At The End Of The World Together Forever // TOMORROW X TOGETHER [BeomJun]

Chapter Twelve - His Touch

Kai hovered over the two boys that lay on the sleeping bags with their eyes closed. Their chests raised and lowered themselves evenly, calmly breathing with the same heartbeat.

The sky was already bright and clear of any stars. Beomgyu's head laid on Yeonjun's arm which was stretched out so that Beomgyu could use it as a pillow. Their faces were close to each other. Kai thought for a moment to not disturb them, but it was just a quick thought.

"Rise and Shine, gay fellas." Kai grinned with a loud voice.

Beomgyu squinted his eyes before he opened them, his first sight was Yeonjun's sleepy face that looked up to Kai with a confused and annoyed expression. Beomgyu followed his gaze and got greeted with the widest grimace he ever saw on Kai's face. It was disturbing to get woken up by a noisy Kai.

"We let you two sleep for a while longer but my sister awaits me 'till evening. Don't wanna disappoint her any more than I already do." He came out of his crouch and climbed over their two's feet. Yeonjun followed him with his gaze and saw Taehyun and Soobin leaning on the other side of the car, only seeing the back of their heads.

Kai ran up to them and playfully swung his arm around Soobin's shoulders, pulling him towards his chest and laughing loudly.

Yeonjun turned his head around to face Beomgyu and catched him staring at him with sleepy eyes. He drew little circles at Yeonjun's shoulder, his touch was gentle and slow. It tickled Yeonjun.

"Good morning." Yeonjun whispered. Their legs were intertwined. He only noticed now when he turned his whole body towards Beomgyu.

"My heart feels like it's tearing me apart." A chuckle came out of Yeonjun's mouth.

"Well, you have to deal with that when you are in love with someone." Beomgyu smiled at his comment but it was slightly half-hearted. It wasn't the only thing that let his heart beat faster.

"I'm going to get ready." Beomgyu breathed against Yeonjun's lips and touched his chin with his finger. His finger moved up to his lips where it lingered there for a while, feeling his soft skin on his', before removing his hand from Yeonjun's face and standing up from the sleeping bags. Yeonjun watched him the whole time and still had his gaze locked at Beomgyu when he walked away to the car boot.

After they had packed up the sleeping bags and changed clothes, Beomgyu leaned against the door at the driver's side, waiting for Yeonjun to get to the car. He attentively watched him walking in his direction and examined the way he walked, the way he looked. Only now he realized how attractive Yeonjun actually was. He became aware of how he never really looked at him intently or in that way ever.

On Yeonjun's lips appeared a charmed smile when he met Beomgyu's gaze. He came to stand in front of him and Yeonjun took Beomgyu's face in both of his hands and kissed him intensely on the lips. He opened his mouth and kissed him again on his upper lip. Beomgyu placed his hands on Yeonjun's waist and wrapped his arms around him to pull him closer. They bumped against the car but it didn't stop them from kissing each other. Beomgyu slightly tilted his head back and kissed him back with more pressure.

While they kissed, Beomgyu let his hand wander down Yeonjun's waist and further down to the pocket of his own pants where he pulled out a small case. He held it up to the same height as their heads.

"You forgot something." Beomgyu spoke against Yeonjun's lips and looked up into his eyes, smiling playfully. Yeonjun snatched the case from Beomgyu's grip and put it into his pocket.

"Very thoughtful of you." He replied and gave Beomgyu a last, quick and firm kiss on the lips.

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Soobin was sitting in the middle of the backseat again. It wasn't as if he could make eye contact with the others before, but now he definitely couldn't look at either Taehyun's or Kai's eyes. Last night was surely awkward for him and probably the others, too.

He remembered himself sitting on the bonnet of the car, looking at the stars and hoping for a shooting star flying by. On the right sat Taehyun, also looking at the stars but Soobin thought about how he probably wouldn't think of the probability of a shooting star appearing in the sky. On the left side of Soobin sat Kai, whose gaze wandered around them back and forth, avoiding the sight of Beomgyu and Yeonjun kissing next to the campfire. Maybe he still wasn't over his Ex, but Kai always seemed so careless that Soobin could be wrong.

But it wasn't the thought of a shooting star occurring above their heads or Kai not being over his Ex yet, which shouldn't be much of a worry for Soobin, and not even Beomgyu and Yeonjun's making out session a few meters away from them, that made the atmosphere feel awkward now. It was the thing that happened with their hands.

Soobin's hands laid next to his thighs and so did the hands of Taehyun. It wasn't new for them to hold hands. Soobin still asked himself why Taehyun did that. Was he mostly stressed out and needed a hand to comfort him? Or does he do that with all of his friends?

Their pinkies nudged at each other and Taehyun's hand twitched every now and then. At some point, Taehyun's pinky was on top of Soobin's and he gulped quietly in the night sky, feeling the warmth slowly wrapping around his finger. In the corner of his eyes Soobin could witness Taehyun slowly moving his head towards their hands.

At that moment Soobin felt something strange touching his other hand. He tilted down his head from the sky and stared at the large boulders in front of him, which reflected the balmy light of the campfire. He didn't dare to look at his left hand but he knew that Kai put his fingers on top of his' as well. First it was only the tips of his fingers and later they made their way towards the back of Soobin's hand. His movement was subtle, almost unrecognizable but because it was Kai, Soobin noticed it right away.

He was confused, more than confused. But Soobin didn't know what was more confusing; Kai holding his hand or him not feeling uncomfortable with it? He had this feeling in his chest that tickled and got him all excited.

The more he focused on the feeling in his chest, the more he wanted to look at Kai. Maybe then he would know why he is doing this. Soobin turned his head to the left and saw Kai watching Beomgyu and Yeonjun kiss. He had a mixed expression on his face, absent-minded and yet somewhat sorrowful. The furrowed eyebrows were showing more than he probably wanted to.

Soobin felt pity for him. If it wasn't for the break up, Kai would have probably spent the time with his Ex now. Though his Ex didn't seem like the nicest person, he still loved him in a kind of way. In a way that Soobin didn't understand.

And even now, when they were sitting in the car getting closer to Ratport City with every second, Kai was looking out the window with furrowed eyebrows, touching Soobin's fingers inconspicuously. Though Soobin very well noticed his touch with every fiber of his body.