting on a new plaster.

“Yah! Take that back!” Jisung whined as he glared at Minho who laughed and sat beside his boyfriend and swung an arm on Jisung’s chair.

“I’m kidding” Minho stuck out his tongue playfully.

Minho saw Jisung’s pouty lips and took the chance to kiss him lightly, the older boy held Jisung’s neck lightly and he pressed their lips closer. He was really hoping that Jisung was okay with kissing in front of everyone right now.
He let Jisung pull away, a light blush adorn his face, along with a small smile.

“Fine, you’re forgiven” Jisung stuck his own tongue out before turning back to his food.

No one needed to know Minho heard the group voting on them, especially not Jisung.

—----

As expected it was fairly busy down by the seafront. It was a bright, hot day and families alike were all basking in the heat. All the shops had their doors wide open letting in the fresh air and welcoming people in as they sigh at the air conditioning throughout.
Jisung peered around the stores whilst clutching onto Minho’s hand whilst they walked down the path. Felix and Chan were upfront, Felix completely wrapped up around Chan’s arm from it laying over his shoulder. Just behind them Hyunjin and Changbin were also holding hands and Seungmin was giving Jeongin a piggyback ride.

“Oh, I should probably grab some swimming trunks” Minho remembered as they passed by a swimming costume store.

Minho quickly darted in whilst the others waited around for him.

“Do some of you want to go ahead and find a spot we can dump our stuff? It looks like it’s gonna get fairly busy” Chan noted at the vast amount of cars there already despite it only being eleven.

“Sure, me and Innie will go” Seungmin smiled and got Jeongin to carry some of the towels Chan passed over.

“We’ll text you whereabouts we are” Jeongin announced as Seungmin hitched him up more so it was comfortable for him.

Jisung took the chance to get out his phone and take a few pictures for Instagram, one of the sand and sky, making sure to add the temperature and location. Not to mention tagging the other seven of them.

“You know, thinking about it Jisung, you don’t post much with you and Minho hyung do you” Hyunjin noted as he watched Jisung make his story.

“O-oh, I mean, we always forget to take pictures together, unless it’s funny filter ones that Min finds” Jisung shrugged.

They did truly forget to take pictures whenever they hung out, it wasn’t something Jisung was particularly aware of until now.

“Just thought you want to boast about having a boyfriend that’s all” Hyunjin shrugged.

“I mean, Min hasn’t really announced it to anyone except his parents and a few close friends, so I wouldn’t want to post anything without his permission, especially if I’m outing him,” Jisung explained.

Luckily before Hyunjin could badger on at him more, Minho stepped out of the store with a pair of swimming trunks on. They were a pale pink with a white cord.

“Perfect, now that everyone is ready we can meet up with Minnie and Innie” Changbin smiled and pulled Hyunjin away from Jisung to stop him from asking questions about Minho.

The group continued on their way to find the stray couple. As they walked Jisung couldn’t help but think why Minho had brought trunks in the first place. Surely he can’t go swimming with his knee and he said to Jisung himself he wasn’t a great swimmer. Deciding not to question it the younger boy skipped along until they rejoined with Seungmin and Jeongin from their location.

—--

“You sure you’ll be fine here on your own?” Jisung questioned as the other boys, excluding Seungmin who was also going to chill on the beach, were all playing around in the ocean.

Minho had decided not to go in and was smart enough to bring a book to keep him entertained whilst sunbathing.

“I’m sure Sungie, besides my knee isn’t healed so it will sting a lot because of the salt in the water, and I don’t mind just reading” Minho smiled as he held up one of the books he’d taken from the bookshelf in their room.

“If you get bored let me know and I’ll come out of the water and we can go for a walk if you want. Get away from my friends for a bit, I know they can be a bit intense at times.” Jisung smiled lightly as he pulled out his sunscreen to put on himself before entering the water.

“It’s fine, I guess meeting all of them in one go is just a bit daunting honestly, I know you had mentioned them before but meeting them is completely different” Minho chuckled, “But they are cool”.

Jisung grinned, happy that Minho didn’t mind his friends. Squeezing some of the lotion onto his legs, arms and chest Jisung easily rubbed in the sunscreen to protect him.

“Um Min, could you put some lotion on my back,” Jisung asked the boy as he held out the sun protector.

Minho nodded and took the bottle from the younger boy, squeezing some on his hand, he shifted forward placing a hand on Jisung’s shoulder, “Sorry if it's cold” he muttered as he started rubbing in the sunscreen on his shoulders first. As he went over the whole of the boy’s back Minho couldn’t help but notice the muscles that Jisung had on his back. He knew the boy went to the gym, but not often enough to gain this much muscle. The older boy blushed lightly as his fingers moved under Jisung’s shoulder blades.

“A-all done” Minho stuttered as he pushed any intruding thoughts back as he imagined Jisung shirtless in their bedroom.

“Thank you!” Jisung grinned and turned towards his hyung.

Minho chuckled and smiled, motioning Jisung forward. Raising a hand Minho rubbed in the lotion on the boy’s face that he had completely missed, his thumb ran just below the younger’s nose, also brushing against the top lip as he did so.
Jisung took in a sharp breath as his stomach filled with butterflies before he quickly shook off the thoughts. It’s fake, nothing real, he had to remind himself.

“I-thanks” Jisung stumbled out as Minho also rubbed in a small amount beside his eye.

“No problem Jagi” Minho smiled softly. Jisung leant forward and kissed him softly, hand going up to Minho’s shoulder, the older boy’s hand instinctively holding the younger’s hip before he pulled away.

“Seungmin was looking” Jisung whispered as he pulled away, Minho turned to look at the boy who had been watching the scene unfold.

“You two are disgustingly in love” Seungmin pretended to gag.

“As if you aren’t all over Jeongin when you’re alone” Jisung retorted playfully.

Seungmin rolled his eyes but didn’t respond and went back to reading his book.

“Make sure you drink enough water, whilst sitting in this sun” Jisung made a note of putting a bottle of water into Minho’s hand.

“What are you trying to do? Get me drunk on water?” Minho joked.

“It’s called staying hydrated” Jisung rolled his eyes.

Minho chuckled and put the water beside him before ruffling the younger boy’s hair, “Don’t worry I will, now go otherwise the others will wanna get out of the water by the time you actually go over there” Minho playfully pushed Jisung off the towel he was sitting on.

Jisung said a quick goodbye to the two boys before running down to the sea to join in what looked like a game of chicken.

–

Jisung stood on the surfboard as the waves started to carry him, putting one foot on the front and the other behind him he stood similar to how he would on a skateboard. He managed to stay steady for a couple of seconds but the waves created a very unstable platform and Jisung quickly lost his balance and plunged under. He was pretty far out from the group, the tide had carried him a lot further than he had hoped.
Pulling himself onto his surfboard he sat down and looked at his friends.

Seungmin and Minho were both reading occasionally turning their reads to converse with each other, Felix and Chan were now out of the water. Felix was covered in a towel whilst Chan helped the boy apply more sunscreen.

Changbin and Hyunjin were still in the water along with Jeongin they were standing splashing each other and pushing each other down in the water. Jisung smiled as he slipped himself off the surfboard and began swimming toward the group. Making note of the seaweed that tangled between his legs as he did so.

Luckily being a strong swimmer Jisung managed to reach Hyunjin, Changbin and Jeongin quickly.

“Hey! Wanna go and get ice cream in a bit?” Jisung called as he got to them, he reached under the water to pull away the seaweed that was still tangled in his feet.

As he pulled away a long piece of the green plant he felt a painful sting on his leg. Crying out in pain Changbin turned his attention to his younger friend.

“Sung?” Changbin swam towards the boy.

Jisung used Changbin’s shoulder as support and lifted up the leg that was in pain. What he wasn’t expecting to see was a small jellyfish on his leg hanging on with a couple of its tentacles.

“What the heck!” Jisung screeched and shook his leg to get the jellyfish to let go.

Without waiting for another second as soon as the jellyfish had fallen off the trio helped Jisung to get to the sand and Changbin picked him up as soon as they hit dry land.

“What happened?!” Chan quickly ran over to the group to Jisung who was in tears from the pain.

“Jellyfish” Jisung hissed.

“Jisung?! Are you okay!” Minho rushed over when Changbin placed him down on the beach towels.

“Does it look like I’m okay” Jisung gritted his teeth, glaring at the group for asking a stupid question like that.

Minho wasted no time in letting Jisung fall into his chest, wrapping his arms around the boy’s waist and pulling him close as Chan called for the lifeguards.

“Someone pee on me” Jisung blurted out.

“Are you an idiot that’s disgusting!” Hyunjin grimaced at the thought.

Jisung took hold of one of Minho’s hands to squeeze to keep his mind off the pain and also turned away from his leg to hide his face in his supposed boyfriend's chest.

“I saw it on national geographic!” Jisung huffed before wincing in pain.

Minho stroked Jisung’s wet hair out of the younger boy’s face and held him close making sure to whisper some comforting words to try and distract him from the pain.

It didn’t take long for the lifeguards to arrive with everything needed, they also brought along a crowd of people wondering what was happening. Felix took charge of making the ongoing watchers go away to leave the group in peace whilst the lifeguard immediately grabbed some tweezers to pull out a string of what looked like jellyfish from Jisung’s leg which was shaking with pain.

“You’ll need to go and run this under hot water for twenty to forty minutes” The lifeguard explained as they wrapped up the wound. Jisung shut his eyes as hissed at the pain from the pressure of the bandage.

“We can give you some cream that you should apply two to three times a day, luckily it isn’t a bad sting and you should be okay, however, if you do start to feel unwell you need to go to the hospital immediately” They explained as they searched for some cream and passed it over to Changbin to hold on to.

“Try not to put much pressure on it for at least one to two days, it should be fine after that”

“Thank you” Jisung croaked out and gave a small smile as he shifted in Minho’s hold as he looked at his left leg which was now bandaged up. Minho sighed softly and kissed the top of Jisung’s head.

“I guess we should go back now” Chan smiled sadly.

“It’s fine you guys can carry on, I’ll just stay here” Jisung commented.

“Sung, you gotta go and run your wound under water” Seungmin mentioned which made the boy let out a loud sigh.

“Come on Jagi” Minho shifted and let Jisung wrap an arm around Minho’s shoulders so he could carry him bridal style.

“You and Ji head back and we’ll pack up. The quicker you can get the wound under water the better” Felix shooed the couple away.

—-

“This is not something I expected to happen” Jisung sighed in relief as the running water immediately soothed his skin.

Minho had carried the boy back to the cabin and had let him sit in the bath whilst the older boy held a shower above the wound.

“I guess both of us have injured ourselves now” Minho chuckled as he tapped the plaster on his own knee.
The two sat in silence for a little while as they watched the warm water run over the sting, Jisung’s leg occasionally twitching from the pain that came and went. Han leant his head on the edge of the bath and watched Minho who moved the head of the shower up and down occasionally to make sure every spot was getting soaked in the water.

“Do you think they believe us?” Jisung asked as he went back to looking at the water, not bearing to look at his crush.

“I can tell you for a fact Seungmin believes us” Minho nodded, “After you left to go in the water he was asking me why we hadn’t announced that we were dating earlier, and I had explained like we planned, that I wasn’t comfortable” Minho began to explain.

“I mean it’s a reasonable answer” Jisung shrugged.

“He then went on to explain how he’s never seen you so comfortable and happy around someone before” Minho smiled at the thought.

“I-w-well I guess I’m comfortable with you and the rest of my friends so” Jisung went to argue back but faltered as he didn’t really have anything to disagree about. He was a lot more comfortable with Minho than he realised, he barely felt anxious when the boy was around. Especially when they started asking questions about their relationship, Minho was there to chip in and made it more natural to play along. Almost as if it wasn’t staged at all.

“But I know for a fact Hyunjin doesn’t” Jisung commented as he went to scratch the wound which Minho quickly whacked away.

“No” He glared at Jisung who whined lightly fighting the urge.

“I mean, it doesn’t help that Hyunjin knew me beforehand” Minho sighed.

“I mean... He asked why I never posted about you on Instagram or on like our stories and stuff so I had to try and convince him that I didn’t want to out you or something”

“Ji…everyone knows I’m bi… so you wouldn’t be outing me” Minho muttered.

Jisung’s eyes widened, does that mean hyunjin has caught onto them? Did he see through the mistake of what Jisung had said.

“Well.. he’s definitely not going to believe us anytime soon” Jisung sighed and fell back in the bath and almost whacked his head on the back of the bath.

“Damn don’t give yourself a concussion and well Jagi” Minho laughed as he helped Jisung sit back up.

“We need to prove we are together somehow” Jisung mumbled.

“Leave it to me” Minho smiled and kissed Jisung’s forehead before turning off the water and grabbing the cream.

—-----

Day 4

That night Jisung struggled to fall asleep, he didn’t know whether it was from his leg aching slightly, the closeness of Minho or just his brain feeling all fuzzy. Maybe it was all three. Regardless he slowly slipped out of his bed and pulled on one of Minho’s sweaters that was laying on the swinging seat and made his way downstairs to grab a glass of water, hoping that some liquid would help him feel sleepy.

It was just past midnight and so Jisung was surprised that no one else was up, especially no one scoffing down a bowl of instant ramen. Jisung’s stomach rumble at the thought but he settled for a couple of Felix’s chocolate chip cookies instead.
Walking past the dining table and over to the small balcony that they had that looked out to a small beach area, Jisung sat on the hammock to get some fresh air.
The boy really didn’t know how he was going to go back to normal with Minho after this week. Crazily enough nothing had been awkward with them acting like a couple, if anything it seemed too natural. It scared Jisung slightly that Minho was so good at pretending he truly liked him in that way. The thought made Jisung shiver, there was no way Minho liked him back. Tugging the sleeves past his hands the squirrel boy finished his glass of water before laying down in the hammock to stare up at the night sky.
One leg on the ground to lightly swing before he curled up and tried to make out the constellations, it was no use, he always struggled to point out anything besides Orion the hunter.
The boy barely registered his eyes slowly shutting as he fell asleep to the cool wind and the rocking of the hammock.

—-

“Hey Ji you awake?“ Chan lightly shook the boy who was still fast asleep on the hammock outside despite it being eleven in the morning. The group didn’t have anything planned today mainly because of Jisung’s leg. But also Chan didn’t want everyone out in the sun constantly claiming that he wants everyone to be healthy and safe from it.

Jisung lifted up an arm and rubbed his eyes as he spotted Chan shake him.

“Did you sleep out here Sung?”

Jisung let out a yawn and rubbed his eyes,”didn’t mean to”

Chan smiled softly and helped the boy sit up.

“I need to put some cream on your leg, so if you wanna stay in the hammock feel free, I can get Felix to bring you out some food, him and Minho cooked breakfast for us. You never told us your boyfriend was an amazing cook” Chan grinned.

“ Well he doesn’t cook for me that often cause our schedules don’t align properly but yeah he’s a good chef” Jisung smiled sleepily as he remembered the time he was sick and badgered Minho to come round and cook food for him, read as: Minho insisted in coming round to make sure Jisung was okay.

“Well I’ll grab you a plate and the cream. You just chill out here” Chan stretched up from where he was kneeling.

It didn’t take long for the eldest to come back with a plate full of food for the quokka and the prescribed cream. Jisung quickly grabbed the plate to start eating, he didn’t even have to question what was on his plate he knew that if Minho and Felix cooked it, it would be tasty.

“Oh wow it’s cleared up a lot” Chan noticed as he pulled away the old bandage. The wound was already healing nicely. Chan gently applied a thick layer of cream before wrapping it up with a new bandage.

“The others are inside setting up a game of monopoly if you wanna join?” Chan asked as he made sure the bandage was secure on Jisung’s leg.

“Oh..I’m fine just being out here,if someone could possibly get me some water and my book though” Jisung asked slightly unsure if he really wanted to be around a lot of people right now.

His brain was still fuzzy over everything happening with Minho and being around his friends who were watching them like a hawk didn’t do good for Jisung’s anxiety. A day alone would help immensely.

“I’ll get Minho to bring you them.” Chan smiled and made his way back inside.

Today the weather was cooler than the past few so Jisung was comfortable in Minho’s sweater and his shorts.He could hear his friends chatting lightly inside but not close enough to pick up what they were actually saying.

Moments later Minho came outside holding a bottle of water and Jisung’s current read.

“You okay Jagi?” Minho asked concerned as he placed the bottle of water down besides the hammock and squatted besides Jisung, passing his book.
Jisung had noticed the older boy had started to call him Jagi even when they were alone, probably so that if anyone passed by it would make their act more realistic.

Jisung bit his lip and looked down at his hands before nodding, “My friends are just getting a bit much, need some alone time” Jisung nibbled on his lip as he consoled in Minho.

“Anxiety?” Minho asked as he took one of Jisung’s hands to stop him picking at his nails, squeezing his hand lightly.
Jisung nodded and let his hyung pull him into a side hug, it was slightly awkward considering he was lying in a hammock and the older was squatting besides it. But it was comforting nevertheless.

“I’m going to the shops in a bit with Changbin and Chan hyung to grab some food for the last couple of days, because believe it not your friends have eaten all the food” Minho chuckled as he let Jisung play with his fingers.

“Savages” Jisung joked as he gave a small smile.

“If you need anything just text me okay? And if you get bored on your own i’ll come and keep you entertained, even if it just means joining you on the hammock and reading in silence okay?” Minho squeezed Jisung’s hand one more time.

Jisung peered up at Minho and the older slowly leaned forward and kissed Jisung softly, not expecting it, Jisung gasped slightly but kissed back before Minho pulled away.

“Chan was watching” Minho mumbled as he smiled at Jisung and kissed the boy’s forehead just as Chan walked out the back door.

“Ready Minho?” Chan smiled at the couple.

“All ready hyung” Minho smiled softly at Jisung one last time, which the younger returned before standing up and following the eldest boy back inside.

—---

The three boy’s entered the shops and started going from aisle to aisle collecting everything they needed, and a bit more, to last the last couple of days.

“How many burgers and sausages should we get for the barbecue?” Chan asked the other two as they looked at the long row of different types of burgers and different flavours of sausages.

“I mean i’ll probably have one of each.” Minho shrugged, not sure if that would be any use to the calculations.

“I suppose we could get eight of each and then a couple more so that if people want more than one they can, I know Jinnie would want two sausages rather than burgers” Changbin made known.

“Okay I guess a few more than eight each will be fine, we’ll also grab a load of snacks to eat with it so there’s enough food” Chan picked up two packets of each meat and put it in the basket he had Changbin holding.

Minho continued to scan the other shelves incase there was something that the group may want or try, he already knew they would end up buying a lot of sweet treats for the evening. Chan was planning a movie night and so also picked up bags of popcorn and cola as they went down the aisles.

“Ah one sec, I wanna get something for Ji” Minho pointed in the general direction of the cakes.

“Okay cool, we’ll start queuing up to pay” Chan smiled and the trio split up.

Minho rushed down to the cake aisle and towards the counter which held some of the freshly baked goods. His eyes locked onto the chocolate cheesecake and asked the cashier for a couple of slices boxed up. This was going to make Jisung feel better for sure.

Paying for the dessert, Minho made his way back to Changbin and Chan who had just finished paying.

“What did you get?” Changbin asked peering into the bag.

“Just some cheesecake,I reckon that because Ji wasn’t feeling that great, some cheesecake might make him feel slightly better” Minho explained as the trio walked back to Chan’s car.

“You really care about him, don’t you” Chan smirked knowingly as he unlocked the door.

“Well yeah, I hate seeing him feeling like that, I know his anxiety comes on at random times, and I bet the jellyfish incident didn’t help” Minho commented as he slid into the back seat.

“Out of all Jisung’s friends I think besides, probably Chan hyung and Felix, you are the only one who can notice Jisung’s anxious episodes the quickest hyung” Changbin turned to look at Minho.

“I mean, i’ve known him for a while, it’s obvious to spot it” Minho shrugged not really thinking about it.

“Minho.. It is hard to notice them, Jisung usually tries to hide it, but with you he doesn’t. He clearly trusts you” Chan mentioned as he pulled the car away from the shops.

“You’re a good boyfriend Minho hyung” Changbin added.

At that Minho started to feel bad about faking it to Jisung’s friends, what was going to happen after the trip, they couldn’t just split up, especially not after all the kind of comments they’ve been telling him. Minho also wouldn’t be able to bare going back to how it was before his trip.

—

“I wanna buy Oxford street” Jeongin announced as his silver cat landed on the green spot, still unclaimed by the group. Shuffling through his money Jeongin counted out what he needed and passed it to the banker, Felix who then gave the card to the youngest.

Hyunjin rolled the dice and sighed when it landed on a 4 claiming he had to go to jail.

“I just go out of jail! This is so unfair” Hyunjin whined as he angrily moved his dog back into the jail on the board.

“Sucks to be you I guess” Felix chuckled as he rolled and passed go to collect his two hundred as well as landing on the community chest. Pulling the card out Felix burst out in laughter
“Get out of jail free!”

“YAH Give it to me!” Hyunjin went to grab the card out of Felix’s hand from across the table, nearly knocking the whole board as he did so.

“If you give me Mayfair then I’ll consider it” Felix bargined.

“Lix hyung that’s like the most expensive spot!” Jeongin realised, Hyunjin also had built a hotel on it which meant it was deadly if you landed on it, almost immediate bankruptcy.

“Exactly” Felix hummed and smirked, waving the card in Hyunjin’s face to tempt him.

“I’m good thanks, I’m not giving up the only spot I mainly get money from, just to get out jail” Hyunjin declined.
“Your loss” Felix shrugged as they let Hyujin roll to see if he would land on a double to escape. Five and a three.

“This game is rigged” Hyunjin complained as he glanced around the room, anywhere but the board. As he did so the groupchat pinged and there was a message from Jisung.

‘Could someone get me some water and crisps please’

Felix rose from his seat and quickly went to get Jisung’s empty glass as well as some food. As he did so Jeongin rolled and landed on ‘Super Tax’ and sighed as he gave away one of his last 100 bills.

“Innie’s nearly bankrupt” Hyunjin sang happily as the maknae counted up the small amount of money he had left.

The pair waited for Felix to return from getting Jisung’s stuff, it was clear he wasn’t in a good way today considering he hadn’t left the hammock, wounded leg or not.

“I have a great idea!” Felix bounced over to the group and took his seat before rolling for his go.

“Idea?” Jeongin raised an eyebrow at the boy as Lix moved his silver hat across the board.

“So us three all agree that Minho hyung and Jisungie are faking it right?” Felix asked to confirm that it was them.

“I mean, yes and no” Jeongin shrugged, “Like they seem real enough, it’s just weird that they stayed a secret and suddenly Jisung announces it and they come on the trip, like that’s the suspicious part”

Hyunjin nodded,” I agree, although i’m pretty sure Jisung let it slip they were faking, he told me that Minho hyung hadn’t told anyone that he was bi, but I know for a fact everyone at the dance studio knows because when we had a company meal Minho let it slip when he was tipsy”

“Oh damn.. So they really are faking it?” Felix thought, “I mean I did see them a couple of nights ago watch Pirates of the Caribbean as I was going to get water and I heard Minho say something about how ‘making it realistic’ and they talked for a little bit but I couldn’t hear properly and then they kissed but I left after that because I don’t need to see that” Felix commented on.

“That means nothing Lix hyung, they could’ve been talking about anything, maybe the film.” Jeongin tried to reason as he took his turn after Hyunjin didn’t roll a double to get out of jail.

He landed on the airport he owned and was safe to pass the dice to Lix.

“Fine, do you have a plan to catch them out or?” Hyunjin questioned Felix as the Aussie rolled and let out a skreech as he landed on Jeongin’s property.

“We need to ask them specific questions about each other, like something stupid like what’s Jisung’s favourite documentary” Felix decided as he counted out the money he owned Jeongin who smiled in delight at finally getting some money.

“Do you even know the answer to that?” Jeongin asked not really convinced with the plan.

“Yeah, it’s the one about marsupials in Australia cause they mention squirrels and quokka’s” Felix answered easily.

“How the heck do you even know that” Hyunjin crack out in laughter.

“I watched it with him, and he told me he had already watched it like five times before because it was one of his favourites” Felix explained as he remember Jisung commenting through out and adding little facts he had learnt between watches of the documentary.

—---

As the trio returned from the shops, they found Felix baking some brownies as Jeongin and Hyunjin were packing up the monopoly game, with both boys complaining at how Innie got bankrupt and Hyunjin got robbed cause Felix traded his ‘get out of jail’ card with him for the most expensive property he had.

Minho took a quick detour and went to the outside balcony to find Jisung half asleep in the hammock with his book open and folded on top of his chest so that he didn’t loose his page. “Hannie?” Minho called softly so that he didn’t startle the boy.

Jisung peered up at his hyung and smiled and shifted so he was sat more upright.

“How long were you gone for?” Jisung asked completely unaware at the time that had past.

“Over an hour, there was traffic on the roads so I think probably nearing 2 hours considering it’s nearly two” Minho checked his phone for the time.

“How are you feeling?” The older looked over at Jisung who was rubbing his eyes with the sweater paws from the older’s jacket, it almost (It did) make Minho’s heart swoon more than he’d care to admit.

“Tired, a bit better, but I still don’t think that my social battery has completely recharged so I wouldn’t want to bring the mood down” Jisung softly sighed.

“Well, I have something that may help” Minho grinned and opened up the bag he carried and pulled out a slice of the cheesecake. Immediately Jisung was sitting up more with a wide smile on his face.

“This will definitely help! Thank you hyung” Jisung made grabby hands towards the cheesecake.

Ji’s guide to a fake BF
1. Honey
2. Kisses
3. Cheesecake

—---

Once it reached six the group settled down to start their movie night. Changbin had picked the first film, Big Hero 6. The sofa could easily fit all eight of them but Seungmin and Jeongin decided to fit on the floor so that Jeongin could sit between Seungmin’s legs and could share a blanket.
Chan and Felix took one corner of the sofa.Chan leaning against Felix who had pretty much all of the blanket and refused to share with anyone. Changbin and Hyunjin were sat upright in the middle and Minho and Jisung took the other edge. Minho right by the arm rest and Jisung was laying down, head on Minho’s lap, a blanket over his body so he was comfortable.

The group mainly stayed quiet for the film, apart from funny remarks or a random fact someone knew about the filming or the scene that took place.
It didn’t take long for Jisung to fall asleep against Minho’s legs as the older boy gently stroked his hair, the sound of the movie acting as background noise.

“Can someone get me a coke, Ji fell asleep and I don’t want to wake him” Minho asked quietly so he wouldn’t wake the boy, even though some of the others were talking louder.

Hyunjin nodded and jumped up and asked everyone else if they wanted anything whilst he was up there, Felix quickly hoped up so the dancer could get some help with carrying the requested items.

“Should we ask Minho hyung now?” Felix asked as he pulled out the cola from the fridge to start filling up the glasses.

“Sure, do you have any questions ready though?” Hyunjin asked. Sure he would go along with it, he was also very interested to know about the pair.

“A couple, but if you think of any feel free to chip in” Felix said as he grabbed as many glasses possible, which was only three, and began to take them back to the group. Hyunjin following suit with the other glasses and a couple of packets of crisps.

“So Minho hyung?” Felix began as he sat down next to Chan.

“Hmm?” Minho glanced form the TV to the Aussie.

“You’ve been Jisung’s boyfriend for a month now right?” Felix tested.

“Oh, well more like two, coming up to three months” Minho corrected to go with the story the pair had planned out.

“And you were friends before hand?” Felix quickly added after.

“Yes..” Minho nodded slightly confused at the sudden questioning. Maybe Jisung was right and they really didn’t believe them.

Felix pondered before asking his next question, it didn’t add up. When they first told them about how they got together they said that they met at the university cafe and Minho asked Jisung for his number. But that was at least a year ago, so them only dating for a couple of months didn’t make sense. Unless they really didn’t date until a bit afterwards.

“How come you guys didn’t date straight away then, if i remember you flirted with Ji first right” Hyunjin asked as he thought back to the conversation they had on the first day.

“I-um..well I guess both of us were a bit too scared to say anything” Minho shrugged. This was not part of the plan, they hadn’t thought of their story that much in depth.

“So you were friends for a whole year, whilst you both had feelings and you didn’t confess at all” Felix raised an eyebrow.

‘I still haven’t confessed’ Minho thought to himself before answering, “I guess so, I wanted to make sure my feelings were actually feelings, and I couldn’t tell if Ji really liked me or not”

“And what’s Sung’s favourite documentary?” Felix questioned randomly.

Minho smiled and chuckled as he looked down at the sleeping boy, he remembers exactly what documentary it was, after all he was the one who had told Jisung about it.

“It’s the one about marsupials in Australia, I was the one who showed it to Hannie in the first place” Minho smirked slightly.

“Oh..um right.. Yeah that’s right” Felix stared wide eyes not expecting Minho to actually know the anwser.

“Can you stop firing questions at Minho hyung, I wanna watch big hero six” Changbin whined.

—---

Day 5

Jisung pulled the duvet closer as he slowly woke up, he didn’t remember ever going to bed, the last thing he could think about happening was Changbin putting on Big Hero Six and Minho’s finger’s through his hair.
Rolling over Jisung bumped his head into Minho’s side.

“You finally waking up?” Minho chuckled as the hand returned to Jisung’s hair just as he remembered last night.

“Why are you awake?” Jisung croaked out as he opened his eyes lightly and looked up at Minho who was sat reading his book in their shared bed.

“I woke up, because someone kept kicking me” Minho tilted his head and looked at Jisung.

Jisung blushed and hid his face in the pillow by his head, “Sorry, you should’ve woken me”

Minho let out a soft chuckle, “It’s fine you really needed the sleep, and now that you are awake I can put some cream on your leg. Last night you didn’t wake up so I had to do it whilst trying not to wake you” Minho explained as he pulled himself out of the bed and went into their ensuite to grab the bandage and the cream.

“Couldn’t you have done it whilst I was sleeping like last time” Jisung huffed as he pulled himself to sit up so that he could undo the bandage himself ready for Minho.

“Well I’d rather not be worried about waking you up” Minho explained as he came back out of the bathroom with the cream and bandage.

Jisung nodded and finished off untying the old bandage. Luckily the wound was healing nicely and he hadn’t yet had any side effects from the jellyfish.

“I heard today we are going to the shops and markets by the sea front” Jisung grinned as Minho started to apply the cream.

“Yeah, I think there’s a market going on and of course just the shops along the beachfront in general” Minho smiled as he made sure all the wound was covered.

“Will your leg be okay to walk on?” Minho questioned as he began to wrap the new bandage.

“It should be, but I may need to rest every so often” Jisung sighed hoping that he wouldn’t be too much of an inconvenience to the group as they went shopping.

“If it starts to hurt, let me know and i’ll carry you for a bit, or we can sit down for a break” Minho ruffled Jisung’s hair as he stood up before making his way downstairs.

—

Just like the other day the beach was packed full of people ready to surf and sun bath, the streets all lined with markets and the shops doors wide open to let in the heat. The group walked past a series of different vendors, some selling food such as fish and chips, and hot dogs, others selling more korean stuff street food like tteokkboki and Bungeoppang. Jisung’s mouth dropped at the size of them, far bigger than the normal size you would get in the markets and on the streets in Seoul.

“You want one?” Minho asked as he saw Jisung stare at the sweet food as they walked past the stalls that had them freshly cooked.

“Maybe later” Jisung said as he turned his face forward to not get distracted by them.
“I won’t let you forget” Minho chuckled as he took one of Jisung’s hands and intertwined it with his own.

“Minnie I wanna go to the arcade” Jeongin pouted as he pointed to the direction of were thearcade would usually be. Instead there was scaffolding in front of it and a large poster claiming it was shut for re-furbishments.

“You’d think that they would do the re-decorating during winter” Changbin commented as the group past the building and saw that it wasn’t going to be open for another couple of weeks.

They passed a few other shops decorated with buckets and spades, inflatables hanging on the outside to lure tourists in to buy over priced plastic for them to build sandcastles only for them to get washed away.

“Can we get a bucket and spade?” Felix went to grab a blue bucket that was hanging up on the stall outside.

“Next time Lix, we don’t have the time to really spend time on the beach considering we leave the day after next” Chan explained as he took the bucket out of his boyfrineds leaving the other aussie to pouted.

“Next year baby” Chan spoke in english and Felix sighed put continued to walk on towards the next shop which looked like it had a bunch of souvenirs and other trinkets.

“Oh! I gotta get a snowglobe if they have any!” Jisung tugged lightly on Minho’s hand to grab his attention, as well as the rest of his friends.

“Oh it would be nice to grab some souvenirs, how about we each buy our boyfriend something and then we each get a surprise!” Seungmin suggested as the eight boys made their way into the store, which was far bigger than it looked compared to the small outside decor and small doorway.

“That’s a cool idea” Jisung forced a smile as he remebered that Minho wasn’t actually his boyfriend, he slipped his hand out of Minho’s and stood besides the older as Seungmin decided how it would work.

“We each buy our boyfriend a gift and then tomorrow at the BBQ we can switch them and open them” Seungmin grinned as he explained his idea.

“Let’s go!” Felix grinned and grabbed his twins arm to pull him in the other direction to the group.

The group split up, some going in pairs whilst others search on their own for the gifts. Jisung admired the different flavours of rock before he quickly realised he didn’t even know if Minho liked the flavours. He also glanced at a cool stand where you can create a snowglobe, he reminded himself to go back to it later. He quickly moved on to where Felix was looking at different keychains searching for Chan’s name.

“Charlies, Christian,Chandler,Chester” Felix groaned as not one of the keychains had a ‘Chan or ‘Chris’ engraved on it.

“Maybe don’t get him something with his name, i’m pretty sure he knows what his own name is Lixie” Jisung laughed in english as he watched his friend struggle.

“But then he can have it on his bag and won’t lose it” Felix responded in the same language.

“Well then get him a memorable keychain that only he would have” Jisung switched back to korean before shrugging and going to look at the other items.

There wasn’t really anything he thought Minho would like but he soon saw a cute stuffed Kitten which was grey like Dori and had the name of the beach he were visiting on a cute little collar. Jisung grinned and quickly went to pay for his item, making sure he wouldn’t get spotted by Minho.

As Jisung left the shop to meet the others outside he saw a small wall of phonecases with different patterns, clearly targetted towards couples. Jisung smiled at the thought of himself and Minho sharing couple phone cases, completely forgetting that they weren’t actually dating. Jisung caught Minho before he left the shop.

“Hyung!” Jisung grabbed Minho’s wrist and pulled him towards the wall of phone cases.

“Match with me?” Jisung did his best dog eyes and linked his hands together as if begging.

Minho rolled his eyes but let out a small smile, “Sure Jagi”

Jisung jumped up and turned around to figure out which phone case they should get. There were some ranging from different colours but the same text and patterns. Some which had sentences starting on one and ending on the other. And a few cute ones that have hands linking only when the phone cases are placed together. Jisung was a bit overwhelmed at the choice.

“Which one?” Jisung turned to Minho who was crouching down looking at a couple on the bottom row. He pulled out a set which was pastel green and a sky blue, there were similar designs of clouds but one said ‘soul’ and the other said ‘mate’, as well as an outline of a white heart split in half that only became whole when both the phone cases aligned with each others.

“Ahh they are cute! Let’s get them” Jisung went and found the blue one in his phone size.

Ji’s guide to a fake BF
1. Honey
2. Kisses
3. Cheesecake
4.Matching phone cases

“What did you buy hyungs?” Jeongin asked as the pair came out of the shops, already unpacking the cases so they could replace them immediately. Small smiles on both of them.

“Matching cases!” Jisung grinned happily and showed his phone case to the group his case which said ‘mates’.

“Yeah just mates that’s right” Hyunjin scoffed under his breath as he rolled his eyes at how stupid the two boys were acting.

“Mates?” Jeongin questioned, slightly confused why it would say mate on it if it was a couples case.

“Min, put yours next to mine” Jisung grabbed Minho’s wrist and pulled his arm so that they were next to each other.

“Oh! Soulmates, that’s cute!” Jeongin smiled and turned to Seungmin tugging him towards the shop, “We gotta get matching as well”

Seungmin smiled lovingly at his boyfriend and let himself get dragged into the shop.

—---

“What does eveyone want? I’m buying” Chan waved his wallet in front of the group as they looked at all the different ice cream flavours.

They were stood by an ice cream shop which was location in a cool shed that was pastel pink and rainbow surfaces. The ice cream was on display with at least ten different and unique flavours.

“Wanna share Jagi?” Minho asked as he hugged Jisung from behind and rested his head on the boy’s shoulder.

Jisung nodded and pointed towards the ice creams, “It better be mint choco and something like candy floss”

“Let’s do both, after all Chan hyung is buying” Minho said loud enough for the older boy to hear them and spin his head round after just ordering his and Felix’s two ice creams.

“What did you want?” Chan asked the group in general who still hadn’t ordered.

“Me and Ji will share a cone with candy floss and mint choco please Chan hyung” Minho requested as he rocked Jisung from side to side as he watched the younger open up instagram and take a picture of the ice cream stand.

“Let’s take a pic for your story” Minho moved his hand from Jisung’s waist and clicked back onto the camera button and flip it around.

“Boomerang?” Jisung asked as he added a cool filter, Minho hummed out a yes.

Jisung held up the camera so they were both in and gave a quick countdown before clicking the shutter, as the boomerang filmed Minho kissed Jisung on the cheek.

“Min.. I was gonna post it on my story though?” Jisung shivelled round in Minho’s hold.

“That’s fine, besides it will keep a certain Hyunjin off our backs for a bit longer” Minho gave a small wink despite the drop of his stomach when he remembered that they weren’t actually together.

“Okay!” Jisung grinned and spun back around and waited for Chan to pass them their cone before giving thanks to him.

Jisung let Minho take the first bite on mint choco before he went in for a large bite, immediately regretting and the coldness caused brain freeze and slightly irritated his throat as he swallowed it.

“Maybe eat it a bit slower” Minho chuckled as Jisung clutched his head.

“But it’s gonna melt then! Also we should’ve taken a picture with the ice cream as well” Jisung pouted as he suddenly thought about how cute the picture would come out.

“Let’s do one for my story then” Minho shrugged and pulled his phone out of his pocket as he let Jisung take another bite as he held on to the wafer cone.

“Okay.. ready” Minho also made it a boomerang and gave a countdown. As the boomerange started Minho tilted the ice cream and it hot Jisung’s nose, the younger boy went cross eyed as he looked at the ice cream now on his nose, making for a funny boomerang.

“Yah!” Jisung wailed as Minho broke down in laughter. The sudden cry brought the attention of all the other boys as they watched Minho smile fondly at the younger boy and kiss his nose to get rid of the ice cream.

Ji’s guide to a fake BF
1. Honey
2. Kisses
3. Cheesecake
4.Matching phone cases
5.Sharing Ice Cream

“See what I mean..it’s.. a lot” Felix approached Hyunjin as they watched Jisung blush a red but then bite some of the ice cream from their ice cream cone.

“Yeah..it’s like honeymoon stage of their relationship, and it’s like they are becoming more PDA as the week is going” Hyunjin muttered to the boy as they both took a bite of their own ice cream. Felix opting for caramel in a tub and Hyunjin strawberry on a cone.

“It’s like as soon as we mention something, they suddenly do it. I mention them not posting on instagram and now they’ve posted themselves.” Hyunjin showed Felix the boomerang of Minho kissing Jisung’s cheek.

“Yeah, it’s not real, i’m calling them out for it…there’s no way it’s possible for Jisung to have kept this a secret for two months..” Felix tutted to Hyunjin before walking back to his boyfriend to steal some of his chocolate ice cream.

—---

“How’s this going to work Min?” Jisung asked unsure as they sat besides each other on the hammock that Jisung had now claimed his own.

“Well the best place would to do it is on the sofa, mainly because it’s the most obvious place” Minho suggested as he swung the hammock whilst Jisung had his feet crossed and inside the hammock.

“But like… how will we get them to come?” Jisung looked over the his crush and felt himself grow red and hot at the thought of him and Minho actually making out.

“We may need someone in on it, not completely but I can probably get Jeongin to go and fetch Hyunjin saying that I wanted to talk to him about the dance company and then he walks in on us” Minho shrugged.

“Sure, let’s do that” Jisung gave a shy smile.

Minho stood up and peered into the main room and noticed it was empty, perfect.

“We can do it now if you’re comfortable” Minho suggested as he took Jisung’s hand and pulled him up into a standing position.

“No time like the present” Jisung let out a deep breath to prepare himself.

Minho tugged the boy lightly and they made their way to one of the corners of the sofa. Minho took a seat so his back was against the arm rest and his legs spread out.

“This may be awkward but the best way to do this is you straddling me” Minho managed to say without stumbling. Jisung however didn’t.

“I-oh okay” Jisung shook his head trying not to think about it and awkwardly sat on Minho’s legs, his own legs bent and he perched right by Minho’s knees.

“Jagi you gotta be closer than that” Minho chuckled and lightly took Jisung’s waist and pulled him forward so the boy was flush on his thighs.

“R-right” Jisung coughed awkwardly and crossed his arms unsure what to even do with them, looking away embarrassed.

“Hey Sung, look at me” Minho took Jisung’s face in his hand and made the boy make eye contact with him.

“Just relax, it’s pretty much what we’ve been doing before, just more intense, we aren’t about to have sex Jisung, you know that” Minho reassured the boy as he watched the younger fail to make eye contact.

“I-I don’t wanna do anything wrong” Jisung trembled as he began chewing on his lip.

“Aw, baby you won’t do anything wrong,trust me” Minho let slip as he stroked Han’s jaw.

Jisung nodded and Minho smiled and kissed the boy lightly to help him relax.

“If you really don’t want to, we don’t have to” Minho double checked with the boy, “It’s your call, you’re the one who mainly needs to trick them”

Jisung shook his head, “we need to” and unfolded his hands and rested them on Minho’s shoulder for stability.

“Okay, I’m warning you now that my hands may wander but that’s all part of it okay” Minho added just so Jisung wasn’t too surprised by anything.

Jisung gave a smile and a nod and let Minho call Jeongin to get him to come to the front room. Luckily the boy was quick and speedy.

“Yeah Hyung?” Jeongin slipped into the room. He only managed to get Minho’s number from bugging him endlessly and although Minho wasn’t entirely close with the group he still allowed Jeongin to add his number. Who could say no to him in the first place?

“Can you get Hyunjin please, I need to ask him something about the referencing at the dance studio? I don’t feel like moving and I’d rather you walk in on him and Changbin than me”

“You want my young eyes to get traumatised?!” Jeongin let out a fake gasp and clutched his chest dramatically.

“As if you and Seungmin don’t get up to worse, you forget that you used to be my dorm mate at college” Jisung smirked, knowing he had the upper hand.

“Don’t expose me! I’ll go get Hyunjin now” Jeongin rushed off.

“Ready?” Minho turned to face Jisung who quickly nodded and let Minho capture his lips in the boy’s.

Immediately the older boy wasted no time in deepening the kiss and pulled Jisung closer towards him making the younger gasp, immediately Minho’s tongue darted out to Jisung’s open mouth catching him off guard.

Jisung let himself relax into the kiss after he realised he was being hyper aware of his surroundings and listening out for Hyunjin’s footsteps.
Jisung let his hands tangle into Minho’s dark hair whilst the older’s hands slipped from the youngest waist down to his butt as the boy lifted his hips to get closer.

Minho let one hand move back up to Jisung’s hip and under the sweater, which once again actually belonged to Minho.
Han’s hand moved from his ‘boyfriends’ hair and cupped his jaw as he tilted his head to try and take control which was short lived as one of Minho’s hands trailed to the younger’s thighs squeezing it.

“What the heck guys!” Hyunjin screeched when he walked into the front room and saw the couple making out. Hyunjin quickly darted to the kitchen so he didn’t have to look at the pair.

Minho pulled away slowly after hearing Hyunjin’s voice, the hand that was resting on Jisung’s thigh moved up to his shoulder as he ended the heated make out.
The younger boy wasn’t aware of what was happening so thought Minho just wanted to catch his breath and began to kiss the older boy again.

Minho being caught off guard gently pushed Jisung off his lips and made eye contact with him.

“Sungie you okay?” Minho asked carefully.

“More…” Jisung whined lightly, his eyes dilated and completely dazed over, he fiddled with the hem of Minho’s shirt.

The dancer’s eyes widened slightly at Jisung seemingly slipping into a headspace, he was completely unaware that Hyunjin was now in the kitchen.

“Jagi, we don’t have to anymore” Minho said softly and lifted up a hand to stroke Jisung’s cheek. The action made the boy come round slightly and he hid his face in the crook of the older boy’s neck, his arms wrapping round Minho’s waist and shirt.

Minho chuckled softly at the action and hugged the boy back tightly, making sure to kiss the top of his head that he could reach.

“You done being gross?” Hyunjin asked as he walked over to the sofa.

“You act as if no one else in the house makes out” Minho laughs and motions Hyunjin to sit down so they can chat. At least to keep up with the plan.

“What did you wanna chat about Hyung?” Hyunjin asked as he eyed Jisung who was playing with one of Minho’s hands.

“I checked out the referral stuff for your submission and I need to prove we danced together and I remember you saying one time that you have recordings from the dance shows?” Minho asked as he felt Jisung moving about slightly in his hold.

“Oh yeah I do! after we leave I’ll be able to grab them for you and send them over” Hyunjin grinned, “was that all I needed to do?”

“Mhm, then I should be able to do the rest” Minho smiled easily.

“Perfect! Thanks Hyung!” Hyunjin bounced up and said a quick goodbye to the pair.

———-

Hyunjin rushed up the stairs and quickly walked over to the games room where he knew the rest of the group were chilling. Felix, Seungmin and Changbin were playing some snooker game that they didn’t really know the rules too.

“Okay, so… I’m now questioning if Minho Hyung and Jisung aren’t actually faking it” Hyunjin announced as he walked back into the room and collapsed on a beanbag.

“How come? Weren’t you adamant they were faking it?” Chan raised as eyebrow as he looked up from where he was lying on the sofa across from Hyunjin.

“That’s the thing, I thought they were but I just walked in on them having a very steamy make out sessions and honestly if I didn’t appear they probably would’ve gone a lot further” Hyunjin pulled a disgusted face as he tried not to think that much about it.

“But I went in there like one minute before and they were just sitting chatting” Jeongin pointed out.

Chan let out a small laugh, “Innie, that means nothing, you and Seungmin go from not even talking to making out, sometimes in front of all of us”

Felix pondered on the conversation as he took his shot in the random snooker game they had set up.
“I’m still iffy about it. I feel like sometimes it’s put on a bit too much”

“How?” Changbin questioned as he collected the balls that Felix pocketed.

“Well, I don’t know about you guys but they seem to be very out there with PDA? Like yeah some people like it, others hate it” Felix motioned to himself and then Changbin.

“But sometimes it seems like it’s put on, especially when Minho came downstairs after we had voted on them, he acted very touchy and Jisung seemed a bit shocked by it” Felix shrugged giving his suggestion.

“Now you mention it, when Changbin and I first met them, Jisung never introduced Minho as his boyfriend, and he wasn’t being all touchy until after they ordered their food” Hyunjin pointed out as he leant his arms on his knees.

“You guys honestly give me a headache” Chan sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose,, “can’t you guys just accept that Jisung has a boyfriend and is really happy with him?”

“I do accept Minho Hyung Channie, it’s just looking very Stagey” Felix walked over to his boyfriend and sat on his lap.

“What are you going to do about it though?” Seungmin asked the two boys who were clearly still not convinced.

“We’ll get it out of them,” Hyunjin shrugged.

——

That evening the group sat down for a kimchi jigae that Seungmin and Minho had helped cook with Chan. Minho had prepped a bunch of side dishes that were spread amongst the table and each person had a bowl filled with rice and a smaller plate for any side dishes.
It was one of the last meals the group were going to be having, besides the BBQ tomorrow and so the atmosphere was abuzz. Jeongin and Hyunjin were planning on having a monopoly re-run and Minho agreed to join in once they’ve finished eating.

“I’ll just watch” Jisung shrugged as he declined the request to play, anyways if there were too many people the game would just go on forever and that was too much of an effort on the brain.

“This week has been really fun!” Jeongin announced as he went to fill up his bowl with more jigae and some rice.

“Yeah, I’m annoyed we are only staying for a week but 3racha do need to get back to the studio and do work, along with you guys obviously going back to your boring jobs” Changbin joked at the end.

“Oh, actually I just realised besides 3racha and Hyunjin I don’t know what jobs you guys all do” Minho mentioned as he realised that he hadn’t even thought about asking the group what they would be doing after this mini holiday.

“Oh! Well I have a bakery that Jeongin helps me run” Felix smiled, “Luckily I have enough staff to work this week and the co-manager, who works alongside Jeongin is filling in for me with all the orders and what needs baking” Felix explained.

“Oh what’s it called? Maybe I’ve passed it a few times” Minho asked as he picked up some japchae.

“Sunshine bakes!” Felix grinned a similar sunshine smile to go with the shop name.

“Oh! That’s where Jisung got my birthday cake from, no wonder it tasted good” Minho reliased as he remembered the cute pastel Yellow packaging that the cake came in.

“I work in a library currently but I’m going to start working at Felix’s shop because the hours are way better, despite some early starts.” Seungmin chuckled as he made up a small ssam with different side dishes in it.

“Oh nice, i’ll have to get Jisung to take me there so I can visit you guys!” Minho added as he also went back for seconds.

“Take you there as his boyfriend? Or friend?” Hyunjin sniggered. As he watched Minho and Jisung turn to each other both with different looks. Jisung looking more embarrassed and Minho looking annoyed.

“Come on Sung just tell us already that whatever you and Minho hyung have going on is just pretend” Felix joked along

“Seriously guys, don’t” Chan warned the two boy’s who seemed to only just be getting started.

“What are you on about?” Minho turned to Hyunjin and Felix. He noticed Jisung had already begun trembling slight and took a hold of his hand to keep him calm.

“Look Minho hyung, you’re great and all but why would you hide the fact you’re dating Jisung? Jisung said it himself that you don’t want to be outed.. But everyone already knew you were bi at the dance studio” Hyunjin questioned as he slipped in about how Jisung had completely messed up on the couple’s ‘story’.

“So what.. I told Jisung I wasn’t ready…doesn’t mean I have to tell people the second I get a boyfriend.” Minho scowled back at his dance mate.

“Fine, but Jisung you literally started to get more touchy with Minho as the week went on. We all know you are usually touchy with people you like, and if you were already dating for like two months, then surely you’d be comfortable with each other now..” Felix added in.

Seungmin and Jeongin glanced at each other with wide eyes as they subtly nodded to each other to not get involved in whatever was going down.

“You seriously all don’t think I can get a boyfriend do you? And none of you believe that Minho’s my boyfriend” Jisung raised his voice as he looked between all of his friends.

“Look we voted and half of us guessed you were faking..” Hyunjin shrugged as if it wasn’t a big deal.

“…I- a-a-all this time you’ve be-been voting about it?!” Jisung choked out as he got more upset about how his friends had gone behind his back to try and trick him into giving out the fact Minho and his relationship wasn’t actually real.

“Look, we were all fairly suspicious” Felix pointed to the other boy’s.

“Don’t you dare bring any of us into this Lix, it’s you and Jinnie.. That’s it” Changbin butted in. He was not about to ruin his relationship with his friends purely because Felix dragged them all into it.

“I can’t believe my friends of all people would do that to me” Jisung muttered with tears streaming down his face and loudly scraps his chair against the floor making Chan and Jeongin wince at the sound. The boy stormed out from the dining table, past the hammock and left the group.

“Well that just prove it then..” Hyunjin spoke out.

Minho stood up not caring that his chair fell down with a crash as he glared at all of Jisung’s supposed friends, “Are you all idiots?! Why would you say that to Jisung?! I heard you guys voting on the second day here…” Minho paused to catch all of their surprised faces, including those who had voted that they were a couple.
“I can’t believe you tried to catch us out and figure out if we were dating or not.. Would you like it if someone tried to guess if you guys were a couple, cause I know for a fact some of you would pass more as friends than being together..” Minho raised his voice as he pointed specifically to Seungmin and Jeongin even though they weren’t necessarily apart of it, he needed to get everything out.
“You can tease all you want about Jisung being happier and such.. But don’t you ever dare vote on what’s real and what isn’t…” Minho ends his speech before kicking the chair that had fallen behind him and walked out the same way Jisung had gone, leaving the group in silence.

A few seconds passed before Jeongin spoke up, “So are they together or?”

—--

Minho walked down the steps from the small balcony and immediately spotted Jisung sitting on the pebbled beach that was infront of their cabin. He was curled up with his knees tucked up to his chest and his head was resting on them. As the boy walked closer he could see the boy’s body was moving up and down and could hear soft cries coming out of the boy.

“Hannie?” Minho called softly so that he didn’t scare the boy too much.

Jisung continued to cry and not look up as the dancer sat beides the boy, instead he immediately turned and buried his face in the older’s neck. Minho bit his lip and hugged Jisung around the waist and pulled him closer.

They stayed for a while until Jisung barely had any tears left and was just breathing shakily. The sun setting behind them. Minho stroking the back on Ji’s head and the bottom of his back.

“It’s okay Hannie” Minho pulled Jisung closer so the younger boy was inbetween his legs.

“I-I can’t believe..” Jisung tried to say as he leaned out of the hug to look at the pebbles on the ground, “they voted.” Jisung choked out as fresh tears poured down as he looked up at his hyung through blurry eyes.
Minho’s eyes softened and he bit the inside of his cheek as he moved his hand from Jisung’s head, round to his cheeks and wiped the new tears that fell.

“It was wrong of them to vote” Minho stated as Jisung blinked away the tears, his eyes turning red as he rubbed them hard to stop the tears.

“Woah, woah” Minho took hold of the boy’s hand as he tried to rub his eyes roughly. The dancer then used his own thumb to gently rub the boy’s eyes to get rid of the tears and an eyelash that had fallen from his harsh rubbing before.

“They won’t stop” Jisung quietly said as he leaned into Minho’s touch as he rested his hand on Jisung’s tense jaw.

“You need to let them all out, and you don’t have the others watching so don’t worry” Minho smiled softly to reassure the boy stroking his cheek.

Jisung let out a deep breath and took Minho’s arm that was still resting on his back and began playing with his fingers as he let himself calm down, as well as get his thoughts together. Minho watched with a small smile on his face as the boy fiddled with on of the rings on his right hand.

“What did they say after I left?” Jisung question as he avoided looking up at the older and opted for stay fixated on their hands instead.

Minho let out a sigh,leaning back slightly, his hand from Jisung’s cheek being placed behind him for support, “Well Hyunjin of course definitely knows it fakes, because of the way you had supposedly acted, so I shouted at him, and well.. everyone I guess?” Minho explained.

Jisung peered up, “You shouted?”.

Minho broked out into a small smile,”Okay, I didn’t shout, I raised my voice and basically told them that if we were trying to figure out if some of their relationships were fake or not then they wouldn’t like it”

Jisung let out a soft laugh, “That’s basically shouting Min”.

Minho frowned and scoffed lightly, “I don’t think so, but I’m pretty sure Chan will be having a stern word with Lix and Hyunjin. Probably taking away cuddling privileges to Felix for accusing us to be fake.”

“W-we are fake though..” Jisung muttered as he looked back down to Minho’s chest reading the random graphic on his shirt. ‘Ice Cream, you scream’ was painted in different pastel colours with ice creams dotted around the shirt.

“Ji, forget about that right now” Minho announced as he looked out towards the sea to avoid looking at the younger’s confused face. He nearly ended up blurting out that he wanted it to be real.

“I- can’t go back inside” Jisung bit his lip hiding his face in Minho’s chest, so he didn’t have to look at the older.

“Let’s stay outside for a bit longer then huh?” Minho nudged the boy making him look up. The dancer rubbed Jisung’s shoulder lightly and without even thinking leaned forward, capturing Jisung’s lips with his and kissing him softly. It wasn’t for Jisung’s friend, or their ‘fake’ relationship. It was for Jisung and himself only.

As they pulled away, despite the sun setting and it becoming harder to see each other’s faces clearly, it was obvious both were blushing lightly, Jisung more so. The squirrel boy turned away bashfully and leaned back against the other’s chest and looked up at the sky so he didn’t have to look at Minho’s reaction. They both wore soft smiled as Minho began pointing out some constellations, other than Orion the Hunter which Jisung blurted out.

And if Jisung pretended to fall asleep so he could get carried in, and avoid his friends, no one needed to know.

—--

Day 6

Chan was awake before anyone else just like every other day, he was already starting to prepare for their barbecue. Despite most things getting cooked when they sat eating, Chan wanted to make sure that he was prepared with all the snacks as well. He also still needed to wrap up Felix’s gift that he had found. It was a small plaque he had found that had an engraved cookie recipe on it.

He also needed to talk to Minho. After the two boys had stormed out Chan had quickly made everyone finish eating and decided to avoid talking to Hyunjin and Felix for the rest of the evening. The only time he spoke to Felix was when he had asked why the boy wanted to find out it was fake. Of course, Lix had broken down in tears after regretting how him and Hyunjin had behaved, which ended with Chan hugging him and breaking off his planned ‘no cuddling’ punishment after the way they acted.

Finishing up his own cereal and making sure the meat was out to de-frost, Chan made his way upstairs to Minho and Jisung’s room. He gave a light knock before hearing a soft ‘come in’. Minho was wide awake and reading whilst Jisung was wrapped up against him with his head on the older’s chest, arm around his waist and legs tangled lightly.

“Hey hyung” Minho gave a small smile as he put the bookmark in his book.

“Hey, can we talk in a bit? Of course we don’t have to until Jisung wakes, cause I think he’d be pretty mad at getting woken up at nine” Chan joked lightly as he leant against the door.

“Sure! Gimme like twenty minutes so I can get ready, where will you be?” Minho asked as he took off his glasses and placed them on the side.
“I’ll be out near the balcony setting up the barbecue so just come and find me there” Chan nodded and gave a quick goodbye.

—-

“What did you wanna chat about hyung?” Minho spoke up as he walked down the balcony steps to the small concrete aread which held the barbecue.

“Oh hey, well i’m pretty sure you can guess it’s about Jisung” Chan motioned towards the picnic bench for them to sit down comfortably. Minho opting to sit opposite the boy.

“Right, yeah I should’ve guessed that” Minho let out an awkward laugh. It was obvious that they would need to talk about it and get an understanding on what is actually happening.

Bang Chan let out a small breath, “Can you tell me, are you actually dating or is it really pretend?”

Minho shut his eyes briefly already knowing that Chan would want an anwser to everything that’s happened this past week.

“Honestly Hyung, it’s complicated” Minho confessed as he scratched the back of his neck looking at his new older friend.

“How so?” Chan tilted his head an raised an eyebrow.

Minho looked down at his hands and started fiddling with them, a nervous trait he had picked up from Jisung.
“Basically, it’s fake, but for me the feelings arent”

Minho heard the older take in a sharp breath and it was a few seconds until he spoke, but didn’t dare look up to see his expressions.

“I can tell, that the feelings are real I mean” Chan began. Minho glanced up and saw that Chan had a small smile on his face.

“I knew from the moment you noticed Jisung was having an anxious episode and got him some cheesecake to help him, that you understood him. The way you made sure he was okay, and didn’t push him to talk or get involved in anything. And the way you defended him immediately yesterday” Chan explained.

“I don’t know why Hyunjin and Felix were so adamant at trying to expose us” Minho ran a finger along the crevice of the wood on the table.

“I think they are protecting Jisung, he’s had a bad run in with fake dates and just dating in general and so they were probably trying to figure out if you actually cared for him or not” Chan described as he thought back to all the questions they threw at both Minho and Jisung.

“But what do I do, There’s no way I can go back to pretending this week hasn’t happened. I wouldn’t be able to go back and act as if me and Jisung were always just friends. I’ve liked him for so long, and having this week was just so nice and natural” Minho confessed once more as he bit his lip trying to imagine going back to normal.

“Exactly, you two were natural, which makes me think that the feelings you have for Jisung are the same he has for you” Chan added, “Jisung is so much more happier when he’s around you, sure he’s happy with us, but his eyes are different when he’s talking with you or just near you.”

“Y-you really think he likes me back?” Minho looks up stunned.

“Look Min, why would he ask you to be his ‘fake’ boyfriend in the first place?”Chan questioned.

“Cause he lied to you guys about having a boyfriend and I was the first person he asked” Minho shrugged, clearly not understanding what Chan was getting at.

“Minho, he clearly asked you because he likes you, and even if you don’t think that, just think back to this week and probably before that, how Ji acts around you is so different. He’s not afraid to show his real side to you” Chan continued to help Minho understand.

“So.. what do I do about it then? Cause we can’t actually tell the rest of Ji’s friends we were faking it, and if we are supposedly real we would have to continue faking it” Minho let out a stressful sigh as he rubbed his eyes.

“Or you continue it, but not fake it” Chan grinned and stood up. “You know what you want Minho, and Ji wants the same, he’s just too shy to tell you”

Minho watched as the older boy walked back inside which was now inhabited by Jeongin, Seungmin and Felix.

—----

The barbecue had started, music filtering out of Chan’s speaker that he had brought, Felix and Hyunjin dancing around together as the slightly older boy taught the younger some dance moves. Seungmin and Jeongin eating up burgers and other snacks. Changbin was filming Hyunjin and Felix, and Chan was stood by the Barbecue with Minho cooking the meat. Jisung was no where to be seen.
He had made a brief appearance to grab a burger and fill his plate up with snacks but quickly departed after that.

The poor boy was clearly trying to avoid all of his friends so that they didn’t ask him anything, and he especially didn’t want to see Hyunjin and Felix of all people.

“Minho, can you take this to Jisung, I’m not sure where he is but I know he wanted a sausage as well” Chan grabbed a plate and filled up an empty bun with the cooked sausage.

“Sure” Minho nodded and took the plate, filling it up with a few other snacks such as some fruits and crisps that the dancer knew the rapper enjoyed. He entered the cabin and noticed immediately the boy wasn’t there. He headed upstairs and peered in each room, having a good look around the games room before going towards their shared room. As expected Jisung was sitting on the swinging seat, with a plate of food besides him as he looked outside at the view.

“Jagi?” Minho called as he entered the room. Jisung jumped slightly as spun around and gave a side smile.

“You don’t have to hide up hear just to avoid Felix and Hyunjin you know” Minho reached the boy and placed the plate down besides the other half empty plate.

“I’m not completely avoid them, I just don’t want any one asking questions and bugging me” Jisung sighed as he looked up at the older boy.

“That is the definition of avoiding someone Ji” Minho chuckled and leant against the window the younger was peering out of.

“I just don’t know what to say to them if they do ask me anything” Jisung looked down at the ground and rocked the chair slightly with his feet.

“Well, if they ask, ignore them, we don’t own them an explanation, besides Jeongin was asking for you earlier cause he hadn’t seen you a lot. We also have our gift exchange” Minho leaned forward and shook one of Jisung’s knees.

“Can I stay besides you” Jisung pouted as he looked up at the boy.

Minho nodded and held out a hand for the boy to stand, “You don’t have to ask to do that Sungie” Minho kissed Jisung’s forehead and picked up the two plates.

—----

Jisung wasted no time in claiming his hammock once he got outside, at least no one could complain at him staying inside when he was infact outside now, just not in the main ‘party’ area. Minho took a seat on the hammock besides the younger boy who immediately leant against him getting comfortable. Minho wrapped an arm around his shoulder and held the boy’s plate so he could eat comfortably.

“How’s your leg doing?” Minho asked as he remembered the bandage on the boy’s leg. It was still wrapped up but only needed cream on it in the morning and then just before Jisung went to sleep.

“It’s good, doesn’t hurt anymore, i’m just glad I didn’t have to go to the hospital, that would’ve ruined this trip” Jisung glanced down at his wound.

“What about your knee?” Jisung looked up at the older from where his head was perched on said boy’s shoulder. The older boy was wearing jeans today so it was covered, despite the warm temperature.

“It’s fine now, scabbed over, shame we aren’t here for longer so I could’ve gone in the water at least once.” Minho gave a square smile.

Jisung pouted a little, “I feel bad you didn’t get a chance to” he looked up at Minho.

The older gave him a quick kiss to get rid of the pout, “We can come again, maybe not with your friends though, they are a bit much” Minho smiled and laughed slightly.

“Gift time!” Changbin called as everyone immediately rushed to go and grab their presents from their hiding places.

“I’ll be back, save me a seat I need to grab yours” Minho grinned and hopped off the hammock making it rock.

Jisung reached from under the hammock where he had hidden Minho’s present and made his way down to the pebbled beach where Chan was already sitting holding Felix’s present. Sitting besides the older, Jisung placed the wrapped up bear in front of him.

“What did you get Minho?” Chan asked as he looked down at the wrapping which was practically falling apart with tape flying around.

“Just wait, it’s cute! Hopefully Minho hyung will like it, I have no idea what he could’ve gotten me” Jisung shrugged as Felix took a seat besides his boyfriend, followed by Seungmin and Jeongin.
Jisung glanced over at his twin before looking away quickly when they made eye contact. Felix was wearing a small pout and was clutching Chan’s present close to his chest. The same one Jisung had sort of helped pick out.

Minho soon arrived back next to the boy and Changbin and Hyunjin followed suite and sat besides Minho and Jeongin to complete the circle.

“Should we go one by one? Or all together?” Seungmin asked as everyone got as comfy as you can on a pebbled beach.

“All together, I don’t want to have to wait that long.” Felix laughed.

“Okay, exchange in three…two…one..” Hyunjin counted down. All the couples immediately turned towards each other and passed over their presents.

Jeongin wasted no time in tearing apart his present and breaking out in a smile as Seungmin had gotten him a stack of postcards for a scrapbook he was making of their holidays. Jeongin leaped into his boyfriends arms and gave him a tight hug before ushering him to open up his. Seungmin got halfway through opening before laughing and kissing Jeongin lightly. They were bookends to hold up his books, one was a wave with a surfboard and the other was an ice cream on a cone all carved in wood with the beach’s name engraved.

Felix was already taking a picture of the recipe plaque as well as the bucket and spade he had eyed up earlier on in the week. The oldest boy was grinning at the keychain that spun with ‘best boyfriend’ written on it. It was black and silver and the colour of the text was holographic.

Hyunjin and Changbin were already kissing each other, their two gifts tossed to the side. For Changbin, Hyunjin had brought him a matching case that he had seemingly painted over along with a few sweets. Changbin had gifted Hyunjin some postcards similar to the ones Jeongin was given and a cute notebook for him.

Minho watched as Jisung carefully united the ribbon and wrapping paper that he had taken far too long to tape together neatly. Underneath was a box that once opened revealed a snowglobe with a jellyfish and waves in the middle and on the stand there was engraved everybody's names.

“Wh-what… Min.. when did you even have a chance to get this done?” Jisung looked up shocked at his supposed boyfriend.

“Well I knew you wanted a snowglobe and so when we went out to buy gifts I ordered it and then it was ready to be picked up today so I went this morning when you were still asleep” Minho grinned. He was incredibly happy with his gift.

“I love it! Thanks so much” Jisung placed the snow globe carefully back in the box before hugging Minho tightly.

Minho hugged back before quickly pulling away, he still had to open up his own one.

“Oh god, ignore the wrapping, please” Jisung winced as he looked at his poor wrapping skills.

“Yeah stick to rapping, not wrapping” Minho joked as he pulled apart the paper to reveal a cute kitten plushie looking like Dori.

“How did you find one that looked like Dori?” Minho laughed as he brushed the fur out of the kittens eyes.

“Pure luck I guess” Jisung grinned as he watched Minho mess with the fur, “It’s cute, but you may have to keep it out of the way from Dori, I have a feeling he would rip himself to shreds” Jisung laughed as Minho hugged the plushie lightly.

“Thank you, Jagi”

—--

“Okay! Everyone get in! There’s timer is on!” Chan instructed as they all bunched together to take some pictures. The night had set and so everyone had replaced their shorts and t-shirts for some sweaters and jeans, they stood on the beach with sparklers and were currently taking a bunch of photos.

Chan rushed back to the group and wrapped an arm round Felix’s shoulder pulling him close as all the boy’s huddled closely and kept their sparklers away from their faces.

The shutter when off a couple of times before Chan the rushed back to check, “Changbin you blinked, we’ll have to do it again, we have enough left on the sparklers” Chan quickly reset it and rushed back into position.

Jisung was leaning against Minho whilst the older boy had an arm wrapped tightly around the quokka’s waist keeping him close. As the shutter moved down to one Minho tickled Jisung making the boy yelp out just as the shutter went.

“Yah! Why would you do that” Jisung let out a whine as he rushed to go and see if he looked stupid in the photo. Minho was hunched over laughing at the boy’s reaction.

“I look like an idiot!” Jisung whined loudly and deposited his sparkler in the bucket of water before running over to the boy to push him. Minho carried on laughing as Jisung gave him weak punches and pushing complaining that he looked like an idiot.

“I’m sure you look fine Jiji” Minho chuckled, as Jisung blushed at the name.

“You’re so annoying” Jisung furrowed his eyebrows and stormed off back to the camera to double check and see if he really did look bad.

“Couple photos!” Felix squealed as he pushed Jeongin and Seungmin towards the front of the camera. He passed them both a sparkler and let the pair decided on their pose before setting them alight.

“Okay! Three… two…one!” Chan clicked the shutter as Jeongin was on Seungmin’s back holding up both the sparklers beaming.
The pair continued for a little while, both each thinking of different poses.

Jisung and Minho were next and took part in taking different poses, one side by side, another of Jisung kissing Minho’s cheek. And finally one of them kissing.

Jisung stood near Minho for warmth watching Jeongin and Seungmin go for a second round of photos and groaned lightly when Hyunjin and Felix walked towards them.
“Hide me” Jisung turned and hid himself in Minho’s chest so he didn’t look at the two.

“Jisung?” Felix spoke as he reached the pair.
“Can we talk to you?” Hyunjin added as he watched Minho whisper something in the younger’s ear earning a groan but nevertheless Jisung turned to face the pair.

“We wanted to say we were sorry, for trying to see if you and Minho hyung were faking your relationship” Hyung began explaining, making sure to keep eye contact with the boy.

“We shouldn’t have done that and it was wrong for us to even think it in the first place” Felix admitted as he struggled to keep eye contact as instead opted for looking at the pebbles.

“Why did you do it in the first place?” Jisung asked softly.

Hyunjin and Felix glanced to each other before looking back at their friend.

“We-we thought it was just weird how you suddenly had a boyfriend, more so that it was Minho hyung. It made no sense that you guys didn’t say anything, also I was kind of Jealous.. You two seem so comfortable and out there, like I love Changbin hyung but we don’t do PDA, so I guess I was jealous you were both so comfortable with it even after only been dating for a couple of months” Hyunjin admitted which shocked even Felix.

“That doesn’t mean you can take it out on me and Min, you should talk to Changbin instead” Jisung suggested as he felt Minho wrap an arm around the boy’s waist.

“We hope we can go back to normal, it was a really stupid thing to do, I don’t know why I even thought it when it’s clear you guys love each other, it’s really obvious.” Felix let out a sigh and left it at that.

“Come and find us if you wanna chat Ji” Hyunjin gave a small smile before hearing Changbin call his name to take some photos.

“Wanna get away?” Minho leant down and whispered in Jisung’s ear.

Jisung broked out into a chuckle, “You read my mind” he turned and smiled up at the older and took his hand and intertwined it with his own.

—---

The pair continued walking in a comfortable silence until they reached the start of the sand beach.

“Finally, now my feet aren’t going to hurt with every step” Jisung bounced up and down on the sand, whilst holding onto Minho’s hand trying to get him to bounce as well.

Minho watched at how Jisung let go of his hand and started running around on the sand beach, struggling slightly at the running part due to his feet not actually have something stable to step on. He followed as Jisung rushed around, running near the shore before screeching and running back before he got his shoes wet.
Minho sat down on the hill of sand that was still dry thanks to the low tide. Jisung tripped and got his shoes wet before he kicked them off and rushed into the water regardless of whether his jeans would get soaked as well.
The boy turned towards Minho and waved him down. The dancer smiled and took off his librarian cardigan and left his glasses with his shoes before walking down towards the front.
Jisung walked out and grabbed his arm pulling him into the cold water that was crashing down.

“It’s so cold! Why did you want me in here!” Minho splashed Jisung in revenge making the boy squeak and duck from the attacks.

“It’s refreshing though!” Jisung explained as he splashed the older back laughing loudly as it hit him right in the face.
Minho sputtered out some of the salt water that got in his mouth before glaring at the boy.

“Oh you are in for it” Minho charged towards Jisung who quickly began to wade through the water to get away. It didn’t take long for Minho to grab the boy around his waist and lift him up out of the water and throw him down.

“YAH!” Jisung shouted as he emerged from the water.

“That’s what you get Jagi” Minho stuck his tongue out but still helped the boy up. Jisung laughed and leaned against Minho for support.

“I hate you” Jisung smiled up to the boy.

“No you don’t” Minho smirked.

“You’re right, I don’t” Jisung breathed out as Minho’s face got closer. The older boy’s eyes shut and Jisung smirked before pushing the taller boy down into the water, what he wasn’t expecting was Minho to react so fast and grab Jisung’s arm and pull him down with him.

The pair broke out in laughs as they wiped their now wet hair from their faces, before both agreeing it was way too cold.

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“This was such a fun holiday” Jisung’s lips twitched upwards as he thought about how much had happened in the last week.

The two had gotten out of the water and after much debate, Jisung was wearing the cardigan that Minho had left out on the sand to keep him warm. Minho was no where near as wet as the younger so practically forced it onto him. They were sat on the sand hill watching the waves go back and forth, half procrastinating at having to pack up all of their things and drive home the next day.
Minho had an arm wrapped around Jisung’s shoulder as the boy rested his head on his hyung’s shoulder.

“It was great to meet your friends” Minho mentioned, although they were very full on, and especially what happened with Hyunjin and Felix, Minho was still glad he had finally met the boy’s other friends. He could almost call them his own friends.

“I’m sorry you had to deal with Hyunjin and Felix though” Jisung mumbled.

“It’s fine, I would’ve been more surprised if no one questioned us” Minho chuckled as Jisung began playing with his hand that was draped over his shoulder.

“What am I.. I mean.. What are we going to do now?” Jisung asked, he really didn’t want to bring up the topic of how they would react after they go back home. It was too complicated.

Jisung heard and felt Minho take a deep breath, “I don’t know Sung, but I think we both know we can’t just go back to normal and pretend this week hasn’t happened”

“I-I don’t want it to end Min” Jisung whispered as he glanced up at the boy who was staring out at the sea.

“Look Ji, before this week even happened I don’t think I was ever going to tell you this, but considering how this week has gone and what we’ve done and how all your friends know, I think it’s best if I just say that…” Minho began explaining.

“I like you” Jisung blurted out, making Minho turn to him suddenly wide eyes.

“I mean.. Sorry I wasn’t meant to interrupt but I didn’t want you to say we should end this and then I thought that we’d have to act normally and do some weird break up and then pretned that we are just fine being friends after breaking up which would be kinda weird and then we’d....” Jisung started ranting out of pure nerves before he was cut off with a pair of lips against his own, stopping him from talking.
Minho used the arm that was round Jisung’s shoulder to pull him closer, the younger boy’s arm going up to Minho’s jaw without even thinking.
It didn’t get anymore heated, just staying at a slow pace..

Minho slowly pulled away and he looked at the boy so gently, “I like you too Jisung”

Jisung pulled the boy back into a kiss, slightly more heated than Minho was expecting causing him to tense slightly. Jisung pulled away after realising what they had actually just admitted.

“Wait… did you only so yes to me because you liked me back?” Jisung squinted slightly.

Minho laughed lightly, “Partially, I thought this week would be a great way to confess to you and I would’ve done it sooner, but there was a lot of things going on so I didn’t get the chance”

“That was my idea!” Jisung playfully hit Minho’s chest, “Stop stealing my ideas”

“Can I steal one more though?” Minho asked as Jisung looked back up.

“Can I you be my boyfriend?” Minho smiled, already figuring out that that was what Jisung would’ve asked him next out of all his ideas.

“YAH! Seriously again?!” Jisung raised his voice and pushed Minho down on the sand.

Minho pulled the younger on top of him, “I’m guessing that’s a yes?”

Jisung scoffed but pulled the boy in for a small kiss, “ I guess we could tell our friends it was real the entire time”

“Sure Jagi” Minho agreed and pulled Jisung back down for another kiss.

Ji’s guide to a BF
1. Honey
2. Kisses
3. Cheesecake
4.Matching phone cases
5.Sharing Ice Cream
6. And more kisses

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