✓ reasons to love • 2min

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What the hell... was that.

Poor guy struggled to sleep for the last two nights. As far as he knows, Minho was never the type to do intimate things with him. With Jisung, he had seen it multiple times but with Seungmin? Might as well say, never.

For example, last two nights.

The next day he woke up he didn't talk to Minho that much until now. The older was currently out with some friends and Seungmin was staring off nowhere on the couch.

Why is this bothering me too much?

ding!

He quickly turned on his phone and smiled when seeing the contact name.

baby❤️: minnie :(

His smile dropped.

baby❤️: can i call you?

With that he immediately called the girl. "Hello?"

"Minnie..." the girl's voice was gloomy. "I might have to stay here longer."

"Oh.." he pursed his lips and forced himself to smile. "Did something happen?"

"My aunt is grieving. She hadn't eaten for days and is having a fever. I have to look after her."

Right, her aunt. Yuri once told her the woman lost her husband a few years back and only had her son, who passed away merely a week ago. Which means the woman is now living alone.

"Do you want me to come?" he offered.

The girl paused for awhile, "As much as I want to you still have works to do."

"I can take days off too."

"You're using your holidays, you know that?" Yuri sighed at the other line.

Seungmin got up from his laying position. "And so are you. It's fine, it's not like I'm using all of it."

"You still need to ask Mr. Ahn."

"Ah!" the guy whined, earning a giggle from his girlfriend. Seungmin lightly kicked the cushion down and laid back on the couch. "He probably won't let me. I'm still lacking and have to hand in the reports, meetings in two days and the event in one week- ugh!"

Yuri softly smiled at the short rant.

"Or I can come for one day."

"Aren't you tiring yourself?"

"Before the event I'll have a day off. Maybe Mr. Ahn will let me," he excitedly suggested. Then his voice lowered down into a sad one. "He has to. I miss you already."

"Just one day."

"Mhm, one day." the puppy resembled guy nodded eagerly though she couldn't see him.

He heard the girl sighed, "I'm a bit worried, Minnie."

"It's okay! I'm a grown up man, you see." he punched a fist in the air. "By the way, I'm going to Hyunjin's for awhile. Talk to you later."

"Ah, okay. Take care."

After greeting goodbyes Seungmin immediately ended the call and shut his eyes close. Was it too abrupt? He hoped not.

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Lucky for him, Hyunjin was alone too in the house. Both friends were settled in front of the television with some crackers and tea. For the first few minutes Seungmin was quiet, earning a concerned attention from the older.

"So..."

"Minho hyung," Hyunjin paused when the younger cut him off. "He did something weird to me the other day."

The other male blinked his eyes a few times as he continued, "Not weird, maybe unusual. But yeah, still weird." Seungmin hugged his knees close to his chest and picked a cracker. He nibbled on it.

"On a scale of one to ten, how weird?"

"Five."

"Ah," Minho hyung you obvious pus-

"Maybe seven because he did it twice."

Hyunjin wanted to smack Minho.

"What'd he do?"

Seungmin tightened the grip of the hug and almost hid his face in the knees. "He... ruffled my hair."

That's it?

"He did it when we were having a dinner because my hair blocked my eyes but then... he began to... I don't know."

His muffled voice made Hyunjin's heart melt at his confused reaction.

"And when we arrived home I think he carried me upstairs. I only realised it when he shouted at me but after that he did it again. Minho hyung never do that, you know."

There was silence engulfing them. Only the sound of cracking crackers could be heard from Hyunjin. He leaned his back on the foot couch and was about to speak but Seungmin beated him onto it.

"Hyunjin, do you know if Minho hyung like guys?"

That question caught him off guard. He immediately sat straight to fully face him. "What- why?"

The younger threw him a weird look. "Why are you getting so worked up? It's just a question. I thought you'd know since you're close with him."

"But he's your housemate?"

"Doesn't mean he'd tell me if he likes guys, you know. It's just..." the male paused and stared at the coffee table. "I don't know why this thing is bothering me. It was just a simple gesture."

Poor guy, just because of Minho's small actions he was tangled with his inner self. Hyunjin let out a small sighed as he reminded himself to scold Minho later. "Well... do you like guys?"

"Not in that way." he turned to Hyunjin. "Besides, I already have Yuri."

Of course.

"Let's say if he likes guys, are you fine with it?" Hyunjin carefully asked.

Seungmin shrugged. "I don't see any problem."

But what if the only guy he finds attractive is you?

He can't find himself asking that.

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🧍 idk why people always choose the first one whenever i do a poll. y'all should know the first one would always be a disaster- at least for me :p