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“Mashu~ I’m home!”
It was late evening and Gunwook just returned to Matthew's dorm. He had just finished up doing his dance live at the company. He had also been at his studio earlier in the day doing some quick mixing on the song he made with Matthew a few weeks before and some finishing touches on the cover he's going to post in a few weeks.
While Gunwook hasn't officially moved into Matthew’s dorm, he basically hangs out there most of the time rather than his own room on a different floor. Even when Ricky was still living here, he would visit and bring his laptop to work at their dorm rather than his own room. But now that Ricky has moved out of the dorms, Matthew has been left alone with just Gia by his side.
Ever since Ricky moved out, Gunwook had been visiting more often than he usually does just to avoid both of them feeling alone. He had been slowly moving his items into the spare bedroom that used to be Ricky’s room. He only brought in essentials he needed like his laptop, clothes, toiletries, and, most importantly, his plushies. Even so, he would just end up sleeping in Matthew’s bed cuddling together.
He told himself he would need to pack up his other room that he barely goes to anymore at some point but he had been so busy with making music at the studio and rehearsals for the concert that just thinking about cleaning out the small room with his loft bed already exhausted him.
“I'm over here in the living room! I just got back too!” Matthew calls out.
Gunwook walks over to the living room after taking off his hat and shoes. He sees Matthew sitting on the sofa focused playing his game docked to the TV. He notices that he is already in his pajamas with wet hair and a towel around his neck. He heads toward him and gives him a head pat.
"Your hair is still wet. Here let me dry it."
"Mm." Matthew says as he sits on the floor in front of the sofa for Gunwook to dry his hair while still playing the game.
As Gunwook dries Matthew's hair with the towel, he looks around the room. “Where’s Gia?”
“He’s in my room taking a nap. Don't go in there yet. You’ll wake him up.”
Gunwook scrunches his face sadly as he gets denied getting kisses from Gia.
“Did you eat dinner yet?” Matthew asks, without looking away from the screen.
Gunwook shakes his head. “No I didn't. I just drank Americano and some ramen like hours ago.”
“There's some leftover kimbap and eel my grandma made that my uncle brought earlier if you want. You should really eat properly. You're still recovering from a fever, y'know.”
“I was already feeling good yesterday from our date and I’m feeling great today. Maybe all I need are just more kisses from you to make it even better,” Gunwook flirts and moves his face closer to Matthew for a quick peck.
Matthew chuckles and moves away from him. “Nice try. But, that's not enough. Go take a shower first. Then eat dinner. I’m still a bit full but I’ll still eat with you.”
“Okay, fine~” Gunwook pouts as he heads off to his room to change.
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Gunwook finished showering and now in his pajamas. Matthew had paused his game to set up the table with the food. This has been their routine together; wake up, go do their separate itineraries they had for the day, dinner, maybe workout, hang out together by either playing games or watching a movie or anime, then end the day by cuddling in bed together with Gia.
“How was the dance live? I was out so I couldn’t watch it properly,” Matthew asks, sitting on the dining table with his greek yoghurt in his hands.
Gunwook sits across from him and grabs the food on the table. “It was good. Pretty tiring. I feel like I could've done better though.”
“I'm sure you did well. Stop being so harsh on yourself,” Matthew said as he pats Gunwook’s head.
Gunwook nods. “I saw your cover also got posted. The video turned out really good. Your voice sounds beautiful as usual.”
“Aw thank you, Gunwookie~ Yeah, the fans have been so supportive too and there’s been so many sweet comments.”
“Mm. *munch* Good. *munch* They should shower you *munch* with more compliments,” Gunwook said as he stuffed his mouth with food.
“Slow down,” Matthew smiles and wipes the side of Gunwook's mouth that got messy, “You’re going to choke on your food at this rate.”
They continue eating and chatting about their day. Afterwards, once the food was all gone they washed and cleaned up everything together.
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As the night went on, they were in the living room together and sat on the sofa. Sounds of the background music from the game on the TV echoes out into the room. Currently, Gunwook sits in the middle of the sofa and has his arm around Matthew’s shoulder without leaving any space in between them. His other free hand is currently patting Gia who had just woken up from his beauty nap and decided to sit on Gunwook’s lap. Matthew is slightly leaning forward on the sofa, holding his controller and is super focused on playing his game.
“You're not going to play on your computer today?” Gunwook wonders.
“Nope! They finally ported Pokemon Fire Red to the Switch and I'm going to be spending my time on it and try my best to beat it since I never actually finished it before.”
Gunwook nods while listening and watching the screen. He knows how much Matthew loves Pokemon and loves listening to him gush about it.
“Look, Gunwookie!” Matthew points to his Pokemon on the screen, “I chose Squirtle as my starter pokemon and named it Gunwookie! It looks just like you!”
“I thought you said I looked more like Bulbasaur before,” Gunwook playfully teases him.
“You look like both, silly~” Matthew replies back to him.
Gunwook smiles widely at how excited Matthew looks showing each and every one of the Pokemon he found. He tries to cling to Matthew even more even though Matthew has been excitedly moving around his seat.
“Is there a Pikachu around you can catch? Maybe you could name it Mattchu or something,” Gunwook asks.
“Oooh! I would need to go back on some of the routes though. Let me check~!” Matthew moves his character in the game into different areas. He finally encounters a Pikachu and catches it, “I choose you, Pikachu! Welcome to the team, little guy!”
“I need to build a team for the Rock gym too and I would need…” Matthew trails off talking about the game while Gunwook continues holding him in his arms fondly looking at him.
Sometimes Gunwook is amazed at how much in love he is with Matthew. It comes at random points of the day. For example, it would come when Matthew is just confused by a Korean word he couldn't pronounce or when he wasn't able to do something and tried to get what he wants by acting cute.
Today he is reminded once again how much he loves him from the way Matthew is so passionate when he's playing his games and sharing about the silly Pokemon he caught in the game and he can’t help but smile.
At some point while Matthew was going through Pokemon gym battles, Gunwook dozed off on the sofa. He got woken up by Matthew nudging him. When he finally opened his eyes, Matthew had already closed his game and Gia was no longer on his lap.
“Gunwook-ah, you're gonna get sick again if you sleep like that. C’mon let's get to bed.”
Gunwook drags himself off the sofa and stretches. They both go to Matthew’s room after closing up the lights and prepare to sleep. He gives Matthew their daily good night hug and kiss. They get onto the bed together and cuddle with Gia joining in with them.
“Good night, hyungie. I love you,” Gunwook says while having Matthew in his arms.
“I love you too, Gunwookie. Sleep tight,” Matthew says as he slowly drifts off to sleep.
While in bed in the middle of the night with Matthew fully asleep and Gia near their heads, Gunwook is still awake hoping moments like these will last forever, just spending quality time together every day after working hard doing their own thing separately.
He has a thought on how he is glad he will have a lot of time with Matthew now and how he is looking forward to their future together. He thinks of all the activities they could do together until he finally falls asleep.