Deep In My Heart (YeonBin) ✔️

3.

"There you go," San was smiling at them, hands upon his tiny waist as they stood in a room below the deck where lots of tiny beds were there. "We aren't equipped with enough beds, to be honest, we just have 10 beds here. We all use 1 each and Hongjoong-hyung sleeps in his cabin so we have 3 extra beds. You all don't mind sharing, do you?"

"No, it's okay," Beomgyu gave him a smile in return. "We're just thankful for you giving us a free ride."

"Woo's friends are our friends," San waved him off, looking extremely happy as he spoke. "And his friend's friends are also welcome here! There's 8 of us, so it might take you some time to be able to recognise us, but it's okay, I'm going to introduce you to everyone later."

"Thanks for all your help," Soobin bowed to him, trying to show how grateful he was. When he straightened up, he saw San giggling silently while Kai was looking away and Beomgyu had an eyebrow raised at him. "What?"

"You're too polite," San pointed out, grinning at him. "I'm a pirate, nobody ever bows to me. It's just weirdly nice, and you're cute."

"Oh," Soobin promptly blushed, never having been called 'cute' by anyone in his entire life ever since he was a child (except for Yeonjun). "You... too?"

This time, all of them laughed and Taehyun nudged him with an amused smile before wrapping an arm around his wrist.

"Let's go out on the deck," he said to the older boy and who was Soobin to deny? He let him drag him outside and knew that Beomgyu was following them to make sure there wasn't anything between them. The thought made him smile.

Once outside, he looked around but couldn't see Yeonjun anywhere on the deck. It was dark inside the cave and he couldn't wait to actually go out on the sea but right now, he just wanted to see the pink-haired boy that made his heart skip beats and his stomach do flip-flops.

"Binnie!" Yeonjun's voice rang from somewhere up and Soobin looked up with Taehyun to find Yeonjun waving at them from the crow's nest with Wooyoung beside him, both of them smiling widely at them. His stomach lurched at the sight of them together, and he berated himself inwardly for feeling so jealous of the silver-haired boy when he hadn't even known Yeonjun for more than a few days.

He really fell fast and hard, huh? Soobin shook those thoughts out of his head and swallowed thickly as he painted a fake smile on his face as he waved back.

"You two are so obvious," Taehyun murmured from the corner of his mouth and Soobin turned to face him, his jaw dropping open as he stared at the red-haired boy. "Don't look at me like that. Please, you can't be more obvious about your feelings. I don't know if anyone else noticed but I like to observe and this was just too obvious to overlook."

"Oh my god," Soobin buried his face into his hands, embarrassed beyond belief. He sunk to his knees, absolutely mortified about his feelings being so–

"Soobin?" Yeonjun's voice floated above him in concern and Soobin's head snapped up, his eyes wide, cheeks flaming from his crouched position. Yeonjun's head was tilted as he looked at him. Soobin snapped up straight and rammed into Yeonjun by mistake. Yeonjun nearly fell back but Wooyoung caught him and Soobin rubbed his head as he looked at the other boy in alarm.

"Hyung!" He cried, inching closer to him. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry, does it hurt? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, oh no, hyung, are you, is it– I mean, oh my god, call a doctor!!!"

Soobin's screech towards the end was interrupted by San, who threw himself between Yeonjun and Soobin. San looked at him seriously, grabbing him by his shoulders.

"Soobin, calm down," he said, all trace of the previous smile gone. "Yeonjun's gonna be fine. But if you keep shrieking like this, none of us will be."