The gentle giant {Yungi}

Chapter 4

Mingi huffed out a small chuckle, "I never knew we were neighbours."
Yunho nodded, "I've just moved here recently, but it's too much of a coincidence..."

"Anyways, I'm going in, see you tomorrow." Mingi smiled softly at Yunho and walked into his house.
Yunho stood in front of his door, still finding it hard to accept the fact that
they are neighbours.

~.~.~.~.

{THE NEXT MORNING}

"What's that smell..?" Yunho jumped up from his bed, trying to register the scent of bacon and eggs coming from somewhere. He wiped off the drool from the corner of his lips and started investigating.

With his now elevated sense of smell, he knew instantly that the scent was coming from Mingi's house. He quickly got up, took a shower, put on his uniform and ran to the door.

"Mingi! Mingi!" He shouted as he knocks on Mingi's door.
After a few seconds, Mingi opened the door, he looked panicked, "What? What's wrong?" He quickly scanned Yunho's surroundings, as if making sure that Yunho's not in trouble.

Yunho scanned Mingi up and down, the boy is wearing a black apron and holding a spatula, waving it around like a mom. He couldn't help but let out a small laugh.

"Morning!" Yunho smiled brightly, waving his palm at Mingi, "You cooking something?"

Mingi lets out a sigh of relief, he raised his left arm and aimed it at Yunho's forehead before flicking it as hard as he could, igniting a loud groan from Yunho, "OW!!"

Mingi stepped back, opening his door wider, as if inviting Yunho to enter, "I'm making breakfast, you want some?"

Yunho's eyes widen and glimmered in joy, "Yes please!" And walked into Mingi's house.

The first thing that caught Yunho's attention was Mingi's room. It looked so tidy and clean, giving Yunho the feeling that Mingi's a very get together guy. He walked himself into the living room, taking in the spacious yet cozy space, unlike Yunho's, as it was always occupied by his workout equipments, he sat down at the dining table, watching Mingi cook.

He looked around, feeling somewhat bored, he got up and stood next to Mingi.

"Watchu makin'?"
Mingi smiled, "Bacon and eggs on toast," He stopped for a second before asking, "You allergic to anything?"
Yunho took a minute to think and replied, "Nope. I can eat everything."
Mingi nodded as he scooped up the eggs and placed them carefully on top of the bacon. Yunho watched, drool was tempting to drip down from his lips as he took in the scent.

Yunho asked, "You?"

"I'm allergic to peaches." Mingi said as he walked to the frigde, he took out a carton of milk and shook it in front of Yunho, "You want some?"

Yunho nodded and shuffled to grab two cups.

They both finally sat down and started devouring breakfast.

"It's so good!" Yunho eyes lit up, giggling unknowingly.

"Glad to see that you're eating well." Mingi smiled, "How did you know I was cooking?"

"I smelled it from my apartment." Yunho took big bites of his toast.
Mingi nodded, "Getting used to it already?"

"I just hit puberty yesterday so... I'm trying."

His words made Mingi froze in shock,

"Yesterday?"

"Yeah."

"Yesterday was your birthday?"

Mingi's voice raised unknowingly.
On the 18th birthday is where almost everyone hits puberty. It's the day where their body start to go through changes according to their statuses. Their senses will be heightened, their body figure will change, and they'll start to go through cycles. Alphas go through rut; Omegas go through heat and so on. It is also the time where they would be able to start sensing pheromones and be attracted to them. Though, there are some cases of early and late puberty like Mingi.

This explains why Yunho was so panicked when he sensed the omega in heat yesterday.

"Why didn't you tell me?!" Mingi slapped Yunho's arm out of frustration.

"Ow, why should I? We just got to know each other yesterday, plus I had a lot of fun yesterday so I kinda forgot." Yunho whined, picking up the bacon he dropped.

Mingi sighed, feeling somewhat defeated, "I thought we were getting closer..."

"Anyways, happy belated birthday..." Mingi mumbled under his breath, unable to make eye contact with
Yunho, his face started heating up.

Although Mingi always sounded very casual in their conversations, expressing his thoughts were never his thing.

Yunho shuddered, he could feel Mingi's pheromones getting thicker, it felt...arousing.

He scanned Mingi, trying to register their situation, until he saw Mingi's blushed red face.

Yunho quickly got up from his seat, looked around the room before running into the bathroom, "I, I gotta pee!"

He slammed the door shut and collapsed onto the ground. What the hell was that?! He couldn't feel his legs at all, and his mind were all mushy and jelly. All he could think of was Mingi's face! What the hell?!

He slapped himself as hard as he could, he knew it was the pheromones affecting him, he can't let them take over his mind.

He opened the door and noticed how the plates on the table were gone.

Mingi's now washing them in the kitchen, this made Yunho feel bad. He quickly walked to the kitchen and stared at Mingi, "You should've waited for me to come out, I wanted to help ..." Yunho pouted.

Mingi tilted his head, "We have school remember, we're gonna be late."

"But still... let me do something for you, as a thank you for breakfast." Yunho whined, clinging onto Mingi.

The shorter chuckled, "Why don't you head to my room and grab my bag, then wait for me in the living room."

Yunho nodded, "OK!" And ran to the bedroom. Like an obedient puppy, he grabbed Mingi's bag and plopped onto the couch, sitting there quietly as he watched Mingi take off his apron, exposing his uniform.

Mingi waved at Yunho, "Let's go." And the taller happily jumped off the couch and ran towards Mingi.

At some point Mingi felt like he now has a puppy at home, seeing how adorable and obedient the taller was being, he couldn't help but giggle.