Yang Jungwon took a deep breath.
Today his new life would begin. He would move in his new house, meet his new roommate and soon he would start studying in his dream university.
His childhood friend Niki welcomed him in their home and everything we...
Jungwon stayed a while in the shower. Even though it had been a nice day overall, saying goodbye to his family this morning, moving out of his old room and coming to town had been a lot of emotions.
The warm water on his neck felt good, as if the stream could take his worries down the drain.
I like Jake. He instantly made me so welcome! And Sunoo is cool too. He and Niki seem to me close, I wonder how close though.
Jungwon was brought back to reality by someone knocking on the door.
"I'm in the shower" he said out loud. "Please hurry" said Niki, in a desperate voice.
Jungwon closed the tap and got out of the shower.
"Can't you go downstairs?" asked Jungwon, wrapping himself in his towel. "Noooo" replied Niki. "Sunoo is downstairs." "Okay okay" replied Jungwon.
He had planned on drying himself in the bathroom and get dressed in there, but seeing how Niki needed to go to the bathroom, he would have to go out like that.
Jungwon took his clothes and opened the door, revealing a now happy Niki. "Thanks" he said, rushing into the bathroom and closing the door.
Jungwon quickly walked down the hallway and got inside in bedroom, unaware that someone secretly watched his bare chest passing by.
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Jake met the boys in the living room.
"Wanna join us for some Mario Kart?" asked Niki. "Yeah, sure" he replied, sitting on the couch and picking up a controller. "By the way, I spoke to Heeseung and he's coming home tonight." "Oh cool" replied Sunoo, elbowing Niki. "What about Sunghoon?" asked Jungwon. "I want to meet him too." "Let me text him to know" replied Sunoo, taking his phone out of his pocket and writing a message with way too many emojis.
They enjoyed playing together, unfortunately for three of them, Niki kept winning at each game they played.
"What about some board games?" finally suggested Sunoo, tired of loosing.
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They had just started playing Uno when Heeseung arrived home with Sunghoon. The boys stopped their game to greet the newcomers. Jungwon introduced himself and after getting to know each other a little bit, they decided to play all together.
The tension rose rapidly. Sunoo was the first one to finish his cards, thus winning the game. It also meant he could choose a new rule that would apply to the rest of them until the end of the game.
"So... you have to add meow at the end of each sentence you say. If you don't, you have to draw a card" said Sunoo, enjoying the drama he would create with that.
He wasn't wrong. Niki kept forgetting and had the biggest hand of them all. In the end, the two last people playing were Heeseung and Jake. Heeseung only had two cards left, but Jake finished him with a plus 4, cheered at by everyone.
"Sorry Hee" said Jake, hating to make him loose. "It's okay, I'll have other chances to win against you" he replied, smirking at Jake.
"So... looser cooks for everyone?" suggested Niki, full of hope. "Ramyeon for everyone" replied Heeseung. "Actually" started Jungwon. "I wanted to invite you all tonight to celebrate my first day here! We can order whatever you want."
"I like him" whispered Sunoo to Niki. "You shouldn't have said that" replied Heeseung laughing. "Let me get Jay too."
At the mention of his name, Jungwon's brain did a front flip. For a few hours he had forgotten about him.
That's Uno's fault though. Is he really coming?
Jungwon felt at ease with his five roommates. They hadn't spent much time together, but they just matched. Now, it might change with Jay joining them.
Jungwon had seen him twice and both times it wasn't comfortable.
Why does he have to be so serious. And mysterious. And handsome.
At the same time Jungwon wanted him to be there, and he never wanted to see him again. He didn't like how Jay had ignored him. He didn't like how Jay had made him blush.
Why did I blush?
However, there was something in Jay that drew Jungwon to him. The fact that he had dark eyes sparkling with-
Jungwon looked up and saw Jay going down the stairs, interrupting his thoughts.
Heeseung followed him and caught Jungwon stare.
"So what should we order?" asked Sunoo, more interested in food than in the staring contest happening in the kitchen. "Chicken?" suggested Sunghoon.
For once, they all agreed right away. Jungwon took out his phone and ordered food for everyone.
"Should we play something else while waiting for the food?" asked Niki. "Sure" said Sunoo.
However they couldn't settle on a game to play. In fact, it took so long that by the time they had decided to play truth or dare, the food had arrived.
They started opening the food containers and the kitchen became really cheerful. They ate while talking about what they wanted to do for the rest of their vacations.
"Cause once university starts we'll have less free time" said Heeseung. "It didn't impeach you from playing online games until late at night last year" whispered Sunghoon. "Hey" replied Heeseung.
"He's not wrong" whispered Sunoo in Jungwon's ear. "What about you Jungwon?" asked Jake. "I want to visit Seoul" he said. "I've been here a couple times, but now that I've moved here, I want to know it better." "I'll show you around tomorrow" said Jake. "Thank you" sincerely replied Jungwon. "It'll be our roommates bonding day" he concluded.
Heeseung casually stared at Jake while the rest of them finished their meal.
"So.." started Sunoo. "Truth or dare?" "You start" said Niki.
"Okay well... Heeseung, truth or dare?" asked Sunoo. "Past experience has showed all of us not to say truth to you, so dare" replied Heeseung. "Okay" said Sunoo, thinking about something juicy. "I dare you to show us the worst picture of yourself on your phone."
"Oh yes, I know which one it will be" instantly replied Jake. "How would you know?" asked Sunghoon. "You'll see" replied Jake confidently.
Heeseung sighed and took his phone. He scrolled through the pictures and finally found what he was looking for.
He passed his phone around, soon hearing all the laughing.
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"I made that meme" said Jake, smiling proudly.
"Okay, okay" said Heeseung, once he got his phone back. "Now my turn to ask."
He looked around, deciding who would be his victim. His eyes landed on his best friend and he smiled.
"So Jay, truth or dare" he asked.
Jay quickly glanced at Jungwon, making his heart flinch before looking and Heeseung and sighing.
