A step away from love

08. Camping

"Come on! It's going to be fun!"

The group of students had gathered at their favorite place to eat together and Marc had proposed the idea of ​​going camping on Saturday. Everyone thought it was really fun, except Yong who hated this kind of thing and Jiew, but the latter's reason was only because he was getting more soda to drink and hadn't heard the idea yet.

"Come on, Yong! Stop being annoying and come with us! You're the only one who has a car, after all!", Marc said begging his friend to say "yes".

"That's exactly why I don't want to go!", Yong said, grimacing just as he imagined what could happen to his precious car on such a trip. In addition to the natural discomfort that this type of activity involves, of course.

"What are you guys talking about?" Jiew asked as he rejoined the group.

"We want to go camping, but Yong doesn't want to go!", Seoul complained.

"Oh, it looks cool! Why don't we try something new, Yong?", Jiew asked his friend giving him one of his bright smiles.

"Ah… If you want to, I think we can…", Yong surrendered at the same time.

Everyone rolled their eyes at the scene, but they were happy and excited on Saturday morning. The trip itself had been smooth and the campground was heavily wooded and close to a river they could swim in. However, camping is a more fun activity for those who have at least a bit of experience in it or at least try to plan ahead.

"Hey, what's this?", Yong asked frowning as he looked at the tent material that he was unrolling. It was torn up.

"So sorry, man! I should have checked this before!", Marc said scratching the back of his neck in embarrassment. "But let's do it like this: as Jiew is the smallest of us all, you sleep in his tent, ok?", the boy suggested to which everyone agreed, except for the pair in question. Yong was embarrassed by the idea and Jiew had disappeared from the radar as soon as he heard it.

Shortly after they had all their things arranged, the group went to search for fun activities. Jiew decided to read close to his tent and the others went out to swim in the river.

"Hey, Jiew! We're on vacation, won't you put the book down for a minute?", Yong said approaching his friend.

"Ai Yong! You're making the book wet!", Jiew said pulling away from his friend until he noticed that the taller was wearing only shorts and was completely wet. An interesting sight if you asked him at the time.

"I can't swim!", Jiew said looking away from the naked body in front of him.

"I can help you, let's go!", Yong said taking Jiew's hand, who didn't feel like resisting. It was too nice to feel Yong's huge hand covering his tiny one.

And everyone had a great time. The river wasn't that deep, it only reached Jiew's waist and they played until they got tired. It was already time for dinner when they decided to stop. Sitting around the fire after eating, they tried to get warm.

"Why are you so far away? The goal is to get warm! Come here!", Yong said hugging Jiew by the narrow shoulders so that both would share heat and warm up faster. Maybe the result was even too good because after that it was possible to see Jiew as red as if he was burning.

A short time later, already overcome by drowsiness, everyone retired to their tents and slept a deep sleep. After the day's activities, students used to city life could barely have the energy for anything else. A pity, because Yong would have liked to have enjoyed this moment a little better, if he had known what awaited him the next morning.

"Ai Yong!"

"Omg, Yong!"

"What happened? Why is everyone calling me?", Yong said leaving the tent and stopping at the entrance.

Jiew, hearing the movement, decided to get up to see what attracted everyone's attention and joined with another "Ai Yong!".

During the night, something had fallen on top of the car's hood, which was dented. It's strange that none of them heard the noise, but it would certainly need to have the paint retouched and the bodywork crumpled.

"That's why I didn't want to come!", Yong said running a hand through his hair and visibly frustrated.

"Now at least you have a story to tell your grandchildren when you're older instead of saying you spent your vacation locked up at home!", Jiew tried to soothe.

"Who said I'm going to have grandchildren!", Yong deviated from the main focus of the sentence, still very worried about the fate of his poor car.

"Everyone is going to marry, have children's of their own that will give you grandchildren one day!" Jiew argued.

"And who said I want to get married?"

"You will find the love of your life someday and want to spend your life with that person, Yong!"

"I didn't ask for your opinion!"

The two engaged in a debate without much future until Marc decided to get their attention:

"Hey, can you guys stop planing if your children will give you grandchildren and help pack up so we can leave?"

The friend's sentence took the two guys by surprise and they started to blush a lot because it sounded like they would have those children and grandchildren together like a family. To avoid the topic, they just joined the others packing the things.

Apparently everyone in that group or, rather, anyone who knew YongJiew knew they were a couple. They didn't know about it yet, though.